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Jukebox Heroines with Kaite in MO
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Recent Reads:
- Maria - The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
- Kaite: This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
Reccommendations:
- New - My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past,Present, and Future by Alice Randall
- Backlist - Infinitum by Tim Fielder
- Local - Secrets of the Tsil Cafe by Thomas Fox Averill
Book End - Jukebox Heroines: Novels of Women in the Music Industry
- The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
Show Links:
YouTube: Kansas City Public Library
Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale Author event with Tim Fielder
My Black Country Author event with Alice Randall
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall
Kaite Also made an extended book list on her Jukebox Heroines theme, check it out for more titles!
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Transcript
00:00:19
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Checkout Stack, where we talk books with a new librarian every episode. I'm your host and the world's biggest library super fan, Maria Skogin, and I'm so excited to introduce our guest today, Katie s Stover from Kansas City Public Library. Katie, thank you for being here today. Can you introduce yourself to our guests and tell us a little about you and your library?
00:00:44
Speaker
Thank you, Maria, for the invitation. It's an absolute delight to be here. Yeah, Katie Mediator Stover. I am the Director of Reader Services at the Kansas City Public Library. And if you're wondering what that is, I oversee a department of two Three, let's count myself. And we are responsible for bringing what we call bookish joy to every program, service, branch, patron at the Kansas City Public Library.
00:01:19
Speaker
We do branch visits and talk to patrons and talk to staff about Reader's Advisory, what they're reading, watching, listening to. We are always ready to listen to anyone nerd out about their favorite movies, streaming.
00:01:38
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books, audio books, podcasts. I'm always looking for a new podcast recommendation. Games, manga, graphic novels, you name it. We want to hear it. And we bring all those recommendations with us to community events and the branch staff. We oversee the libraries, the summer reading program at Kansas City Public Library. That's a joint program. It's for all ages, adults, kids, teens, families.
00:02:07
Speaker
and then we also participate heavily in Kansas City Public Library's Heartland Book Festival which happens in October. This coming year we are spearheading A Big Read featuring Sitting Pretty by Rebecca Tossig. It's a memoir and she is local so we're really excited about that. We also oversee all of the book groups that our branch staff facilitate in their locations, as well as assist all quite a few community book groups. the And so right now, I think the Reader Services Department is servicing maybe a little over 60 book groups that includes the library sponsored and the library supported. right
00:02:56
Speaker
Lucy Donnelly is the Reader Services Librarian who spearheads our training and branch visits. And Alicia Helms is our book group coordinator. She knows everything about book groups from how to select a really good book to how to put together a book group from the ground up and keep it going. You oversee 60 book groups. Do you read every book for the book groups?
00:03:21
Speaker
Oh Lord, no. And neither does Alicia. No, when we say we, we support 60 over 60 book groups. So what my library does is we are there to help the staff run book groups and the community supported book groups. We help them make good selections. We help them, we help them schedule, I mean, create their book group schedules and make sure that they have the titles they want to read when they want to read them.
00:03:51
Speaker
at the right time. We are also open to visiting the book groups. We do, I guess you could call it house calls, but we will drop in and give your facilitators a break and facilitate for you. So we love to guest appear at people's book groups. I really love doing that. We also like to do, well, I mostly get called on to do this, like book group therapy.
00:04:19
Speaker
where community book groups will invite me in. And they'll ask me to facilitate the book group. And then they say, this is the best discussion ever. Can you come back and teach us how to do this better? And and here's the secret. The secret to to making your book group a little bit better, invite a stranger. Because when you invite a stranger, the only common denominator in the book group is the book.
00:04:47
Speaker
No one's going to talk about their spouses or work or their kids or complain about the community or politics or anything. The only common denominator you have when you invite a stranger to your book group is the book. So everyone will focus on that. And when they invite me, they also want to be on their absolute best behavior and show me that they're awesome readers, which I already know that all my book groups that I visit, they are all my favorites. They are all smart.
