#90 September 2025

Catching up! Steph's been on a journey to understand herself and her world better, Candice has been catching up to the end of her 6 year long Stephen King project. We chat about our TBRs again and how to choose what to read. Candice is a mood reader and Steph is not. But we both like a challenge! Books How to Raise a Feminist Son by Sonora Jha  Disorientation by Ian Williams How to Know a Person by David Brooks  How to Read Now by Elaine Costello  52 Ways to Reconcile by David A Robertson  Never Flinch by Stephen King  Finders Keepers by Stephen King  Fairy Tale by Stephen King  Bag of Bones Duma Key, Dolores Claiborne, Different Seasons, Carrie, The Institute (Steph's random selection of King novels she's read and Candice's suggestion) - https://bookshelf.ca/browse/filter/t/stephen%20King/k/keyword  The Long Walk by Richard Bachman  Movies Pachinko TV Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8888462/  The Thing (trailer) https://youtu.be/ySvzHdtCiWE?si=lNUHR72JOiJeoD6R  My Man from Funny Girl https://youtu.be/9r7coI37KYU?si=F2o6inp7xd9MRqjh  Links Candice's 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days Challenge watchlist  Timestamps 01:19 Getting right into what Steph's been reading on summer break 13:00 Small diversion into music 16:00 Back to Steph's reading 19:00 How to be the minority in a group (enjoy the disorientation!) 28:45 Candice's reading update - Stephen King project 37:00 Candice accidentally went do the I Hate the Dark Tower road again 43:00 Steph's Stephen King update 47:00 Do characters need to be likeable? 56:30 A coda to Candice's update - 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days   --- 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