Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This episode we're talking about Beach Reads! We discuss what counts as a beach read, what doesn't count as a beach read, whether any of us has even been to a beach recently (yes!), and more. Plus: We play "two truths and a lie" with books!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Two Real Books and One Fake

• Contemporary romance (RJ)
  • Just Haven't Met You Yet
  • Head Over Feet
  • Call Me, Maybe
• Endurance Sports (Meghan)
  • The Pain Cave: Pushing the Limits of Human Endurance
  • Hell on Two Wheels: An Astonishing Story of Suffering, Triumph, and the Most Extreme Endurance Race in the World
  • The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
• Domestic Thriller (Matthew)
  • The Lady in Waiting: A Novel
  • Her Dark Lies: A Novel
  • The Girls Are All So Nice Here: A Novel
• Travel Memoir (Anna)
  • Adventure
  • Food
  • Family

Other Media We Mentioned

• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
• Death on the Beach by Anna Johannsen
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• That's a Christmas to Me #1
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Links, Articles, and Things

• What Makes a Book a Beach Read?
• Read it and keep: is it time to reassess the 'beach read'?
• What Is a Beach Read, and Why?
• Vancouver's comedic and controversial 'Barge Chilling Beach' sign is no more
• Old-Timey Bathing Suit (TV Tropes)
• Call for Papers: Hallmark movies!

Westerns 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.

• Stone Song by Win Blevins
• Prize Money by Celeste Castro
• The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
• Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• Wounded by Percival Everett
• God's Country by Percival Everett
• Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma
• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
• Hundred in the Hand by Joseph M. Marshall III
• The Devil's Revolver by V.S. McGrath
• The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner by Walter Dean Myers
• Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
• That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
• Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese
• Fools Crow by James Welch
• The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 5th we'll be discussing the genre of Humour Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, July 19th it's time for our "we all read the same book" book pitches!

This episode we're talking about Classics! We talk about what makes a book a classic, whether a classic has to be good or not, fiction vs non-fiction classics, and how classics change over time. Plus: Pro strats and speedrunning techniques for classics!

(Apologies for some audio problems this episode, should be fixed for next time!)

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Netflix show (Wikipedia)
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Comic adaptation by Emi Gennis
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, Stacy King, and SunNeko Lee
• Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Crystal S. Chan and Nokman Poon
• Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Stacy King and Po Tse
  • All the Manga Classics titles!
• Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition by Natsume Sōseki, adapted by Chiroru Kobata, translated by Zack Davisson

Other Media We Mentioned

• King John by William Shakespeare (Wikipedia)
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia)
• A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)
• Evelina by Frances Burney (Wikipedia)
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (Wikipedia)
• Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• Faggots by Larry Kramer
• Beowulf: A New Translation translated by Maria Dahvana Headley, read by JD Jackson
• The Sandman (Wikipedia)
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, read by Gabra Zackman
• Unsolved Mysteries (Wikipedia)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Wikipedia)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia)
• Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
• Clueless (Wikipedia)
• Manga Classics: Emma by Jane Austen, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, Stacy King, and Po Tse
• Emma by Jane Austen (Wikipedia)
• Clue (film) (Wikipedia)
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Ena Moriyama
• The Nose by Nikoai Gogol
  • Read on Project Gutenberg
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)
• Ranking the original 150 Pokémon for #WorldGothDay - Friday Night Spooktacular (RJ & Matthew livestream!)
• All the Manga Classics titles!

Links, Articles, and Things

• FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) (Wikipedia
• Jonathan Swift (Wikipedia)
• Daily Dracula
• Roger Zelazny (Wikipedia)
• Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks
• Trip the light fantastic (Wikipedia)
• Clothbound Connoisseur (Instagram)

22 Classics 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.

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Silence by Shūsaku Endō
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdich
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 21st we'll be talking about Beach Reads.

Then on Tuesday, July 5th we'll be discussing the genre of Humour Non-Fiction!

