#98 May 2026

Have you ever read a book written in the present tense? Candice is reading one right now and it's weird. Meanwhile Steph is watching bummers of movies with her son and reading beautiful prose. Upcoming Events May 8 The Lecture on Being featuring Cory Doctorow  May 12 - 13 Forest of Reading  May 14 Stranger than Fiction Bookshelf Book Club at 7pm in the Greenroom Books Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World by Dorian Lynskey   Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin  The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin  Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Everyday Life by Tamar Adler  An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler  The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia  Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder  Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingall's Wilder  It's Different This Time by Joss Richards  The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Taylor   Links Little House on the Prairie Netflix series  Timestamps 1:00 Events happening around the Bookshelf 4:40 Book Club book chat 11:15 Movie Chat 14:35 Steph's reading update 24:35 Logging and to-do lists, with a side of self care 33:17 Remembering soap operas 35:00 More of Steph's reading update 37:45 Candice's reading update   --- 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 Instagram and Facebook. 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