#88 May 2025

Candice had a week off this month so she read a lot! Lots of book talk about meta textual books with inserts and annotations and more. Plus lots of talk about horror being stories of grief, Twin Peaks and its weirdness, and the better than John Hughes coming of age movies of the 80s. Books The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee  Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee  The Troop by Nick Cutter  Extra Salty. Jennifer's Body (Pop Classics #11) by Frederick Blichert  Cathy's Book by Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman Cathy's Key by Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman S. by J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorst,  Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr  The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost  The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch,  The Creative Act by Rick Rubin Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson  Movies It Feeds directed by Chad Archibald trailer (NSFW) The Monkey directed by Osgood Perkins trailer (NSFW) The Babadook directed by Jennifer Kent trailer (NSFW) The Journey of Natty Gann by Walt Disney Studios Trailer  Lucas by David Seltzer trailer  Timestamps 02:00 Steph's reading update and whether or not we are cool 10:00 Conversation about movie It Feeds by Chard Archibald and other horror movies 16:25 Candice's reading update - it's a big one! 33:30 Side bar conversation about John Hughes movies and other coming of age movies of the 80s 39:00 Twin Peaks - books, tv, movies and podcasts! --- 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 Candice on Storygraph Follow Steph on Storygraph Follow the Bookshelf on Twitter and Facebook and now Tumblr!! Stay up to date on what's happening around the store at http://bookshelf.ca and join the weekly newsletter.  Send us an email at [email protected] Theme music from the Free Music Archive, by The Underscore Orkestra