Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This episode we're talking about 2022: The Year of Book Two! (And sequels!) We discuss why we read (or don't read) sequels, favourite book twos, reading series out of order, and more! Plus: Shocking reveals that don't leave an impact because we've forgotten who the character is...

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

2022: Year of Book Two

• Book 2 challenge on Storygraph
• Goodreads shelf (use "2022 Year Of Book 2")
• Twitter hashtag: #2022BookTwo
• Instagram hashtag: #2022YearOfBook2

Media We Mentioned

• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (The Invisible Library #1)
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1)
• Goosebumps by R.L. Stine (Wikipedia)
• Animorphs by Katherine Applegate (Wikipedia)
• Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal (Wikipedia)
• Hogfather by Terry Prachett (Discworld #20)
• Doki Doki Literature Club!
• Cover Her Face by P.D. James
  • Featuring Adam Dalgliesh
• Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane (Young Wizards #2)
  • Info about New Millennium updates of the books
• Lirael by Garth Nix (Old Kingdom #2)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente (Fairyland #2)
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games #2)
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Divergent #2)
• A Million Suns by Beth Revis (Across the Universe #2)
• Prodigy by Marie Lu (Legend #2)
• Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat #2)
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemison (Great Cities #1)
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
  • (This used to say it was book one of the "Leningrad Diptych," but that finally got removed as the second book doesn't exist.)
• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2)
• Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #2)
• Startide Rising by David Brin (The Uplift Saga #2)
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb #2)
• The Thousand Eyes by A.K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates #2)
• Supernova by C.A. Higgins (Lightless #2)
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach #2)
• How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
• How We Live by Sherwin B. Nuland
• Short Circuit (1986 film) (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews
  • "The absolute gall of any reviewer to start with the second book in a series and then complain that they don't understand what's going on, as though this is somehow the fault of the text!"
• Desert Island Discworld - Diane Duane and Jingo
• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

12 Weird Fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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

• Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Houseguest and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila
• The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
• Darker Than Night by Owl Goingback
• Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
• A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Also check out our booklist of 12 New Weird books by BIPOC authors!

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 1st when we'll be talking about Amish Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 15th we'll be discussing "What is a book?"

This episode we're talking about Architecture Non-Fiction! We discuss statement architecture vs everyday architecture, subway stations, terrible people, and a big book of fun facts!

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Tadao Ando: Houses by Philip Jodidio
• The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka and Kira Obolensky
• The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster
• Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley
  • There, unfortunately, isn't another book, Matthew just misunderstood what the essay was called.
  • Matthew's photos of Soviet metro stations
• The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
  • Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed (YouTube)
• Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval

Other Media We Mentioned

• 99% Invisible
• The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
• Landscape Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Ian H. Thompson
• @brutal_zen (Instagram)
• @sosbrutalism (Instagram)
• Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig
• Soviet Bus Stops, vol. 2 by Christopher Herwig
• Mini Metro
• Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst
• Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century by Matthew Soules
• Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities by Stefan Riekele

Links, Articles, and Things

• Nonfiction Is Cool, and Our Kids Know It (article RJ mentioned about the five different types of non-fiction)
• Matthew's Lego version of Vancouver

12 Architecture books/publications 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.

• My Life as An Architect in Tokyo by Kengo Kuma
• Zaha Hadid: The Complete Work by Zaha Hadid
• The Surreal Visions of Hernán Díaz Alonso/HDA-X by Hernán Díaz Alonso
• Architecture by Hiroshi Sugimoto
• Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White by William Sturkey
• The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race by Adrienne Brown
• Black Built: History and Architecture in the Black Community by Paul Wellington
• Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, & Mabel O. Wilson
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• Indigenous architecture through indigenous knowledge : dim sagalts'apkw nisiḿ [together we will build a village] by Patrick Robert Reid Stewart (thesis)
• The First Nations Longhouse : our home away from home by Verna J. Kirkness and Jo-ann Archibald (WorldCat)
• Voices of the Land: Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies edited by Reanna Merasty, Naomi Ratte, Desiree Theriault, and Danielle Desjarlais

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 18th we'll be discussing how (and why) 2022 is the Year of Book 2!

