Hello and welcome to Episode Sixteen of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I’m your host, Hannah!
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The Spanish Language Book Review begins at 10:23 and ends at 13:46
The English Language Transcript can be found below
But as always we start with Reader’s Advisory!
The Reader’s Advisory for Episode Sixteen is Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller. If you like The Year of the Gadfly you should also check out: The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
My personal favorite Goodreads list The Year of the Gadfly is on is The Greek Aspirate Was Said to Have Been ‘Pronounced’.
Today’s Library Tidbit is a manga collection spotlight. After we recorded Amber was promoted to Librarian so if you see her remember to say congratulations.
Manga are Japanese graphic novels. They cover a wide range of genres and are read by every demographic group, from small children to older adults. It is marketed and separated into age and gender groups. Kodomo-muke is manga published for young children and often is very moralistic in style. Shonen Manga is published for young men between the ages of 12 and 20. It often features fighting, action, adventure, and comedy. Most of the time the protagonists are young men but not always. Shojo manga is published for young women between the ages of 12 and 20. It often focuses on interpersonal relationships, idealized romantic relationships, school life, fantasy, and adventures. Most of the time the protagonists are young women but male protagonists are easy to find. Seinen manga are published for adult men. It focuses on horror, politics, science fiction, relationships, sports, and comedy. Josei manga are published for adult women. It focuses realistic romantic relationships, work life, and home life. It can also cover more serious themes such as infidelity and rape. Both seinen and josei can have protagonists of any gender and both can have graphic portrayals of sex and violence. You can find manga with the children’s graphic novels, inside the teen room, and with the adult graphic novel collection.
And now it’s time for Book Traveler, with Victor:
Welcome to a new edition of Book Traveler. My name is Victor and I am the Community Outreach Librarian here at the Largo Public Library.
In this segment I’m going to talk about a book we have in the Spanish collection. It is an autobiography titled Becoming by Michelle Obama.
In this book, Obama tells the moments that have marked her life and the obstacles she has had to overcome. It is a lovely and profound testimony about the life of an incredible woman.
Below I am going to talk about some of the most curious and interesting pieces of information about the life of Michelle Obama.
• Michelle Obama grew up in a working class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. Her father was a worker at the water plant in the city and her mother was a housewife. Michelle has an older brother, Craig Robinson, who has dedicated his life to basketball.
• As a child, Michelle Obama wanted to be a pediatrician because she liked children and because she realized that adults found that response very satisfactory when they asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up.
• One of Michelle Obama’s closest friends is Santita Jackson, daughter of civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson. Santita was with Michelle in high school and was a maid of honor at her wedding with Barack Obama in 1992.
• During her years as a student at Princeton University, Michelle Obama felt out of place among her peers. In her own words, she felt like a poppy seed on a plate of rice: a black woman and a proletarian family in an environment designed for white and privileged young people.
• Michelle met her now husband, Barack Obama, at the Sidley Austin law firm. She had received an important promotion just when Barack entered to work as an apprentice. They asked her to be his tutor because the young lawyer had a lot of potential. First they were friends and little by little they fell in love.
• Lawyer by profession, Michelle was not a fan of her husband entering politics. She believed there were other ways to inspire a change in society, because she distrusted politicians.
• The security apparatus that protected the White House and the presidential family was somewhat uncomfortable while she was First Lady of the United States. Her privacy has always been important to her and it took her a while to get used to being surrounded by security elements. “Nobody gives you a manual on how to be a First Lady,” she writes.
• On the night of the 2016 US presidential election, Michelle Obama went to sleep before knowing the official result. “I understood what was probably happening, but I was not ready to face it,” she writes in Becoming about the time when Donald Trump, the man with whom she was furious because he was spreading lies about Barack Obama, was winning the presidency of the United States.
That is all for today. Until the next edition of Book Traveler. Adios.
Thanks everyone for listening some upcoming library events to keep track of:
August 1st Beginning iPads at 3:00pm in Jenkins Room A
-Registration is Required
August 5th Get Your Groove On: Freegal Music at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room A
August 6th Florida Friendly Landscaping at 6:30pm in Jenkins Room B
August 7th Adult Sign Language at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room C
August 8th Children’s Summer Wrap-Up Party at 2:00pm in the Jenkins Wing
August 10th DNA for Adoptees at 1:00pm in Jenkins Room A
August 11th Watercolor Meditation at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room A
August 14th Sew Powerful Purse at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room B
-Registration is Required
August 15th Needle Felted Sachet at 10:30am in Jenkins Rooms A & B
-Registration is Required
August 15th Sew Powerful Purse at 3:00pm in Jenkins Room B
-if you missed the first one here’s another to register for!
August 17th Not in the Census? Try Again at 11:00am in Jenkins Room B
August 19th Throwback Monday: Homemade Butter & Cheese at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room A
-Registration is Required
August 20th Noodle-Making for Asian Cuisine at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room A
August 21st Medicare 101 at 3:00pm in Jenkins Room C
August 23rd Cold Brew Coffee at 3:00pm in Jenkins Room A
-Registration is Required
August 26th Cold Process Soapmaking Workshop at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room A
-Registration is Required
August 27th Break Up with Your Cable at 3:00pm in Jenkins Room C
August 27th Sew a Bucket Hat – Stenciling at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room B
-Registration is Required
August 28th Sew Powerful Purse at 6:00pm in Jenkins Room B
-thanks right and there’s even one more chance to register for this event
August 29th Sew Powerful Purse at 3:00pm in Jenkins Room B
-this is the last time to register for this event but you should check out Sew Powerful Purse Project
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