Love Your Shelf: Recent Episodes
Crystal Leigh Hicks
Crystal the Librarian from the Nacogdoches Public Library in Nacogdoches, TX takes you behind the scenes of the library world, with book and media recommendations and more.
Crystal and Emily discuss Delicate Condition, The Last House on Needless Street, The Angel of Indian Lake, The Unmaking of June Farrow, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, Dust Tracks on a Road, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, plus podcast recommendations.
Crystal and Emily discuss the passing of favorite author, Paul Auster, as well as Brooklyn Crime Novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Nightwatching, The Sleepwalkers, The Premonition, The Leftover Woman, and This Exquisite Loneliness. Plus, enjoy some series and movie recommendations.
Crystal and Emily discuss The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson, Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Baumann, What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher, Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, Look Closer by David Ellis, Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian, and Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Plus, get the lowdown on the latest on Kanopy streaming, as well as other new shows and movies.
Crystal and Emily talk about this year’s Big Read, Interior Chinatown, as well as the usual book and media recommendations.
Crystal and Emily are finally back with picks and pans of the latest books, movies, and shows.
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library return with a new episode full of book, movie, and show recommendations.
Crystal and Emily discuss books by Oliver Sacks, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Leguin, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Soloway, Paul Auster, the Dalai Lama, Solzhenitsyn, and The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries by Jillian Scudder. Also, recent movies and streaming series.
Crystal and Emily discuss The Wilder Women and Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang, The Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power, A Message From Ukraine, Number One is Walking: My Life in Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin, Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, and Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte. Plus new watch recs!
Crystal and Emily discuss books (Once There Were Wolves, Bridge, The Twilight World, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, All Good People Here, The House Across the Lake, and The Eyes and the Impossible), as well as new tv series and movies.
Crystal and Emily discuss books, movies, and shows, including: Demon Copperhead, Dickens & Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius, Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It, Sentimental Economy, None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive, the Monk and Robot series, A Heart That Works, Catherine Called Birdy, Women Talking, and the oeuvre of Pedro Pascal.
Crystal and Emily recap the year’s best fiction, nonfiction, movies, and series. The good, the bad, and the ugly of 2022.
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson is the NEA Big Read book selection of the year for Nacogdoches, and Crystal and Emily talk about the book, along with all of the events that will take place to celebrate the community-wide reading program.
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library talk new fiction and nonfiction, including Tracy Flick Can’t Win, Bewilderment, The Last White Man, and Gory Details. Plus, reviews of streaming shows and movies.
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library are back with a new season with plenty of recommendations to stack your shelves (and your streaming queue). Plus, the NEA Big Read is coming soon to Nacogdoches, and they’ll tell you how to get involved.
Crystal and Emily discuss the best nonfiction and fiction books about libraries, along with reviews of Book of Night by Holly Black and The Bookwoman’s Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson. Also discussed are the following shows: Outer Range, Made for Love, Russian Doll, The Wilds, and Abbott Elementary and the Radio Rental podcast.
Amy joins Crystal for discussions of the best new nonfiction and the most mind-bending movies and shows.
Crystal and Emily review fiction and nonfiction that examines meaning, consciousness, and the self, along with the latest Netflix binge-watches.
Crystal and Emily talk about the new human history, Yellowjackets readalikes, and more.
Crystal and Emily talk about their latest hits and misses with books, movies, shows, and podcasts.
Crystal and Emily talk about Mary Roach’s onomatopoeic nonfiction and graphic novel adaptations, plus more.
J Murray joins Crystal and Emily to talk about the latest recommendations in books, movies, TV, and podcasts.
Crystal and Emily offer new and upcoming recommendations, along with classic favorites in a new segment.
Crystal and Emily wait until the end of the day to record, which always results in them being a little punchy. But there’s plenty of book and show and movie recommendations in here!
Crystal and Emily talk picks and pans of some old and new book, film, and series recommendations.
Our friend and reader extraordinaire Amy Goodwin joins Crystal and Emily to talk mystery series and more.
Crystal and Emily talk about sci-fi, fantasy, and more in movies, shows, books, and podcasts.
