It’s episode 211 and we’re talking about books and other media we’ve enjoyed recently! We discuss early internet chatrooms, shuttlecocks, haunted dolls, what constitutes a “banger”, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

What We’re Into:

• Anna
  • Acid West by Joshua Wheeler
  • Two Point Museum
    • Trailer
  • R.E.P.O. || Crossing the Streams
    • R.E.P.O. on Stream
• Matthew
  • Never a Sidekick: Exploring the Dynamic History of Batgirl by Tim Hanley
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon
    • 7 Weirdest Yakuza: Like a Dragon Quests That Were Bizarre Even by Yakuza Standards
  • Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils
• Jam
  • WEBFISHING
    • Trailer
  • Murdle Volume 1 by G.T. Karber
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race adjacent media
    • Runnereye (YouTube)
    • Drag Her (podcast)
    • UpUntil Dawn (YouTube)
    • I Got Dr*nk and Built the Lego Tuxedo Cat (Crashout Included)
    • Crystal Envy & Lexi Love’s “Alter Ego” Lip Sync
    • Arrietty & Lydia B Kollins’ “Boogie Wonderland” Lip Sync
• Meghan
  • Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
  • Badminton
    • Pilou
  • Meeting Infinity and Infinity Wars (short story collections)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Didi (film)
• Doechii - Denial is a River

Links, Articles, and Things

• RA in a Day
• folio - 019 - immanence 01 - with jam edwards & garbageface aka gnostic front aka karol orzechowski
• Spaceport America

15 Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Women Wide Awake: Stories, Sculptures and Poems From Sindhi Folklore by  Nimra Bandukwala and Manahil Bandukwala

• Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy and Romance by Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy

• The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar

• Blackberry Blue: And Other Fairy Tales by Jamila Gavin

• Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon

• The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America by Jamie Hernandez

• Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions by Tomson Highway

• Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson

• Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan SaSuWeh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre

• An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History by Komatsu Kazuhiko, translated by Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda

• Rediscovering Turtle Island: a First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America by Taylor Keen

• Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America by Liniers

• Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship: Stories From India by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy

• Vietnamese Folktales for Children: Stories of Adventure and Wonder in Vietnamese and English by Phuoc Thi Minh Tran, illustrated by Dong Nguyen and Hop Thi Nguyen

• The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Then on Tuesday, June 3rd we’ll be discussing “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps.

It’s episode 210 and time for us to talk about the genre of Romantasy! We discuss romance series, happily ever afters, tropes, social media, and more! Plus, special guest romance fiction researcher Christine Larson!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis, narrated by Amanda Leigh Cobb
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
  • The Significance Of S.A. Chakraborty’s Name Adjustment In Upcoming Book
• One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix  (not mentioned in episode)
• The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen (not mentioned in episode)
• Order of Swans by Jude Deveraux (not mentioned by name)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success by Christine Larson
• Ender’s Game / Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
• The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Empty Crown by Rosemary Edgehill 
• A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamiton

Links, Articles, and Things

• RA in a Day
• Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir
• Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
• Let Them Eat Tropes: Why Romantasy Needs to Grow Beyond Trends
• Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?
• What is ‘romantasy,’ and why can’t readers get enough? (Interview with Christine Larson)

15 Romantasy books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara
• A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair
• Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton
• Once More Upon a Time by Roshani Chokshi 
• Faebound by Saara El-Arifi
• Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
• The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon
• The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko
• Sinner's Isle by Angela Montoya
• Witchmark by C.L. Polk
• Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana
• Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
• Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli
• The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara
• The Scorpion and the Night Blossom by Amélie Wen Zhao

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 15th for our Spring Media Update! We’ll let you know about the media we’ve been enjoying recently that we haven’t experienced for the podcast.

Then on Tuesday, May 6th we’ll be discussing the genre/topic of Linguistics and Language!

 It’s episode 201 and time for us to discuss the genre of Weird West! (Just in time for Halloween!). We talk about the potential temporal and geographic restrictions on western fiction, folklore, tall tales, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian, narrated by John Pirhalla
• The Gunslinger by Stephen King, narrated by George Guidall
• Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Sixth Gun Omnibus, vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree, and Tyler Crook
• The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles and Raúl the Third
• Lone Women by Victor LaValle
• River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
  

Other Media We Mentioned

• Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp and Molly Tanzer
• The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger (Probably the version Matthew saw)
• Lucky Luke
• The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
  

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 029 - Westerns
• Episode 082 - Steampunk
• Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History
• Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted
• Space Western (TVTropes)
• Skin-walker
• Land-grant university
• Map shows where Colorado’s 8 known free-roaming wolves wandered in September
• Libro.fm’s Audiobook Listening Copy Program
• Jonah Hex
  

10 Weird Western Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles and Raúl the Third
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
• The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
• Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (forthcoming 2025)
• Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird Western Collection by Nicole Givens Kurtz
• Lone Women by Victor Lavalle
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
• Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 15th when it’s time for our “We All Read the Same Book” episode as we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.

Then on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Dark Academia.

This episode we’re Receiving Book Recommendations! Last episode we asked each other for books in specific areas and this week we’re back with our suggestions for table top role playing games, folklore, healthcare, poetry, urban fantasy and more.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Recommend

• An Indie Tabletop Game
  • The Queen of Cups
    •  TTRPG Safety Toolkit by Kienna Shaw & Lauren Bryant-Monk
  • The Skeletons
• Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko
    • Natalie Kononenko (Wikipedia)
  • Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso
  • Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
    • Baba Yaga cross stitch Matthew’s working on
• Humanism in/of Healthcare
  • 2020 Summer Reading for Compassionate Clinicians - The Gold foundation
  • The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine by Abraham M. Nussbaum
  • Journal of Applied Hermeneutics - Canadian Hermeneutic Institute 
• Fiction that Surprises
  • Bunny by Mona Awad
  • Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah
• Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World
  • The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
  • Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
  • Spellhacker by M.K England
  • The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta
  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
  • The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
  • The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
• Urban Fantasy
  • Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
• Horror
  • Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
  • Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
    • Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia)
  • The Fog Knows Your Name
• Poetry
  • Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich
  • Ledger by Jane Hirshfield
  • Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán
  • Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Queer Poets Write About Nature by edited by Dylan Ce
• Feminist Essay Collection
  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
  • Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas
  • Christmas Inn Maine by Chelsea M. Cameron
  • Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins
  • The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum
• Russian Language Learning Materials
  • Learn to Read and Write Russian - Russian Alphabet Made Easy
  • Sputnik: An Introductory Russian Language Course, Part I by by Julia Rochtchina
• Space Opera
  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Suggestions from our Listeners!

• An Indie Tabletop Game
  • Bluebeard's Bride from Magpie Games
• Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko
  • On the Banks of the Yaryn by Aleksandr Kondratiev
    
• Humanism in/of Healthcare
  • The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
• Fiction that Surprises
  • Slade House by David Mitchell
• Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World
  • Empire State by Adam Christopher
  • The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
  • Finna by Nino Cipri
• Urban Fantasy
  • God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
  • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
• Horror
  • And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
  • Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
    
• Poetry
  • The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy
• Feminist Essay Collection
  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman and Daisy Hernández
  • Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
• Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas
  • Whiteout by Elyse Springer
  • Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife by Llew Smith
  • Mangos & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
  • Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert
• Russian Language Learning Materials
  • We Read These Tales by Syllables by Vladimir Suteev
• Space Opera
  • Alien People by John Coon
  • Dreamships by Melissa Scott
  • A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright
    

Other Media We Mentioned

• Fiasco
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki
• Tomie by Junji Ito
• Spirit of the Season
• The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart
• Atomic Blonde (Wikipedia)
• Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• House of Reeds by Thomas Harlan

Links, Articles, and Things

• Eisner Award for Best Lettering (Wikipedia)
• Lambda Literary Award (Wikipedia)
• Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)

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Then on Tuesday, December 15th it’ll be our Best of 2020 episode!

This episode we’re Seeking Book Recommendations! We’ve each picked some topics and we’re going to perform Readers’ Advisory interviews to help figure out what titles to suggest to each other.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Recommendations Wanted!

• RJ
• • An indie tabletop game
  • Sci-fi/fantasy set in contemporary real world, but the sf/fan elements are NOT secret/hidden/underground
  • Fiction set at Christmastime/non-fiction about Christmas
• Matthew
• • Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Horror
  • Space Opera
• Anna
• • Humanism in/of healthcare
  • Urban fantasy
  • Feminist Essay Collection
• Meghan
• • Fiction (not a thriller) that surprises
  • Poetry
  • Russian language learning materials

Media We Mentioned

• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)
• Sleepaway
• FATE
• GURPS
• God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
• The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Your Republic is Calling You by Kim Young-Ha
• • Meghan discusses this book in Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage
• Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
• Curse Workers series by Holly Black
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Solaris by Stanisław Lem
• • Solaris (1972 film) (Wikipedia)
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
• SCP
• • Document 050 - "The Great Researcher Prank War of '██"
  • SCP-087 - “an unlit platform staircase”
  • SCP-2521
  • We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five
  • Top Rated Pages
• IRL by Tommy Pico
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
• • The Day the Saucers Came
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

Links, Articles, and Things

• Desert Bus for Hope
• Gritty (mascot)
• Hark! Podcast
• Cyrillic script (Wikipedia)

20 Religious Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors 

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives edited by Raimundo Barreto and Roberto Sirvent
• God is Red: a Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria
• Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
• The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B Gad
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
• Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar
• Her Name Is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write about Love, Courage, and Faith edited by Meeta Kaur
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
• In Love With the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur, with Helen Tworkov
• The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita Sanchez
• Why I am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
• Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
• Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese
• I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
• New World A-coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld

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Then on Tuesday, December 1st we’ll be discussing the genre that you chose for us to read, New Weird Fiction!

Finally, on Tuesday, December 15th it’ll be our Best of 2020 episode!

This episode we’re discussing Business Non-Fiction! We talk about personality quizzes, questioning capitalism, fighting against productivity/the productivity trap, the rigourousness of professional degrees, (somehow on-topic) tangents, and how books can manage to disappoint us in new and bizarre ways. It’s got both silliness and existential dread in one episode!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read This Month

• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us  by Michael Moss
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
• Uncanny Valley  by Anna Wiener
• No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
• Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life  by Marie Kondō and Scott Sonenshein
• Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life by Shelley Paxton
• Think. Do. Say.: How to Seize Attention and Build Trust in a Busy, Busy World  by Ron Tite
• The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shteir
• Different . . . Not Less: Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD by Temple Grandin
• The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures: 10 Countries, 50 Mistakes, and 5 Steps to Cultural Competence by Craig Storti
• 100 Side Hustles: Ideas for Making Extra Money  by Chris Guillebeau

Other  Media We Mentioned

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Wikipedia)
• What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
• The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
• • Episode 015 - Self Help
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
• The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
• Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
• The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the        Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
• • The Poison Squads: The Stupid, Risky First Food Safety Tests (SciShow)
• Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman
• Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee 
• The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
• More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau

Links, Articles, and Things

• Ask a Manager
• Quantified self (Wikipedia)
• Herpetology (Wikipedia)
• • “the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras)”

15 Business Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
• Eat a Peach by David Chang
• Fight or Submit: Standing Tall in Two Worlds by Ronald Derrickson
• Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu
• The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization by Crystal Byrd Farmer
• It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage by Arlan Hamilton
• Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
• Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation A Reality by Robert Joseph
• The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters by Wes Moore
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
• Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier by Maya Rao
• How to be a Bawse by Lilly Singh
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 17th we’ll be doing Readers’ Advisory and trying to come up with holiday gifts for each other!

Then on Tuesday, December 1st we’ll be discussing the genre that you chose for us: New Weird Fiction!

