Enjoy the complete book reading, interview and audience Q&A between Ian Williams and Pat Case.

**The Village Podcast has been nominated for a Canadian Podcast Award under the category of Outstanding Branded Series. Watch https://canpodawards.ca/ for information about the awards ceremony which will take place sometime in December and find out if we’ve won. This month we have a special clip following the conversation between Steph and Candice with some highlights from the book reading and signing by Ian Williams about his new book What I Mean To Say. The full length reading and Q&A follows later this week in this feed. Books Shame on You: How to be a Woman in the Age of Mortification by Melissa Petro  Saving Time by Jenny Odell  Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware  The John Cardinal Series by Giles Blunt   The Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King   Anathem by Neal Stephenson (If you dare read sci-fi about the philosophy of quantum mechanics) What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation in our Time by Ian Williams  Disorientation: Being Black in the World by Ian Williams  You’ve Got Red On You: How Shaun of the Dead was Brought To Life by Clark Collis  The Troop by Nick Cutter   Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson   Carrie by Stephen King   Links Do You Want To Party? A Movies by the Minute Podcast about Return of the Living Dead - Candice’s episodes on Minute 11 , 20  , 21  , and bonus episode 1 and 2  Linda Martell introducing Genres on Cowboy Carter by Beyonce - (Song NSFW) Edgar Wright music video for Mint Royale’s Blue Song  Timestamps 0:00 Oops our welcome turned into a conversation about the Giller Prize and protesting weapons manufacturers 10:00 Steph’s reading update 23:00 A breakdown of the mystery genre, and then a breakdown of book genres in general 32:00 Star Wars movie talk - how did we get here? 38:00 Candice’s reading update 42:00 Star Wars again? How did we come back? 47:00 Back to Candice’s update - movies, tv and books 54:00 Feedback from a listener 1:07:00 A 15 minute clip of highlights from Ian Williams Author Talk   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra    

Welcome to our new listeners! We saw last month that a bunch of people were going back and downloading old episodes, so last month was probably when they found us for the first time. Let us know what you like, what you miss from our old episodes, or what you want us to do going forward! Books Read This To Get Smarter: about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More by Blair Imani The Power of Story: On Truth, The Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era by Harold R. Johnson Revival by Stephen King Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman Other Maps by Rebecca Morris Revisionaries: What We Can Learn From the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers by Kristopher Jansma Movies Lake Placid vs. Anaconda Trailer  Links Candice's 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days List Candice's Hooptober Movie List Timestamps 00:00 Intro 07:30 Steph's reading update 20:00 Candice's reading update + Steph's fiction pick 34:00 Candice's real life visit to a place she read a book about 36:00 What's with all the pizza places in Guelph? 39:00 Back to Candice reading, and Guelph in the 90s and 00s 47:00 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days update   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

It's September and we are back! Tune in to hear what we've read over our summer break and what we are looking forward to coming up! Including what reading project Candice will take on when she's finished the Stephen King project. Books On Freedom by Timothy Snyder On Property by Rinaldo Walcott It's Not You, It's Capitalism by Malaika Jabali The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow On Our Best Behaviour by Elise Loehnen The Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, & End of Watch) The Curator by Owen King Other Maps by Rebecca Morris  Links Learn more about the 2024 Massey Lecture and the book What I Mean To Say, by Ian Williams  See Candice's August Wrap Up graphics from Storygraph Follow Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph Follow Candice's horror movie challenge #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Timestamps 00:00 Intro and welcome 06:27 Steph's non-fiction summer reading update 19:00 Candice's non-fiction summer reading update 30:00 Looking at our Storygraph reading stats and talking about genres 38:00 Steph's other non-fiction reading 43:49 Candice Stephen King reading update and Steph's fiction reading update   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

As we head into the summer break Steph and Candice check in on how they are doing on their TBR lists. Steph's behind and Candice is ahead? Who saw that coming!? Lots of 90s and fan culture nostalgia in this months. See everyone in September! Books Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg,  Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow,  Joyland by Stephen King  Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Clair Dederer  Movies I Saw The TV Glow Trailer Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:35 I Saw the TV Glow and 90s nostalgia 15:00 Steph’s reading update 20:00 Candice’s reading update 38:40 Another Steph book   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Steph updates us about the student event where they got to meet a number of local authors and hypes supporting the arts. Candice buys herself an e-reader. We also talk about managing TBR lists and go deep into both of our feminist books this month. Books The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle  Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kalefa Sanneh  Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud  60 Songs that Explain the 90s by Rob Harvilla  Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer  Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok  A Feminist City: A Field Guide by Leslie Kern  Doctor Sleep by Stephen King   Yes I’m Hot In This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy  The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated History of the Chosen Food by Ben Nadler  Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingals Wilder  Movies Suspiria (2018) Trailer (NSFW)   Mandy Trailer (NSFW)  Fight Club Trailer (NSFW)  Links Wilder Podcast  Timestamps 0:00 Welcome and student event update from Steph 11:00 Why events are important, and placing a value on them 14:45 Candice update - a new e-reader! 18:50 Managing the TBR 21:45 Steph’s reading update 42:00 Radiohead sidebar and then Fight Club 46:30 Steph and Candice’s feminist book club reads 1:00:00 The rest of Candice’s reading update --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

