Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Educated by Tara Westover Welcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well as the Birthplace of the Métis Nation and the heart of the Métis Homeland. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in Treaty Three territory. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein The New Yorker fiction podcast: https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction Tara Westover Sings at the 2019 Northeastern University Commencement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yyNI0DrDX4 Mexican Hooker #1 and my other roles since the revolution by Carmen Aguirre Review of Educating by Laree Westover (Tara’s Mother)   TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE Dennis: A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer Kirsten: Something Fierce: memoir of a revolutionary daughter by Carmen Aguirre Trevor: Unfollow: a memoir of loving and leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper   NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Dennis: Suboptimal Kirsten: Memoir Trevor: Bungalow Thank you to everyone who wrote in with their thoughts this month! Next month we will be talking about Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! 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. Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library.

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Tenth of December by George Saunders Welcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well as the Birthplace of the Métis Nation and the heart of the Métis Homeland. Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in Treaty Three territory. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Toby’s book review Instagram account George Saunders Commencement Address (Syracuse University) This American Life episode about Fiascos “Cowboy” Kent Rollins Youtube Channel Kelsey’s book pick: A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost   TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE Trevor: Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Toby: Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad Kirsten: How to pronounce knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa Dennis: Skeleton Crew by Stephen King   NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Trevor: cackleberry Toby: facetious Kirsten: fiasco Dennis: complicated   Thank you to everyone who wrote in with their thoughts this month! Next month we will be talking about Educated by Tara Westover. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! 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. Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Kirsten Wurmann, Dennis Penner, Trevor Lockhart, and Toby Cygman.

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE THE SHORT AND UNHAPPY HISTORY OF MY PUGILISTIC CAREER (With Photographic Evidence) Rust and Bone/De rouille et d’os film by Jacques Audiard Dav Pilkey/Sue Denim (from Publisher’s Weekly) Pen names and the authors who use them Snopes: the internet’s definitive fact checking website Shameless plug for WPL’s Media Literacy Info Guide (edited by Trevor!) The Canadian UFO Report Ufology Research Some videos discussing why Beta lost out to VHS Harbingers of Failure: an article about early adopters who consistently pick products that end up failing, just like Lex. The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort: ebook and audiobook (You can read issues of Fortean Times, the magazine based on the writings of Charles Fort, on Overdrive and Pressreader anytime) The Philadelphia Experiment (available on Hoopla) The Goonies (available on DVD and Bluray in WPL catalogue) Madeleine’s Pick: Mysterious Skin   TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE Dennis: The Body by Stephen King (collected in Different Seasons) Trevor: The life and times of the thunderbolt kid by Bill Bryson Kirsten: Forever by Judy Blume   NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Dennis: realization

Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes SYNOPSIS In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them. Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future. When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour The Weeknd’s Superbowl Halftime Show Book Pick from Toby Cygman, one of WPL’s Outreach Librarians: To be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers   TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE Trevor: Vacationland: true stories from painful beaches by John Hodgman Kirsten: Timeline by Lily King (short story) Dennis: Big Trouble by Dave Barry   NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Trevor: The Weekend Kirsten: Splendid, as in Splendid Isolation Dennis: The Zone   Remember to wash your hands frequently, limit your contacts, and STAY HOME if you are feeling sick. Next month we will be talking about The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter,

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 was the youngest of their four children and the only girl. They gave her a name that meant &#8220;precious, tiny one,&#8221; destined to be cosseted and protected, the family&#8217;s little treasure. But the Vietnam War destroys life as they&#8217;ve known it. Vi, along with her mother and brothers, manages to escape&#8211;but her father stays behind, leaving a painful void as the rest of the family must make a new life for themselves in Canada. While her family puts down roots, life has different plans for Vi. Taken under the wing of Hà, a worldly family friend, and Vincent, her diplomat lover, Vi tests personal boundaries and crosses international ones, letting the winds of life buffet her. From Saigon to Montreal, from Suzhou to Boston to the fall of the Berlin Wall, she is witness to the immensity of geography, the intricate fabric of humanity, the complexity of love, the infinite possibilities before her. Ever the quiet observer, somehow Vi must find a way to finally take her place in the world. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE One eRead Canada Conversation with Kim Thúy and Shelagh Rogers, courtesy of Ottawa Public Library&#8217;s facebook page Enid Blyton and food: https://worldofblyton.com/2018/03/09/blytons-food/  Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman Aphrodite by Isabel Allende &nbsp; TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE Trevor: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Kirsten: Weather by Jenny Offill Dennis: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini &nbsp; NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Trevor: Copper Kirsten: Bubble Dennis: Anticipation &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who got in touch with us this month, including sophiejfirby on Facebook and @e.ggshelle @rhaeredekop @swivelsb and @borderregionallibrary on Instagram for contributing to our discussion! Remember to wash your hands frequently, limit your contacts, and STAY HOME if you are feeling sick. Next month we’re talking about <a href="https://winca.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal?

Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. See the trailer on YouTube. When The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy was first broadcast as a 12-part radio series on the British Broadcasting System in 1978, it was successful. No one could have guessed, though, that it would mushroom into a multimedia phenomenon that would encompass five novels, a television series, a stage production, and, more than twenty years later, dozens of websites created by devotees who could not get enough of its bizarre universe. The first novel in the series, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, concerns the exploits of Arthur Dent, an average British citizen who gets caught up in a myriad of space adventures when his house, and then the Earth, is demolished. With no planet to call home, he is left to hitchhike through space with his friend Ford Prefect, whom he thought was an out-of-work actor, but who is really a researcher for the titular intergalactic guidebook. Adams&#8217;s book is one in which literally anything can happen, with the only rule being that what comes next will probably be the last thing the reader would expect and is bound to be amusing. &nbsp; MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Lost poem of Douglas Adams found in school cupboard (&#8220;A Dissertation on the task of writing a poem on a candle and an account of some of the difficulties thereto pertaining&#8221;) Live footage of Douglas Adams&#8217;s 42nd birthday onstage with Pink Floyd Last Chance to See, a project to find a rare type of lemur and &#8220;the thing of which Douglas Adams is the most proud&#8221;.  The Hitchhiker’s Text Adventure Game, 30th anniversary edition Towel Day &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; READING RESOLUTIONS FOR 2021 Trevor: Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris Kirsten: Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and More than a Woman by Caitlin Moran Dennis: Cozy mysteries by diverse authors, about diverse characters (i.e., not all white, Christian, cis-gendered, heterosexual, neurotypical, middle-to-upper-class people). Open to suggestions! &nbsp; NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Trevor: Strain Kirsten: C...

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 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 power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Black Classic Press (Paul Coates publishing house) Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me trailer Jesmyn Ward’s interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates in Vanity Fair (with photo of Coates at the Hungarian Pastry Shop) Toni Morrison and Rememory (essay in The Guardian) : “Rememory as in recollecting and remembering as in reassembling the members of the body, the family, the population of the past.” Controversy surrounding the biopic Harriet (2019) Germans embrace fresh air to ward off coronavirus (The Guardian) &nbsp; TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK I MIGHT LIKE Trevor: Harriet Tubman: freedom seeker, freedom leader by Rosemary Sadlier Kirsten: Toni Morrison’s Beloved Dennis: The Underground Railroad Records by William Still &#8211; on Project Gutenberg here &nbsp; NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS Trevor: Déjà vu Kirsten: Lüften  Dennis: Hiatus &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who got in touch with us this month. Remember to wash your hands frequently, limit your contacts, and STAY HOME if you are feeling sick. Next month we’re talking about The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! 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. Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Kirsten Wurmann,

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&#8217;s all-female diving collective. Over many decades- through the Japanese colonialism of the 1930s and 40s, World War II, the Korean War, and the era of cellphones and wet suits for the women divers- Mi-ja and Young-sook develop the closest of bonds. However, after hundreds of dives and years of friendship, forces outside their control will push their relationship to the breaking point.. Mentioned in this episode: UNESCO video about the Haenyeo &#8211; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk7DQLMKBTE Fong See and On Gold Mountain (Lisa See&#8217;s family history) Monica Highland (Lisa See&#8217;s pen name) Truth and Reconciliation Commission Tell us about another book we might like: Dennis: The Player of Games by Iain M Banks Kirsten: Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Trevor: Korea: The Impossible Country by Daniel Tudor and Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester Nerd Words for Word Nerds: Dennis: Doomscrolling Trevor: Sumbisori Kirsten: Woolgathering Many thanks to everyone who got in touch with us this month. Next month we’re talking about The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as selected by the members of our Facebook group. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! 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. Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Kirsten Wurmann, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

Thanks for joining us. We&#8217;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 with another person, he survived off food, books and provisions stolen from nearby cottages, greatly affecting the people who owned them. Why did this shy young man depart on such a life? How else could he have lived the life he craved, not at the expense of others? Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life. In this episode we also discuss: Editor’s Note (New York Times) True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa True Story (movie) The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. Can you tell me a book I would also like? Erica: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Kirsten: Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith (and Adam Buxton podcast with Zadie Smith) Trevor: When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature by Thomas Merton Dennis: Paddle to the Arctic by Don Starkell, plus Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak by Victoria Jason Nerd words for word nerds: Erica: Proactive Trevor: Nonology, (&#8220;Like a trilogy, but with 9 books. Questionable whether this is even a thing&#8221; &#8211; Trevor) Dennis: Edge Case Kirsten: Prestigious (current definition and archaic definition) Many thanks to everyone who got in touch with us this month. Next month we’re talking about The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook,

Thanks for joining us. We&#8217;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 begun to question what he does for a living &#8211; and whom he does it for. As they embark on what may well be their last job, they find their prey isn&#8217;t an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Sacramento California they encounter no end of adventure, cheaters, and ne&#8217;er-do-wells in a violent, lustful odyssey of the 1850&#8221;s frontier, that beautifully captures the humour, melancholy, and grit of the Old West. Can you tell me a book I would also like? Trevor: The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe; Erica: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry; Kirsten: French Exit by Patrick deWitt; Dennis: Off the Mangrove Coast by Louis L&#8217;amour, They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by Jo Ann Levy, and The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Nerd words for word nerds Erica: Thanks; Kirsten: Shenanigan; Dennis: Slapdash; Trevor: Aquiline. Many thank-yous to everyone who got in touch with us this month. Special thanks to those who contributed to the discussions on social media, @willowplacewpg, @ovjewitt_library, @davermusicislife, @tara_elli, and @sosokirsten. Next month we’re talking about The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel. It’s available in print and online through Overdrive. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think!  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. Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Kirsten Wurmann, Dennis Penner, Trevor Lockhart, and Erica Ball.