This episode we’re playing Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled! There’s illegal printing presses, malformed creatures, rooftop chases, stolen hats, tea ceremonies, and a masquerade ball! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Links, Articles, and Things Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands Victor and the Bully - Spooky 365 (YouTube) The One Shot Podcast - Episode 319. Hearts of Magic Part 1 Dark Mori (Mori Girl Wiki) 13 Supernatural / Paranormal (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 to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here. The Monster Hunter's Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Saving Mankind from Vampires, Zombies, Hellhounds, and Other Mythical Beasts by Ibrahim S. Amin When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror by James Bruchac So Much More: A Poignant Memoir about Finding Love, Fighting Adversity, and Defining Life on My Own Terms by Zulema Arroyo Farley Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond by Nasario García New Mexico Ghost Stories by Antonio R. Garcez The Headless Haunt: And Other African-American Ghosts Stories by James Haskins Moaning Bones: African American Ghost Stories by James Haskins Craft: How to Be a Modern Witch by Gabriela Herstik An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History by Kazuhiko Komatsu Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era by Tiya Miles Enchantments: A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession by Mya Spalter Out of Concealment: Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson The Seven Types of Spirit Guide: How to Connect and Communicate with Your Cosmic Helpers by Yamile Yemoonyah 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 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Music!  Then on Tuesday, November 19th we’ll be talking about Adaptations of Books!

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Episode 136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled

This episode we’re talking about Erotica! We discuss the relationship between erotica and porn, the differences between erotica and romance fiction, fanfiction, and much more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Thirty by Jill Emerson   Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren La technique du périnée by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell Permission by Saskia Vogel Neon Gods by Katee Robert Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne (NSFW) Little Cat by Tamara Faith Berger Other Media We Mentioned Penthouse Letters The Fermata by Nicholson Baker Discards by Nicholson Baker Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky Nymph by Francesca Lia Block Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection by Colleen Coover Chester 5000 by Jess Fink We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir by Jess Fink Smut Peddler Presents: My Monster Boyfriend edited by C. Spike Trotman Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and EA Denich Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series by Laurell K. Hamilton The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James Links, Articles, and Things Episode 070 - Erotic Romance Manga in Libraries: Spooky & Scary Manga (registration link!) #31SpookyManga Our Bookshop.org shop Erotica: Full-Frontal Shelving | Genre Spotlight @arkhamlibrarian (Librarian who posts pulp/smut covers fairly regularly) Chuck Tingle (Wikipedia) Jessica Bird (J.R. Ward) (Wikipedia) Sherrilyn Kenyon (Wikipedia) Anne Bishop (Wikipedia) Sex magic (Wikipedia) Literotica Archive of Our Own ALA’s GNCRT’s Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List Bluebeard (fairy tale) (Wikipedia) Lemon Demon - Two Trucks Salt N Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex Creepypasta (Wikipedia) Monster erotica (Wikipedia) 18 Erotica 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 Lover, the Lake/L'amant du lac by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau Taking on the Billionaire by Robin Covington The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey Garden of Flesh by Gilbert Hernandez In Her Closet by Tasha L. Harrison Lord of the Senses by Vikram Kolmannskog Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale by Noire Play With Me by Alisha Rai Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman, illustrated by Emilee Denich Haven by Rebekah Weatherspoon So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon The Carnal Prayer Mat by Li Yu The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth by Zane A Taste Of Sin by Fiona Zedde Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 19th when we’ll be playing a spooky game for Halloween! Then on Tuesday, November 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Music! 

Episode 135 - Erotica

This episode we’re discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke! Major spoiler warning for this episode as we talk about a lot of various plot points! (Though we don’t reveal everything.) There’s an extra spoiler siren immediately before we start diving into the plot in depth. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (buy it from our store) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia) The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern SCP-3008 (Ikea) SCP-087 (stairs that go down forever) SCP Foundation (Wikipedia) BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde by Julie S. Lalonde God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Links, Articles, and Things Book Talk Live with McArthur Public Library (featuring Matthew!) It’s not up on podcast places yet, but we’ll let you know! Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Italian Emergency Alert System (YouTube) Censor Beep Cornice (Wikipedia) Walking simulators (Wikipedia) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Wikipedia) Imaginary Prisons (Wikipedia) 15 Self Help 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. Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones Walking In Your Power: Lessons from the Grandmothers by Barbara Derrick Get Over 'I Got It': How to Stop Playing Superwoman, Get Support, and Remember That Having It All Doesn’t Mean Doing It All Alone by Elayne Fluker Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language by Roxane Gay It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage by Arlan Hamilton Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul by Najwa Zebian 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 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Erotica! Then on Tuesday, October 19th we’ll be playing a spooky role-playing game!

Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

This episode we’re talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are Cosmopolitan for scientists! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, & Christopher Merrill Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto “Machine Love” by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill “Ice” by Lotte van der Krol The 4th Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Content Dans l'antre d'Aoï garden by Hye-Young Pyun  Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry Other Media We Mentioned “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn” (Wikipedia) “El Dinosaurio” by Augusto Monterroso “El Emigrante” by Luis Felipe Lomelí Every Book Its Reader by @marccold It's lunchtime, which means it's time for a very sad story in which love is found, love is lost, he does her wrong, and she gets her revenge by @marccold Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs edited and translated by John Colarusso New Yorker Flash Fiction Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol  Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (Wikipedia) “Human Intelligence” by Kurt Anderson Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Wikipedia) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 108 - Visual Novels Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks Book Club for Masochists: Land Acknowledgements Drabble (Wikipedia) Cell phone novel (Wikipedia) Twitterature (Wikipedia) The Short Story Dispenser Storm Crow Beermat microfiction contest (archive.org) Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction Lydia Davis (Wikipedia) Poetry in Transit (Vancouver) Deny Everything - Circle Jerks (Spotify) YouTube 15 Flash Fiction Books & 15 Flash Fiction Stories 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. Collections The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn People of Colo(u)r Destroy Flash Fiction! edited by Berit Ellingsen States of Grace by Stephen Graham Jones Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami Complete Works & Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso Forward by Shabnam Piryaei The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China edited & translated by Shouhua Qi Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America edited by by Robert Shapard & James Thomas Microfictions by Ana María Shua Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Córdoba Sosa The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela Work-In-Progress by Ran Walker Stories “Riddle” by Ogbewe Amadin “lil miss jackson” by Nefertiti Asanti “Smoothies” by Venita Blackburn “Gloria” by K-Ming Chang “After 'While” by Cherie Dimaline “Before the Haze Devours You” by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas “As the North Wind Howled” by Yu Hua “A Sailor” by Randa Jarrar “Moonboys” by Stephen Graham Jones “Roe Soup Dance” by Tammy Heejae Lee “Time, Like Water” by Amal El-Mohtar “As Above” by Amal El-Mohtar “Niqqak” by Sedna Qaġaq “More than Nothing” by Nisi Shawl “God Product” by Alyssa 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 Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September 21st when we’ll be reading and discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Then on Tuesday, October 5th we’ll be getting spooky in preparation for Halloween as we discuss the genre of Erotica!

Episode 133 - Flash Fiction

This week it’s another episode where we talk about Media We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about woman’s basketball, resource mining, musicals, translations, and more!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Talked About This Episode Maintenance Phase The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler The “Brimmed Hat Group” are the ones who use forbidden magic Women's National Basketball Association (Wikipedia) (There are twelve teams!) Taskmaster (Wikipedia) Series playlists (YouTube) Paint The Best Picture Of The Taskmaster, Without Touching The Red Mat (YouTube) Let’s Game It Out (YouTube channel) I Was Sponsored to Explore New Ways to Torment Colonists - Oxygen Not Included (YouTube) Oxygen Not Included (Wikipedia) D&D x Magic One-Shot Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons x Magic: The Gathering) by LoadingReadyRun Map of NCR Libraries / bibliothèques  Tour de Libraries (Twitter) StarKid Productions The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (YouTube) Black Friday (YouTube) Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley Napkin by Carta Monir Other Media We Mentioned Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Your Fat Friend You're Wrong About The Sims (Wikipedia) On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss Links, Articles, and Things Library Punk episode 022 - Nonfiction Comics Manga in Libraries: Defending the Collection Watch the previous webinars Madison (cycling) (Wikipedia) Women's Madison Final - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Six-day racing (Wikipedia) Heritage Minutes: Basketball “But I need these baskets back!” California Sues Activision Blizzard for Being 'Breeding Ground for Harassment' (Content Warning for sexual harrassment, sexual violence, and suicide) Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest of Work Conditions Alliance française (Wikipedia) Bardic Inspiration Tickle Me Elmo (Wikipedia) Hark! Podcast This Little Art by Kate Briggs 20 Historical Fantasy 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. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Bacchanal by Veronica Henry The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Dread Nation by Justina Ireland The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang The Poppy War by RF Kuang The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Celia’s Song by Lee Maracle Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo 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, September 7th when we’ll be talking about the format of Flash Fiction. Then on Tuesday, September 21st we’ll be reading and discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed

This episode we’re talking about Cyberpunk fiction! We discuss the aesthetics of neon and grime, cultural fears and xenophobia, techno-pessimism, survival and revolution, noir fiction, and more! Plus: When cybernetic implants meet body horror! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Battle of the Books 2021 Vote for which book you’d like us all to read! Things We Read (or tried to…) Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott Dreamships by Melissa Scott Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow edited by Jason Heller & Joshua Viola SP4RX by Wren McDonald Imago by Tristan Alice Nieto Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick Pay-what-you-can version of the ebook Samurai 8: La légende de Hachimaru, Tome 1 by Masashi Kishimoto and Akira Okubo Other Media We Mentioned Max Headroom (Wikipedia) Judge Dredd (Wikipedia) 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) (Wikipedia) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson Blade Runner (Wikipedia) The Matrix (Wikipedia) Existenz (Wikipedia)  Hackers (film) (Wikipedia) The Terminator (Wikipedia) Akira (1988 film) (Wikipedia) Ghost in the Shell (1995 film) (Wikipedia) The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by Cory Doctorow Feed by MT Anderson The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Serial Experiments Lain (Wikipedia) Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson Shadowrun (Wikipedia) Neuromancer by William Gibson Episode 082b - Bonus *Punk Fiction Spreadsheet Discussion Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Black Mirror (Wikipedia) Autonomous by Annalee Newitz  The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken  The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology edited by Bruce Sterling Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr. Links, Articles, and Things 20 Minutes into the Future (TV Tropes) Tech noir (Wikipedia) The Future Is Noir (TV Tropes) Japan Takes Over the World (TV Tropes) Lost Decades (Japan) (Wikipedia) Orientalism, 'Cyberpunk 2077,' and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction Fear of a Yellow Planet: Why We Need to Actually Understand Cyberpunk 33 Best Cyberpunk Books of All-Time (2021) Cyberpunk derivatives (Wikipedia) Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (Wikipedia) "A Better World is Possible" - Cyberpunk 2077 (Waypoint Radio: Episode 365) LexisNexis (Wikipedia) Anna’s tweet about messaging Matthew Leet (Wikipedia) Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Wikipedia) Cybernetics Eat Your Soul (TV Tropes) Ecofiction (Wikipedia) 17 Cyberpunk 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. Rise of the Red Hand by Olivia Chadha Runtime by S.B. Divya The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai Warcross by Marie Lu Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta Neon Empire by Drew Minh Nexus by Ramez Naam Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha Infomocracy by Malka Older War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo Want by Cindy Pon Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow Rosewater by Tad Thompson Robocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson       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!

