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- Book Club for Masochists
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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.
- Premiere Date |
- 2016-03-16
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- #AskALibrarian
- Frequency |
- Biweekly
- Explicit |
- Yes
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Submit ReviewThis 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 173-Spring2023MediaUpdate.mp3"> 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:
- Podcasts:
- off-book.html">Off Book
-
Lateral
- Episode 1 of the quiz show of the same name (which is now unlisted on YouTube)
-
Worlds Beyond Number
- beyond-number.simplecast.com/episodes">Episode feed
- Life hacks:
- Make cooking feel like a magic ritual
- Delete the Twitter app
- Custom printed to-do list
- Anna
- 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
- Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
- 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!
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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 172-DomesticThrillers.mp3"> 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!
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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 171-MovingManagementBooks.mp3"> 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!
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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 170-GenderTheoryAndGenderStudies.mp3"> 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:
- Very Short Introductions (Wikipedia)
- TERF / FART / “Gender Critical”
-
children.html"> 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
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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 169-WhatIsABookPart2.mp3"> 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!
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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 168-HolidayRomance.mp3"> 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
- webster.com/words-at-play/cuffing-season-meaning-origin"> 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
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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!
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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 167-2023-ReadingGoalsV2.mp3"> 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
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
- erikson.org/#blog">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!
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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 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 167-2023-ReadingGoals.mp3"> 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 | RJ Edwards
2022: 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 favorite 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
- erikson.org/#blog">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
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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 166-SportsNonFiction.mp3"> 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…)
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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!
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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)
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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)
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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
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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 165-2022-Favourites.mp3"> 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
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For the podcast
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Anna
- Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
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Jam
- Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
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Matthew
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
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Meghan
- Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
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Anna
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Not for the podcast
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Jam
- Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
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Matthew
- Semiosis by Sue Burke
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Meghan
- Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Anna
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
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Jam
Favourite Non-Fiction
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For the podcast
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Matthew
- Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley
- Meghan
- Anna
- Jam
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Matthew
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Not for the podcast
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Meghan
- Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes
- Anna
- Jam
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Matthew
- X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor
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Meghan
Other Favourite Things of 2022
- Anna
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Jam
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Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday”
- French tacos (Wikipedia)
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Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday”
- Matthew
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Meghan
- Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian
Runner-Ups
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Anna
- Video Games:
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YouTube:
- Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews)
- Podcasts:
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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
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Jam
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Favourite classic:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Favourite manga:
- Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)
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Favourite Album:
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Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia)
- Working for the Knife (YouTube)
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Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia)
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Favourite AAA video game:
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia)
- Favourite indie video game:
- Favourite Wordle spin-off:
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Favourite classic:
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Matthew
- Video game:
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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
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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
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Books
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
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Meghan
- Favourite new-to-me author:
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Favourite work of translation:
- The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles
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Podcast non-fiction runner up:
- Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder
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Podcast fiction runner up:
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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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
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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
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Then on Tuesday, January 17rd we’ll be discussing our 2023 Reading Resolutions!
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