This month Steph and Candice chat about indoor kids versus outdoor kids, how to approach a potluck, and why some books go unfinished. Books The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How The World Sees Time by Richard Fisher  11/22/63 by Stephen King  Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer  Doctor Sleep by Stephen King  The Magick of Food: Rituals, Offerings, and Why We Eat Together by Gwion Raven  The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han  Links The Essential Stephen King from The New York Times  Timestamps 00:00 -  Intro and chit chat 14:00 - Steph’s reading&nbs ..read more

Steph read a book about women’s fitness this month which launched a lot of conversation about dancing, weight lifting, synchronizing with others. Meanwhile Candice is hoping the world gets saved in the next Stephen King novel on her to-read list. Books In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 60 Songs That Explain the ‘90s by Rob Harvilla 11/22/63 by Stephen King Language of the Night by Ursula K Le Guin  Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel  Catchpenny by Charlie Huston,  Let’s Get Physical by Danielle Friedman Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Links Check out the Bookshel ..read more

Did someone say February was the shortest month? What’s that, February of 2024 is actually one day longer? Still not long enough to release the February episode in the month of February though apparently. Books Kick Out The Jams by Dave Marsh  Listen by Michele Faber  60 Songs that Explain the 90s by Rob Harvilla  Moon of the Turning Leaves - by Waubgeshig Rice  Don’t be Trashy by Tara McKenna  Under the Dome by Stephen King  From A Buick 8 by Stephen King  Wanderers by Chuck Wendig  Movies Memento, Inception, Oppenheimer, Tenet, and Interstellar directe ..read more

New year, same old Steph and Candice! Books Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig  Wanderers & Wayward by Chuck Wendig   Under The Dome by Stephen King   Listen: On Music, Sound, and Us by Michel Faber  Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell Movies Dream Scenario starring Nicolas Cage  Renfield starring Nicolas Cage  The Killer directy by David Fincher  Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola  A Murder at the End of the World  Links Goodreads review scandal  Please use Storygraph instead of Goodreads -  and here’s why  ..read more

It's holiday season! Busy days, dark days, but ultimately fun. Candice and Steph check in one last time for 2023 to see how reading goals are going, and what's up for the month. See you all in 2024! Books The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern  Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram And sequel Darius the Great Deserves Better Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew  And sequel The Everlasting Road  The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Jeff VanderMeer  In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore  In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy by Shawn Levy  ..read more

We’re back for the Fall! Summer “break” was quite busy for both Steph and Candice and extended into very busy Septembers, but we are back in time for Spooky season.   Special event  November 7th at 7pm The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want To Know About Each Other book launch and conversation at the Cinema with authors Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson Tickets are $10 and can be bought at the bookstore. Books Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fans  The Colorado Kid by Stephen King  Cell by Stephen King  Lisey’s Story by Stephen King  The Big Book of Scienc ..read more

It's Oscar season at the Bookshelf Cinema! Our schedule this month is full of contenders and winners. Other topics - Does television need so many musical episodes? Should we be remaking made for tv movies from the 90s? How much work does it really take to put on an event?  Movies: Lion Hidden Figures La La Land The Big Lebowski is this month's Guelph's Movie Club Get Out Books: The Fireman by Joe Hill It by Stephen King   Find all of our past episodes at Stories From The Village Please leave us a review on iTunes and subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Follow the Bookshelf on ..read more

Open the flood gates, send your hate mail, turns out that the Song of Ice and Fire series is questionable, at least according to Candice and Steph. Well, mostly just Candice because Steph hasn't read it yet. Listen in for our thoughts about other things universally loved, like kittens and the view from the top of the Empire State Building. Books: Song of Ice and Fire Book Series - George R.R. Martin Hard Core Logo: Portrait of a Thousand Punks - Nick Craine This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under The Influence - Terry O'Reilly Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Oliver Twist - Charles Dick ..read more

Over the fall and winter of 2016/2017 the Bookshelf Cinema hosted a Movies and Talk series on the first Sunday morning of every month. The films were only announced once everyone was in their seat, and they were always followed by a thoughtful discussion with an expert from our community. In April the cinema screened Ken Loach's new film I, Daniel Blake, about a man in his 50s who, after a serious heart attack, must navigate the British social services system to stay afloat as he takes time off work to recover from his health issues. Elaine Weir, public health nurse and Bridges Out of Poverty ..read more