Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This episode we talk video games! We discuss taxonomies of birds, when is a game not a game, defining soup and sandwich, and the gamification of everything. Plus: We really indicate our ages by mentioning our first exposure to video games.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books Games We Discussed

• Lego Dimensions
• Pokémon X and Y
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Katamari Damacy
• Spyro the Dragon
• Mass Effect
• Jet Grind/Set Radio
• Chrono Trigger (it has 13 endings)
• Stardew Valley
• Magic: The Gathering Arena
• • Magic: The Gathering
  • Momir Basic
• Wandersong
• Mini Metro
• Monument Valley
• Zombie Castaways
• The Stanley Parable

Other Media We Mention

• Ingress
• Pokémon Go
• Fortnite
• Super Mario Bros.
• Centipede
• Super Mario World
• Sunset Riders (the cowboy game Anna played)
• Pokémon Sun and Moon
• Carmen Sandiego
• Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
• The Manhole (apparently made by the people who made Myst!)
• Night in the Woods
• Skylanders
• Disney Infinity
• Dance Dance Revolution
• Unreal Tournament
• Super Mario 64
• Retro Game Challenge
• • GameCenter CX
• Tetris
• L.A. Noire
• Hay Day
• Township (mistakenly called "Townville")
• Minecraft
• South Park: The Stick of Truth
• Costume Quest (Matthew has finished this since the recording happened, it's pretty fun)
• Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
• Gone Home
• Neopets
• The Neverhood (the claymation game)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Sandwich Alignment Chart
• Something Something Soup Something: The game about what soup is
• Snakes and Ladders (Wikipedia)
• Non-game (Wikipedia)
• Escape Room (Wikipedia)
• Alternate Reality Game (Wikipedia)
• Augmented reality (Wikipedia)
• Software Library: MS-DOS Games (on Archive.org)
• Internet Arcade (on Archive.org)
• Humble Bundle
• Steam
• Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe
• Xbox Adaptive Controller
• Desert Bus for Hope (fundraiser)
• • Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors
• Game Workers Unite
• Waypoint Podcast (RSS Feed)

Questions

• Do you have online games that you can suggest RJ recommend to people?
• Do you let people install games/software on computers in your library?
• Can you identify any of the games we couldn't remember the names of?
• What matters to you when asking for game recommendations?
• What topics would you like us to discuss on the podcast?

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Then come back on Tuesday, December 4th when we'll discuss tabletop games!

Our "genre" this month was Cheap eBooks! We talk about satire, mysteries, the appeal of short fiction, and queer Christmas romances!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month

• Casper Gets His Wish by R. Cooper
• Judge Anderson: Year One by Alec Worley
• Peril in Paxton Park by J.A. Whiting
• Kensei Tales: It's the Great Yule Cat Jamie Hattori by Jeremy Zimmerman

Other Media We Mention

• Oz books by L. Frank Baum on Project Gutenberg
• Something Like Series by Jay Bell
• Girls by the Beastie Boys
• Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
• World of Wakanda by a bunch of people
• The Healing Power of Eggnog by Jamie Fessenden

Links, Articles, and Things

• Buy Anna's zines! Books on my shelf that I have not read
• Humble Bundle
• Bundle of Holding
• The Hugo Awards
• Chuck Tingle
• A consumption of gay men: navigating the shifting boundaries of m/m romantic readership by Kacey Whalen, a 2017 thesis on women and m/m romance
• Poe's law
• • "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article."
• Judge Dredd: Supercop or Satire? The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
• Yule Cat
• Hark Episode 189: Feliz Jól
• Yule Lads

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 6th, when we'll be talking about Video Games!

Then come back on Tuesday, November 20th when we'll discuss the genre of Political Thrillers!

