Episode 055: All My Puny Sorrows

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews.

Welcome dear readers, 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

WPL Info Guide on Depression

New Yorker article on Miriam Toews

St. Odile

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK WE MIGHT LIKE!

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Toby: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Kirsten: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Dennis: askance

Toby: piano

Kirsten: Pots Splitz und Dorria!!

Next month we will be discussing In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.

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