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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	Episode 213 - Found Books	03 Jun 2025	01:00:08
It’s episode 213 and time for us to talk about “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps! We discuss the recently returned book cart, getting books for free, getting rid of books, 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…) Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet Other Media We Mentioned Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Returnal Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier The Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta and Ralph Masiello White Dwarf (Warhammer magazine) Links, Articles, and Things #UBCnoox Meghan’s map Public bookcase (Wikipedia) Little Free Library (Wikipedia) Against Little Free Libraries Vegetarian Peanut Soup Cottage: North America Sudoku (Wikipedia) Paper embossing (Wikipedia) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 1st when we’ll be discussing the genre/format of Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. not prose). Then on Tuesday, July 15th it’s time for our “Battle of the Books!” We’ll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read.
	Episode 212 - Language & Linguistics	06 May 2025	01:06:29
It’s episode 212 and time for us to talk about excellently complicate the non-fiction genre of Linguistics & Language! We discuss 🤔, our academic backgrounds, the power of words, accents, 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…) Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren Other Media We Mentioned 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher Otherwords - Inside the Fiercest Debate in Linguistics Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Marie Hicks, and Kavita Philip What the Font?! - A Manga Guide to Western Typeface by Kuniichi Ashiya Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by Ko Ransom The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondō, translated by Cathy Hirano Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo. You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth. What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat.” -Zack Davisson Eine wie Alaska [Looking for Alaska] by John Green, translated by Sophie Zeitz “I would read it in German, for a few reasons” - John Green Die kleine Fledermaus Wegda by Nanna Nesshöver and Wiebke Rauers Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren, translated by Alison Edwards Links, Articles, and Things Great Vowel Shift (Wikipedia) Lolcat (Wikipedia) Kinokuniya There are four Kinokuniya shops in Texas. Four! Put one in Denver! Abugida (Wikipedia) Episode 209 - Design 15 Language & Linguistics 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. Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Lisa Delpit Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Grammar Matters: The Social Significance of How We Use Language by Jila Ghomeshi A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism by Tomson Highway My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases by Maia Lee-Chin with illustrations by Marta Bertello Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter – Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter The Ecology of Language Evolution by Salikoko S. Mufwene Mâci-Nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree by Solomon Ratt with illustrations by Holly Martin Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Culture by Lee A. Tonouchi Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 3rd when we’ll be discussing “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps. Then on July 1st we’ll be talking about Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. fiction that’s not prose)!
	Episode 211 - Spring Media Update 2025	15 Apr 2025	01:00:12
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! 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 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 Drnk 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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 6th when we’ll be discussing the genre/topic of Linguistics and Language! 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.
	Episode 210 - Romantasy	01 Apr 2025	01:23:41
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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! 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!
	Episode 209 - Design	04 Mar 2025	00:52:13
It’s episode 209 and time for us to talk about the genre of Design! We discuss graphic design, interior design, the line between design and art, fonts, kerning, footnotes, and more! Plus: Anna talks about evidence synthesis and search design! 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…) Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More! by Jennifer Dawe and Matthew Humphries The Wright Style: Re-Creating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright by Carla Lind The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers by Debbie Berne Maker Comics: Design a Game! by Bree Wolf and Jesse Fuchs Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns by Jude Stewart Design: The Definitive Visual Guide Other Media We Mentioned Graphic Wit: The Art of Humor in Design by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson Bear and Breakfast Two Point Campus Cat Cafe Manager 2 Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt Links, Articles, and Things Folio - 019 - immanence 01 - with jam edwards & garbageface aka gnostic front aka karol orzechowski Jam's Pokémon design Kerning River (typography) Ampelmännchen (East German pedestrian walk signal) 16 Design 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 Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating A Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer by Christina Chung Exploring Game Mechanics: Principles and Techniques to Make Fun, Engaging Games by Maithili Dhule Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth by Janice George, Leslie H. Tepper, and Willard Joseph Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Josh A. Halstead, Leslie Xia, Farah Kafei, Kaleena Sales, Ellen Lupton, Valentina Vergara, and Jennifer Tobias Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose : A Designer's Manifesto by Margaret Chandra Kerrison The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble Now You See Me! An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design by Charlene Prempeh Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo by Taku Satoh Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games by Steenz and Samuel Sattin Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 1st we’ll be talking about the genre of Romantasy! Then on Tuesday, April 15th it’s time for our Spring Media Update, as we talk about books and other things we haven’t read for the podcast.
	Episode 208 - 2025 Reading Resolutions	18 Feb 2025	01:02:59
It’s episode 208 and time for us to talk about our Reading Resolutions for 2025! We discuss our love of spreadsheets, the churn of books in public libraries, literacy, unschooling, 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 2025 Goals/Intentions/Etc. Jam Theme of the year: “Cultivation” Use Storygraph instead of Goodreads Jam on Storygraph Maybe put a book on the nightstand so I’ll read it before bed Meghan Subscribe to print reading material Anna Track favourite reads of the year in the spreadsheet Try to figure out why she reads less fiction than she used to Matthew Read every book on fiction to-read list published before the year 2000 Record the “why” when adding books to TBR Other Media We Mentioned Folio podcast Jam’s episode isn’t out yet Immanence British Library Tales of the Weird The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov X-Men Classic Omnibus by Chris Claremont and others Role Models by John Waters Radical Unschooling: We NEED to Talk About This! Sold a Story podcast Links, Articles, and Things Episode 190 - Reading Resolutions and Rants r/AmItheAsshole (Wikipedia) If Books Could Kill (Wikipedia) 50 Recent Short Story Collections 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. For this list of short story collections, we’ve focused on titles published within the past four years. Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda (2024) Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2024) Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat (2024) Your Utopia by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (2024) Green Frog by Gina Chung (2024) Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman (2024) Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima (2024) Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan (2024) Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi (2024) Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (2024) A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo (2024) Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang (2023) Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (2023) Every Drop Is A Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (2023) No One Will Come Back for Us: And Other Stories by Premee Mohamed (2023) Drinking From Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (2023) Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran (2023) Tiger Work by Ben Okri (2023) Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo (2023) Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele (2023) Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian (2023) New Suns 2: More Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl (2023) The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu (2023) Chrysali by Anuja Varghese (2023) Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong (2023) The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon (2023) Girlfriends by Emily Zhou (2023) Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (2022) Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho (2022) God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu (2022) Self-Portrait with Ghost by Meng Jin (2022) The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai (2022) Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (2022) Uncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather (2022) The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae (2022) The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz (2022) Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers (2022) Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (2022) Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi (2022) Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (2022) Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (2022) Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah (2021) Skinship by Yoon Choi (2021) Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning (2021) Eat The Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza (2021) My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (2021) The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado (2021) 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell (2021) Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (2021) Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap (2021) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 4th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Design! Then on Tuesday, April 1st we’ll be talking about the genre of Romantasy!
	Episode 207 - Monster Romance	04 Feb 2025	01:19:24
It’s episode 207 and time for us to talk about the genre of Monster Romance! We discuss what counts as a “monster,” massive hogs, Beautify and the Beast, listening to audiobooks at 3.5x speed, 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…) Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta A Blue Ribbon Romance by C.M. Nascosta Sworn to the Orc by Evangeline Anderson, narrated by Ada Sinclair That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming Strange Love by Ann Aguirre How to Marry a Marble Marquis by C.M. Nascosta Bull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon, narrated by Felicity Munroe and Hiro Diaz Other Media We Mentioned In the Arms of the Spider Hunk by Nova Wrytzwell The Shape of Water (Wikipedia) The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming Mistlefoe by Kimberly Lemming Gargoyles Taken by my TBR: A Sentient Object Story by Holly Wilde Links, Articles, and Things Where To Get Started With Monster Romance 15 Monster Romance Books That Will Make You the Biggest Fan Monster Romance 101 Minotaur Sex: The Best New Smut Genre Bad Dragon (Wikipedia) There are lots of other companies doing similar things Hark! Episode 374: Biblically Accurate Krampus Were\|House - We Try to Date a Kelpie - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel Stream Baba Yaga (Wikipedia) 11 Monster Romance 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. I Married a Lizardman by Regine Abel My Summer Girl by Maeve Black The Captive Merman's Promise by Zoey Castile I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres How to Fail at Avoiding an Alpha Demon by Liz E. Cooper Threads of Fate by Lexi Esme Sasquatch Summer by Talia Greer That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 18th when we’ll be discussing our reading goals and resolutions for 2025! Then on Tuesday, March 4th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Design!
	Episode 206 - Cultural Studies	07 Jan 2025	01:01:00
It’s episode 206 and time for us to talk about the genre of Cultural Studies! We discuss bureaucracy, affluenza, dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons, Batman, The Fast and the Furious, 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…) Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber Clever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregor They Came to Slay: The Queer Culture of D&D by Thom James Carter Affluenza: How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back, 3rd Edition Mutation by John De Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas Naylor Second Language Learning and Identity: Cracking Metaphors in Ideological and Poetic Discourse in the Third Space by Mika Yoshimoto On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies edited by Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratis Other Media We Mentioned Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson Suicide Squad Isekai Dimension 20: Never Stop Blowing Up Links, Articles, and Things Tartan Noir Secret Feminist Agenda Jurassic Park Extreme Championship Wrestling Pyotr Kropotkin Chainmail Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Lambda Literary Awards Girl Dad Press 30 Cultural Studies 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. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib Aboriginal TM: The Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition by Jennifer Adese The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World by Cheuk Kwan Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century by Bianca Mabute-Louie The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics by José Esteban Muñoz Decolonize Hipsters by Gregory Pierrot Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us by Legacy Russell Introducing Cultural Studies by Ziauddin Sardar The Afterlife is Letting Go by Brandon Shimoda Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton Big Brands Are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture by Francesca Sobande Music Is History by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space by Irvin Weathersby Jr. Gaza on Screen edited by Nadia G. Yaqub Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Monster Romance! Then on Tuesday, February 18th we’ll be discussing our reading goals and resolutions for 2025!
