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. 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 was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same…
Read More Episode 035: The Water Dancer
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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 girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades- through the Japanese…
Read More Episode 034: The Island of Sea Women
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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 modern society at all? Christopher Knight lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years. Though in that time he had no contact or conversation…
Read More Episode 033: The Stranger in the Woods
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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 man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and hired Eli and Charlie Sisters to see it done. The Sisters Brothers are notorious killers. But Eli has…
Read More Episode 032: The Sisters Brothers
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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 agency with two partners and is planning to propose to his girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong? An old pal shows up and asks Easy to meet…
Read More Episode 031: Charcoal Joe
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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, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic,…
Read More Episode 030: Tales of the City
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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, and Amy are four sisters caught between childhood dreams and the realities of burgeoning adulthood as they come of age in New England during and after…
Read More Episode 029: Little Women
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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 tv adaptations of books. We ran out of time in part one, so here’s the rest, where we talk adaptations that we like, that…
Read More Special Episode – Books to Movies Part 2 – All the Movies
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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 Conan Doyle. In this episode we discuss The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) starring Basil Rathbone; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) starring Peter Cushing; The…
Read More Special Episode: Books to Movies Part 1 – The Hound of the Baskervilles Adaptations