May 04, 2022
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Let's talk about TBRs with Kern County Library staff members Fahra and Jasmin. Find out what they are in the middle of reading, watching, and listening to! 
 
Jasmin LoBasso & Fahra Daredia 

 Kern County Library & Beale Memorial Library 
 
 
Fahra is reading...

By the Book
by Jasmine Guillory

A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript, in the second novel of the series following If the Shoe Fits. 
 
Also available in eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
 
Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library
by Amanda Oliver

Drawing on first-hand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews and research, the author highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded—racism, segregation and class inequalities.
 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on HooplaDigital 
Also available in eBook & eAudiobook on Libby
Fahra is watching...
 
Radhe Shyam
Amazon Prime
 
A romantic drama set in Europe during the 1970s.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
Grumpycorn
by Sarah McIntyre

Unicorn wants to write the most fabulous story, but he has no idea what to write, and soon he starts blaming his lack of ideas on the friends who keep "interrupting" him--until they show him that all the best stories are written together.
 
Sweat and Soap
by Kintetsu Yamada

In an office romance, there's a fine line between sexy and awkward... and that line is where Asako--a woman who sweats copiously--met Koutarou--a perfume developer who can't get enough of Asako's, er, scent. Asako's living her dream, working at the toiletry maker Lilia Drop. Little do her coworkers know, the reason she loves the company so much is that she's ashamed of her body odor, and their soap is the only thing that does the trick. So when the company's lead product developer, a perfuming genius, approaches her in the lobby and wonders what 'that smell' is, she's terrified ... but could it be ... that he likes it? And, even more surprising to Yae ... does she like him?
 

Jasmin is watching...
 
Descendants 3

This highly anticipated trequel continues the contemporary saga of good versus evil as the teenage daughters and sons of Disney's most infamous villains - - Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay (also known as the villain kids or VKs) -- return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep. When a barrier breach jeopardizes the safety of Auradon during their departure off the Isle, Mal resolves to permanently close the barrier, fearing that nemeses Uma and Hades will wreak vengeance on the kingdom. Despite her decision, an unfathomable dark force threatens the people of Auradon, and it's up to Mal and the VKs to save everyone in their most epic battle yet. 
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
    Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki
    TheDawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
    The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections : a novel by Eva Jurczyk
    Disney Frozen Polar Nights: Cast into Darkness by Jen Calonita
    Good Boy, Fergus! by 1959- Shannon, David
    How to be Well: The Six Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life by 1954- Lipman, Frank
    Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz
    Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny by Sadhguru Vasudev, Jaggi
    My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding by 1981- Patel, Sajni
    Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
    Prince of Song & Sea by Linsey Miller
    The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-François Marmion
    There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat! by Lucille Colandro
    Within: Short Stories for the Evolving Multicultural Woman by Aditi Wardhan Singh
    Work: A Deep History, From the Stone Age to the Age of Robots by James Suzman