March 17, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
  • Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin, talk about the In-N-Out Cover to Cover reading challenge. Find out the rules and how kids ages 4-12 can get their own FREE hamburger or cheeseburger.  Check out what they have been watching, reading, and  listening to. Sign up for the reading challenge online, on the Beanstack app, or at any of your local Kern County Library branches. 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Rectangle Time
by Pamela Paul

A self-assured cat who acknowledges his important role in helping his human boy during reading time diligently curls up while the boy reads books that become gradually smaller and quieter over time, confusing the cat about why things are changing. 
 
What Big Teeth
by Rose Szabo

Returning to Maine after years at boarding school, Eleanor Zarrin barely remembers her monstrous family, but she sets off a series of events that could destroy them all.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
Lut Gaye
 YouTube 
 
Gulshan Kumar & T-Series presents Bhushan Kumar's Lut Gaye; a romantic ballad composed by Tanishk Bagchi, penned by Manoj Muntashir and sung by Jubin Nautiyal featuring Emraan Hashmi, and Yukti Thareja. The video is directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Snowpiercer: Terminus 3
by Olivier Bocquet

When a faint radio signal hints at sanctuary below the icy wasteland, the people of the Snowpiercer discover just the opposite and try desperately to return to the safety of their god-like train.
 
Chrismukkah: Everything you Need to Know to Celebrate the Hybrid Holiday
by Ron Gompertz

A holiday guide for mixed-faith families who celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah presents an entertaining guide to the hybrid holiday of Chrismukkah, exploring a wide range of seasonal events, history, traditions, and lore, while offering tips on decorating, tchotchkes, menorah options, games, recipes, and party do's and don'ts.
 

Jasmin is watching...
9-1-1

Follows first responders in Los Angeles who are paramedics, firefighters, police, and dispatchers, as they respond to emergency situations and try to balance the pressures of their personal and professional lives. 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    City of Villains by Estelle Laure
    Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
    The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
    Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
    Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    My First Day by Nguyen Quang Phung
    Peace by Baptiste Paul
    The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki
    We Wait for the Sun by Dovey Johnson Roundtree
     
    Movies
    Freaky
    Half Brothers
    The Stand In 
    Raya and the Last Dragon