Then on Tuesday, February 1st we'll be talking about Amish Romance!

This episode we're talking about our Favourite Reads of 2021! We discuss our favourite fiction and non-fiction reads for the podcast (and not for the podcast) as well as other things that helped us get through the year!

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

Bookshop.org list of (most) our our top titles

• https://bookshop.org/lists/favourite-reads-of-2021

Favourite Fiction

• For the podcast
  • Matthew
    • Dreamships by Melissa Scott (1992)
      • Episode 131 - Cyberpunk
  • Anna
    • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)
      • Episode 123 Psychological Horror
      • Tied with Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Meghan
    • Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott (1995)
      • Episode 131 - Cyberpunk
  • RJ
    • The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith (Japanese 2005, translated 2011)
      • Episode 127 - Crime Fiction
      • (But it's really Piranesi by Susanna Clarke)
• Not for the podcast
  • Anna
    • Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron (2018)
  • Meghan
    • Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys (2017)
  • RJ
    • To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers (2019)
      • Episode 124 - Media (and Noodles) We've Recently Enjoyed
  • Matthew
    • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (2019)

Favourite Non-Fiction

• For the podcast
  • Meghan
    • The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr (2020)
      • Episode 117 - Sociology Non-Fiction
  • RJ
    • The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (1992; originally 1979)
      • Episode 125 - Literary Theory & Literary Criticism
  • Matthew
    • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (2016)
      • Episode 117 - Sociology Non-Fiction
  • Anna
    • All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman (2019)
      • Episode 117 - Sociology Non-Fiction
• Not for the podcast
  • RJ
    • Napkin by Carta Monir (2019)
      • Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed
  • Matthew
    • 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger (2016; originally 1987)
      • Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed
  • Anna
    • Having and Being Had by Eula Biss (2020)
    • (except I feel guilty that this is the same author as last year's non-fic fav so I could also do Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom)
  • Meghan
    • Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll (2013)

Other Favourites Things of 2021

• Anna
  • Maintenance Phase & You're Wrong About (podcasts)
• RJ
  • Unpacking (game)
• Matthew
  • Barge Chilling Beach
  • The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (2020)
• Meghan
  • wandrer.earth
  • Sacré dépanneur! by Judith Lussier (2010)

Runner-Ups

• Matthew
  • Books
    • Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey
      • Episode 129 - Non-Fiction Film & TV Books
    • The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
  • Comics (Twitter thread with more info on each title)
    • Nicola Traveling Around the Demons' World by Asaya Miyanaga (4 volumes, complete)
      • Episode 124 - Media (and Noodles) We've Recently Enjoyed
    • The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún by Nagabe, translated by Adrienne Beck (11 volumes, complete)
    • Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler (8 volumes, ongoing)
      • Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed
    • Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe (6 volumes, ongoing)
      • Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed
    • What Is Obscenity? The Story of A Good For Nothing Girl and Her Pussy by Rokudenashiko
    • The Nib edited by Matt Bors
      • Website
    • Pulp and Reckless by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips
    • Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren
    • This is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle
  • Scary manga:
    • Kasane by Daruma Matsuura (14 volumes, complete)
    • Sensor by Junji Ito (1 volume, complete)
    • PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama (6 volumes, complete)
    • Blood on the Tracks by Shūzō Oshimi (7 volumes, ongoing)
• Anna
  • The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson
  • What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
  • Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
  • Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• Meghan
  • Fiction
    • The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (horror)
    • The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (literary fiction)
    • No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (literary fiction)
    • Rabbits by Terry Miles (techno thriller)
  • Non-fiction
    • Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear by Kat Jungnickel
    • The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman
    • Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
• RJ
  • Picture books!!!
    • Ping by Ani Castillo
    • Poojo's Got Wheels by Charrow
    • Two Many Birds by Cindy Derby
    • This Is Ruby by Sara O'Leary & Alea Marley
    • Animals Brag About Their Bottoms by Maki Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom
    • Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Luisa Uribe
    • Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler & Loren Long
  • Comics
    • Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
    • The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
    • Stargazing by Jen Wang
    • Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
  • TV/Video
    • Taskmaster
    • Only Connect
      • Puzzgrid: Only Connect wall-style puzzles
    • Dimension 20
      • Mice & Murder
      • Misfits & Magic
  • Games
    • Voyagers: A LARP Duet (PDF link)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
• Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha
• You Are Good (podcast)
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hark! Episode 300: Good to Better, Bad to Worse
• Secret Stacks Episode 65
• Episode 116 - Best Books We Read in 2020
• Episode 113 - Seeking Book Recommendations
• Episode 114 - Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations
• Dude Chilling Park (Wikipedia)