It's Halloween! And in this very special episode we're playing the game Happy Birthday Dracula!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Games We Played This Month

• Happy Birthday Dracula!
• We’re streaming visual novel games on Twitch!
• • Were|House (Matthew and RJ trying to date a kelpie)
  • Speed Dating for Ghosts
• Which BC4M podcast co-host are you most like?

Other Media We Mentioned

• Steeple by John Allison
• • The webcomic

Links, Articles, and Things

• Xylophones for Walking Bones (TV Tropes)
• Quadrille (Wikipedia)
• Witch Name Generator
• Astronomia but it's played on a Xylophone (music used in the episode)

15 Psychological Thriller Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors (see all our lists here)

• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• The Birthday Girl by Melissa de la Cruz
• An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
• Spin by Lamar Giles
• We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean
• The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong
• The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal
• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Blood Sports by Eden Robinson
• Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

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Join us on Tuesday, November 3rd when we’ll be discussing the genre of Non-Fiction Business!

Then on Tuesday, November 17th we’ll be dusting off our Readers’ Advisory hats and trying to come up with holiday gifts for each other!

This episode we’re discussing Comedic/Humorous Fiction! We discuss what makes something funny, the different types of humour fiction,  when you can’t tell if something is supposed to be funny until you know the context, and more! Plus: Comics’ comic comics! (That kind of makes sense in context…)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Announcements

• Check out Matthew and RJ streaming Were|House on our Twitch Channel on Friday, October 9th at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific Twitch stream
• • Monster Mash - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel Stream
• Our genre-specific lists of books by people of colour
• Vote for what genre we read in November

Things We Read This Month

• Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
• • “Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life form on the planet. Humans simply exist as the reproductive means to achieve more libraries.” from Fforde’s book The Constant Rabbit
• Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Whitney Cogar
• • Matthew thinks the analysis he mentioned is somewhere in PanelxPanel #16 - Giant Days
• The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher
• • Dear Committee Members
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
• An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• • Booker Prize (Wikipedia)
• Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 by Kiyohiko Azuma
• Ozy and Millie by Dana Simpson
• • Read online

Sixteen Comedic/Humorous Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors (see all our lists here)

• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp
• 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
• Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang
• The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang
• Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen
• The Marriage Game by Sara Desai
• I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• Members Only by Sameer Pandya
• Crees in the Caribbean by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
• Making History by Stephen Fry
• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
• Get Out (Wikpedia)
• • Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
• Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (Wikipedia)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
• • Cucumber sandwich (Wikipedia)
• Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson

Links, Articles, and Things

• Comic novel (Wikipedia)
• Themes of Pedophilia in the Works of Piers Anthony
• Revisiting the sad, misogynistic fantasy of Xanth
• Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (Wikipedia)
• Hark!
• • Tweet your eggnog sightings at RJ!
• Code Switch - Battle Of The Books
• • “What kind of books are best to read during this pandemic? Books that connect you to our current reality? Or ones that help you escape it?”
• Plotless Fiction

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 20th when we’ll be playing Happy Birthday Dracula!

Then on Tuesday, November 3rd we’ll be discussing the genre of Business non-fiction!

This episode we’re giving you an update on the media we’ve been enjoying not for the podcast! We talk about music, books, podcasts, comics, videos, movies, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Announcements

• Check out our weekly "spooky" visual novel stream at twitch.tv/bookclub4m. Starting Friday, September 18th at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific.
• Or check out the recordings on our YouTube channel

Media We’ve Been Enjoying

• Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Vol. 1 by Kagiji Kumanomata
• The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 by Kōsuke Ōno
• • Matthew heard about both of these manga in the Best and Worst Manga of 2020 panel
• Coode Street Podcast
• The Slowdown
• Strides Forward
• • Comrades Marathon (Wikipedia)
• Dig: A History Podcast
• • Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico
  • Steaming the “Nefarious Sin”: Bathhouses and Homosexuality from the Victorian Era to the AIDS Epidemic
• Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
• Turning: A Swimming Memoir by Jessica J. Lee
• Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
• Black Dresses on Bandcamp
• • Black Dresses - Eternal Nausea
• Mitski on Bandcamp
• • Mitski - Nobody
• Sofi Tukker on Twitch
• • Sofi Tukker - Batshit
• Anarchism & Police Abolition Feat. Domri Rade by Spice8Rack
• On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
• A Christmas Prince 
• • The Grim Dystopia of A Christmas Prince (video by Jenny Nicholson)
  • What things need to be saved in RJ’s winter holiday RPG? Suggest something!
• Finish It! Podcast
• • Journey Under the Sea episode 1
• Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee

Links, Articles, and Things

• Our “to be read” piles
• • Matthew
  • Anna
  • Meghan
• Hark! The Holiday Music Podcast
• Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
• Trailer for the new Dune movie

15 Non-fiction Technology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors (see all our lists here)

• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
• Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Ruha Benjamin
• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simons Browne
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
• Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind by Regine Gilbert
• Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
• Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine G. Johnson
• Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain
• Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet by Lisa Nakamura
• Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life edited by Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu with Alicia Headlam Hines
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear
• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 6th we’ll be reading Comedic/Humourous Novels! (or fiction?)

Then on Tuesday, October 20th we’ll be playing Happy Birthday Dracula!

This episode we’re discussing Visual Novels! We talk about what visual novels are, whether they count as books, reading novels we’re much too young for, being unable to suspend our disbelief, watching videos at 2x speed, monetization, watching vs playing, linear vs divergent stories, and more! Plus, this episode is like 75% tangents!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (Played?) This Month

• Bury Me, My Love
• Dungeons & Lesbians
• • Stream with Matthew and RJ
• Serre - “A visual novel about a girl and an alien drinking tea and falling in love!”
• • Stream with Matthew and Meghan
• Speed Dating for Ghosts
• Order a Pizza: A Visual Novel
• • Stream with Matthew and hosts of Finish It! Podcast
• All the streams on YouTube!
• Our Twitch channel

Matthews list of (more) Visual Novels he enjoyed playing

• A Mortician's  Tale - “a story-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.”
• Arcade Spirits - “a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred.”
• Don’t Take It Personally, I Just Don’t Like You: The Camping Trip - “a lo-fi relationship dramedy about camping illegally on government property in the chill of early autumn, having public anxiety attacks in crowded shopping malls, the people we choose to be with, and what we do when they don't choose us back.”
• The Night Fisherman - “A short tale of inhumanity in the English channel."
• The Outcast Lovers - “Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress.” (Sequel to The Night Fisherman.)
• Us Lovely Corpses - “a short surreal-horror-romance visual novel about helping a friend.”
• Watch Me Jump - “a digital story of scandal and betrayal, played out in four quarters.”
• Mission: It's Complicated - “a visual novel about getting superheroes to fall in love, and the shenanigans that happen along the way.”
• Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator - “a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads.”

Other Media We Mentioned

• Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia)
• Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
• Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (Wikipedia)
• Tusks: The Orc Dating Sim
• • Orcs that RJ drew!
  • More orc(cupation)s that RJ drew
• Radical Dreamers (Wikipedia)
• Butterfly Soup - “A visual novel about gay asian girls playing baseball and falling in love.”
• 2064: Read Only Memories (Wikipedia)
• Now Kiss! YouTube Playlist of visual novel streams by Kathleen de Vere
• Finish It! Podcast
• Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form by Anna Anthropy 
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
• Ask a Mortician
• Signs of the Sojourner - “a narrative card game about relationships and connecting with people.”

Links, Articles, and Things

• Bingo Sheets for podcast
• Visual novel (Wikipedia)
• Gamebook (Wikipedia)
• Text-based game (Wikipedia)
• Interactive fiction (Wikipedia)
• Point-and-click adventure games (Wikipedia)
• Twine (software) (Wikipedia)
• Pandemic (board game) (Wikipedia)
• RJ’s itch.io page
• Pricing Hobby Games: An argument for pricing your small independent games.
• How One Gameplay Decision Changed Diablo Forever
• Why So Few Violent Games?
• Visual Novel Maker Says It Will Replace Its Striking Writers
• Visual Novel Writers Win Pay Raise After 21 Day Strike
• Visual Novels (TV Tropes)

5 Visual Novels (and 1 amazing resource) by People of Colour

• Blerdy Otome: this episode’s list would not be possible without Blerdy Otome, who reviews otome games, visual novels, and related media! Check out the Blerdy Tribe page of her website for tons of Black game developers, artists, podcasters, and other folks to follow!
• ValiDate: a forthcoming romantic visual novel about 12 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them. Features an array of character art by artists of color and a narrative developed by an all people of color writing team.
• One Thousand and One Days: an LGBTQ+ fantasy otome based on the mythology of ancient Persia and Islamic lore.
• Pairs: a romantic sci-fi visual novel featuring two superheroic couples and four perspectives to see their stories from.
• Us Lovely Corpses: a short surreal-horror-romance visual novel about helping a friend. Matthew’s stream of this game can be found here (check the content warning in the video description).
• Order a Pizza: play as a divorced dad trying to order the perfect pizza. Matthew’s stream of this game can be found here.

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 15th we’ll be giving an update on media we’ve been consuming that’s not for the podcast!

Then on Tuesday, October 15th we’ll be reading Comedic/Humourous Novels!

This episode we talk about Pet by Akwaeke Emezi! There are lots of spoilers, plus discussions of ambiguity, language and communication, names, family, community, trust, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Announcements

• Matthew is streaming visual novels on Twitch (and archived on YouTube)! Here are some of his favourites
• • Serre (with Meghan)
  • Dungeons & Lesbians (with RJ)
  • This Sunday, August 23rd, at 8pm Eastern Matthew will be joined by the co-hosts of Finish It! Podcast!
• 12 Gothic Literature Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour)
• Contest! Win a copy of Pet (the book we discussed in this episode) by sharing this episode (on social media, in an email, wherever) and tagging or otherwise telling us (e.g. screenshot it and email it to us at bookclub4m@gmail.com).

The Book We Discussed

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• • Akwaeke Emezi on "Pet" and on Making a Better World for Their Protagonist, a Black Trans Girl Named Jam (Teen Vogue)
  • My America: Akwaeke Emezi on Belonging (American Writers Museum/YouTube)
  • Review: Pet, Akwaeke Emezi (Reading the End)

Other Media we Mentioned

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Adrienne Maree Brown

Links, Articles, and Things

• Visual Novel (Wikipedia)
• Ludo (Labyrinth Wiki)
• James P. Sullivan (Sully) (Disney Wiki)
• Sign language (Wikipedia)
• Igbo Language (Wikipedia)
• Hark! Podcast

12 Gothic Literature Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) (link)

• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
• Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
• The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 1st we’ll be talking about Visual Novels!

Then on Tuesday, September 15th we’ll be giving an update on media we’ve been consuming that’s not for the podcast.

This episode we’re discussing Alternative/Alternate History! We talk about realism and magic, how long ago is history, tropes and when they’re good, why this genre always seems to be about war, and more. Plus Matthew almost gets bingo!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read This Month

• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• • A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (an American writer, Meghan misspoke :/ )
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
• • Graphic Annotations of China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris
• Batman: Holy Terror by Alan Brennert and Norm Breyfogle (Wikipedia)
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
• Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
• What If (comics) (Wikipedia)
• Elseworlds (Wikipedia)
• Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar, Dave Johnson/Andrew Robinson, and Kilian Plunkett/Walden Wong
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove
• Milkweed Triptych Series by Ian Tregillis
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding (Lindsay Ellis video)
• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Wikipedia)
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga

Links, Articles, and Things

• Alternate History (Wikipedia)
• Bingo Sheet for the podcast (play along at home!)
• When is an Alternate History Entertaining, and when is it Harmful?
• American Civil War alternate histories (Wikipedia)
• Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II (Wikipedia)
• List of civil wars (Wikipedia)
• American exceptionalism (Wikipedia)
• Surrealism (Wikipedia)

Visual Novel Stuff

• Stream 1: Boa Retina and a completely normal dating simulator (just Matthew)
• Stream 2: Dungeons & Lesbians (Matthew and RJ)
• Stream 3: Arcade Spirits (just Matthew)
• Our Twitch channel
• Our YouTube channel
• Schedule

15 Alternative History Books by People of Colour

• Lion’s Blood by Steven Barnes
• Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes
• Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus
• Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
• The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng
• The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
• Live in Infamy by Caroline Tung Richmond
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 18th we’ll be discussing the book Pet by Akwaeke Emezi!