00:05:17
Speaker
Well-read folks and they say witty things about what they're reading They say surprising things that I would never have thought about about what they're reading So that's so I will go and do an awful lot of book group therapy like how and and most it most of it boils down to making a good selection one that will appeal to as wide a range of reader as possible and I'll also offer tips and tricks if you've got a reader who Maybe is less positive about reading selections and how do you how do you deal with that or someone who just talks too much or someone who all of a sudden turns the book group discussion into therapy and I offer a lot of suggestions on how to move the conversation so
00:06:08
Speaker
It, it circles back on the book and no one needs to hear information about someone's personal life that, that maybe that person didn't mean to share. They can't help. sorry So, so I do a lot of that. I don't think I've ever spent so much time thinking about the dynamics of a book club. That's really fascinating. What an interesting part of your job to just be the book club therapist. If you ever wanted to talk about it, let me know. I just offered up my services to a friend two or three a friend's mom two or three days ago. And I like to say that book groups are not a democracy, even though you think they are. um the best group The best book groups are not a democracy. They're benevolent dictatorships. And I will teach you how to do that. Right. Well, that's wonderful. Let's dive into our recent reads.
00:07:01
Speaker
i So I will kick us off. I recently read The Ministry of Time by Colleen Bradley. Have you read that one? No, but that is actually on my stack of things to read. I can't wait to hear what you say about it. Okay. So the general storyline is that a civil servant of the British government takes a top secret job where her role is to help transition time-traveling expats to modern day British society. So the British government has acquired some kind of capability to steal people out of their current time zones and bring them to today. And they are monitoring them to make sure that they can actually transition to a regular time zone or to our time without blowing up or losing their minds or just like totally crashing mentally.
00:07:54
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So the first half of the book is all about that transition and these people that were brought here and what their lives were like before and what their lives are like now and what it would be like to be in that situation where you were in a society that had different gender and cultural hierarchies than modern day. And depending on where you were transitioning into modern day can be difficult or exhilarating. And that part of the book I really, really liked, but about halfway through it also introduced
00:08:32
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I will call it like a spy thriller element. And Katie, now knowing that you are kind of a James Bond aficionado, you might be into this. But I think because I wasn't expecting it and it came so late in the story, it didn't quite work for me. Like I felt like I should have been looking for clues in the first half of the book, but I didn't even know that that was going to be coming. So I wasn't. So that was kind of an interesting part of the story. So it it transitions about halfway through on that front.
00:09:01
Speaker
I have a question for you about that. yeah so think since Since you finished Ministry of Time, do you think the author was setting you up for a follow-up book that might expand that late third act development? umm you know I read the author bio at the end. and she had not She had started to write this.
00:09:30
Speaker
without ever even intending to publish it like it was kind of a personal project. And I think this I want to say this is her first book. So I don't think she was intending to set it up for a follow up. I think that it's more of like because she is a new novelist that maybe that wasn't as clean of a transition as a more experienced writer might have done. That makes sense. There's yeah the debut author flaw, but it sounds like it still worked and the author was able to get it to go back and make it work.
00:10:01
Speaker
The author might find now that she's written herself into a follow-up. Yeah, right. She could very well come back now. So, yep, that was The Ministry of Time by Colleen Bradley. Katie, what do are you bringing for a recent read today? Well, before I tell you that, I want to let you know that while you were talking about Ministry of Time, I was reminded of a paired set of historical historical novels by Connie Willis. The first one is Blackout, I think. And the second one is All Clear. And it's similar. So fans of Ministry of Time might want to look at these two books. And you do need to read them in order. So start with Blackout by Connie Willis and then her follow up, All Clear. And these are about time traveling World War II agents.
00:10:58
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from the current time at the time Connie Willis has published the book and traveling to World War II to see if they can affect the outcome of the war. They are warm, relatable characters. The historical world building is accurate and in c incredibly detailed.
