Happy Anniversary to us! It's been three years since we launched our podcast. 79 episodes total 2000 listens in the past year 66 countries listening In this anniversary episode, we touch on some of our favourites of the past year, our top ever episodes, as well as everything we're looking forward to. Graphic novel book club? Patreon and Discord? Stick around to see what we have in the works! Show Notes: Our top 3 episodes by number of listeners are: The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan, The Institute by Stephen King, and Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman Some of favourite episodes of the past year include: Cookbooks, Interview with Tiffanie DeBartolo, Interview with Kattie Thorndyke Next episode, we're doing another book and movie comparison with Jurassic Park. Stayed tuned for the relaunch of our Patreon, which will include a Discord server so we have a place to chat and discuss our bookclub books, and a bunch of other perks. Check out Hoopla to digitally borrow all the graphic novels and comics you could ever want. Other Books & Media Mentioned James Baldwin The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi This Will All Be Over Soon by Cecily Strong The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado Pegamoose Press Zodiac Dune Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

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079 - Another Cup of Tea - 3 Year Anniversary Hangout

In Episode 78, Gen and Jette talk about recent WattPad release, Big Boned by Jo Watson. You know we're not generally romcom readers, but we absolutely loved this story! Notes: Jo Watson has over 50 millions reads on WattPad! Check out her other books on her website. Check out our Episode 52, where we talk about WattPad books Historically Inaccurate by Shay Bravo and The Bro Code by Elizabeth A. Seibert. We're all about the fan fiction lately, which you can find on WattPad or Archive of Our Own. We went on a bit of Chris Evans tangent. Have you watched Snowpiercer or Before We Go? Other Media Mentioned 10 Things I Hate About You She's All That Monday Snowpiercer Before We Go

078 - WattPad Books - Big Boned by Jo Watson

In Episode 77, Gen and Jette finally cover a topic they've had planned since Another Book on the Shelf was born—cookbooks! Do cookbooks count as books? Do they count as reading? What makes a great cookbook? We discuss these questions and talk about some of favourite cookbooks, as well as cover what is about cookbooks that we love so much. Show Notes: This conversation was a so much fun, so please add to it by letting us know your favourite cookbooks (or nostalgic recipes!). Our minds are working over cookbook ideas of our own, so let us know what novel you think deserves it's own cookbook. What bookish cookbook have you always wanted? Maybe we'll fulfill your dreams at some point in the future! Here's the flow chart for How to Measure Things Like a Canadian Jette's Cookbook Recommendations All the Milkbar cookbooks Better Homes and Gardens - The CookBook Gifts from the Kitchen Gen's Cookbook Recommendations How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson Sugar by Anna Olson Love & Lemons by Jeanine Donofrio Other Books Mentioned Milkbar Life by Christina Tosi The Jane Austen Cookbook by Deirdre LaFaye and Maggie Black How Baking Works by Paula Figoni The Total Me-Tox by Beth Behrs The Rural Diaries by Hiliarie Burton-Morgan (Listen to the episode:) Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Next Episode: Wattpad Books New Release—Big Boned by Jo Watson Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

077 - Cookbooks

In episode 76, Gen and Jette discuss their latest book club book, Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. This dystopian story follows Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a young pregnant woman who finds herself having to hide in a world where pregnancy has become a matter of state security. Evolution is moving backwards and society as we know it is no longer. You know we love a good dystopia, and Erdrich packs so much into this relatively short book. We had such a good conversation about these characters, the end of the world, and the possibility of never seeing snow again. Show Notes: Louise Erdrich's next book, The Sentence, is set for release on November 9, 2021. Check out this article about Future Home of the Living Gods in The New York Times Our next book club book is a graphic novel, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, illustrated by Becky Cloonan. The novel serves as a sequel to My Chemical Romance's album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, so make sure you listen to that first! Books Mentioned The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Firekeeper's Daughter by Ageline Boulley (Listen to the episode!) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

076 - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

In Episode 75, Gen and Jette talk about Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. This is the third instalment of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series. As with all the books we love, we kind of rambled on a bit, but we also talked about how well Boulley balanced the crime genre with real world issues and Indigenous culture. It's impossible not to fall in love with her characters and she keeps you guessing the whole time. We're happy to report that Firekeeper's Daughter lives up to the Bookstagram hype! Show Notes: Firekeeper's Daughter is being adapted for Netflix with the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground. We had to point out the similarities to One Tree Hill. (And if you love teen dramas as much as we do, check out our other podcast Teenage Daydream!) Do you love the fake dating trope as much as we do? Keep an eye out for future episodes in our Bookstagram Made Me Do It series. We might even have some Instagram polls to help us decide what to read next! Join us for our next episode where we're discussing our latest book club book, Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. Other Books Mentioned: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