Then on Tuesday, September 1st we’ll be talking about Visual Novels!

This episode we’re discussing Summer Reading and Challenges! We talk about summer reading programs, struggling with reading during a pandemic, why we’re bad at naming our podcast, ever expanding to-read lists, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Announcements

• We’ve started doing retrospective lists of books by people of colour for genres we covered  on old episodes. You can find a list of the lists here.
• Our stream of the visual novel BAKED:MAGIC
• Bingo sheets for Book Club for Masochists
• • Or try this link

15 Historical Romance Novels by People of Colour (Link)

• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole
• Let Us Dream by Alyssa Cole
• Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology
• Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin
• Stars in Their Eyes by Pema Donyo
• A Summer for Scandal by Lydia San Andres
• The Hidden Blade by Sherry Thomas
• The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
• Unmasked Heart by Vanessa Riley
• Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter
• Rebel by Beverly Jenkins
• Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
• A Delicate Affair by Lindsay Evans
• The Preacher’s Promise by Piper Huguley

Media we Mentioned

• The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• One of the Calvin and Hobbes comics featuring Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
• Munchers (Wikipedia)
• • Play Number Munchers on the Internet Archive 
• Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Links, Articles, and Things

• Literature Review on the Impact of Summer Reading Clubs
  • Is Matthew talking garbage about gamification? Let us know!
• Calgary Public Library - Ultimate Summer Challenge
• BC Summer Reading Club 2020
• TD Summer Reading Club: Home
• A History of Youth Summer Reading Programs in Public Libraries
• Milk caps (Wikipedia): These are Pogs
• THAC0
• Closed Stack Libraries (Wikipedia)
• National Magazine Awards

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 4th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Alternative History.

Then on Tuesday, August 18th we’ll be discussing the book Pet by Akwaeke Emezi!

It’s episode 200, which means it’s (finally) time for us to discuss Library Fiction! We talk about the stereotypes and tropes of library fiction, unacknowledged work of library workers,and more. Plus: we talk way more about our actual jobs than we usually do.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges 
• The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
• Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore by Paula Guran (below are direct links to many of the stories from this collection)
  • In the House of the Seven Librarians by Ellen Klages
  • In Libres by Elizabeth Bear
  • Those Who Watch by Ruthanna Emrys
  • Paper Cuts Scissors by Holly Black
  • Summer Reading by Ken Liu
  • Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
  • With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came by A.C. Wise
  • The Librarian’s Dilemma by E. Saxey
  • The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar
  • A Woman's Best Friend by Robert Reed
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Xia Jia, translated by Ken Liu
  • The Sigma Structure Symphony by Gregory Benford
  • The Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt
  • The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World by Edoardo Albert
• How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
• Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 
• Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Library of Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• The Empty Crown by Rosemary Edghill 
• Meghan meant The Abortion by Richard Brautigan (not Trout Fishing in America)
• The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
• Bookhunter by Jason Shiga
• Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes
• Library Comic by Gene Ambaum and Willow Payne
• Welcome to Night Vale
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Abbott Elementary
• Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides by Chuck Tingle
• My Librarian Is A Beautiful Lesbian Ice Cream Cone And She Tastes Amazing by Chuck Tingle
• Party Girl
• Public Enemy - Fight the Power
  

Fictional Librarians

• 50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked
• Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Barbara Gordon (DC Comics)
• The Librarian (Discworld)
• Lucien (The Sandman)
• Evelyn Carnahan (The Mummy)
• Marian Paroo (The Music Man)
• Librarians (Welcome to Night Vale)
  • “While their description is never fully given, minor details of their physical characteristics have been described:”
    • yellow, gnarled teeth
    • sharp claws and pincers
    • Wings
    • Tentacles
    • thousands of spiny legs
    • rattles (that make noise when they move)
    • thoraxes
      

Links, Articles, and Things

• Two-Fisted Library Stories zines
• North Boulder Library is ready to open (there’s a slide in image 6!)

15 Librarian & Library Fiction by POC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts
• Cora's Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown
• The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez 
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
• The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
• The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana
• The Plotters by Kim Un-Su
• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
• The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé
• The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
• Bookhunter by Jason Shiga

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 1st we’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s Supernatural Horror Westerns)

Then on Tuesday, October 15th it’s time for our “We All Read the Same Book” episode as we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.

This episode we’re discussing Entertainment Non-Fiction! We talk about what does (and doesn’t) count as entertainment, how we’re bad at watching TV, whether people are now turning non-book sources for analysis of media (e.g. watching videos on YouTube), and how many bananas are in a bunch.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read This Month

• As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
• Jim Brown: Last Man Standing by Dave Zirin
• Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman
• Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama
• Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier
• The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
• Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Companion to Buffy and Angel edited by Roz Kaveney

15 Entertainment Non-Fiction Books by People of Colour

• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
• Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
• Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang by Lamont U-God Hawkins
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
• Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric by Madison Moore
• Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama
• Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
• Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
• Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
• The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed by Shea Serrano
• This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
• I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone by Nina Simone
• Iwao Takamoto: My Life With A Thousand Characters by Iwao Takamoto
• EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted

Announcements

• The book we’ll all be reading and discussing for episode 107 is Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 
• Matthew talked about streaming visual novels, and that will hopefully happen, but there’s no pilot episode (yet…). 
• We’ve started doing lists for each genre by people of colour. You can find a list of the lists here.
• We’re designing new bingo sheets for the podcast! (Here are the bingo sheets we made for episode 50.) What topics or titles always come up on the podcast? What verbal tics do we have? Let us know!

Other Media We Mentioned

• If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble: Movies, Mayhem, and Malice by Joe Queenan
• Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier
• Pulgasari (Wikipedia) (North Korean giant monster movie)
• 3 Ninjas (Wikipedia)
• Mars Attacks! (Wikipedia)
• Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Métis in Space
• Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch (Wikipedia)
• The Jackbox Party Pack (Wikipedia)
• What we completely forgot to mention: 33⅓ (a well-known and popular series of books about specific albums)

Links, Articles, and Things

• American Ninja Warrior (Wikipedia)
• Pedestrianism (Wikipedia)
• Six-day racing (Wikipedia): Bicycle races
• Dust-to-Digital (Instagram)
• Get a Mac (Wikipedia): Ad campaign featuring John Hodgman
• • A bunch of the ads in question
• Slash fiction (Wikipedia)
• Ars Technica’s War Stories
• lonelygirl15 (Wikipedia)
• Todd in the Shadows’ review of Drake’s Toosie Slide
• Glass Animals - Dreamland

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 21st we’ll be discussing Summer Reading/Challenges!

Then on Tuesday, August 4th we’ll be talking about Alternative History fiction!

Battle of the Books 2020! It’s the one time a year that we all read the same book! We each pitch a title and our listeners vote and decide on which it will be. Our possibilities include Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet, and An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Which book should we all read?

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (RJ’s pick)
• Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (Meghan’s pick)
• My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet (Anna’s pick)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Matthew’s pick)

• Vote for which book we all read! (deadline is July 1st)

Our Shortlists

• RJ
• • Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
• Anna
• • Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
  • Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
• Matthew
• • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch 
• Meghan
• • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
  • Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
  • Burnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
  • The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
  • Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Other Media we Mentioned

• Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (the 1000 page, one sentence book)
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? (our “book pitch” episode from last year, includes shortlists)
• Episode 083 - The Fifth Season (our “we all read the same book” episode from last year)
• Domestic Fiction (encylopedia.com)
• A writer chronicles her “time among the whites” (Vox)
• Another Thing the Book Burning at Georgia Southern Reveals (Inside Higher Ed)
• Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Hark! (RJ’s winter holiday music podcast)

Bingo sheets!

• The bingo sheets we made for episode 50. 
• What should we add to updated bingo sheet?

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 7th we’ll be talking about the genre of Entertainment (Non-Fiction)!

Then on Tuesday, July 21st we’ll be discussing Summer Reading/Challenges!

This episode we’re discussing Literary Fiction! We talk about books that win awards, writing as art, reading books because other people think they’re good, whether YA literary fiction exists, literary fiction vs literary merit, real vs unreal reading, the pandemic allowing us to check out quick read books for months at a time, the BDSM awards, bookshelf bragging, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read This Month

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
• • Spoilers for this book in the podcast!
• A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Other Media We Mentioned

• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• White Noise by Don DeLillo
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
• Loose Time by RJ Edwards (won the 2019 National Magazine Award for fiction)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Links, Articles, and Things

• Literary Fiction Readers' Advisory with Meghan Savage
• • Literary Fiction guide
• Literary Fiction vs. Genre Fiction
• Is Literary Fiction Elitist? 
• Forget Literary Fiction. Is Reading Anything Elitist?
• Yes, literature is elitist… thank God!
• Crepuscular (definition)
• Magic realism (Wikipedia)
• Speculative fiction (Wikipedia)
• Washoe (chimpanzee) (Wikipedia)
• National Geographic, June, 1980 (Living With Orangutans)
• Bookcase Credibility (@BCredibility) (Twitter)
• Lego Treehouse that Matthew and Anna built
• • Here’s a photo of someone else’s copy of the Young Animal poster that Anna mentioned

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 16th we’ll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast! You get to vote!

Then on Tuesday, July 7th we’ll be talking about the genre of Entertainment (Non-Fiction)!

This episode we’re talking about Comfort Reads! We discuss what makes something a comfort read, re-reading books, Animal Crossing, nostalgia, horror movies, problematic faves, listening to music on repeat, and more! Plus: Special guest stars galore!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Comfort Reads Discussed

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Dear Prudence (and the other Slate advice columns)
• Captain Awkward
• Carolyn Hax
• Ask A Manager
• Dear Sugar
• Dumbing of Age by David Willis
• Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran
• YU + ME = Dream by Megan Rose Gedris
• Books by Tamora Pierce
• Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling
• The Others series by Anne Bishop
• Books by Mary Roach
• Books by Sarah Vowell
• Books by David Sedaris
• Get Fuzzy series by Darby Conley
• • Read online
• Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
• • Read online
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 
• Tales from Another Mother Runner: Triumphs, Trials, Tips, and Tricks from the Road edited by Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell
• Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
• • Desert Island Discworld podcast
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

Comfort Reads Mentioned by Our Guests

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Batman: Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean
• Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder
• • Includes Night Highway 99
• Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
• Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
• Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
• The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
• The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Derek Charm, Rico Renzi, and others.
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• Pastwatch series by Orson Scott Card
• Homecoming Saga by Orson Scott Card

• (Thank you to  Inti, Kelsey, Helen, Jean, and Sam!)

Other Media we Mentioned

• Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake
• Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) (Wikipedia)
• Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
• Diablo (Wikipedia)
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)

Books We Discovered Because of the Podcast

• Red Spider White Web by Misha
• Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Links, Articles, and Things

• ASMR (Autonomous sensory meridian response) (Wikipedia)
• HEA stands for “Happily Ever After”
• Audio Cassette Tape Open Close Play Stop by Bertrof
• Episode 089 - Other People’s Faves (that we do not like)
• The Besties Podcast: Animal Crossing New Horizons will save us all!

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Fiction.

Then on Tuesday, June 16th we’ll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast! You get to vote!

