Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This month we're reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin! In this episode there are lots of spoilers! We discuss whether or not we enjoy maps in books, grimdark fantasy, protests, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Book We Discussed This Month

• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• • Map of The Stillness

Other Media We Mention

• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
• A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Links, Articles, and Things

• Dunwich (and other fictional places that H.P. Lovecraft created) are in Massachusetts
• "I make a LOT of maps, and have zero art skills so here's how I do it"
• Grimdark (Wikipedia)
• Hugo Awards (Wikipedia)
• • Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winners
  • Archive of Our Own
  • The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) by Lindsay Ellis
• Pangaea (Wikipedia)
• Colin Kaepernick (Wikipedia)
• U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present) (Wikipedia)
• Tricking readers into acceptance - Blog post by N.K. Jemisin
• Green Ronin To Publish The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game

Book Club Questions

• Bored to Death book club: I've Read The Fifth Season, Now What?
• Pingel Sisters: April 2019 Book Club Discussion Questions: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club: Discussion questions for 'The Fifth Season'

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 3rd we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of politics!

Then on Tuesday, September 17th we'll talk about books and other media we've consumed recently.

In this extra special bonus episode Matthew and Anna talk about a spreadsheet for forty minutes. Seriously! They go through all of the *punk subgenres from Stonepunk to Whalepunk and everything in between.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray

The Spreadsheet

• Timeline of *Punk fiction subgenres

Media Mentioned This Episode

• The Flintstones
• The Far Side
• RRRrrrr!!!
• Krogslist
• • Playlist of all Krog videos
• Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda
• Elfquest
• The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
• One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
• Carniepunk by Rachel Caine
• Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
• Wild Wild West
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic about Superman by Zach Weinersmith
• Fallout (series)
• The Scar by China Miéville
• Tank Girl
• Railsea by China Miéville
• Snowpiercer
• • Why SNOWPIERCER is a sequel to WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
• Mad Max (franchise)
• The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig
• Dishonored
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Links, Articles, and Things

• Göbekli Tepe
• Mathematics in medieval Islam
• Rococopunk is not only sillier than Steampunk, it's also more punk
• Aether (classical element)
• Kameron Hurley

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 20th we'll be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.

Then on Tuesday, September 3rd we'll be discussing the genre of Political Non-Fiction!

This month we're reading Steampunk! We talk about the history of the genre, umbrella fights, boring white men, colonialization, graphic novel adaptations, werewolf sex, good vs bad worldbuilding, and Matthew made a spreadsheet and did some math (of course…).

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Discussed This Month

• The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
• Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
• Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
• Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction edited by Dominik Parisien
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1 by Gail Carriger and Rem

Other Steampunk (or "Steampunk") Books We've Read (or tried to…)

• Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio
• The Glass Scientists by Sabrina Cotugno
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
• The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng
• • Discussed in Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl
• Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke
• Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
• • Discussed in Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage
• Bronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre
• The Stowaway Debutante by Rebecca Diem
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
• • "If I wanted to read Batman fanfiction, I could probably find better fic on the Internet for free." - Goodreads review
• The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
• The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Other Media We Mention

• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Chap hop
• • Fighting Trousers - Professor Elemental
• The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
• Rat Queens
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

Links, Articles, and Things

• S.S. Librarianship
• Aether (classical element)
• Timeline of *Punk fiction subgenres
• Fantasy of manners
• Sad Puppies
• Bakka-Phoenix Books - Sci-Fi/Fantasy bookstore in Toronto
• Gaslamp fantasy
• Intro to Speculative Fiction by People of Color
• Atrocities in the Congo Free State

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 20th we'll be discussing The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin.

Then on Tuesday, September 3rd we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of politics.

This episode we're talking about the American Library Association's annual conference and New and Upcoming Books We're Excited About! We discuss LGBTQ comics, Star Trek, memoirs, and an author who we learn we went to school with.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | Kelsey Ockert | Amie Wright

New and Upcoming Books We Mention

• Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman - Published September 3rd 2019 (Matthew was wrong, it's being published by Graphic Universe)
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe - Published May 28th 2019
• • Spivak pronoun (including "eir")
• We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix - Paperback published June 25, 2019
• Angels With Blue Faces by Lyra McKee - Published late June 2019
• • Lyra McKee (Wikipedia)
• Guts by Raina Telgemeier - Published September 10th, 2019
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker - Published July 16th, 2019
• • Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
  • Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi
• No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant - Published August 20th, 2019
• Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene - Published May 21st, 2019
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price - Published August 20th, 2019
• Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman - Published 25th, 2019
• Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel - Published October 8th, 2019
• Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn and Claire Roe - Published October 8th, 2019
• Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender - Published November 12th, 2019
• The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills - Published September 10th, 2019
• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow - Published September 10th, 2019
• Counterfeit Girl by Pete Milligan and Rufus Dayglo - Published June 25th, 2019
• Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton - Published August 6th, 2019
• Magical Beatdown by Jenn Woodall
• Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir - Published August 6th, 2019
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Published September 10th, 2019
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood - Published September 10th, 2019

Other Books & Media We Mention

• As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
• • Webcomic
• Nonbinary by Melanie Gillman
• • Buy it!
• Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye
• Generations by Flavia Biondi
• Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
• • Matthew talked about this book in Episode 038 - Halloween!
• Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant by Amanda Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey
• • Matthew talked about this book in Episode 059 - Food and Cooking
• The Nib
• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
• Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Far Beyond the Stars
• • Remembering "Far Beyond The Stars"

Links, Articles, and Things

• 2019 ALA Annual Conference
• S.S. Librarianship
• HARK! – The Holiday Music Podcast
• Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table
• • Friday Discussion Forum: Social Justice and Comics
• Europe Comics (Wikipedia)
• Matteo Farinella
• You can search through the ALA conference Schedule to find the podcasts, but I can't seem to link specific to it.
• HiJinx Episode 26: Conference Call
• Zine Pavilion
• Circulating Ideas Episode 161 - Grady Hendrix and Becky Spratford
• Summer Scares Reading Lists
• Graphic medicine
• A Different Booklist

Ideas for Books

• Crow Detective Noir/Detective Crow Adventures
• Magical Girl Supervillian

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 6th we'll be discussing the genre of Steampunk!

Then on Tuesday, August 20th we'll be discussing The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin!

This month our genre is True Crime! We discuss bird thieves, rich people, caring more about the stories around the crimes than the crimes themselves, and audiobooks that make us scared to go to bed. Check it out!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
• • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (movie)
  • Noël Coward
  • Edna Ferber
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
• • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
• The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• The Mystery of Mary Rogers by Rick Geary
• The Case of Madeleine Smith by Rick Geary
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• • Letter to the Golden State Killer

Other Media We Mention

• American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
• On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women by Stevie Cameron
• Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women by Katherine McCarthy
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
• The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams
• 30 for 30: A Queen of Sorts (podcast about " an elaborate baccarat scheme")
• Treasury of Victorian Murder Series
• Treasury of XXth Century Murder Series
• • The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
• Rashomon (Wikipedia)
• Long Overdue Episode 79: Meta-Podcast

Links, Articles, and Things

• Yellow journalism (Wikipedia)
• Ann Rule (Wikipedia)
• Gregory Peck (Wikipedia)
• Patty Hearst (Wikipedia)
• Kevin Mitnick (Wikipedia)
• Hamburglar strikes again, feasts on $2,000 in meals using customer's McDonald's app (CBC)

Vote for which book we'll read! (Please vote only once! Polls will close by July 14th)

Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 16th we'll be talking about books we're excited are coming out in the 2nd half of 2019. Plus a segment recorded live at the American Library Association conference in Washington, DC.

Then on Tuesday, August 6th we'll be discussing the genre of Steampunk!

This month we're discussing Which Book Should We Read? Once a year we pick one title that we all read and discuss. This year we each suggest one title and are asking you to vote for which one we'll read.

Also discussed: Books & Beverages library displays, The Podcaster's Dilemma, poetry clocks, touching, smelling, and tasting podcasts, and a fantasy novel that's a collection of found and fragmentary historical documents.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

The Nominees!

• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Meghan's pick)
• The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong (RJ's pick)
• The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden (Anna's pick)
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Matthew's pick)
• • (It didn't win the Hugo in early June 2016, so who knows what happened then.)

Vote for which book we'll read! (Polls will close by July 14th)

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(Shortlists only include books that none of us had read.)

Meghan's Shortlist

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by by Marlon James
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
• She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

RJ's Shortlist

• Little Fish by Casey Plett
• nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon
• Mistakes to Run With by Yasuko Thanh

Anna's Shortlist

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
• We are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich,
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older

Matthew's Shortlist

• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
• Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Canada Reads (Wikipedia)
• • Meet the 2019 Combat national des livres contenders - The geographic region that got left out of Le combat des livres was BC
• Epistolary novel (Wikipedia)
• Episode 033 - Legal Thrillers
• • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (the fantasy novel)
• Masquerade, Initiation, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy: N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor in Conversation
• • "I am still not sure what that [Afrofuturism] is," Jemisin said. "I write what I write; you put whatever label makes you feel comfortable, have fun with it. I would write these stories whether they were getting published or not. […] I don't have a problem with labeling, as long as it's not too restrictive or conservative. People do try to hammer me into this little slot, but I don't let them. I write what I feel like writing."

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Then on Tuesday, July 16th we'll be talking about the American Library Association annual conference and books we're looking forward to in the second half of 2019!

This month our genre is Supernatural Thrillers! We discuss grand dogs, fairies stealing children, Abbott and Costello Meet the Eldritch Abominations, spooky houses, the best celery, whether hackers are supernatural, snuggling lake monsters, reading Wikipedia articles instead of consuming media, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul
• • Meghan's review
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki
• • The Ring (franchise)
  • Ring (novel series)
  • The Ring, Volume 1 by Misao Inagaki and Hiroshi Takahashi
• The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
• Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
• Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä, and Jason Wordie

Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre?

• Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierny
• • The Dreaming
• Drawing Blood by Billy Martin (published as Poppy Z. Brite)

Other Media We Mention

• Loose Time by RJ Edwards
• • Winner of a National Magazine Award for Fiction!
• Stephen King
• The Bishop Files Series by Kay Hooper
• Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (fantasy novel about a lawyer. It's good!)
• Dean Koontz
• The Curse Workers Series by Holly Black
• • White Cat
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Scooby-Doo
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
• Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito
• • The Enigma of Amigara Fault is collected in Gyo
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
• Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
• The Cabin in the Woods
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Fireman by Joe Hill
• Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
• The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
• The Shape of Water
• Abbott and Costello
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Pontianak: "Pontianaks are usually depicted as pale-skinned women with long black hair, red eyes, and white dress smeared in blood, but they are said to be able to take on a beautiful humanly appearance since they prey on men and helpless people."
• Penanggalan: "a detached female head capable of flying about on its own. As it flies, the stomach and entrails dangle below it, and these organs twinkle like fireflies as the Penanggalan moves through the night."
• 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith
• Changeling: "A changeling was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies."

Ideas for Books

• The Corpse/Ghost With Good Taste
• (A good book about) a trans woman fighting monsters with a pickaxe in one hand and a pirate's cutlass in the other

Questions

• Is "supernatural thriller" more of a movie genre?

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Join us again on on Tuesday, June 18th we'll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast! You get to vote!

Then on Tuesday, July 2nd we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of True Crime!

This episode we talk about Books That Changed Our Lives and Books That Haunt Us. We talk about comics, cooking, problematic faves, what caused us to study what we did in school, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Questions we discuss

• Is there such a thing as a "life-changing book"?
• What do we mean when we use that phrase?
• What distinguishes a "life-changing" book from a "favorite book"?
• Do you have any "life-changing" books?
• Are there any books that haunt you?

Media We Mention

• Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
• Sandman, vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III
• • "Dramatically Different 'absolute Sandman' Recoloring Is Absolutely Necessary"
• Hark Podcast
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• • Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
• • Which Baby for the Billionaire? by Tiana Cole (I couldn't find a book/sitcom/game show just called "Which Baby?!")
  • Which Witch Is Witch
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Number 6 Fumbles by Rachel Solar-Tuttle
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
• Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible by Madhur Jaffrey
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• • Episode 006 - Books in Translation
  • Dark Souls
• Deerskin by Robin McKinley
• • The Girl Without Hands
• Cul de Sac: This Exit by Richard Thompson
• How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
• Bitch (magazine)
• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators by Char Booth
• Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Links, Articles, and Things

• Rural book borrowing in peril as libraries slam PC budget cuts

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 4th when we'll be talking about the genre of Supernatural Thrillers!

Then on Tuesday, June 18th we'll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast!

This month we're reading Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore. We talk about the internet, oral stories, where to start reading superheroes, the problems with incredibly long books, and more!

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Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
• Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm by Varla Ventura
• Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms
• Christmas Customs and Folklore: A Guide to Season Rites by Margaret Baker
• • Hark! Podcast
  • Jingle Bells written by James Lord Pierpont
  • Wassailing
  • Haxey Hood
  • Boggans - Changeling: The Dreaming
  • Snap-dragon (game)
• Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien
• Here Comes a Chopper to Chop Off Your Head: The Dark Side of Childhood Rhymes and Stories by Liz Evers
• • Ring a Ring o' Roses
• Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec
• Les grandes légendes du Québec : un tour du Québec en 25 récits traditionnels
• Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles by Marty Crump
• Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan
• Crash Course Mythology
• White as Milk, Red as Blood: The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth translated by Shelley Tanaka and illustrated by Willow Dawson
• • Willow Dawson's website
• Contes du Nord illustrated by Kay Nielsen
• • Kay Nielsen - 43 artworks

Other Media We Mention

• Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
• PBS Idea Channel
• • How is Slender Man Internet Folklore?
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
• • What If? Website

Links, Articles, and Things

• Kelpie: "malevolent water horses"
• Jack Zipes: "an American academic and folklorist who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales"
• Slender Man
• Creepypasta (just spooked myself out by watching some videos on Petscop…)
• Afrofuturism
• The crew of the Argo
• Folklore of Quebec
• Protein poisoning
• Russian Fairy Tales
• Baba Yaga
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comic series) (Sonic News Network wiki)
• Transformers Wiki (read the image captions)

Favourite Folklore/Fairy Tales

• The Girl Without Hands (The Handless Maiden)
• Vasilisa the Beautiful (girl sent to Baba Yaga's hut)
• The Yule Lads

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 21st when we'll be discussing Books That Changed Our Lives and Books That Haunt Us!

Then come back on Tuesday, June 4th when we'll be talking about the genre of Supernatural Thrillers!

It's our 75th episode! and we discuss some of our Recent Favourites. We talk about magic in outer space, fiction about dating animals, underground civilizations, jigsaw puzzles, and more!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Jessi

Things We Liked!

Jessi

• The Adventure Zone, vol. 1: Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
• • The Adventure Zone (podcast)
• Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss by Stephanie Wittels Wachs
• Baba Is You
• • Trailer
  • Counterfeit Monkey (text game about removing letters from words)

Matthew

• Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules by James Sturm, Guy Davis, and Robert Sikoryak
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
• • BioWare: 18% play Mass Effect FemShep
• Dice Friends: Bylaw & Order Episode 1 (D&D game)

Meghan

• Food for Thot (podcast)
• Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch
• You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
• Ottawa Swordplay

Anna

• The Buried Life by Carrie Patel
• Criminal Minds
• • Matthew Gray Gubler
  • The Thrilling Adventure Hour (featuring Beyond Belief)
• The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
• Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love by Lisa Appignanesi

RJ

• My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris
• Hey Riddle Riddle (podcast)
• Ravensburger 759-Piece Escape Puzzles
• • Arithmomania: "European folklore concerning vampires often depicts them with arithmomania, such as a compulsion to count seeds or grains of millet."
• I'm the Best! by Lucy Cousins
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Links, Articles, and Things

• Victory by Monplaisir (Celebration music)
• Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: Storytime Song

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