Another Book on the Shelf

Another Book on the Shelf

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Another Book on the Shelf episodes

  • 048 - Mystic River - Novel vs Film

    Gen and Jette dive into the Mystic River - both the novel by Dennis Lehane and the film adaptation by Clint Eastwood - and breakdown adaptations in general. Prepare for spoilers and having your heartbroken.

    Show Notes

    Favourite Authors episode.
    Jette is still obsessed with Boston.
    Shutter Island stars Leo DiCaprio, directed by Scorsese.
    The Drop is based on Animal Rescue - we always forget!
    Gone, Baby, Gone is the 4th in the Kenzie-Gennaro series and book #6 is actually a continuation.
    Ben Affleck directed and starred in Live by night.
    The guy from CSI: Miami is Jonathan Togo.
    This was before Emmy Rossum was in The Day After Tomorrow (Yas Jake Gylls) or Shameless.
    Can you guess where we had to splice the episode together when Jette had to run get the #podcat’s cat food delivery?
    Allegiant is the final book of the Divergent series and is written with 2 POVs that are not marked and it’s confusing.
    Watch Gone, Baby, Gone if you want your soul crushed - yes it’s Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Freemans’ wife is played by Kippy Goldfarb
    Good adaptations mentioned- The Martian (Yes Captain Lewis gets more film time than she had book time), Gone Girl, Virgin Suicides, Sharp Objects, Watchmen, Practical Magic (wild different but it works)
    Dark places was already a movie in 2015 starring Charlize Theron??
    Gen and Jette are over quarantine and miss each other

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    49 min
  • 047 - Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    Gen and Jette welcome a guest! Laurelle, Gen’s sister, joins them to discuss Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid  - one of the best summer reads ever to exist! This was originally a bonus episode we posted to our Patreon. Since we have taken a break from Patreon due to the pandemic, we wanted to share it here since Daisy Jones and The Six is the perfect summer read.
    Show Notes:
    Check out Laurelle over at Wild Wandering Creations
    Reese’s bookclub
    Disney+ will always be Disney “Ploose” - have you watched Love, Victor? (Sidenote - apparently Disney+ dropped the show due to “family values” concerns… but shout out to Hulu for scooping it up)
    Anyone else think this was a real band and look for the music albums while reading the book?
    WE HATE DECKLED EDGES
    Books We Hated episode
    Podcat makes an appearance because she’s hungry and trying to be cute
    Books:
    Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier (yes we’re still obsessed with this book)
    Love Simon by by Becky Albertalli
    Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    44 min
  • 046 - The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
    Gen and Jette head to upstate New York and fall in love with farm animals and candy shops in Hilarie Burton Morgan's Memoir - The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on Mischief Farm.
    Show Notes:
    Samuel's Sweet Shop
    Astor Servies
    We are officially going on a road trip to Rhinebeck when the world opens up again for the Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool festival
    Canada Reads is July 20-23rd
    We have discussed a few memoirs now on the pod but nothing is as amazing and crushing as Everything is Horrible and Wonderful.
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    47 min
  • 045 - Another Cup of Tea - A Quarantine Hangout
    Gen and Jette hang out... virtually. It's been a wild ride since our last hangout episode in February. The world is different - actually... Look below for links, anti-racist resources, and a great lecture on James Baldwin's Another Country.
    Since we're crushing our Goodreads goals in quarantine - here is a huge list of all the books we mention:
    So You Want To Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
    If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
    This Is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
    In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
    Coming Up for Air - Sarah Leipciger
    Pallbearing - Michael Melgaard
    You Are Not What We Expected - Sidura Ludwig
    The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming - Sienna Tristan
    Two Dark Moons - Avi Silver
    There There - Tommy Orange
    Vengeful - V.E. Schwab
    The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
    The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
    Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq
    Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
    Empire of Wild - Cherie Dimaline
    The Rural Diaries - Hilarie Burton Morgan
    Red, White, and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
    Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden
    The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
    Movies and Other Things - Shea Serrano
    Sea Wall/A Life - Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
    Atomic Habits - James Clear
    The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
    Jette found this Columbia lecture on YouTube and it is fascinating and very relevant now.  - Jake Gyllenhaal and Colm Toíbín: In Conversation The Year of James Baldwin
    Look to our Instagram highlights for some other great anti-racist resources
    "So you want to talk about race in tech" - Ijeoma Oluo
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    50 min
  • 044 - Graphic Novels

    Gen and Jette talk about the graphic novel genre. They start with a bit of history and just what a graphic novel is exactly, and then talk favourites, adaptations, and what makes the genre a unique and effective form of storytelling. Check out our stories on Instagram to see inside some of our faves.