It's one of our irregular "other media" episodes! This time we talk about French language books, dinosaurs, beetles, breakfast cereal, children's books, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Talked About

• Le bonhomme de neige * by Jo Nesbø
• Une longue canicule * by Anne Villeneuve
• Le jardin d'Amsterdam * by Linda Amyot
• Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich
• Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
• • Amdiner Dhaliwal's Instagram
• Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler
• • "While there are 250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals, there are over 350,000 beetle species described, with many more beetles yet to be discovered!" - source
• Plus on est de fou plus on lit
• The Empty Bowl podcast
• Which Witch is Witch podcast (Stitcher)
• Good Mythical Morning
• YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!) by Lindsay Ellis
• • Transformers and Film Studies | The Whole Plate - Episode 1
• Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
• Quackers by Liz Wong
• Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper
• Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang
• Life by Cynthia Rylant and Brendan Wenzel
• Dinosaur Kisses by David Ezra Stein
• I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean! by Kevin Sherry
• Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley
• • Read the comic
  • Jerktastic Park
• A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
• Fence, vol. 1 by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad

*French capitalization convention is to only capitalize the first word in a title unless is otherwise normally gets a capital.

Other Media We Mention

• Hark! The Holiday Music Podcast
• Dragon Ball
• • Apparently nobody ever says "This isn't even my final form" in the anime.
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers
• Y: The Last Man by by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
• Clan Apis by Jay Hosler
• Irish People Taste Test New Zealand Snacks
• The Scottish Granny reads The Wonky Donkey
• Comic Book Implosion: An Oral History of DC Comics Circa 1978 by Keith Dallas and John Wells

Links, Articles, and Things

• instar books (summon a demon!)
• Brands Are Not Our Friends (article in The Atlantic)
• Steak-umm's new marketing strategy: millennial angst with a side of meat puns

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 16th when we'll be talking about our "genre" of cheap ebooks!

Then on Tuesday, November 6th, we'll talk about video games.

This month we read Romance Fiction! We talk about "interpersonal attraction", fake fan fiction, imagining the leads of romance novels look like David Bowie, spice-o-meters, the prime minister of the werewolves, and romance novels about low income housing. Plus: In the Arms of the Spider Hunk!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read)

• Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt
  • 'But his eyes were black, framed by curling lashes, and he hadn't shaved and he looked like a highwayman with cynically twisted thick lips. He looked like one of those rogues the molls in St Giles loved to sing romantic ballads about in the taverns. A man born to hang. A man born to break a woman's heart.'
  • 'Hugh caught the man and had another thought, which was: Tits?'
  • The Maiden Lane series
• Alaskan Sweethearts by Janet Tronstad
• Ship It by Britta Lundin
  • "How 1 question triggered a "Supernatural" fandom meltdown"
• The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
  • 'He leaned forward and whispered in conspiratorial fashion. "It's your tits."'
• Protector of the Realm by Gun Brooke
  • 'Examining Rae's sex, so trustingly displayed before her, she identified the engorged clitoris, grateful for the similarity in human and Gantharian physiology.'
• Silver Silence by Nalini Singh
• Let's Talk About Love By Claire Kann
• Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
• A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
• Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
  • Lindsay Ellis Twilight video link: "Dear Stephanie Meyer"
• Roller Girl by Vanessa North

Other Media We Mention

• Tessa Dare (romance author Anna mentioned enjoying)
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
• My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins
• Spicy Library Stories (rated two-stars on Goodreads!)
• Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan
• Wickedly Wonderful by Deborah Blake
• The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series by Gyles Brandreth
• The Monster at the End of this Book: An episode of Supernatural that discusses slash fiction
• The Story of My Tits by Jennifer Hayden
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• The Others series by Anne Bishop
• Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• 31 Podcasts For Every Type Of Book Lover - BuzzFeed
• Episode 001 - Historical Romance (it's literally been 40 months since we did this one!)
• Episode 008 - Holiday/Christmas Reads
• Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
• Smart Podcast, Trashy Books
• Selkie (Wikipedia)
• WereBear (Wikipedia) (the image on this page is the one that Matthew sent to Meghan and RJ)
• Lindsay Ellis Twilight video link: "Dear Stephanie Meyer"
• Wine Moms
• Anne of Green Gables gets her hair pulled
• An Ode to the Romance Novel by Lindsay Ellis

Questions

• At what point did consent become a bigger thing in romance?
• How do you think werewolves go deep sea diving?
• Are there any super-awkward were-creatures?
• What's the most adorable were-creature?
• Who we want to date in Stardew Valley
• What romance genre would you like us to read next?

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 2nd when we'll give you an update on our non-bookclub related media consumption!

