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  1. 3D AGO

    #95 February 2026

    Steph and Candice did not get a lot of reading done between the last episode and this, but we did watch some sports, some music, and some movies. Times are tough right now, but we agree that finding joy is an act of resistance! Books Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon  Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World by Brooke McAlary   The Acts of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table by John Steinbeck   Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson   The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel The Future is Female Vol 2 edited by Lisa Yaszek  Movies A Star is Born (1976) Trailer  The Way We Were Trailer Funny Girl Trailer   Cats Trailer  Links Bad Bunny's half time show   CBC Gem full Olympics coverage    Podcamp Toronto (Feb 28 & Mar 1)  Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Steph hosted a Super Bowl party 04:38 Candice watched some Olympics 13:00 On hyper fixation  15:50 Movie watching - A Star is Born, Barbara Streisand, and Cats 22:38 Steph Reading - Eve and a talk on longevity 43:15 On staying social and active in February - midwinter parties 54:00 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph Follow the Bookshelf on Instagram 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

    1h 8m

  2. JAN 25

    #94 January 2026

    Steph and Candice spend time sharing some reading and life goals for the new year, and chat about how they choose what books to read. Books The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz  Silver Nitrate  by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  Pop Classics Series  The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck  Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw by Will Ferguson  The Future is Female Vol 2 edited by Lisa Yaszek  Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon  A Girl Called Echo series by Katherena Vermette   Let It Glow by Marissa Meyer & Joanne Levy   The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson  The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett   Strange Houses by Uketsu  Movies Frankenstein  by Guillermo del Toro Nuremberg by James Vanderbilt  Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery by Rian Johnson The Lodger by Alfred Hitchcock   Links 2026 Genre Challenge on Storyboard  2026 Onboarding Challenge on Storyboard  Timestamps 00:00 Intro and goals for 2026 07:27 Steph's reading update 10:40 What are our reading key words / wheelhouse 21:16 Candice's reading update 32:30 A few more of Steph's current reads 41:10 Candice end of year reads 45:00 Candice's Hitchcock re-watch update and other movies   --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    56 min

  3. 12/22/2025

    #93 December 2025

    It's time for resolutions for 2026 and as usual both Steph and Candice are thinking about their balance of fiction to non-fiction books.  Books Mood Machine by Liz Pelly  The Future on Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz   The Future is Female Vol 1 edited by Lisa Yaszek  The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S Lewis  Movies A Grand Ole Opry Christmas Trailer https://youtu.be/1EiHRW0eEVY?si=qcoaaPSdQVesz-VC  Timestamps 01:40 Steph's move and TBR update and how we choose which book to read 06:45 How to track analog + digital reading on Storygraph 10:15 The end of year music wraps and how old your listening is - The Algorithm 24:40 What's Steph Reading 29:20 Reading reviews of books and movies on Storygraph and Letterboxd 31:50 Candice's Hallmark holiday movie update 37:30 Ooops, the Paul Dano / Tarantino feud --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    46 min

  4. 11/18/2025

    #92 November 2025

    Winding up and winding down as the weather changes and the holidays get closer!   Books Enshittification by Cory Doctorow  Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis   The Future is Female: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women edited by Lisa Yaszek  Full Throttle by Joe Hill  Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas by Alonso Duralde   The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman  Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman  The Lost Art of Doing Nothing by Maartje Willems & Lona Aalders  Movies Nosferatu by Robert Eggers Trailer  The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola  Links Cory Doctorow's Blog  Cory Doctorow's Podcast  Obsidian  Timestamps 01:00 Intro 02:50 Sneak peak at the book club convo about Enshittification 16:30 Talking about wealth - who needs it? 19:45 Steph's reading update 21:40 Candice's Stephen King challenge update  28:00 A side bar of how we celebrate Christmas  35:00 "Digital Gardening" with Obsidian and what we get from our reading 51:25 A coda on our reading - reading about doing less, with intention   --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    1h 1m

