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Thanks for joining us for this episode of Time to Read in which we discuss Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Next month we are reading The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

In this episode we talked about

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Boing Boing – a directory of mostly wonderful things
• Creative Commons
• Doctorow’s Law
• Download Doctorow’s books
• Cory Doctorow running up to Alan on the streets of Vancouver

Can you Tell Me A Book You Would Also Like?

• Erica
  • Zen in the Age of Anxiety by Tim Burkett
  • Arcadia by Lauren Groff  
• Kirsten
  • The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka
• Trevor
  • The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula k. LeGuin
• Alan
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Nerd Words for Word Nerds

• Kirsten: Bisou/bise
  • Bise Map
  • Zou Bisou Bisou by Gillian Harris (1960)
• Trevor: Hand of Glory
• Alan: Remix
  • YA Hotline
    • No 97 (2014) — Interview with Cory Doctorow
• Erica: Pathetic Fallacy

Books and Media Mentioned

• Fables by Bill Willingham
• Star Trek
• Mad Men

WPL programs and services mentioned

• ideaMILL
  • 3D Printing
    • Alan’s 3D printed VR Headset Stand
• Thin Air:  Winnipeg International Writers Festival — Sept. 21-29
  • The Nooner at Millennium Library
• At The Library newsletter
  • West End Literary Walk — Sept. 22
  • Recording Audio with Audacity — Sept. 30, Oct. 27

Special thanks to Amy for writing in with her comments.

Time to Read is a production of the Winnipeg Public Library. Your hosts today were Alan Chorney, Kirsten Wurmann, Erica Ball, and Trevor Lockhart. Our webmaster is Arryn Seburn. Our social media guru is Reegan Breu. Audio production and music by Dennis Penner.