This month Steph and Candice chat about indoor kids versus outdoor kids, how to approach a potluck, and why some books go unfinished. Books The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How The World Sees Time by Richard Fisher  11/22/63 by Stephen King  Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer  Doctor Sleep by Stephen King  The Magick of Food: Rituals, Offerings, and Why We Eat Together by Gwion Raven  The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han  Links The Essential Stephen King from The New York Times  Timestamps 00:00 -  Intro and chit chat 14:00 - Steph’s reading  20:00 - a Storygraph side bar about Did Not Finish books 27:00 - Stephen King Article breakdown 37:00 - Food talk 44:00 - Candice’s reading - she’s ahead of her goal!   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Steph read a book about women’s fitness this month which launched a lot of conversation about dancing, weight lifting, synchronizing with others. Meanwhile Candice is hoping the world gets saved in the next Stephen King novel on her to-read list. Books In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s by Rob Harvilla 11/22/63 by Stephen King Language of the Night by Ursula K Le Guin  Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel  Catchpenny by Charlie Huston,  Let’s Get Physical by Danielle Friedman Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Links Check out the Bookshelf’s new website!   Timestamps 00:00 Intro and new website launch 06:40 Candice’s reading update 16:45 Steph’s vacation and reading update 34:00 Side bar about people moving or singing together (synchronicity) 38:28 Back to book talk about physical fitness   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Did someone say February was the shortest month? What’s that, February of 2024 is actually one day longer? Still not long enough to release the February episode in the month of February though apparently. Books Kick Out The Jams by Dave Marsh  Listen by Michele Faber  60 Songs that Explain the 90s by Rob Harvilla  Moon of the Turning Leaves - by Waubgeshig Rice  Don’t be Trashy by Tara McKenna  Under the Dome by Stephen King  From A Buick 8 by Stephen King  Wanderers by Chuck Wendig  Movies Memento, Inception, Oppenheimer, Tenet, and Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan Saltburn Trailer  Links 60 Songs that Explain the 90s podcast The 2024 Oscars Nominees   Timestamps Steph’s reading update - 01:00  Candice’s Reading update - 08:50 Apocalypse stories - 16:00 How many answers each person needs in a story - 20:50 The Christopher Nolan rabbit hole - 31:00 Saltburn 34:00 The Oscars 38:00   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

New year, same old Steph and Candice! Books Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig  Wanderers & Wayward by Chuck Wendig   Under The Dome by Stephen King   Listen: On Music, Sound, and Us by Michel Faber  Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell Movies Dream Scenario starring Nicolas Cage  Renfield starring Nicolas Cage  The Killer directy by David Fincher  Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola  A Murder at the End of the World  Links Goodreads review scandal  Please use Storygraph instead of Goodreads -  and here’s why  Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 02:07 - What are we reading? 37:30 - What are we watching? 47:00 - A discussion on how things are reviewed by the public and the Goodreads issue   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

It's holiday season! Busy days, dark days, but ultimately fun. Candice and Steph check in one last time for 2023 to see how reading goals are going, and what's up for the month. See you all in 2024! Books The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern  Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram And sequel Darius the Great Deserves Better Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew  And sequel The Everlasting Road  The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Jeff VanderMeer  In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore  In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy by Shawn Levy  Movies Napoleon Trailer The ultimate Napoleon depiction - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Priscilla Trailer. Playing at Bookshelf Cinema Dec 1 - 6 Elvis Trailer Marie Antoinette Trailer  The Beguiled Trailer Timestamps 00:00 -   Intro and late life athletics 08:50 - Holiday talk 14:00 - Movie talk - Napoleon, Priscilla, Elvis 26:00 - Whose stories get told, and by whom 35:00 - Book talk -  54:00 - Outro   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

We’re back for the Fall! Summer “break” was quite busy for both Steph and Candice and extended into very busy Septembers, but we are back in time for Spooky season.   Special event  November 7th at 7pm The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want To Know About Each Other book launch and conversation at the Cinema with authors Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson Tickets are $10 and can be bought at the bookstore. Books Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fans  The Colorado Kid by Stephen King  Cell by Stephen King  Lisey’s Story by Stephen King  The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Jeff VanderMeer  Movies Nightmare Alley & Cronos by Guillermo del Toro  Misery by Rob Reiner Silence of the Lambs Suspiria ET The Extra Terrestrial  Links James Vs Cinema watching Suspiria (2018) for the first time -  Timestamps Intro and Chit Chat - 0:00 - 13:00 Summer break updates - 13:15 - 20:15 Candice’s horror movie marathon 20:30 - 28:45 What has Steph been reading 29:00 - 32:00 Candice Stephen King update 32:00 - 40:00 Musicians who change styles mid career  40:00 - 47:00 Suspiria soundtrack and movie 47:00 - 49:30 Strange tales that have become children’s stories - 49:30 - 58:14 Stephen King update redux - 58:14 - 1:00:00 Special Event announcement - 1:05:00   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Candice goes on much too long about how much the hot weather gets her down, while Steph reflects on how young people take care of each other in the hot weather and how we don't love enough. Books A Haunted History of Forgotten Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes  Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde by Julie S. Lalonde Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham Risher  The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King   Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar ,  On Browsing by Jason Guriel  How To Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight For Local Economies, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future by Danny Caine  Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit  Movies Dirty Dancing La Bamba Young Guns II Family Ties The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Links 60 Songs That Explain the 90s Podcast  Wonderful World of Disney Opening Themes  Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and catch up 13:30 Steph’s reading update - all about love 22:30 A sidebar about resilience, needing help and self-care 34:15 How pop culture and media can impact you for life 51:00 Candice’s Stephen King update and TBR for vacation week   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

