Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Weirdly Specific Trend that has Taken Over Women's Fiction by Heather Schwedel: Slate.com June 8, 2022
 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Romantic Comedy on which the movie You've Got Mail is based

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Trevor: Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 No Normal written by G. Willow Wilson
Dennis: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H; Honourable Mention: 1998 Romantic Comedy You've Got Mail 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: dharma

Trevor: subliminal and liminal 

Dennis: cascade

Next month we will be discussing 10 minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak

Thank you to everyone who read Hana Khan Carries On with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing I Only Read Murder by Ian and Will Ferguson.

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Summer Reading List Generated by AI published in major newspapers

The Littlest Hobo theme song

Murder, She Wrote (American TV Series)

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Trevor: The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Dennis: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie (1989 Movie Adaptation Free on Youtube)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: Fireplug

Trevor: Lettice (feminine name)

Dennis: Oblivious

Next month we will be discussing Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin.

Thank you to everyone who read I Only Read Murder with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing  Bad Cree by Jessica Johns. We are delighted to be joined by WPL's Writer-In-Residence, Nora Decter. 

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (short story originally published in 2019 in Grain Literary Magazine and inspiration for the novel)
No Exit by Taylor Adams
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
The Thursday Murder Club (film adaptation)
Murderbot series on Apple TV (trailer)
Hark! a vagrant by Kate Beaton
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A Truce that is Not Peace by Miriam Toews (forthcoming memoir!)

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Nora: And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
Toby:  NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Trevor: Ducks by Kate Beaton
Dennis: Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Nora: Biblichor and Petrichor

Toby: panic

Trevor: jerky 

Dennis: "just deserts"

Next month we will be discussing I Only Read Murder by Ian and Will Ferguson.

Thank you to everyone who read Bad Cree with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Outline by Rachel Cusk.

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
New York Times Book Quiz
The Secret Society of Internet Hobos
No Exit by Taylor Adams
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue



TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Trevor: Shirley Valentine (1989 Film)
Dennis: French Exit by Patrick deWitt

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: prolixity

Trevor: yegg

Dennis: nomenclature

Next month we will be discussing Bad Cree by Jessica Johns.

Thank you to everyone who read Outline with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Quiz Lady

Trevor: Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
Dennis: Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: mischievous, You're (Probably) Saying It Wrong

Trevor: sham 

Dennis: unasinous

Next month we will be discussing Outline by Rachel Cusk.

Thank you to everyone who read Yellowface with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. 

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Dennis claims to have ALREADY COMPLETED his reading resolution for 2025. Trevor disagrees. What do you think?

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Honourable mention: Table for Two by Amor Towles)

Trevor: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Honourable mention: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Dennis: ALSO recommends City of Girls!

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  chip/skip/trip

Trevor: automat

Dennis: mosey

Next month we will be discussing Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.

Thank you to everyone who read Rules of Civility with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Happy New Year, Dear Readers! This month we are discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. 

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

NEW YEARS READING RESOLUTIONS FOR 2024!

Dennis focused on reading some funny books, including Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 

and John Dies at the End plus Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits both by Jason Pargin aka David Wong 

Toby reread a number of books this past year. Circe and Station Eleven in particular really hold up after a second look.

Trevor got to a number of books he found in his house, including:
The Bible (New Revised Standard Version)

Theodore Roosevelt: a Life by Nathan Miller

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Links

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage

Selections from The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Selections from P.G. Wodehouse

Selections from Tintin by Hergé

Selections from his newly repatriated comic book collection from his Mom's basement

NEW YEARS READING RESOLUTIONS FOR 2025!

Toby will attempt to get all the way through an audiobook. (Way to reach for the stars, Toby!)
Dennis will try to get through a multi-volume epic fantasy saga. (watch out for the misty woods or whatever, brave hero!)
Trevor will try to read through all of the Hugo award finalists from this year. (Better get started, Nerd!)      

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Translation State by Ann Leckie

Witch King by Martha Wells

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  torus

Trevor: Hugo

Dennis: kakistocracy

Next month we will be discussing Rules of Civility by Amor Towles.

Thank you to everyone who read The Fifth Season with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from a couple of locations around Winnipeg. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025 Film) Trailer
Small Things Like These (2024 Film) Trailer
Robert Eggers (not Dave Eggers!)
The Magdalene Sisters (2002 Film)
 

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Trevor: Philomena by Martin Sixsmith (book) Philomena (film)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  baby power

Trevor: stotious, leanbh

Next month we will be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Thank you to everyone who read Small Things Like These with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg. We are located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Han Kang, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
Banned Book Club by Hyun Sook Kim
Pride and Prejudice (2005 Film)
Pride and Prejudice (1995 miniseries)
 

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Trevor: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Dennis: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  condescend 

Trevor: profligacy

Dennis: felicity

Next month we will be discussing Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Thank you to everyone who read Pride and Prejudice with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway. 

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Nora Decter, WPL's Writer-In-Residence
Makers-In-Residence Program

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby:  Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (also made into a movie)

Trevor: Ditto
Dennis: In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  fireweed

Trevor: 49 Dance

Dennis: Yodel

Next month we will be discussing Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Thank you to everyone who read Kiss of the Fur Queen with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.