For our 150th episode, Chaos Reigns! We discuss the differences between talking about fiction and non-fiction, genres that don't get the respect they deserve, our favourite pies, what genres we're least and most looking forward to reading for the podcast, the horrors of virtual presentations, and more! Plus: Matthew's Technically Correct Corner!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez
• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (the book Meghan couldn't remember the title of)
• Gamechanger (the Bounceback) by LX Beckett
• Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
• Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
• Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price

Podcast-Related Links

• Manga in Libraries Book Club (Monday, May 23rd, 8:00pm Eastern)
• Episode 143 - Amish Romance
• Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable: Readers' Advisory Beyond Your Own Taste (OLA - RA in a Day Presentation)
• Our Twitch channel! (Pokémon ranking, Friday, May 20th, 6:30pm Pacific)
• Episode 148 - Spring 2022 Media Update (RJ talks about Pokemon)
• Mascot Mischief (RJ's game!)
• Spicy Library Stories #7
• Episode 029 - Westerns
• Data visualization of Book Club for Masochists' Connections with Other Podcasts
• Episode 036 - Favourite Podcasts

Other Podcasts

• War Rocket Ajax: Episode 383 - The Christmas Specials Special f/ RJ and Ian from HARK
• The Coode Street Podcast
• What Should I Read Next?
• Reading Glasses
• Plus on est de fous, plus on lit!
• Drokk!
• Finish It!
  • Order A Pizza - Visual Novel Stream (Guest starring Matt & Chris Yule from Finish It! Podcast)
• Just Plain Wrong
• Smart Podcast, Trashy Books

Links, Articles, and Things

• $1 Million Of Frugal Librarian's Bequest To N.H. School Goes To Football Scoreboard
• Mary Roach (Wikipedia)
• Honey Heist
• Coydog (Wikipedia)
• Koi (Wikipedia)
• Coyote $21,000 in debt after wandering through university campus
• Conger Eel (Wikipedia)
• Seattle Storm (Wikipedia)
• Doppler (Twitter)
• Anemometer (Wikipedia)
• Gritty (Wikipedia)
• Phillie Phanatic (Wikipedia)
• The Mountain Goats (Wikipedia)
• Parasocial interaction (Wikipedia)
  • Accessory fruit (Wikipedia)
• Strange times for berry club
• Tourtière (Wikipedia)
• Epistolary novel (Wikipedia)

18 Recent Non-Fiction Audiobooks 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 our lists can be found here.For this retroactive genre (or in this case, format) from Episode 27, we're featuring non-fiction audiobooks by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years.

• You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce
• Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay
• Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
• High-risk Homosexual: a Memoir by Edgar Gomez
• The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky
• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.
• Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen
• Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
• Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples by Chief Clarence Louie
• Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers by Dylan Marron
• Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk by Shunmyo Masuno
• An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
• Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
• Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
• Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A. J. Verdelle
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (2nd edition) by Edgar Villanueva
• Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Philip Wang, & Phil Yu

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Classic Fiction! (Whatever that means!)

Then on Tuesday, June 21st we'll be talking about Beach Reads!

This episode we're talking about Astronomy and Space Non-Fiction! We talk about astronauts, planets, moons, rocks, and more! Plus: We despair about all the math in these books!

You can download the podcast 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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
• Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
  • "Too much information on the Moon.. Was not expecting that."
• Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
  • Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe (podcast)
• Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan
• Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong by Greg Brennecka, read by Sean Pratt
• The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque

Other Media We Mentioned

• PBS Eons
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Cosmos with Carl Sagan
• Mapping Sam by Joyce Hesselberth
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Links, Articles, and Things

• Neil deGrasse Tyson's Tweet about the alphabet in alphabetical order
• Bobak Ferdowsi (Wikipedia)
• Jack Parsons (rocket engineer) (Wikipedia)
  • He was an adherent of the esoteric and occult philosophy of Thelema, a religious movement founded by Aleister Crowley
• Martian canal (Wikipedia)
• Matthew's article about Chris Hadfield
• Orion's Belt (Wikipedia)
• Space Jam (Wikipedia)
• 99% Invisible - Mini-Stories: Volume 12 (featuring Mary Roach)
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
• Metrication in the United Kingdom (Wikipedia)
• Thirty Meter Telescope
  • "an under-construction extremely large telescope (ELT) that has become controversial due to its planned location on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii"
• Institutional review board
• Arecibo Observatory (Wikipedia)
  • "A partial collapse of the telescope occurred on December 1, 2020"
• Hank Green (Twitter)
• Spaghettification (Wikipedia)
• Episode 143 - Amish Romance

15 Astronomy 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.

• Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
• The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe by Stephon Alexander
• I Have Lived Four Lives by Wilfred Buck
• Tipiskawi Kisik: Night Sky Star Stories by Wilfred Buck
• We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson
• Star Stories: Constellations Tales From Around the World by Anita Ganeri
• The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
• Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances by Leland Melvin
• Inhabiting the Earth by Leonard Moose & Mary Moose
• Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan
• The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
• Visions of the Universe by Raman Prinja
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Then on Tuesday, June 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Classics!

