All Episodes
Displaying episodes 31 - 60 of 80 in total
Episode 045: Love in the Time of Cholera
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezWelcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Win...
Episode 044: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Pu...
Episode 043: The Huntress
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Huntress by Kate Quinn.Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podca...
Episode 042: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell.Welcome, dear ...
Episode 041: Educated
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Educated by Tara WestoverWelcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcas...
Episode 040: Tenth of December
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Tenth of December by George SaundersWelcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Lib...
Episode 039: The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig DavidsonMENTIONED IN THIS EPISODETHE SHORT AND UNHAPPY HISTORY OF MY PUGILIS...
Episode 038: Evvie Drake Starts Over
Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda HolmesSYNOPSISIn a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” ...
Episode 037: Vi
Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing Vi by Kim Thúy.The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi wa...
Episode 036: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. See the trailer on YouTube. When The Hitchhiker’s Guide to ...
Episode 035: The Water Dancer
Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram...
Episode 034: The Island of Sea Women
Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this story follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two ...
Episode 033: The Stranger in the Woods
Thanks for joining us. We’re talking about The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel:Is it possible to live a totally solitary life, without relying on others or mod...
Episode 032: The Sisters Brothers
Thanks for joining us. We’re talking about The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt:Hermann Kermit Warm (great name right??) is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful ...
Episode 031: Charcoal Joe
Thanks for joining us! We’re talking about Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley.Life seems to be finally turning around for Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. He’s just opened a PI agen...
Episode 030: Tales of the City
Thanks for joining us! In this episode we’re talking about Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, ...
Episode 029: Little Women
Thanks for joining us! In this episode we’ll be talking about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, as it was chosen for us by our lovely Facebook group! Meg, Jo, Beth, a...
Special Episode – Books to Movies Part 2 – All the Movies
Thanks for joining us! This the second part of a special episode that ran long. Instead of talking about a book like we normally do, we’ve been ruminating on movie or ...
Special Episode: Books to Movies Part 1 – The Hound of the Baskervilles Adaptations
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Time to Read! We’re chatting about a few of the many screen adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Con...
Episode 028: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Thank you for joining us for this episode of Time to Read! We’re talking about The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the 1880s, Sir Henry Baskerv...
Special Episode: Our Top Digital Resources April 2020
Hello, dear readers. In this special episode we share the WPL resources we are ourselves relying on right now. Everything can be found through winnipeg.ca/library.At H...
Episode 027: Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards (MYRCA)
Hello dear readers. This episode is very different. Due to libraries being closed we are all working at home and recording remotely. Also, this time we each read a boo...
Episode 026: The Break
Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are talking about The Break by Katherena Vermette. When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window o...
Episode 025: Great House
Thanks for joining us for this episode of the Time to Read podcast. We are talking about Great House by Nicole Krauss. A reclusive American novelist, a young Chilean p...
Episode 024: The Princess Bride
Today we are talking about S. Morgenstern’s “The Princess Bride”, edited by William Goldman.Summary:Westley and Buttercup live a simple life on a farm, and fall in lov...
Episode 023: The Remains of the Day
Today we’re talking about The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.The Remains of the Day is a subtle, sad, humorous love story, and portrayal of a vanished way of lif...
Episode 022: Slaughterhouse Five
Today we’re discussing Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutOne of the world’s great antiwar books, centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, it’s ...
Episode 021: Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.Bernadette Fox is notorious. To other private-school mothers she’s a disg...
Episode 020: The Changeling
Thanks for joining us for our ***TWENTIETH*** episode! This month we’re discussing The Changeling by Victor LaValleApollo Kagwa is an antiquarian book dealer trying to...
Episode 019: All Systems Red
Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing All Systems Red by Martha Wells.The self-named Murderbot doesn’t really want to stop binge-watching media content lo...