00:11:19
Speaker
I will be honest with everyone, I do not remember how everything ends because I read these so long ago. But what I do remember is I had to listen to them for an audiobook award I was judging. And Blackout and All Clear are amazing in audio format. So for your audiobook reader fans out there, Blackout and and All Clear.
00:11:42
Speaker
What I brought with me, I told you about my recent Karen Slaughter binge, because when I thought, well, what am I reading right now? What have I just finished? I just finished the latest in Karen Slaughter's Will Trent series. And I really went on a binge. I don't normally do this. I'm not that kind of reader. But I think it was November of last year, I just picked up a Karen Slaughter book because we had just hosted her at the library's first Heartland Book Festival. And I thought, well, I really should read something by Karen Slaughter. We're going to host her. So I read the first Will Trent novel and then I read the second one. And then I just, I think I read the third and fourth. Then I went on vacation and discovered that one of the characters had their own series, the Grant County series.
00:12:34
Speaker
So I'm not joking. I think I read four books in 10 days and just stayed on this binge with Karen Slaughter for her Will Trent and Sarah Linton series. And what I liked about it is I liked the intricacies of the crimes.
00:12:54
Speaker
I like the character building. I like the slow backstory that Karen Slaughter is revealing about Will Trent, where he came from, the backstory behind Sarah Linton, who becomes a far more prominent character. I will so come right out and tell everyone the murders are gruesome, but they are not, uh,
00:13:21
Speaker
gory and gorely described. There's not a lot of graphic description. Your imagination provides all the gore you need, but these are there's a lot of crimes, ah ah crimes against women, so just letting folks know if that's a trigger for you. But it's the way Karen Slaughter writes her crimes. they These books have a more literary feel.
00:13:48
Speaker
then you're typical finish it in five hours thriller and yet you're constantly turning the pages because Karen Slaughter will end each chapter on a wonderful cliffhanger. So there's great pacing in all of these novels as well as marvelous character development. yeah We're current now with Will and Sarah and they have gone off to a mountain retreat for vacation. It's a very remote mountain retreat. No wifi, no, you know, very little like electricity. And while they are there, a murder is committed. One of the, one of the resorts workers is murdered. So this is a lovely,
00:14:37
Speaker
wink at those closed room those locked room murders that Karen Slaughter is making because everybody's at this resort. Somebody is a killer and everybody's lying and it's up to Will and Sarah to determine who the murderer is. And they have also lied about who they are when they arrive at the resort. So no one is who they say they are, not even our protagonists.
00:15:05
Speaker
but it so But it's the way Karen Slaughter builds her characters and builds their story. And her side characters are also interesting. Sorry. I was going to say, that was this is why we lied by Karen Slaughter, which is her latest. But if you were telling someone who was like really picked up on what you were describing about her series and is interested, where would they start? Where would you start?
00:15:30
Speaker
um i will let but I will let folks know how I started. So I read the first Will Trent book and I read the first, the first one it's called Triptych and read the first four. And in book four, Karen Slaughter brings in a starring character from a previous series that she'd done called the Grant County series. And when I realized that Sarah was coming from a side series that was related, I stopped.
00:16:01
Speaker
and went back to read Sarah's, re read the Grant County series. And the reason I did that is in book four of Will Trent, you get a big spoiler for Grant County. And while I was aware of that, I didn't let it bother me. And I went back to reread, I went back to start Grant County with the idea that this is happening, but but I mean, this is going to happen. So now I'm more interested in, well, how does it happen?
00:16:31
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So it's, it's coming along. So if you really want to go on a binge, I would say, and you don't want spoilers, then start with Grant County. And I think that one's called blindsided. And then the first will Trent is triptych. Wonderful.
00:16:51
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I do love when an author can build like a whole universe like that in your every book. Like Terry Pratchett does a really good job at that too at the Discworld series. And it's just so fun to see the interweaving as you move along. Isn't it interesting, Maria, that we've usually run into that world building?
