Time to Read: a podcast book club

Thank you for joining us for this episode of Time to Read! We’re talking about The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the 1880s, Sir Henry Baskerville is an unassuming farmer in Canada when he gets the news that he’s inherited his ancestral home, Baskerville Hall, back in England on the edge of the dreary Grimpen Mire. But wait: there’s a catch! The inheritance comes with a FA...

Hello, dear readers. In this special episode we share the WPL resources we are ourselves relying on right now. Everything can be found through winnipeg.ca/library . At Home: A Click Away Info Guide, COVID-19 Info Guide, Media Literacy and Spotting Fake News Info Guide, Kanopy and Kanopy Kids, Ancestry , Always available stuff on Overdrive , Hoopla , Pressreader (Plus: How-to guide for Pressreader...

Hello dear readers. This episode is very different. Due to libraries being closed we are all working at home and recording remotely. Also, this time we each read a book nominated for the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards! Find all the MYRCA books online on Overdrive! Learn more about the awards and voting on the MYRCA website . In This Episode We Discuss Shelters and Crisis Supports , Survivin...

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are talking about The Break by Katherena Vermette. When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connect...

Thanks for joining us for this episode of the Time to Read podcast. We are talking about Great House by Nicole Krauss. A reclusive American novelist, a young Chilean poet who disappears, in the suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair revealing a secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer slowly reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in 1944. Connec...

Today we are talking about S. Morgenstern’s “The Princess Bride”, edited by William Goldman. Summary: Westley and Buttercup live a simple life on a farm, and fall in love. Westley sails off to find his fortune so that he can properly marry Buttercup, but his ship is overtaken by a notorious pirate who never leaves survivors. Heart-broken, Buttercup eventually agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck (ra...

Today we’re talking about The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day is a subtle, sad, humorous love story, and portrayal of a vanished way of life. It’s also a meditation on the high cost of duty and service. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a man who has dedicated his life to becoming the perfect butler in the one-time great house of Darlington Hall, sets off on a holiday th...

Today we’re discussing Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut O ne of the world’s great antiwar books, centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, it’s the result of what Vonnegut describes as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines science fiction, autobiography, humour, historical fiction, and satire in an...

Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To other private-school mothers she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect. But to 15-year-old Bee, she is simply Mom. Then Bernadette vanishes. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. B...

Thanks for joining us for our ***TWENTIETH*** episode! This month we’re discussing The Changeling by Victor LaValle Apollo Kagwa is an antiquarian book dealer trying to be an involved father to his new baby, unlike his own father who abandoned him, when his wife Emma begins acting strange. Is it post-partum complications, or something much more sinister? Then Emma commits a horrific act—beyond any...

Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing All Systems Red by Martha Wells. The self-named Murderbot doesn’t really want to stop binge-watching media content long enough to do its boring security job for a bunch of humans surveying an unknown planet. But when an unknown life-form attacks one of the team, Murderbot is forced to start paying attention. When the humans try to talk to it, ask...

Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing Trickster Drift the by Eden Robinson, chosen by author and WPL Writer-in-Residence alumnus Jordan Wheeler , who joined us as a guest host, for which we are very grateful! Trickster Drift is the second book in a trilogy by Eden Robinson (we read the first book Son of a Trickster last year, remember that? Good times.) Now, we catch up with Jared as...

Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing Fox by Margaret Sweatman WITH Margaret Sweatman! Laid over the backdrop of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, Fox examines several characters as they face the time’s social upheaval through a postmodern pastiche of newspaper headlines, diary entries, character vignettes and poems.  Its narrative thread is mostly through four characters: Mary, who e...

Thank you for joining us for our discussion of poetry by poets. This month we each chose a book of poetry to read, but ended up delving more broadly into poetry as well. We also wrote a poem as a team! Poets covered include Katheriea Vermette, Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, and Robert Frost, among others.  In This Episode We Mention National Poetry Month  The League of Canadian Poets Modest Mou...

Thank you for joining us for this special LIVE episode where we discuss our favourite childhood reads with the audience at the Good Will Social Club, and featuring special musical guest funlife. In This Episode We Mention There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon by Jack Kent The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton Tintin by Hergé Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans CBC Whiteh...

Thank you for joining us for our discussion of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli are simultaneously navigating a new relationship, a new marriage, a new life, and a new country and merge their traditions with the American ones in which they raise their children. Their son Gogol, named after the Russian writer, knows only that he feels the burden of expectation as well as his...

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. Many many thanks to guest hosts Alexa Potashnik and Sappfyre McLeod from Black Space Winnipeg ! George Washington Black is a young field slave born on a Barbados sugar plantation. When his master’s eccentric brother chooses him as manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Ch...

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of Beartown by Fredrik Backman. Beartown is a town in need of a win, and their best hope is an incredibly talented high-school boy and a well-coached junior ice hockey team. All the hopes and dreams for the town’s revival rest on the results of one national semi-final. The match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl tr...

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. In this episode we mentioned Iain Reid’s sister RBC Taylor Emerging Writer award-winner “Thoughts become words. Words become deeds” and variations Get Out movie Easter Eggs Fingernails falling out and symbolism: “If you dream of your nails falling out, it could mean that you are concerned about yo...

It’s time for another special episode! We hosted our spooky Tales at Night – Library Happy Hour at the Good Will Social Club on Wednesday October 24, 2018, and we decided to record it for your listening pleasure. Just in case you missed it (or want to listen again!) The readers are Ed Cuddy, Kirsten Wurmann, Tauni Jensen,…

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. In this episode we mentioned Erik Larson’s website Ripper Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper–Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell The Monty Python’s The Struggling Architect sketch Sophia Hayden, architect H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer The Titanic II Merriam-...

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of The   Long Way to a Small Angry Planet   by Becky Chambers. Next month we are reading The Devil in the White City   by Erik Larson. In this episode we mentioned: Ada Lovelace Linda Lovelace Stellan Skarsgård The Mary Sue – the nexus of pop culture and the uncharted universe: https://www.themarysue.com/ The Kitschies (The prize for progressi...

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read in which we discuss Walkaway by Cory Doctorow Next month we are reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers In this episode we talked about Electronic Frontier Foundation Boing Boing – a directory of mostly wonderful things Creative Commons Doctorow’s Law Download Doctorow’s books Cory Doctorow running up to Alan on the stre...

Thanks for joining us for this episode, on Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. In This Episode We Talked About Our super interesting discussion questions for Son of a Trickster, Harvey Smith Library (formerly West End Library) renaming, An Op-Ed on Gateway Pipeline in the Globe and Mail, Writer’s Trust Fellowship 2017 Winner, First Peoples’ Language Map of BC, Museum of Anthropology University of...

Thanks for joining us for this episode, discussing Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel Next month we are reading Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson In this episode we talked about Dykes to Watch Out For The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language – Usage Panel MacArthur Genius Grant How memories can change The Titanic vs. Titanic Jack’s death and Mythbusters Paper momento...