This episode we're talking about recent media we enjoyed! We discuss TikTok food, video games about boxes, French language books, Pokemon, and more!

You can download the podcast 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

Media We've Been Consuming

• Anna:
  • B. Dylan Hollis
    • TikTok
    • YouTube
  • Pumpernickel (Wikipedia)
  • Ryan Hollinger
  • Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
  • Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Matthew:
  • Unpacking
    • How Unpacking's Developers Designed 2021's Coziest Game
  • Hyper Light Drifter
  • Wandersong
• Meghan:
  • L'homme qui marche by by Jirō Taniguchi
  • The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zàrate
  • Football-Fantaisie by Zviane
    • Zviane's comics available in English
• RJ:
  • Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
  • Pokemon Legends: Arceus
  • Pokemon Showdown
  • Wikipedia:Unusual articles
    • Volkswagen currywurst
    • Danish Protest Pig
    • Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

Other Media & Things We Mentioned

• Just Plain Wrong - The Pacifist Vampire Soul Dilemma: Three Books about Amish Vampires & Mennonite Assassins
• The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle (The Amish vampire book Meghan read)
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Wikipedia)
• Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico
• Smile (Beach Boys album)
• A pixel artist renounces pixel art
• Thread on Twitter about Dracula
• Pokemon: Everything You Need To Know About The Great War Theory
• Morbius (film) (Wikipedia)
• Diverse Books Reading Smackdown challenges VPL staff to read outside the box
  • Featuring the Diverse Reading Victory Belt
• Depths of Wikipedia

20 Recent Detective Fiction Novels by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of our lists can be found here.For this retroactive genre from Episode 025, we're featuring detective fiction by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years.

• Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
• Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum
• Padoskoks: A Jacob Neptune Murder Mystery by Joseph Bruchac
• Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien
• Mimi Lee Cracks the Code by Jennifer J. Chow
• The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel
• The Lady of Zamalek by Ashraf El-Ashmawi, translated by Peter Daniel
• The Conductors by Nicole Glover
• The Red Palace by June Hur
• The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
• The Case of the Burgled Bundle by Michael Hutchinson
• The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan
• Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
• Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
• The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
• The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee
• The Verifiers by Jane Pek
• Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder by Xiaolong Qiu
• Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey
• Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson

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Then on Tuesday, May 17th join us for our 150th episode!

This episode we're talking about Contemporary Fantasy! We discuss drunk mermaids, elderly ghosts, assholes magicians, and hot gargoyles!

You can download the podcast 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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
• Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  • The Magicians (American TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • Ghosts of Vancouver - Gabriola House
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Other Media We Mentioned

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• The Newford Stories by Charles de Lint
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Supercakes by Kat Leyh
• Lumberjanes (Wikipedia)
• The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler
• The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
• Tithe by Holly Black
• The Curse Workers: White Cat; Red Glove; Black Heart by Holly Black
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
• On the Edge by Ilona Andrews
• October Daye by Seanan McGuire
• Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

Links, Articles, and Things

• Podcasters Panel: A Glimpse Behind the Microphone (recorded at the 2022 OLA Super Conference)
• Podcast Bingo
  • Version 1
  • Version 2
• Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy
• Dracula (Marvel Comics) (Wikipedia)
• Isekai (Wikipedia)
• Episode 016 - Supernatural and Paranormal Non-fiction (mermaids!)

20 Contemporary Fantasy books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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

• This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
• The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
• Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
• Lobizona by Romina Garber
• Elemental by Whitney Hill
• A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
• A Blade So Black by LL McKinney
• Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older
• Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun
• Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
• Fire Boy by Sami Shah
• A Comb of Wishes by Lisa Stringfellow
• Kojiki by Keith Yatsuhashi

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 19th when we'll be doing one of our occasional Media Consumption episodes!

Then on Tuesday, May 3rd we'll be discussing Astronomy & Space non-fiction!

This episode we're talking about Books and Food! (Or Comestibles while Consuming Content!)

We discuss finding podcasts in the woods, reading in cafes, cheezos, why you should carry small rocks around with you, dropping food on books, which crustaceans are most likely to be anarchists, lists of cozy mystery novel titles, and how we're (not really) influencers. Plus: Books that have spin-off foods!