00:17:07
Speaker
with fantasy and science fiction authors. And I don't see it as much with crime thriller writers. I mean, I've seen it with Louise Penny and Michael Connolly and Karen Slaughter. And I'm sure there's others and your and your listeners will be happy to point them out to me. And I'm here for it. But um but whenever I talk about world building with other readers or librarians, they always, Terry Pratchett is like the go-to for that.
00:17:36
Speaker
All right. Well, let's move along into the recommendations portion of the show. OK. So first up, we are going to talk about a new release. This is something that's come out in the last year. Katie, what do you have for us for a new release? I brought My Black Country by Alice Randall, a journey through country' music country music's past, black past, present and future. My Black Country.
00:18:04
Speaker
I love this book because I loved Alice Randall's previous writings and this one was fascinating. My husband is a country music fan and I've listened to a lot of country music around the house and I thought, wow, Alice Randall writing about the black history of country music, that sounds fascinating and it is.
00:18:27
Speaker
because this book isn't just a history. It's also a little bit of a memoir. It's Alice Randall's story of be of being a part of country music. Because Alice Randall is a Black woman, and she she wrote The Wind Done Gone, which was a retelling of Gone with the Wind, and then Black Bottom Saints during the pandemic. She teaches classes in country music writing at Vanderbilt,
00:18:56
Speaker
And she also wrote that bestseller, X's and O's, the one that we've all heard sung by Trisha Yearwood, that best selling song. She wrote that song. She wrote that song. She teaches she teaches classes on Black Detroit soul food and for the Federalist Papers. I mean, the woman is a Renaissance woman. But what I loved about this book is that she talks about the influences black musicians have had on the founding members of Country Music's Hall of Fame. And it's amazing. You can hear Alice picks, goat you see alex Alice go through all the history and your eyes just open up when you think, oh, I have seen the Carter family do this with their music. I have heard Mama Carter
00:19:52
Speaker
or seeing her play the guitar a certain way in YouTube videos, and you find out from Alice Randall that there was a black man in there in their orbit that also played the guitar, played the banjo, and probably showed them how to do certain things. It's amazing. There's some photos, not a lot. On Alice's website is where you'll find all the photos. But what you will also find on her website is a playlist of all the black music, all the country music that Alice has written and it's been re-recorded and it's amazing. Some of these songs are so haunting. This book also shares some of Alice's
00:20:39
Speaker
heartaches with the country music industry because she lost the rights to X's and O's for many, many years and only recently got them back. So this isn't just a story of the influence that Black musicians have had on country music. It's also Alice's personal story of what is it like to go to Nashville as a young Black woman and try to break into the country music songwriting industry. It's not easy. It wasn't easy for women at all and even more difficult for Alice Randall. I got to love a book that comes with a playlist. So that was My Black Country, A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future by Alice Randall.
00:21:37
Speaker
Next up, we are going to talk about a backlist title. So this is a book that hopefully you can find on your library shelves, or if you have to put in a hold, it's not going to take months and months and months to get. What is the backlist you're bringing to the show today? My backlist book is a graphic novel, which is not a format I read in regularly, but I'm starting to read in more and more.
00:22:03
Speaker
And during the pandemic, I discovered this this graphic novel. It's called Infinitum, an Afrofuturist tale by Tim Fielder. And he is one of the founders for Diesel Funk. Diesel Funk is a, they have consulted on lots of Movies, they do graphic work. it's ah It's Diesel Funk Studios. They created an art form called Glogging. Tim has a twin named Jim, and they're the two who run Diesel Funk Studios. But Tim has created this graphic novel that reads like
00:22:52
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an elaborate storyboard for a film. So it won't take you long to read it because there's not a lot of text. But while you're reading it, you'll think you're looking at a movie. it is The art is just stunning. And this is the kind of reading material that demands the very best of your attention and your imagination. Because there are panels that present roller coaster action You could hear the crowd noise and the machines whirring or the wind howling. there's ah There's panels of very quiet, intense beauty, all these bright colors, these these vivid purples and blacks and golds and bronze. These paintings just glow. And this is a story about time. It opens with a West African proverb, time lost is lost forever.
