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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...

Episode 018: Trickster Drift

Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing Trickster Drift the by Eden Robinson, chosen by author and WPL Writer-in-Residence alumnus Jordan Wheeler, who joine...

Episode 017: Fox

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 ex...

Episode 016: Poetry

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...

Episode 015: But I Don’t Wanna Grow Up – Live

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 spe...

Episode 014: The Namesake

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...

Episode 013: Washington Black

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 Blac...

Episode 012: Beartown

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 talente...

Episode 011: I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid.In this episode we mentionedIain Reid’s sisterRBC Taylor Emerging ...

Special Episode: Tales at Night – Library Happy Hour (October 24, 2018)

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 dec...

Episode 010: The Devil in the White City

Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.In this episode we mentionedErik Larson’s websiteRipper Portrait o...

Episode 009: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

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 ...

Episode 008: Walkaway

Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read in which we discuss Walkaway by Cory DoctorowNext month we are reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by B...

Episode 007: Son of a Trickster

Thanks for joining us for this episode, on Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson.In This Episode We Talked AboutOur super interesting discussion questions for Son of a T...

Episode 006: Fun Home

Thanks for joining us for this episode, discussing Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison BechdelNext month we are reading Son of a Trickster by Eden RobinsonIn this ...

Episode 005: Eleanor and Park

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...

Episode 004: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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 ...

Special Episode: Library Happy Hour at The Good Will Social Club April 11, 2018

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 C...

Episode 003: The Underground Railroad

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 o...

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