Semi Bookish

The Power of Positive Reading Experiences

Just days into Summer Reading, Semi Bookish takes to the microphone to explore their personal, and often hilarious, reading histories, experiences.

Getting Down with Downton Abbey

With six seasons and two movies released, the Semi Bookish takes a figurative trip to Downton Abbey, exploring the ups and downs of the fictional aristocrats and those beneath them. 

Books you want to throw out a window.

For the good, bad, or purely ridiculous reasons, Semi Bookish talks about books they've wanted (or still want) to throw out a window. What about you? Can you name a few?

A Fandom Menace - Nerding Out with Tim from Rad Raptor Comics

With Free Comic Book Day just around the corner, Semi Bookish invited Rad Raptor's Tim Ambrose to be nerdy, talk fandoms, and shed light on one of the coolest comic book shops in Michigan!

Underrated movies you definitely need to watch and love.

Leaning into the Ish (and down one member of the team), we explore a collection of movies that we think are underrated, or, at least, deserve to be talked about and have copious amounts of praise heaped upon them.

The deeper waters of YA fiction

As a special follow-up to our previous Middle-Grade episode, Semi Bookish paddles out to the deeper section of fiction - Young Adult. It's a brilliant genre that's definitely more than meets the eye, and definitely worth your time, even if you are an adult.

Musings on Middle Grade Fiction

Semi Bookish decided to express our collection of issues with the debate between Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction, specifically in where they overlap and how they are very different. Pour yourself a hot tea, turn up the volume, and get ready because Toni is not at a loss for words on the subject.

A Good Kind of Book Discussion

Selected by Toni Lea, (a.k.a. "Mouth From The South"), Semi Bookish talks about Lisa Moore Ramée's middle-grade novel, "A Good Kind of Trouble," and how it beautifully encompasses the experience of a pre-adolescent woman encountering issues of racial tensions, ethnic identity, and bodily agency. Truly, this is an absolute gem of a book, and we don't think you should pass it up.

Spilling the tea on Bridgerton

Tune in for this special Bridgerton episode of Semi Bookish because our resident experts have tea that would make Lady Whistledown green with envy. Pros and cons of the show, differences between book and show, and why Shonda Rhimes' anachronistic romantic fantasy works. Guard your sensibilities for the episode's latter half. We discuss a few aspects of the story that are a bit on the mature side, but we do so professionally and delicately.

Beaming into the genre of science fiction

Come aboard the U.S.S. Semi Bookish as your stellar crew from Adrian District Library boldly traverse the genre of science fiction. Oh, you might need to buckle up because where we're going, we don't need roads.