Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This episode we're reading Short Story Collections! We talk about the differences between collections and anthologies, when a short story is too long, futurespeak, and how little Charles Dickens knows about writing. Plus: Accidentally buying Canadians.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

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

• All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
• Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe
• Gutshot by Amelia Gray
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 edited by N.K. Jemisin
• Three Deaths by Josip Novakovich
• Fantastic Adventures
• How Long till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
• Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
• Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• • Hark! Episode 212: Strawberry Equinox (with the neck ribbon story)
• Gothic Tales of Haunted Love edited by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko
• Other books Meghan read
• • Useful Phrases for Immigration by May-lee Chai
  • Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories by Chiung-Yu Shih
  • Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories by Yukiko Motoya
  • The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada
  • A Manual for Cleaning Women: Collected Stories by Lucia Berlin
  • Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker

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

• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
• Maiden Mother Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes
• Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction

Other Media We Mention

• Hellboy Series
• Itty Bitty Hellboy by Art Baltazar and Franco
• Flight Series
• Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
• Lightspeed Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black
• Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (anthology with a story by RJ!)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Nebula Rules
• • Short Story: less than 7,500 words;
  • Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words;
  • Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than 40,000 words
  • Novel: 40,000 words or more.
  • Game Writing: An interactive or playable story-driven work which conveys narrative, character, or story background.
• Picaresque novel
• January 1998 North American ice storm

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Then come back on Tuesday, May 7th when we'll be talking about the genre of Fairy Tales/Fables/Legends/Myths/Folklore!

It's our 73rd episode and we're talking about Reading Habits! We discuss reader robes, the worst things we've spilled on books, getting motion sick while reading on vehicles, using things as bookmarks, when not to donate books to the library, and judging people by their bookshelves. Plus: Aeroplane and other vehicle noises!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Questions

• What is your background as a reader? (early, late, family tradition, core identity, fun hobby, professional requirement)
• When do you read? (specific to work or pleasure? type of reading?)
• Where do you read? (in public, a specific chair, on transit, audio books in car, etc)
• How many books do you read at the same time?
• Do you track your reading? (take part in challenges or reading marathons? have quotas per type of reading material?)
• How do you choose what you read next?
• What do you do with books when you're done with them? (bookshelves, ebooks) give to friends? leave on benches? fill donation bins/little free libraries? rebuy copies you lent to friends and never got back?
• Do you mark up your books, highlight, take notes, dogear, get sand in them at the beach?

Media We Mention

• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• • Episode 006 - Books in Translation
• Essential Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 1
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Links, Articles, and Things

• Goodreads
• 24in48 Readathon
• Book Riot's 2019 Read Harder Challenge
• Queer Book Club
• Episode 042 - Childhood Favourites

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This episode we're discussing Occult/Mysticism/New Age/Esoteric/Magic(k) Non-Fiction! We discuss youthful tarot experimentation, cultural appropriation, new age spiritualism, and more! Plus: Well known 19th century erotic author/model Bam Stroker!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

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

• Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea
  • Welcome To 'Witch City' With Michelle Tea
• Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells by Barbara Rieti
• Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique by Harry G. West
• Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Valerie A. Kivelson
• The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason by John V. Fleming
• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
• The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
  • Lore Podcast
• Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles by Taisia Kitaiskaia
  • Ask Baba Yaga at The Hairpin
• HausMagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft by Erica Feldmann
  • HausWitch shop
• The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane by Matthew Hutson
• Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman
  • Camille Chew is the artist (she also has a "Modern Witch" series of images)
• Greetings from Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood by Claire Hoffman

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

• Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack
  • There are no print collections of Pollack's run on Doom Patrol, but you can buy it on Comixology

Other Media We Mention

• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Miguel Ruiz
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
• The Vampire Bible by The Temple of the Vampire
• Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft by Kathryn Gottlieb (the thesis Meghan mentioned)
• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
• Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
• The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells by Skye Alexander
• The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts by Judika Illes
• The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
• Magic from Mexico: Folk Magic, Prayers, Spells & Recipes as Taught by the Wise Woman of Guadalupe by Mary Devine
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
• The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America's Future by Jonathan Cahn
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Taisia Kitaiskaia
• Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law by Don Webb
• Witches, Pagans, and Cultural Appropriation by Mandy A. Paradise (zine)
• Brainscan Zine #33: DIY Witchery (An Exploration of Secular Witchcraft) by Alex Wrekk
  • Portland Button Works: Witchy category

