Another Book on the Shelf

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Another Book on the Shelf episodes

September 29, 2021 078 - WattPad Books - Big Boned by Jo Watson
In Episode 78, Gen and Jette talk about recent WattPad release, Big Boned by Jo Watson. You know we're not generally romcom readers, but we absolutely loved this story!

Notes:
Jo Watson has over 50 millions reads on WattPad! Check out her other books on her website.
Check out our Episode 52, where we talk about WattPad books Historically Inaccurate by Shay Bravo and The Bro Code by Elizabeth A. Seibert.
We're all about the fan fiction lately, which you can find on WattPad or Archive of Our Own.
We went on a bit of Chris Evans tangent. Have you watched Snowpiercer or Before We Go?

Other Media Mentioned
10 Things I Hate About You
She's All That
Monday
Snowpiercer
Before We Go
50 min
September 15, 2021 077 - Cookbooks
In Episode 77, Gen and Jette finally cover a topic they've had planned since Another Book on the Shelf was born—cookbooks!

Do cookbooks count as books? Do they count as reading? What makes a great cookbook? We discuss these questions and talk about some of favourite cookbooks, as well as cover what is about cookbooks that we love so much.

Show Notes:
This conversation was a so much fun, so please add to it by letting us know your favourite cookbooks (or nostalgic recipes!).
Our minds are working over cookbook ideas of our own, so let us know what novel you think deserves it's own cookbook. What bookish cookbook have you always wanted? Maybe we'll fulfill your dreams at some point in the future!
Here's the flow chart for How to Measure Things Like a Canadian

Jette's Cookbook Recommendations
All the Milkbar cookbooks
Better Homes and Gardens - The CookBook Gifts from the Kitchen
Gen's Cookbook Recommendations
How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
Sugar by Anna Olson
Love & Lemons by Jeanine Donofrio

Other Books Mentioned
Milkbar Life by Christina Tosi
The Jane Austen Cookbook by Deirdre LaFaye and Maggie Black
How Baking Works by Paula Figoni
The Total Me-Tox by Beth Behrs
The Rural Diaries by Hiliarie Burton-Morgan (Listen to the episode:)
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Next Episode: Wattpad Books New Release—Big Boned by Jo Watson
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50 min
September 01, 2021 076 - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
In episode 76, Gen and Jette discuss their latest book club book, Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. This dystopian story follows Cedar Hawk Songmaker, a young pregnant woman who finds herself having to hide in a world where pregnancy has become a matter of state security. Evolution is moving backwards and society as we know it is no longer.

You know we love a good dystopia, and Erdrich packs so much into this relatively short book. We had such a good conversation about these characters, the end of the world, and the possibility of never seeing snow again.

Show Notes:
Louise Erdrich's next book, The Sentence, is set for release on November 9, 2021.
Check out this article about Future Home of the Living Gods in The New York Times
Our next book club book is a graphic novel, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, illustrated by Becky Cloonan. The novel serves as a sequel to My Chemical Romance's album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, so make sure you listen to that first!

Books Mentioned
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Firekeeper's Daughter by Ageline Boulley (Listen to the episode!)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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47 min
August 18, 2021 075 - Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
In Episode 75, Gen and Jette talk about Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. This is the third instalment of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series.

As with all the books we love, we kind of rambled on a bit, but we also talked about how well Boulley balanced the crime genre with real world issues and Indigenous culture. It's impossible not to fall in love with her characters and she keeps you guessing the whole time.

We're happy to report that Firekeeper's Daughter lives up to the Bookstagram hype!

Show Notes:
Firekeeper's Daughter is being adapted for Netflix with the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground.
We had to point out the similarities to One Tree Hill. (And if you love teen dramas as much as we do, check out our other podcast Teenage Daydream!)
Do you love the fake dating trope as much as we do?
Keep an eye out for future episodes in our Bookstagram Made Me Do It series. We might even have some Instagram polls to help us decide what to read next!
Join us for our next episode where we're discussing our latest book club book, Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich.

Other Books Mentioned:
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
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52 min
August 04, 2021 074 - And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier
In Episode 74, we're teaming up once again with Coach House Books to discuss one of their recent releases, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Rhonda Mullins.

Coach House Books is one of our favourite publishers. We always love the books they send us, and this one is no exception. The story follows an unnamed narrator tracking down the story of Gladys, a woman who up and leaves her small town of Swastika one day without a word to her neighbours. It's also about the Northern trains in Canada, small communities, and people coming together in unexpected ways.

