You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Special Thanks to Ariel Gordon, WPL's Writer-In-Residence for joining us this month and for suggesting our book pick!
Ken Wilson's Blog: https://readingandwalking.ca/
Ariel Gordon's Recommended Reading List for 49th Shelf: https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2024/06/17/Mended-Maps-Language-Identity-and-Home-Making
Fungal by Ariel Gordon
 

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby:  To the River by Tim Lilburn
Trevor: Marshwalker by John Weier
Dennis: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Ariel: Someone Else's Saint and The Good Walk by Matthew Anderson

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: ruderal

Trevor: desire paths

Dennis: apanthropy
Ariel: repristinated
 

Next month we will be discussing Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman.

Thank you to everyone who read Walking the Bypass with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Special Thanks to Erik Mann who joined us as a panelist this month.

Jess of the Shire's The Silmarillion in 30ish minutes Youtube Video
A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion by Paul Harold Kocher
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J.E.A. Tyler
The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby:  Circe by Madeline Miller
Trevor: Hadestown (Broadway musical)
Erik: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: quarantine

Trevor: legend

Erik: grandiose

Next month we will be discussing Walking the Bypass by Ken Wilson.

Thank you to everyone who read The Silmarillion with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
 The Ghetto Within by Santiago Amigorena

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Zone of Interest (2023 film based on the novel by Martin Amis) 
Trevor: Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky
Dennis: Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: defenestration

Trevor: chain mail and chain mail

Dennis: Holocaust

Next month we will be discussing The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thank you to everyone who read The Postcard with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Our 2026 Reading Resolutions
Toby: Will aim to read more of the same books as her daughter
Dennis: Will read all of the 2026 Hugo nominees for best novel
Trevor: Will read the entire "Hawthorne and Horowitz" series by Anthony Horowitz
Also mentioned:
Thank you for listening by Julia Whelan
A Libertarian walks into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
The origins of the word "dog"
Jeremy Bentham's auto-icon

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: cynic

Trevor: panopticon

Dennis: spalling

Next month we will be discussing The Postcard by Anne Berest.

Thank you to everyone who read  Small Ceremonies with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
The Podcast Pantheon: 101 Podcasts that changed how we listen by Sean Malin
Idaho

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: James by Percival Everett
Trevor: The Kenzie and Gennaro series by Dennis Lehane
Dennis: In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke, Oldboy (2003) South Korean Neo-noir film

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: hirsute

Trevor: Selling Wolf Tickets

Dennis: Snake Handlers (Also had Selling Wolf Tickets!)

Next month we will be discussing Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards

Thank you to everyone who read Razorblade Tears with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
romantasy
dark academia

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Babel by R.F. Kuang (also: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy)
Trevor: The Magicians by Lev Grossman (also: The Jackson Brodie series by Kate Atkinson)
Dennis: Babel by R.F. Kuang (also: Beware of Chicken by casualfarmer)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: widdershins 

Trevor: fettle

Dennis: typewriter

Next month we will be discussing Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

Thank you to everyone who read Blood Over Bright Haven with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Andrew Balfour
Babe the Blue Ox (Folklore)
Termination of Indigenous Rights in the United States

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich and There There by Tommy Orange
Trevor: Reservation Dogs (TV Series)
Dennis: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: Pukkons

Trevor: Ispichiwin

Dennis: Adversary

Next month we will be discussing Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

Thank you to everyone who read The Night Watchman with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Giller Prize
Universality by Natasha Brown

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Trevor: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Dennis: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: book lung

Trevor: jury-rigged

Dennis: chivvy

Next month we will be discussing The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

Thank you to everyone who read Children of Time with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Elif Shafak
May Day Massacre (Istanbul 1977)\
Nightshade by Michael Connelly
Never Flinch by Stephen King

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Trevor: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (adapted into a film by Peter Jackson in 2009)
Dennis: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: tasseography

