Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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! 

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?

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?)

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!

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!

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!

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! 

(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)!

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!

This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, 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 Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Jam Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies Matthew Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Meghan Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler Episode 164 - Military Fiction Not for the podcast Jam Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy Matthew Semiosis by Sue Burke Meghan Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan Anna The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction Meghan The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space Anna Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism Jam Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction Not for the podcast Meghan Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes Anna Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv Jam Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey Matthew X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor Other Favourite Things of 2022 Anna Tasting History with Max Miller Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci Jam Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday” French tacos (Wikipedia) Matthew Unpacking Meghan Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian Runner-Ups Anna Video Games: Crashlands Wobbledogs YouTube: Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews) Podcasts:  American Hysteria Maintenance Phase You Are Good Other (Audio)Books: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Jam Favourite classic:  The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Episode 151 - Classics Favourite manga:  Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)  Favourite Album:  Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia) Working for the Knife (YouTube) Favourite AAA video game:  Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia) Favourite indie video game:  Wytchwood Favourite Wordle spin-off:  Worldle Matthew Video game: Hyper Light Drifter Manga Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by  Taylor Engel Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan Graphic novels: Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud Books Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Meghan Favourite new-to-me author: Zviane Favourite work of translation: The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles Podcast non-fiction runner up:  Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder Podcast fiction runner up: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Non-fiction The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker Runner up graphic novels: Himawari House by Harmony Becker Taproot by Keezy Young Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French) L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man) Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera  Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French) Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew) Radium Girls by Cy. (French) Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French) Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French) Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French) Links, Articles, Media, and Things Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021 Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two ChatGPT (Wikipedia) There no longer appears to be an easy way to find images sent through Google Chat anymore, so no screenshots of fake podcast co-hosts discussing reptile fiction. Sorry! I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia) Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap 24 Travel 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. America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic Travel Literature by Kamal Abdel-Malek Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, And Snapshots Across Colors, Cultures and Continents by Lola Akinmade Åkerström All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Bashō, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana by Stephanie Elizondo Griest A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin & Cheryl J. Fish I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey by Langston Hughes Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine by Edward Lee The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills The Middle Passage by V.S. Naipaul Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham An Indian Among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain by Lori L. Tharps 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 3rd we’ll be talking about Sports non-fiction! Then on Tuesday, January 17rd we’ll be discussing our 2023 Reading Resolutions!

This episode we’re talking about Military Fiction! We discuss jingoism, how war is hell, war stories vs military fiction, clichés, 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 Things We Read (or tried to…) A Summer for War by Darrell Duthie All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen Battlefields, vol. 1: Night Witches by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun Night Witches (Wikipedia) Battlefields, vol. 6: Motherland by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun Battlefields, vol. 8: The Fall & Rise of Anna Kharkova by Garth Ennis and Russ Braun The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Rebel Seoul by Axie Oh Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac Code talker (Wikipedia) Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler The Fallen of World War II (infographic) Other Media We Mentioned Call of Duty (Wikipedia) No novels, but there are some graphic novels Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien MASH: A Roman About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker M*A*S*H (TV series) (Wikipedia) Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wikipedia) Figuring out what to link to for Modern Warfare is too much effort Spec Ops: The Line (Wikipedia) Band of Brothers (miniseries) (Wikipedia) Saving Private Ryan (Wikipedia) For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy If anyone has a good link about the connections between Marvel movies and militaries, please let us know! John Wick (Wikipedia) Coming Home (1978 film) (Wikipedia) Forever War by Joe Haldeman Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian Sgt. Rock (Wikipedia Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki Inglourious Basterds (Wikipedia) Preacher (comics) (Wikipedia) The Boys (comics) (Wikipedia) The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye (TFWiki) Suicide Squad (Wikipedia) His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik Links, Articles, and Things Finish It! Podcast Remembrance Day (Wikipedia) Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage Episode 055 - Military Non-Fiction W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction War comics (Wikipedia) Protests against the Iraq War (Wikipedia) United States and the International Criminal Court (Wikipedia) Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History 15 Military 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. Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson Where I'm Bound by Allen B. Ballard March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis Flying High by Gwynne Forster This Light Between Us: A Novel of World War II by Andrew Fukuda Ocean of Words by Ha Jin War Trash by Ha Jin Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson The American Granddaughter by Inaam Kachachi, translated by Nariman Youssef The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride Two Trails Narrow by Stephen McGregor Captain Blackman by John A. Williams Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé 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, December 20th we’ll be talking about our favourite books we read in 2022! Then on Tuesday, January 3rd we’ll ring in the new year by discussing the genre of Sports non-fiction!