Show Notes:
August is Women in Translation Month, so this book is a perfect
Read more about the travelling schools that made their way to remote towns in Canada between 1928 and 1967.
The title comes from Robert Frost's poem "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" and really fits with the themes of the book.
We've read quite a few books translated by Rhonda Mullins, including one of our favourites, Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier, and The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges.

Books Mentioned:
Sadie by Courtney Summers
The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
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47 min
July 21, 2021 073 - Essay Collections
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." –Joan Didion

In Episode 73, Gen and Jette discuss the broad category of essay collections. From Joan Didion to Chuck Klosterman to Samantha Irby, essay collections cover a wide range of topics in a wide variety of forms. We love a good collection of essays, so we share a few of our favourites, discuss what works for us and what doesn't, and talk about a few on our TBR lists.

Show Notes:
We've covered a few essay collections on the podcast: Episode 9 – Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, Episode 38 – Movies and Other Things by Shea Serrano, Episode 65 – Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins, Episode 68 – We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
Essay writing opens up so many possibilities that we'd both love to explore in our own writing.
Check out Electric Lit for one off essays and sign up for their newsletter to get a curated list delivered to your inbox.
Gen's Essay Collection Recommendation: anything Zadie Smith has written
Jette's Essay Collection Recommendation: But What If We're Wrong by Chuck Klosterman

Books and Authors Mentioned:
Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, South and West
Chuck Klosterman – But What If We're Wrong, Eating the Dinosaur, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, I Wear the Black Hat, Killing Yourself to Live
Samantha Irby – We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Wow, No Thank You
Zadie Smith – Intimations, Changing My Mind, Feel Free
Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins
Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
53 min
July 07, 2021 072 - Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
In Episode 72, Gen and Jette discuss their most recent book club book—that's actually a play! Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris tackles race, sexuality, and interracial relationships and has been nominated for a record 12 Tony Awards.

Show Notes:
Check out Nine Stories Productions (#whispersJakeGyllenhaal)
Jeremy O. Harris consulted on the first season of Euphoria, and is back for season 2 as co-producer.
The record for most Tony Awards for a non-musical production was previously held by the 2018 revival of Angels in America.
Make sure to read our next book club book, Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich.
If you haven't listened to Jagged Little Pill lately, you should. Especially 'You Oughta Know' aka the ultimate angry break-up song.

Other Plays/Books/Movies Mentioned:
Euphoria
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Jagged Little Pill (musical)
Seawall/A Life
The Handmaiden
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55 min
June 23, 2021 071 - Another Cup of Tea - A Summer Solstice Hangout
It's officially summer and that means it's time for another hangout episode! Gen and Jette chat about summer plans, what they've been up to lately, and the reading slump that just won't end. As always, we go off on a few tangents as we have a casual chat about books, writing, and everything in between.

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

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51 min
June 09, 2021 070 - A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie
In Episode 70, Gen and Jette team up again with one of their favourite Toronto publishers, House of Anansi Press. This time we're reading A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie, the sequel to Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which we talked about all the way back in Episode 20!

It was so much fun to revisit Lavoie's candid and hilarious writing style and spend more time with Diane—the titular boring wife who is anything but boring!

We're keeping this episode relatively SPOILER FREE so that you can listen before entering our GIVEAWAY! Enter to win 1 of 5 copies of A Boring Wife Settles the Score, generously provided by House of Anansi. All you have to do is send us a screenshot of you listening any one of our episodes before June 23 and you'll be entered! Winners will be announced on our Instagram stories on June 24, so make sure you give us a follow if you haven't already.

Show Notes:
Autopsy of a Boring Wife is being developed for TV and we can't wait to get more details on that.
In case anyone doesn't know what cassoulet is or wants to try their hand at making it, here's a recipe from The Kitchn:
This book totally qualifies as an #IcedCoffeeRead. If you don't know what that is, check out Jette's latest blog post.

Books Mentioned
Recursion by Blake Crouch
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38 min
May 26, 2021 069 - These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
In Episode 69, Gen and Jette continue their series #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong. In this retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1920s Shanghai, Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov are heirs to their respective gangs who have to work together to find the source of a monstrous plague.

We loved talking about Chloe Gong's debut novel. She has a vivid writing style and plays with the source material in the best way. So you know we can't wait for the sequel! In the meantime, we'll just have to rewatch Baz Luhrmann's classic film adaptation.

Find Chloe Gong on Twitter @TheChloeGong and on her website TheChloeGong.com

Books and Movies Mentioned:
Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Anna K by Jenny Lee
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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52 min

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