How do you deal with being too busy - Steph and Candice reflect on the last month’s busy-ness and how they coped. Books The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Movies Inside Out as a touchstone for mental wellness Land of the Dead - Movie clip showing class divide in the movie (curse words included) Renfield - Deleted dance scene as teased in the closing credits  Cocaine Bear - Trailer  (curse words included) TV Shows Picard Season 3 - Candice hates it - sorry fans, Star Trek and Star Wars stories can be about more than the original main characters! Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:00 On finding time for ourselves 09:00 The Star Trek conversation and fan service 17:00 Politics in shows, movies, books and life 23:00 Land of the Dead and how movies and books bring up current issues 28:00 Renfield 40:00 Cocaine Bear 45:00 Lessons in Chemistry and how marketing books and movies goes wrong   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra        

Steph and Candice start with a regional conversation about moving around neighbourhoods, but end up bringing it to the esoteric about self and relationships. They also talk memoirs and horror, more Stephen King, AI, and somehow even Hallmark movies. Books The Go Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada   Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up by Remica Bingham-Risher   It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese  Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson  From A Buick 8 by Stephen King  Autonomy by Victoria Hetherington  Movies Manchester By The Sea Trailer Made for Each Other Trailer - Hallmark Channel  M3gan - scene of child creating emotional bond with an AI doll - CW terrifying AI, Parent Death Timestamps 3:00 Catch up with Steph’s move 8:35 Designing cities, urban planning and 15-minute cities 16:00 Steph’s reading memoirs 20:00 Candice is reading about horror 28:00 Stephen King update (From a Buick 8) 36:00 Telling human stories through horror vs drama 38:00 AI an our relationship with it (this is not a ChatGPT conversation) --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Steph and Candice did not watch a movie together this month, but still had lots to catch up on, including the upcoming Oscar Awards, the new Grady Hendrix novel, and the many stories by and about women that they are reading or planning to read this month to celebrate Women's History Month. Books How To Sell a Haunted House  & The Final Girl Support Group  & other books  by Grady Hendrix From A Buick 8  by Stephen King Annie and the Wolves by Andromeda Romano-Lax Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up   by Remica Bingham-Risher The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky Waking Beauty by Rebecca Solnit The Sleeping Beauty Series  by Anne Rice Movies Elvis Women Talking The Fablemans Top Gun Maverick Everything Everywhere All At Once Fast and the Furious series Hudson Hawk  1408 Links Read the full Oscars nominee list What is a Paladin?  Grady Hendrix Podcast Super Scary Haunted Homeschool  Timestamps 01:30 Oscars talk 18:00 Oops, Candice disses Paladins 19:00 Recap of Podcamp Toronto (What is it, why do people go to it?) 25:00 Doing the things that bring you joy 28:18 On Hudson Hawk and 1408 34:00 Candice’s reading update and Grady Hendrix chat 44:30 Steph’s reading update 50:00 A short Degrassi side bar 52:00 On reading poetry and fairy tales by women and non-white authors 57:25 We somehow return to Grady Hendrix --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Steph recommits herself to skiing, and Candice recommits herself to reading Stephen King novels. And they both get their 3 Laws of Robotics wrong, sorry Isaac Asimov! Books The Dark Tower VI - Song of Susannah by Stephen King Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell After The Flood by Kassandra Montag All City by Alex DiFrancesco Movies Corsage  M3gan  California Split - Behind the Scenes short film Licorice Pizza, The Big Lebowski, Slacker, Go, Kids, Clerks, Clerks III, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Nope  Links Some Stephen King podcasts - Kingcast, The Losers Club, Castle Rockettes (a Guelph based podcast!) Timestamps 00:00 Intro and Stephs skiing adventures 05:00 Candice's Stephen King update 14:00 A quick Star Trek: Discovery side bar conversation 16:15 Thoughts on the film Corsage 21:27 Candice and Steph's M3gan love 28:30 Steph's reading update 32:40 The difference between complex characters in books versus movies or tv. 35:50 The Robert Altman film project  39:18 Movies about nothing 43:30 Will Steph enjoy the Jordan Peele film Nope?   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Welcome to 2023! Steph and Candice round up a few of their hopes for the new year and what they will be focusing on. Not resolutions per say, but plans. Tell us your reading or non-reading resolutions for this year by sending us an email at [email protected]. Books My Hygge Home: How To Make Your Home Your Happy Place by Meik Wiking Dreamcatcher, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower, & Under The Dome by Stephen King Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke The Annotated American Gods by Neil Gaiman Wanderers & Wayward: A Novel both by Chuck Wendig Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna Movies The Menu  Links Moleskine Daily Planner Hemlock and Oak Daily Planner Storygraph Reading Challenge Follow Candice on Letterboxd and Storygraph Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Getting out to see more movies 13:00 The Menu review 23:00 Plans and planners for the new year 33:00 Reading self help and non fiction 35:00 Storygraph Reading Challenges 40:00 Upcoming and recent reads from both Steph and Candice 44:00 Stephen King Project update 50:00 On reading different books at once and finishing them --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

