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), 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 EPISODEThe first parachute attemptJohn Hetherginton, famous for causing a riot when he debuted the “top hat” in London in 1797Cornish Pasty Drama!TELL US ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK WE MIGHT LIKEToby: Mary and Maria, or The Wrongs of Women by Mary WollstonecraftTrevor: 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 GladstoneNERD WORDS FOR WORD NERDSToby: pastyTrevor: refulgentDennis: belly timberNext 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 [email protected] 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.

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