Episode 059: The Rakess

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Welcome, fair maidens and handsome gents, to our latest episode where we discuss Scarlett Peckham’s The Rakess.

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.  Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

John Hetherginton, famous for causing a riot when he debuted the “top hat” in London in 1797

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK WE MIGHT LIKE

Toby: Mary and Maria, or The Wrongs of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Trevor: Love Between the Covers (a documentary on the romance novel industry, available through WPL on Kanopy)

Dennis: This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: pasty

Trevor: refulgent

Dennis: belly timber

Next month we will be discussing Dawn by Octavia Butler.

Thank you to everyone who read The Rakess with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

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Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

Creators and Guests

Dennis Penner
Host
Dennis Penner
Dennis works in the ideaMILL and while he prefers mysteries and non-fiction, he’s open to reading almost anything. He’s also the editor/producer, so he can edit the show to make himself sound smarter than he really is.
Toby Cygman
Host
Toby Cygman
Toby is an Outreach Librarian and recovering book snob. She mostly reads literary fiction but has been known to dabble in non-fiction and the genres.
Trevor Lockhart
Host
Trevor Lockhart
Trevor is the Branch Head of the Louis Riel library. He tends to be a slow reader but a fast talker, so it all evens out.
Episode 059: The Rakess
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