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

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

• The Promise of Happiness by Sarah Ahmed
• Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview by Umeek / E Richard Atleo
• The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
• The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Memory Serves: Oratories by Lee Maracle
• Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz
• Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane
• Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
• Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Essential Readings edited by Carlos Alberto Sánchez & Robert Eli Sanchez Jr.
• As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
• Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki
• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 4th we'll be discussing the genre of Architecture!

Then on Tuesday, January 18th we'll be talking about how (and why) 2022 is the Year of Book 2!

This episode we're talking about Thrillers! We discuss what makes a thriller thrilling, characters running around, helicopters, cozy thrillers, non-thrilling thrillers, and more!

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Red Eagles by David Downing
• The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh
• While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
• The Rook by Daniel O'Malley
• Rabbits by Terry Miles
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• Books Meghan read and didn't talk about
  • In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy
  • Contagion by Robin Cook
  • Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
  • Flowers of Darkness by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Pandemic by Robin Cook
  • Vortex by Catherine Coulter

Other Media We Mentioned

• Michael Jackson - Thriller (YouTube)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
• Airframe by Michael Crichton
• Museum, vol. 1 by Ryosuke Tomoe
• The 13th Warrior by Michael Crichton (originally titled Eaters of the Dead)
  • The 13th Warrior (movie) (Wikipedia)
• Jack Reacher Series by Lee Child
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson
• Night of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Are Thrillers All the Same? | #BookBreak (YouTube)
• Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
• Episode 065 - Political Thrillers
• Episode 033 - Legal Thrillers
• Episode 004 - Psychological Thrillers
• Writing 101: What Is the Thriller Genre? Definitions and Examples of Thriller in Literature
• Chekhov's gun (Wikipedia)
• Crucibles
  • Matthew was mixing up The Crucible (the play about the Salem witch trials), with crucifixes and câlice (chalice) a Quebecois swear word
• Liberty Hardy at Book Riot
• Redshirt (stock character) (Wikipedia)
• Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

20 Thriller 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 Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
• Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Bone Black by Carol Rose GoldenEagle
• They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
• IQ by Joe Ide
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• No Going Back by Sheena Kamal
• Lightseekers by Femi Kayode
• The Plotters by Kim Un-su, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
• Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
• Out by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Stephen Snyder
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• The Hatak Witches by Devon Mihesuah
• Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
• The Hole by Pyun Hye-Young, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
• Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon
• The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 21st when we'll be talking about our favourite books of 2021!

Then on Tuesday, January 4th we'll be discussing the genre of Architecture!

This episode we're talking about Adaptations! We discuss (the fictional) Junji Ito's Anne of Green Gables, The Muppets presents Dune the Musical, bad wigs in adaptations, and more!