Links, Articles, and Things

• Old Episodes of our podcast
  • Episode 005 - Religion (non-fiction)
  • Episode 015 - Self Help
  • Episode 016 - Supernatural and Paranormal Non-fiction
• New Age (Wikipedia)
• Black Witch: Life from a Black Pagan's Perspective
  • Black Witch on the Alt-Black Podcast
• How to Cast Spells Using Emoji by Tarin Towers
• 164 Emoji Spells
• Some Modern Witches Are Casting Emoji Spells And Digital Tarot Readings - But Do They Work? by Jacob Shelton
• A Simple Guide to Emoji Spells 🔮🕯
• Witches don't want Sephora and Urban Outfitters selling magic kits
• Jack Parsons (rocket engineer) (Wikipedia)
• Category:Trees of Peru (Wikipedia)
• Book Club for Masochists Bingo
• White Witchery by Elissa Washuta (article about cultural appropriation)
• Religion for Punks by Phil McAndrew (comic on The Nib that RJ mentioned)
• Esoteric/Occult/Metaphyics (aka Witchy Shit) shelf classification from Left Bank Books

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This episode we're talking about Canadian Content! We discuss books by indigenous authors, French Canadian literature, the immigrant experience, what it means to be Canadian, and more! Plus: The Log Driver's Waltz!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jean Broughton

Questions

• Do you know the history of Canadian Content in media?
• Do you deliberately read Canadian (authors, content)? Why?
• How do you define "Canadian literature"?

Media We Mention

• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• The Log Driver's Waltz
• • Wikipedia
  • Animation
• The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
• • Wikipedia
  • Animation
• Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
• Canadian Whites (WWII-era comics in Canada)
• • Brok Windsor by Jon Stables
  • Nelvana of the Northern Lights by Adrian Dingle
  • Bell Features Collection - Library and Archives Canada Rare Book Collection
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
• About Betty's Boob by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau
• The Young in One Another's Arms by Jane Rule
• nîtisânak by Lindsay Nixon
• 100 Days in Uranium City by Ariane Dénommé
• Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittall
• Ru by Kim Thúy
• Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
• Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• • Graphic novel series
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Movie)
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

Links, Articles, and Things

• Canadian Content (Wikipedia)
• So what makes it Canadian? (CRTC website)
• The MAPL system - defining a Canadian song
• Heritage Minutes
• • Wilder Penfield (the "burnt toast" video)
• Canadians reading fewer domestic books, report shows
• Confederation Poets
• What Is CanLit? By Douglas Coupland
• The More Canada Report: Increasing Canadians' Awareness and Reading of Canadian Books
• Local libraries see surge in Indigenous materials being checked out
• Boylesque TO: The people who did Oh Manada!
• Kit Pearson
• Speed Dating Through the Genres: Fiction in Translation: French-Canadian (Meghan's presentation)
• • Slides
  • Handout
• CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire by Alicia Elliott
• Vivek Shraya's arts grant
• The Canada Council for the Arts Grants
• Prix Bédélys: Québec comic awards
• Québec Reads
• Guy Delisle
• Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v Canada
• Sixties Scoop
• Honest Ed's

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Then on Tuesday, March 19th we'll be talking about Reading Habits and Reading Spaces!

Just in time for Valentine's Day we're reading Erotic Romance! We discuss how to talk about erotica without getting too personally revealing, the physics of perpetual boners, BDSM, and goth-shaming. Plus: We really need to buy pop shields!

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Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

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Books We Read This Month

• Hidden Away by Maya Banks
• At the Stroke of Midnight by Tara Sivec
• Worked Up by Tessa Bailey
• Cream of the Crop by Alice Clayton
• Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai
• Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection by Colleen Coover
• Off the Clock by Roni Loren
• • Goodreads review Matthew mentioned
• Pleasure for Two by Pamela Yaye

Other Media We Mention

• Chester 5000 by Jess Fink
• Yes, Roya by C. Spike Trotman and Emilee Denich
• Nymph by Francesca Lia Block
• Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne
• Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer
• Don't Bang the Barista! by Leigh Matthews
• The Devil's Submission by Nicola Davidson
• Little Sister's vs. Big Brother
• The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus
• Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai
• The Firework Exploded by Tara Sivec
• Palmerino by Melissa Pritchard

Links, Articles, and Things

• What is Erotic Romance? by Sylvia Day
• Do Not Mess with the Happy Ever After: defining the romance novel by KJ Charles
• You Will Take My Fluff From My Cold Dead Hands by KJ Charles
• Historical Romance: Who Gets the HEA by KJ Charles
• My 2018 Year in Reading: Favourite Books of the Year, Most Memorable Character, Best Cover, and More! By Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian
• RITA Award - Romance Writers of America
• • List of nominees for Best Erotic Romance
• An Ode to the Romance Novel (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
• Growing-up for goths
• • "It's a relatively middle-class subculture, so despite … all the going out and being into the music, goths have always had a fairly positive view of people who are also achieving academically."

