Hello and welcome to Episode Twenty Two of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah!
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The Spanish Language Book Review begins at 11:37 and ends 18:03 at
The English Language Transcript can be found below
But as always we start with Reader's Advisory!
The Reader's Advisory for Episode Twenty Two is The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. If you like The Cuckoo's Egg you should also check out: The Bourne Initiative by Eric van Lustbader, Warriors by Ted Bell, and Citadel of Fear by Don Pendleton.
My personal favorite Goodreads list The Cuckoo's Egg is on is Nests, Dens, Lairs, Holes, Lodges, Setts.
Today’s Library Tidbit focuses on the One Year Anniversary of the Bookmobile.
Michael came on the podcast to talk about the success of the first year of the bookmobile, as well as, to give us a look into future bookmobile projects!
We hope to see you at the one year anniversary party on January 13th!
And now it's time for Book Traveler, with Victor:
Intro: 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 am going to talk about a book we have in the Spanish collection. It is a fiction title entitled The Lido by Libby Page.
Synopsis: A tender, joyous debut novel about a cub reporter and her eighty-six-year-old subject—and the unlikely and life-changing friendship that develops between them.
Kate is a twenty-six-year-old riddled with anxiety and panic attacks who works for a local paper in Brixton, London, covering forgettably small stories. When she’s assigned to write about the closing of the local lido (an outdoor pool and recreation center), she meets Rosemary, an eighty-six-year-old widow who has swum at the lido daily since it opened its doors when she was a child. It was here Rosemary fell in love with her husband, George; here that she’s found communion during her marriage and since George’s death. The lido has been a cornerstone in nearly every part of Rosemary’s life.
But when a local developer attempts to buy the lido for a posh new apartment complex, Rosemary’s fond memories and sense of community are under threat.
As Kate dives deeper into the lido’s history—with the help of a charming photographer—she pieces together a portrait of the pool, and a portrait of a singular woman, Rosemary. What begins as a simple local interest story for Kate soon blossoms into a beautiful friendship that provides sustenance to both women as they galvanize the community to fight the lido’s closure. Meanwhile, Rosemary slowly, finally, begins to open up to Kate, transforming them both in ways they never knew possible.
In the tradition of Fredrik Backman, The Lido is a charming, feel-good novel that captures the heart and spirit of a community across generations—an irresistible tale of love, loss, aging, and friendship.
Opinion: When I chose this book, I was aware that it had nothing to do with the genres I usually read. The novels of everyday life are not my thing. For me, this story is not one of those that attract attention for its synopsis. However, I wanted to try something different and The Lido was an opportunity to read realistic stories that had nothing to do with the romantic genre, so I decided to give it a try. Also, the cover was cute.
Kate is a young journalist who has recently moved to London, a city that is big but sometimes feels like it suffocates her. She works in a local newspaper and her day-to-day life consists of surviving, writing unimportant articles, feeding on precooked food and interacting as little as possible with her neighbors. That situation changes when the newspaper offers her to write an article about the closure of the municipal swimming pool. The city council has received a juicy offer from the Paradise Living company about building a luxur...