Trevor: betta fish

Dennis: blandishment

Next month we will be discussing Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Thank you to everyone who read 10 minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The Weirdly Specific Trend that has Taken Over Women's Fiction by Heather Schwedel: Slate.com June 8, 2022
 The Shop Around the Corner 1940 Romantic Comedy on which the movie You've Got Mail is based

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Trevor: Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 No Normal written by G. Willow Wilson
Dennis: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H; Honourable Mention: 1998 Romantic Comedy You've Got Mail 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS
Toby: dharma

Trevor: subliminal and liminal 

Dennis: cascade

Next month we will be discussing 10 minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak

Thank you to everyone who read Hana Khan Carries On with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Summer Reading List Generated by AI published in major newspapers

The Littlest Hobo theme song

Murder, She Wrote (American TV Series)

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Trevor: The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Dennis: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie (1989 Movie Adaptation Free on Youtube)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: Fireplug

Trevor: Lettice (feminine name)

Dennis: Oblivious

Next month we will be discussing Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin.

Thank you to everyone who read I Only Read Murder with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (short story originally published in 2019 in Grain Literary Magazine and inspiration for the novel)
No Exit by Taylor Adams
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
The Thursday Murder Club (film adaptation)
Murderbot series on Apple TV (trailer)
Hark! a vagrant by Kate Beaton
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
A Truce that is Not Peace by Miriam Toews (forthcoming memoir!)

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Nora: And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
Toby:  NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Trevor: Ducks by Kate Beaton
Dennis: Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Nora: Biblichor and Petrichor

Toby: panic

Trevor: jerky 

Dennis: "just deserts"

Next month we will be discussing I Only Read Murder by Ian and Will Ferguson.

Thank you to everyone who read Bad Cree with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
New York Times Book Quiz
The Secret Society of Internet Hobos
No Exit by Taylor Adams
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue



TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Trevor: Shirley Valentine (1989 Film)
Dennis: French Exit by Patrick deWitt

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: prolixity

Trevor: yegg

Dennis: nomenclature

Next month we will be discussing Bad Cree by Jessica Johns.

Thank you to everyone who read Outline with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Quiz Lady

Trevor: Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
Dennis: Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: mischievous, You're (Probably) Saying It Wrong

Trevor: sham 

Dennis: unasinous

Next month we will be discussing Outline by Rachel Cusk.

Thank you to everyone who read Yellowface with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Dennis claims to have ALREADY COMPLETED his reading resolution for 2025. Trevor disagrees. What do you think?

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (Honourable mention: Table for Two by Amor Towles)

Trevor: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (Honourable mention: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Dennis: ALSO recommends City of Girls!

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  chip/skip/trip

Trevor: automat

Dennis: mosey

Next month we will be discussing Yellowface by R.F. Kuang.

Thank you to everyone who read Rules of Civility with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from the Millennium Library in Winnipeg. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

NEW YEARS READING RESOLUTIONS FOR 2024!

Dennis focused on reading some funny books, including Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 

and John Dies at the End plus Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits both by Jason Pargin aka David Wong 

Toby reread a number of books this past year. Circe and Station Eleven in particular really hold up after a second look.

Trevor got to a number of books he found in his house, including:
The Bible (New Revised Standard Version)

Theodore Roosevelt: a Life by Nathan Miller

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Links

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage

Selections from The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Selections from P.G. Wodehouse

Selections from Tintin by Hergé

Selections from his newly repatriated comic book collection from his Mom's basement

NEW YEARS READING RESOLUTIONS FOR 2025!

Toby will attempt to get all the way through an audiobook. (Way to reach for the stars, Toby!)
Dennis will try to get through a multi-volume epic fantasy saga. (watch out for the misty woods or whatever, brave hero!)
Trevor will try to read through all of the Hugo award finalists from this year. (Better get started, Nerd!)      

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Translation State by Ann Leckie

Witch King by Martha Wells

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  torus

Trevor: Hugo

Dennis: kakistocracy

Next month we will be discussing Rules of Civility by Amor Towles.

Thank you to everyone who read The Fifth Season with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author...