  5. 10/30/2025

    #91 October 2025

    Energy is high now that the weather has cooled. Steph and Candice have joined a "real world, offline" bookclub, and Candice is on the final book in the Stephen King Collection Books Vanished Beyond the Map by Adam Shoalts  A Life in Comedy by Paul Meyers  Full Throttle by Joe Hill  Exhalation by Ted Chiang  Enshittification by Cory Doctorow  Never Flinch by Stephen King  Events Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Thurs November 13th at 7pm - contact Steph at Stephanie@bookshelf.ca to join, or to host your own book club Timestamps 01:00 Intro 07:20 Are young people reading? 13:00 Steph's reading and watching update 18:00 The Bookshelf's new book club Stranger Than Fiction 35:25 Candice reading update 40:25 Is art for us or for the artist? --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    46 min

  6. 09/29/2025

    #90 September 2025

    Catching up! Steph's been on a journey to understand herself and her world better, Candice has been catching up to the end of her 6 year long Stephen King project. We chat about our TBRs again and how to choose what to read. Candice is a mood reader and Steph is not. But we both like a challenge! Books How to Raise a Feminist Son by Sonora Jha  Disorientation by Ian Williams How to Know a Person by David Brooks  How to Read Now by Elaine Costello  52 Ways to Reconcile by David A Robertson  Never Flinch by Stephen King  Finders Keepers by Stephen King  Fairy Tale by Stephen King  Bag of Bones Duma Key, Dolores Claiborne, Different Seasons, Carrie, The Institute (Steph's random selection of King novels she's read and Candice's suggestion) - https://bookshelf.ca/browse/filter/t/stephen%20King/k/keyword  The Long Walk by Richard Bachman  Movies Pachinko TV Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8888462/  The Thing (trailer) https://youtu.be/ySvzHdtCiWE?si=lNUHR72JOiJeoD6R  My Man from Funny Girl https://youtu.be/9r7coI37KYU?si=F2o6inp7xd9MRqjh  Links Candice's 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days Challenge watchlist  Timestamps 01:19 Getting right into what Steph's been reading on summer break 13:00 Small diversion into music 16:00 Back to Steph's reading 19:00 How to be the minority in a group (enjoy the disorientation!) 28:45 Candice's reading update - Stephen King project 37:00 Candice accidentally went do the I Hate the Dark Tower road again 43:00 Steph's Stephen King update 47:00 Do characters need to be likeable? 56:30 A coda to Candice's update - 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days   --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    1h 5m

  7. 06/09/2025

    #89 June 2025

    Steph and Candice talk about their TBR lists, how things make it on there, and why reducing decision fatigue and reading with intention are good things. And then also remind each other, and listeners that social contact with other humans is actually okay. Books The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink, and Jeffrey Cranor Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon  Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Journey of Starting Over, Falling in Love, and Finding Your Voice by Rob Sheffield   Billy Summers by Stephen King  The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (the book about two strangers sharing a reading list) On Book Banning: Or How The New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy by Ira Wells  Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollen  52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing by David A. Robertson  Music The Halluci Nation Snotty Nose Rez Kids Links Full Circle Foods - low waste, local grocery delivery Timestamps 4:00 How we approach our To-Be-Read piles 14:00 Steph & Candice's book updates 37:00 Talking to people in real life is good, including your delivery drivers   --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    54 min

  8. 05/07/2025

    #88 May 2025

    Candice had a week off this month so she read a lot! Lots of book talk about meta textual books with inserts and annotations and more. Plus lots of talk about horror being stories of grief, Twin Peaks and its weirdness, and the better than John Hughes coming of age movies of the 80s. Books The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee  Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee  The Troop by Nick Cutter  Extra Salty. Jennifer's Body (Pop Classics #11) by Frederick Blichert  Cathy's Book by Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman Cathy's Key by Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman S. by J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst,  Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr  The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost  The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch,  The Creative Act by Rick Rubin Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson  Movies It Feeds directed by Chad Archibald trailer (NSFW) The Monkey directed by Osgood Perkins trailer (NSFW) The Babadook directed by Jennifer Kent trailer (NSFW) The Journey of Natty Gann by Walt Disney Studios Trailer  Lucas by David Seltzer trailer  Timestamps 02:00 Steph's reading update and whether or not we are cool 10:00 Conversation about movie It Feeds by Chard Archibald and other horror movies 16:25 Candice's reading update - it's a big one! 33:30 Side bar conversation about John Hughes movies and other coming of age movies of the 80s 39:00 Twin Peaks - books, tv, movies and podcasts! --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph 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

    1h 2m
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