Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson. 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 on Treaty One, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as…
Read More Episode 051: Return of the TricksterThanks for joining us! To celebrate our 50th episode, we decided to geek out about some of our favourite reads, our favourite moments from the previous 49 episodes, and those elusive books that we just don’t seem to have TIME TO READ. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Conversations with Authors: A Truth and Reconciliation Series The…
Read More Episode 050: Our FavouritesThanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. 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 on Treaty One, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well…
Read More Episode 049: The Nickel Boys… to the most flexible book club in Winnipeg! TTR is a podcast book club, produced by the Winnipeg Public Library, that’s built on audience feedback. If you’re into the selection, get yourself a copy and join in! If not, join in anyway, because we tend to focus more on the ideas in the book than literary analysis.…
Read More Welcome, dear readersHey everyone! If you are looking to keep on top of your book club reading (and snagging those library copies before everyone else does!) we have the next few books picked out. 2023 November: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (available on December 1) December: French Exit by Patrick DeWitt (available on January…
Read More Upcoming Reads!Hi everyone! This month we are discussing The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, and we’d love to hear what you have to say. Often quoted in the book, Martin Luther King Jr had a dream, but in reality racism is still rampant. What actions do you take to be an anti-racist? The protagonist of the…
Read More January Discussion: The Nickel BoysThanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club. We are recording today from the Carol Shields auditorium in the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands of…
Read More Episode 048: The Death of Vivek OjiHi everyone! This month we are reading The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi. The novel is set in Nigeria, where author Akwaeke Emezi was born. There is a lot of great Nigerian fiction out there. Have you read any? In the novel, communities are formed based on shared identities. Did this resonate with…
Read More December Discussion: The Death of Vivek OjiThanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club. We are recording today from the Carol Shields auditorium in the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands…
Read More Episode 047: The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksThis month’s book is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Usually in non-fiction, the author is separate from the work, but in this book the author is a character. How you do feel about authors being part of their stories? Henrietta Lacks’ tissue was taken without her knowledge and used for research.…
Read More November Discussion: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks