Books Sandwiched In Podcasts

Recorded cassette or compact disc (CD) copies of previous book reviews are available in the Library's collection for borrowing.
 
Join us October through May for Books Sandwiched In,
sponsored by the Friends of Brighton Memorial Library.

Selections from Books Sandwiched In lectures are now available online in MP3 format. To receive BSI recordings via podcast, you will need an RSS reader. There are various readers available for free on the web; www.feedreader.com is one example. Once you have a reader, click on the RSS button at the top of the left side of this page. Copy the address of the page that comes up. Paste this address into the search bar of your RSS reader, and voila!, you will receive BSI podcasts!

These recordings can be also accessed by clicking on the MP3 icon below for the desired lecture. The length of these recordings, as well as their size in megabytes, is listed. To play the file, you will need media player software installed on your computer that is capable of playing MP3 files.

(2013)


May 2, 2013

Ghostbread by  Sonja Livingston

Reviewed by Stephanie Heywood

 

Time - 52:47  (24.7Mb)

 

April 4, 2013

Casual Vacancy by  J.K. Rowling

 

Reviewed by Karen L. Morris

 

Time - 30:24  (13.9 Mb)

 

March 7, 2013

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

 

Reviewed by John Frater

 

Time - 48:47  (23.5 Mb)

 

February 7, 2013

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

 

Reviewed by Ruth Scott

 

Time - 48:51  (22.9 Mb)

 

   

January 3, 2013

Room by Emma Donoghue

 

Reviewed by Holly Boker

Time - 49:44  (23.3 Mb)

 

(2012)


December 6, 2012

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Reviewed by Hinda Miller

Time - 38:20  (17.5 Mb)

 

November 1, 2012

In the Garden of Beasts  by Erik Larson

Reviewed by Bill Bruce

Time - 55:31  (25.4 Mb)

 

October 4, 2012

Defending Jacob by William Landay

Reviewed by Jennifer Kennedy and David E. Siguenza

Time - 50:51  (23.2Mb)

 

May 3, 2012

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Reviewed by Nina Kalen

Time - 47:54  (22.4Mb)

 

April 5, 2012

Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Reviewed by Ron Von Perlstein

Time - 47:32  (22.2Mb)

 

March 1, 2012

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Reviewed by John Baynes

Time - 44:47  (20.5 Mb)

 

February 2, 2012

The Painter From Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein

Reviewed by Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss

Time - 50:21  (23 Mb)

 

January 5, 2012

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

Reviewed by Van Henri White

Time - 1:03:00 (29 Mb)

 

Archives

Click on one of the links below to listen to one of the past recordings of Books Sandwiched In.

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Click on the MP3 icon with your right mouse button and select Save Target As. You can amend the file name that is suggested automatically, then click on Save. After it has been downloaded, you can double click the downloaded file to launch your media player and play the file immediately or at a later time. Downloading with a modem may be slow. Once downloaded, the file can be transferred to any portable MP3 player.

 

 
 

 

 

 
 
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