Happy almost Valentine’s Day! 
In this episode, Carrie and Haley are talking about ❤️‍🔥steamy romance🔥❤️‍
Books:
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Edited by Haley Haines

Ep. 2 Steamy

Today's episode is all about mindfulness and how cultivating a mindfulness practice helps Carrie and Haley in their day-to-day lives.
Disclaimer: we are not professionals, so we can only speak to our own personal experiences with mindfulness.
Books:
Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thích Nhất Hạnh
The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction by Adam S. McHugh

Ep. 8 Mindfulness

Let'sss get ready to rumbllllle! Carrie and Haley put on their game faces for today's episode, discussing what they read for the sports category.
Books:
SLAM! By Pamela Ribon, illustrated by Veronica Fish and Marina Julia
If Not For This by Pete Fromm

Ep. 12 Sports

Saddle up because in this episode Carrie and Haley have a special guest! Claire Muller, Executive Director of the Seeley Lake Community Foundation, joins the show to discuss the Western category.
Books:
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher
Outlawed by Anna North
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Ep. 13 Western

In this episode, Carrie and Haley discuss the delicious (and gruesome) books they read for the food category. Bon appétit!
Books:
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl

Ep. 14 Food

Today's episode has Carrie and Haley looking to the future as they talk about the books they read for the science fiction category!
Books: 
Wool by Hugh Howey
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Ep. 15 Science Fiction

In this episode, Carrie and Haley were lucky to have a chance to interview Jess Walter, author of The Cold Millions, before his talk and book signing hosted by the Alpine Artisans Open Book Club in partnership with the Seeley Lake Library, a branch of the Missoula Public Library, and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

If you're looking for other works by Jess Walter, you can visit his website
https://www.jesswalter.com/

For more information about Alpine Artisans please visit their website below
https://www.alpineartisans.org/

To learn more about the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, please visit their website
https://www.arts.gov

Ep. 16 The Cold Millions Interview with Author Jess Walter

On today's episode, Carrie and Haley jump right into the spooky category just in time for Halloween!
Books:
Wake the Bones: A Novel by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
What Should Be Wild: A Novel by Julia Fine

Ep.17 Spooky

In this episode, Carrie and Haley discuss the books they read for the Leaves on the Cover category.
Books:
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Work, Her Home by Francisco de la Mora

Ep. 18 Leaves On The Cover

In this episode, the hosts of the Seeley Reads Podcast talk about the books they picked for the Seasonal category.
Books:
The Terror by Dan Simmons
A Surprise For Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

Ep. 18 Seasonal

Carrie and Haley get down to business and discuss the books they read for the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing category. 
Books:
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide: Create, Launch, and Grow a Podcast on Any Budget  by Glen Weldon

Ep. 19 Business, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing

In the final episode of Seeley Reads for the 2023 Missoula Reading Challenge, Carrie and Haley close out the year talking about what books they read that were written under a pen name, as well as reflecting on a year of reading, and what they look forward to reading next.
Books:
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Ep. 20 Author Wrote Under a Pen Name

A biweekly podcast hosted by two avid readers, Carrie Benton & Haley Haines, as they work their way through the 2023 Missoula Reads Challenge and read 50 books in a year.

Missoula Reads is a yearly event, now in its 7th season, hosted by the Missoula Public Library in Missoula, MT, for all library branches (including ours in beautiful Seeley Lake, MT) that challenges patrons to read 50 books in a year. Readers may choose whatever books they like as long as they fit within one of the 50 categories provided for the challenge. Each episode of the podcast will focus on at least one category, with the hosts sharing what books they read for the category as well as offering reviews and discussing our general love for reading.

Are you participating in the challenge this year? Let us know! Message us on the Seeley Lake Public Library Facebook page and we'll give you a shoutout on the podcast.

Arleen Sawitzke, employee of the library, edited our first three Pod Preview Episodes.  The first episode of the 2023 challenge was edited by Haley Haines.

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Buckbreak by Ken Hamm is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.

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