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 | Appleberry

Media We Mentioned

• Peter and the Wolf (Wikipedia)
• Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wikipedia)
• Spider-Man in film (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Ham
• Spider-Verse (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • Spider-Man (Japanese TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • Spiders-Man (Wikipedia)
• The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
  • The Lord of the Rings (film series) (Wikipedia)
  • Lord of the Rings - trailer (YouTube)
• Harry Potter (film series) (Wikipedia)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - trailer (YouTube)
• Batman in film (Wikipedia)
• Spider-Men (Wikipedia)
• Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) (Wikipedia)
• Highlander (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Frankenstein by Junji Ito
• Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Dune (1984) - trailer (YouTube)
  • Dune (2021) - trailer (YouTube)
• Muppet Treasure Island - trailer (YouTube)
• Muppet Christmas Carol - trailer (YouTube)
• The Music Man (Wikipedia)
  • The Music Man - trailer (YouTube)
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  • The Princess Bride - trailer (YouTube)
• Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Wikipedia)
  • Cassandra Cain (Wikipedia)
• Little Shop of Horrors - (Wikipedia)
• Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
  • Parasite Eve - video game (Wikipedia)
• The Witcher (Wikipedia)
  • The Witcher (TV series) (Wikipedia)
  • The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
• The Lego Movie (Wikipedia)
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  • Golden Compass - trailer (YouTube)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
  • Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - trailer (YouTube)
• BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• The Dark Tower (2017 film) (Wikipedia)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - trailer (YouTube)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - trailer (YouTube)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Alice in Wonderland - trailer (YouTube)
• You (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • Twilight - trailer (YouTube)
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Lovely War by Julie Berry
• The Illusionist - trailer (YouTube)
• The Prestige - trailer (YouTube)
• Seven (1995 film) (Wikipedia)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Wikipedia)
• West Side Story (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Desert Bus
• Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)
• The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End (BoardGameGeek)
  • There are three different Pirates of the Caribbean version of the Game of Life
• Resource Description and Access (Wikipedia)
• Storm - X-Men character (Wikipedia)
• Mystique - X-Men character (Wikipedia)
• Five laws of library science (Wikipedia)
  • "Every book its reader."

18 Metafiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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

• Insurrecto by Gina Apostol
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
• Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima by Hideo Furukawa
• Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
• Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
• The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
• The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
• Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
• Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Thrillers!

Then on Tuesday, December 21st it's our Best Books we Read in 2021 episode!

This episode we discuss non-fiction books about Music! We talk about sea shanties, whether musical scores count as non-fiction, reading about music we're unfamiliar with, how we interpret lyrics, and more! Plus: We made a playlist of music for you to listen to based on the books we read!

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• 808s & Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin
  • 808s & Heartbreak (Wikipedia)
• Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas by Gerry Smyth
  • Wellerman (Wikipedia)
• Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture by Jace Clayton
• Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
• Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff
• They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
• You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music by Lesley Chow
• Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell

Companion Playlist for this Episode

• Spotify
• YouTube

Other Media We Mentioned

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• 33 ⅓ Series
  • Master of Reality by John Darnielle
  • Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson
• We Oughta Know (How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music) by Andrea Warner
• Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 by Ed Piskor
• Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
• Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
• Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
• Todd in the Shadows
  • One Hit Wonderland: "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Dop)"
• Billbuds
• I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats
• Punch Up the Jam
• Song Exploder
• All Songs Considered
• Brave New Faves
• BBC Radio 6
• Pump Up the Volume (Wikipedia)
• The Boat That Rocked (Wikipedia)
• Iron and the Soul by Henry Rollins
• Vintage Sadness by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Hospice by The Antlers (Wikipedia)
  • "Hospice tells the story of a relationship between a hospice worker and a female patient suffering from terminal bone cancer"

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 008 - Christmas/Holiday Reads
• 22 Winter Holiday Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors
• Manga in Libraries: Spooky & Scary Manga
  • Anime Planet booklist
  • Google Doc
• Episode 125 - Literary Theory & Literary Criticism
• Hark! Podcast
• Harvey Pekar (Wikipedia)
• Canadian Content - How the MAPL system works (Wikipedia)
• Riot grrrl (Wikipedia)

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• Fantasy/Fairy Tale
• Western

20 Non-Fiction Music 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.

• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Rock Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution by Salman Ahmad
• Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture by Hisham D. Aidi
• Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother by G'Ra Asim
• Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag
• Black Music by Amiri Baraka (published as Leroi Jones)
• Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter edited by Veronica Chambers
• Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
• Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music by Leila Cobo
• Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Gonzales
• House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
• Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym
• My Name Is Love: the Darlene Love Story by Darlene Love
• Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection by Portia K. Maultsby
• Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl by Rashod Ollison
• Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter
• Run As One: My Story by Errol Ranville
• Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson
• Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way by Blair Stonechild
• Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music by Mari Yoshihara

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 16th we'll be talking about Adaptations of Books into other media!

Then on Tuesday, December 7th we'll be discussing the genre of Thrillers!

