Co-hosts describe what's currently on their nightstand

Edited by Arleen Sawitzke

Pod Preview 3: Nightstands

Preview of the Seeley Reads Podcast, where Carrie and Haley mess around with the equipment, brainstorm for the podcast, and talk about what the Seeley Lake Library has to offer.

Edited by Arleen Sawitzke

Pod Preview 1: Intro

In this episode, Carrie  & Haley talk about the first two categories they read for the challenge, Weather and Country in the Title. 
Books:
Quest for the Fallen Star by Piers Anthony, James Richey, Alan Riggs
The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
American Dirty by Jeanine Cummins
Edited by Haley Haines

Ep. 1 Weather & Country in the Title

We're back with another episode, this one featuring revenge! Carrie and Haley discuss their books and the lengths characters will go in seeking their revenge, as well as the consequences of such a journey.
Books:
True Grit by Charles Portis
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

Ep. 10 Revenge

In this episode, Carrie and Haley talk about the books they read for the magical realism category. 
Books:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro

Ep. 11 Magical Realism

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

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.

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

Ep. 1 Weather & Country in the Title

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