075 - Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

In Episode 74, we're teaming up once again with Coach House Books to discuss one of their recent releases, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Rhonda Mullins. Coach House Books is one of our favourite publishers. We always love the books they send us, and this one is no exception. The story follows an unnamed narrator tracking down the story of Gladys, a woman who up and leaves her small town of Swastika one day without a word to her neighbours. It's also about the Northern trains in Canada, small communities, and people coming together in unexpected ways. Show Notes: August is Women in Translation Month, so this book is a perfect Read more about the travelling schools that made their way to remote towns in Canada between 1928 and 1967. The title comes from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" and really fits with the themes of the book. We've read quite a few books translated by Rhonda Mullins, including one of our favourites, Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier, and The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges. Books Mentioned: Sadie by Courtney Summers The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

074 - And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." –Joan Didion In Episode 73, Gen and Jette discuss the broad category of essay collections. From Joan Didion to Chuck Klosterman to Samantha Irby, essay collections cover a wide range of topics in a wide variety of forms. We love a good collection of essays, so we share a few of our favourites, discuss what works for us and what doesn't, and talk about a few on our TBR lists.   Show Notes: We've covered a few essay collections on the podcast: Episode 9 – Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, Episode 38 – Movies and Other Things by Shea Serrano, Episode 65 – Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins, Episode 68 – We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Essay writing opens up so many possibilities that we'd both love to explore in our own writing. Check out Electric Lit for one off essays and sign up for their newsletter to get a curated list delivered to your inbox. Gen's Essay Collection Recommendation: anything Zadie Smith has written Jette's Essay Collection Recommendation: But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman Books and Authors Mentioned: Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, South and West Chuck Klosterman – But What If We're Wrong, Eating the Dinosaur, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, Killing Yourself to Live Samantha Irby – We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Wow, No Thank You Zadie Smith – Intimations, Changing My Mind, Feel Free Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

073 - Essay Collections

In Episode 72, Gen and Jette discuss their most recent book club book—that's actually a play! Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris tackles race, sexuality, and interracial relationships and has been nominated for a record 12 Tony Awards. Show Notes: Check out Nine Stories Productions (#whispersJakeGyllenhaal) Jeremy O. Harris consulted on the first season of Euphoria, and is back for season 2 as co-producer. The record for most Tony Awards for a non-musical production was previously held by the 2018 revival of Angels in America. Make sure to read our next book club book, Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. If you haven't listened to Jagged Little Pill lately, you should. Especially 'You Oughta Know' aka the ultimate angry break-up song. Other Plays/Books/Movies Mentioned: Euphoria Angels in America by Tony Kushner Jagged Little Pill (musical) Seawall/A Life The Handmaiden Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

072 - Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

It's officially summer and that means it's time for another hangout episode! Gen and Jette chat about summer plans, what they've been up to lately, and the reading slump that just won't end. As always, we go off on a few tangents as we have a casual chat about books, writing, and everything in between. Show Notes Jette's (virtually) attending the Jackson Hole Writer's Conference. Thanks to Tiffanie DeBartolo who told us about it in Episode 64. Do you have an internal monologue? Apparently some people don't and this is baffling. In our Toronto wanderings, we've recently visited Evergreen Brick Works and Sugar Beach. We recently made a guest appearance on the  Books and Bones Podcast. This Winnipeg-based podcast, with hosts Gin and Geleena, covers book to film adaptations. We had such a fun time discussing Jaws with them! The  book episode is out now. Keep an eye out for the film episode to follow! Find Books and Bones on Instagram @booksandbonespodcast and Twitter @booksandbonespod For more mind blowing time travel discussions, throw it back to our Chuck Klosterman episode on Eating the Dinosaur. Be sure to check out Sophia Bush's podcast Work In Progress. Check out our latest blog posts discussed in the episode here. Books Mentioned Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Jaws by Peter Benchley What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi One Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas Recursion by Black Crouch Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

071 - Another Cup of Tea - A Summer Solstice Hangout

In Episode 70, Gen and Jette team up again with one of their favourite Toronto publishers, House of Anansi Press. This time we're reading A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie, the sequel to Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which we talked about all the way back in Episode 20! It was so much fun to revisit Lavoie's candid and hilarious writing style and spend more time with Diane—the titular boring wife who is anything but boring! We're keeping this episode relatively SPOILER FREE so that you can listen before entering our GIVEAWAY! Enter to win 1 of 5 copies of A Boring Wife Settles the Score, generously provided by House of Anansi. All you have to do is send us a screenshot of you listening any one of our episodes before June 23 and you'll be entered! Winners will be announced on our Instagram stories on June 24, so make sure you give us a follow if you haven't already. Show Notes: Autopsy of a Boring Wife is being developed for TV and we can't wait to get more details on that. In case anyone doesn't know what cassoulet is or wants to try their hand at making it, here's a recipe from The Kitchn: This book totally qualifies as an #IcedCoffeeRead. If you don't know what that is, check out Jette's latest blog post. Books Mentioned Recursion by Blake Crouch Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