You can download the podcast 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

Media We Mentioned

• Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui,
• Drifting Dragons, Vol. 1 by Taku Kuwabara
• Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu, Vol 1 by Virginia Nitouhei and Natsuya Semikawa
  • The guy being really excited about eating spaghetti
• Redwall by Brian Jacques (Wikipedia)
• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Wikipedia)
• Serve it Forth: Cooking With Anne McCaffrey
• Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle
• Nanny Ogg's Cookbook by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby
• One Piece: Pirate Recipes by Sanji
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Links, Articles, and Things

• Cafe Deux Soleils
  • (Apparently it's for sale, someone buy it so RJ can keep going)
• Zenaida's Cafe
• Matthew's pastry/tea picture on Instagram
• Kamala Khan (Wikipedia)
• Episode 143 - Amish Romance
• Arthropods of Anarchy
• Episode 059 - Food and Cooking
  • Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
  • Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Matt Holloway and Michelle Davis
• Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries
  • Feta Attraction by Susannah Hardy
  • Killer Crullers by Jessica Beck
  • Floured Felonies by Jessica Beck
  • Illegally Iced by Jessica Beck
  • Chili Con Carnage by Kylie Logan
  • Chili con Carnage by Hillary Avis (yes, there are TWO books called this)
  • Sconed to Death by Lynn Cahoon (Matthew managed to pronounce this one in a way where the pun title is not obvious…)
  • Strangled Eggs and Ham by Maddie Day
  • Hot and Sour Suspects by Vivien Chien
  • Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
  • Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien
  • Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien
• Jack Reacher (Wikipedia)
• Episode 006 - Books in Translation
  • The Dinner by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett
• Unpacking (video game) (Wikipedia)
• Turkish delight (Wikipedia)
• Apparently The Willy Wonka Candy Company no longer exists?
• The Storm Crow
• Phileas Fogg snacks (Wikipedia)
• Sprouted bread (Wikipedia)
• The Temptation of St. Anthony (Dalí) (Wikipedia)

15 Non-Fiction Relationships/Romance 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.

• I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux
• It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love by Paul Carrick Brunson
• Nedí Nezų (Good Medicine) by Tenille Campbell
• Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know about Sex, Love, and Consent by Inti Chavez Perez
• Single and Forced to Mingle: A Guide for (Nearly) Any Socially Awkward Situation by Melissa Croce
• How To Get Over A Boy by Chidera Eggerue
• That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
• If Someone Says "You Complete Me," Run!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships by Whoopi Goldberg
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
• Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson
• Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities by Kevin A. Patterson
• She's Just Not That Into You: The Fab Femme's Guide to Queer Love and Dating by Aryka Randall
• It's Hard to Fight Naked by Niecy Nash
• Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab

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Then on Tuesday, April 19th we'll be doing our occasional Non-Bookclub Media Consumption episodes!

This episode we're talking about Anthropology Non-Fiction! We discuss culture, society, linguistics, and more! Plus: Teeth, teeth, teeth!

You can download the podcast 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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
• Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas
• Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave
• Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King

Other Media We Mentioned

• The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners by Paul Beck, Edward Mast, and Perry Tapper
• Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
• Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulić
• The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky by Ellen Meloy
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Wikipedia)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Wikipedia)
• Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar
• Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff
• Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas

Links, Articles, and Things

• Four-field approach (Wikipedia)
  • "known jocularly to students as "stones", "tones", "bones" and "thrones""
• Anthropologie (Wikipedia)
• Lidar (Wikipedia)
• Episode 144 - What is a Book?
• I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to | Unraveled
• Franz Boas (Wikipedia)
• Data dredging (Wikipedia)
• Ella Cara Deloria (Wikipedia)

15 Anthropology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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

• The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
• Dakota Texts by Ella Cara Deloria
• Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
• Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran by Niloofar Haeri
• Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
• Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach
• Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana by Kwame Edwin Otu
• Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities by Paul Seesequasis
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae
• Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear
• Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley Thangaraj
• From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani-Kay Trask
• Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 5th when we'll be discussing the genre of Contemporary Fantasy!

