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Update frequency:
every 39 days
Average audio length:
52 minutes
English
Canada
105 episodes
since Sept. 11, 2015
episodic

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Candice and Steph return after the summer hiatus, to celebrate our 100th regular episode of The Village Podcast! 10 years of talking books and movies and things to do around the Bookshelf. Steph is learning to garden and Candice is learning to speak Irish. What new skill have you started learning?…

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#99 June 2026

Candice watched Network and Steph is reading a book about algorithms…. The conversation veers naturally towards the almost dystopian world we live in on social media. Join us on Wednesday June 24th at 7pm in the Greenroom, where we will discuss Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Books…

#98 May 2026

Have you ever read a book written in the present tense? Candice is reading one right now and it's weird. Meanwhile Steph is watching bummers of movies with her son and reading beautiful prose. Upcoming Events May 8 The Lecture on Being featuring Cory Doctorow May 12 - 13 Forest of Reading May …

#97 April 2026

Steph confesses to DNFing a book she thought would be right up her alley, but she's got other books on the go. Candice continues her monthly genre challenge with a Canadian historical fiction book. Meanwhile both have a lot to say about the end of the world. Cory Doctorow will be in Guelph on May …

#96 March 2026

This month we cover the end of the world, and how sports can be beautiful. We also both watched Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie and how much we loved it. If you want to join the Stranger than Fiction Book Club contact ben@bookshelf.ca. Buy tickets to hear Cory Doctorow at the Guelph Lecture o…
Steph and Candice did not get a lot of reading done between the last episode and this, but we did watch some sports, some music, and some movies. Times are tough right now, but we agree that finding joy is an act of resistance! Books Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolut…

#94 January 2026

Steph and Candice spend time sharing some reading and life goals for the new year, and chat about how they choose what books to read. Books The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Pop Classics Series The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knigh…
It's time for resolutions for 2026 and as usual both Steph and Candice are thinking about their balance of fiction to non-fiction books. Books Mood Machine by Liz Pelly The Future on Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz The Future is Female Vol 1 edited by Lisa Yaszek The Lion, The Witch &…
Winding up and winding down as the weather changes and the holidays get closer! Books Enshittification by Cory Doctorow Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis The Future is Female: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women edited by Lisa Yaszek Full Throttle by Joe Hill Have Yourself a Movi…

#91 October 2025

Energy is high now that the weather has cooled. Steph and Candice have joined a "real world, offline" bookclub, and Candice is on the final book in the Stephen King Collection Books Vanished Beyond the Map by Adam Shoalts A Life in Comedy by Paul Meyers Full Throttle by Joe Hill Exhalation b…
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