Episode 131 - Cyberpunk

This episode it’s the first part of our 2021 Battle of the Books! We’re each pitching a book that we think we should all read and discuss, and you get to decide which one we read! We talk about pombies, wooden book clubs, friendship, and more! Plus: Digressions about superheroes! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Which book should we all read? I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez  Vote for which book you’d like us all to read Vote! Our Shortlists RJ’s Shortlist Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi Circe by Madeline Miller A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery Meghan’s Shortlist The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow  The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Anna’s Shortlist Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Media We Mentioned The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Loki (TV series) (Wikipedia) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Links, Articles, and Things 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 Dear Prudence Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia) The Shirley Jackson shirt RJ was wearing Arsenal Pulp Press Hark! Podcast Mangasplaining Canada Reads (Wikipedia) Spider-Man (Wikipedia) Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe) (Wikipedia) Miles Morales (Wikipedia) Ben Reilly (Wikipedia) The New 52 (Wikipedia) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Wikipedia) Imaginary Prisons (Wikipedia) Wyvern (Wikipedia) Sixties Scoop (Wikipedia) Canadian Indian residential school system (Wikipedia) Cultural genocide (Wikipedia) 1976 Argentine coup d'état (Wikipedia) 15 Spy/Espionage 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 POC (People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here. This is our retrospective book list for Episode 012 - Spies & Espionage.  Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent by Lorisa Bates A Hope Divided : A Novel of the Civil War by Alyssa Cole A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de Leon Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim The Starlet and the Spy by Ji-Min Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Quotients by Tracey O’Neill The Strivers' Row Spy by Jason Overstreet Open House by Nabil Saleh Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 3rd it’s time to jack in and download because we’ll be reading the genre of Cyberpunk! Then on Tuesday, August 17th it’s time for another of our episodes in which we discuss books, movies, and other media we consume that aren’t for the podcast!

Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Film & TV books! We discuss media about media, self-pity book purchasing, spoilers, and more! Plus: Kakapos! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West  Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano and Arturo Torres  Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Questlove Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss, Mathew Klickstein Hollywood vs. the Author edited by Stephen Jay Schwartz Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies by Ann Hornaday The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell Richard Ayoade Presents the Grip of Film by Gordy LaSure  Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey Typeset in the Future website 101 Movies to Watch Before You Die by Ricardo Cavolo How to Watch Television, Second Edition edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell Other Media We Mentioned A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Wikipedia) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Wikipedia) Samurai Pizza Cats (Wikipedia) My Pet Monster (Wikipedia) The A-Team (Wikipedia) Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia) Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia) Goosebumps (TV series) (Wikipedia) Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales Saturday Night Live (Wikipedia) The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy by Paul Myers The Kids in the Hall (TV series) (Wikipedia) As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman The Fugitive (Wikipedia) View from the Top (Wikipedia) The Room (Wikipedia) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Wikipedia) Alien (Wikipedia) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wikipedia) Blade Runner (Wikipedia) Total Recall (Wikipedia) WALL-E (Wikipedia) Moon (Wikipedia) House (TV series) (Wikipedia) Battlestar Galactica (Wikipedia) The Video Game History Hour podcast Decoder Ring - The Soap Opera Machine Shrill (TV series) (Wikipedia) Love, Actually (Wikipedia) List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies (Wikipedia) 33⅓ (Wikipedia) Criminal Minds (Wikipedia) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wikipedia) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Wikipedia) Dredd (Wikipedia) The Muppets (Wikipedia) Top Gun (Wikipedia) Kate Beaton’s Top Gun comics Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wikipedia) Star Trek: The Next Generation (Wikipedia) Armageddon Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know about Zombies, Contagions, Aliens, and the End of the World as We Know It! by Dale Sherman Links, Articles, and Things Library Punk episode 014 - Manga Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective Fanart! Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction Toy Galaxy (YouTube channel) Lindsay Ellis (YouTube channel) Amanda the Jedi (YouTube channel) Jenny Nicholson (YouTube channel) Every Frame a Painting (YouTube channel) Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting by co-creator Tony Zhou Welcome to the Basement Pushing Up Roses (YouTube channel) Jacob Geller (YouTube channel) Letterboxd (Wikipedia) Demi Adejuyigbe on Letterboxd Sidewalk Slam - Episode 57 - AEW Revolution 2021 (YouTube) Kakapo (Wikipedia) Lego set Diegesis (Wikipedia) The Stranger (newspaper) (Wikipedia) Chuck Klosterman (Wikipedia) Hanif Abdurraqib (Wikipedia) 24 Film/TV/Video 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. All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire by Jonathan Abrams “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations' Voices Speak Out by Sierra S. Adare Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance by Christina N. Baker Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman   The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry by Maryann Erigha Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals About Psychology, Identity, and Communication by Sheena C. Howard Something Like an Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals by Julia Lee The Films of Bong Joon Ho by Nam Lee Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts edited by Russell Leong Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic by Helen Hok-Sze Leung Cinema-Interval by Trinh T. Minh-ha Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele Where Do You Think We Are?: Ten Illustrated Essays About Scrubs by Shea Serrano, illustrated by Arturo Torres Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Viola Shafik Maori Television: The First Ten Years by Jo Smith Shaded Lives: African American Women and Television by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Tribal Television: Viewing Native People in Sitcoms by Dustin Tahmahkera Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Ahmir Questlove Thompson Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: A Guerilla Filmmaking Manifesto by Melvin Van Peebles Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism by Nancy Wang Yuen I See Black People: The Rise and Fall of African American-Owned Television and Radio by Kristal Brent Zook Also check out the booklist from our episode on Entertainment Non-Fiction. Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Which zine do you most want to read? (Twitter poll) RJ's zine about Love Actually Anna's zine about Criminal Minds Matthew's zine about Dredd Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! It’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, July 20th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read. (And yes, it will definitely happen this time.) Then on Tuesday, August 3rd it’s time to jack in and download because we’ll be reading the genre of Cyberpunk!