This episode we’re discussing non-fiction Library and Information Studies books! We talk about how useful we find webinars, reading things for our jobs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comic books, digital preservation, difficulties accessing digital material through libraries, feminist pedagogy, debunking misinformation, how we track articles and things we want to read, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Recommend

• “Smelly Knowledge”: An Information Audit of the Sunnydale High Library in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rebecka Sheffield
• • “Computer’s don’t smell”
• Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries edited by Olivia Piepmeier and Stephanie Grimm
• The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation by Trevor Owens
• Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi
• The Debunking Handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky
• • Download

Other Learning Objects We Mentioned

• Jbrary
• Storytime Underground
• Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out edited by K.R. Roberto
• Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front edited by K.R. Roberto
• Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators by Char Booth
• In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves by Fobazi Ettarh
• New Librarians and the Practice of Everyday Life by Alison Elizabeth Skyrme and Lisa Levesque
• The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness: An Empathy-Driven Approach to Solving Problems, Preventing Conflict, and Serving Everyone by Ryan J. Dowd
• • Website
• Reading Picture Books With Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See by Megan Dowd Lambert

Links, Articles, and Things

• Library and information science (Wikipedia)
• Matthew’s Google Scholar account
• Matthew’s ORCID account (lists more publications than Google Scholar)
• GNCRT / ALIA Crossover Event: Comics Librarians Talk Shop Across the World (Webinar Matthew was in)
• Literary Fiction Readers' Advisory with Meghan Savage at RA in a Half Day 2014 (preview for next month’s episode)
• BCLA Readers’ Advisory Interest Group
• Library Juice Press
• critlib.org (Critical Librarianship)
• Various superhero characters (all Wikipedia)
• • Tyroc
  • Blade
  • Storm
  • Batgirl
  • Barbara Gordon
  • Gwenpool
  • Gwen Stacy
  • Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider
  • Deadpool
• FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) (Wikipedia)
• Feminist pedagogy (Wikipedia)
• ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
• GLAM (industry sector) (Wikipedia)
• Episode 054 - How We Ended Up Working in Libraries

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 19th when we’ll be talking about Comfort Reads!

Then on Tuesday, June 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Fiction!

We’re talking about Books and Stuff! Yes, it’s time for one of our occasional “media we actually enjoyed” episodes. We talk about baking, sentient suits of armour, short stories, webcomics, podcasts, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things we Recommend

• The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (archive.org link to story)
  • Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas
• Delicious in Dungeon, vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman
• The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
  • Webcomic version
• Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer 
  • Webcomic version
• The Sandman, vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Todd Klein 
• Saturday by Oge Mora
• À qui la frite ? by Chloé Varin
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark
• Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard 
• Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
• Simon and Martina (YouTube)
• Reply All, episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit
• 99% Invisible, episode 389: Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out
  • Who Let The Dogs Out documentary trailer
• Mango Languages (check for access through your local library’s website!)
• Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren
• When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
• Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
  • Download a free PDF!

Other Media we Mentioned

• Get Ready For This by 2 Unlimited 
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)
• I Tried Making DOOM Armor Out of Foam (Doom X Animal Crossing cosplay)
• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia)
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
• Second Life (Wikipedia)
• Scott Pilgrim, vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Links, Articles, and Things

• Dark dining (Wikipedia)
• Martian Manhunter (Wikipedia)
• Kill Bill Ironside Siren Sound
• Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List
  • Submit a nomination
• Folk games in Animal Crossing (Twitter thread)
• Shing Yin Khor’s Animal Crossing art installations
• Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present”

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 5th it’s our 100th episode when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Libraries and Information!

Then on Tuesday, May 19th we’ll be talking about Comfort Reads! 

This episode we’re talking about Historical Fiction! We discuss how far in the past something has to be before it counts as historical fiction, whether reading fiction is supposed to be enjoyable, anachronisms and inaccuracies (both purposeful and accidental), and historical pandemics. Plus: Someone’s power goes out half way through the recording!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read

• The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• • Review in The Guardian
• Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• Cut to the Quick by Kate Ross
• Tom Thomson, esquisses du printemps by Sandrine Revel
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
• Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• • Lavinia (Wikipedia)
• Tidelands by Philippa Gregory

Other Media We Mention

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon
• After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
• Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and Emilee Denich
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Wikipedia)
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson
• The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
• The Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell
• Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
• Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot, Bryan Talbot, and Kate Charlesworth
• The Witches of New York by Ami McKay 
• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

Links, Articles, and Things

• Why people are turning to pandemic fiction to help process the Covid-19 crisis
• Crash Course in Historical Fiction (Webinar)
• • Webinar Slides
• Plagues, Witches, and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction (Coursera course)
• Historical Novel Society - Defining the Genre
• COVID-19 Myths, Debunked (comics!) by Whit Taylor and Allyson Shwed
• Why historians should write fiction

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 21st when we’ll let you know about Other Media We’ve Been Enjoying!

Then on Tuesday, May 5th it’s our 100th episode and we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Libraries and Information!

This episode we’re talking about Objectifying Books! We discuss how books make the places we live feel like homes, how and when we give away books, paperbacks vs hardbacks, judging books by their covers, book smells, arranging bookshelves, fake books, books as design elements, what we use as bookmarks, the underpants of a book, and more. 

 Plus: What we do with books that misbehave!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mention

• Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men (podcast)
• X-Statix Omnibus by Peter Milligan, Mike Allred, and others (Amazon says it’s 3.5 Kg / 7.8 pounds)
• Books on my shelf that I have not read by Anna Ferri
• Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
• The Wild Swans by Thomas Aquinas Maguire (blog post)
• • The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen (Wikipedia)
• Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers
• The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Runaways, Vol. 8: Dead End Kids by Joss Whedon, Christina Strain, and  Michael Ryan
• • A different cover
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

Links, Articles, and Things

• Todd Klein talks about lettering Sandman and other Neil Gaiman comics
• In Defense of Dots: The lost art of comic books (original comic colours vs reprints)
• Colour In Reprints (more about comic colouring and reprints)
• Filling up the tower of books - Rintala Eggertsson’s ‘Ark’ book tower
• Book and Bed Tokyo
• Books published per country per year (Wikipedia)
• Dust jacket (Wikipedia)
• With Romance Novels Booming, Beefcake Sells, but It Doesn’t Pay (article about romance novel cover models)
• How Publishing’s Floral-Print Trend Came to Rule the World’s Bookshelves
• Design: Don't judge a book by its cover, particularly in France
• Bare Necessities: The Tale of the French Cover

Questions

• Do you keep books after you read them?
• Do you buy books to give to people?
• How do you organize your bookshelves?
• What do you do with dust jackets?
• Will you write us a rap to perform in episode 100? Please do!

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Historical Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, April 21st we’ll be talking about recent media we’ve read, watched, or listened to.

In this episode we’re talking about Climate Change and Climate Crisis Non-Fiction! We talk about being depressed, capitalism, actions individuals can take, and more! Plus, we ask the important question: Are scientists people?

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Helen Brown

Things We Read

• Un autre regard sur le climat by Emma
• On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
• The Climate Report: National Climate Assessment-Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States by US Global Change Research
• UN’s IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees of Global Warming 
• SOS: What You Can Do to Reduce Climate Change by Seth Wynes 
• Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
• History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times by Mary Francis Berry
• UN’s IPCC Climate Change and Land report
• Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health by Jay Lemery, Paul Auerbach

Other Media We Mention

• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
• Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
• The 2019 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Ensuring that the Health of a Child Born Today is not Defined by a Changing Climate  
• The EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health: Reports on global food resources and the planetary health diet 
• Science Council of Canada reports:
• • Report no.16: It Is Not Too Late Yet
  • Report no. 27: Canada as a Conserver Society: Resource Uncertainties...

Links, Articles, and Things

• Helen’s Climate Change and Climate Crisis Reads spreadsheet
• Global Weirding by Katharine Hayhoe 
• • Helen says : “I should have mentioned these videos created by a climate scientist that are actually really nice and not depressing to watch. Watching Dr. Hayhoe is a very nice, friendly way to absorb climate science. She also does many interviews, writes articles, and is very active on Twitter.”

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 17th we’ll be talking about Objectifying Books!

Then on Tuesday, April 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Historical Fiction!

This episode we're discussing Ratings, Reviews, and Tags! We talk about subject headings, our most used tags, malicious metadata, how we use star-based rating systems, the value we see in bad reviews, art styles that are morally wrong, and more!

Plus: A data-driven analysis to find the most unfinished book on Goodreads!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mention

• My Ideal Bookshelf edited by Thessaly La Force 
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Guillermo del Toro’s Penguin Horror line
• Yotsuba&!, Vol. 11 by Kiyohiko Azuma
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Links, Articles, and Things

• Folksonomy (Wikipedia)
• Tag (metadata) (Wikipedia)
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (Wikipedia)
• BiblioCommons (Wikipedia)
• OverDrive (Wikipedia)
• Hoopla (Wikipedia)
• BoardGameGeek’s list of top games
• Scarleteen | Sex Education For The Real World
• Spider Reviews by Jenny Nicholson 
• Bic Pens 'For Her' Get Hilariously Snarky Amazon Reviews 

What are the most unfinished books according to Goodreads?*

1. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
8. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

*Based upon the top 50 most tagged titles from these shelves. Data taken on 2020-01-20. 

• abandoned
• couldn't finish
• did not finish
• didn't finish
• dnf
• gave up
• gave up on
• never finished
• unfinished

(I missed “not finished”.)

Here’s the spreadsheet if you want to see the other titles.

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 3rd we’ll be discussing Non-Fiction Climate Change books!

Then on Tuesday, March 17th we’ll be talking about Objectifying Books!

It’s time for our Summer Media Update! We’re talking about podcasts, videos, books, comics, games and more that we’ve recently enjoyed! We discuss Balatro, Carter Vail, Catwoman, and beading!

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Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

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Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Meghan
  • Carter Vail -The Dirt Man 
    • Bonus: If I was fish 
  • The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
    • The Coode Street Podcast Episode 649: Nghi Vo and The Brides of High Hill
  • In the Palace of Shadow and Joy by D.J. Butler
• Anna
  • The Hoof GP (NOT for the squeamish)
  • Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett
  • Making tiny little beaded fruits :)
    • Any round beaded fruit (Apple, watermelon, orange, pear) from TOMO Handicraft - super easy start point! Use larger center beads and just add 1 or 2 more small beads per row to make the watermelon.
    • Little Cherries from Tezukuri Notes! - I just make the fruit, not the jewelry, but it’s easy and a good next step.
    • Larger Cherries from Tezukuri Notes! - this is the one I kept counting wrong. You can make the berries into any round fruit - I add a stem and leaf based on what I learned from other videos to make an apple and it looks great. I also leave out the center bead apples. But if you are going to make cherries, watch the video all the way through first!
    • Orange (or other round fruit) from Tezukuri Notes! - I tried this one first and it came out ugly. But now that I have done a bunch more and learned better practices, I am going to go back to try it again.
    • Next up - bananas and watermelon slices!
    • (There’ll be a photo of Anna’s project jar of beaded fruits on our Discord Server!)
  • The unsettling universe of ASMR restocking videos (plus the various commentary on them). I always watch them feeling like there is something foundational about the modern American (aspirational) middle class mental landscape represented there, and I am uncomfortably mesmerized by it.
• Jam
  • TV Chef Fantasy League (podcast)
    • TVCFL on youtube
  • Kill James Bond (podcast)
    • KJB Highlights on youtube
  • Balatro (video game)
    • Balatro’s ‘Cursed’ Design Problem (video)
  • Slow AF Run Club by Martinus Evans
• Matthew
  • The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
  • Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang
  • Soara and the House of Monsters, vol. 1 by Hidenori Yamaji
  • Orcs! The Legend by Christine Larsen

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Hark! Podcast
• Perc - Imperial Leather (The track Matthew’s coworker said was “a lot.”)
• She Past Away - Durdu Dünya (The track Matthew said was “listenable.”)
• A bunch of cooking shows Matthew is too tired to find Wikipedia articles for.
• Um, Actually hosted by Ify Nwadiwe
• Philosophy Tube
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Links, Articles, and Things

• Trader Joe’s (Wikipedia)
  • Pirate Joe’s (Wikipedia) (The bootleg Trader Joe’s that used to exist in Vancouver.)
• American Manga Awards (Winners to be announced August 22nd.)