This episode we're playing Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled! There's illegal printing presses, malformed creatures, rooftop chases, stolen hats, tea ceremonies, and a masquerade ball!

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

Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled
• Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands
• Victor and the Bully - Spooky 365 (YouTube)
• The One Shot Podcast - Episode 319. Hearts of Magic Part 1
• Dark Mori (Mori Girl Wiki)

13 Supernatural / Paranormal (Non-Fiction) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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

• The Monster Hunter's Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Saving Mankind from Vampires, Zombies, Hellhounds, and Other Mythical Beasts by Ibrahim S. Amin
• When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror by James Bruchac
• So Much More: A Poignant Memoir about Finding Love, Fighting Adversity, and Defining Life on My Own Terms by Zulema Arroyo Farley
• Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond by Nasario García
• New Mexico Ghost Stories by Antonio R. Garcez
• The Headless Haunt: And Other African-American Ghosts Stories by James Haskins
• Moaning Bones: African American Ghost Stories by James Haskins
• Craft: How to Be a Modern Witch by Gabriela Herstik
• An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History by Kazuhiko Komatsu
• Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era by Tiya Miles
• Enchantments: A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession by Mya Spalter
• Out of Concealment: Female Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson
• The Seven Types of Spirit Guide: How to Connect and Communicate with Your Cosmic Helpers by Yamile Yemoonyah

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 2nd we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Music!

Then on Tuesday, November 19th we'll be talking about Adaptations of Books!

This episode we're talking about Erotica! We discuss the relationship between erotica and porn, the differences between erotica and romance fiction, fanfiction, and much more!

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.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• Thirty by Jill Emerson
• Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren
• La technique du périnée by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot
• Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell
• Permission by Saskia Vogel
• Neon Gods by Katee Robert
• Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer
• Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne (NSFW)
• Little Cat by Tamara Faith Berger

Other Media We Mentioned

• Penthouse Letters
• The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
  • Discards by Nicholson Baker
• Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
• Nymph by Francesca Lia Block
• Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection by Colleen Coover
• Chester 5000 by Jess Fink
• We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir by Jess Fink
• Smut Peddler Presents: My Monster Boyfriend edited by C. Spike Trotman
• Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and EA Denich
• Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series by Laurell K. Hamilton
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 070 - Erotic Romance
• Manga in Libraries: Spooky & Scary Manga (registration link!)
• #31SpookyManga
• Our Bookshop.org shop
• Erotica: Full-Frontal Shelving | Genre Spotlight
• @arkhamlibrarian (Librarian who posts pulp/smut covers fairly regularly)
• Chuck Tingle (Wikipedia)
• Jessica Bird (J.R. Ward) (Wikipedia)
• Sherrilyn Kenyon (Wikipedia)
• Anne Bishop (Wikipedia)
• Sex magic (Wikipedia)
• Literotica
• Archive of Our Own
• ALA's GNCRT's Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List
• Bluebeard (fairy tale) (Wikipedia)
• Lemon Demon - Two Trucks
• Salt N Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex
• Creepypasta (Wikipedia)
• Monster erotica (Wikipedia)

18 Erotica 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 Lover, the Lake/L'amant du lac by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau
• Taking on the Billionaire by Robin Covington
• The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
• Garden of Flesh by Gilbert Hernandez
• In Her Closet by Tasha L. Harrison
• Lord of the Senses by Vikram Kolmannskog
• Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley
• The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma
• Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale by Noire
• Play With Me by Alisha Rai
• Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
• Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman, illustrated by Emilee Denich
• Haven by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• The Carnal Prayer Mat by Li Yu
• The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth by Zane
• A Taste Of Sin by Fiona Zedde
• Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde

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Then on Tuesday, November 2nd we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Music!

This episode we're discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke! Major spoiler warning for this episode as we talk about a lot of various plot points! (Though we don't reveal everything.) There's an extra spoiler siren immediately before we start diving into the plot in depth.

