May 26, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Traveling for the summer or planning a staycation? Fahra and Jasmin got you! Join them on this week's episode to talk about travel guides, reading while traveling, and escaping to new worlds. Check out what they have been reading, watching, listening to this week, and don't forget to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge. 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

Bindu's Bindis
by Supriya Kelkar

A little girl who loves her bindis (and the many creative shapes they come in!). The bindis are also a connection to her Nani who lives in India. When Nani comes to visit Bindu and brings the bindis to her, it is just in time to wear something new to the school talent show. Bindu and Nani work together to shine their brightest and embrace their sparkle, even when they stand out from the crowd.
 
 
Ruby Red
by Kerstin Gier

Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
 
Also available as eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available as eAudiobook on OverDrive
Fahra is watching...
 
Indian Idol
YouTube
 
Indian Idol is all set to raise the bar yet again with not just impressive talent but their inspiring stories as well. Taking on the mantle as judges will be renowned singer and music composer Vishal Dadlani, popular singer and youth icon Neha Kakkar and the veteran singer and music director Himesh Reshammiya.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
All My Friends Are Dead
by Avery Monsen

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.
 
Also available as eBook on HooplaDigital
 
Feverborn: A Fever Novel
by Karen Marie Moning

Sidh-seer MacKayla Lane, at the side of sexy and powerful immortal Jerricho Barrons, fights deadly factions who would seize control of Dublin. By the author of Burned.
 
 Also available as eBook on OverDrive
 

Jasmin is watching...
Handmaid's Tale 
Hulu
 
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
    I Say Ooh You Say Aah by John Kane
    Mud City: A Flamingo Story by Brenda Z. Guiberson
    The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
    A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life by Ayelet Waldman
    Regina is Not a Little Dinosaur by Andrea Zuill
    Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
    Yearbook by Seth Rogen
     
    Shows
    Shadow and Bone