Episode 129 - Non-Fiction Film & TV Books

This episode we’re playing the storytelling game Plucky Kid Detective! Charles and Meep investigate the summer reading club kickoff party’s missing cake! Will they find out who the thief was? Plus: Dog Person, fedora wearing robots, maps, clues, thrilling escapes, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Links, Articles, and Media We Mentioned Plucky Kid Detective by anna anthropy and Remy Boydell. Library Punk episode 014 - Manga (featuring Matthew!) Nancy Drew (Wikipedia) Encyclopedia Brown (Wikipedia) Penny (Inspector Gadget Wiki) Beaker (Muppet Wiki) Dog Man by Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Confetti cake (Wikipedia) Acme Corporation (Wikipedia) Acme Products (TV Tropes) Bubble and squeak (Wikipedia) Circus Windows by John Allison 15 Zines 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. Zines listed below without an author were created by multiple authors, groups, or collectives. Find even more zines by BIPOC creators via Brown Recluse distro and Indigenous Action. ABOLISH TIME by Estelle Ellison Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex Against Carceral Feminism by Victoria Law Against Japanese 'Comfort Women' Denialism in the U.S. by Emi Koyama Back to Nappy: Guide to Beautifully Regressing to Natural Hair by Roechelle Adair Black Indigenous Boy Black Lesbians in the 70s and Before - An At Home Tour At The Lesbian Herstory Archives by Shawn(ta) Smith Borderlands: Tales from Disputed Territories between Races and Cultures Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century by Zig Zag Decolonizing Parenting: A Zine By & For Queer Parents of Color Everyone Calls Themselves An Ally, Until It’s Time To Do Some Real Ally Shit The People's Zine Library 2019 Catalog: By and For BIPOC by Se'mana Thompson Mental Realness Mag: The Zine MXD Zine #1 - True Stories By Mixed Race Writers STRANGE FRUIT: The Twisted Mouth of Black Horror by Shiane D. Jacocks 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 6th when we’ll be reading Film/TV/Video/Movies non-fiction. It’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, June 20th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read. (And yes, it will definitely happen this time.)

Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective

This episode we’re talking about Crime Fiction! We discuss books about murders, books not about murders, ur-genres, mystery novels that aren’t crime novels, the Venn diagram of crime, mysteries, and thrillers, whether cozy mysteries are crime novels, teenage girls punching robots, whether superhero comics count as crime fiction, teen sleuths, crime children, whodunnits, howdunnits, hughdunnits, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Wicked Things by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Whitney Cogar Circus Windows by John Allison (webcomic) The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts Criminal: Cruel Summer by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, andJacob Phillips Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Police procedurals Meghan didn’t talk about Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti The Killing by David Hewson Natural Causes by James Oswald Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin Nightblind by Ragnar Jónasson Other Media We Mentioned Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Wikipedia) The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman These Women by Ivy Pochoda Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Into the Woods (Wikipedia) Sunday in the Park with George (Wikipedia) Duck Soup (1933 film) (Wikipedia) Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson and various artists (gentrification storyline) Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett Criminal Minds (Wikipedia) Murder, She Wrote (Wikipedia) Star Trek: The Next Generation (Wikipedia) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Wikipedia) Profiler (TV series) (Wikipedia) Inspector Morse (TV series) (Wikipedia) Lewis (TV series) (Wikipedia) Murdoch Mysteries (Wikipedia) The Littlest Hobo (Wikipedia) Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Allison and Lissa Treiman Bad Machinery, vol. 1: The Case of the Team Spirit by John Allison Steeple, vol. 1 by John Allison  Steeple webcomic Rashomon (Wikipedia) Criminal (comics) (Wikipedia) The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Links, Articles, and Things Readers' Advisory for Library Staff Facebook group Episode 033 - Legal Thrillers Dan Brown (Wikipedia) Stephen Sondheim (Wikipedia) Squirrel Girl (Wikipedia) Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) (Wikipedia) The Rhino (Wikipedia) Doctor Doom (Wikipedia) Desert Island Discworld Margaret Atwood's new work will remain unseen for a century Future Library project (Wikipedia) Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir Episode 110 - Comedic/Humorous Fiction Hark! Podcast Brubaker Discusses Creator-Owned Comics Love and Why He Doesn't Miss Superheroes Dimension 20: Mice & Murder Trailer 2021 Edgar Award Winners 18 Crime Fiction Novels 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. Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, translated by Jeremy Tiang Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra If I Should Die by Grace F. Edwards Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome Dickey The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen Malice by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes IQ by Joe Ide Out by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Stephen Snyder The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke The Long Fall by Walter Mosley Nairobi Heat by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon The Bone Readers by Jacob Ross Humane by Anna Marie Sewell 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!

Episode 127 - Crime Fiction

This episode we’re discussing the dreaded Did Not Finish! We talk about why we don’t finish books, specific titles we didn’t finish, why not finishing books can be good, what “finishing” a book even means, how you “finish” a cross-media property, and returning to books we stopped reading. Plus: Speedrunning books! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Did Not Finish Reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien Rivendale (Wikipedia) Shelob (Wikipedia) A Walking Song The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.” American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville Other Media We Mentioned (and may have finished!) The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling Highlander (film) (Wikipedia) Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso Overwatch (video game) (Wikipedia) Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia) Spyro the Dragon (Wikipedia) Later Alligator Final Fantasy VII (Wikipedia) Grand Theft Auto (Wikipedia) World of Warcraft (Wikipedia) Steven Universe (Wikipedia) Some of the pilot episode Vinyl soundtrack Other Friends Song Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wikipedia) Once More, with Feeling (musical episode) (Wikipedia) Buffering the Vampire Slayer Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Wikipedia) Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi  Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling Tamír Triad Series by Lynn Flewelling Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, and James Jean RJ’s review Links, Articles, and Things Matthew made the spreadsheet of the least finished books for Episode 095 - Ratings, Reviews, and Tags (you can find more info in the show notes to that episode) Retro Hugo Awards (Wikipedia) Smart Bitches, Trashy Books - Reviews by Grade  Goodreads tags Put Aside Set Aside BC4M Bookclub4m Mangasplaining What do they mean by "tricks/strats/splits?" “Strats are strategies used to save time.” Questions Have you ever read a Highlander novel? Will you join us in reading “book twos” in 2022? 20 Religious 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. This retroactive genre list is for our episode on Religious Fiction. As discussed in that episode, Religious Fiction may mean something very different to different readers. The books in this list are fiction with prominent religious or spiritual themes, but vary quite a bit in tone and include a wide range of perspectives. Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Church Folk by Michele Andrea Bowen Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie, translated by by Adriana Hunter Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, translated by Katherine Woods Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi by MaNishtana Deacon King Kong by James McBride Saint Young Men by Hikaru Nakamura, translated by Alethea & Athena Nibley God in Pink by Hasan Namir Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe  A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese 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! No book speedruns on our YouTube channel, but you can watch Matthew (and others) playthrough visual novels! Join us again on Tuesday, June 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Crime Fiction! Then it’s almost time for our annual “We all read the same book” episode. So on Tuesday, June 15th we’ll each suggest and talk about one title and you’ll get to vote for which one we’ll read.

