The Village Podcast from The Bookshelf

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The Village Podcast from The Bookshelf

The voices of a Canadian indie bookstore, cinema, bar, bistro, and live music venue.

  1. 22 NOV.

    #83 November 2024, The one about genres

    **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 podcast@bookshelf.ca Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

    1 h 23 min
  2. 12 OCT.

    #82 October 2024

    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 podcast@bookshelf.ca Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

    57 min
  3. 14 SEPT.

    #81 September 2024

    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 podcast@bookshelf.ca Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

    1 h 3 min
  4. 21 MAI

    #79 May 2024

    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 podcast@bookshelf.ca Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra

    1 h 10 min

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