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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
 
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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
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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
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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?
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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
 
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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
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