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 Marquez

Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club. We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well as the birthplace of the Métis Nation and the heart of the Métis Homeland. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in Treaty Three territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

“What is Love?” by Howard Jones (The greatest musical meditation on the nature of love ever recorded, at least according to Dennis).

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE

Toby: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Trevor: Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis

Dennis: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Trevor: “black balling”

Toby: woebegone

Dennis: ambivalence

Next month we will be talking about Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff.

Thank you to everyone who read Love in the Time of Cholera with us this month 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.