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The voices of a Canadian indie bookstore, cinema, bar, bistro, and live music venue.
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#80 June 2024
As we head into the summer break Steph and Candice check in on how they are doing on their TBR lists. Steph's behind and Candice is ahead? Who saw that coming!?
Lots of 90s and fan culture nostalgia in this months.
See everyone in September!
Books Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg,
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow,
Joyland by Stephen King
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Clair Dederer
Movies I Saw The TV Glow Trailer
Timestamps 00:00 Intro
03:35 I Saw the TV Glow and 90s nostalgia
15:00 Steph’s reading update
20:00 Candice’s reading update
38:40 Another Steph book
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#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
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#78 April 2024
This month Steph and Candice chat about indoor kids versus outdoor kids, how to approach a potluck, and why some books go unfinished.
Books The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How The World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Magick of Food: Rituals, Offerings, and Why We Eat Together by Gwion Raven
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Links The Essential Stephen King from The New York Times
Timestamps 00:00 - Intro and chit chat
14:00 - Steph’s reading
20:00 - a Storygraph side bar about Did Not Finish books
27:00 - Stephen King Article breakdown
37:00 - Food talk
44:00 - Candice’s reading - she’s ahead of her goal!
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#77 March 2024
Steph read a book about women’s fitness this month which launched a lot of conversation about dancing, weight lifting, synchronizing with others.
Meanwhile Candice is hoping the world gets saved in the next Stephen King novel on her to-read list.
Books In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s by Rob Harvilla
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Language of the Night by Ursula K Le Guin
Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel
Catchpenny by Charlie Huston,
Let’s Get Physical by Danielle Friedman
Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Links Check out the Bookshelf’s new website!
Timestamps 00:00 Intro and new website launch
06:40 Candice’s reading update
16:45 Steph’s vacation and reading update
34:00 Side bar about people moving or singing together (synchronicity)
38:28 Back to book talk about physical fitness
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#76 February 2024 (when we finally decide to start numbering our episodes)
Did someone say February was the shortest month? What’s that, February of 2024 is actually one day longer? Still not long enough to release the February episode in the month of February though apparently.
Books Kick Out The Jams by Dave Marsh
Listen by Michele Faber
60 Songs that Explain the 90s by Rob Harvilla
Moon of the Turning Leaves - by Waubgeshig Rice
Don’t be Trashy by Tara McKenna
Under the Dome by Stephen King
From A Buick 8 by Stephen King
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Movies Memento, Inception, Oppenheimer, Tenet, and Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan
Saltburn Trailer
Links 60 Songs that Explain the 90s podcast
The 2024 Oscars Nominees
Timestamps Steph’s reading update - 01:00
Candice’s Reading update - 08:50
Apocalypse stories - 16:00
How many answers each person needs in a story - 20:50
The Christopher Nolan rabbit hole - 31:00
Saltburn 34:00
The Oscars 38:00
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Ready for 2024
New year, same old Steph and Candice!
Books Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Wanderers & Wayward by Chuck Wendig
Under The Dome by Stephen King
Listen: On Music, Sound, and Us by Michel Faber
Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell
Movies Dream Scenario starring Nicolas Cage
Renfield starring Nicolas Cage
The Killer directy by David Fincher
Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola
A Murder at the End of the World
Links Goodreads review scandal
Please use Storygraph instead of Goodreads - and here’s why
Timestamps 00:00 - Intro
02:07 - What are we reading?
37:30 - What are we watching?
47:00 - A discussion on how things are reviewed by the public and the Goodreads issue
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