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

The Village Podcast from The Bookshelf The Bookshelf

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

    Love Unequivocally

    Love Unequivocally

    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
     
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    The politics of living

    The politics of living

    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
     
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    • 48 min
    Can We Ever Really Know Anything?

    Can We Ever Really Know Anything?

    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)
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    • 49 min
    Women Deserve Oscars too

    Women Deserve Oscars too

    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
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    • 1 hr 5 min
    It's not all movies... but it's a lot of movies!

    It's not all movies... but it's a lot of movies!

    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?
     
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    • 50 min
    This is Our Year (along with all the others)

    This is Our Year (along with all the others)

    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.
    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
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    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. 
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    • 55 min

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