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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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