Episode 126 - Did Not Finish

This episode we’re talking about Literary Theory & Literary Criticism! We discuss what literature even is, books we haven’t read, preconceived notions, and much more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan D. Culler The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin Is Gender Necessary? A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk Other Media We Mentioned XKCD - Types of Scientific Paper Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison The ecology of dystopia : an ecocritical analysis of young adult dystopian texts by Stephanie Dror Anne of Green Gables (Wikipedia) The Hunger Games (Wikipedia) Merlin (2008 TV series) (Wikipedia) The Vampire Diaries (novel series) (Wikipedia) Harry Potter (Wikipedia) The Third Man by Graham Greene The Collaborators by Pierre Siniac, translated by Jordan Stump (originally published in French as Ferdinaud Céline) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Annals of Pard (blog posts about cats) Links, Articles, and Things Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia) Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism (Purdue) Racebending (Wikipedia) Category:Star Trek fandom (Wikipedia) Hugo Award (Wikipedia) Best Fanzine Best Fan Artist Best Fan Writer Best Fancast The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde Read it online Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia) Robert Crumb (Wikipedia) James Tiptree Jr. (Wikipedia) Norman Mailer (Wikipedia) Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing 20 Literary Theory 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. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures by Aijaz Ahmad Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice Ex-Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected by Edwin 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 Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 18th, we’ll be talking about Books We Did Not Finish! Then on Tuesday, June 1st we’ll be discussing the genre of Crime Fiction!

Episode 125 - Literary Theory & Literary Criticism

This episode we’re discussing Media (and Noodles) We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about spicy noodles, which Dakota is our least favourite state, fictional planets that totally suck, tenuous connections, flexing over signed books, vaccine envy, podcast synergy, and why you should mail us an envelope filled with five dollar bills! Plus: We reveal how deeply uncool we really are! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned Matthew Hitman 3 Dubai!: 3 Ways to Play (just one of many videos) Hitman Elusive Target 14 The Chef: MIKE'S FINEST HOUR - Let's Play Hitman (featuring the explosive rubber duck) Hitman 3 THE MOST ELUSIVE TARGET YET: 3 Ways to Play Hitman 3 Elusive Target The Collector (this one came out the same day as this episode of the podcast!) Hitman (franchise) (Wikipedia) Nicola Traveling Around the Demons' World, vol. 1 by Asaya Miyanaga Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? DefunctTV: The History of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?  MAGFest 2019: True Weird Stories from Video Game History Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego? (Wikipedia) Mais où se Cache Carmen Sandiego ? (French theme song) À la poursuite de Carmen Sandiego (French theme song for Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?) Finish It! Podcast Ep. 153. The Dragon’s Den: Week One Enter The Inkeeper RJ Later Alligator Launch Trailer To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers Mice and Murder Game Changer Breaking News Gumshoe Wanderhome Anna Natural Causes by James Oswald Lucky Me (noodles) (Wikipedia) “Pancit canton – Filipino adaptation of lo mein and chow mein. Either in instant or stir-fried versions” (Wikipedia) ‘Pag No Drain, No Pain with Lucky Me! Pancit Canton (commercial) Lucky Me! Pancit Canton "Happy Merienda" (commercial) Theodore Roosevelt National Park (Wikipedia) Colors Sofi Tukker - Drinkee Mahalia - Sober H.E.R - Carried Away triple j - Like a Version 2021 The Wiggles cover Tame Impala 'Elephant' for Like A Version Chvrches cover Kendrick Lamar ‘LOVE’ Gang of Youths cover The Middle East 'Blood'  Hermitude cover Nirvana 'Heart-Shaped Box' Tash Sultana covers MGMT 'Electric Feel'  essaying by Tressie McMillan Cottom Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends by Caitlin Dewey Meghan Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Maintenance Phase Episode about Olestra You're Wrong About… by Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall Your Fat Friend by Aubrey Gordon case/lang/veirs - Full Performance | opbmusic Live Sessions Links, Articles, and Things Hark! Podcast - Episode 283: O Christmas Weed Baman Piderman - Find Da Sandwich (Ep #1) Neil Cicierega (Wikipedia) Episode 114 - Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations The episode in which RJ recommended To Be Taught, If Fortunate The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White meatsuit maintenance (Twitter) Episode 116 - Best Books We Read in 2020 The episode in which RJ recommended Game Changer Tommy the Turtle (the world’s largest snowmobiling turtle) Tame Impala (Wikipedia) Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Wikipedia) 15 Space Opera 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 Moons of Palmares by Zainab Amadahy The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard Nova by Samuel R. Delany Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan Binti by Nnedi Okorafor An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes The Black Ship by Gerry William Red Dust by Yoss 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 4th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Theory! Then on Tuesday, May 18th, we’ll be talking about Books We Did Not Finish!