	Episode 205 - Favourite Reads (and Media) of 2024	17 Dec 2024	00:58:41
It’s episode 205 and time for us to talk about our favourite reads of 2024! We discuss fiction and non-fiction books we read for the podcast, plus comics, videos, music, 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 Check out Hark! Jam's holiday music podcast! Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence (Episode 200 - Library Fiction) Jam A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking) Matthew The Sixth Gun Omnibus, vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree, and Tyler Crook (Episode 201 - Weird West) Meghan Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Episode 203 - Dark Academia) Not for the podcast Jam Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman Matthew Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard, narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith Meghan When Among Crows by Veronica Roth Anna Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Trailer Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher (Episode 195 - Pop(ular) Culture Non-Fiction) Meghan Telling It to the Judge: Taking Native History to Court by Arthur J. Ray (Episode 197 - Law & Legal Non-Fiction (for the layperson)) Anna Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli (Episode 194 - Indie Publishers) Jam Why I Adopted My Husband: The True Story of a Gay Couple Seeking Legal Recognition in Japan by Yuta Yagi (Episode 192 - Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics) Not for the podcast Meghan Secret Gardens by Jennifer Potter Anna Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett Jam Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus Evans Matthew How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Other Favourite Things of 2024 Anna Cats Buldak Cream Carbonara Go Go Town! Jam Diceomancer “California” by Chappel Roan Galway Food Tour Matthew The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Lissa Treiman Spy x Family by Tetsuya Endo Matthew talked about this and Giant Days in Episode 193 - Spring Media Update Spy x Family / Designer Chairs Meghan Living Small - Laura Fenton (series: Small Takes) BBC: The Secret History of British Gardens with Monty Don Dwell magazine Runner-Ups Jam Books for the podcast Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Episode 204 - Cozy Fantasy) Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (Episode 189 - Romantic Comedies & Humorous Romance) Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (Episode 194 - Indie Publishers) Picture Books I Won’t Give Up My Rubber Band by Shinsuke Yoshitake 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle Games Wingspan (both board & Switch Edition) Crossword puzzles Movies/TV/Video Delicious in Dungeon I Saw the TV Glow Robot Dreams Gastronauts I Want to Tell You About My Favorite Fight Scene Anna River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (Episode 201 - Weird West) Kimiko Does Cancer by Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza (Episode 192 - Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics) Matthew Comics (For series I’m linking to volume ones regardless of what volumes I read or how many I read this year.) Astro City by Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson Blade Runner 2029 by Mike Johnson and Andres Guinaldo Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang Do A Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente Kit + The Wolf by John Allison Lost Cat by Jason Night Cry by Borja González Orcs by Christine Larsen Reckless, vol. 5: Follow Me Down by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Silver by Stephan Franck Of Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly Wang Where The Body Was by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Manga (For series I’m linking to volume ones regardless of what volumes I read or how many I read this year.) A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch by Hiro Kashiwaba Akane-banashi by Yūki Suenaga and Takamasa Moue Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo Blue Period by Tsubasa Yamaguchi Dementia 21 by Shintaro Kago The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai Heavenly Delusion by Masakazu Ishiguro I’m a Terminal Cancer Patient, but I’m Fine by Hilnama Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki Mimi’s Tales of Terror by Junji Ito, Hirokatsu Kihara, and Ichiro Nakayama Okinawa by Susumu Higa Seven Little Sons of the Dragon by Ryoko Kui Sketchy by Makihirochi Soara and the House of Monsters by Hidenori Yamaji Books Fiction A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction By People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian Episode 201 - Weird West Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink edited by John Miller Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang Non-Fiction Anime: A History, 2nd edition by Jonathan Clements Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech? by Daxton Stewart Episode 197 - Law & Legal Non-Fiction (for the layperson) Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman by Pádraig Ó Méalóid Episode 195 - Pop(ular) Culture Non-Fiction The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr Episode 199 - Summer Media Update Video Essays Alpha Protocol Retrospective \| An Extremely Comprehensive Critique and History Reform! X Men Video Game Retrospective \| A Complete History and Review DB2024 - The Taco Bell "Wedding" in Decentraland The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games Meghan French Balcons by Marianne Brisebois (contemporary fiction) Cariacou by Olivier Lussier (poetry, prose) La véritable histoire de la maison mobile des Miller by Dave Eggers (childrens, illustrated) Fiction The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir (horror, translated) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (cosy fantasy, series) The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (supernatural) The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (time travel) The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (horror, vampires) Bride by Ali Hazelwood (supernatural romance) The Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff (horror, series) Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (contemporary) Frontier by Grace Curtis (scifi, western) Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang (horror) The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan (weird, translated, series) The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (scifi, spy thriller) Roaming by Jillian Tamaki by Mariko Tamaki (graphic novel, new adult) Nonfiction Instructions for Travelling West by Joy Sullivan (poetry) Island Home: a Landscape memoir by Tim Winton (essays, memoir, Australian) Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place by Daniel Coleman (essays, history, Canadian) Occult/Mysticism/New Age 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 Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda The Living Tarot: Connecting the Cards to Everyday Life for Better Readings by T. Susan Chang The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance by Asha Frost Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft by Gabriela Herstik Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat The Power Wish: Japan's Leading Astrologer Reveals the Moon's Secrets for Finding Success, Happiness, and the Favor of the Universe by Keiko Spell Bound: a New Witch's Guide to Crafting the Future by Chaweon Koo Spirit Talker: Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mikmaq Psychic Medium by Shawn Leonard Blood Sex Magic: Everyday Magic for the Modern Mystic by Bri Luna Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy by Chris Marmolejo Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color by Lorraine Monteagut Next World Tarot: Pocket Edition by Cristy C. Road The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria Ruelas The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary Talismans For Everyday Life by Jaya Saxena Enchantments: A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession by Mya Spalter Signs & Skymates: the Ultimate Guide to Astrological Compatibility by Dossé-Via Trenou White Magic by Elissa Washuta Tarot of the Divine Handbook: A Guide to Understanding Tarot Symbolism by Yoshi Yoshitani Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Cultural Studies! Then on Tuesday, February 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Monster Romance!
	Episode 204 - Cozy Fantasy	03 Dec 2024	01:06:42
It’s episode 204 and time for us to talk about the genre of Cozy Fantasy! We discuss what makes something cozy, romantasy, breakneck cozy fantasies, how much fantasy people need in their fantasy, 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…) Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell Comparison between US and UK covers Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton Sorcery and Small Magics and Maiga Doocy The Baker & the Bard by Fern Haught Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynn Jones Howl's Moving Castle (film) Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch by Julie Abe Other Media We Mentioned The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Matthew meant “solarpunk” as the genre that this is often described as Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children) The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune Canadian residential school system Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne LoadingReadyRun The House Witch by Delemhach Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu Moonstruck, vol. 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill The Tea Dragon Society Card Game Balatro Links, Articles, and Things What Counts as Cozy Fantasy? In Defense of Low-Stakes Fiction Iyashikei “portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, and is intended to have a healing effect on the audience” 11 Cozy Fantasy 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. VenCo by Cherie Dimaline Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi DallerGut Dream Department Store by Mi-Ye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim The Last Dragon of the East by Katrina Kwan The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Fae’s Bride by R.L. Medina The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 17th it’s time for our “best books of the year” episode! Then, on Tuesday, January 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Cultural Studies!
	Episode 203 - Dark Academia	05 Nov 2024	01:01:16
It’s episode 203 and time for us to discuss the genre of Dark Academia! We discuss aesthetics as genres, cosplaying as academics, anti-intellectualism, the differences between Canadian and American university experiences, 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…) A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Cloisters by Katy Hays The Cloisters (the museum) And He Shall Appear by Kate Van Der Borgh Other Media We Mentioned The Secret History by Donna Tartt Howl's Moving Castle (film) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu Includes “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc” Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Bunny by Mona Awad The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Neuromancer by William Gibson Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake Faust Links, Articles, and Things Dark academia (Wikipedia) Episode 115 - New Weird Kurt Vonnegut Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke University of King's College Sour Patch Kids Magic Circle Bottle episode Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking Skull and Bones Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers Cottagecore 15 Dark Academia by Authors of Colour: 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 POC (People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf Bunny by Mona Awad The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson Babel by R.F. Kuang The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Land of No Regrets by Sadi Muktadir Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the genre of Cozy Fantasy! Then on Tuesday, December 17th it’s time for our “best books of the year” episode!
	Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking	15 Oct 2024	01:03:31
It’s episode 202 and that means it’s time for our One Book One Podcast Battle of the Books episode where we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher! 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 Media We Mentioned A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher The House Witch by Delemhach The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex 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 Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher Tangled Links, Articles, and Things Flogging Molly (based in LA with an Irish lead singer) Dropkick Murphys (the Boston punk band Jam was probably thinking about) Garderobe Don Bluth 15 Erotic Romance 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. Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen Up for Air by Christina Berry If She Says Yes by Tasha L. Harrison The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Being Hospitable by Meka James Cuffed by Candlelight: An Erotic Romance Anthology by Beverly Jenkins Just for the Cameras by Viano Oniomoh Glutton for Pleasure by Alisha Rai Double Pleasure, Double Pain by Nikki Rashan Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman & EA Denich Haven by Rebekah Weatherspoon The Perfect Find by Tia Williams Quarantine and Chill by Kenya Wright Wild Ones by Kristine Wyllys A Taste of Sin by Fiona Zedde Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Dark Academia. Then on Tuesday, December it will be time for our final genre of the year, Cozy Fantasy!
	Episode 201 - Weird West	01 Oct 2024	01:04:21
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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! 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.
	Episode 200 - Library Fiction	03 Sep 2024	01:18:41
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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! 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.
	Episode 199 - Summer Media Update	20 Aug 2024	00:49:45
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! 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 Join our Discord Server! 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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! 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.)
	Episode 198 - Yaoi, Danmei, and BL	06 Aug 2024	01:36:15
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 Join our Discord Server! 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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! 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!
	Episode 197 - Law & Legal Non-Fiction (for the layperson)	02 Jul 2024	01:11:06
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 Give us feedback! Tell us what your favourite library, librarian, or library worker in fiction is! (For episode 200! Vote for What Book We Should Read! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday August 6th when we’ll be talking about the romance genre(s?) of yaoi and danmei! 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?
	Episode 196 - Battle of the Books 2024: One Book One Podcast	18 Jun 2024	00:35:37
This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman, The Seep by Chana Porter, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher, or Inheritance: a Pick-the-path Experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn? You decide! 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 What Book Should We Read? Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman The Seep by Chana Porter A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher Inheritance: a Pick-the-path Experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn Our Long Lists Jam How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis Anna Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price Meghan The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera Matthew Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez Podcast Episodes Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021 Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Episode 154 - Book pitches Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023 Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted Links, Articles, and Things One City One Book (Wikipedia) Canada Reads (Wikipedia) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner INHERITANCE - a "pick-the-path" teaser (YouTube) Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer (YouTube) Inheritance - interview with the playwrights (YouTube) 22 Nature/Outdoor Non-Fiction 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. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham The Urban Birder by David Lindo Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors by Rue Mapp Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura Heartbeat of the Earth: A Handbook on Connecting Children to Nature through Indigenous Teachings by Launa Purcell Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Rae Wynn-Grant An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Vote for which we should read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on July 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Law/Legal Non-Fiction! Then on Tuesday, August 6th we’ll be talking about the romance genres of Yaoi and Danmei!