13 Bizarro Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Elaine by Ben Arzate
• Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral 
• She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin
• The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert by Rios de la Luz
• Technicolor Terrorists by Andre Duza
• Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez & Mark Williams
• Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
• Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones
• Not Seeing Is A Flower by Erhu Kome
• Wet and Screaming by Shane McKenzie
• Jah Hills by Unathi Slasha
• Notes from the Guts of a Hippo by Grant Wamack
• Vegan Zombie Apocalypse by Will-vary
  

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 3rd when it’s time for episode 200 and we’ll be talking about Library fiction!

Then on Tuesday, October 1st we’ve decided to celebrate 200 episodes with the first of four genres we picked. We’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s supernatural horror westerns.)

This month we’re reading the genre of Chick Lit Romance. Does it exist and if so, what should it be called? Plus: The poor portrayal of library jobs in fiction, not being able to connect with people in novels who are desperate to get married, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), World of Warcraft romances, post-feminist fiction, picking books based on the cover, and more!

(Our apologies for use of the word "real" in relation to biological families in this episode. Adopted families are real families too.)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read

• Dear Emma by Katie Heaney
• When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
• • ‘When Katie Met Cassidy’ Is The Lesbian Chick Lit Romance Of The Summer
• The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
• Lost and Found Sisters by Jill Shalvis 
• Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas
• Almost Single by Advaita Kala
• • India's Cheeky 'Chick Lit' Finds an Audience 
• Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
• Under the Table by Stephanie Evanovich

Other Media We Mention

• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 
• The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
• Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• The Red Satin Collection by Giselle Renarde
• Casper Gets His Wish by R. Cooper (gay elf romance)
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• • "Laura was, is, a lawyer, although when I met her she was a different kind of lawyer to the one she is now: then, she worked for a legal aid firm (hence, I guess, the clubbing and the black leather motorcycle jacket). Now, she works for a City law firm (hence, I guess, the restaurants and the expensive suits and the disappearance of the spiky haircut and a previously unrevealed taste for weary sarcasm) not because she underwent any kind of political conversation, but because she was made redundant and couldn't find any legal aid work.”
• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Links, Articles, and Things

• Romance is publishing’s most lucrative genre. Its biggest community of writers is imploding (article about RWA/Romance Writers of America)
• Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group)
• Chick Lit (French Wikipedia)
• Smart Bitches Trashy Books - Bookfinder results for Chick Lit
• Collection Development "Chick Lit": Hip Lit for Hip Chicks (Library Journal)

• What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside by Lucinda Rosenfeld

• Drunk Booksellers Podcast: Ep 13: Bea & Leah Koch, The Ripped Bodice
• New adult fiction (Wikipedia)
• Sexy Lamp Test

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 18th we’ll be talking about ratings, reviews, and tagging systems for books.

Then on Tuesday, March 3rd we’ll be discussing Climate Change Non-Fiction!

This episode we’re talking about our 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions! We discuss how we are bad at reading resolutions, loot boxes filled with books, giving up books two pages from the end, setting aside time to read, reading bingo, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards 

Media We Mention

• Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson
• All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor 

Links, Articles, and Things

• Translated books subscription Meghan didn't buy
• Popular DNF books on Goodreads
• 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions Bingo Square
• Bullet Journal (Wikipedia)
• Hark! The Holiday Music Podcast
• Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
• Romance is publishing’s most lucrative genre. Its biggest community of writers is imploding

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 4th when we’ll be discussing the romance subgenre of Chick Lit!

Then on Tuesday, February 18th we’ll be playing a Readers’ Advisory themed Dungeons and Dragons adventure!

This month we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Arts! We discuss “capital-A” art, creating, consuming, and destroying art, library hold-list hacks, Video Game Club for Masochists, woo woo, and scraping ideas off of the sides of artist Faraday cages.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Kaya Fraser

Things We Read

• Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter
• Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Gorey's Worlds by Edward Gorey
• Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey by Karen Wilkin
• Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
• La Bande Dessinée by Benoît Mouchart

Other Media We Mention

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud 
• The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
• • Graphic Annotations of China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• • Girl with a Pearl Earring painting by Johannes Vermeer (Wikipedia)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
• Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)
• • Krobus: “He is a shadow person who lives in the sewers.”
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Halo (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• Book Club for Masochists
• • Episode 003 - Technology (non-fiction)
  • Episode 064 - Video Games
• Trailer for Take Me (a short film Matthew’s mom wrote)
• The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
• Three Books From The Fantod Press by Edward Gorey (are they zines? Maybe?)
• Redburn: His First Voyage by Herman Melville
• • This is the one with the cover by Edward Gorey featuring some sailors
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, illustrated by Edward Gorey
• Dracula (1924 Play) > 1977 Revival (Featuring art design by Edward Gorey)
• Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
• Real Artists Have Day Jobs: (And Other Awesome Things They Don't Teach You in School) by Sara Benincasa
• Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality by Drew Hayden Taylor
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Creative Independent
• The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo
• The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey
• The Coasters - Searchin’ 
• • Wikipedia article on the song

Links, Articles, and Things

• Paradise, Nevada (Wikipedia)
• • “Paradise is an unincorporated town” (it’s for tax reasons, of course…)
• David Datuna (Wikipedia)
• • “Known for: Sculpture, installation; consuming the banana from Comedian”
• Love is in the Bin (Wikipedia)
• • Banksy artwork that was shredded after auction
• Twitter thread from Stephanie about books they read in their art book club
• Shia LaBeouf's extremely loud motivational speech, explained
• Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade (Instagram poetry)
• Matthew’s analysis of the Goodreads top graphic novels of the year
• CinemaSins (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 21st we’ll be talking about our 2020 Reading Resolutions!

Then on Tuesday, February 4th we’ll be discussing the romance subgenre of Chick Lit!

It’s our Best of 2019 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2019, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Bizarro Fiction to True Crime) and the best of everything else we read. Join us!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Favourite Non-Fiction read in 2019:

• For the podcast: 
• • Anna: 
  • • Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
    • The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma
    • • Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction
  • Matthew: 
  • • The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill
    • • The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
  • RJ: 
  • • I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
    • • Episode 080 - True Crime
  • Meghan: 
  • • The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

• Not for the podcast: 
• • Matthew: 
  • • You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
    • • AI Weirdness blog
      • Twitter thread including neural net generated smut titles - Featuring “Sex Tongs” and “The Nutwoble Resort”
  • RJ: 
  • • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
  • Meghan: 
  • • How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
  • Anna:
  • • They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Favourite Fiction read in 2019:

• For the podcast
• • RJ:
  • • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 
    • • Episode 086 - American Gothic
  • Meghan: 
  • • Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
    • • Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
  • Anna: 
  • • Gutshot by Amelia Gray
    • • Episode 074 - Short Story Collections
  • Matthew:
  • • Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe

• Not for the podcast
• • Meghan: 
  • • All Systems Red by Martha Wells
  • Anna: 
  • • Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Matthew: 
  • • Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
  • RJ: 
  • • Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson

Favourite other stuff from 2019:

• Meghan: 
• • Au-dela des limites: L'histoire des sports en fauteuil roulant by Judith Lussier and Donald Royer
  • Les petits garcons by Sophie Bédard
• Matthew:
• • Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
  • Lego Rewind
  • • Lego Rewind Ep.20- Halloween Special
• RJ: 
• • A Tour of My Plants by Jenna Marbles
• Anna: 
• • SciShow
  • Safiya Nigard
  • Jungle
  • Chvrches
  • Billie Eilish
  • Lizzo
  • Flume
  • Sofi Tukker
  • King Princess
  • The Dø
  • Like a Version (triple j)
  • • CHVRCHES cover Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know?' for Like A Version
    • CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar 'LOVE.' for Like A Version

Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast):

• Meghan:
• • The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
  • The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
  • The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu
  • The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus 
  • The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke
  • Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch

• Anna: 
• • The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell
  • For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
  • Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George
  • Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
  • Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely
  • Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll

• Matthew: 
• • Fiction
  • • Clade by James Bradley
    • A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
    • Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
  • Non-Fiction
  • • Thrill-Power Overload: The First Forty Years by David Bishop and Karl Stock
    • Academia Obscura by Glen Wright
    • 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
  • Comics
  • • Hex Vet, vol. 1: Witches in Training by Sam Davies
    • Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman
    • My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
    • Sugar & Spike: Metahuman Investigations by Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely
    • Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt (the first Canadian autobio comic)
    • SP4RX by Wren McDonald (Cyberpunk!)
    • Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
    • O Human Star, Volume One by Blue Delliquanti
    • Hilda and the Mountain King by Luke Pearson
    • Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
    • Coda, Vol. 1 by Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara
    • Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama

• RJ
• • Pokémon Cafe
  • Ghibli Museum
  • I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
  • When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
  • Radishes by Carolyn Nowak (also published in Girl Town)
  • Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings
  • Santa’s Husband by Danielle Kibblesmith & AP Quach

Links, Articles, and Things

• Visual novel (Wikipedia)
• Now Kiss — Love Thyself - A Horatio Story
• Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
• Top Visual Novel games - itch.io
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Ida B. Wells (Wikipedia)
• Hermitude cover Nirvana 'Heart-Shaped Box' for Like A Version Ft. Jaguar Jonze

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art!

Then on Tuesday, January 21st we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2020!

This month we’re discussing Adventure Fiction! We talk about bears (and bear fighting), spies, secret tunnels, robots, survival, thrillers, male romance, geese, pirates, stolen smartphones, shipwrecks, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Robert Hamaker

Things We Read

• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
• • There are ten sequels to this book! And spin-offs!
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• • Muppet Treasure Island - Professional Pirate (featuring Tim Curry)
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
• • Robinsonade (Wikipedia)
• Pirates! by Celia Rees
• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
• • Matthew forgot this bit of the book that he also really hates: 
  • • “We were guaranteed a spread in Ancient American magazine, and maybe a mention in Obscure Academic Quarterly About Indigenous Peoples (circulation: 151 copies worldwide, hidden in college libraries where no one under the age of forty goes expect to make out).”
• The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber
• Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
• • Dirk Pitt (Wikipedia)
  • Sahara (2005 film) (Wikipedia)
  • The photo that RJ shared with everyone
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
• • Rick Riordan Presents (Wikipedia)
  • John Henry (folklore) (Wikipedia)
  • Steel (John Henry Irons) (Wikipedia)

Can RJ find a book in this genre by a trans author?

• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Other Media We Mention

• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
• Conan the Barbarian (Wikipedia)
• The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope Hawkins (Wikipedia)
• The Shadow (Wikipedia)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Wikipedia)
• Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests by Diana Tixier Herald, Wayne A. Wiegand
• The Executioner (Wikipedia)
• Deathlands (Wikipedia)
• The Young Indiana Jones series of kids books
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Ghost Twins Series by Dian Curtis Regan
• The Boxcar Children (Wikipedia) 
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Wikipedia)
• Heinlein juveniles (Wikipedia)
• Indiana Jones (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Tomb Raider (Wikipedia)
• Uncharted (Wikipedia)
• Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 059 - Food and Cooking
• Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction
• Posts from the AI Weirdness blog tagged as “recipes”
• Something Something Soup Something (the “soup or not soup” game)
• "The Lectores Who Read to Cuba's Cigar Rollers"
• Jack London (Wikipedia)
• Adventure fiction (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 17th for our Best of 2019 episode!

