This Episode Was Really Hard To Title: The Librarian Is In Podcast, Ep. 67
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Gwen goes nuts for an alt-history about hippo ranching (IT COULD HAVE BEEN A REAL THING!), and Frank goes nuts for a memoir by incomparable actor and role model Gabourey Sidibe.
Fiona, the best baby hippo in the world, swimming with her dad. Photo via the Cincinnati Zoo.
What We're Reading Now
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (and the sequel, Taste of Marrow)
Atavist story about the real plan to introduce hippo ranching to the American South
Fiona, the hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo who's stolen the heart of the entire Internet!
More alt-histories we mentioned:
- Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
- Farthing by Jo Walton
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- 11/22/63 by Steven King (and the movie)
- The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- Harry Turtledove's books about the Civil War and WWII
This Is Just My Face (Try Not to Stare) by Gabourey Sidibe
The street art project Stop Telling Women to Smile by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and her episode of the the Another Round podcast
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