	Episode 195 - Pop(ular) Culture Non-Fiction	04 Jun 2024	01:00:27
This episode we’re discussing the topic of non-fiction Pop Culture books! We talk about cult classics, the Disney channel, the futch scale, and being Eldritch Millennials. 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 Join our Discord Server! Things We Read (or tried to…) Street Unicorns: Extravagant Fashion Photography from NYC Streets and Beyond by Robbie Quinn Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman by Pádraig Ó Méalóid Part 0: Introduction I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race by María Elena Fernández The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry Note: Anna didn’t have the Disney Channel because she lived in the woods in Alaska. It also did not exist in Canada until 2015. The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson That's So '90s!: A Pop-Cultural Guide to the Raddest Decade by Jo Stewart and Lisa Gillard The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games by Super Eyepatch Wolf Junk Film: Why Bad Movies Matter by Katharine Coldiron Other Media We Mentioned Attack of the New B Movies: Essays on SYFY Original Films edited by Justin Wigard and Mitch Ploskonka Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Garratt and Richard Appignanesi FRUiTS by Shoichi Aoki Wikipedia Miracleman: The Silver Age by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham RuPaul's Drag Race (Wikipedia) The Pit Stop S16 E01 Glee (TV series) (Wikipedia) Euphoria (American TV series) (Wikipedia) Abbott Elementary (Wikipedia) The Simpsons is Good Again by Super Eyepatch Wolf Taskmaster: Series 17, Episode 1 Plan 9 from Outer Space (Wikipedia) Every Frame a Painting Links, Articles, and Things Follow our Twitch channel! Jam and Matthew will be streaming Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp on Saturday, June 8th at 3pm PT/6pm ET. Jam made an image to promote it. Jam’s Top Ten Video Essays About Media They Haven’t Experienced Mood board (Wikipedia) Blockbuster (Wikipedia) Walkman (Wikipedia) Milk caps/Pogs (Wikipedia) Tamagotchi (Wikipedia) Webring (Wikipedia) Which Pokémon are the most goth? 20 Pop Culture 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. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame edited by Jennifer Adese & Robert Alexander Innes The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture by Zeba Blay The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History by Jeff Chang & Dave Cook Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris Leslie Fcking Jones by Leslie Jones K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television by Grace Jung Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life edited by Alina Pete Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong by Katie Gee Salisbury First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game by Nadirah Simmons Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith Making a Scene by Constance Wu Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, & Philip Wang Give us feedback!* Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 18th when it’s time once again for One Book One Podcast as we each pitch a book we think we should read and you (the listeners) get to vote! Then on Tuesday, July 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Law/Legal Non-Fiction!
	Episode 194 - Indie Publishers	07 May 2024	01:05:14
This episode we’re discussing the topic(?) of Indie Publishers! We talk about how to define an indie publisher, weirdo metro stories, song lyrics, 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 Join our Discord Server! Things We Read (or tried to…) Trial of the Clone: An Interactive Adventure! by Zach Weinersmith and Chris Jones Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante Songs of Love, Death and Pleasure by Hazel Jane Plante Video of the reading that Jam bought their books at last year! A Short Journey by Car by Liam Durcan Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power by Rebecca Solnit Of Thunder & Lightning by Kimberly Wang Other Media We Mentioned What About Crowdfunded Comics? by Matthew Murray 🦇 and Mara L. Thacker Podcast version How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley When I Arrived at the Castle by E. M. Carroll Boy Island by Leo Fox Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett Links, Articles, and Things Image Comics (Wikipedia) Creative Commons SkyTrain (Vancouver) (Wikipedia) Oulipo (Wikipedia) Podcast episode where one host tries not to say the letter “e” Denver Small Press Fest Spaghettieis (Wikipedia) “spaghetti ice cream” 45 New & Forthcoming Indie Press 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. Fiction Weird Black Girls: Stories by Elwin Cotman (AK Press) False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel by K’Wan (Akashic Books) Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago Books) Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press) These Letters End in Tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere (Catapult) The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Catapult) Cecilia by K-Ming Chang (Coffee House Press) Fog & Car by Eugene Lim (Coffee House Press) We’re Safe When We’re Alone by Nghiem Tran (Coffee House Press) A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter (Counterpoint Press) Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle, translated by Heather Houde (Feminist Press) The Default World by Naomi Kanakia (Feminist Press) The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel (Feminist Press) I'll Give You a Reason by Annell López (Feminist Press) Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by Jennifer Feeley (Feminist Press) Outcaste by Sheila James (Goose Lane Editions) Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth (House of Anansi Press) Dad, I Miss You by Nadia Sammurtok, illustrated by Simji Park (Inhabit Media) Secrets of the Snakestone by Pia DasGupta (Nosy Crow) The Burrow by Melanie Cheng (Tin House) Masquerade by Mike Fu (Tin House) The World With Its Mouth Open: Stories by Zahid Rafiq (Tin House) I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both by Mariah Stovall (Soft Skull Press) Non-Fiction RAPilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age by Chuck D and Kathy Lopez (Akashic Books) All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press) Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee (Catapult) My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents by Jennifer Neal (Catapult) Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant's Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe by Deja Vu Prem (Catapult) Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance by Victoria Blanco (Coffee House Press) Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha LaPointe (Counterpoint Press) Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience by Alpha Nkuranga (Goose Lane Editions) Jinny Yu (At Once/À La Fois) by Jinny Yu (Goose Lane Editions) Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross (LittlePuss Press) Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions) World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions) Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar (Soft Skull Press) The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa (Tin House) Black Meme: The History of the Images That Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso Books) Poetry i heard a crow before i was born by Jules Delorme (Goose Lane Editions) We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, Noʻu Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu (Haymarket Books) A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks (Haymarket Books) [...] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) Comics A Witch’s Guide to Burning by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly) Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Drawn & Quarterly) Lost at Windy River by Jillian Dolan, Trina Rathgeber and Alina Pete (Orca Books) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction Pop Culture! Then on Tuesday, June 18th it’s time once again for One Book One Podcast as we each pitch a book we think we should read and you (the listeners) get to vote!
	Episode 193 - Spring Media Update	16 Apr 2024	01:04:59
It’s time for our Spring Media Update episode! We talk about art installations, manga, board games, comics, and birds. So many birds. 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 Join our Discord Server! Media We’ve Been Consuming Jam Quality Assurance in Another World by Masamichi Satō Wingspan (board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave) Redactle New York Times responds to Only Connect resemblance Anna Meow Wolf Convergence Station Terraria Terraria Ep1 \|\| Mine O'Clock Amanda the Jedi Explaining the Chaotic Disaster of Madame Web Meghan Lisa LeBlanc Long books : The Abominable by Dan Simmons (663 pages) Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher (513 pages) The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (760 pages) Bungalow Details Interior by Jane Powell Matthew Spy x Family, vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo Giant Days Library Edition, vol. 1 by by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin Birds We Mentioned Chickadee Emu Cassowary Kākāpō Shoebill Tawny Frogmouth Pesquet's parrot (Dracula Parrot) Kiwi Hawk Pigeon Crow Chicken Links, Articles, and Things OLA RA in a Day Yotsuba&!, vol. 1 by Kiyohiko Azuma Chiac Acadia Birds Aren’t Real Only Connect Bungalow 12 Political Thrillers 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. Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq Exceptional Circumstances by James Bartleman The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter The Sniper by Chang Kuo-Li, translated by Roddy Flag The Executioner’s Game by Gary Hardwick What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris One in the Chamber by Robin Peguero Grant Park by Leonard Pitts Jr. Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 7th we’ll be discussing books from Indie Publishers! Then on Tuesday, June 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction Pop Culture!
	Episode 192 - Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics	02 Apr 2024	01:22:05
This episode we’re discussing the format of Non-Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics! We talk about what we even mean when we say “non-fiction,” comics vs. graphic novels, art vs. writing, memoirs vs. other stuff, and more. Plus: It’s been over 365 days since our last gorilla attack! 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 Join our Discord Server! Things We Read (or tried to…) Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter by Julie Delporte This Woman's Work by Julie Delporte, translated by Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen Sông by Hài-Anh and Pauline Guitton Kimiko Does Cancer by Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza Why I Adopted by Husband by Yuta Yagi The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint by Ylva Hillström, translated by Karin Eklund Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood by Lucy Knisley Nuking Alaska: Notes of an Atomic Fugitive by Peter Dunlap-Shohl My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders by Monzusu, translated by Ben Trethewey The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone by Joseph Tychonievich and Liz Kozik Other Media We Mentioned Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Fun Home (musical) (Wikipedia) Maus by Art Spiegelman Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Mattias Ripa Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel Displacement by Lucy Knisley Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned and Judd Winick Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt, translated by Helge Dascher Kid Gloves by Lucy Knisley The Mental Load by Emma The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel What Is Obscenity?: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy by Rokudenashiko Homestar Runner Button Pusher by Tyler Page Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler Clan Apis by Jay Hosler Ping-pong by Zviane Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael Blankets by Craig Thompson Smile by Raina Telegmeier Dog Man by Dav Pilkey Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide by Kate Charlesworth Links, Articles, and Things Harvey Pekar (Wikipedia) Joe Sacco (Wikipedia) Japanese adult adoption (Wikipedia) In the name of the queer: Sailor Moon's LGBTQ legacy The Spectre of Orientalism in Craig Thompson’s Habibi Cultural Appropriation in Craig Thompson’s Graphic Novel Habibi 35 Non-fiction Graphic Novels 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. This Place: 150 Years Retold Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis & Gianluca Costantini Nat Turner by Kyle Baker The Talk by Darrin Bell The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De la Cruz Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Joel Christian Gill and Ibram X. Kendi Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir by Shing Yin Khor Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer Steady Rollin': Preacher Kid, Black Punk and Pedaling Papa by Fred Noland Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won Death Threat by Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee Palimpsest: Documents From A Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes The High Desert by James Spooner They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker Feelings by Manjit Thapp The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly and Braham Revel Bonus list: 21 Non-Fiction Manga Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Join our Discord Server! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!
	Episode 191 - Dark Fantasy	05 Mar 2024	01:15:38
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Dark Fantasy! We talk about horror, grimdark, violence, amoral protagonists, epic fantasy vs small scale fantasy, the importance of tone, 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…) Berserk by Kentaro Miura (Wikipedia) The Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett) Coraline by Neil Gaiman The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Shadowland by Peter Straub Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn Twice Cursed edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane Other Media We Mentioned Dark Souls (Wikipedia) Elden Ring (WIkipedia) Magic Knight Rayearth by CLAMP Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy) Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Wikipedia) Ravenloft (Wikipedia) Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher Leech by Hiron Ennes (Episode 184 - Horror) The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy) Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher and Clayton W. Snyder Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday (Wikipedia) The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and various artists (Wikipedia) Children of Men (Wikipedia) The Children of Men by P.D. James Fables by Bill Willingham and various artists (Wikipedia) Deerskin by Robin McKinley Links, Articles, and Things Dark fantasy (Wikipedia) Category:Dark fantasy anime and manga Category:Dark fantasy video games Grimdark Magazine 20 Dark Fantasy 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 Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Eleventh Cycle by Kian N. Ardalan To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang The Changeling by Victor LaValle Jade City by Fonda Lee She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi The First Binding by R.R. Virdi Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 2nd we’ll be talking about the format of Non fiction Graphic Novels and Comics! Then on Tuesday, April 16th we’ll be giving an update on Media we’ve recently enjoyed!