00:23:50
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and Tim Fielder sort of turns that a little bit and he wants to know, so what is time gained? So this is a book about about survival and it starts with an ancient African king who commits a horrific crime and is cursed by the witch against whom he perpetrates the crime and she grants him eternal life.
00:24:16
Speaker
How many times have we heard people say, oh, I wish I could live forever. Well, this is a book that makes you really rethink that. So the whole book goes through this immortal King's experience with ancient African history and then the coming of the settlers to Africa.
00:24:38
Speaker
the capturing of slaves and being sent to America, living through the antebellum South and the horrific, the horrific slave owners and lives of those who are enslaved, how the African King whose name changes, which is why I'm not naming, naming him now, his name changes from every era. And it takes our protagonist from civil war south to world war one where he battles with the black battalions in france to back home again to world war two through the vietnam war through the korean war through the civil rights movement and then it goes into the future which gets really interesting as tim fielder imagines this techno heavy
00:25:38
Speaker
future that doesn't seem so out of the reach right now. But this this is more than just a graphic novel, it is art at its highest form. And it is art that will move you from page to page to page. Wow. That was Infinitum by Tim Fielder.
00:26:02
Speaker
Next up, we are going to go into a local author. So again, Katie, you are in Kansas City. ah Who is your author and what book did you pick? Well, I brought my favorite local author book, Secrets of the Teal Cafe by Thomas Fox Avril. And I know I told you that it was published in 2012. I was wrong. It was published in 2001. This is an old book, but you should not have any trouble interlibrary loaning it or finding it at your local libraries because it's been issued as a trade paperback. But this is a book whose author lives in Topeka, Kansas, but he sets it in Kansas City, Missouri. He sets it on a small strip in Westport
00:26:53
Speaker
called West 39th Street, otherwise known as Restaurant Row in the early 2000s. And anyone who's listening who lived in Kansas City then, yes, this book is using the old Hannah Bistro as a location. But this this is a lovely story of two chefs with vastly different perspectives on cooking and the ingredients they use.
00:27:24
Speaker
And what's amazing is that they love each other so much. But they also know that they cannot share a kitchen. So they have a restaurant. They have a restaurant with two kitchens. It's incredible. Because one of them cooks with new world ingredients, all those lovely warm olives and oils from Europe. And the other one cooks with only American ingredients.
00:27:59
Speaker
And they have a son, Wes, who grows up with his passionate, volatile mother and his his wise, easygoing father. And so this is not just a story about a marriage. It's a story about a marriage of completely opposite human beings and completely opposite cuisines because in Wes, who struggles to come of age in this book, he also becomes a cook and is trying to figure out where is his his path in the culinary industry. How does he cook when he's got two different worlds?
00:28:44
Speaker
that are competing in him when he's tasted chilies and he's also experienced the warm tomato-based dishes of his of his father. I mean, how do you how does he do that? So it's it's it's the subtitle is Ingredients of the New World Cooked New Mexico Style. And Wow, I really love the idea of a book exploring multiple different types of culinary backgrounds. Because I feel like I've read some books that involve like a lot of cooking, but it's usually you're like you're getting put into one person's perspective in kitchen. So I like, especially for people who are chefs, the idea of getting to like read about different types of kitchens and then finding your own cooking style, that's really fascinating.
00:29:37
Speaker
and This is a great book for chefs who are readers. and It's also full of recipes. I made one. It was a horrible fail in looks. and i made one for the This book won an award. It won the Edgar Wolf Award the year it came out. and To honor the author at his award ceremony, I made the gooseberry the the Black Bean and Gooseberry enchiladas.
