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The Village Podcast from The Bookshelf

Oct 30, 2025

Energy is high now that the weather has cooled. Steph and Candice have joined a “real world, offline” bookclub, and Candice is on the final book in the Stephen King Collection

Books

Vanished Beyond the Map by Adam Shoalts 

A Life in Comedy by Paul Meyers 

Full Throttle by Joe Hill 

Exhalation by Ted Chiang 


Sep 29, 2025

Catching up! Steph’s been on a journey to understand herself and her world better, Candice has been catching up to the end of her 6 year long Stephen King project.

We chat about our TBRs again and how to choose what to read. Candice is a mood reader and Steph is not. But we both like a challenge!

Books

How to Raise...


Jun 9, 2025

Steph and Candice talk about their TBR lists, how things make it on there, and why reducing decision fatigue and reading with intention are good things. And then also remind each other, and listeners that social contact with other humans is actually okay.

Books

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A...


May 7, 2025

Candice had a week off this month so she read a lot! Lots of book talk about meta textual books with inserts and annotations and more. Plus lots of talk about horror being stories of grief, Twin Peaks and its weirdness, and the better than John Hughes coming of age movies of the 80s.

Books

The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen...


Apr 11, 2025

Candice has finally read some books! One super feminist, and one not so much.

Steph admits to a 30 year old crime against the Scholastic Book Fair.

We cover a lot this month, from the magic of pregnancy to avoiding celebrities even when they invite people to come meet them. It’s a weird through line, but we get...