	Episode 190 - Reading Resolutions and Rants	20 Feb 2024	00:59:30
This episode we’re discussing our 2024 Reading Resolutions (and Rants)! We talk about how we’ve already failed our 2024 reading resolutions, audio books, short stories, reading long things, not being able to read long things, 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 Media We Mentioned Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia) Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia) Animal Farm by George Orwell (Wikipedia) Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley Baldur's Gate 3 (Wikipedia) Yakuza (franchise) (Wikipedia) Feed by M.T. Anderson The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao Minecraft (Wikipedia) Two Point Hospital (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report Which Pokémon are the most goth? 🦇 - Friday Night Spooktacular 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Manga, Manhwa, and Webtoon titles on YALSA's 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List Manga for Teen Librarians (page 26) by Matthew Murray & Jean Broughton Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023 Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong (Podcast) Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed reading methods Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read Hark Episode 354: A Special Kind of Horny Topping & Company Booksellers The ladder Matthew mentioned Our Reading Resolutions Anna Read (and finish) a book Listen to audiobook fiction Jam Reading (physical books) on public transit Matthew Read the books in his office Read (all) the graphic novels on library ebook platform wish lists Read short story collections Meghan Read more (very) long books 30 Romance Books by BIPOC Authors (including 11 new releases from 2024) 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. Our Cursed Love by Julie Abe When I Think of You by Myah Ariel (2024) Stay with My Heart by Tashie Bhuiyan (2024) The Art of Scandal by Regina Black A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton (2024) You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa (2024) Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde (2024) An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins Let Me Love You by Alexandria House The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang (2024) Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang (2024) That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming Aphrodite and the Duke by J.J. McAvoy The Marquis Who Mustn't by Courtney Milan The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava (2024) The Lover, the Lake by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, translated by Susan Ouriou Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai Never Cross a Highlander by Lisa Rayne This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (2024) The Takeover by Cara Tanamachi (2024) A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (2024) Frankly in Love by David Yoon Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Dark Fantasy! Then on Tuesday, April 2nd we’ll be discussing Non fiction Graphic Novels and Comics!
	Episode 189 - Romantic Comedies & Humorous Romance	06 Feb 2024	01:10:10
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Romantic Comedies! We talk about the difference between “fun” and “funny,” crossover romance genres, cataloguing romance fiction, 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…) The House Witch by Delemhach A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake Take Me Home by Lorelie Brown I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams Other Media We Mentioned When Harry Met Sally… (Wikipedia) The Bear (Wikipedia) Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy The Martian (Wikipedia) Golden Globes change comedy rules after controversial win for The Martian The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Beetlejuice (Wikipedia) The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Judgment (video game) Bridgertons Series by Julia Quinn Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan Cats (2019 film) (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 119: Regency Romance What does a happily ever after look like? (romance novel covers) Sensible Chuckle (Know Your Meme) There Is Only One Bed (TV Tropes) Pop Culture Happy Hour Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Does the Dog Die? 20 Humorous Romance 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. Courting Samira by Amal Awad The Wildest Ride by Marcella Bell A Proposal They Can't Refuse by Natalie Caña Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria Game On by Seressia Glass Manhattan Dreaming by Anita Heiss Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson Much Ado about Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee The Secret to a Southern Wedding by Synithia Williams Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne Tastes Like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 20th we’ll be talking about our reading resolutions for 2024! Then on Tuesday, March 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Dark Fantasy!
	Episode 188 - Transportation and Transit Non-Fiction	02 Jan 2024	01:06:31
All aboard! This episode we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Transportation and Transit! We talk trains, buses, bicycles, spaceships, 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…) The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik Ghost Train (four part podcast by Denver Public Radio) Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth by Mark Ovenden Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr. Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada’s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell Links between two cities: historic bridges between Ottawa and Hull by Lucien Brault. Other Media We Mentioned The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways by Mike Ashley Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Orient Express by Graham Greene Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura Heaven's Design Team, Vol. 1 by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, and Tarako For 2 Weeks, Switzerland Has A Rail Replacement Helicopter Vancouver's Expo Line 1990 vs 2020 Mini Metro Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig There’s a documentary movie! Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig How To F#€k Up An Airport (five part podcast by Radio Spaetkauf) Some YouTube channels and videos about trains and transport things: CityNerd Not Just Bikes Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is) (See the building Anna and Matthew used to live in!) RMTransit The Tim Traveller This New LA Metro Station Should be PACKED - Here’s Why It’s Not Denver’s Transit System is Problematic Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace Links, Articles, and Things Note to self: Make “derail” joke about conversation going off topic. Train_Station-Katowice_Poland.wav by jgrzinich Rail replacement bus service (Wikipedia) Slow television (Wikipedia) “It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a 7-hour train journey in 2009.” Fort Collins Trolley ‘I am done’: Amid rider woes, is Ottawa’s transit system a victim of its own success? Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow 12 Transit/Automotive/Planes/Trains/Boats 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. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance by Mia Bay Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance by Alvin Hall Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad by Manu Karuka Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance by Adonia E. Lugo Making a Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker by Joe Martin with Alan Hoover Taxi!: Cabs and Capitalism in New York City by Biju Mathew Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy a Car by Woodrow Phoenix Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we’ll be discussing the genre of Humorous/Funny Romance! Then on Tuesday, February 20th we’ll be talking about our reading resolutions for 2024! (2024? That can’t be right. That’s definitely the future.)
	Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023	19 Dec 2023	01:10:40
This episode we’re discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, 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 Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers) Jam Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror) Matthew Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror) The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction) Meghan The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy) Not for the podcast Jam Heaven’s Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako Naked mole rats do not die of old age Owls’ ears are at asymmetrical heights Tarsiers have two tongues Accidental Elephant (YouTube) Matthew Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia) Meghan What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Anna Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood) Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics) Meghan Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry) Anna They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs) Jam Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies) Not for the podcast Meghan Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Anna Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace Jam The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181) Matthew Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague Other Favourite Things of 2023 Anna If Books Could Kill The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube) Two Point Hospital / Campus Oxygen Not Included Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art Jam Nimona (film) Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki Matthew Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Nier: Automata (Wikipedia) Meghan Ten Candles Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue Runner-Ups Jam Games The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia) Baldur’s Gate 3 (Wikipedia) Redactle Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy) Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1) Changing my name (legal procedure) Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies) Moon (celestial body) Matthew Comics Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber Books Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Games Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia) Tetris Effect Bayonetta (Wikipedia) Video Essays The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game Meghan Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B. Witch King by Martha Wells Bad Fruit by Ella King Other Media We Mentioned Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh Theme Hospital (Wikipedia) 25 Food/Cooking 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. Niqiliurniq: A Cookbook from Igloolik by Micah Arreak, Annie Désilets, Lucy Kappianaq, Glenda Kripanik, and Kanadaise Uyarasuk New Native Kitchen: Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian by Freddie Bitsoie Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table by Toya Boudy Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations by Tabitha Brown tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine by Shane M. Chartrand with Jennifer Cockrall-King Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly 50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the United States Through Pie by Stacey Mei Yan Fong Modern Native Feasts by Andrew George Jr. Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism by Eric Holt-Giménez Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna with Ritu Krishna 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today by Stephen Le A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food from Asia by Lara Lee Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking by Shahir Massoud The Mexican Home Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico by Mely Martinez Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in México by Rick Martinez Food-Related Stories by Gaby Melian Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Plantcakes: Fancy + Everyday Vegan Cakes for Everyone by Lyndsay Sung Chef Tee's Caribbean Kitchen by Chef Tee Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes by Bryant Terry Cooking with the Wolfman: Indigenous Fusion by David Wolfman and Marlene Finn Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 2nd when it’s time for trains, planes, and automobiles (and bicycles) as we discuss non-fiction books about Transit and Transportation! Then on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we’ll be discussing the genre of Humourous/Funny Romance.
	Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction	05 Dec 2023	01:03:03
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Suspense! We talk about crime, mysteries, horror, and even suspense! 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…) Ascension by Nicholas Binge The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha Malice by Keigo Higashino Dead Woman Walking by Sharon J. Bolton Alice in Borderland by Haro Aso (Wikipedia) Night Fever by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Reckless by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson Read But Not Mentioned Find Me by Anne Fraser Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman The Midnight Line: Jack Reacher #22 by Lee Child The Phantom Scientist by Robin Cousin, translated by Edward Gauvin Wyrd, vol. 1 by Curt Pires and Antonio Fuso Colorless, vol 1 by Kent Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark Other Media We Mentioned Scalped by Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera, and others Case Histories by Kate Atkinson At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia) Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman Small Game by Blair Braverman Links, Articles, and Things Hark! Podcast Category:Fiction about death games (Wikipedia) What Matthew described as “escape room fiction” Final girl (Wikipedia) 20 Suspense Novels 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 Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose A Person of Interest by Susan Choi When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey The Between by Tananarive Due Shutter by Ramona Emerson The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris We Lie Here by Rachel Howzell Hall The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok Are You Sara? by S.C. Lalli Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley Ride or Die by Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh In the Dark We Forget by Sandra S.G. Wong Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 19th it’s time for our Favourite Reads of 2023! Then on Tuesday, January 2nd it’s time for trains, planes, and automobiles (and bicycles) as we discuss non-fiction books about Transit and Transportation!
