#89 June 2025

Steph and Candice talk about their TBR lists, how things make it on there, and why reducing decision fatigue and reading with intention are good things. And then also remind each other, and listeners that social contact with other humans is actually okay. Books The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink, and Jeffrey Cranor Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen by Suzanne Scanlon  Turn Around Bright Eyes: A Karaoke Journey of Starting Over, Falling in Love, and Finding Your Voice by Rob Sheffield   Billy Summers by Stephen King  The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (the book about two strangers sharing a reading list) On Book Banning: Or How The New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy by Ira Wells  Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollen  52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing by David A. Robertson  Music The Halluci Nation Snotty Nose Rez Kids Links Full Circle Foods - low waste, local grocery delivery Timestamps 4:00 How we approach our To-Be-Read piles 14:00 Steph & Candice's book updates 37:00 Talking to people in real life is good, including your delivery drivers   --- 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