December took us by surprise. It snuck up so fast both Candice and Steph feel like they missed November. But with the long nights and darker days, everything is getting a bit more gothic and introspective. Books Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture by Zeba Blay Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman   Mind The Gap, Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan   Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris  She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker  A Celtic Temperament: Roberston Davies as Diarist by Robertson Davies  Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight - Movies Movies and TV My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix on Prime  - Youtube Trailer Midnight Club by Christopher Pike and Mike Flanagan - Youtube Trailer Links The Home For Good Campaign and The Bookshelf’s $20,000 donation - https://bookshelf.ca/article/view/1172 Dolly Parton’s America - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america Grammar Girl Podcast - https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/ The Allusionist - https://www.theallusionist.org/  Timestamps 0:00 Intro and Catchup Up 8:00 - The time for giving 13:00 - Slipping into the winter mood 18:30 - Winter reading plans 22:00 - Dolly Parton and Feminism 29:00 - Journals of authors and hosts 38:00 - Self Care 44:00 - Reading genre fiction & Grady Hendrix 49:00 - Midnight Club review 52:00 - Reading YA as an adult vs as a Young Adult --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

It's an oversized episode all about the books we bought, were gifted, or otherwise acquired this month Books Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination by Douglas Cowan Sing, Nightingale by Marie Helene Poitras What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn Suite as Sugar: and Other Stories by Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson Our Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha My Hygge Home: How To Make Home Your Happy Place by Meik Wiking The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year by Carmen Spagnola The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs Wisdom from the Homeless: Lessons a Doctor Learned at a Homeless Shelter by Neil Craton M.D. I Feel Bad About My Neck: and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Movies Silent Night, Deadly Night series of films Toys of Terror - Youtube Trailer Divided opinions on Krampus (Youtube Trailer) and Nightmare on Elm Street (special effect in question) The Night House - Youtube Trailer **CW: deals with suicide and depression 1408 - Youtube Trailer Gerald's Game - Youtube Trailer Inside Out - Youtube Trailer Timestamps 00:30 Steph and Candice Catch-Up on the month that was October 11:10 Candice's Stephen King update 17:30 Steph's newly acquired books this month 33:30 Candice's newly acquired books this month 39:30 Young Adult novels as a genre 43:30 On rewatching and rereading favourites 46:30 Final update on Candice's Horror Movie watch-a-thon 1:07:00 Clips from Nina Nesseth Author Event   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

It's someone's favourite month and it's probably because of Halloween, or maybe Thanksgiving, or maybe just the cooler days and earlier nights. To celebrate The Bookshelf is hosting a bunch of events about just those things. Steph and Candice catch up on all the scary stories they are reading and all the food they wish they could cook in this month's episode. Events October 20th - Carrie and The Forbidden Body with author Douglas Cowan October 26th - Film viewing and Author Interview with Nina Nesseth October 18th - Author talk and cookbook samples with Emily Richards Books The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination by Douglas Cowan Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films by Nina Nesseth Best of Bridge Comfort Foods: Recipes for Family and Friends by Emily Richards This Is What It Sounds LIke: What The Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas Across The Void by S.K. Vaughan The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King  and for the very big stans of the Dark Tower Series Charlie the Choo-Choo: From the World of the Dark Tower by Beryl Evans Secret Ingedients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink edited by David Remnick Movies / TV Spontaneous Trailer Slash/Back Trailer Bad CGI Sharks Trailer Sharks of the Corn Trailer The Bear Series Trailer The Afterparty Series Trailer A League of Their Own Trailer Prom Night 3: The Last Kiss Trailer (with an excellent example of the school announcements right away!) Links Follow Candice on Letterboxd Find Horror Movie recommendations by scrolling through #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days on Twitter --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Welcome back to The Village. Steph and Candice do some book reviews from the summer of 2022 while also talking music, algorithms, and what we learned this summer Books Sweet Valley High Books 1-12 by Francine Pascal (Apple iBooks Store link) Recollections of my Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit (other books by Solnit) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman  Zed by Joanna Kavenna Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elaine Abdelmahmoud Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance, and Surviving the Music Industry by Rollie Pemberton Movies Everything Everywhere All At Once Official Trailer Links Storygraph Eden Mill's Writer's Festival Timestamps 0:00 - 2:00 Welcome 2:00 - 8:00 School’s back! Recollections of school time with Steph and Candice 8:00 - 12:25  Memory keeping and digital storage 12:25 - 21:00 Summer travel with Steph and family, and Steph’s reading update 21:00 - 27:45 Down with algorithms and the change from Spotify to Youtube 27:45 - 38:00 Candice’s new book logging app Storygraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/  38:00 - 41:00 Eden Mills Writer’s Festival, https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/  41:00 - 47:25 What Candice learned from Son of Elsewhere 47:25 - 49:00 Candice’s summer book reading 49:50 - 59:50 Clips from Rollie Pemberton’s reading and talk (there are some curse words in this talk) --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Steph and Candice fit in a check in despite very busy schedules. They chat about the usual topics - reading writing by women, reading Stephen King and other authors and looking past the problematic racism and misogyny of the 1980s, as well as the problematic misogyny of Dr. Peter Venkman. Books Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age by Julie Bogart The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