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from a couple of locations around Winnipeg. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025 Film) Trailer
Small Things Like These (2024 Film) Trailer
Robert Eggers (not Dave Eggers!)
The Magdalene Sisters (2002 Film)
 

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Trevor: Philomena by Martin Sixsmith (book) Philomena (film)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  baby power

Trevor: stotious, leanbh

Next month we will be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Thank you to everyone who read Small Things Like These with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

You are listening to Time to Read, a Winnipeg Public Library podcast book club.  We are recording today from various locations around Winnipeg. We are 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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Han Kang, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
Banned Book Club by Hyun Sook Kim
Pride and Prejudice (2005 Film)
Pride and Prejudice (1995 miniseries)
 

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Trevor: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Dennis: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  condescend 

Trevor: profligacy

Dennis: felicity

Next month we will be discussing Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Thank you to everyone who read Pride and Prejudice with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Nora Decter, WPL's Writer-In-Residence
Makers-In-Residence Program

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Toby:  Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (also made into a movie)

Trevor: Ditto
Dennis: In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier 

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  fireweed

Trevor: 49 Dance

Dennis: Yodel

Next month we will be discussing Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Thank you to everyone who read Kiss of the Fur Queen with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK (OR THING) WE MIGHT LIKE!
Toby:  Veep (HBO sitcom)

Dennis: Dave (1993 film) honourable mention: anything by Tim Dorsey
Trevor: The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  ouroboros

Trevor: witling (not whitling) 

Dennis: blatherskite

Next month we will be discussing Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway.

Thank you to everyone who read The Best Laid Plans with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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Toby:  Recursion by Blake Crouch

Dennis: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Trevor: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  apophenic as a haruspex

Trevor: metonymy

Dennis: sincerity

Next month we will be discussing The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis.

Thank you to everyone who read This is How You Lose the Time War with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Remembering Ray St. Germain
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Aboutislam.net a helpful resource for those with questions about Islam

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Toby:  Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Dennis: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Trevor: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  queer

Trevor: kalam

Dennis: exegesis

Next month we will be discussing This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Thank you to everyone who read Hijab Butch Blues with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Welcome back Dennis! We made an episode without you, but it was NO FUN.

Remembering Alice Munro

Ice Planet Barbarians Series by Ruby Dixon

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Toby:  Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Dennis: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (currently on order)
Trevor: Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby:  that thing that happens when a person's name becomes associated with a broader definition

Trevor: Ambiguous 

Dennis: Phlegmatic, Obdurate, and Pertinacious

Next month we will be discussing Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

Thank you to everyone who read The Left Hand of Darkness with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity from the I.S.S.
Facial Hair and the Military
Apollo 13 (1995 Film) Launch Scene
Clive Cussler novels at Winnipeg Public Library

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Toby: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Trevor: The Martian by Andy Weir (and The Spy who came in from the Cold by John LeCarré)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: wilco 

Trevor: Tang (and Ting) 

Next month we will be discussing  The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.

Thank you to everyone who read The Apollo Murders with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

With Bel Canto, Trevor and Toby are both on track with their reading resolutions!
New podcast host: Transistor!
The so called "Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis": a major inspiration for Bel Canto.
Manitoba Opera website

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Toby: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Dennis: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Trevor: Animal Farm by George Orwell (graphic novel by ODYR)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: mellifluous

Trevor: mortadella

Dennis: hurkle-durkle

Next month we will be discussing The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield.

Thank you to everyone who read Bel Canto with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Cory Doctorow comes to Winnipeg on March 26th to talk about “Enshittification”, a nerd word from last month. If you go to the show and talk to him, mention that you heard about it on Time to Read! Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337

Moon of the Turning Leaves Anishinaabemowin Pronounciation Guide

An evening with Waubgeshig Rice, hosted by Rosanna Deerchild, October 27, 2023 at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg

Turbo Kid (2015 Movie)

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Toby: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman

Trevor: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Dennis: The Stand by Stephen King

Susie: The Reformatory by Tananirive Due

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: wonderworks

Trevor: walleteer

Dennis: The (as in the more the merrier)

Susie: shenanigans and katywampus

Next month we will be discussing Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

Thank you to everyone who read Moon of the Turning Leaves with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, Trevor Lockhart, and special guest Susie Moloney.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Our 2024 Reading Resolutions!