00:30:03
Speaker
I had never made Mexican food in my life, and I had no trouble finding the ingredients, but man, I am not good at rolling an enchilada. Yeah. We're bold to cook for the person who made the recipe, their own recipe, because I feel like I would definitely, they you could never make it as good as them. No. It tasted fine. It tasted good, but oh my, glad there were no photos of that.
00:30:31
Speaker
i mean And then I also wanted to clarify, so the author is from Kansas, but you are in Kansas City, Missouri, and the book is placed in Kansas City, Missouri. Yes. Yeah. Thomas Fox Avril lives in Topeka, which is about 40 minutes from Kansas City. Okay. Got it.
00:30:50
Speaker
All right, and next we are going to go into the bookend segment of the show. So this part of the show, our librarian picks any topic they want and then pulls three or four titles on it. So Katie, what did you pick for your bookend topic today?
00:31:06
Speaker
Jukebox Heroines. And i I picked that because I just finished reading an advanced copy of The Griffin Sisters Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner. But Jukebox Heroines is actually a book list title that's been that I've been kicking around for a couple months now.
00:31:25
Speaker
And it's books that feature women and their experiences in the music industry. So Griffin Sister's Greatest Hits is the most current addition to my Jukebox Heroines list. But I also put Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid on this list. And if you haven't read that book or seen the streaming series on Hulu, both are fantastic reads.
00:31:52
Speaker
I also included the final revival of Opal and Neve by Donnie Walton, and I read that one for a book group last year. for All of these books are wonderful backstage looks at what life is really like for these musicians that we think are living the rock star life.
00:32:16
Speaker
And it's hard to be a woman in the music industry. What I liked about the Griffin Sisters greatest hits is that the time period it's looking at is early 2000s. Daisy Jones in the six is looking at the um 60s and 70s, the mid 70s. So if you're looking for a band equivalent, think Fleetwood Mac. Final revival of Opal and Neve, also looking at 70s. And gosh, I can't come up with an equivalent for them. But Griffin Sister's greatest hits, you can kind of think Indigo Girls of our time period. But all of them, wonderful stories.
00:33:02
Speaker
fully full bodied characters, realistically dramatic situations, great pacing. The author does a marvelous job at developing these complex stories and rick creating these realistically flawed characters that you like and you understand, you may not necessarily agree with the decisions they make, but they're all really compelling. I remember reading all three and finishing them in like a weekend, five days, they were that good. So let's kind of go through one by one and just get a brief overview of the story. So the first title you mentioned was The Griffin Sisters Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner.
00:33:45
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so What's the what's like a brief, and like what is it about? oh Griffin Sisters greatest hits. A sister band becomes the new since the new rock and roll sensation in about in a-year time span, and then they break up under mysterious circumstances. The sisters separate,
00:34:11
Speaker
And one of them moves to New Jersey to become a wealthy suburban mom. And the other one locates to Alaska to never be heard from again. Wow. And Jennifer Weiner is known for being like a romance novelist. Is this a romance novel or is this a departure?
00:34:32
Speaker
Jennifer Weiner likes to add elements of romance to her books. But what she really likes to write about are family dynamics, especially those involving women, sisters, mothers, and daughters. So this one is about the complicated bonds between sisters who are very, very close, who depend on each other, who need each other. And then what happens when something tears the sisters apart?
00:35:02
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And then you said you read an advanced reader's copy. Do you happen to know when this becomes available to the general public? Yes. Look for this book in April of this year. Those of you who are really savvy, it should be showing up in your library catalogs right now. You can place a hold on it.
00:35:19
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And I know this because I placed a hold on it for someone yesterday. yeah ah So go place a hold on it now. And if you are a Jennifer Weiner fan, um I know that a special first edition of this book will be issued in April. It's absolutely stunning. I saw it on the website.
00:35:35
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um I'm going to keep my arc, but the hardcover first edition looks like it's going to be absolutely gorgeous. so Then the next one you mentioned in the list was Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Yes. Give us a little overview of what you said this one's more of 70s band or jam band, right?
