Hello and welcome to Episode Sixteen of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah!
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The Spanish Language Book Review begins at 10:23 and ends at 13:46
The English Language Transcript can be found below
But as always we start with Reader's Advisory!
The Reader's Advisory for Episode Sixteen is Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller. If you like The Year of the Gadfly you should also check out: The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens, and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
My personal favorite Goodreads list The Year of the Gadfly is on is The Greek Aspirate Was Said to Have Been 'Pronounced'.
Today’s Library Tidbit is a manga collection spotlight. After we recorded Amber was promoted to Librarian so if you see her remember to say congratulations.
Manga are Japanese graphic novels. They cover a wide range of genres and are read by every demographic group, from small children to older adults. It is marketed and separated into age and gender groups. Kodomo-muke is manga published for young children and often is very moralistic in style. Shonen Manga is published for young men between the ages of 12 and 20. It often features fighting, action, adventure, and comedy. Most of the time the protagonists are young men but not always. Shojo manga is published for young women between the ages of 12 and 20. It often focuses on interpersonal relationships, idealized romantic relationships, school life, fantasy, and adventures. Most of the time the protagonists are young women but male protagonists are easy to find. Seinen manga are published for adult men. It focuses on horror, politics, science fiction, relationships, sports, and comedy. Josei manga are published for adult women. It focuses realistic romantic relationships, work life, and home life. It can also cover more serious themes such as infidelity and rape. Both seinen and josei can have protagonists of any gender and both can have graphic portrayals of sex and violence. You can find manga with the children's graphic novels, inside the teen room, and with the adult graphic novel collection.
And now it's time for Book Traveler, with Victor:
Welcome to a new edition of Book Traveler. My name is Victor and I am the Community Outreach Librarian here at the Largo Public Library.
In this segment I'm going to talk about a book we have in the Spanish collection. It is an autobiography titled Becoming by Michelle Obama.
In this book, Obama tells the moments that have marked her life and the obstacles she has had to overcome. It is a lovely and profound testimony about the life of an incredible woman.
Below I am going to talk about some of the most curious and interesting pieces of information about the life of Michelle Obama.
• Michelle Obama grew up in a working class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. Her father was a worker at the water plant in the city and her mother was a housewife. Michelle has an older brother, Craig Robinson, who has dedicated his life to basketball.
• As a child, Michelle Obama wanted to be a pediatrician because she liked children and because she realized that adults found that response very satisfactory when they asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up.
• One of Michelle Obama's closest friends is Santita Jackson, daughter of civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson. Santita was with Michelle in high school and was a maid of honor at her wedding with Barack Obama in 1992.
• During her years as a student at Princeton University, Michelle Obama felt out of place among her peers. In her own words, she felt like a poppy seed on a plate of rice: a black woman and a proletarian family in an environment designed for white and privileged young people.
• Michelle met her now husband, Barack Obama, at the Sidley Austin law firm.