    Novels:

    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
    *Dr. Strange - Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
    *Black Panther - Don McGregor
    *The Adventures of Tintin
    Asterix
    Kindred: Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia Butler
    Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman
    *Spider-Man (Miles Morales) - Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli
    Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) - G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona
    *Thor
    *Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
    Hawkeye - Matt Fraction, David Aja
    Saga - Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples
    Shade, The Changing Girl - Cecil Castellucci, Marley Zarcone
    *V for Vendetta - Alan Moore, David Lloyd
    *The Umbrella Academy - Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá
    *Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
    Map of My Heart - John Porcellino
    *Tank Girl - Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin
    *The Walking Dead - Robert Kirkman
    *Batman
    *Superman
    *Spider-Man

    Adaptations:

    Marvel Cinematic Universe
    Gotham
    Smallville
    Into the Spiderverse
    Jessica Jones
    Daredevil
    (*for the sake of not repeating ourselves, everything with a star under the novel section has a film and/or television adaptation)



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    1 hr 2 min
  • 043 - You Are Not What We Expected - An Interview with Sidura Ludwig
    Gen and Jette interview Sidura Ludwig, discussing her latest release - You are not what we expected, growing up in Winnipeg, and the importance of writing routines.
    Show Notes:
    Winnipeg might be a deep freeze but it breeds creativity through it's chilly isolation.
    Sidura used to work at McNally Robinson - Canada's largest indie bookstore (and Jette used to go there while in university!)
    Art is more accessible in Winnipeg because it's small - RWB, Symphony, Theatre as examples
    The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is MASSIVE!!
    There are so many great writing courses and communities out there!
    Vermont College of Fine Arts has a wonderful MFA in Children and Young Adult writing
    Sara Selecky writing school
    Humber correspondence program
    Writing routines are crucial (and we did a whole episode on it! Check out Episode 41)
    Treat your writing time like a meeting - take is seriously and make it a commitment
    You can You Were Not What We Expected anywhere but it would be great to support House of Anansi
    How to Connect with Sidura:
    Her website
    Facebook
    Instagram
    Twitter
    Books mentioned:
    Purple America - Rick Moody
    Violet Shrink - Christine Baldacchino
    Sweep: A Story of a Girl and her Monster - Jonathan Auxier
    Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
    Holding My Breath - Sidura Ludwig
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    49 min
  • 042 - The Shale Project by Sienna Tristen and Avi Silver

    Gen and Jette dive deep into The Shale Project for the most recent bookclub book reads with The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen and Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver. 

    Show notes:

    We found this awesome series at the Word on the Street Festival

    Read Tales from a Library
    Dive into the history and culture of the different regions of Shale

    Books and Movies Mentioned

    Game of Thrones
    The Lord of the Rings
    Jurassic Park


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    1 hr 8 min
  • 041 - Making a Routine of Writing

    Gen and Jette talk about writing during this uncertain time and try to figure out the best way to develop a writing routine.

    Show Notes:

    Please go listen to The Otherwise Intelligent Woman podcast right now!
    Skillshare has some awesome writing classes on developing routines and things like flash fiction - use this link for 2 months free!
    Did you know that Dr. Seuss wore a silly hat every time he sat down to write?
    Can we talk about Jo's writing jacket in the new Little Women film?
    What is your dream writing space?
    Do you have a favourite French Canadian Film Director?
    Watch these shorts by Floris Sigismondi for the 2017 NYT's Great Performers series.
    You heard it here first - The Another Book on the Shelf Zine is coming!
    Sarah Maria Griffin has awesome zines.
    Do you make writing playlists? You should listen to the Dickinson playlist on Spotify.
    Also - watch Dickinson on AppleTV+
    Do you make mood boards for the stories you're working on?
    We will never stop talking about Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
    Check out The Shale Project - the topic of our next episode
    Our new book club book is The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan
    One day - we will knit sweaters for Rhinebeck!

    Books Mentioned:

    Any book by James Baldwin
    Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Marie Griffin
    The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka

    Videos You should watch:
    Anything by Spike Jones and Mark Romanek
    All things Floria Sigismondi
    Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson
    Anna is a Speed Freak by Pure


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    43 min
  • 040 - Learn with SJP Interview

    Gen and Jette talk with Sara-Jayne of Learn with SJP about book marketing and how to authors can use social media to connect with readers.


    Show Notes:

    @sarajayne.poletti
    Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho


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    53 min
  • 039 - House of Anansi - New Releases
    Gen and Jette teamed up with Toronto publisher House of Anansi again and talk about 2 new releases - "Coming up for Air" by Sarah Leipciger and "Pallbearing" by Michael Melgaard
    Show Notes:
    If you haven't figured it out - we live in Toronto. 
    Stay home! (and read)
    House of Anasi has a promotion right now called Reading Apart Together. Visit houseofanansi.com and when you buy any ebook they will send a free digital copy of the same title to a friend of your choice.
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    59 min

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We started a book club but never actually talked about the books, so we started a podcast! And here we are almost a decade later.