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Alex and Emily discuss two of the big movies released in 2023: The Killer (David Fincher) and Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese). They start the conversation with a short discussion of the band The Killers, and Alex gives a top 5 of songs with the word "Killer" in the title. 

Music discussion at the start
"The Killer" discussion starts @ 11:00 
"Killers of the Flower Moon" discussion starts @ 37:00

Vince Breunig and Bryan Bilse stop by the library to talk about the Lodi Pride Campaign, which aims to create a sense of unity around the wonderful things happening at the school and in the broader Lodi community. The theme this year is "Guardians of Lodi Pride" and it is the 10th anniversary of the pride campaign. 

Vince Breunig is the District Administrator of Lodi and Bryan Bilse is the Project Coordinator with Lodi Community Action Team (LCAT). 

Videos of past pride campaigns can be found on the school district Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LodiSchoolsWI

We uncovered some lost audio from another discussion we had about Divided We Fall by David French, so we're releasing it a little belatedly as a part two! In this podcast Alex, Andrea, and Emily talk about how the community-wide read went, the challenges and benefits of leading book discussions, and how the library's Book Club is going.

In spring and early summer, the Lodi Library handed out 200 free copies of Divided We Fall by David French and then had Daniel Kapust, a political science professor from UW-Madison, present at the library. Afterwards, the group had lunch together and discussed the book. 

Special thank you to Wisconsin Humanities and The Friends of Lodi Public Library for their support. 

Media recommendations:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Himawari House by Harmony Becker
The Penumbra Podcast
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Inky's Amazing Escape by Sy Montgomery
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Eric Powell

Alex and Emily discuss Albert Camus' landmark novella THE STRANGER.  A writing style that is at times muted and reserved and other times profoundly poetic, this story has confounded and compelled readers since its release in 1942.

How does the book speak to our time and all times? Is the book funny? Why does Meursault do the things he does? Is he a sociopath? Is the book falling out of favor with today's readers and teachers? Listen and find out.