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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 enjoys her pampered lifestyle and is engaged to the socially charming businessman Drinkwater, Eleanor, who in spite of her families’ wealth, realizes that she has little to call her own and MacDougal, a local bookstore owner who fights for social reform. In This Episode We Mention Margaret Sweatman’s bio Broken Songs Band (Margaret’s band with her husband Glenn Buhr): The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Private Property by Margaret Sweatman Jordon Wheeler and Digital Ogichida Fox Confessor Brings the Flood by Neko Case. Track — Margaret Vs. Pauline   Can You Tell Me A Book I Would Also Like? Margaret: Deborah Levy’s book

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 Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News (Track: Bukowski) The best ever group poetry exercise Come On In: New Poems by Charles Bukowski The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner river woman by Katherena Vermette The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker “This River” – NFB documentary by Katherena Vermette The Princess Saves Herself in the This One by Amanda Lovelace “[in Just-]” by e.e. cummings. (Poem recited by a CLEVER LOOPHOLE FINDER in my grade 11 english class, satisfying the 8 line requirement) “Spring and Fall to a Young Child” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poem Trevor foolhardily tried to recite from memory

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 Whitehorse The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco funlife  Favourite Characters of the Audience Ferdinand the Bull from The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Wilbur the Pig from Charlotte’s Web by E B White Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel **THE WINNER ** Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch Alan: Sideways Stories from Wayside School – Louis Sachar Nerd Word for Word Nerds From the Audience: Garbage Fire, Integral, Milquetoast, Petrichor, Masticate, Phenomenal, Lame, Tickety-Boo, Quixotic, Curmudgeon, Rime, Serendipity And Alan’s: With (and thanks to Tanis MacDonald) Our heartfelt, extremely mushy grateful thanks

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 odd name. He stumbles along the first-generation path, with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. Exploring identity, the claims of family, and the defining power of the name bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves. In This Episode We Mention Teach Yourself Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri Short stories – Just Lather, That’s All by Hernando Téllez; Skin and Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl; The Screaming Woman by Ray Bradbury, Araby by James Joyce, The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Tales at Night: Library Ha

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 Christopher Wilde, or “Titch,” is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world of technology and science, where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by circumstances of birth, might begin to see each other as human. When a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, Titch and Wash escape in a fable-like flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. There Wash, left suddenly on his own, must invent himself anew and is again adrift across the globe. (Blurb adapted from goodreads.com) In This Episode

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 traumatized and a town in turmoil. Repercussions ripple through all of Beartown, leaving no-one unaffected. We see the consequences of tunnel vision, misplaced pride, and naked ambition; of toxic culture and the power of community to either lift its members up, or tear itself apart.  In this episode we mention Backman’s blog Save the Jets! Favourite sports movies! (Including League of Their Own, Draft Day, and Miracle) Kevin Costner Human nature Chimpanzees and Bonobos and us Pardon by Carol Shields from short story collection Various Miracles (Note: It was referred to as Apology on the episode) The Intro to Podcasting

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 your ability to defend against some kind of emotional attack or aggression.” Movies that are better than the books: The Prestige by Christopher Priest, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Can You Tell Me A Book You Would Also Like? Erica: Foe by Iain Reid Trevor: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Kirsten: Women Talking by Miriam Toews and the true story Alan: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Nerd Word for Word Nerds Erica: Oversight and the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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-Webster on Twitter How Instagram Saved Poetry by Faith Hill & Karen Yuan (from The Atlantic) – Rupi Kaur author of Milk and Honey, Charles Bukowski, T.S. Eliot Can You Tell Me A Book You Would Also Like? Erica: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Kirsten: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Alan: My Friend Leonard by James Frey Trevor: A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski Nerd Word for Word Nerds Trevor: Cockalorum Erica: Grandiloquent Alan: Poesy Kirsten: Claque WPL Programs a

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 progressive, intelligent, and entertaining literature with a speculative element): http://www.thekitschies.com/ Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year:  https://www.clarkeaward.com/ Also, here is some fan art of the Wayfarer crew. Do they look the way you imagined them? Artist: SebasP from the deviantart.com website   Can you Tell Me A Book You Would Also Like? Trevor Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Erica All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells Kirsten Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Alan Moneyball by Michael Lewis   Nerd Word for Word Nerds Erica: “Hoist with his own