This episode we’re talking about Podcasts! We talk about the first podcasts we listened to (and whether we still listen to them), how we find new podcasts, what speed we listen to podcasts at, what podcasts we’ve been enjoying recently, podcasting in our pyjamas, 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 Podcasts We Recommended Mangasplaining Finish It! Podcast Stuff The British Stole Hey Riddle Riddle One Shot Podcast Gender Reveal Stronger by Science The Slowdown Food 4 Thot American Hysteria Dig: A History Podcast You Are Good Clue (1985) w. Lauren Milberger Other Podcasts We Mentioned War Rocket Ajax Episode 333 - Long, Sustained Dong f/ [Jam] and Ian from HARK! Episode 383 - The Christmas Specials Special f/ [Jam] and Ian from HARK Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins HARK! Podcast Wait, What? Movie Fighters Welcome to Night Vale All Songs Considered Radiolab On Being with Krista Tippett Speaking of Faith Serial My Favorite Murder Maintenance Phase If Books Could Kill (they apparently don’t have a website, just a Twitter feed and a link to Apple Podcasts) You’re Wrong About The Satanic Panic Quarantine Book Club: “Michelle Remembers” My Brother, My Brother and Me The Adventure Zone Alice Isn’t Dead The Moth Episode  136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled 99% Invisible RISK! Podcast Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Tenure and Transparency (Brenna Clarke Grey talks about the tenure process) Links, Articles, and Things Podcast (Wikipedia) "Podcast" is a portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast". The earliest use of "podcasting" was traced to The Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben Hammersley, who coined it in early February 2004 while writing an article for The Guardian newspaper. The man who accidentally invented the word ‘Podcast’ ComicsAlliance (Wikipedia) Judge Dredd (Wikipedia) BBC Radio 6 Matthew listened to a lot of Steve Lamacq’s show Evolution of the iPod [2001-2022] How YouTube Became a Podcasting Powerhouse Without Trying Podcast Addict Who's on First? (Wikipedia) Abbott & Costello Who's On First Parasocial interaction (Wikipedia) 15 Literary Podcasts by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Podcasters 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 episode on podcasts, we’ve compiled a list of literature-related podcasts featuring BIPOC hosts/creators. AAWW Radio Black Chick Lit Book Friends Forever Book Women Podcast Books & Boba Deadline City Dreaming In The Dark Getting Lit Podcast LibVoices Minorities in Publishing Not Another Book Podcast Shaping the Narrative Storykeepers Podcast Tres Cuentos Literary Podcast Well-Read Black Girl 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, December 6th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Military Fiction! Then on Tuesday, December 20th we’ll be talking about our favourite books we read in 2022!

This episode we’re talking about Investigative Journalism! We talk about what makes something journalism, when we don’t read articles, enjoying vs. appreciated media, 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…) Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love by Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump by Sarah Posner, narrated by Cassandra Campbell The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer by Nicholas Shaxson "The overall results of this sea change from progressive economics toward identity politics has been an enduring one, and it was crystallized by Hillary Clinton in an election rally speech in 2016. "If we broke up the big banks tomorrow," she shouted, "Would that end racism?" "No!” Her audience replied. "Would that end Sexism?" No!" Although she did say she would tackle the banks if they misbehaved, hers was a pro-big bank message, couched as something progressive.” The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs by John Pilger Murrow on McCarthy (YouTube) Dreamland (YA Edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Charles Bowden and Nick Schou The Disappearing Act by Florence de Changy Other Media We Mentioned The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by The Boston Globe Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (Wikipedia) Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson Also published as Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Links, Articles, and Things The Librarian Alignment chart Jorts the Cat Episode 080 - True Crime The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos Ed Yong His COVID stories in The Atlantic Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction Notes from America The Wolf Pack of White Nationalism Hillary Clinton Suggested Breaking Up the Big Banks Won’t End Racism and Sexism. Is She Right? How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul “kind of a bummer to have been born at the very end of the Fuck Around century just to live the rest of my life in the Find Out century” (Twitter, 2021-02-21) The Invisible Substrate of Information Science MLM: Men Loving Men: Men who have sex with men (Wikipedia) Multi-level marketing (Wikipedia) Marxism–Leninism–Maoism (Wikipedia) Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs “Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus” (Twitter, 2021-11-08) 10 Investigative Journalism Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees by Matthieu Aikins The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole Stolen from Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities by Suzanne J. Fournier and Ernie Crey We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader by Ida B. Wells 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, November 15th we’ll be talking about Podcasts! Then on Tuesday, December 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Military Fiction!

