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A podcast book club where four librarians discuss a book with listener submitted questions and input. From Winnipeg Public Library.

Time to Read


    • Mar 1, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 78 EPISODES


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    Episode 073: Moon of the Turning Leaves

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 60:13


    Welcome, Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice and we have a special guest joining us: WPL's Writer-In-Residence Susie Moloney. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory,…

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    Episode 072: French Exit

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 59:35


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing French Exit by Patrick deWitt. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and…

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    Episode 071: If Beale Street Could Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 54:23


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and…

    Episode 070: Gilead

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 59:43


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in…

    Episode 069: Hell of a Book

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2023 59:04


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Hell of a Book by Jason Mott. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota…

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    Episode 068: Half of a Yellow Sun

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 60:16


    Welcome, Dear Readers, to our latest episode where we discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew…

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    Episode 067: The Thursday Murder Club

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2023 56:19


    Welcome, mystery lovers, to our latest episode where we discuss Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and…

    Episode 066: A Grandmother Begins the Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2023 51:08


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and…

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    Episode 065: Migrations

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2023 58:06


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in…

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    Episode 064: The Bluest Eye

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2023 53:07


    Welcome Dear Readers. This month we are discussing The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples,…

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    Episode 063: Tatouine

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2023 51:20


    Welcome, Dear Readers, and a special welcome to those of you joining us as part of One eRead Canada – A digital, bilingual, cross-Canada book club (1ereadlivrelcanada.ca) You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the…

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    Episode 062: Women of the Fur Trade

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2023 47:45


    Welcome, Dear Readers. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.  Our…

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    Episode 061: Rebecca

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2023 61:16


    Welcome, Dear Readers. Last night we dreamt we recorded a podcast again… You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in…

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    Episode 060: Dawn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2023 58:37


    Welcome, Dear Readers. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree), and Dakota peoples, and in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.  Our…

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    Episode 059: The Rakess

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2022 55:47


    Welcome, fair maidens and handsome gents, to our latest episode where we discuss Scarlett Peckham's The Rakess. You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree),…

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    Episode 058: Billy Summers

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 60:00


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Billy Summers by Stephen King. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew (Cree),…

    Episode 057: Empire of Wild

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2022 51:30


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew…

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    Episode 056: In A Sunburned Country

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2022 50:56


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe),…

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    Episode 055: All My Puny Sorrows

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2022 62:09


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe),…

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    Episode 054: The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 39:08


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly by Sybil Lamb. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of…

    Episode 053: Eight Perfect Murders

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2022 48:34


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located in Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional lands of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ininew…

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    Episode 052: Unless

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 57:25


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Unless by Carol Shields. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well as the…

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    Episode 051: Return of the Trickster

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2022 71:40


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as…

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    Episode 050: Our Favourites

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2022 68:08


    Thanks for joining us! To celebrate our 50th episode, we decided to geek out about some of our favourite reads, our favourite moments from the previous 49 episodes, and those elusive books that we just don't seem to have TIME TO READ. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Conversations with Authors: A Truth and Reconciliation Series The…

    Episode 049: The Nickel Boys

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2022 57:13


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well…

    Episode 048: The Death of Vivek Oji

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2022 57:57


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Carol Shields auditorium in the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands of…

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    Episode 047: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2021 56:09


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Carol Shields auditorium in the Millennium Library, located on Treaty One, the traditional lands…

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    Episode 046: Lovecraft Country

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 60:16


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well…

    Episode 045: Love in the Time of Cholera

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 53:48


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe,…

    Episode 044: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 55:31


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota…

    Episode 043: The Huntress

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2021 56:17


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Huntress by Kate Quinn. Welcome dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well…

    Episode 042: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2021 52:27


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell. Welcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory,…

    Episode 041: Educated

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2021 56:52


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Educated by Tara Westover Welcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as well as…

    Episode 040: Tenth of December

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2021 58:39


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Tenth of December by George Saunders Welcome, dear readers, you are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg, all within Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota as…