Candice and Steph discuss whether antiheroes, reluctant heroes, or very good heroes are the best to tell stories about.  And then they get into trying to decide what makes fantasy fantasy. Basically the title says it all "We don't need a pandemic to justify our escapism" and Candice and Steph say read it all, watch it all, whatever makes you happy. Books Wizard and Glass: Dark Tower IV by Stephen King Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King (coming back to print in May 2022) What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy Xenogenesis Series by Octavia E. Butler Movies Licorice Pizza playing March 13 - 17 West Side Story playing March 13 - 17 Full schedule The Batman, The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Guardians of the Galaxy, Abbot Elementary, iZombie Timestamps 3:30 Cinema Update 8:26 The future of movie watching, and Cats the Musical, The Movie. 15:45 The Batman, and our opinions, having not seen the film. 20:30 Heroes and chosen family 26:25 Reading and watching the lighter fare 36:22 The Stephen King Re-read Update 42:00 What makes fantasy fantasy? --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Steph and Candice declare a new start and share highlights from 2021 Books A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraquip Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin Diangelo Hood Feminism: Notes from the Woman that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R Anderson Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life by Fumio Sasaki Links Mallory O'Meara's Podcast Reading Glasses Books Unbound Podcast and Bookmark Subscription Events January 25 - Lawrence Hill in conversation with Nana aba Duncan about his children's book Beatrice and Croc Harry Feb 1 - Tara McKenna in conversation with Candice Batista about her book Don't Be Trashy Timestamps 00:00 Welcome 02:18 Steph's update on 2021 resolutions and goals 06:20 Candice's update on 2021 goals 08:07 Update on the Stephen King re read 17:00 On musicians and writers revisiting their work 20:07 Steph's reading highlights of 2021 26:27 Candice's reading higlights of 2021 33:00 Goals for 2022 42:00 Events around the Bookshelf --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

After a summer break Candice and Steph are back to talk books, movies and music, with only a side of feminism and social justice. Candice read some books on break and Steph started a dance class. ** We were together in real space with lots of distance so there's a bit of a big echoey room sound, and lots of talking all over each other. We were excited. Deal with it. Books Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, Insomnia, Rose Madder & The Green Mile by Stephen King Evil by Julia Shaw The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix along with Horrostor, My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Movies Just Mercy Trailer - https://youtu.be/GVQbeG5yW78  Titane Trailer - https://youtu.be/epoyDw8EU9I Suspiria 2018 Trailer - https://youtu.be/BY6QKRl56Ok  --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

This pandemic doesn't seem at all like the post apocalyptic books we've read in the past!There is way more sitting around reading books and watching movies and television shows from our younger years. Join Steph and Candice as a conversation about Lindy West brings them down the path of all the things we've revisted recently before we get to the monthly Stephen King update. Books Shit Actually by Lindy West Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Needful Things by Stephen King Gerald's Game by Stephen King Survivor's Song by Paul Tremblay Podcast Links I Hate It But I Love It You're Wrong About This Ends At Prom   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Steph and Candice chat Fox Mulder, critical thinking skills and 20th and 21st century popular music. Books: 1973: Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson Links: k-os cover of The Cars Just What I Needed (opens a Youtube video) Strong Songs Podcast on Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan Switched on Pop podcast How Streaming Changed the Sound of Pop Timestamps: 3:00 There was an anti-mask protest near the bookstore; empathy and critical thinking 7:56 Fox Mulder is not the hero you think he is 10:30 It's okay to not be okay, but how do we move forward 16:00 The importance of routine 22:00 Reading as a habit that shakes up your habit 26:50 Podcasts vs radio 30:00 Gen X talking about music these days 50:00 The terror of algorithms --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

From Grady Hendrix to habit forming to bananas? It's not as wild a ride as this description would have you believe. Candice and Steph check in on recent books and authors and how to be intentional with our time. Books The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Needful Things by Stephen King Hello Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life by Fumio Sasaki Links The Great Stephen King Reread by Grady Hendrix Timestamps 00:00 Intro and check in with Steph and Candice - what's new, what are you doing once businesses re-open a bit 08:16 Steph talks about books she's read and whether or not she can recommend them 09:45 Let's talk Grady Hendrix  21:00 What did women socially do before the book club became popular? 23:25 Candice's Stephen King reread and how everyone is wrong about Pet Sematary 30:30 Talking about habit forming 37:30 What else are we doing to relax besides reading? 41:00 Intentionally doing nothing or something - just be intentional --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Welcome to 2021! Steph and Candice do a mini year in review for 2020 and talk about the music and movies and restaurants they missed and the books and television and home cooking they didn't miss. Books Shining In The Dark: Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library edited by Hans-Ake Lilja The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands by Stephen King Movies Midsommar - and how we relate to it now https://twitter.com/alexem/status/1339389665590185985 Links Spotify's business - https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dzje3/daniel-ek-spotify-artists-pay-interview Lilja's Library, a Stephen King fansite - https://www.liljas-library.com/ Stephen King Ranked - https://screenrant.com/every-stephen-king-book-ranked-best-worst  Timestamps 01:45 We start with music 11:30 Moving on to television and streaming services 16:00 Home cooking 18:00 Stephen King book club - Steph has a complementary read and we talk about rankings 33:00 How social media and criticism may have changed Stephen King 38:40 Movies - Midsommar and how it represents our collective experience 42:15 What does the future hold? --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Why do we read? To get away, to learn, to watch other people without guilt. Why do we write? Let's be honest, Steph and Candice come to no conclusions about these existential questions, but they try. Books The Stand, The Green Mile, Needful Things, Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, Cell by Stephen King Links Stephen King's accidental blindness on race - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/28/stephen-king-says-oscars-are-rigged-in-favor-of-the-white-folks-washington-post Timestamps 02:15 - What's NaNoWriMo? 07:00 - revisiting stories you already know 10:00 - taking time to think about what you are reading and watching 11:00 - The Stephen King Project 15:00 - Stephen King and the myth of meritocracy 22:00 - How our lifestyles have changed with Covid 26:00 - Where everyone wonders "What does epistolary mean?" 29:00 - The pain of group chats 30:45 - The real reason why Steph doesn't journal 34:00 - Students writing letters to elected officials and why you should too 42:00 Back to The Stand   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra    

