Oh, My Aching Back!

 
 
Can the new Amazon Kindle be the answer to textbook weight woes?
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran!

Wild Trees

 Just on a dare three college students climb a giant redwood and discover a whole ecosystem unknown to man!
 Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.

Mississippi Autobiographies

  Mississippi autobiographies mentioned:
  Richard Wright's Black Boy
  Mildred Topp's Smile Please
  Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings
  Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi
  Edward Cohen's The Peddler’s Grandson
  Kevin Sessums' Mississippi Sissy
  Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.

The Botany of Desire

  Why are we attracted to certain plants?  Michael Pollan explains, through four different examples (apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato), mankind is swayed by sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control.
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.

Confederates in the Attic

The NWCC Reading Round Table met Aug 26, 2008 to discuss this book.  A lot of thoughts hit the room, and many found it hard to be silent.  Good Stuff!  This is not an audio of the meeting, but rather a booktalk to encourage participants to read.  This article appeared in the papers 2 weeks before we met.
 Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.

Mudbound

 
 The perfect book in which to anchor The Southern Reading Challenge of 2008!
Book Talk written and performed by Maggie Moran.

Jimmy's Stars

 
 
New young adult (YA) fiction for 2008!
Book Talk written and performed by Maggie Moran.

Welcome!

My name is Maggie Moran, and I am the Public Service and Reference Librarian at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi.  I love my job!  All day I get to tell students about libraries, talk books with clubs and patrons, and write about my current reads.  Life is good.  Within this podcast blog you will hear my booktalks as written for local newspapers in the NW section of Mississippi.  They are short (2.5 minutes) and meant to encourage listeners to pick up the book being discussed or any book really and read!  For now it is my Southern voice you hear, but I promise to branch out with students reading some.  I hope you enjoy this plog, and Happy Reading!