Candice and Steph return after the summer hiatus, to celebrate our 100th regular episode of The Village Podcast! 10 years of talking books and movies and things to do around the Bookshelf.

Steph is learning to garden and Candice is learning to speak Irish. What new skill have you started learning?

Candice also updates listeners on her reading challenges.

Books

The Garden Against Time by Olivia Lang

The Way Home by Mark Boyle

Girlhood Translated by Suzanne Garfinkel-Crowwell,

Mystery in the Title by Will and Ian Ferguson,

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones,

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones,

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder,

The Final Girls Support Group and other books by Grady Hendrix

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin for the Bookshelf Book Club meeting October 22, 2026

Links

Another Page App - block certain apps until you've met your reading goal. Email us at podcast@bookshelf.ca to get a code for a Premium subscription.

2026 Genre Challenge on Storygraph

Reading Glasses Challenge on Storygraph

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