Time to Read: a podcast book club

Episode 047: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootWelcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Wi...

December 3, 2021 / 56:10/E47

Episode 046: Lovecraft Country

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Lovecraft Country by Matt RuffWelcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library po...

November 5, 2021 / 01:00:17/E46

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 MarquezWelcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Win...

October 1, 2021 / 53:48/E45

Episode 044: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Pu...

September 3, 2021 / 55:32/E44

Episode 043: The Huntress

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Huntress by Kate Quinn.Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podca...

August 6, 2021 / 56:18/E43

Episode 042: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell.Welcome, dear ...

July 2, 2021 / 52:28/E42

Episode 041: Educated

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Educated by Tara WestoverWelcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcas...

June 4, 2021 / 56:53/E41

Episode 040: Tenth of December

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Tenth of December by George SaundersWelcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Lib...

May 7, 2021 / 58:40/E40

Episode 039: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig DavidsonMENTIONED IN THIS EPISODETHE SHORT AND UNHAPPY HISTORY OF MY PUGILIS...

April 2, 2021 / 01:05:08/E39

Episode 038: Evvie Drake Starts Over

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda HolmesSYNOPSISIn a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” ...

March 5, 2021 / 57:27/E38

Episode 037: Vi

Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing Vi by Kim Thúy.The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi wa...

February 5, 2021 / 57:04/E37

Episode 036: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. See the trailer on YouTube. When The Hitchhiker’s Guide to ...

January 1, 2021 / 58:12/E36

Episode 035: The Water Dancer

Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram...

December 4, 2020 / 58:44/E35

Episode 034: The Island of Sea Women

Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this story follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two ...

November 6, 2020 / 56:56/E34

Episode 033: The Stranger in the Woods

Thanks for joining us. We’re talking about The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel:Is it possible to live a totally solitary life, without relying on others or mod...

October 2, 2020 / 01:12:24/E33

Episode 032: The Sisters Brothers

Thanks for joining us. We’re talking about The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt:Hermann Kermit Warm (great name right??) is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful ...

September 4, 2020 / 01:02:25/E32

Episode 031: Charcoal Joe

Thanks for joining us! We’re talking about Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley.Life seems to be finally turning around for Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. He’s just opened a PI agen...

August 7, 2020 / 01:02:17/E31

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, ...

July 3, 2020 / 01:11:54/E30

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...

June 5, 2020 / 01:00:44/E29

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 ...

May 22, 2020 / 46:03/Bonus

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...

May 15, 2020 / 55:27/Bonus

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...

May 1, 2020 / 01:07:16/E28

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...

April 17, 2020 / 50:16/Bonus

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...

April 3, 2020 / 46:16/E27

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...

March 6, 2020 / 52:36/E26

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...

February 7, 2020 / 01:03:37/E25

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...

January 3, 2020 / 01:01:34/E24

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...

December 6, 2019 / 57:54/E23

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 ...

November 1, 2019 / 01:02:40/E22

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...

October 4, 2019 / 01:02:24/E21