VIDEO: Down Time Tier Ranking Livestream Spectacular 🔀

To celebrate our 200th episode, the creative team got together to share their hot takes by doing some tier ranking! Listen to find out what books ruined Elena, Robin’s favorite author events this year, Dave’s favorite robots, and Tayla’s thoughts about how librarians are represented in the media.

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Elena - Books That Hurt My Feelings and Made Me Want to Cry

Bunny by Mona Awad

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

Bolero by Wyatt Kennedy

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

Down the Drain by Julia Fox

We Spread by Iain Reid

Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow

Jane by Maggie Nelson

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Ponies by Kij Johnson

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun by Aidalro

Robin - A Year of Attending Author Events

Jennifer Weiner

Martha Hall Kelly

Sy Montgomery

Fiona Davis

Warren Zanes

A Time to Gather by Kimberly Ragosta

Dolls of Our Lives by Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks

Dale Arnold

Jean Kwok

Kristen Harmel

Nicola Harrison

Lisa See

Marie Benedict

Victoria Christopher Murray

Ibram X. Kendi

Joel Christian Gill

Dave - My Favorite Thing is Robots

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)

A Psalm For the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells 

Short Circuit (1986)

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