Wall Street Journal Highlights Librarians' Podcast

Beth Hatch and Cari Dubiel's folksy approach makes their ABC Book Review Podcast a standout.

The ABC Book Review Podcast didn't get much attention when it launched back in the summer of 2007 -- and that was okay. Its creators, Beth Hatch and Cari Dubiel, librarians at the Twinsburg Public Library, just started a new podcast because they thought it could be fun. The library had purchased the podcast equipment for a news segment it was running, but Hatch and Dubiel had another idea. They wanted to record their own podcast to review books from all genres. "We were like, 'Hey, why don't we just talk about books, that'd be fun!'" Hatch said. They listened to other podcasts, but realized many of them weren't interesting. The only one they liked, How Stuff Works, isn't even about books. But the two admired the chemistry between hosts …

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Tales From The Twinsburg Public Library

TPL Book Review: 'The Age of Shiva' by Manil Suri

The Twinsburg library's Beth Hatch talks about this new read; or listen in her case

I listened to the audio version of this book because I love hearing the foreign dialect in the story telling. As a mother, I appreciate this story for it’s amazing depth in telling the tale of this Indian mother and her relationship with her son. The story is written from the mother, Meera’s, perspective to her son, Ashvin. Nothing is told outright from the beginning but you have a feeling that she is telling the story of her life to try to explain something away, something that you feel will happen later on the story. She tells her son how she met his father, about their life together, about her in-laws, her parents and sister, etc. Basically this story is massively long because it is the story of this woman’s life — her entire life. You …

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Welcome our Newest Blogger: Beth Hatch

A librarian and mom, Beth shares the difficulties of juggling so many responsibilities

Twinsburg Patch wants to introduce and give a warm welcome to our newest blogger Beth Hatch. Beth is the public relations and marketing coordinator for the Twinsburg Public Library library as well as a librarian. She markets the library's services and programs, and acts as the liaison for the library to the community. But that's not even the half of it. Beth also has two children: A three-year-old son and a daughter, 18 months.  "It’s a challenge being a working mom (although I know it is also a challenge to be a stay at home mom too)," Beth writes.  That's why she'll blog about the difficulties in working and raising children simultaneously and some of the "wonder shenanigans" that result of such a hectic schedule, and of course, just …

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