Then on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Art!

In this episode we’re talking about Other People’s Faves (that we do not like)! Yes, it’s time for our hot takes and unpopular opinions! We discuss all the pretty spider girls, not finishing books, hate reading, and waiting to read the next book in a series. Plus: Fish venting!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mention (Some of these we like and some of them we do not like…)

• Wanted (2008 film) (Wikipedia)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Wikipedia) - The play we mention
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • The film version (Wikipedia)
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  • The TV version (Wikipedia)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Redwall by Brian Jacques (Wikipedia)
• Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
• Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (Wikipedia)
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett (Wikipedia)
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Murakami off reading lists in New Jersey 

• Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna
• • The Not Very Merry Pout Pout Fish Rap
• The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld (this is a book that is actually recommended!)
• Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory
• Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

Links, Articles, and Things

• S. R. Ranganathan’s Five laws of library science (Wikipedia)
• “Just thinking about the time I talked mad shit about good ol Jimmy Patterson…”
• • The story about only owning one book.
• CliffsNotes (Wikipedia)
• 21 Books You Don’t Have to Read
• • The Dracula live-tweet thread (read this!)
• Tom King (Wikipedia)
• Orson Scott Card (Wikipedia)
• • “Card has publicly declared his support of laws against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage.”
• Episode 052 - Separating the Art from the Artist
• Judge Dredd (Wikipedia)
• • The movie
• “Using twitter is just microdosing anxiety”
• Don Cherry (Wikipedia) 
• "cryptic horror nightmare country" (Twitter thread)
• HARK! The Holiday Music Podcast

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the fiction genre of Adventure Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, December 17th it’s our Best of 2019 episode!

This month we’re discussing Psychology! We discuss psychedelics, rodent-based experiments, citations and footnotes, and books that turn out to be not what we expected. Plus: Why some of us don’t eat cephalopods! 

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Amanda Wanner

Things We Read

• How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
• • Not the Monty Python guy, that’s Michael Palin
• Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton
• How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron
• • To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This (New York Times article)
• Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman
• How Dogs Think: What the World Looks Like to Them and Why They Act the Way They Do by Stanley Coren
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
•  The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Other Media We Mention

• The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton
• Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee 
• The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• My Own Devices: Essays From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa
•  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction
• Oliver Sacks (Wikipedia)
• Michael Murray (Google Scholar) - Matthew’s dad
• Jean Piaget (Wikipedia)
• XKCD - Purity - "sociology is just applied psychology" 
• SF Masterworks (Wikipedia) - The ones with yellow covers

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 19th we’ll be discussing Other People’s Favourites!

Then on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the genre of Adventure Fiction.

Good evening, and welcome to The Midnight Library! Please enjoy this special spooky bonus poetry episode, just in time for Halloween! 

Featuring

Matthew Murray | Meghan Whyte | RJ Edwards | Anna Ferri

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

Music: 

• Grand Toccata And Fugue In D Minor pt.1 by by Johann Sebastian Bach Performed by Pattman, G. T. on the Liberal Jewish Synagogue Organ, St. John's Wood, London
• • Here’s part two!

Samples:

• Thunder3 by Josh74000MC
• Attic door creaking by jymdavis
• Cardboard Box Opening by Coral_Island_Studios
• DoorCreaking11 by Zabuhailo
• BUSSATA (door knocking) by gambler9
• Chiming clock by urupin
• Vinyl record needle static by joedeshon
• Wind space howling effect  by alexkandrell

(I think that's all of them...)

Next Week on Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast:

Join us again on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!

 Then on Tuesday, November 19th we’ll be discussing Other People’s Favourites!

This episode we’re discussing the topics of Suspending Your Disbelief and Trick or Treaters’ Advisory (e.g. Halloween costumes)! We discuss how we read realistic fiction differently from more outlandish fiction, characters acting out of character, super selfish teenagers, and how many costume elements we have in our closets. Plus: We’re confused by people who choose not to read fiction!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

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• We hit 50,000 total downloads!
• Tell us your favourite episode! Either through email or social media!
• Win a sticker! (And a book?)

Media We Mention

• Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia)
• The Hunger Games (series) (Wikipedia)
• Gotham Academy (Wikipedia)
• The Goddess of Fireflies by Geneviève Pettersen
• Mr. Dressup (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Suspension of disbelief (Wikipedia)
• Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries
• Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir
• Hark! Episode 238: It’s December 22nd, FYI - (When is) Hanukkah This Year
• The Baby-Sitters Club (Wikipedia) - The first 35 novels were written by Ann M. Martin but later volumes were written by ghostwriters using her name.
• Carolyn Keene (Wikipedia) - Collective pseudonym used for Nancy Drew novels
• Franklin W. Dixon (Wikipedia) -  Collective pseudonym used for the Hardy Boys novels
• The evolution of Harley Quinn (infographic) - Her various costumes in comics and other media up to 2015
• Harley Quinn Evolution in Comics - Her various costumes in comics up to 2019
• The Suck Fairy
• Cap and bells (Wikipedia)
• Schnappi Das Kleine Krokodil

Costume Inspiration

• Cultural Appropriation at Halloween: My Culture Is Not a Costume
  
• Students Teaching About Racism in Society Halloween Poster Campaigns
• Photos of us in costumes!
• Barbarella (film)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Red Knight (Alice Through the Looking Glass)
• Cthulhu
• Tintin (The Adventures of Tintin)
• Quintin Quire (X-Men)
• Girl Genius
• Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)
• Eternal Scout (Welcome to Night Vale)
• Taako (The Adventure Zone)
• Tiger Millionaire (Steven Universe)
• WorldCat
• Untitled Goose Game
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
• What are your favourite costumes?

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!

Then on Tuesday, November 19th we’ll be discussing Other People’s Favourites!

This month we’re discussing American Gothic! We discuss old creepy houses, weird families, cultural context, potential supernatural, the sense of unease, and media that makes you feel emotions. Plus: You’ve inherited a haunted decaying space station.

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In this episode

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Jessi F

Things We Read

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
• Bonavere Howl by Caitlin Galway
• Florence & Giles by John Harding
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
• Vlad by Carlos Fuentes
• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
• • the Mountain Goats (Wikipedia)
  • This Year (music video)
  • Sax Rohmer #1 (music video) (this is the one sampled in the episode)
• Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds
• Gothic Tales of Haunted Love by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko
• • Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures (Kickstarter)

Other Media We Mention

• Hellboy by Mike Mignola
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• Vampire: The Masquerade (tabletop game)
• American Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• • The real place!
• The Addams Family by Charles Addams (Wikipedia)
• Scooby-Doo
• Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men - 261 – Out of the Subtext, Live from FlameCon with Vita Ayala!
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• Edgar Allan Poe (Wikipedia)
• • The Black Cat
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Raven
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
• Ghosts of Mars (Wikipedia)
• Betrayal at House on the Hill (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 002 - Gothic Literature
• Episode 049 - Southern Gothic
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Wuxia (Chinese martial arts novels) 
• The Providence Athenæum

New genres we made up

• Latin American Gothic
• Space Gothic

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 15th we’ll be discussing suspending our disbelief when it comes to fiction plus we’ll talk about literary-themed Halloween costumes!

Then on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Psychology!

This episode we’re discussing the romance(?) genre(s?) of Yaoi, Danmei, and BL. We talk about tropes, themes, shelving, not understanding fiction from other cultures, and more! Plus: We probably make a bunch of mistakes.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

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Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Little Mushroom, vol. 1: Judgment Day by Shisi
• Stars of Chaos, vol. 1 by Priest
• Thousand Autumns, vol. 1 by Meng Xi Shi, translated by Faelicy
• The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
• Only the Flower Knows, vol. 1 by Rihito Takarai, translated by Kimiko Kotani
• The Cat Proposed by Dentō Hayane
• 10 Dance, vol. 1 by Satoh Inoue
• My Love Mix-Up!, vol. 1 & vol. 2 by Wataru Hinekure and Aruko, translated by Jan Cash
• Given, vol. 1 by Natsuki Kizu
• The Snake Who Loved a Sparrow by Nna Natsuo, translated by Katie Kimura
• BL Metamorphosis, vol. 1 by Kaori Tsurutani, translated by Jocelyne Allen
• No. 6, vol. 1 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino
• MabuSasa, vol. 1 by Nanase

Other Media We Mentioned

• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, vol. 1 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, translated by Suika
• Manner of Death by Sammon, translated by Patcharida Chaowalit
• Heartstopper, vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
• Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
• Fence, vol. 1  by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad
• Check, Please!, vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu
• Gravitation by Maki Murakami (Wikipedia)
• They Both Die at the End  by Adam Silvera
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wikipedia)
• Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
• Circulating Ideas episode 268: That Night in the Library by Eva Jurczyk – Summer Reading Spectacular

Links, Articles, and Things

• Yaoi (Wikipedia)
• Yaoi fandom (Wikipedia)
• Danmei (Wikipedia)
• Boys' Love: The History and Transformation of BL in Asia
• Intro to ”BL with AKIKO” : Who is Akiko and why is scanlation bad?
• Clamp (manga artists) (Wikipedia)
• Yuu Watase (Wikipedia)
• Wuxia (Wikipedia)
• Queerbaiting (Wikipedia)
• Bara (genre) (Wikipedia)
• Sailor Moon: The Complicated Romance of Sailor Uranus & Sailor Neptune
• Tiny Tails, Big Adventure | Bloomburrow Official Trailer | Magic: The Gathering
• Cardcaptor Sakura (Wikipedia)
• Gravity Falls (Wikipedia)
• Alan Cumming (Wikipedia)
• Eddie Izzard (Wikipedia)
• Yuri (Wikipedia)

31 Yaoi, Danmei, and BL titles available in English

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Many thanks to our guest Kyuu for contributing most of these titles.

Chinese language origin (Danmei)

• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, vol. 1 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, translated by Suika
• Guardian, vol. 1 by Priest
• Heaven Official's Blessing, vol. 1, by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, translated by Suika
• The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
• Little Mushroom, vol. 1: Judgment Day by Shisi
• Peerless by Meng Xi Shi
• The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong, vol. 1, by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, translated by Faelicy
• Stars of Chaos, vol. 1 by Priest
• Thousand Autumns, vol. 1 by Meng Xi Shi, translated by Faelicy

Japanese language origin

• Canis, vol. 1 by ZAKK
• Classmates, vol. 1 by Asumiko Nakamura
• Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, vol. 1  by Yuu Toyota
• The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese by Setona Mizushiro
• The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice by Setona Mizushiro
• Even So, I Will Love You Tenderly by Kou Yoneda
• Hirano and Kagiura, vol. 1 by Shou Harusono, translated by Leighann Harvey
• Manner of Death, vol. 1 by Sammon and Yukari Umemoto, translated by Emma Schumacker (adapted from Thai original)
• No Touching at All by Kou Yoneda
• Old Fashioned Cupcake by Sagan Sagan
• Our Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide, vol. 1 by Mone Sorai, translated by Katie Kimura
• Seven Days: Monday–Sunday by Venio Tachibana and Rihito Takarai
• Sasaki and Miyano, vol. 1 by Shou Harusono
• S by Saki Aida and Chiharu Nara
• Tokyo Babylon, vol. 1 by Clamp

Korean language origin

Many Korean language novels and comics are available in English via a subscription or pay-per-chapter model and may not be available to library systems, but we did not want to exclude the breadth of Korean series when so many are legally available in English. Some of these require creating accounts to view.

