The Book Drop

This week on The Book Drop we talk anticipation around pop culture, the struggle of picking a favorite author and attempt to relieve your hold list woes with recommendations for the library's most po…

This week on The Book Drop it's the season 4 premiere! We talk about reading goals for the new year, take a look back the book world in 2022 and once again make wild predictions for the year ahead.

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This week on The Book Drop we welcome Amy and Nicole to talk about the world of romance fiction. We share our thoughts on steamy versus sweet, the best Pride & Prejudice and fictional crushes.

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This week on The Book Drop we wrap up the 2022 OPL Reading Challenge with recommendations for essays and short stories and talk about the books we'd like to spend a day in for query of the week.

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This week on The Book Drop it's all about food! We talk about staff potlucks, explore food as a metaphor and share our most disappointing culinary experiences for query of the week.

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This week on The Book Drop we welcome Carl from The Bookworm to talk about the books we're excited to read this winter. And we say farewell to the spooky season as we share our favorite Halloween dec…

This week on The Book Drop we round up some of the latest literary world news (both good and bad), talk about our Halloween plans and share the bits of culture we can't quite escape for query of the …

This week on The Book Drop everyone shares their two truths and a lie, the team explores the world of unreliable narrators and talks about which fictional character they wouldn't want to share a meal…

This week on The Book Drop we travel from the Flying Forties to the turn of the Millennium with books for the latest OPL Reading Challenge category. We also talk about the technology that has most im…

This week on The Book Drop we talk about how the book isn't always better, share some book-to-small-screen recommendations and makes wishes for titles we'd love to see get adapted for query of the we…

This week it's our 100th episode. Listen in on our recorded live show as we share what we're reading, deal with our inevitable technical difficulties and finally locate Elly after a month's long sear…

This week on The Book Drop we spill some library secrets and share some tips and services we think you should know about. We also talk about best job perks for query of the week.

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This week on The Book Drop we share what’s making us happy right now, revisit the OPL Reading Challenge with our recommendations for microhistories and talk about our favorite useless facts for query…

This episode was originally recorded in August 2021.

On this special mini episode of The Book Drop we welcome local author Timothy Schaffert and OPL's Adult Services Manager Amy Mather to talk about …

This week on The Book Drop we imagine what they might find as Main Library is packed up, create the wildest book playlist we can and share our favorite misheard lyrics for query of the week.

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This week on The Book Drop we're talking about Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris for the latest meeting of The Book Drop Book Club. We also workshop names for our imaginary vac…

This week on The Book Drop we're joined by Youth Services Specialist Jay to help us explore the New Adult corner of the publishing world and we dish about the hardest parts of becoming full fledged a…

This week on The Book Drop we talk about our favorite reads of the year (so far), ask ourselves what is the Midwest and share our favorite books by midwestern authors for our latest OPL Reading Chall…

This week on The Book Drop it's our Reading Challenge Help Desk episode and we're here to help you with OPL Reading Challenge categories you might be struggling with. We also share which fictional ch…