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Check out the transcript of this episode!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (buy it from our store)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• SCP-3008 (Ikea)
  • SCP-087 (stairs that go down forever)
  • SCP Foundation (Wikipedia)
• BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei
• Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde by Julie S. Lalonde
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Links, Articles, and Things

• Book Talk Live with McArthur Public Library (featuring Matthew!)
  • It's not up on podcast places yet, but we'll let you know!
• Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021
• Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Episode 083 - The Fifth Season
• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Italian Emergency Alert System (YouTube)
• Censor Beep
• Cornice (Wikipedia)
• Walking simulators (Wikipedia)
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Wikipedia)
  • Imaginary Prisons (Wikipedia)

15 Self Help books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

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

• Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
• Walking In Your Power: Lessons from the Grandmothers by Barbara Derrick
• Get Over 'I Got It': How to Stop Playing Superwoman, Get Support, and Remember That Having It All Doesn't Mean Doing It All Alone by Elayne Fluker
• Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language by Roxane Gay
• It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage by Arlan Hamilton
• Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty
• How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh
• Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley
• The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
• Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese
• Navigate Your Stars by Jesmyn Ward
• Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul by Najwa Zebian

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 5th we'll be discussing the genre of Erotica!

Then on Tuesday, October 19th we'll be playing a spooky role-playing game!

This episode we're talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are Cosmopolitan for scientists!

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

Announcements

• We made a transcript for this episode! If you have suggestions for how you'd like to see transcripts from our podcast presented (e.g. formats, etc.), let us know!

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, & Christopher Merrill
• Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz
• Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto
• "Machine Love" by Joy Kennedy-O'Neill
• "Ice" by Lotte van der Krol
  • The 4th Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest
• Dans l'antre d'Aoï garden by Hye-Young Pyun
• Insignia: Asian Flash Fiction & Poetry

Other Media We Mentioned

• "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn" (Wikipedia)
• "El Dinosaurio" by Augusto Monterroso
• "El Emigrante" by Luis Felipe Lomelí
• Every Book Its Reader by @marccold
• It's lunchtime, which means it's time for a very sad story in which love is found, love is lost, he does her wrong, and she gets her revenge by @marccold
• Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs edited and translated by John Colarusso
• New Yorker Flash Fiction
• Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel
• Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol
• Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol (Wikipedia)
• "Human Intelligence" by Kurt Anderson
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 108 - Visual Novels
• Episode 074 - Short Story Collections
• Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks
• Book Club for Masochists: Land Acknowledgements
• Drabble (Wikipedia)
• Cell phone novel (Wikipedia)
• Twitterature (Wikipedia)
• The Short Story Dispenser
• Storm Crow
  • Beermat microfiction contest (archive.org)
• Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction
• Lydia Davis (Wikipedia)
• Poetry in Transit (Vancouver)
• Deny Everything - Circle Jerks (Spotify)
  • YouTube

15 Flash Fiction Books & 15 Flash Fiction Stories 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.

Collections

• The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar
• How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories by Venita Blackburn
• People of Colo(u)r Destroy Flash Fiction! edited by Berit Ellingsen
• States of Grace by Stephen Graham Jones
• Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
• People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
• Complete Works & Other Stories by Augusto Monterroso
• Forward by Shabnam Piryaei
• The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China edited & translated by Shouhua Qi
• Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America edited by by Robert Shapard & James Thomas
• Microfictions by Ana María Shua
• Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana María Shua
• Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Córdoba Sosa
• The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories by Luisa Valenzuela
• Work-In-Progress by Ran Walker

Stories

• "Riddle" by Ogbewe Amadin
• "lil miss jackson" by Nefertiti Asanti
• "Smoothies" by Venita Blackburn
• "Gloria" by K-Ming Chang
• "After 'While" by Cherie Dimaline
• "Before the Haze Devours You" by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
• "As the North Wind Howled" by Yu Hua
• "A Sailor" by Randa Jarrar
• "Moonboys" by Stephen Graham Jones
• "Roe Soup Dance" by Tammy Heejae Lee
• "Time, Like Water" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "As Above" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "Niqqak" by Sedna Qaġaq
• "More than Nothing" by Nisi Shawl
• "God Product" by Alyssa Wong

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 21st when we'll be discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.

Then on Tuesday, October 5th we'll be getting spooky in preparation for Halloween as we discuss the genre of Erotica!