Halloween time has come around again... Steph and Candice take full advantage by chatting about spooky books and spooky tv shows. We also discuss whether or not people should be reading stories about the downfall of humanity, whether it be from viruses or robots. Books, television and other links Unsolved Mysteries - the proto crime podcast, as a television show of the 80s and 90s The Stand by Stephen King - the study described by the sociologist in the book, Glenn Bateman, is entirely fiction.  I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Piranesi by Susanna Clarke  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the genre or rewriting classics with supernatural elements. End Credits Radio, CFRU's movie review program. Lindy West, columnist Genre bending novels and novelists The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Ted Chiang --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra    

After an accidental summer off from recording Steph and Candice are back, much like school and in-store shopping at The Bookshelf! That's right the bookstore is open to the public 7 days a week from 11am - 6pm. But not to worry, they are still offering delivery, and if you know exactly what you want please consider ordering online for either delivery or pick-up and limiting the number of people browsing the stacks. We are all in this together and doing what we can to support each other! Books The Tommyknockers by Stephen King Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix The Dark Half by Stephen King The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Stand by Stephen King Well Read Black Girl by Glory Edim Also follow the online book club Well Read Black Girl Note - Candice is ashamed to have not been able to come up with the name of Maya Angelou on the spot while trying to remember who said "When you know better, you do better." In consideration - the return of the Non-Fiction Book Club with a focus on relearning Canadian History. --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Steph and Candice check in again on how life, work and entertainment is going during work from home times. Hint, it's a lot of television watching, way more than usual Listen along to hear what they've been watching, reading and maybe eating! Books The Flooded Earth by Mardi McConnochie American War by Omar El Akkad Melmoth by Sarah Perry Misery by Stephen King Tommyknockers by Stephen King A Matter of Taste by Rebecca Tucker Links Movie commentary with friends from Candice's podcast, 100% Candice What is Cli-Fi?  Read what Stephen King thought of Annie Wilkes, villain of Misery.  Timestamps 00:33 Intro 01:30 Missing movies with friends 05:50 Choosing what movies to watch 06:50 The Outer Limits reboot of the 90s 09:10 The X-Files conspiracy theory 10:16 Telling stories through years long series 14:30 Role playing games and playing characters outside yourself 19:03 How we communicate in audio without visual cues 22:00 How our reality is different from the tropes of sci fi 24:00 Giving people the nod while out for a walk 26:17 Reading updates 30:50 The Stephen King update 39:10 Steph realizes keeping a journal might be a positive thing, again. 43:45 Candice's accidental food industry book club  48:50 Plea to support local businesses 49:46 What do live events and celebrations look like now? --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

It will be a Mother's Day weekend to remember, and it's not because of the snow predicted to land in Southern Ontario over the weekend! You can't take your mom out for dinner or to see a movie this year, but you can treat your mom to puzzles, games, books, and wine! Or a Psycho movie marathon if you've got that type of mom (Candice does!) Books Misery by Stephen King The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling The Wall Will Tell You: The Forensics of Screenwriting by Hampton Fancher Camp Murderface by Josh Berk and Saundra Mitchell The Mutant Mushroom Takeover by Summer Rachel Short Clan by Sigmund Brouwer Movies Maniac - 70s serial killer exploitation film American Psycho directed by Mary Harron as a satire! The Booksellers streaming from the Cinema in partnership with Blue Ice Docs This Is Not A Movie streaming from the Cinema in partnership with Blue Ice Docs Kedi streaming from the Cinema in partnership with Blue Ice Docs Jerry Maguire - Steph's favourite buddy film? The Object of My Affection - Candice favourite film to press stop at 5 minutes before the end. Links Candice's episode of End Credits Radio covering Grady Hendrix written horror comedy film, Satanic Panic My Favourite Murder Podcast  Bookshelf Cinema's streaming movies Bookshelf delivers wine with books!  The Dana Buckler Show Terminator retrospectives Timestamps 01:00 Mother's Day ideas and plans 07:10 How does the book look? 08:00 - 08:10 Special guest makes an appearance! 09:38 Check in on Candice's reading 11:00 We go deep on Grady Hendrix 13:15 Chatting women's obsession with true crime and horror 18:30 The villain in horror films aren't meant to be redeemed 22:20 Bookshelf Cinema brings you streaming films! 31:30 Steph's reading update 34:00 Practice exploring what wasn't in the story - basically Fan Fic 38:00 Send your best alternate parts of a story to Steph at [email protected] 39:45 Kids books Steph has been reading with her kids --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Hey everyone, we are back! If you thought the store closed to the public and working from home would keep us from recording, you were almost right. It took us a bit longer to find the time we could connect but here we are. We check in with each other, chat about popular reads for strange times, and coping mechanisms. Now that we are all staying home all the time, we want to know either what you miss most or what you have found you don't miss at all. Let us know by email at [email protected] Books Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl is back on The Bookshelf's best seller list! First published in 1959 The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling It by Stephen King Links Watch Fierce's live DJs Timestamps 5:00 How are things at the Bookshelf? 10:00 Personal check in on how Candice and Steph are doing 18:30 What's selling at The Bookshelf? 23:00 How has the pandemic affect music and live events? 27:15 What happens to the third place when we can go back? 31:30 Update on what we're reading --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra      