	Bonus Episode: What About Crowdfunded Comics?	21 Nov 2023	00:30:15
What About Crowdfunded Comics? By Matthew Murray 🦇 and Mara L. Thacker Published in Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library edited by Brian Flota and Kate Morris Read the full book chapter. Notes Caitlin McGurk and Jenny E Robb, “Comics in Special Collections: Purposeful Collection Development for Promoting Inclusive History,” in Comics and Critical Librarianship (Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2019), 169; examples of crowdfunded comics providing a platform for marginalized voices include Black Comix Returns: African American Comic Art & Culture, Bystander: Stories, Observations & Witnessings from South Asia and Sensory: Life on the Spectrum—An Autistic Comic Anthology Todd Allen, “Is Kickstarter the #2 Graphic Novel Publisher?,” PublishersWeekly.com, July 10, 2012, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/52925-is-kickstarterthe-2-graphic-novel-publisher.html. “Kickstarter Stats,” Kickstarter, accessed August 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats. Chris Arrant, “These Are the Titles Driving Kickstarter Comics to Their Biggest Year Yet,” gamesradar, July 21, 2021, https://www.gamesradar.com/these-are-the-titles-driving-kickstarter-comics-to-their-biggest-year-yet/. “Monthly Ranking for Patreon Comics: Ranking for Top Creators by Month,” Graphtreon, accessed August 12, 2021, https://graphtreon.com/monthly-ranking/comics. “Ended on Ulule,” Ulule, accessed August 12, 2021, https://www.ulule.com/ discover/?categories=bandes-dessinees&offset=0&statuses=ended&languages=fr. Oriana Leckert, “Pow! 2020 Is the Best Year Yet for Comics on Kickstarter,” Kickstarter.com, October 20, 2020, https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/2020-is-the-best-year-yet-for-comics-on-kickstarter. Kat Calamia, “Should Major Publishers & Creators Be Crowdfunding Comics alongside Independent and DIY Creators?,” GamesRadar+, September 22, 2020, https://www.gamesradar.com/should-major-publishers-and-creators-be-crowdfunding-comics-alongside-independent-and-diy-creators/. While Image Comics is a well-known comics publisher, they tend to operate more like self-publishing than many traditional publishers as they do not pay page rates or advances, provide minimal editorial oversight, and charge a flat publishing fee. “Drainers—An Underground Graphic Novel,” Cloudscape Comics, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudscape/drainers-an-underground-graphic-novel; Robert Jeffrey II, “Route 3: Vol 1,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter. com/projects/1484007393/route-3-vol-1; Richard C. Meyer, “‘No Enemy, But Peace’ Graphic Novel,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/863672719/no-enemy-but-peace-graphic-novel; “Are You Ready for War in the Neighborhood?,” Ad Astra Comix, Indiegogo, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/1856162. A “stretch goal” is an amount above the initial amount asked for at which point additional rewards are “unlocked.” A “tier” is a level of support tied to a specific amount of money. The campaign for “Atomic Robo and the Spectre of Tomorrow HARDCOVER” lists “Fifty copies for Libraries + another Print in Print Set!” as a stretch goal in an image but doesn’t describe these goals in text anywhere on the project page. Rachel Seeger, “SPROUT: A Wordless Comic Book for Kids,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511570919/sprout-a-wordless-comic-book-for-kids. Tom Humberstone, “Solipsistic Pop 4: Maps,” Indiegogo, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www. indiegogo.com/projects/solipsistic-pop-4-maps#/; Becca Hillburn, “7 Inch Kara Volume 2: An All Ages Watercolor Comic,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/ projects/beccahillburn/7-inch-kara-volume-2. Isaac Cates, “Cartozia Tales: Ten Issues,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www. kickstarter.com/projects/1765342446/cartozia-tales-ten-issues; “Life Finds a Way,” Cloudscape Comics, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudscape/ life-finds-a-way. “Aztlan Graphic Novel,” Astlan, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter. com/projects/aztlan/aztlan-graphic-novel; Joamette Gil, “Mañana: Latinx Comics From the 25th Century,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/powerandmagic/manana-latinx-comics-from-the-25th-century; “Chicken Soup and Goji Berries,” Cloudscape Comics, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloudscape/ chicken-soup-and-goji-berries. Including the “Reading Rainbow” DVD campaign, the only non-comic related crowdfunding project we found that specifically mentioned libraries. Seeger, “SPROUT”; “Barefoot Gen for Schools and Libraries,” Last Gasp, Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1784498350/barefoot-gen-for-schools-andlibraries; JD Sweet, “The Ring Masters Comic—Continuing the Adventures!!,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trmvsshiaraku/the-ring-masters-comic-continuing-the-adventures; Levar Burton and Reading Rainbow, “Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere!,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/ projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh; Jeff Douglas Messer, “The Adventures of Young Robin Hood Comic Book,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https:// www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffdouglasmesser/the-adventures-of-young-robin-hood-comic-book; Sean Lykins, “Lora and the Paper Mirror (Children’s Comic),” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/739841783/lora-and-the-paper-mirror-childrens-comic; Sweet, “The Ring Masters Comic”; “Happy AlternaWeen!,” Alterna Comics, Indiegogo, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2419865. Megan Lavey-Heaton, “Valor: Fairy Tale Comic Anthology about Courageous Heroines,” Kickstarter, accessed January 12, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1987386669/ valor-a-fairy-tale-anthology-about-courageous-hero. Debra A. Riley-Huff et al., “Crowdfunding in Libraries, Archives and Museums,” The Bottom Line 29, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 67–85, https://doi.org/10.1108/BL-03-2016-0014. “Crowdfunding and Public Libraries: The Record so Far,” Public Libraries News (blog), June 28, 2018, https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/campaigning/increasing-income/crowdfunding-andpublic-libraries-the-record-so-far; K. W. Colyard, “15 Crowdfunding Campaigns For Libraries To Donate To This National Library Week,” Bustle, April 12, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/15-crowdfunding-campaigns-for-libraries-to-donate-to-this-national-library-week-50736; Caroline Lewis, “Crowdfunding the Library,” Library Journal (April 17, 2013), https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=crowdfunding-the-library; Tom Mukite, “Bring the Hulk to the Northlake Public Library,” Indiegogo, 2013, http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/386975/fblk. Kay Ann Cassell, “Do Large Academic Libraries Purchase Self-Published Books to Add to Their Collections?,” in Self-Publishing and Collection Development, ed. Robert P. Holley, Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015), 27–36, https:// doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1wf4dpf.7; Heidy Berthoud, “Going to New Sources: Zines at the Vassar College Library,” The Serials Librarian 72, no. 1–4 (May 2017): 49–56, https://doi.org/10.1080/03615 26X.2017.1320867. McGurk and Robb, “Comics in Special Collections”; Jerry Spiller, “Decoder Ring-Digital Comics: Ownership vs. Access,” Against the Grain 25, no. 5 (November 1, 2013), https://doi. org/10.7771/2380-176X.6628; Jerry Spiller, “Decoder Ring--Collaboration Is King in Cartozia,” Against the Grain 25, no. 6 (2013): 2; Jerry Spiller, “Decoder Ring—Fireside Fiction Keeps the Stories Coming via Crowdfunding and Subscription,” Against the Grain 27, no. 3 (June 1, 2015), https://doi. org/10.7771/2380-176X.7114; Jerry Spiller, “Decoder Ring—Unexpectedly Musical Updates,” Against the Grain 27, no. 5 (November 1, 2015), https://doi.org/10.7771/2380-176X.7213. Matthew Z. Wood, Comic Book Collections and Programming: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). McGurk and Robb, “Comics in Special Collections”; Izabella Penier, Martin Paul Eve, and Tom Grady, “COPIM—Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs 2020,” Zenodo, September 8, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011836. Tom Bruno, “Self-Publishing and Libraries: The Slush Pile Is the Platform,” in Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2015), 125–38, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dpf.14. “Kickstarter Comics at the Library—The Seattle Public Library,” BiblioCommons, accessed October 16, 2020, https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/ share/104354882_shelf_talk/1146745557_kickstarter_comics_at_the_library. “Review Copies and What We Cover,” No Flying No Tights (blog), accessed February 5, 2021, http:// www.noflyingnotights.com/about/submitting-review-copies/. “Best Graphic Novels for Adults—FAQ,” Text, Round Tables, April 20, 2020, http://www.ala.org/rt/gncrt/-bgna-faq. Perry Chen and Aziz Hasan, “The Future of Crowdfunding Creative Projects,” Kickstarter, December 8, 2021, https://www.kickstarter.com/articles/the-future-of-crowdfunding-creative-projects. Heidi MacDonald, “Kickstarter’s Switch to Crypto Platform Alarms Creators,” The Beat (blog), December 9, 2021, https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-crypto-platform-alarms-creators/. Rob Salkowitz, “Why Comics’ Top Crowdfunder Is Leaving Kickstarter For Her New ‘Poorcraft’ Project,” Forbes (February 7, 2022), https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/02/07/ why-comics-top-crowdfunder-is-leaving-kickstarter-for-her-latest-project/. Further Reading Stretch goals: Launching crowdfunded comics collections in academic libraries by Mara L. Thacker and Jason Larsen
	Episode 185 - Crafts & Crafting	07 Nov 2023	01:02:42
This episode we’re discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting! We talk about art vs craft, makerspaces vs crafting spaces, the challenges of trying new crafts, academic crafting, 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…) Paper + Craft: 25 Charming Gifts, Accents, and Accessories to Make from Paper by Minhee Cho, Truman Cho, and Randi Brookman Harris Re-Creative: 50 Projects for Turning Found Items Into Contemporary Design by Steve Dodds Trash Origami: 25 Paper Folding Projects Reusing Everyday Materials by Michael G. LaFosse and Richard L. Alexander Crafting Change: Handmade Activism, Past and Present by Jessica Vitkus Hand Lettering: Creative Alphabets for Any Occasion by Thy Doan Graves Mastering Hand-Lettering: Your Practical Guide to Creating and Styling the Alphabet by Mye De Leon Creepy Cross-Stitch: 25 Spooky Projects to Haunt Your Halls by Lindsay Swearingen A Crochet World of Creepy Creatures and Cryptids: 40 Amigurumi Patterns for Adorable Monsters, Mythical Beings and More by Rikki Gustafson Chonky Amigurumi: How to Crochet Amazing Critters & Creatures with Chunky Yarn by Sarah Csiacsek Simple Hand Sewing: 35 slow stitching and mindful mending projects by Laura Strutt Boro & Sashiko, Harmonious Imperfection: The Art of Japanese Mending & Stitching by Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby Wilderness Knits for the Home by Linka Neumann Other Media We Mentioned Two Point Hospital (Wikipedia) Two Point Campus (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Fuse beads (Wikipedia) Jam’s Tiger Millionaire costume (and their trophy) Tiger Millionaire (Steven Universe Wiki) The cross stitch Matthew finished the night before recording Bone folder (Wikipedia) Fourth Doctor (the one with the scarf) (Wikipedia) Creativebug (see if your library provides access) Creepy halloween mask template Granny square (Wikipedia) Creepypasta (Wikipedia) 15 Crafts and Crafting 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. Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands: Dreaming Patterns, Weaving Memories by Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez The Embroidered Garden: Stitching through the Seasons of a Flower Garden by Kazuko Aoki asowacikanisa: A Guide to Small Metis Bags by Amy Briley and Gregory Scofield Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide by Brandi Cheyenne Harper This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection by Jen Hewett Print, Pattern, Sew: Block-Printing Basics + Simple Sewing Projects for an Inspired Wardrobe by Jen Hewett Embroidered Animals: Wild and Woolly Creatures to Stitch and Sew by Yumiko Higuchi Super Easy Amigurumi: Crochet Cute Animals by Mitsuki Hoshi Mini Knitted Woodland by Sachiyo Ishii The Art of Mi'kmaw Basketry by edited by shalan joudry and Holly Brown Bear Embroidery: A Modern Guide to Botanical Embroidery by Arounna Khounnoraj Visible Mending: A Modern Guide to Darning, Stitching and Patching the Clothes You Love by Arounna Khounnoraj The Tunisian Crochet Handbook: A Beginner's Guide by Toni Lipsey Literary Yarns: Crochet Projects Inspired by Classic Books by Cindy Wang The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice by Kristina Wong Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction! Then on Tuesday, December 19th it’s time for our Favourite Reads of 2023!
