#91 October 2025

Energy is high now that the weather has cooled. Steph and Candice have joined a "real world, offline" bookclub, and Candice is on the final book in the Stephen King Collection Books Vanished Beyond the Map by Adam Shoalts  A Life in Comedy by Paul Meyers  Full Throttle by Joe Hill  Exhalation by Ted Chiang  Enshittification by Cory Doctorow  Never Flinch by Stephen King  Events Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Thurs November 13th at 7pm - contact Steph at [email protected] to join, or to host your own book club Timestamps 01:00 Intro 07:20 Are young people reading? 13:00 Steph's reading and watching update 18:00 The Bookshelf's new book club Stranger Than Fiction 35:25 Candice reading update 40:25 Is art for us or for the artist? --- 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