**Recorded before major public impacts of social distancing to slow down COVID-19 transmission started  March Break is coming up and Steph and family have some fun and events planned. Also included are some updates about the cinema, the "death" of live music and the questionable way Stephen King approaches racism in his characters. Movies Little Women - March 13 - 19 Knives Out - March 14 - 19 Books Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Lost Ones by Anita Frank The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chronicles by Eyal Kless Danse Macabre and On Writing - the nonfiction by Stephen King Links Why Was this Recommended reddit board - not necessarily safe for work Cineplex holds on to films causing indie theatres across Canada to scramble for content. Change.org petition to support The Bookshelf Cinema and other indie theatres across Canada. Dear Young Rocker podcast being adapted into a My So-Called Life style television show. On Stephen King's trouble depicting racism in his books Timestamps 6:00 Steph saw Julie Black live! Which lead to a conversation about live music, the where and the how. 17:00 Steph forgot to turn her ringer off! 17:30 What's happening at the eBar? What do you want to happen at the eBar? The Bookshelf is always seeking your opinion. 22:00 Shopping algorithms on the internet (spoiler: they're no good!) 28:00 The Bookshelf Cinema and others keep getting movies pulled from them thanks to Cineplex 31:00 Rant about remakes of movies and television shows 35:00 Candice goes down a rabbit hole talking about My So Called Life 37:00 What we are reading update 42:00 Prioritizing reading over other things?  47:00 On Stephen Kings racist language --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra        

After an extra week apart Steph and Candice had more than usual to catch up on. Movie awards season is all wrapped up and we know what movies are worthy now. And both Steph and Candice started the new year reading books outside their usual niche. Movies  Second run theatres like the Bookshelf struggle to schedule a regular calendar because sometimes first run theatres (like Cineplex) choose to keep playing a film long past their release date. This month Knives Out was pulled from the calendar just a few days from the showings. Jojo Rabbit, playing Feb 3 - 18 Little Women, playing Feb 28 - Mar 7 Parasite, playing Feb 7 - 17 Books Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey It by Stephen King Break in Case of Emergency by Brian Francis Grady Hendrix Great Stephen King Reread Quit Like A Woman by Holly Whitakre Timestamps (minute:seconds) 2:00 A run-down of awards seasons movies 7:30 Black History (Future) Month 9:00 Women in Horror Month 11:30 Knives Out 13:30 War dramas vs war satires 17:00 Congrats to Taika Waititi 18:50 What's playing at the cinema 24:30 Book talk Candice's list 30:00 Book talk Steph's list 32:30 A discussion about YA fic, genre and romances 36:00 Fandom and creators who bow to what they want 41:00 Stephen King re-read update 46:00 Steph's feminist book club update --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Resolutions! What are yours? Steph and Candice chat about theirs, including learning new skills, maintaining course and doing the boring duties of being an adult. Our wish for you - do the things you want to do with your free time. And always, more books, more movies, and more music! Books Paradise Lost by John Milton Good Omens by Terry Pratchett Penguin's Little Black Classics A Different Kind of Christmas by Alex Haley Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson In The House In the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt In The Night Wood by Dale Bailey The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Little Darlings by Melanie Golding Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Me by Elton John Face It by Debbie Harry A Fine Balance by Rohinton Minstry Candice's Stephen King Project update: Finished Eyes of the Dragon in December and IT begun! Links It's an Imagine Dragon decade! Billboard's Rock Songs of the Decade  --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Find out what is on Candice's rider and what is definitely not on Steph's. It's a season of food and excess and we get right into it before we check in on Steph's feminist book club and Candice's Stephen King project. Books In the House In the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt Stealing the Show: How Women are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic and Power by Pam Grossman Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King, the palate cleanser which follows Pet Sematary Good Omens by Terry Pratchett Game of Thrones Series by George R.R. Martin Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan Links Dolly Parton's America - a podcast --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

