Idiot With A Library Card Podcast

This episode focuses on an under appreciated aspect of Jonathan Haidt’s books, and that is just how great of a writer he is. 

A review of Jonathan Haidt's 2006 book The Happiness Hypothesis.

The Righteous Mind By Jonathan Haidt, is a great book that everyone should read. This show is about the first part of this book, listen before you buy it to wet your appetite or if you have read the book let us know what you think.

Comedy genius Douglas Adams' first novel in a series of hilarious novels.  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy put the number 42 on the map and gives you the answers to life, the universe and everything. A very funny book that you can read before or after you listen to this podcast.

The Mutiny On The Bounty is a Historical Novel about a Mutiny on a ship called the Bounty.  This episode contains spoilers so listen if you have read the book or wait until you have read the book or of course just listen and let your friends and family think that you read the book.

The conclusion of Idiot with a Library Card’s gripping and award winning Sherlock series. This show ranks the five short story collections from worst to best. Please listen to the other episodes in this series And make sure to check out some of the Arthur Conan Doyle’s works on the web or of course at your local library.

A review of The Valley of Fear, (to skip spoilers stop at 6 mins and join back at 10 mins).  Also an overview of all of the Author Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes novels. 

Quick show about the 2004 film Man on Fire.

There are some interesting themes that keep popping up in a lot of the Sherlock Holmes short stories. 

What most consider to be the best of the Sherlock Holmes novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a spooking, moody and all around fun novel.  I really loved this book, and this Sherlock project has been so much fun. 

My Ranking of the 12 short stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. 

This story truly establishes the Sherlock Holmes series and some of the themes in it. Plus cocaine and everybody loves cocaine.

I talk about the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet.  You may want to read the story before you listen as there are spoilers. 

Quick show about a Sherlock Holmes series I plan on doing and some tidbits.

Team Of Rivals:The Political Genius Of Abraham Lincoln by Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin, is part Lincoln biography and part political history of the civil war. This episode covers some of the topics written about in the first 200 pages of the 700 page masterpiece.

Whiteness as collections is an article written by Sofia Leung.  Here's the link to the article: https://sleung.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/whiteness-as-collections/ In this episode I analyze the article and give you may thoughts please read for yourself and Let me know what you think.

The most interesting and exciting show ever done on the topic of library late fees.  Maybe a low bar but I think it's an interesting topic and if you don't, you may be missing out on the most important debate of are time!!!

Drag Queen story time is a program for kids where a drag queen reads children books to little kids.  In February one took place at the Lansdale Library.  I talk about issues with drag queen story time in general and the drag queen named Annie Christ who did the story time at the Lansdale Library.  

An overview of Satanic Verses, themes recommendations and suggestion for how to read this controversial book.

A look into what made The Satanic Verses so controversial. The issues from the content of the book to the title itself. Why did this great work of fiction make Muslims murderously angry. Are there lessons we can learn from the book and the reaction to it.