Episode 124 - Media (and Noodles) We’ve Recently Enjoyed

This episode we’re talking about Psychological Horror! We discuss gore, people being weenies, books with running in them, kiwi fruit, checking the under the bed for monsters, Law & Order: SVU, and our guest host says they want to poison everyone! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Alan Woo Things We Read (or tried to…) A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay  Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Grip of It by Jac Jemc Read by Meghan but not discussed We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy  None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney Other Media We Mentioned Hostel (2005 film) (Wikipedia) Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena, translated by Tyran Grillo  Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia) Dead Space (video game) (Wikipedia) The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Wikipedia) Your Turn to Die The manga’s not legally available in English, but you can find it online... Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory Ring by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley The Exorcist (film) (Wikipedia) The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Green Ribbon (Wikipedia) The first version of this story is The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving (Wikipedia) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Wikipedia) TV Tropes In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Dark Fang, Vol. 1: Earth Calling by Miles Gunter Kelsey Shannon Links, Articles, and Things Junji Ito (Wikipedia) John Saul (Wikipedia) Dean Koontz (Wikipedia) Friday the 13th set to Benny Hill music Episode 004 - Psychological Thrillers Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Shirley Jackson Award (Wikipedia) The four times Book Riot has linked to us: 25 More Outstanding Podcasts For Readers by Kate Scott Masochistic Reading by Tiffani Willis 13 Must-hear Librarian Podcasts by Anna Gooding-Call 33 Of The Best Book Podcasts For All Genres by Julia Rittenberg Japanese horror (Wikipedia) Korean horror (Wikipedia) SCP Foundation The wolves are under the bed, they’re in the walls Over the Rainbow Booklist Not haunted house for sale To Arrakis by DarkSunn 16 Psychological Horror 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. Fledgling by Octavia Butler Let's Play White by Chesya Burke The Between by Tananarive Due After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated by  Jordan Stump Now You're One of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael & Mitsuko Volek Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder Helter Skelter by Kyōko Okazaki White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun, translated by Sora Kim-Russell Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Dark Water by Kōji Suzuki, translated by Glynne Walley 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! Just again on Tuesday, April 20th when we’ll be giving an update on non-podcast media we’ve been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing. Then on Tuesday, May 4th we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Theory and Literary Criticism!

Episode 123- Psychological Horror

It’s our 5th anniversary episode and this time we’re discussing Bad Book Reading Habits! Sticky notes, bookmarks, tagging and tracking, borrowing more library books than we can read, books on display in video calls, reading books out of order, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Which host is a book goblin? (The answer may surprise you.) You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver The copy of the book mentioned that had marginalia Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Acquired Traits by Raissa Berg The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros ttyl by Lauren Myracle Links, Articles, and Things Marginalia (Wikipedia) WereBear (Wikipedia) Convergence (Wikipedia) Goblin (Dungeons & Dragons) (Wikipedia) Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia) Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews Twitterature (Wikipedia) 30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years Since 2020, we’ve been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we’re creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016. Fiction Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler Indians on Vacation by Thomas King There There by Tommy Orange Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead Non-Fiction A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould Young Adult The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Strangers by David Alexander Robertson Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Picture Books Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal Poetry NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq Comics This Place: 150 Years Retold Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 6th we’ll be talking about the genre of Psychological Horror! (With a special guest co-host!) Then on Tuesday, April 20th we’ll be giving an update on non-podcast media we’ve been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing.

Episode 122 - Bad Book Reading Habits

A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading books we hate! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.

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