Crystal and Emily discuss the latest in humor and horror, as well as the best food documentary of the year.
Crystal invites her sister (book artist and professor) to chat about some of the latest nonfiction, streaming shows, and internet urban legends.
Crystal and Emily talk about what we’ve lost to the internet, as well as other new books, shows, and great podcasts.
Fellow librarian and co-conspirator, Sonja Schulz, joins Crystal and Emily for a book chat, along with a discussion of their collaborative efforts.
Crystal and Emily discuss books and shows, as well as movie plots that would have fallen apart if the characters had cell phones.
Crystal and Emily once again go all over the thematic map to recommend and review new and upcoming books, movies, shows, and podcasts.
Crystal and Emily have lots of recommendations on books coming soon, along with the best streaming shows and movies out now.
Crystal and Emily talk about favorite examples of the Southern Gothic in fiction, film, and more, plus some real life mysteries to explore.
Crystal and Emily have a lot to talk about after spending a week trapped inside during the Texas Snowpocalypse of 2021.
Winter storms blew us right off track for a bit, but we will returning with two episodes back to back!
Crystal and Emily talk about an exciting new book coming out soon, Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall, as well as some recent hits and misses.
Crystal and Emily cover some new and old novels that’ll make you think and some lesser known TV and movies you should check out.
What do you do when you desperately need to make a teddy bear shaped cake? Why, visit the Library of Things at the Nacogdoches Public Library, of course!
Crystal and Emily have a lot to say after a couple of weeks off! Tune in for book, podcast, movie, and show recommendations!
In the last episode of the year, Crystal and Emily talk about new books and shows, with a long list of all-time favorite films that have just been ordered for the library.
From serious books to underrated books (and everywhere in between), Crystal and Emily talk about their reading and viewing, including a special segment on new children’s books.
Check out the latest recommendations in dystopian fiction (because what other kind is there these days?) and nontraditional holiday movies. Plus, weigh in on the Battle of the Best Batman.
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library are back with season 2 and revealing their book and media recommendations from the past two months.
Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library talk about books, movies, shows, and podcasts.
Crystal and Emily discuss their latest book and media recommendations, along with What We’re Loving This Week and Flashback Faves.
Crystal and Emily return from vacation with an extra helping of book, movie, and show recommendations. Plus, stay tuned for a new podcast, The Story You Tell at Parties.
Crystal and Emily discuss books and media that range from serious history and true crime to food shows that are borderline bonkers.
Things take a dark turn as Crystal and Emily talk about what they’re reading, watching, and listening to this week.
Emily is back with Crystal to provide a quick update and some excellent recommendations.
Librarian extraordinaire Sonja Shultz joins Crystal to talk about everything from French philosophy to cookbooks, and social justice to ZZ Top.
Crystal is joined by Rachel Galan of Caddo Mounds State Historic Site shares who what she’s been reading and watching.
Crystal is joined by book nerd extraordinaire, artist Candace Hicks, who also happens to be her sister.
Crystal is joined by guest Jessica Sowell of the Nacogdoches Historic Sites to chat about books, shows, and weird shopping lists.
Crystal and Emily introduce the theme for the summer reading program, Imagine Your Story, which will explore fairy tales and myths. They delve into the darker side of some fairy tales and review some recent shows that ride the line between dark and wacky. And this year's community read is announced, Circe by Madeline Miller, a twist on the myth of an outcast goddess who lives on a deserted island.
This week the 80s kid and the 90s kid wax nostalgic about the books, movies, and pop culture that shaped them. Crystal goes from A Kiss For Little Bear to Val Kilmer, and Emily reveals how she grew from loving Madeline to Hansen. The contest this week asks YOU to share your weirdest and most obscure nostalgic love! From Nacogdoches Public Library.
Elia joins Crystal and Emily to discuss what they’re reading, watching, and listening to while the Nacogdoches Public Library is closed. This week’s listener contest asks for “what’s making you happy this week”. Share and get a shout out in the next episode.
In this inaugural episode Crystal and Emily of the Nacogdoches Public Library talk what they’re doing while the library is closed to the public.