• Dangerous Convenience Store by 945, translated by Su-a Min
• Hard Boiled Love by Gwendolyn and Huingin
• Opposites Attract by Oryu
• Red Candy by Hanse
• Semantic Error by Angy and J. Soori
• Shutline by KYOU
• Wet Sand by DOYAK

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 20th it’s time for our Summer Media Update! What have we been reading, playing, listening to, etc. over the summer?

Then on Tuesday, September 3rd it’s time for episode 200 and we’ll be talking about Library fiction!

This episode we’re discussing recent media we’ve experienced and enjoyed. We talk Muppets, French pop music, anarchist witches, and in-depth analyses of video game lore. Plus: We talk about some books too!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We’ve Enjoyed

• Anna’s Picks
• • Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley 
  • Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
  • They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Come by Jain (Music Video)
  • I Like (the idea of) You by Tessa Violet (Music Video)
  • Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior: 4th Edition by Donald O. Case and Lisa M. Given
• Matthew’s Picks
• • My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame
  • Academia Obscura by Glen Wright
  • • @AcademiaObscura 
    • Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken by Doug Zongker
  • The Perfect PokéRap by Brian David Gilbert
  • • Unraveled | Absurdly Comprehensive Game Lore
    • Gill & Gilbert playlist
• RJ’s Picks
• • Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled
  • • One Shot podcast: Hearts of Magic, part 1
    • Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands
  • The Muppet Movie (Wikipedia)
  • • The Muppet Movie Trailer 
    • Movin' Right Along (song)
    • Robin the Frog (Muppet Wiki)
  • Critical Role
  • • Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Crystal Palace
• Meghan’s Picks
• • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
  • If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James Hamblin
  • • If Our Bodies Could Talk - The Atlantic
  • On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Other Media We Mention

• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• BLAME! Master Edition, Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• Knights of Sidonia, Volume 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• The Dark Crystal (Wikipedia)
• • The Dark Crystal - Skeksis language
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Wikipedia)
• • Now Streaming Fizzgigs (Anna and Matthew legitimately got more enjoyment watching this video than the amount of the show they actually watched. Does the show get better? Let us know!)
• this video got me a job by Brian David Gilbert
• Monster Factory
• Dice Friends - Trouble in P4RA-DI5E Episode 1 (Paranoia RPG)
• Fuck My Nose Up by HVDES (song)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Chuck Klosterman (Wikipedia)
• Rio Theatre
• Ontario’s interlibrary loan service is running again, but not in Peterborough (Uneven resumption of interlibrary loan in Ontario)
• Changes to Interlibrary Loan Services in Ontario: Details and Frontline Impact for Public Libraries and Patrons 

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Join us again on October 1st when we’ll be discussing the fiction genre of American Gothic!

Then on Tuesday, October 15th we’ll be discussing suspending our disbelief when it comes to fiction plus we’ll talk about literary-themed Halloween costumes!

This episode we’re discussing Political Non-Fiction! We talk about the design of American political books, anarchism, accessing abortion, parliamentarians, when is a comic not a comic, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read (or tried to…)

• Anarchism for Beginners by Marcos Mayer and Sanyú
• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
• • Very Short Introductions
• Order Without Power: An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges by Normand Baillargeon
• On the House: An Inside Look at the House of Commons by Rob Walsh
• 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike by Graphic History Collective and David Lester
• Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
• • Ben Passmore’s comics on The Nib
• The Mental Load: A feminist comic by Emma
• Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics edited by Hazel Newlevant,  Whit Taylor, and O.K. Fox 
• • Pay-What-You-Want PDF!
• The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill

Other Media We Mention

• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask
• My Body Politic by Simi Linton
• Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter Bagge
• Blood: A Very Short Introduction Christopher Cooper
• Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M. Talbot,  Bryan Talbot, and Kate Charlesworth
• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
• Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers edited by Hazel Newlevant 
• The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
• The Game: The Game by Angela Washko
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• LIS Microaggressions zines
• Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS edited by Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho
• The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds by Mike Stanton

Links, Articles, and Things

• Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (Wikipedia)
• • “The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.”
• Why the US drinking age is 21 (Vox)
• The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained (CGP Grey)
• Al Franken (Wikipedia)
• Molly Ivins (Wikipedia)
• David Brooks (Wikipedia)
• Link to the ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Roundtable discussion on “non-fiction comics/graphic novels that are about politics/explain political concepts”
• Joe Sacco (Wikipedia)
• The Nib
• • Join The Inkwell, the membership program by The Nib
• Ku Klux Klan in Canada (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 17th we’ll talk about books and other media we’ve consumed recently.

Then on Tuesday, October 1st we’ll be discussing the fiction genre of American Gothic!

This month we’re reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin! In this episode there are lots of spoilers! We discuss whether or not we enjoy maps in books, grimdark fantasy, protests, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Book We Discussed This Month 

• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• • Map of The Stillness

Other Media We Mention

• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
• A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Links, Articles, and Things

• Dunwich (and other fictional places that H.P. Lovecraft created) are in Massachusetts
• "I make a LOT of maps, and have zero art skills so here's how I do it"
• Grimdark (Wikipedia)
• Hugo Awards (Wikipedia)
• • Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winners
  • Archive of Our Own
  • The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) by Lindsay Ellis
• Pangaea (Wikipedia)
• Colin Kaepernick (Wikipedia)
• U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present) (Wikipedia)
• Tricking readers into acceptance - Blog post by N.K. Jemisin
• Green Ronin To Publish The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game

Book Club Questions

• Bored to Death book club: I’ve Read The Fifth Season, Now What?
• Pingel Sisters: April 2019 Book Club Discussion Questions: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club: Discussion questions for ‘The Fifth Season’

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 3rd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of politics!

Then on Tuesday, September 17th we’ll talk about books and other media we’ve consumed recently.

In this extra special bonus episode Matthew and Anna talk about a spreadsheet for forty minutes. Seriously! They go through all of the *punk subgenres from Stonepunk to Whalepunk and everything in between.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray 

The Spreadsheet

• Timeline of *Punk fiction subgenres

Media Mentioned This Episode

• The Flintstones
• The Far Side
• RRRrrrr!!!
• Krogslist
• • Playlist of all Krog videos
• Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda
• Elfquest
• The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
•  One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
• Carniepunk by Rachel Caine
• Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner 
• Wild Wild West
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic about Superman by Zach Weinersmith
• Fallout (series)
• The Scar by China Miéville
• Tank Girl
• Railsea by China Miéville
• Snowpiercer
• • Why SNOWPIERCER is a sequel to WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
• Mad Max (franchise)
• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi 
• Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig
• Dishonored
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Links, Articles, and Things

• Göbekli Tepe
• Mathematics in medieval Islam
• Rococopunk is not only sillier than Steampunk, it's also more punk
• Aether (classical element)
• Kameron Hurley

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 20th we’ll be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.

Then on Tuesday, September 3rd we’ll be discussing the genre of Political Non-Fiction!

This month we’re reading Steampunk! We talk about the history of the genre, umbrella fights, boring white men, colonialization, graphic novel adaptations, werewolf sex, good vs bad worldbuilding, and Matthew made a spreadsheet and did some math (of course…).

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Discussed This Month 

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
• Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
• Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson,  Bruce Sterling
• Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction edited by Dominik Parisien
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1 by Gail Carriger and Rem

Other Steampunk (or “Steampunk”) Books We’ve Read (or tried to…)

• Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio 
• The Glass Scientists by Sabrina Cotugno
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
• The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng
• • Discussed in Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente 
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
• • Discussed in Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage
• Bronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre
• The Stowaway Debutante by Rebecca Diem
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
• • “If I wanted to read Batman fanfiction, I could probably find better fic on the Internet for free.” - Goodreads review
• The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Other Media We Mention

• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Chap hop
• • Fighting Trousers - Professor Elemental
• The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
• Rat Queens
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

Links, Articles, and Things

• S.S. Librarianship 
• Aether (classical element)
• Timeline of *Punk fiction subgenres
• Fantasy of manners
• Sad Puppies
• Bakka-Phoenix Books - Sci-Fi/Fantasy bookstore in Toronto
• Gaslamp fantasy
• Intro to Speculative Fiction by People of Color
• Atrocities in the Congo Free State

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 20th we’ll be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.

Then on Tuesday, September 3rd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of politics.

This episode we’re talking about the American Library Association’s annual conference and New and Upcoming Books We’re Excited About! We discuss LGBTQ comics, Star Trek, memoirs, and an author who we learn we went to school with.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | Kelsey Ockert | Amie Wright

New and Upcoming Books We Mention

• Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman - Published September 3rd 2019 (Matthew was wrong, it’s being published by Graphic Universe)
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe - Published May 28th 2019
• • Spivak pronoun (including “eir”)
• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix - Paperback published June 25, 2019
• Angels With Blue Faces by Lyra McKee - Published late June 2019
• • Lyra McKee (Wikipedia)
• Guts by Raina Telgemeier - Published September 10th, 2019
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei,  Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker - Published July 16th, 2019
• • Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
  • Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi
• No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant - Published August 20th, 2019
• Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker,  Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene - Published May 21st, 2019
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price - Published August 20th, 2019
• Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman - Published 25th, 2019
• Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel - Published October 8th, 2019
• Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn and Claire Roe - Published October 8th, 2019
• Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender - Published November 12th, 2019
• The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills - Published September 10th, 2019
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow - Published September 10th, 2019
• Counterfeit Girl by Pete Milligan and  Rufus Dayglo - Published June 25th, 2019
• Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton - Published August 6th, 2019 
• Magical Beatdown by Jenn Woodall
• Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir - Published August 6th, 2019 
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Published September 10th, 2019
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - Published September 10th, 2019

Other Books & Media We Mention

• As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
• • Webcomic
• Nonbinary by Melanie Gillman
• • Buy it!
• Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye
• Generations by Flavia Biondi
• Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
• • Matthew talked about this book in Episode 038 - Halloween!
• Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant by Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey
• • Matthew talked about this book in Episode 059 - Food and Cooking
• The Nib
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
• Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Far Beyond the Stars
• • Remembering "Far Beyond The Stars"

Links, Articles, and Things

• 2019 ALA Annual Conference
• S.S. Librarianship 
• HARK! – The Holiday Music Podcast
• Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table
• • Friday Discussion Forum: Social Justice and Comics
• Europe Comics (Wikipedia)
• Matteo Farinella
• You can search through the ALA conference Schedule to find the podcasts, but I can’t seem to link specific to it.
• HiJinx Episode 26: Conference Call
• Zine Pavilion
• Circulating Ideas Episode 161 - Grady Hendrix and Becky Spratford
• Summer Scares Reading Lists
• Graphic medicine
• A Different Booklist

Ideas for Books

• Crow Detective Noir/Detective Crow Adventures
• Magical Girl Supervillian 

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Then on Tuesday, August 20th we’ll be discussing The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin!

This month our genre is True Crime! We discuss bird thieves, rich people, caring more about the stories around the crimes than the crimes themselves, and audiobooks that make us scared to go to bed. Check it out!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
• • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (movie)
  • Noël Coward
  • Edna Ferber
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
• • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
• The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• The Mystery of Mary Rogers by Rick Geary
• The Case of Madeleine Smith by Rick Geary
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• • Letter to the Golden State Killer

Other Media We Mention

• American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
• On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women by Stevie Cameron
• Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women by Katherine McCarthy
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
• The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams
• 30 for 30: A Queen of Sorts (podcast about “ an elaborate baccarat scheme”)
• Treasury of Victorian Murder Series
• Treasury of XXth Century Murder Series
• • The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
• Rashomon (Wikipedia)
• Long Overdue Episode 79: Meta-Podcast

Links, Articles, and Things

• Yellow journalism (Wikipedia)
• Ann Rule (Wikipedia)
• Gregory Peck (Wikipedia)
• Patty Hearst (Wikipedia)
• Kevin Mitnick (Wikipedia)
• Hamburglar strikes again, feasts on $2,000 in meals using customer's McDonald's app (CBC)

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Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?