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This episode we're talking about Bizarro Fiction! We discuss body horror, transgression, kaiju butts, dildo salesmen, and more! Plus: Books that make us (or at least Matthew) want to throw up!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

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

• Give of Yourself: A Bizarro Christmas Tale by Lee Widener
• The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade
• Entropy in Bloom: Stories by Jeremy Robert Johnson
• F4 by Larissa Glasser
• Fortune Box by Madeleine Swann
• Flamingos in the Ashtray: 25 Bizarro Short Stories by Zoltan Komor
• The Filing Cabinet of Doom: 17 Bizarro Short Stories by Madeleine Swann

Other Media We Mention

• The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III
• Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Bizzong! The Bizarre and Weird Fiction Podcast
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Japan Conquers the Galaxy by Kirsten Alene
• Cthulhu Comes to the Vampire Kingdom by Cameron Pierce
• Sausagey Santa by Carlton Mellick III
• Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
• I've Got a Time Bomb by Sybil Lamb
• Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones by Torrey Peter

Links, Articles, and Things

• The complete history of the '69-nice' meme on Twitter
• They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson

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It's our Best of 2018 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2018, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Family Sagas to Nature/Outdoors Non-Fiction) and the best we read of everything else. Join us for our #libfaves18!

[Sorry this is a bit late coming out, Matthew had a terrible bout of food poisoning.]

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Favourite books read for the podcast

• Fiction
• • Meghan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Episode 045 - Family Sagas)
  • Anna: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell (Episode 049 - Southern Gothic)
  • Matthew: Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North (Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy)
  • RJ: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy)
• Non-Fiction:
• • Anna: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins (Episode 051 - Essay Collections)
  • Matthew: Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki (Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing)
  • RJ: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley (Episode 059 - Food and Cooking)
  • Meghan: My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle (Episode 051 - Essay Collections)

Favourite books we read not for the podcast

• Fiction
• • Matthew: Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  • RJ: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  • Meghan: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
  • Anna: Jørn Lier Horst (Anna talked about his book The Caveman for Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir)
  • • Here's Jørn Lier Horst's tweet about us!
• Non-Fiction:
• • RJ: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
  • Meghan: The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
  • Anna: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
  • Matthew: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
• Other
• • Meghan: The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill
  • Matthew: Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler
  • • Matthew talked about this one in Episode 062 - French and Dinosaurs and Beetles and Cereal
  • RJ: "Revenant" from Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich
  • Anna:
  • • Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
    • E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning by Ruth C. Clark and Richard E. Mayer

Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast)

Meghan:

• Non-Fiction
• • Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
  • War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
  • The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience by Jennifer Pharr Davis
  • The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont and Manjit Thapp
  • What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan
• Sci Fi: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
• Romance: A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
• Graphic Novel: Spinning by Tillie Walden
• Poetry: A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
• Middle-grade/YA: The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith

Anna:

• My Neighbor Totoro

Matthew:

• Non-Fiction: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller by Ryan North
• Graphic Novels:
• • Persephone by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky (So good!)
  • About Betty's Boob by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau (Great!)
  • Erased, vol. 1 by Kei Sanbe
  • Frankenstein by Junji Ito
  • Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac
  • Ménage à 3, vol. 1 by Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsdon (webcomic)
  • Gunnerkrigg Court, vol. 4-5 by Tom Siddell (webcomic)
  • Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew (webcomic)
  • Dimension W by Yuji Iwahara
  • Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui
  • Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa
  • Dodo by Felipe Nunes

RJ

• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
• Crunch, the Shy Dinosaur by Cirocco Dunlap and Greg Pizzoli
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North and Erica Henderson

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hark! Episode 146: Fuck Yes Dragon Tuesday
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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Then on Tuesday, February 5th we'll be talking about Erotic Romance! (Just in time for Valentine's Day!)