	Episode 184 - Horror	03 Oct 2023	01:15:21
This episode we’re discussing the fiction genre of Horror! We talk about fear, control, Goosebumps, bad dogs, horror-comedy, creepypasta, the apocalypse, lizard romance, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Straight by Chuck Tingle Mister Magic by Kiersten White, narrated by Rebecca Lowman I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones Leech by Hiron Ennes The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen edited by Ellen Datlow House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson Five Nights at Freddy’s: Into the Pit: Fazbear Frights #1 by Scott Cawthon and Elley Cooper Sadako at the End of the World by Koma Natsumi The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 3 by Eiji Otsuka and Yamazaki Housui Things We Read (but didn’t talk about in this episode) Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki! by Kanako Inuki Résumé With Monsters by William Browning Spencer Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw A Song for the Quiet by Cassandra Khaw The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum Other Media (& Authors) We Mentioned Captain Britain And MI13, Volume 3: Vampire State by Paul Cornell, Leonard Kirk, and Mike Collins Dracula on the Moon Stephen King Misery The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Cujo The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Alien: Isolation (Wikipedia) Dead Space (2008 video game) (Wikipedia) R.L. Stine Goosebumps Fear Street Junji Ito The Enigma of Amigara Fault - “T-this is my hole! It was made for me!” Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu Emily Carroll Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Smart Podcast Trashy Books: 579. Punk Rock Writing with Chuck Tingle Candle Cove by Kris Straub Candle Cove (Wikipedia) Black Swan (film) (Wikipedia) The Addams Family (Wikipedia) Dune (franchise) (Wikipedia) SCP Foundation SCP-087 The SCP Foundation: Declassified (YouTube) Terror in 16-bits Five Nights at Freddy's (Wikipedia) The Ring (2002 film) (Wikipedia) We talked more about the novel The Ring in Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Crapshots Ep608 - The Old Ones (YouTube) Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia) Abbott and Costello (Wikipedia) Dread (role-playing game) (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, Etc. Episode 176: Fantasy Episode 123: Psychological Horror Does the Dog Die? Matthew’s spooky phone case is a variant of this one Matthew did a “31 Spooky Manga” challenge a few years ago and read a different spooky manga every day in October. The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry Sound Effects Big Thunder And Distant Thunder Rain Birds by morvei01 Dramatic Organ, A by InspectorJ bats1 by sofie Pigeons (St Stephens Green, Dublin) by iainmccurdy 31 Recent Horror 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. This list features horror fiction by BIPOC authors published within the last 3 years. Jackal by Erin E. Adams Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro The Spite House by Johnny Compton The Reformatory by Tananarive Due And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell Piñata by Leopoldo Gout Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson Bad Cree by Jessica Johns My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda Lone Women by Victor LaValle Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina Silver Nitrate by Silvia Morena-Garcia This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea Chlorine by Jade Song Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories by Alex Soop There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories by Lindsay Wong White Horse by Erika T. Wurth Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 7th when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting! Then on Tuesday, December 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Suspense Fiction!
	Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted	19 Sep 2023	00:55:48
This episode it’s time for One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. We talk about spoilers, horse operas, spoilers, relationships, spoilers, queer coming-of-age stories, and spoilers. Plus: Spoilers! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards The Book We Read Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Other Media We Mentioned River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Wikipedia) Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Wikipedia) The Walking Dead (TV series) (Wikipedia) Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Links, Articles, and Things Horse Opera Episode 029 - Westerns Smart Bitches Trashy Books review of Upright Women Wanted Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read Changed my Life by Sarah Gailey Jam’s Upright Women Wanted film cast comprised of internet tabletop roleplayers: Esther: Becca Scott Cye: Erika Ishii Bet: Krystina Arielle Leda: Ashley Johnson Amity: Aabria Iyengar 12+ International Noir 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. Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan Real World by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Philip Gabriel Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles A Death in Denmark by Amulya Malladi Nothing Is Lost by Cloé Mehdi, translated by Howard Curtis Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Morena-Garcia My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Sam Bett I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai Plus many in the Akashic Books noir series, including: Kingston Noir edited by Colin Channer Haiti Noir edited by Edwidge Danticat Manila Noir edited by Jessica Hagedorn Nairobi Noir edited by Peter Kimani Baghdad Noir edited by Samuel Shimon Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 3rd get ready for Halloween because we’ll be talking about the genre of Horror! Then on Tuesday, November 7th we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Crafts and Crafting!
	Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry	05 Sep 2023	00:55:03
This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones Other Media We Mentioned The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky All Def Poetry milk and honey by rupi kaur One Piece by Eiichiro Oda Trailer for Netflix show “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf) Links, Articles, and Things Lyric poetry (Wikipedia) The Writer's Block The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry Chiac (Wikipedia) Plasco Building (Wikipedia) 30 Recent Poetry Collections 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. This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years. Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne Feast by Ina Cariño Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo Song of my Softening by Omotara James Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi Bianca by Eugenia Leigh Finna by Nate Marshall Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin God Themselves by Jae Nichelle You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price Homie by Danez Smith Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie From From by Monica Youn Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Here’s Matthew’s limerick. Write your own! There once was a book club for masochists Whose members delighted in making lists They all had a blast Co-hosting a podcast That their friendship will always persist Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September 19th it’s time for our One Book One Podcast episode as we all discuss the book Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey! Then on Tuesday, October 3rd get ready for Halloween because we’ll be talking about the genre of Horror!
	Episode 181 - Summer 2023 Media Update	22 Aug 2023	01:01:12
This episode it’s time for our Summer 2023 Media Update! We talk about chairs, orangutans, weird music, and 17 novellas! Plus, lots more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Media & Things we Talked About Meghan Graphic Novels L'Esprit du camp by Cab, Michel Falardo Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, coloured by Muntsa Vicente Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge Looking at Stuff Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz (illustrator) Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John R. Stilgoe Novellas Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo Voidwitch Saga by Corey J. White Matthew Ducks by Kate Beaton Weird Music Venjent - Flowin' with the Vibe Venjent - Tapping Away Venjent - Create Machines Jacek Dzwonowsk - Triple concerto for faucet, water pipes and fiddle Boys Noize & Pussy Riot - "Chastity" feat. Alice Glass “Put it in a dick cage” Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia) Jam Captain Disillusion Orangutan Card Trick DEBUNK Corridor Crew VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 57 (Ft. Captain Disillusion) VFX Artists React to Amazing Movie Props With Adam Savage! The Girl I Am, Was, and Will Never Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia) ‘Breath of the Wild’ is the Zelda Adventure I've Always Wanted by Austin Walker Anna Classy with Jonathan Menjivar LoadingReadyRun - Swap & Shop - Selling Edition Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art Photos of chairs (on Matthew’s Instagram account) Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 18 Non-Fiction Military 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. Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds by Remi Adeleke A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey from World War II to Peace by Ashley Bryan Gabriel Dumont Speaks by Gabriel Dumont, translated by Michael Barnholden Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees by Yen Le Espiritu They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit by Ruben Gallego Knocking Down Barriers: My Fight for Black America by Truman K. Gibson Jr. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism by Tom Holm Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War by Tom Holm Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez Duty, Honour and Izzat: From Golden Fields to Crimson - Punjab's Brothers in Arms in Flanders by Steven Purewal Call Me Chef, Dammit!: A Veteran’s Journey from the Rural South to the White House by Andre Rush The Art of War by Sun Tzu From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September 5th when we’ll be discussing the format of Lyric Poetry! Then on Tuesday, September 19th it’s time for our One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey!
	Episode 180 - Pulp	08 Aug 2023	01:18:40
This episode we’re talking about the fiction genre of Pulp! We talk about aliens, Mounties, sleuths, and vigilantes as discuss what counts as pulp and what doesn’t! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante by Richard Tooker The Aliens by Murray Leinster “All the Colors of the Rainbow” by Leigh Brackett Republished in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Lisa Yaszek The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. I edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy Sally the Sleuth by Adolphe Barreaux - Forward by Tim Hanley Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties edited by Don Hutchison Planet Scumm - Issue 15: Major Arcana The Battle of York by James Stoddard Other Media We Mentioned Two-Fisted Library Stories on itch.io Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps edited by Sheldon Jaffery McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023 The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and ’70s Mexico Two-Fisted Library Stories on itch.io The Shadow (Wikipedia) Pulp collections available online: The Pulp Magazines Project: “an archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazine from 1896-1946” The Pulp Magazine Archive at Internet Archive Weird menace (Wikipedia) Episode 19: Weird Fiction (not “New Weird” as Matthew says) Sauron (comics) (Wikipedia) Betty Ross (Wikipedia) Heritage Minutes: Sam Steele Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz 15 Pulp Novels & Anthologies 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. Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarría, translated by Carlos Lopez Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey Four Bullets for Dillon by Derrick Ferguson The Green Lama: Scions by Adam Lance Garcia The Banks by Roxane Gay and Ming Doyle A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes Blind Corners by Jemir Robert Johnson It Came from Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker Once Upon a Time in Afrika by Balogun Ojetade One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips Black Pulp II edited by Kimberly Richardson Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 22nd when we’ll be talking about books and other media we’ve recently enjoyed! Then on Tuesday, September 5th when we’ll be discussing the format of Lyric Poetry!
	Schedule Update (August 2023)	01 Aug 2023	00:01:48
No new episode this week, but we'll still be releasing two episodes this month! Vote in our 2023 Battle of the Books! Vote for which we should read! Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023
	Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023	18 Jul 2023	00:40:43
This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Spear by Nicola Griffith, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi, or The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing? You decide! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Books We Pitched Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Vote for which we should read! Our “Long List” of Titles Meghan Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan (Wikipedia) The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill Jam How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree Anna Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love (Jacob Geller video in which he recommended this book in the outro.) A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Matthew Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake The New Teen Titans, vol. 1 by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, and Romeo Tanghal Podcast Episodes Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs (listen to the end of this episode!) Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021 Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Episode 154 - Book pitches Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart Links, Articles, Books, and Things The Coode Street Podcast Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear French Makes No Sense: Pronouns by Loic Suberville Gender Reveal: Episode 136 with Sabrina Imbler River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Cursed Princess Club, vol. 1 by LambCat Read on Webtoon Jacob Geller - Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston Teen Titans Go! (Wikipedia) 15 Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy 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 - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here. Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen The Law of Love by Laura Esquivel The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust Tears of the Trufflepig by Fernando A. Flores The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Severance by Ling Ma Popisho by Leone Ross Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood Super Extra Grande by Yoss How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Vote for which book we should read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 1st we’ll be discussing the fiction genre of Pulp! Then on Tuesday, August 15th we’ll be talking about books and other media we’ve recently enjoyed in our Summer 2023 Media Update!
	Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs	04 Jul 2023	01:09:53
This episode we’re talking about non-fiction books about Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs! We discuss unexplained aerial phenomenon, owls, exobiology, and aliens wearing hats! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum Death from the Skies! These Are the Ways the World Will End… by Philip Plait Death from the Skies! The Science Behind the End of the World… Search for the Unknown: Canada’s UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory by Matthew Hayes Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy, illustrated by Amy Grimes Picturing Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture by John F. Moffitt Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO by David J Halperin They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pikington Mirage Men (Wikipedia) - The documentary Other Media We Mentioned Chariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken Chariots of the Gods? (Wikipedia) The X-Files (Wikipedia) Mars Attacks! (1996 film) The yodeling scene ("Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman) Mars Attacks (Wikipedia) The trading cards Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber The Disappearing Act by Florence de Changy Disappearance of the Malaysian airplane Links, Articles, and Things Barney and Betty Hill incident (Wikipedia) METI International (Wikipedia) Reptilian conspiracy theory (Wikipedia) ʻOumuamua (Wikipedia) Raëlism (Wikipedia) Martian canals (Wikipedia) Neon Squid Books U.S. judge says Penguin Random House book merger cannot go forward Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Wikipedia) How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher 10 Non-Fiction Books About Aliens & UFOs (and other phenomena) 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. Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life edited by Jim Al-Khalili Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili More Encounters with Star People: Urban American Indians Tells Their Stories by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System by Ray Jayawardhana Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan Mondes d'ailleurs by Trịnh Xuân Thuận Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Tyson Why Aren't They Here: The Question of Life on Other Worlds by Surendra Verma Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 18th it’s time for our annual One Book One Podcast pitch episode! Then on Tuesday, August 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Pulp Fiction!
	Episode 177 - Book Clubs	20 Jun 2023	00:55:15
This episode we’re talking about the concept of mass promotional book clubs! Whether it’s One City, One Read, Canada Reads, or Oprah’s book club, listen to us discuss if we read book club books, the celebrity book club we wish existed, and the idea of “the book club book.” You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV and Desmond Tutu, translated by Douglas Carlton Abrams Links, Articles, and Things Oprah’s Book Club Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Reese's Book Club Buffs One Read Rams Read Canada Reads One City One Book One Book, One Vancouver \| Vancouver Public Library \| BiblioCommons Wanted: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the VPL's Book Choice #NerdyGirlzBookClub Natalie’s Book Club The Inner Lives of Book Clubs *35 Recent Essay Collections by BIPOC Authors** Published within the last 2 years. 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. No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays by Marcie Alvis-Walker Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America by Daniel Black ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy Black Nerd Problems by William Evans & Omar Holmon Crimes of the Tongue: Essays and Stories by Alicia Gaspar De Alba Inciting Joy by Ross Gay Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World edited by by Darien Hsu Gee & Carla Crujido Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives by Charlayne Hunter-Gault You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore by Lawrence Jackson Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinanihk by John Brady McDonald The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Mia Mercado Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar by Pyae Moe Thet War Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by Walter Rodney People Change by Vivek Shraya Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang White Magic by Elissa Washuta Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong Making a Scene by Constance Wu Give us feedback!* Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, July 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction books about UFOs and Aliens! Then on Tuesday, July 4th we’ll be pitching books for our very own annual One Podcast, One Book!
	Episode 176 - Fantasy	06 Jun 2023	01:02:40
This episode we’re talking about the genre of Fantasy! We discuss whether fantasy needs magic, clam powers, forklore, Tears of the Kingdom, worksonas, It’s Always My First Day at Wizard School, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, narrated by Kirt Graves The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang The Chill by Scott Carson Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw Big Machine by Victor LaValle Other Media We Mentioned The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Wikipedia) Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini (Wikipedia) Read it online free! Steven Universe (Wikipedia) Sailor Moon (Wikipedia) Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas Graceling by Kristin Cashore The Golden Compass / Northern Lights by Philip Pullman The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Redwall (Wikipedia) Brian Jacques The Discworld Mapp: Being the Onlie True and Mostlie Accurate Mappe of the Fantastyk and Magical Dyscworlde by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs Discworld (Wikipedia) The Chronicles of Narnia (Wikipedia) by C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce Wise Child by Monica Furlong Juniper by Monica Furlong The Sandman (comic book) (Wikipedia) Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia) Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia) A Song of Ice and Fire (Wikipedia) by George R. R. Martin The series of novels on which the television series Game of Thrones is based The Wheel of Time (Wikipedia) by Robert Jordan The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games by Lizzie Stark Links, Articles, and Things X-Men (Wikipedia) Scarlet Witch Magik (Illyana Rasputina) (though her magic powers are separate from her mutation) Magical girl (Wikipedia) Alebrije (Wikipedia) Dungeons & Dragons (Wikipedia) Independence Day (1996 film) (Wikipedia) 30 Fantasy fiction 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. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Road of the Lost by Nafiza Azad A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi The Unbroken by C.L. Clark The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Legendborn by Tracy Deonn VenCo by Cherie Dimaline The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Björkan Sagas by Harold R. Johnson Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Famished Road by Ben Okri Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 20th we’re talking about celebrity book clubs and one book reading campaigns! Then on Tuesday, July 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction books about UFOs and Aliens!
	Episode 175 - Revisiting Genres	16 May 2023	00:53:48
This episode we’re talking about the very many genres we’ve read for the podcast…and which ones we’d read again! We discuss Jeff VanderMeer’s Zorro, Boat Fiction, We Have Always Hosted The Podcast, Bubble Gum Fiction, Cheese-based Erotica, whether the 1980s count as Historical Fiction, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Old Episodes Episode 090 - Adventure Fiction Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History Episode 086 - American Gothic Episode 143 - Amish Romance Episode 160 - Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance Episode 151 - Classics Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy Episode 110 - Comedic/Humorous Fiction Episode 021 - Coming of Age Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries Episode 127 - Crime Fiction Episode 131 - Cyberpunk Episode 025 - Detective Fiction Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction Episode 070 - Erotic Romance Episode 135 - Erotica Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction Episode 045 - Family Sagas Episode 002 - Gothic Literature Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy Episode 098 - Historical Fiction Episode 001 - Historical Romance Other Media We Mentioned Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha (Here’s a time stamped link to the finals performance in a half hour video of the top 10 songs this year. I can’t link solely to the performance due to region locking, booooo.) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia) Marvel Snap (Wikipedia) Far Cry (Wikipedia) Tomb Raider (Wikipedia) Horizon Zero Dawn (Wikipedia) The Sandman (comic book) (Wikipedia) Earth Abides by George R. Stewart My Macaroni And Cheese Is A Lesbian Also She Is My Lawyer by Chuck Tingle Inheritance: A pick-the-path experience by Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante \|\| Talking Simulator (stream Matthew watched) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik Links, Articles, and Things Hark! The Holiday Music Podcast Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (Wikipedia) World Goth Day (Wikipedia) Just Plain Wrong Bubblegum music (Wikipedia) Episode 028 - Accidental Romance Dairying and Cheese Erotica 12 Southern Gothic books by Authors of Colour 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. Ruby by Cynthia Bond House of Cotton by Monica Brashears The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due The House of Erzulie by Kirsten Imani Kasai A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen Beloved by Toni Morrison Cane by Jean Toomer Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Fantasy! Then on Tuesday, June 20th we’re talking about how we’re bad at scheduling!
	Episode 174 - Economics	02 May 2023	00:52:24
This episode we’re talking about the genre of Economics! We discuss economic philosophy, Excel spreadsheets, micro vs macro, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis, translated by Jacob Moe Other Media We Mentioned Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild The Colour of Magic by Terry Prachett “Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language. What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement by Vladimir Lenin (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things If Books Could Kill - Freakonomics Fear the Boom and Bust: Keynes vs. Hayek (YouTube) Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek - Economics Rap Battle Round Two Peter Singer (Wikipedia) Unspeakable Conversations: Harriet McBryde Johnson on debating Peter Singer “He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was.” If Books Could Kill - Rich Dad Poor Dad Saltwater and freshwater economics (Wikipedia) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (Wikipedia) Another normal day of mining in Africa (Reddit) Belt and Road Initiative (Wikipedia) Report exposes solar panel industry Uyghur forced labour links Ouija (Wikipedia) Chinchilla (Wikipedia) Social media is doomed to die (The Verge) Reddit: Antiwork Reddit: Late Stage Capitalism 25 Economics 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. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson and Arthur Manuel Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged by Kimberly Jones The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard Can’t We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions by Rupal Patel The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddist Economics for the 21st Century by Sulak Sivaraksa Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 16th we’ll be talking about some old genres we’ve covered and whether we’d read them again. Then on Tuesday, June 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Fantasy!
	Episode 173 - Spring 2023 Media Update	18 Apr 2023	00:52:45
This episode we’re talking about recent media we’ve experienced and enjoyed! We discuss Return of the Obra Dinn, Worlds Beyond Number, Horror Queers, If Books Could Kill, Superman Smashes the Klan, Incredible Doom, Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Media we Experienced Jam Mystery Games: Curse of the Golden Idol Tangle Tower Return of the Obra Dinn Podcasts: Off Book They Died on Space Mountain (with Ben Schwartz) Lateral Episode 1 of the quiz show of the same name (which is now unlisted on YouTube) Worlds Beyond Number Episode feed Life hacks: Make cooking feel like a magic ritual Delete the Twitter app Custom printed to-do list Anna Dinkum Winkeltje: The Little Shop Horror Queers If Books Could Kill Mine O’Clock - Minecraft Through the Ages, episode 1 LRR Streams Matthew Thirty-One Nil: The Amazing Story of World Cup Qualification / On the Road with Football's Outsiders, a World Cup Odyssey by James Montague Episode 166 - Sports (Non-Fiction) Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru The Adventures of Superman (radio series) - "Clan of the Fiery Cross" (Wikipedia) Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden Meghan Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb Onley's Arctic: Diaries And Paintings Of The High Arctic by Toni Onley Other Media We Mentioned Knives Out (Wikipedia) Only Connect (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things RA in a Day - Ontario Library Association (April 24th) Our session is “Non-Fiction for Newbies: Navigating the Nuances” Catalogues & Cardigans: A Library RPG Zine #111 Bulletin board system (Wikipedia) 15 Creative Writing 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. How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V.S. Naipaul How Dare We! Write edited by Sherry Quan Lee The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors by Jewell Parker Rhodes Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples by Gregory Younging Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Economics! (Economy?) Then on Tuesday, May 16th we’ll be talking about something! We don’t know yet! What do you want us to talk about?
	Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers	04 Apr 2023	01:01:34
This episode we’re talking about Domestic Thrillers! We discuss lies, stressful reading, spoiling endings, characters who are not great people, and whether we’d read other books from this genre. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter Recipe for a Perfect Housewife by Karma Brown The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers Bad Fruit by Ella King Glasshouse by Charles Stross At Least You Have Your Health by Madi Sinha Other Media We Mentioned Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Big Little Lies (TV series) (Wikipedia) Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Archie Meets KISS by Alex Segura and Dan Parent Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware All the Rage by Courtney Summers Sadie by Courtney Summers The White Coat Diaries by Madi Sinha We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Links, Articles, and Things Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss (Know Your Meme) Gaslighting (Wikipedia) White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) (Wikipedia) Commuter town (Wikipedia) Unreliable narrator (Wikipedia) Abortifacient (Wikipedia) "that which will cause a miscarriage" Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (CO) r/AmItheAsshole Chinese Indonesians (Wikipedia) Panopticon (Wikipedia) Portuguese man o' war (Wikipedia) 10 Domestic Thrillers 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 After Party by A.C. Arthur When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole The Three Mrs. Greys by Shelley Ellis And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson Spare Room by Dreda Say Mitchell The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 18th when we’ll be giving our Spring 2023 Media Update! Then on Tuesday, May 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Economics! (Economy?)
	Episode 171 - The Moving and Management of Books	21 Mar 2023	01:01:05
This episode we’re talking about The Moving and Management of Books! We all own a lot of books. And we’ve all made big moves! We talk about when we leave books behind, how we choose the ones we keep, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned Wonderland, vol. 6 by Yugo Ishikawa Links, Articles, and Things Count Duckula (Wikipedia) Ero guro (Wikipedia) 28 Family Sagas 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. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi An Unlasting Home by Mai Al-Nakib Salt Houses by Hala Alyan The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow Cane River by Lalita Tademy The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran The Strangers by Katherena Vermette Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 4th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Domestic Thrillers! Then on Tuesday, April 18th we’ll be giving our Spring 2023 Media Update!
	Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies	07 Mar 2023	01:06:36
This episode we’re talking about Gender Theory & Gender Studies! We discuss theory vs studies, memes, feminism, books that should exist but don’t, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. and J.R. Zuckerberg Other Media We Mentioned BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image edited by Ophira Edut A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson Feminism is For Everybody by bell hooks Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution edited by Karen Green & Tristan Taormino Links, Articles, and Things A small sample of Bibliocommons user-curated lists: Early Feminism Through 1847 Feminist Classics: Third Wave Feminism, the 1990s Trans Classics: important books about the many trans experiences Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia) TERF / FART / “Gender Critical” Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’ by Jules Gill-Peterson Gill-Peterson is one of 1,000+ contributors to the New York Times who signed an open letter condemning the anti-trans bigotry in their coverage. Read it here. Hark! Episode 330: Fucking Pie 20 Gender Theory/Studies 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. Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 21st when we’ll be talking about the Moving and Management of Books! Then, on Tuesday, April 4th we’ll be discussing the genre of Domestic Thrillers!
	Episode 169 - What is a Book? (Part 2)	21 Feb 2023	01:08:38
This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned DC Pride 2022 #1 Tic Tac Tome: The Autonomous Tic Tac Toe Playing Book by Willy Yonkers Homestuck (Wikipedia) Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia) Everything Everywhere All at Once (Wikipedia) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Wikipedia) Lasers & Feelings Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud Links, Articles, and Things Episode 144 - What is a Book? I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to Episode 108 - Visual Novels Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia) Demian's Gamebook Web Page KineticNovel (Wikipedia) Hypertext fiction (Wikipedia) HyperCard (Wikipedia) Flip Book (Wikipedia) Desert Bus for Hope Microform (Wikipedia) Rice writing (Wikipedia) Matthew was just wrong about this Changes to new editions of Roald Dahl books have readers up in arms Jaffa Cakes: Legal Status (Wikipedia) That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law Fountain (Duchamp) (Wikipedia) 20 Books Adapted into Film/TV by BIPOC Authors (and 7 Being Adapted Soon) 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 Purple by Alice Walker \| The Color Purple (1985) The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor \| The Women of Brewster Place (1989 mini-series) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol & Thomas Christensen \| Like Water for Chocolate (1992) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan \| The Joy Luck Club (1993) Beloved by Toni Morrison \| Beloved (1998) The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie \| Smoke Signals (1998) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi \| Persepolis (2007) Q&A by Vikras Swarup \| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Push by Sapphire \| Precious (2009) Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup \| 12 Years a Slave (2013) Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly \| Hidden Figures (2016) Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston \| Silence (2016) Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese \| Indian Horse (2017) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan \| Crazy Rich Asians (2018) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas \| The Hate U Give (2018) If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin \| If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han \| To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Chararipotra \| Tiny Pretty Things (2020 TV series) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga \| The White Tiger (2021) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee \| Pachinko (2022 TV series) American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang \| American Born Chinese (2023 TV series) The Color Purple by Alice Walker \| The Color Purple (2023) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid \| Exit West (2023) Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam \| Leave the World Behind (2023) The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu \| The Three-Body Problem (2023 TV series) Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon \| Blackout (forthcoming film & TV series) The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris \| The Other Black Girl (forthcoming TV series) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Gender Theory/Studies! Then on Tuesday, March 21st we’ll be talking about Moving and Management of Books!
	Episode 168 - Holiday Romance	07 Feb 2023	01:09:53
It's almost Valentine's Day, so this episode we’re talking about Holiday Romance! We discuss what counts as a holiday, Christmas, nostalgia, 1st vs. 3rd person narration, and how all the stories we read are “fine.” Plus: There’s only one bed! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Someone to Trust by Mary Balogh Yule Planet by Angel Martinez Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber Other Media We Mentioned The Red Satin Collection by Giselle Renarde The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer (the Hanukkah one Jam mentioned) Casper Gets His Wish by R. Cooper (the elf one Jam mentioned) (from Episode 063: Cheap eBooks) The Frontier Romance: Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity by Judith Kleinfeld Links, Articles, and Things Hark! Episode 328: Brand Synergy When Is ‘Cuffing Season?’ New Christmas Movies You Can Stream This Season (2022) How to watch all 172 new Christmas movies in December Quiz: What Queer Holiday Romance Should You Read? Escape from the Holidays 24-hour comic (Wikipedia) 20 Holiday Romance books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and 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 Holly Dates by Brittainy C. Cherry Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon Sweet on You: A Filipino Romance by Carla de Guzman Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory Kwanzaa Angel by Shirley Hailstock Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera Amor Actually: A Holiday Romance Anthology by Adriana Herrera, Alexis Daria, Diana Muñoz Stewart, Mia Sosa, Priscilla Oliveras, Sabrina Sol, and Zoey Castile Merry Inkmas by Talia Hibbert Tempted at Midnight by Cheris Hodges One Christmas Wish by Brenda Jackson Grand Theft N.Y.E. by Katrina Jackson Gettin' Merry: A Holiday Anthology by Beverly Jenkins, Francis Ray, Geri Guillaume, and Monica Jackson A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli Holidays with the Wongs by Jackie Lau Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough Also published under the title The Boy From the Mish The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo Right Beside You by Mary Monroe Love Me This Christmas by Jasmine Nicole The Christmas Clash by Suzanne Park All I Want Is You by Kayla Perrin and Deborah Fletcher Mello Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 21st it’s time for What is a book? (part 2)! Then on Tuesday, March 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Gender Theory/Studies!
	Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report	19 Jan 2023	00:50:19
(Hello! This is a re-upload. The first version had a syncing error that snuck in at the very end of the editing process. We've re-exported it and this version sounds much better!) This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards 2022: Year of Book Two Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two 2023 Resolutions Matthew: Read more non-fiction Meghan: Quit trying to read fiction when she doesn’t feel like it Read more of what she owns (borrow less from the library) Anna: Read more graphic novels Take pictures of favourite reads Jam: Theme for the year: Intention Return to tracking picture book reading Media We Mentioned Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, narrated by Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer & Steve West Illuminae Files (books 1-3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, narrated by Moira Quirk Steven Erikson Witch Hat Atelier, Vol 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler Delicious in Dungeon, Vol 1 by Ryoko Kui, translated by Sébastien Ludmann Links, Articles, and Things Which Pokemon are the Most Goth? Matthew reviews his manga reading from 2022 on Twitter List of One Piece manga volumes - Wikipedia 25 Dystopian 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 to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here. Leila by Prayaag Akbar Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Caster by Elsie Chapman The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee Legend by Marie Lu Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza & Abby Sher Futureland by Walter Mosley The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi We Light Up the Sky by Lilliam Rivera Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse The Freedom Race by Lucinda Roy An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 7th. It'll be our annual Valentine’s Day episode, and we’ll be talking about the genre of Holiday Romance! Then on Tuesday, February 21st join us for What is a Book? (part 2)!
	Episode 166 - Sports (Non-Fiction)	03 Jan 2023	01:06:05
This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Sports books! We discuss how to define sports, live sports, weird rules, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri \| Meghan Whyte \| Matthew Murray \| Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-OOPS Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball (YouTube) (lots more below in “Links, Articles, and Things”) Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook, narrated by Atli Gunnarsson Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter by Matt Hern Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-Changing Female Athletes by Laken Litman A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper, narrated by Adam Lazarre-White Other Media We Mentioned Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn Links, Articles, and Things Which Pokémon are the most goth? (featuring Matthew and Jam) Lumberjack World Championship (Wikipedia) Sports Book Awards Mascot Mischief (Jam’s mascot RPG) Pawtucket Red Sox (Wikipedia) It’s possible the burlesque wrestling event that Anna and Matthew went to was Glam Slam, which still exists! Heritage Minutes (Wikipedia) Wilder Penfield (YouTube) Sam Steele (YouTube) Halifax Explosion (YouTube) Jackie Shane (YouTube) (most recent one!) The 10 Best Canadian Heritage Minutes of All Time A Part of Our Heritage (YouTube) AK Press (Wikipedia) Green Bay Packers (Wikipedia) List of fan-owned sports teams (Wikipedia) Sex verification in sports (Wikipedia) Testosterone regulations in women's athletics (Wikipedia) Zhang Shan: The only female shooter to win gold in a mixed competition “After the Barcelona Games, the International Shooting Union barred women from shooting against men. For the next years, the skeet event remained on the Olympic Games programme, but only for male athletes.” The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I by Jon Bois Barbados intentionally scored an own goal to help them win by two thanks to a weird golden goal rule Weird Rules on Secret Base (YouTube) Twenty20 (Wikipedia) “Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket.” Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart 16 Sports (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. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization through Physical Activity by Tricia McGuire-Adams Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City by Perry King A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio Basketball (and Other Things): a Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X. O. Woodbine Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History by Seth Berkman Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus, Elizabeth Terzakis Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America by Jason Reid Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford My Olympic Life by Anita L. DeFrantz and Josh Young Back in the Frame: How to get back on your bike, whatever life throws at you by Jools Walker Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 17th we’ll be discussing reading resolutions!! Then on Tuesday, February 7th it’ll be our annual Valentine’s Day episode and we’ll be talking about the genre of Holiday Romance!

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