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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...
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...
