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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Steph confesses to DNFing a book she thought would be right up her alley, but she's got other books on the go. Candice continues her monthly genre challenge with a Canadian historical fiction book. Meanwhile both have a lot to say about the end of the world.

Cory Doctorow will be in Guelph on May 8th! Buy your tickets now!

Books

The Gilda Stories by Jewell Gomez

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris

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

Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by various authors

The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore

The Laundryman's Boy by Edward Y.C. Lee https://bookshelf.ca/item/ihViYpG-txVQzGRZSNIZMQ

They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada by Cecil Foster

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

The Troop by Nick Cutter

Movies

The Godfather Trilogy

Hot Fuzz

Fast and the Furious series

Links

The Genre Challenge on Storygraph

The Canadian Challenge on Storygraph

Fable book app

Follow Candice on Fable

Timestamps

1:00 Steph starts by admitting to putting away a novel unfinished

7:37 The Godfather trilogy and other comfort watches

17:45 Bookclub preview chat

26:40 Steph's reading update

30:00 Candice's reading update

44:33 New book tracking app!

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This month we cover the end of the world, and how sports can be beautiful. We also both watched Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie and how much we loved it.

If you want to join the Stranger than Fiction Book Club contact ben@bookshelf.ca.

Buy tickets to hear Cory Doctorow at the Guelph Lecture on Being at https://riverrun.ca/whats-on/guelph-lecture-on-being-2026/

Books

Born Into In: A Fan's Life by Jay Baruchel

Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Movies

Nirvana The Band, The Show: The Movie

Nirvana The Band, The Show (the webseries)

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

03:35 Steph's reading about the end of the world

12:40 Movie time with Steph and Candice

26:44 Candice reading challenges, stories about sports

38:30 Stranger Than Fiction Bookclub book - My Friends

43:15 Enjoying the weather and the sun setting later

46:44 Cory Doctorow is coming to Guelph!

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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

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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

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