What We Learned in Summer 2022

Welcome back to The Village. Steph and Candice do some book reviews from the summer of 2022 while also talking music, algorithms, and what we learned this summer Books Sweet Valley High Books 1-12 by Francine Pascal (Apple iBooks Store link) Recollections of my Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit (other books by Solnit) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman  Zed by Joanna Kavenna Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elaine Abdelmahmoud Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance, and Surviving the Music Industry by Rollie Pemberton Movies Everything Everywhere All At Once Official Trailer Links Storygraph Eden Mill's Writer's Festival Timestamps 0:00 - 2:00 Welcome 2:00 - 8:00 School's back! Recollections of school time with Steph and Candice 8:00 - 12:25  Memory keeping and digital storage 12:25 - 21:00 Summer travel with Steph and family, and Steph's reading update 21:00 - 27:45 Down with algorithms and the change from Spotify to Youtube 27:45 - 38:00 Candice's new book logging app Storygraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/  38:00 - 41:00 Eden Mills Writer's Festival, https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/  41:00 - 47:25 What Candice learned from Son of Elsewhere 47:25 - 49:00 Candice's summer book reading 49:50 - 59:50 Clips from Rollie Pemberton's reading and talk (there are some curse words in this talk) --- 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 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