This episode we're talking about Nature/Outdoors Non-Fiction! We discuss armchair travelling, whether olden days explorers were idiots, manliness, and how trees communicate! Plus: Meghan tells us about when she was a fantasy character and birds ate out of her hands.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month

• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
• To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
• • Robert Scott was the explorer who was married to Matthew's friend's ancestor
• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
• The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke
• Le Québec cyclable - Guide des pistes cyclables au Québec by Collectif Ulysse
• Le pouvoir de la pédale by Olivier Razemon

Other Media We Mention

• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard Evelyn Byrd (the carbon monoxide poisoning book Meghan could not recall)
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
• On the Camino by Jason

Links, Articles, and Things

• Outdoor literature (Wikipedia)
• National Outdoor Book Award
• • 2018 Winners
• Mars rovers (Wikipedia) (there is a great infographic of driving distances on the moon and mars on this page)
• • Spirit (XKCD)
  • • Alternative Ending 1
    • Alternative Ending 2
  • Opportunity (XKCD)
  • Curiosity (the one that sang Happy Birthday)

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 1st for our Best of 2018 episode!

Then come back on Tuesday, January 15th when we'll be talking about Bizarro Fiction!

This episode we're talking about Tabletop Games (including board games, card games, and role playing games)! But first we spend six minutes talking about long-distance winter driving… Once that's out of the way we discuss social media for playing card companies, co-operative games, low-cost entry to gaming, and more. Plus! Matthew talks too much about everything.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Games We Discussed This Month

• Snakes and Ladders
• Snap
• Magic: the Gathering
• Risk
• Settlers of Catan
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Jurassic Central Park: "A diceless RPG whose central mechanic is eating chicken wings and pretending to be a dinosaur in New York."
• Call of Cthulhu
• Pandemic
• Betrayal at House on the Hill
• Ex Libris
• Bring Your Own Book
• Tsuro
• Flash Point: Fire Rescue
• Carcassonne
• Lasers & Feelings
• • Magic & Muggle Stuff (by RJ!)
• Honey Heist
• Millennial Apartment Hunters
• Dread
• Dixit
• Timeline
• Canasta
• Pinochle
• Rummikub
• Ticket to Ride

Other Media We Mention

• The Adventure Zone
• How to Steal a Book in 1930s Chicago (part one)
• The Roberts Street Casual Gaming Federation 2011-2012 Yearbook
• Halifax Casual Gaming Federation Annual 2012-2013

Links, Articles, and Things

• BoardGameGeek
• UBC's Canadian Pacific digital collection
• Free and Low-Cost Tabletop RPG Options
• murderhobo

Questions

• What games do you like to play?

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 18th when we'll be talking about Nature/Outdoors Non-Fiction!

Then come back on Tuesday, January 1st when we'll be talking about our Favourite Books of 2018!

In this episode: Political Thrillers, are they even real? At the very least we think they're terrible! Plus: Weird politics, macho men being manly, drinking lots of coffee, secret tunnels, and more!

[Also: Anna and Matthew sound...not great this episode due to microphone issues. This will be fixed for future episodes!]

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Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month

• Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
• The Affair by Lee Child
• All Fall Down by Ally Carter
• The President is Missing by Bill Clinton, James Patterson, and David Ellis
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
• Call for the Dead by John le Carré
• House of Cards by Michael Dobbs

Other Media We Mention

• The Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
• Hark, a vagrant by Kate Beaton
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Big Lebowski (Movie)
• The West Wing (TV series)
• Designated Survivor (TV series)
• Battlestar Galactica (TV series)
• Red Sparrow (Movie)
• House of Cards (TV series)
• Secret Nation (Movie)
• Race Course Road by Seema Goswami (Indian Political Thriller)
• • The feminist political thriller that you can't not read
• The Honest Season by Kota Neelima (Indian Political Thriller)
• • The Honest Season review: An engrossing political thriller that moves at a good pace
• The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn

Links, Articles, and Things

• So You Want to get into Political Thriller Books? (BookRiot)
• Political Thrillers for Teens: A Booklist (Stacked Books)
• Rob Ford
• Acting President of the United States (Wikipedia)
• Free Music Archive
• • The Free Music Archive is closing this month

Questions

• Do you like political thrillers?
• Can you recommend any political thrillers from other countries, written by women, or from a leftist perspective?

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 4th when we'll talk about Board Games and RPGs.

Then come back on Tuesday, December 18th for our last genre of the year, Nature/Outdoors nonfiction!