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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Candice watched Network and Steph is reading a book about algorithms…. The conversation veers naturally towards the almost dystopian world we live in on social media.

Join us on Wednesday June 24th at 7pm in the Greenroom, where we will discuss Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Books

We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories by Francis Stevens

Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Movies

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Toy Story 5

Network

The Odyssey

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Timestamps

2:00 Candice reading update

7:00 Steph reading

16:00 Steph movie update - are we out of ideas?

25:00 Big convo about social media, algorithms and news

42:00 More reading from Candice

52:00 Update about the Stranger than Fiction Book Club

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Have you ever read a book written in the present tense? Candice is reading one right now and it's weird. Meanwhile Steph is watching bummers of movies with her son and reading beautiful prose.

Upcoming Events

May 8 The Lecture on Being featuring Cory Doctorow

May 12 - 13 Forest of Reading

May 14 Stranger than Fiction Bookshelf Book Club at 7pm in the Greenroom

Books

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World by Dorian Lynskey

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Everyday Life by Tamar Adler

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler

The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingall's Wilder

It's Different This Time by Joss Richards

The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Taylor

Links

Little House on the Prairie Netflix series

Timestamps

1:00 Events happening around the Bookshelf

4:40 Book Club book chat

11:15 Movie Chat

14:35 Steph's reading update

24:35 Logging and to-do lists, with a side of self care

33:17 Remembering soap operas

35:00 More of Steph's reading update

37:45 Candice's reading update

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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. 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

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