The times and the building, they are a-changing! This month's recording is being brought to you by the eBar, upstairs, rather than the floor of the bookstore, thanks to some major building upheaval. We cover how we remember stories, how we tell our own stories, and loads of speaking events happening at the store this month. Events The Massey Lecturer Sally Armstrong on November 5th Kim Anderson and Renee Mishake launching the book Injichaag: My Soul In Story on November 16th in the eBar Chris Earley launching his book Feed The Birds on November 18th in the eBar Robyn Doolittle launching her book Had It Coming on November 19th in the ebar Adventurer Adam Shoalts launching his book Beyond the Trees on December 3rd in the eBar Ralph Martin launching his book Food Security on December 10th in the eBar More events at the eBar, https://bookshelf.ca/eBar Books Shrewd by Elizabeth Renzetti Cujo, Christine, Pet Sematary and It! by Stephen King On Writing by Stephen King Movies Parasite playing November 15 - 21 Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice playing November 8 - 11 The Irishman playing November 22 - 23 --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Books Christine by Stephen King Follow along with the Stephen King read through by checking this list, Stephen King Novels: Oldest to Newest. Movies Movies we've seen.. or maybe we haven't seen them? Maybe it's all the pop culture references. Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, The Maltese Falcon, Lost Highway, Godzilla (2019) Celebrate Steph and Candice's favourite holiday by going to see The Exorcist at the Cinema playing October 30 &31 Links Letterboxd - Candice's list Iron Dog Bus - the book bus Steph found while in Kelowna Don't forget you can order books directly from the website! Save on shipping costs in Guelph and still get it same day. Podcast Club, first Tuesday of every month at the Guelph Public Library Elevate Guelph, be a part of making the Bookshelf accessible to everyone in Guelph! --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

What is the nature of human courage and trauma? Just a tiny topic we end up chatting about thanks to some interesting reads this summer. Books The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan The Black Swan by Nassim Nicolas Taleb Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers by Sady Doyle  The Familiars by Stacey Halls The Farm by Joanne Ramos Cujo by Stephen King Doctor Sleep by Stephen King The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Links The Passion of the Nerd, Youtube Channel critiquing Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast Club, first Tuesday of every month at the Guelph Public Library Elevate Guelph, be a part of making the Bookshelf accessible to everyone in Guelph!   --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra    

Kids are out of school and looking for things to do, like sitting on their mom’s lap while she tries to record a podcast. Despite distractions from Steph’s kids and the construction happening in the Bookstore we managed to get at least 25 minutes of actual conversation recorded! And only needed to stop mid-sentence a couple of times. I think you will notice the edit when that happens. We hear what Steph is reading over her holiday, and we go deep into the third novel in Stephen King’s published (under his own name) works, The Shining. Books We have a special book recommendation from Lucas, son of co-host Steph - Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier Days by Moonlight by Andre Alexis The Shining by Stephen King  Movies Rocketman playing August 23 - 28 The Dead Don’t Die playing August 27 - 29 Midsommer playing August 13 - 15   Don't forget to Elevate Guelph - be a part of making The Bookshelf accessible to everyone! --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

Summer, everyone's favourite season to complain about how warm it is! Also a great season to get out of the heat and see some movies in the theatre! We got real regional talking about radio and television stations from our childhood. Books Is this Live? by Christopher Ward Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey from Chaos to Composure by Erika Nielsen Movies Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and questionable comedy. Alex Winter address it here, https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/bill-ted-star-speaks-use-homophobic-628284  Booksmart playing from June 28 - July 7 and how it compares to Superbad, Bridesmaids and Lady Bird  Events Links Mark Dailey - the voice of City TV Everywhere (opens a YouTube clip) Local station CJOY hosts retiring Ongoing History of New Music by Alan Cross  Stephen King Watch Carrie - completed Salem's Lot - in progress Elevate Guelph - be a part of making The Bookshelf accessible to everyone! --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

The weather is warming up which means more outdoor music, at least it does to Steph and Candice! We get an update on shows they've both seen recently, some reading plans for the summer, and the usual coverage of whatever is on their mind! Books Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Stephen King Oeuvre in chronological order Is This Live by Christopher Ward Music Steph went to see The 1975 Candice went to see Mario Speedwagon's 90s Prom Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Arrested Development, Britney Spears, Celine Dion at 50, Events Don't Label Me book launch with Irshad Manji on June 6th Links The story of Guelph's Diwali Night Gala Happy Pride Everyone! Take 20 minutes to learn more about the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Stonewall Forever Candice's summer reading list     --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

We accidentally went directly to "Oh my gosh the sky is falling!" but we recovered quickly with Canadian music and old looking babies. This episode is jam packed with lots of book talk and event talk. There is so much happening in May at the Bookshelf. Books: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline The Book of M by Peng Shepherd Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot This One Looks Like a Boy by Lorimer Senher Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Julia Shaw  Events: In Conversation with Lorimer Senher on May 8 from 7 - 9 Movie Night at the eBar: Footloose on May 10 from 7 - 9 Haunted Town Halls with Peter Roe on May 11 from 7 - 8:30 Clyde Fans: Seth at the Bookshelf on May 15 from 7 - 9 FLEUR*ish: in the eBar Art show running April 23 to July 6 Susan Benson: Art, Design and Craft on Stage a conversation between biographer Pat Flood and subject Susan Benson on May 31 Other Links: The Downtown Theatre Project Guelph Little Theatre Royal City Music Production Inc --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra  

It's Spring! Another time of renewal, we have so many fresh starts in a year. Steph and Candice talk about the importance of 80s culture and finding time to read around so much pressure to do things.  Books: The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (yes, Candice is still reading this one!) The Binding by Bridget Collins Movies: Hairspray in the eBar on April 19 Events: Michael McCreary, Funny You Don't Look Autistic on April 16 Other events in the eBar in April --- Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra