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Publisher |: Book Club for Masochists

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Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Books,; Education

A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not!

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
Related Hashtags |: #AskALibrarian
Frequency |: Biweekly
Explicit |: Yes

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180 Available Episodes (180 Total) / Average duration: 01:07:11

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Apr 18, 2023

00:52:45

This episode we’re talking about recent media we’ve experienced and enjoyed! We discuss Return of the Obra Dinn, Worlds Beyond Number, Horror Queers, If Books Could Kill, Superman Smashes the Klan, Incredible Doom, Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb, and more!

You can download the podcast 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
    - They Died on Space Mountain (with Ben Schwartz)
  - Lateral
    - Episode 1 of the quiz show of the same name (which is now unlisted on YouTube)
  - Worlds Beyond Number
    - 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
  - Episode 166 - Sports (Non-Fiction)
- Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
  - The Adventures of Superman (radio series) - "Clan of the Fiery Cross" (Wikipedia)
- Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
Meghan
- Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci
- Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
- Onley's Arctic: Diaries And Paintings Of The High Arctic by Toni Onley

Other Media We Mentioned

Knives Out (Wikipedia)
Only Connect (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

RA in a Day - Ontario Library Association (April 24th)
- Our session is “Non-Fiction for Newbies: Navigating the Nuances”
Catalogues & Cardigans: A Library RPG Zine #111
Bulletin board system (Wikipedia)

15 Creative Writing books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews by Samuel R. Delany
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country by Louise Erdrich
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V.S. Naipaul
How Dare We! Write edited by Sherry Quan Lee
The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples by Gregory Younging

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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?

Apr 04, 2023

01:01:34

This episode we’re talking about Domestic Thrillers! We discuss lies, stressful reading, spoiling endings, characters who are not great people, and whether we’d read other books from this genre.

You can download the podcast 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

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

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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?)

Mar 21, 2023

01:01:05

This episode we’re talking about The Moving and Management of Books! We all own a lot of books. And we’ve all made big moves! We talk about when we leave books behind, how we choose the ones we keep, and more!

You can download the podcast 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

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

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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!

Mar 07, 2023

01:06:36

This episode we’re talking about Gender Theory & Gender Studies! We discuss theory vs studies, memes, feminism, books that should exist but don’t, and more!

You can download the podcast 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

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!

Feb 21, 2023

01:08:38

This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more!

You can download the podcast 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)

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)

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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!

Feb 07, 2023

01:09:53

It's almost Valentine's Day, so this episode we’re talking about Holiday Romance! We discuss what counts as a holiday, Christmas, nostalgia, 1st vs. 3rd person narration, and how all the stories we read are “fine.” Plus: There’s only one bed!

You can download the podcast 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

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!

Jan 19, 2023

00:50:19

(Hello! This is a re-upload. The first version had a syncing error that snuck in at the very end of the editing process. We've re-exported it and this version sounds much better!)

This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year.

You can download the podcast 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

Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

2023 Resolutions

Matthew:
- Read more non-fiction
Meghan:
- Quit trying to read fiction when she doesn’t feel like it
- Read more of what she owns (borrow less from the library)
Anna:
- Read more graphic novels
- Take pictures of favourite reads
Jam:
- Theme for the year: Intention
- Return to tracking picture book reading

Media We Mentioned

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff, narrated by Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Candice Moll, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer & Steve West
Illuminae Files (books 1-3) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, narrated by Moira Quirk
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

25 Dystopian Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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)!

Jan 17, 2023

00:50:15

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

Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two

2023 Resolutions

Matthew:
- Read more non-fiction
Meghan:
- Quit trying to read fiction when she doesn’t feel like it
- Read more of what she owns (borrow less from the library)
Anna:
- Read more graphic novels
- Take pictures of 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
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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

25 Dystopian Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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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Jan 03, 2023

01:06:05

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Sports books! We discuss how to define sports, live sports, weird rules, and more!

You can download the podcast 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…)

The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-OOPS
- Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball (YouTube)
- (lots more below in “Links, Articles, and Things”)
Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook, narrated by Atli Gunnarsson
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter by Matt Hern
Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-Changing Female Athletes by Laken Litman
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper, narrated by Adam Lazarre-White

Other Media We Mentioned

Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn

Links, Articles, and Things

Which Pokémon are the most goth? (featuring Matthew and Jam)
Lumberjack World Championship (Wikipedia)
Sports Book Awards
Mascot Mischief (Jam’s mascot RPG)
Pawtucket Red Sox (Wikipedia)
It’s possible the burlesque wrestling event that Anna and Matthew went to was Glam Slam, which still exists!
Heritage Minutes (Wikipedia)
- Wilder Penfield (YouTube)
- Sam Steele (YouTube)
- Halifax Explosion (YouTube)
- Jackie Shane (YouTube) (most recent one!)
- The 10 Best Canadian Heritage Minutes of All Time
- A Part of Our Heritage (YouTube)
AK Press (Wikipedia)
Green Bay Packers (Wikipedia)
List of fan-owned sports teams (Wikipedia)
Sex verification in sports (Wikipedia)
Testosterone regulations in women's athletics (Wikipedia)
Zhang Shan: The only female shooter to win gold in a mixed competition
- “After the Barcelona Games, the International Shooting Union barred women from shooting against men. For the next years, the skeet event remained on the Olympic Games programme, but only for male athletes.”
The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I by Jon Bois
Barbados intentionally scored an own goal to help them win by two thanks to a weird golden goal rule Weird Rules on Secret Base (YouTube)
Twenty20 (Wikipedia)
- “Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket.”
Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

16 Sports (Non-Fiction)books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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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Dec 20, 2022

00:57:04

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!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Favourite Fiction

For the podcast
- Anna
  - Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
    - Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
- Jam
  - Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
    - Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies
- Matthew
  - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
    - Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction
- Meghan
  - Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
    - Episode 164 - Military Fiction
Not for the podcast
- Jam
  - Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
    - Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy
- Matthew
  - Semiosis by Sue Burke
- Meghan
  - Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Anna
  - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Favourite Non-Fiction

For the podcast
- Matthew
  - Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley
    - Episode 141 - Architecture Non-Fiction
- Meghan
  - The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
    - Episode 149 - Astronomy & Space
- Anna
  - Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind by Sarah Posner
    - Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism
- Jam
  - Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
    - Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction
Not for the podcast
- Meghan
  - Fashion Is Spinach: How to Beat the Fashion Racket by Elizabeth Hawes
- Anna
  - Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv
- Jam
  - Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey
- Matthew
  - X-Gender, vol. 1 by Asuka Miyazaki, translated by Kathryn Henzler, adapted by Cae Hawksmoor

Other Favourite Things of 2022

Anna
- Tasting History with Max Miller
  - Debunking the Myths of Leonardo da Vinci
Jam
- Dirty Laundry/“Garbage Tuesday”
  - French tacos (Wikipedia)
Matthew
- Unpacking
Meghan
- Favourite manga: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, vol. 1 by Sumito Oowara, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian

Runner-Ups

Anna
- Video Games:
  - Crashlands
  - Wobbledogs
- YouTube:
  - Ryan Hollinger (horror movie reviews)
- Podcasts:
- Other (Audio)Books:
  - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
  - Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
  - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)
  - Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
  - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  - The Invisible Kingdom by Patrick Radden Keefe
  - Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
  - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Jam
- Favourite classic:
  - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    - Episode 151 - Classics
- Favourite manga:
  - Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (Wikipedia)
- Favourite Album:
  - Laurel Hell by Mitski (Wikipedia)
    - Working for the Knife (YouTube)
- Favourite AAA video game:
  - Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Wikipedia)
- Favourite indie video game:
  - Wytchwood
- Favourite Wordle spin-off:
  - Worldle
Matthew
- Video game:
  - Hyper Light Drifter
- Manga
  - Dai Dark by Q Hayashida, translated by Daniel Komen
  - My Dress Up Darling by Shinichi Fukuda, translated by Taylor Engel
  - Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey
  - Descending Stories by Haruko Kumota, translated by Matt Treyvaud
  - Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma, translated by Amy Forsyth
  - Biomega, vol. 1 (just the first volume really, it does not stick the landing) by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by John Werry
  - Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida
  - Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian and Elizabeth Tiernan
- Graphic novels:
  - Beetle and Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
  - A Gift for a Ghost by Borja González, translated by Lee Douglas
  - Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
- Books
  - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Meghan
- Favourite new-to-me author:
  - Zviane
- Favourite work of translation:
  - The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate, translated by David Bowles
- Podcast non-fiction runner up:
  - Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism by Barnabas Calder
- Podcast fiction runner up:
  - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Non-fiction
  - The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
  - Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summitt and Sally Jenkins
  - Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker
- Runner up graphic novels:
  - Himawari House by Harmony Becker
  - Taproot by Keezy Young
  - Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu
  - Sunny Sunny Ann! by Miki Yamamoto, translated by Aurélien Estager (French)
  - L'homme qui marche by Jirō Taniguchi, translated by Martine Segard (French, available in English as The Walking Man)
  - Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera
  - Le petit astronaute by Jean-Paul Eid (French)
  - Tony Chu détective cannibale by John Layman with Rob Guillory (French, available in English as Chew)
  - Radium Girls by Cy. (French)
  - Queen en BD by Emmanuel Marie and Sophie Blitman (French)
  - Memento mori by Tiitu Takalo (French)
  - Enferme-moi si tu peux by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Terkel Risbjerg (French)

Links, Articles, Media, and Things

Episode 140 - Favourite Reads of 2021
Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
ChatGPT (Wikipedia)
There no longer appears to be an easy way to find images sent through Google Chat anymore, so no screenshots of fake podcast co-hosts discussing reptile fiction. Sorry!
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (Wikipedia)
Brian David Gilbert - The Perfect PokéRap

24 Travel Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

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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Apr 18 | 00:52:45

Episode 173 - Spring 2023 Media Update

Apr 04 | 01:01:34

Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers

Mar 21 | 01:01:05

Episode 171 - The Moving and Management of Books

Mar 07 | 01:06:36

Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies

Feb 21 | 01:08:38

Episode 169 - What is a Book? (Part 2)

Feb 07 | 01:09:53

Episode 168 - Holiday Romance

Jan 19 | 00:50:19

Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report

Jan 17 | 00:50:15

Episode 167 - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report

Jan 03 | 01:06:05

Episode 166 - Sports (Non-Fiction)

Dec 20 | 00:57:04

Episode 165 - Favourite Reads of 2022

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