070 - A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie

In Episode 69, Gen and Jette continue their series #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. In this retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai, Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov are heirs to their respective gangs who have to work together to find the source of a monstrous plague. We loved talking about Chloe Gong's debut novel. She has a vivid writing style and plays with the source material in the best way. So you know we can't wait for the sequel! In the meantime, we'll just have to rewatch Baz Luhrmann's classic film adaptation. Find Chloe Gong on Twitter @TheChloeGong and on her website TheChloeGong.com Books and Movies Mentioned: Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Anna K by Jenny Lee Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

069 - These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

It's time for another book club episode! Gen and Jette talk about their March/April book club selection—We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. We talk about Irby's pull-no-punches writing style, her ability to put herself out there in her writing, and how we could turn some of our life experiences into essays of our own. Show Notes We don't know if we could ever be as honest and raw as Samantha Irby is, but we respect her style.   We'll definitely be borrowing some of Irby's essay formats for writing exercises! Our next book club selection and Tony nominated play Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris. For more on writing, listen to our previous episode where we chat with fellow blogger and podcaster, Kattie Thorndyke. Other Books Mentioned By Samantha Irby—Meaty; Wow, No Thank You; New Year, Same Trash Theft by Finding by David Sedaris Movies and Other Things by Shea Serrano Chuck Klosterman Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

068 - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Gen and Jette talk about all kinds of writing with a wonderful guest. Kattie Thorndyke is a podcaster, engineer (with TWO Masters degrees), tea lover, technical writer, blogger, mom, and so many more things! Jette has been on Kattie's podcast (The Otherwise Intelligent Woman) and now Kattie is returning the favour. Kattie has helped us make our blog awesome and is also just an amazing friend so talking about all things writing related was a ton of fun. Show Notes: Find Kattie on LinkedIn Check out Kattie's blog and contact her if you want to work with her. Listen to The Otherwise Intelligent Woman on Spotify Listen to The Otherwise Intelligent Woman on Apple Podcasts Follow Kattie on Instagram 

067 - Writing Comes in Many Forms - An Interview with Kattie Thorndyke

It's time for another cup of tea and our first hangout episode of 2021! We'll be real guys, it's been a rough start. Still, there have been a few good things and even though we haven't been reading as much as wanted to, we've read some great books as well. So settle in with a cup of tea and join us for a casual discussion of what we've been up to so far this year and what we're looking forward to the rest of the year (hint: it's mostly more books). Show Notes Time remains a tenuous concept at best because how is it already mid-April?? We're still going strong with the yoga thanks to Yoga with Adriene and keeping each other accountable. #whispersJakeGyllenhaal The two cardigans Gen is working on are Morginn and Willa. Can you beat Jette for longest time spent on a single knitting project? If you want to learn more about perfume check out Art and Olfaction —they have very reasonably priced online courses. Kattie, who we're talking to next episode, has a podcast called The Otherwise Intelligent Woman. Books Mentioned The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr Brooklyn Brujas #1 - Labyrinth Lost  by Zoraida Cordova The Guest List by Lucy Foley Finals Girls by Riley Sager Lock Every Door by Riley Sager A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost The Dark Library by Cyril Martinez Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran Home Before Dark by riley sager The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard The Project by Courtney Summers Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin Sorrow by Tiffanie DeBartolo Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas The White Album by Joan Didion Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

066 - Another Cup of Tea - Spring Hangout

In episode 65 Gen and Jette discuss the latest from Jedidiah Jenkins. His new book, Like Streams to the Ocean, covers all the things that make us who we are—ego, family, friends, home, work, and more. We loved Jedidiah's first book, To Shake the Sleeping Self, and we loved his new one just as much! Jedidiah Jenkins is officially on our automatic buy list. Show Notes: For more Jedidiah Jenkins, listen to Episode 12 about To Shake the Sleeping Self. Jedidiah Jenkins narrates the audiobook, so definitely check it out! This one had us thinking about writing styles and not following traditional career paths. Instead we're building career trees! For more on writing listen to our conversations with Tiffanie DeBartolo and with Sidura Ludwig. Can you believe Jette forgot to mention Paper Houses? We go off on a couple of tangents reminiscing about Lake Louise, New York City, Boston, and working at the AGO. Books and Movies Mentioned Be:cause the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne David Sedaris Requiem for a Dream Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!

065 - Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins

So we started a book club but never talked about the books so we decided to start a podcast to talk about the books.

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