Hello and welcome to Episode Thirteen of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah!
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The Spanish Language Book Review begins at 14:56 and ends at 19:43
The English Language Transcript can be found below
But as always we start with Reader's Advisory!
The Reader's Advisory for Episode Thirteen is Wanderlust: a History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit. If you like Wanderlust you should also check out: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allen Kaprow, and The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane.
My personal favorite Goodreads list Wanderlust is on is Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing.
Today’s Library Tidbit comes to us from Dick Powell. Dick's mother, Thelma, was the Largo Librarian for several years. Dick came on to the podcast to give us some stories of being put to work in the library as a kid by his mother and also some local Largo history.
And now it's time for Book Traveler, with Victor:
Hi. Welcome to Book Traveler. My name is Victor and I am the Community Outreach Librarian here at the Largo Public Library. Today I'm going to talk about a fiction book we have in the Spanish collection titled Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty.
Synopsis:
Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest. And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her.
Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.
New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.
Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.
Personal Opinion:
Big Little Lies is one of those books that start to intrigue you from the beginning, because in the first moment we know that there has been a suspicious death, but we do not know who has died or what has happened.
The story is set in the Perriwee peninsula, a dream place located in Australia. The main characters are three quite different women who know each other thanks to their young children, since they are going to the same preschool. Although their lives are quite different, they create a bond between them from the first day and little by little we will see how a great friendship is formed.
In addition to these three women, we will meet a multitude of other characters, such as the rest of the mothers who take their children to school. I found it very interesting to see the behavior of these mothers, as I think it is a reflection of what happens in reality. They are very prejudiced women, who like to gossip. From day one we start to see the problems that will drag throughout the story, until the day of Pirriwee Public's Trivia Night, organized by the school, which is the day in which a tragic accident happens.
The story tells you from the beginning what happens in school,
