The Village Podcast from The Bookshelf – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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!

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

Lake Placid vs. Anaconda Trailer 

Candice's 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days List

Candice's Hooptober Movie List

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

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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.

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 

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

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

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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.

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 

Dirty Dancing

La Bamba

Young Guns II

Family Ties

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

60 Songs That Explain the 90s Podcast 

Wonderful World of Disney Opening Themes 

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

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How do you deal with being too busy - Steph and Candice reflect on the last month’s busy-ness and how they coped.

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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)

Picard Season 3 - Candice hates it - sorry fans, Star Trek and Star Wars stories can be about more than the original main characters!

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

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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.

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 

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

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)

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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.

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

Elvis

Women Talking

The Fablemans

Top Gun Maverick

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Fast and the Furious series

Hudson Hawk 

1408

Read the full Oscars nominee list

What is a Paladin? 

Grady Hendrix Podcast Super Scary Haunted Homeschool 

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

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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!

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

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 

Some Stephen King podcasts - Kingcast, The Losers Club, Castle Rockettes (a Guelph based podcast!)

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?

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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 podcast@bookshelf.ca.

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

The Menu 

Moleskine Daily Planner

Hemlock and Oak Daily Planner

Storygraph Reading Challenge

Follow Candice on Letterboxd and Storygraph

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

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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.

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

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix on Prime  - Youtube Trailer

Midnight Club by Christopher Pike and Mike Flanagan - Youtube Trailer

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/ 

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

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It's an oversized episode all about the books we bought, were gifted, or otherwise acquired this month

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

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

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

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