Staff Blog: Who are Your Favorite Authors, Producers, Directors?
- Rachel
- 1 day ago
- 7 min read
Whether you're handling new materials, ordering items for patrons, or managing check-ins and check-outs, working at a library means encountering numerous items on a daily basis. It's common for staff to accumulate extensive reading and watch lists! However, if you ask about their preferred authors, producers, and directors, each of us has our favorites. Here are a handful! Enjoy!
Kelsey - Children's Floor Assistant
Favorite Writer/Producer - Jeff Davis
While Jeff Davis has been involved in several hit TV shows over the years, including Criminal Minds and Teen Wolf, Kelsey's favorite is Teen Wolf!
After Scott McCall is bitten by a werewolf and develops supernatural powers he can't control, he gets help from his best friend and a mysterious local werewolf.
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Kyle - Business Manager
Favorite Director - David Lynch
David Lynch is known for films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Dune. Kyle's favorite project by Lynch, however, is the TV series Twin Peaks.
When Laura Palmer is found brutally murdered, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman soon discover that in the town of Twin Peaks no one is innocent and nothing is what it seems.
Favorite Author - Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, renowned for his Southern gothic and neo-Western literature, has authored 12 novels, including The Road, No Country for Old Men, and Kyle's personal favorite, All the Pretty Horses.
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
Request All the Pretty Horses in Regular or Large Print; Audiobook on CD, hoopla, or cloudLibrary; E-book on Libby or Kindle; or Playaway
Request The Road in Regular or Large Print; Audiobook on CD, hoopla, Libby, or cloudLibrary; E-book on Libby or Kindle; or on Playaway
Christin - Circulation Clerk
Favorite Director - John Carpenter
A master of horror, action, and science fiction films, John Carpenter has many successful films under his belt including Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and Christine. For Christin, Halloween and The Thing are the best of the best.
Halloween
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff to help him stop Michael before it's too late.
The Thing
A research team at a remote research station in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, it creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.
Olivia - Children's Floor Assistant
Favorite Author - Emily Henry
Fairly new on the scene, Emily Henry had taken the romance section by storm. With six recent books to her name, there is a variety to choose from. For Olivia, Beach Read and Funny Story are favorite must reads.
Beach Read
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. But as the summer stretches on, January discovers a gaping plot hole in the story she's been telling herself about her own life, and begins to wonder what other things she might have gotten wrong, including her ideas about the man next door.
Request Beach Read in Regular or Large Print; E-Book on Libby, cloudLibrary, or Kindle; Audiobook on Libby or cloudLibrary.
Funny Story
Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together--for a particular audience of two--who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex-boyfriend. Who's to say?
Request Funny Story in Regular or Large Print; Audiobook on CD, Libby, or cloudLibrary; E-book on Libby, cloudLibrary, or Kindle; or Playaway.
Adara - Circulation Staff
Favorite Director - Steven Spielberg
With a career spanning over five decades, Steven Spielberg's films range from family-friendly sci-fi and adventure to historical drama. For Adara, you cannot go wrong with her two favorites, Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Jurassic Park
Featuring Academy Award winning visual effects and groundbreaking filmmaking, this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
Bobbi - Executive Director
Favorite Author - Jane Austen
Last, but definitely not least, while Jane Austen was not recognized in her time as a writer, today it is hard to find someone that doesn't know her name or one of her classic works. Pride and Prejudice is not only one of Bobbi's favorite books, but it also tops her list of all-time favorites.
Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who encounter it for the first time. Jane Austen's artistry is apparent, too, in the delineation of the minor characters: the ill-matched Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Charles Bingley and his sisters, and above all the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is one of the finest comic passages in English literature. And while she entertains us, Jane Austen teaches us the wisdom of balance, the folly of 'pride' and 'prejudice'.
Request Pride and Prejudice in Regular or Large Print; E-books on hoopla, Libby, or cloudLibrary; Audiobook on CD, Cassette, hoopla, Libby, or cloudLibrary; Online Content; or Playaway.
There you have it! A selection of favorite authors, producers, and directors recommended by our team! Get your popcorn and cozy blanket ready, and dive into one of the movies, TV series, or books mentioned above!
Until Next Time Library Friends!
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