    Episode 039: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2021 65:08


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE THE SHORT AND UNHAPPY HISTORY OF MY PUGILISTIC CAREER (With Photographic Evidence) Rust and Bone/De rouille et d’os film by Jacques Audiard Dav Pilkey/Sue Denim (from Publisher’s Weekly) Pen names and the authors who…

    Episode 38: Evvie Drake Starts Over

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021 57:26


    Thanks for joining us! This month we are discussing Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes SYNOPSIS In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy,…

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    Episode 037: Vi

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 57:03


    Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing Vi by Kim Thúy. The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi was the youngest of their four children and the only girl. They gave her a name that meant “precious, tiny one,” destined to be…

    Episode 036: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2021 58:12


    Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. See the trailer on YouTube. When The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was first broadcast as a 12-part radio series on the British Broadcasting System in 1978, it was successful. No one could have guessed, though, that it would mushroom into…

    Episode 035: The Water Dancer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2020 58:43


    Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her — but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same…

    Episode 034: The Island of Sea Women

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2020 56:55


    Thanks for joining us. This month we are discussing The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this story follows Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls from very different backgrounds, as they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective. Over many decades- through the Japanese…

    Episode 033: The Stranger in the Woods

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2020 72:24


    Thanks for joining us. We’re talking about The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel: Is it possible to live a totally solitary life, without relying on others or modern society at all? Christopher Knight lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years. Though in that time he had no contact or conversation…

    Episode 032: The Sisters Brothers

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2020 62:25


    Thanks for joining us. We’re talking about The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt: Hermann Kermit Warm (great name right??) is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and hired Eli and Charlie Sisters to see it done. The Sisters Brothers are notorious killers. But Eli has…

    Episode 031: Charcoal Joe

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 62:16


    Thanks for joining us! We’re talking about Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley. Life seems to be finally turning around for Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins. He’s just opened a PI agency with two partners and is planning to propose to his girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong? An old pal shows up and asks Easy to meet…

    Episode 030: Tales of the City

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 71:54


    Thanks for joining us! In this episode we’re talking about Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic,…

    Episode 029: Little Women

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2020 60:43


    Thanks for joining us! In this episode we’ll be talking about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, as it was chosen for us by our lovely Facebook group! Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are four sisters caught between childhood dreams and the realities of burgeoning adulthood as they come of age in New England during and after…

    Special Episode – Books to Movies Part 2 – All the Movies

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 46:03


    Thanks for joining us! This the second part of a special episode that ran long. Instead of talking about a book like we normally do, we’ve been ruminating on movie or tv adaptations of books. We ran out of time in part one, so here’s the rest, where we talk adaptations that we like, that…

    Special Episode: Books to Movies Part 1 – The Hound of the Baskervilles Adaptations

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2020 55:26


    Thank you for joining us for this episode of Time to Read! We’re chatting about a few of the many screen adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this episode we discuss The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) starring Basil Rathbone; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) starring Peter Cushing; The…

    Episode 028: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2020 67:16


    Thank you for joining us for this episode of Time to Read! We’re talking about The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the 1880s, Sir Henry Baskerville is an unassuming farmer in Canada when he gets the news that he’s inherited his ancestral home, Baskerville Hall, back in England on the edge…

    Special Episode: Our Top Digital Resources April 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 50:16


    Hello, dear readers. In this special episode we share the WPL resources we are ourselves relying on right now. Everything can be found through winnipeg.ca/library. At Home: A Click Away Info Guide, COVID-19 Info Guide, Media Literacy and Spotting Fake News Info Guide, Kanopy and Kanopy Kids, Ancestry, Always available stuff on Overdrive, Hoopla, Pressreader (Plus: How-to guide for…

    Episode 027: Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards (MYRCA)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2020 46:15


    Hello dear readers. This episode is very different. Due to libraries being closed we are all working at home and recording remotely. Also, this time we each read a book nominated for the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Awards! Find all the MYRCA books online on Overdrive! Learn more about the awards and voting on the MYRCA website.…

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    Episode 026: The Break

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2020 52:36


    Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read. We are talking about The Break by Katherena Vermette. When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she…

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