This episode we're discussing "What is a Book?" Is it our most self-indulgent episode yet? We don't know, but we do know that the conversation gets pretty existential at times and we talk about what "reading" means, whether something stapled can be a book, and the ephemeral nature of everything.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Other Media We Mentioned

• Building Stories by Chris Ware
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wikipedia)
• Lightspeed Magazine
• Highlights for Children (Wikipedia)
• The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges (Wikipedia)
• Supercrash by Yves Bourgelas
• Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
• Naruto, vol. 1 by by Masashi Kishimoto
• Wolverine #900

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 143 - Amish Romance
• Just Plain Wrong
• Podcasters Panel: A Glimpse Behind the Microphone
• Down Time with Cranston Public Library - 93 - Is Wordle a Video Game?
• Library of Congress ebooks collection
  • Two-Fisted Librarians
  • Two Fisted Library Stories
• Weight and Switch (TVTropes)
• Livejournal (Wikipedia)
• Bande dessinée (Wikipedia)
• Does This Comic Have Staples?
• A survey of the state of research data services in 35 U.S. academic libraries, or "Wow, what a sweeping question"
• Uncan - Mid Boss (licensed under: CC BY-NC)

22 Coming of Age 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.

• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, translated by Emily Balistrieri
• In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
• Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
• Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
• The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Crazy Horse's Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth

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Then on Tuesday, March 15th we'll be talking about bookish food/drink (Mixing Food, Drinks, and Books)!

You voted for it, so this episode we're talking about Amish Romance! (Just in time for Valentine's Day!) We discuss romance, sex, chasteness, cultural appropriation, bonnet rippers, and terrible pies!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Tillie Yoder

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Amish Widow's Secret by Cheryl Williford
• The Coffee Corner by Amy Clipston
• Made with Love by Tricia Goyer and Sherry Gore
• An Amish Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Beckstrand, Charlotte Hubbard, and Kelly Long
• Between You and Me by Susan Wiggs

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Dawn of Christmas: A Romance from the Heart of Amish Country by Cindy Woodsmall
• Snowfall by Shelley Shepard Gray
• Christmas at Rose Hill Farm: An Amish Love Story by Suzanne Woods Fisher
• Little Fish by Casey Plett
• Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry Nietz
• A Forbidden Rumspringa by Keira Andrews
• Amish Christmas Baby Gone by Samantha Price
• An Amish Husband for Tillie by Amy Lillard
• "Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise
• Protector of the Realm by Gun Brooke (lesbian spacestation captain romance)
• Justice League of America: The Nail by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer
• Kim Luna und der Fluch des Wiedertäufers by Dietmar Krüger
• PunisherMAX, Vol. 1: Kingpin by Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

Podcast Links

• Just Plain Wrong Podcast
  • A Non-Euphemistic Barn Raising: A Discussion on Forbidden Rumspringa
  • Gendered Burping: A Book Discussion on An Amish Husband for Tillie
  • Bishop Better: A Discussion on Amish Christmas Baby Gone
  • The Pacifist Vampire Soul Dilemma: Three Books about Amish Vampires & Mennonite Assassins
• Podcasters Panel: A Glimpse Behind the Microphone
• Down Time with Cranston Public Library
  • 93 - Is Wordle a Video Game?
• Book Club for Masochists:
  • Episode 061 - Romance Fiction
  • Episode 070 - Erotic Romance
  • Episode 119 - Regency Romance

Links, Articles, and Things

• Anabaptism (Wikipedia)
• Amish romance (Wikipedia)
• Pennsylvania Dutch language (Wikipedia)
• Hutterite German (Wikipedia)
  • Long s (Wikipedia)
• Rumspringa (Wikipedia)
• Why do the Amish practice shunning?
• Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
• Pyrex (Wikipedia)

15 Religious Romance books by Authors of Colour

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

• The Someday List by Stacy Hawkins Adams
• The One Who Rocked Away by Joanna Alonzo
• Courting Samira by Amal Awad
• The Summer of Me by Angela Benson
• Everybody Say Amen by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
• Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon
• Passing by Samaria by Sharon Ewell Foster
• The Preacher's Promise by Piper Huguley
• Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
• Sunday Brunch by Norma L. Jarrett
• Bring on the Blessings by Beverly Jenkins
• Forbidden by Faith by Negeen Papehn
• She Wore Red Trainers by Na'ima B. Robert
• In Search of a Prince by Toni Shiloh
• Sushi for One? by Camy Tang

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Then on Tuesday, March 1st when we'll be discussing the genre of Anthropology Non-Fiction!