This episode we’re talking about Hate Reads! We discuss annoyance reading, hate reading vs reading something you hate, completionism, experiencing bad media as a social bonding experience, and 1-star reviews of books. Plus: Books about women murdering! 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 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Wikipedia) "A spectre is haunting Europe” Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Game of Thrones (Wikipedia) Divergent by Veronica Roth “Divergent might have been sloppy in places, but in a bizarre continuity error, both Tris’ disabling trauma around guns and an actual gun appears and disappears as is convenient in the final chapters… This violates both Chekhov’s Gun and some corollary: if you introduce a gun, it must exist.” (from Jam’s review; see also “I’m not reading another YA trilogy unless someone guarantees me no queer people die in the second act”) Insurgent by Veronica Roth The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir “reading this book felt like having to eat three bags of raw spinach before I was allowed the ice cream sundae I'd been promised” (from Matthew’s review) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Links, Articles, and Things 161 (number) (Wikipedia) Schadenfreude (Wikipedia) Mark Oshiro (who Jam mentioned) appears to have deleted their YouTube channel? Or Something? You can still go to their website and the Mark Reads website. Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast Episode on Ready Player One A recent(ish) episode of Watch+Play (there’s a lot of them!) There’s also this playlist of shorter, edited videos if you don’t want to commit Hark (Jam’s holiday music podcast) Hot take (Wikipedia) Hate-watching (Wikipedia) Episode 011 - Religious Fiction (the one in which Anna read the book she hated) BookTok (Wikipedia) Matthew can’t find the specific X-Men review he mentioned, but it’s buried in this site somewhere (that link specifically is to a scathing review of the final issue of Mutant X) Show, don't tell (Wikipedia) Questions What Romance genres do you want us to read? What comic would you use to introduce superhero comics to adults (who haven't read them before)? Twitter thread 15 works of Experimental 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. Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Big City by Marream Krollos Search History by Eugene Lim Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by  Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga Oreo by Fran Ross We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson I was the President's Mistress!! by Miguel Syjuco Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi 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, November 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Investigative Journalism! Then on Tuesday, November 15th we’ll be talking about Podcasts!

This episode we’re talking about Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies! We talk about metafiction, superhero origins as cover songs, spaceship detectives, cat biographies, amendments to amendments, alien abductions, 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…) Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960 by William Boyd Wikipedia Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon, translated by Howard Curtis Matthew was wrong about how many books in this series came out in one month, but based on the French Wikipedia article four titles (including this one) were released in 1951. Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Jack Sheppard (Wikipedia) The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) Summertime by J.M. Coetzee Other Media We Mentioned Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries Series by Gyles Brandreth Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip José Farmer What Is the What by Dave Eggers Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia) Blonde (2022 film) (Wikipedia) Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates Smile (2022 film) (Wikipedia) Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma, Testimony, Theory by Leigh Gilmore The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Joshua Chapman (zine series) We can’t find a good link for the zines, but it’s been collected as a book Interview with the Vampire (film) (Wikipedia) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. The Big Lebowski (Wikipedia) Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Links, Articles, and Things Episode 143 - Amish Romance Episode 119 - Regence Romance Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance Episode 070 - Erotic Romance The 7 Best Library Podcasts  Fictionalized biography (Encyclopædia Britannica) Autofiction (Wikipedia) Isekai (Wikipedia) Oliver Cromwell (Wikipedia) Epistolary novel (Wikipedia) Episode 111 - Happy Birthday Dracula Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective Episode 136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources (Wikipedia) List of Dewey Decimal classes (Wikipedia) National Library of Medicine classification (Wikipedia) Zaphod Beeblebrox (Wikipedia) “Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?” False memory: Mandela Effect (Wikipedia) 17 Fictional Biographies 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. Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac American Woman by Susan Choi The Black Rose by Tananarive Due The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha by Diane Glancy Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea by Diane Glancy Driving the King by Ravi Howard Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, translated by Peter Sluglett Empress Orchid by Anchee Min Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos, translated by Helen Lane Empress by Shan Sa The Book of Salt by Monique Truong Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé 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, October 18th for our SpoooooOOOoooky Halloween episode we’ll be talking about the concept of Hate Reads! Then on Tuesday, November 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Investigative Journalism!

This episode we’re talking about Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart! We discuss how much science a book needs to be to count as “pop science,” content warnings for books, BDSM, MRIs, and other acronyms! Plus: How many hot sauces we own! 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 Talked About Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart Other Media We Mentioned Nerve - Adventures in the Science of Fear by Eva Holland Secretary (2002 film) (Wikipedia) Turning by Jessica J. Lee Valley Girl by Moon Unit and Frank Zappa The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry  Links, Articles, and Things Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022 Don't Be Afraid Of The Clowns Mary Roach (Wikipedia) Frank's RedHot (Wikipedia) Gochujang (Wikipedia) South Asian pickle (Wikipedia) Carolina Reaper (Wikipedia) Ultramarathon (Wikipedia) Play piercing (Wikipedia) Polar bear plunge (Wikipedia) Wim Hof (Wikipedia) Camino de Santiago (Wikipedia) Pain scale (Wikipedia) Temperature play (Wikipedia) Ocu-less || CheckPoint 407 K/DA (Wikipedia) More (YouTube) Hate-watching (Wikipedia) Erotic humiliation (Wikipedia) Leather Archives & Museum on Instagram 15 Gardening & Plants Non-fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Metis Plant Use by Christi Belcourt The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowens Wild at Home: How to Style and Care for Beautiful Plants by Hilton Carter Luschiim’s Plants: A Hul′q′umi′num′ (Cowichan) Ethnobotany by Luschiim Arvid Charlie The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family by Darryl Cheng The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity by E. Barrie Kavasch Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham Lessons from Plants by Beronda L Montgomery American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America by Michelle Obama Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Grow: A Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them by Riz Reyes Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. 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, October 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies/Biographical Fiction! Then on Tuesday, October 18th we’ll be talking about the concept of Hate Reads.