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 streets of Vancouver Can you Tell Me A Book You Would Also Like? * Erica * Zen in the Age of Anxiety by Tim Burkett * Arcadia by Lauren Groff   * Kirsten * The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka * Trevor * The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula k. LeGuin * Alan * Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Nerd Words for Word Nerds * Kirsten: Bisou/bise * Bise Map * Zou Bisou Bisou by Gillian Harris (1960) * Trevor: Hand of Glory * Alan: Remix * YA Hotline * No 97 (2014) — Interview with Cory Doctorow * Erica: Pathetic Fallacy Books and Media Mentioned * Fables by Bill Willingham * Star Trek *

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 British Columbia, Should bumblebees be able to fly? Can You Tell Me a Book You Would Also Like? Erica: Birdie by Tracey Lindberg and American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Trevor: One Good Story, That One by Thomas King and Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Kirsten: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Monique: The Break by Katherena Vermette and Louis: The Heretic Poems by Gregory Scofield, Alan: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, Nerd Words for Word Nerds Kirsten: Nerd Trevor: Saskatoon Erica: Prestigious Alan: Pannier Books and Media  More Eden Robinson books, East of Eden by John Steinbach,

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 momentos and pictures vs. electronic records and photos The Bechdel / Wallace / Verginia Woolf Test  Popular movies and the test The Mako Mori Test  The Sexy Lamp Test Ellen Willis Test Daniel Day Lewis  Recommended Reads Trevor: We Watch the Waves by Susan Riley Erica: Circe by Madeline Miller Kirsten: Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training by Tom Jokinen Alan: The Stranger by Albert Camus and Les Jeux Sont Faits by Jean-Paul Sartre Nerd Words for Word Nerds Erica: Rumination and rumination in psychology  Trevor: The Turing Test Kirsten: Defenestration  and the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast Alan:

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are discussing Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. Next month, we’re reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Discuss it here, or email us. In this episode we talked about NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Rainbow Rowell’s playlist for Eleanor and Park And her playlists on Spotify Banned Book Week (U.S.) and Freedom to Read Week (Canada) Recommended Reads Dietland by Sarai Walker Watchmen and V for Vendetta and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg Forever by Judy Blume Nerd Words for Word Nerds Erica: Ellipses Trevor: Seratonin Alan: Red-Headed Stepchild Kirsten: Custard Tart / Pastel de Nata [Unfortunately, we do not have pictures of Kirsten’s custard tarts, as they were consumed before anyone could pull out a camera] Books and Media mentioned Joshua Tree by U2 Nothing Compares 2U Sinead O’Connor (1990!) Colors by Beck Red Red Wine by

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are discussing The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Next month, we’re reading Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Discuss it here, or email us.   In this episode we talked about: Neil Himself: http://www.neilgaiman.com Neil Himself standing on a drainpipe as a young boy The Guardian review of The Ocean at the End of the Lane Kirsten’s Maiden/Mother/Crone tattoo Gorgeous George Manitoba Library Association – Prison Libraries Committee Book Drive — In support of incarcerated Manitobans and their families   Nerd Words for Word Nerds: Kirsten:  Saunter Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking” from the June 1862 issue of The Atlantic The Camino Portugues Erica:  Chelp; Bob pic1, pic2 Alan:  Wubba lubba dub dub   Read Alikes Round Table: Kirsten:  Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud Erica:  A wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’Engle Alan:  The Uses of Enchantment:  The Meaning and Importance of Fairytales   B

Thanks for joining us for this special episode, where we bring you Library Happy Hour at the Good Will Social Club from Wednesday April 11, 2018. The readers are Ed Cuddy, Kirsten Wurmann, Tauni Jensen, and Trevor Lockhart  Our special guest is WPL Writer-In-Residence Jennifer Still. We read the following poems and stories:                in…

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are discussing The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Next month, we’re reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Discuss it here, or email us. In this episode we talked about: Anne…

  Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are discussing Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Next month, we’re reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Discuss it here, or email us. In this episode we talked about: How I Met Your Mother Forrest Gump…

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read.We were discussing Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.<br />Next month, we’re reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think, through social media or <a href="mailto:wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca">wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca</a>.<br />In this episode we talked about:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYHUiNgDgL0">The Longpen</a> for remote writing<br />The <a href="https://www.futurelibrary.no/">Future Library</a> project<br />Atwood <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/17/16897404/margaret-atwood-metoo-backlash-steven-galloway-ubc-accountable">in the news </a>and the #metoo movement<br />Speculative Fiction vs. Science Fiction<br />Predictions in Oryx and Crake <a href="https://law.stanford.edu/2015/09/27/biosci-fi-oryx-and-crake-margaret-atwood-2003/">that came true</a> and <a href="https:/