Toby: will make an effort to REREAD some of her favourite books. What will she pick?

Trevor: will make an effort to READ books that are ALREADY IN HIS HOME. What will he find?

Dennis: will make an effort to READ lighter, humorous fare. What makes him laugh?

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: tyromancy

Trevor: rizz

Dennis: enshittification

Next month we will be discussing Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice with special guest Susie Moloney, WPL’s writer-in-residence.

Thank you to everyone who read French Exit with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Next Page Live! (online program where librarians make book recommendations. The Dec 4 edition is all about books that would make great gifts.

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2023

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Haircutpedia: a wiki for haircuts!

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Toby: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Trevor: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (play)

Dennis: Serial Podcast (Season 3) and Ear Hustle Podcast

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: umwelt

Trevor: conk

Dennis: earnest

Next month we will be discussing French Exit by Patrick deWitt.

Thank you to everyone who read If Beale Street Could Talk with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Presbyterian Bean Salad

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Toby: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Trevor: Stoner by John Williams

Dennis: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby and Trevor (both!): susurrus

Dennis: Cognitive Shuffling

Next month we will be discussing If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin.

Thank you to everyone who read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Interview with Jason Mott

Moxie Festival

Moxie Museum

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Toby: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Trevor: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Dennis: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksby Rebecca Skloot

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: Moxie

Trevor: Hell

Dennis: Hypnagogia

Next month we will be discussing Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

Thank you to everyone who read Hell of a Book with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory. 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Nigerian Proverbs

Journeys of Simplicity

EDC

Ellery Queen

We should all be feminists (Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

Biafra

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Toby: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Trevor: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Dennis: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby and Dennis: “High Life” (musical genre)

Trevor: Shrapnel

Next month we will be discussing Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

Thank you to everyone who read Half of a Yellow Sun with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Trevor Lockhart, and Dennis Penner.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.
 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper

I am Homeless if this is not my Homeby Lorrie Moore

The Donkey Sanctuary (in Dorset)

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Toby: Taskmaster Game Show

Trevor: An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten 

Dennis: The Mrs Polifax Mysteries by Dorothy Gilman and By Book or by Crook by Eva Gates

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: grass (British Slang)

Trevor: asinine

Dennis: subvocal oscillations 

Next month we will be discussing Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Thank you to everyone who read The Thursday Murder Club with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

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Toby: The Strangers by Katherena Vermette

Trevor: Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson

Dennis: VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: tawnshi and marcee (hello and thank you in michif)

Trevor: ablaut reduplication

Dennis: crooked

Next month we will be discussing The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.

Thank you to everyone who read A Grandmother Begins the Story with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory. 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Next Page Live! (June 27th at noon on ZOOM)

Tales at Night at the Good Will Social Club (June 28, 2023 at 7:30 pm)

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Toby: Weather by Jenny Offill

Trevor: The History of Bees by Maja Lunde

Dennis: The Children of Men by P.D. James, A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, Don’t Look Up (2021 film)

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: Starboard and Port

Trevor: Point Nemo

Dennis: skipper

Next month we will be discussing A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter.

Thank you to everyone who read Migrations with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory. 

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Lorain, Ohio

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Toby: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Trevor: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Dennis: The Break by Katherena Vermette

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: The Maginot Line

Trevor: asafetida bag

Dennis: psychrophilic

Next month we will be discussing Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy.

Thank you to everyone who read The Bluest Eye with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory. 

We are discussing Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel.

DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE

One eRead Canada – A digital, bilingual, cross-Canada book club (1ereadlivrelcanada.ca)

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Toby: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Nam-Joo Cho

Trevor: Death Sentences by Suzanne Myre

Dennis: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: sidekick (not to be confused with sidekick)

Trevor: Kyrgyzstan

Dennis: latibulate

Next month we will be discussing The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

Thank you to everyone who read Tatouine with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

We are discussing Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan

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Colette: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

Toby: Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Trevor: Hamilton (Musical)

Dennis: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Colette: брат (brother in Ukrainian)

Toby: tartle (from Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment Every Day by Susie Dent)

Trevor: Dun Dun Dunnnnnn!

Dennis: panic

Next month we will be discussing Tatouine by Jean-Christophe Réhel.

Thank you to everyone who read Women of the Fur Trade with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Colette Dufault, Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.  Our drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

We are discussing Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.

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Toby: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Netflix series Wednesday

Trevor: Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill, Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beaumann, and The Winters by Lisa Gabriele

Dennis: Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: Goth/Gothic

Trevor: Winkles

Dennis: Avenger

Next month we will be discussing Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan.

Thank you to everyone who read Rebecca with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

We are discussing Dawn by Octavia Butler.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Our condolences go out to the family and friends of Tyree Cayer

The Lighthouse Mystery Series by Eva Gates

Network Effect by Martha Wells

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

A libertarian walks into a bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Taft by Ann Patchett

The podcast Overdue, especially the Jagged Little Mill series

NEW YEAR’S READING RESOLUTIONS

Toby: Will read everything that Ann Patchett has published

Trevor: Will read something by Malcolm Gladwell

Dennis: Will read more non-fiction, especially science and technology

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: petard

Trevor: The “Monty Hall” Problem

Dennis: condole

Next month we will be discussing Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.

Thank you to everyone who read Dawn with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

The first parachute attempt

John Hetherginton, famous for causing a riot when he debuted the “top hat” in London in 1797

Cornish Pasty Drama!

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Toby: Mary and Maria, or The Wrongs of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Trevor: Love Between the Covers (a documentary on the romance novel industry, available through WPL on Kanopy)

Dennis: This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Toby: pasty

Trevor: refulgent

Dennis: belly timber

Next month we will be discussing Dawn by Octavia Butler.

Thank you to everyone who read The Rakess with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Annie Ernaux, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022

The Number Nineteen

The Shining (differences between the movie, novel, and miniseries)

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Dennis: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Toby: Barry (TV Series)

Trevor: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Dennis: quiescent

Toby: naturalism

Trevor: Easter Eggs

Next month we will be discussing The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham.

Thank you to everyone who read Billy Summers with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK WE MIGHT LIKE!

Dennis: The Order of the Stick (Web Comic)

Toby: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Trevor: Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Dennis: nomenclature

Toby: brimstone

Trevor: Thousand Island (Salad Dressing)

Next month we will be discussing Billy Summers by Stephen King.

Thank you to everyone who read Empire of Wild with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Press Reader: Read Newspapers from All Around the World!

Hologram from Cowra Museum (mentioned in book)

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Dennis: Stiff: The curious lives of cadavers by Mary Roach

Toby: Muriel’s Wedding (film available on Kanopy)

Trevor: The Great Railway Bazaar and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Dennis and Toby: antipodes

Trevor: “the seven seas”

Next month we will be discussing Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

Thank you to everyone who read In a Sunburned Country with us and for those who left comments on our social media.

We always love hearing from you! Join our Facebook group, or follow Winnipeg Public Library on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca with suggestions, comments, and questions. Visit us at wpl-podcast.winnipeg.ca.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Our panel today included Toby Cygman, Dennis Penner, and Trevor Lockhart.

We're approaching our 100th episode! We'll be talking about our 100 favourite books, and we'd like to include you. Please email us your favourite book title (including author) and tell us a little bit about why you love it. Email us at wpl-podcast@winnipeg.ca by April 17th 2026 to be included in the episode. :-)

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 drinking water comes from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, in Treaty Three Territory.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

WPL Info Guide on Depression

New Yorker article on Miriam Toews

St. Odile

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Dennis: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Toby: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Kirsten: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

NERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDS

Dennis: askance