The Village Podcast from The Bookshelf

The voices of a Canadian indie bookstore, cinema, bar, bistro, and live music venue.

#89 June 2025 06/09/2025

#88 May 2025 05/07/2025

#87 April 2025 04/11/2025

#86 March 2025 03/19/2025

#85 January 2025 01/13/2025

#85 January 2025 We are moving into the new year with optimism, because it’s so needed right now. Congrats to Yes, We Are Open, the branded series from Moneris, , which won the 2024 Canadian Podcast Award in the Best Branded Series category. So thankful to the Canadian Podcast Awards for nominating us, and looking forward to hopefully trying again next year. We cover a lot of books, and movies this month. And announce our reading goals for the new year. Follow us on Storygraph to see how we do! Steph - Candice - Books Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change by Day Schildkret The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, The Down Days by Ilze Hugo, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter, The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware, Diavola by Jennifer Thorne, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, Wrapped In Plastic: Twin Peaks Pop Classic by Andy Burns, More Pop Classics here The Lady from the Black Lagoon, by Mallory O’Meara, I Love You: Recipes From The Heart by Pamela Anderson The Institute by Stephen King, Movies The Last Showgirl trailer starring Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson in the Criterion Closet The Substance trailer starring Demi Moore, A Complete Unknown Free Guy Trailer Woman of the Hour Trailer Get Out Trailer Timestamps 2:00 Steph starts her reading update 11:00 Some convo about time, age, and the turn of the new millennium (remember Y2K?) 15:00 Back to the Steph’s reading update 21:00 Candice’s reading update 28:00 Some movie talk about women aging 37:00 More movie talk 47:00 Oops, we blame the patriarchy again 51:00 Reading goals for 2025, including the Stephen King project --- Find all of our past episodes at Please leave us a and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on and and now Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at and join the weekly newsletter. Send us an email at Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by /episode/index/show/bookshelfnews/id/34829595

#84 December 2024 12/20/2024

Bonus #4 Ian Williams Talk at The Bookshelf, the Complete Interview 11/22/2024

#83 November 2024, The one about genres 11/22/2024

#83 November 2024, The one about genres **The Village Podcast has been nominated for a Canadian Podcast Award under the category of Outstanding Branded Series. Watch for information about the awards ceremony which will take place sometime in December and find out if we’ve won. This month we have a special clip following the conversation between Steph and Candice with some highlights from the book reading and signing by Ian Williams about his new book What I Mean To Say. The full length reading and Q&A follows later this week in this feed. Books by Melissa Petro by Jenny Odell by Robin Wall Kimmerer by Ruth Ware by Giles Blunt by Stephen King by Neal Stephenson (If you dare read sci-fi about the philosophy of quantum mechanics) by Ian Williams by Ian Williams by Clark Collis by Nick Cutter by Craig Davidson by Stephen King Links Do You Want To Party? A Movies by the Minute Podcast about Return of the Living Dead - Candice’s episodes on Minute , , , and bonus episode and on Cowboy Carter by Beyonce - (Song NSFW) Edgar Wright music video for Timestamps 0:00 Oops our welcome turned into a conversation about the Giller Prize and protesting weapons manufacturers 10:00 Steph’s reading update 23:00 A breakdown of the mystery genre, and then a breakdown of book genres in general 32:00 Star Wars movie talk - how did we get here? 38:00 Candice’s reading update 42:00 Star Wars again? How did we come back? 47:00 Back to Candice’s update - movies, tv and books 54:00 Feedback from a listener 1:07:00 A 15 minute clip of highlights from Ian Williams Author Talk --- Find all of our past episodes at Please leave us a and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on and and now Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at and join the weekly newsletter. Send us an email at Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by /episode/index/show/bookshelfnews/id/34115421