Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Eight of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast! I'm your host Hannah. Today's library tidbit is brought to us by Pete Summers the President of the Pinellas Genealogical Society.
The Spanish Language Book Review begins at 21:44 and ends at 27:40
The English Language Transcript can be found below
But as always we start with Reader's Advisory!
The Reader's Advisory for Episode Eight is The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon. If you like The Pillow Book you should also check out: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, The Confessions of Lady Nijo by Lady Nijo, and As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina.
My personal favorite Goodreads list The Pillow Book is on is Best Books to Read When the Snow is Falling.
Today’s Library Tidbit comes to us from Peter Summers. Peter is the President of the Pinellas Genealogical Society. He also maintains the PGS Newsletter and coordinates between the different volunteers, consultants, and with us the library. I’m really happy to have Pete on today.
Thanks again for coming on the Podcast and giving us such great information about PGS Pete. You can find more information about the Pinellas Genealogical Society at the following links:
The Genealogy Tab on the Library's website
Pinellas Genealogy Society Website
Pinellas Genealogy Society Blog
Book Traveler, with Victor:
Hello everyone. My name is Victor and I am the Community Outreach Librarian here at the Largo Public Library. Today I am going to talk to you about a very popular book. Its movie version is currently in theaters. It is The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
Summary:
In short, the book is based on its protagonist Starr. Starr is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives between two worlds: the poor neighborhood of black people where she was born, and her school located in an elegant white residential neighborhood. The difficult balance between the two disappears when she witnesses the shooting death of her best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a policeman. From that moment, everything Starr says about the terrifying night that changed her life can be used as a weapon against her. And the worst part is that she is in the spotlight, putting her life at risk.
Review:
Since I read the synopsis of this book in English and saw that it was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, I knew that I would have to read it. It seemed to me like one of those obligatory readings and would be endlessly valuable. In addition, as the months went by, the popularity of this book began to increase and it has ended up becoming one of the biggest young adult books this year in the United States.
Starr is a sixteen year old girl who lives between two worlds: one is Garden Heights, the poor black neighborhood, where she was born and where her family lives. It is where her father has a small shop and where her childhood friends are. Garden Heights is her home, despite its tragedies and dangers.
The other world is Williamson, an institute of high society in the suburbs practically full of white people where Starr and her brothers study. There she has her own friends and a white boyfriend. Most of the time, she leads both lives separated and in each one she behaves differently according to the place where she is.
The parts of the book that show the conflict between the Starr of Garden Heights and the Starr of Williamson's is just one of the sub-plots that appear in this novel. That same plot also affects her parents, her older brother Seven, and her uncle Carlos. Concepts such as home, community, wanting to feel safe (and the guilt of leaving others behind) and personal responsibilities are recurring themes that are being built and developed in a fairly accurate way. It is part of what makes these characters exist, concepts that come into conflict when a horrible tragedy takes them by surprise.
Everything changes when Starr witnesses the violent death of h...