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Then on Tuesday, August 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Steampunk!

This month we’re discussing Which Book Should We Read? Once a year we pick one title that we all read and discuss. This year we each suggest one title and are asking you to vote for which one we’ll read.

Also discussed: Books & Beverages library displays, The Podcaster’s Dilemma, poetry clocks, touching, smelling, and tasting podcasts, and a fantasy novel that’s a collection of found and fragmentary historical documents.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

The Nominees!

• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Meghan’s pick)
• The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong (RJ’s pick)
• The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden (Anna’s pick)
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Matthew’s pick)
• • (It didn’t win the Hugo in early June 2016, so who knows what happened then.)

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(Shortlists only include books that none of us had read.)

Meghan’s Shortlist

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by by Marlon James
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and  Amelia Nagoski
• She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
  

RJ’s Shortlist

• Little Fish by Casey Plett
• nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon
• Mistakes to Run With by Yasuko Thanh

Anna’s Shortlist

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
• We are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich,
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older

Matthew’s Shortlist

• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
• Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Canada Reads (Wikipedia)
• • Meet the 2019 Combat national des livres contenders - The geographic region that got left out of Le combat des livres was BC
• Epistolary novel (Wikipedia)
• Episode 033 - Legal Thrillers
• • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (the fantasy novel)
• Masquerade, Initiation, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy: N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor in Conversation
• • “I am still not sure what that [Afrofuturism] is,” Jemisin said. “I write what I write; you put whatever label makes you feel comfortable, have fun with it. I would write these stories whether they were getting published or not. […] I don’t have a problem with labeling, as long as it’s not too restrictive or conservative. People do try to hammer me into this little slot, but I don’t let them. I write what I feel like writing.”

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Then on Tuesday, July 16th we’ll be talking about the American Library Association annual conference and books we’re looking forward to in the second half of 2019!

This month our genre is Supernatural Thrillers! We discuss grand dogs, fairies stealing children, Abbott and Costello Meet the Eldritch Abominations, spooky houses, the best celery, whether hackers are supernatural, snuggling lake monsters, reading Wikipedia articles instead of consuming media, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul
• • Meghan’s review
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki
• • The Ring (franchise)
  • Ring (novel series)
  • The Ring, Volume 1 by Misao Inagaki and Hiroshi Takahashi
• The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
• Abbott by Saladin Ahmed,  Sami Kivelä, and Jason Wordie

Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre?

• Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierny
• • The Dreaming
• Drawing Blood by Billy Martin (published as Poppy Z. Brite)

Other Media We Mention

• Loose Time by RJ Edwards
• • Winner of a National Magazine Award for Fiction!
• Stephen King
• The Bishop Files Series by Kay Hooper
• Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (fantasy novel about a lawyer. It’s good!)
• Dean Koontz
• The Curse Workers Series by Holly Black
• • White Cat
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Scooby-Doo
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
• Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito
• • The Enigma of Amigara Fault is collected in Gyo
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
• Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Fireman by Joe Hill
• Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• The Shape of Water
• Abbott and Costello
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Pontianak: “Pontianaks are usually depicted as pale-skinned women with long black hair, red eyes, and white dress smeared in blood, but they are said to be able to take on a beautiful humanly appearance since they prey on men and helpless people.”
• Penanggalan: “a detached female head capable of flying about on its own. As it flies, the stomach and entrails dangle below it, and these organs twinkle like fireflies as the Penanggalan moves through the night.”
• 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith
• Changeling: “A changeling was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies.”

Ideas for Books

• The Corpse/Ghost With Good Taste
• (A good book about) a trans woman fighting monsters with a pickaxe in one hand and a pirate’s cutlass in the other

Questions

• Is “supernatural thriller” more of a movie genre?

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Then on Tuesday, July 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of True Crime!

This episode we talk about Books That Changed Our Lives and Books That Haunt Us. We talk about comics, cooking, problematic faves, what caused us to study what we did in school, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Questions we discuss

• Is there such a thing as a "life-changing book"?
• What do we mean when we use that phrase?
• What distinguishes a "life-changing" book from a "favorite book"?
• Do you have any "life-changing" books?
• Are there any books that haunt you?

Media We Mention

• Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
• Sandman, vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III
• • “Dramatically Different ‘absolute Sandman’ Recoloring Is Absolutely Necessary”
• Hark Podcast
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• • Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
• • Which Baby for the Billionaire? by Tiana Cole (I couldn’t find a book/sitcom/game show just called “Which Baby?!”)
  • Which Witch Is Witch
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Number 6 Fumbles by Rachel Solar-Tuttle
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
• Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible by Madhur Jaffrey
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• • Episode 006 - Books in Translation
  • Dark Souls
• Deerskin by Robin McKinley
• • The Girl Without Hands
• Cul de Sac: This Exit by Richard Thompson
• How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
• Bitch (magazine)
• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators by Char Booth
• Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Links, Articles, and Things

• Rural book borrowing in peril as libraries slam PC budget cuts

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Then on Tuesday, June 18th we’ll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast!

This episode we’re discussing the genre of Law & Legal Non-Fiction (for the layperson)! We talk about how so much of our lives are affected by laws, the challenges of reading (and understanding) legal non-fiction, and whether a whale is a fish.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Vote for What Book We Should Read!

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back by Madiba Dennie
• Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection by Aaron Schwabach
• Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech? by Daxton Stewart
• Telling it to the Judge: Taking Native History to Court by Arthur J. Ray
• The Law Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
• Wage Slaves by Daria Bogdańska, translated by Hanna Strömberg
• Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett
• Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World by Allan C. Hutchinson

Other Media We Mentioned

• Why I Adopted My Husband: The True Story of a Gay Couple Seeking Legal Recognition in Japan by Yuta Yagi
• Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise
• Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow
• Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
• 5-4 Pod
• LegalEagle (YouTube)
• About Here (YouTube)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Amendments to the Constitution of Canada (Wikipedia)
  • “An Act to amend and continue the Act 32–33 Victoria chapter 3; and to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Manitoba, 1870”
• Crown Copyright (Wikipedia)
• Jaffa Cakes: Legal Status (Wikipedia)
• Circulating Ideas: 261: The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow – Summer Reading Spectacular
• Reproducibility through Identifiers: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for research facilities and instruments (Matthew’s gave this presentation recently)

15 Law and Legal Non-Fiction books by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
• Looking White People in the Eye by Sherene H. Razack
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
• Refugee Law After 9/11: Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the US by Obiora Chinedu Okafor
• Aboriginal™: the Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition by Jennifer Adese
• Peace and Good Order: the Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada by Harold R. Johnson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard
• Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler
• A Matter Of Law: A Memoir Of Struggle In The Cause Of Equal Rights by Robert L. Carter
• America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
• Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture by Randall Kennedy
• Crisis and Command: the History of Executive Power From George Washington to George W. Bush by John Yoo
  

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Then on Tuesday, August 20th it’s time for our Summer Media Update! What have we been reading, playing, listening to, etc. over the summer?

This month we’re reading Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore. We talk about the internet, oral stories, where to start reading superheroes, the problems with incredibly long books, and more!

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Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
• Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm by Varla Ventura
• Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms
• Christmas Customs and Folklore: A Guide to Season Rites by Margaret Baker
• • Hark! Podcast
  • Jingle Bells written by James Lord Pierpont
  • Wassailing
  • Haxey Hood
  • Boggans - Changeling: The Dreaming
  • Snap-dragon (game)
• Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien
• Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head: The Dark Side of Childhood Rhymes and Stories by Liz Evers
• • Ring a Ring o' Roses
• Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec
• Les grandes légendes du Québec : un tour du Québec en 25 récits traditionnels
• Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Marty Crump
• Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan
• Crash Course Mythology
• White as Milk, Red as Blood: The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth translated by Shelley Tanaka and illustrated by Willow Dawson
• • Willow Dawson’s website
• Contes du Nord illustrated by Kay Nielsen
• • Kay Nielsen - 43 artworks

Other Media We Mention

• Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
• PBS Idea Channel
• • How is Slender Man Internet Folklore?
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
• • What If? Website

Links, Articles, and Things

• Kelpie: “malevolent water horses”
• Jack Zipes: “an American academic and folklorist who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales”
• Slender Man
• Creepypasta (just spooked myself out by watching some videos on Petscop…)
• Afrofuturism
• The crew of the Argo
• Folklore of Quebec
• Protein poisoning
• Russian Fairy Tales
• Baba Yaga
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic series) (Sonic News Network wiki)
• Transformers Wiki (read the image captions)

Favourite Folklore/Fairy Tales

• The Girl Without Hands (The Handless Maiden)
• Vasilisa the Beautiful (girl sent to Baba Yaga’s hut)
• The Yule Lads

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Then come back on Tuesday, June 4th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Supernatural Thrillers!

It’s our 75th episode! and we discuss some of our Recent Favourites. We talk about magic in outer space, fiction about dating animals, underground civilizations, jigsaw puzzles, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Jessi

Things We Liked!

Jessi

• The Adventure Zone, vol. 1: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy,  Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
• • The Adventure Zone (podcast)
• Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss by Stephanie Wittels Wachs
• Baba Is You
• • Trailer
  • Counterfeit Monkey (text game about removing letters from words)

Matthew

• Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules by James Sturm, Guy Davis, and Robert Sikoryak
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
• • BioWare: 18% play Mass Effect FemShep
• Dice Friends: Bylaw & Order Episode 1 (D&D game)

Meghan

• Food for Thot (podcast)
• Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch
• You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
• Ottawa Swordplay

Anna

• The Buried Life by Carrie Patel
• Criminal Minds
• • Matthew Gray Gubler
  • The Thrilling Adventure Hour (featuring Beyond Belief)
• The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
• Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi

RJ

• My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris
• Hey Riddle Riddle (podcast)
• Ravensburger 759-Piece Escape Puzzles
• • Arithmomania: “European folklore concerning vampires often depicts them with arithmomania, such as a compulsion to count seeds or grains of millet.”
• I’m the Best! by Lucy Cousins
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Links, Articles, and Things

• Victory by Monplaisir (Celebration music)
• Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: Storytime Song

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 7th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Fairy Tales/Fables/Legends/Myths/Folklore!

Then on Tuesday, May 21st we’ll be discussing books that haunt us and changed our lives!

This episode we’re reading Short Story Collections! We talk about the differences between collections and anthologies, when a short story is too long, futurespeak, and how little Charles Dickens knows about writing. Plus: Accidentally buying Canadians.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
• Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
• Gutshot by Amelia Gray
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by N.K. Jemisin
• Three Deaths by Josip Novakovich
• Fantastic Adventures
• How Long till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
• Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
• Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• • Hark! Episode 212: Strawberry Equinox (with the neck ribbon story)
• Gothic Tales of Haunted Love edited by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko
• Other books Meghan read
• • Useful Phrases for Immigration by May-lee Chai
  • Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories by Chiung-Yu Shih
  • Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya
  • The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada
  • A Manual for Cleaning Women: Collected Stories by Lucia Berlin
  • Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker

Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre?

• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
• Maiden Mother Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes
• Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction

Other Media We Mention

• Hellboy Series
• Itty Bitty Hellboy by Art Baltazar and Franco
• Flight Series
• Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
• Lightspeed Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black
• Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (anthology with a story by RJ!)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Nebula Rules
• • Short Story: less than 7,500 words;
  • Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words;
  • Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 words
  • Novel: 40,000 words or more.
  • Game Writing: An interactive or playable story-driven work which conveys narrative, character, or story background.
• Picaresque novel
• January 1998 North American ice storm

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 16th for our 75th episode when we’ll be discussing other books and media we've been imbibing!

Then come back on Tuesday, May 7th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Fairy Tales/Fables/Legends/Myths/Folklore!