March 24, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra, Jasmin, and Lauren  from the Delano Branch Library to talk about what they've been watching, reading, and listening to. 
Lauren
Delano Branch Library
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
 
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
 
Lauren is reading...

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson

A humorous self-help guide helps listeners figure out the things that they should care about to lead contented, grounded lives.
 
Also available as ebook & eAudiobook on OverDrive
 
When I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer As a Young Wife
by Meena Kandasamy

Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealized version of an obedient wife, bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.
 
Lauren is watching...
 
Survivor: Season One

Sixteen people, divided into two teams, are left on an isolated South Pacific island, where each week they vote one contestant off the island with the last contestant winning a million dollars.
 
 
Fahra is reading...
 
You Had Me at Hola: A novel
by Alexis Daria

Rendered the subject of tabloid gossip by a messy public breakup, soap star Jasmine takes a part in a new bilingual comedy at the side of a telenovela costar who would revitalize his career. 
 
Also available as ebook & eAudiobook on OverDrive 
 
Also available as ebook on CloudLibrary 
 
The Witch's Heart
by Genevieve Gornichec

A subversive reimagining of Norse mythology traces the experiences of a banished witch whose unexpected passionate relationship with the trickster Loki produces three remarkable offspring before her family is targeted by wrathful gods. 
 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive
 
Also available as eAudiobook on CloudLibrary 
 
 Jasmin is reading...

Ellie Makes a Friend
by Mike Wu

When a panda fellow artist travels all the way from China to join her zoo, Ellie the creative elephant begins to question her own talents in the face of the newcomer’s distinctive style. 
 
Also available as Read-a-long on HooplaDigital
 
Faefever
by Karen Marie Moning

In the sequel to Darkfever and Bloodfever, sidhe-seer MacKayla Lane finds that time is running out as All Hallows' Eve approaches and she struggles to keep the Sinsar Dubh, an ancient book of dark magic, out of the hands of Fae and human alike.
 
Jasmin is listening to...
Tickets to My Downfall 

Tickets to My Downfall is the fifth studio album by American musician Machine Gun Kelly. A departure from his established rap sound, the album is a more guitar-driven pop punk album. It was released through Bad Boy Records and Interscope Records on September 25, 2020.
 
Even More Titles We Talk About
    Books
    Be a Star, Wonder Woman! by Michael Dahl
    Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
    Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
    Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
    Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
    Enrique's Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
    A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition by Ernest Hemingway
    A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India by Meera Sriram
    The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
    Lost Boi: A Novel by Sassafras Lowrey
    I Love You, Baby Burrito by Angela Dominguez
    Mama Black Widow : A Story of the South's Black Underworld by Iceberg Slim
    Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
    Ritu Weds Chandni by Narvankar, Ameya
    A Thousand No's by D. J. Corchin
    The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
    A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry
    Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

    Shows
    Bachelor on ABC
    Young Sheldon