00:35:56
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it's got um It's the history of another band that made it really big and then seemed to disintegrate on the cusp of becoming even larger you know larger pop icons than they are. That seems to be a running theme. One big album, Band Implodes, world so that That does happen in Daisy Jones and The Six.
00:36:24
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It's a good read-alike for g Griffin Sisters because it's it's also told in alternate time periods, and you're wondering, well, how'd the band come together? What broke what made them so magical? What broke the band up?
00:36:41
Speaker
and Where are they now? What's going on now? So what I like about the Daisy Jones and the Six novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid is that she takes this documentary approach to it. So all the characters are giving interviews and talking about their lives, being asked questions about some pretty traumatic or significant points in the band's existence. And it's how all of these different bandmates are telling a story about
00:37:12
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the same incident and the different viewpoints that we're getting from that from that that incident. We get some of that with the Griffin sisters, not as much because there's really only three points of view that we're getting with final revival of Opal and Neve by Donnie Walton.
00:37:32
Speaker
That is another story that's told in different voices, Nevs and Opals. And this is a story where we know that the band broke up and it was visible. There was a crush, a fight, something that caused the band to stop performing mid-concert.
00:38:00
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and there was a raid and you see you read about photographs of the band and the band members being carried away so they wouldn't be injured. And then the book talks about what happened to these two singers, what happened to Opal, what happened to Neve once the band broke up because of this horrific incident that was witnessed by so many concertgoers.
00:38:29
Speaker
Where did they go? What happened to them? And then the story is also leading up to how did they come together? And why are they living the lives they're living right now? And why do they not talk to each other at all? Why did Nev become go on to become the Ed Sheeran of his time? Why did Opal melt into obscurity?
00:38:56
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man The lesson I'm taking from these books is don't start a band with anyone that you love because you will never talk to them again. As the wife of a professional musician, yes, band members who are not who are not married to each other but have you know Spouses outside that out who do not do music. like Yeah, that is good advice having I mean and this is I'm going on what 25 years of this so from what I can see of the music business You probably shouldn't make music with your spouse. I know Several duos that can do that. They are super rare. They are very special. They have a magic that You've never seen before until they get on stage
00:39:44
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but for your average everyday band. ah No, don't do that. Fun. Well, I think that wraps up our bookend segment of the show. So at the end, I always like to leave room for you to plug anything for your library. So do you have anything you want to talk about for the Kansas City Public Library in Missouri? Well, I think I mentioned that the Kansas City Public Library is getting ready for our Big Read to kick off in April featuring Sitting Pretty by Rebecca Tossig, would like to also point out that the Kansas City Public Library hosted the authors, Alice Randall and Tim Fielder, and we recorded those events. So if you would like to see Alice Randall in conversation about My Black Country, I will send you that link and you can add it to the show notes.
00:40:42
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And we also hosted Tim Fielder during the pandemic talking about Infinitum. And my greatest dream is to meet Tim Fielder in person so he can sign my copy of Infinitum. and So look for some of the library's marvelous author interviews on the library's YouTube channel. And I think that's it. We just celebrated our 150th birthday. So we're 151 now.
00:41:09
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And I would, I would say check out what we're doing for our one fiftieth, but our sesquicentennial is now sesquicentennial plus one.
00:41:20
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Do you have like a whole catalog of author interviews that are available on your YouTube page? I guess I'd never even thought of do looking for those as a way to like see different author interviews is just look for your library. We do. And I will send you the library's YouTube channel. It's Kansas city public library, Casey library.
00:41:40
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And we have archived all of our all of our author events and some other events. Awesome. Yeah, that will be in the show notes listeners if you want to check them out more.
00:41:52
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00:42:13
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I would love to have you. I'm trying to get through all 50 dates is the new goal I have set for myself. I think we're already through 10. So pretty exciting. Making progress. Alrighty everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Now go forth and use your public library.