Then come back on Tuesday, October 16th when we'll be talking about our "genre" of books that costs one dollar or less!

This episode we're talking about Travel Reading! What do we read when we travel? How do we pick which books to bring? Which fictional places would we like to travel to? 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

Media We Mention

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• On the Camino by Jason
• I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
• The Last Musketeer by Jason
• The Left Bank Gang by Jason
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson
• Southeast Asia on a Shoestring
• Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
• The Literary Traveller in Edinburgh: A Book Lover's Guide to the World's First City of Literature by Allan Foster
• Nightwing: The New Order by Kyle Higgins and Trevor McCarthy (this is terrible)
• Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
• Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha
• The World of Scary Video Games: A Study in Videoludic Horror by Bernard Perron
• Burmese Days by George Orwell
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology

Links, Articles, and Things

• Camino de Santiago
• Powell's Books
• Nikolai Gogol
• Alexander Pushkin
• Musée Hergé
• • Some photos from Matthew's visit
• Gambler's Book Shop
• Burlesque Hall of Fame
• The Mob Museum
• A year of reading the world (the blog/book about reading a novel from every country in the world)
• Platform Nine and Three-Quarters
• Turkish delight
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Really Foul Candy
• Anna wanted to visit Rhíminee in The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
• Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Questions

• Do you read when you travel or on vacations?
• Do you organize travel around bookish things?
• What fictional places would you like to visit?

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Then come back on Tuesday, October 2nd when we'll give you an update on our non-book club related media consumption!

This episode we're discussing Non-Fiction Food and Cooking books! We talk about the mystery of electric kettles, bodybuilding expertise, and fear of trying to make recipes that look like the pictures. Plus: Songs about bananas!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Robert Hamaker

Books We Discuss This Month

• Geek Sweets: An Adventurer's Guide to the World of Baking Wizardry by Jenny Burgesse
• The Official DC Super Hero Cookbook by Matthew Mead
  • Batman: Through the Genres
• The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
• Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays by Betty Fussell
• Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food by Ann Hood
• An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler
• Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant by Amanda Cohen, Grady Hendrix, and Ryan Dunlavey
• Cook Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha
• Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Matt Holloway and Michelle Davis
• Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina
• Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel

Other Media We Mention

• The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up with Some Great Recipes) by Erin Ergenbright and Thisbe Nissen
• The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker
  • So many editions: Robert's travel copy with Marion's illustration is from 1954. He says the editions to avoid are 1962 and 1997.
• Coffee Isn't Rocket Science: A Quick and Easy Guide to Buying, Brewing, Serving, Roasting, and Tasting Coffee by Sébastien Racineux, Chung-Leng Tran, Yannis Varoutsikos (Illustrations)
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby
• How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
• Knife Skills Illustrated: A User's Manual by Peter Hertzmann
  • à la carte: the author's website
  • Chopping Vegetables with 8-Foot-Long Knives by Simone Giertz (features chopping an oven in half)
• Murder in the Kitchen by Alice B. Toklas
• The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
• A Month of Sundaes by Michael Turback
  • Knickerbocker glory
• The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
• The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen
• Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
• In Pursuit of Flavor by Edna Lewis

Links, Articles, and Things

• Cup (unit)
• Postum shows up in old restaurant menus and in a marketing campaign using Mr. Coffee Nerves. Search for it in New York Public Library's historical menus. We also discuss it in Episode 029 - Westerns.
• Rubenstein Library Test Kitchen
  • Goblin Sandwiches
• Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union
• The Cook's Thesaurus
• Yes! We Have No Bananas
  • Louis Prima - Yes We Have No Bananas
• Chiquita Banana The Original Commercial
• Is this the bananana song? We think so… (Clearly we misheard the lyrics.)
• Matthew published a cooking zine called "Slugs and Spice / Sugar and Snails" for Food Not Bombs Vancouver almost ten years ago. He found a terrible scan you can look at if you're interested.
• Crying in H Mart By Michelle Zauner
  • Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, "Am I even Korean anymore if there's no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"

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Then come back on Tuesday, September 18th, when we'll talk about Romance Fiction!

This month we all read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente as though we were a real book club! We talk about fairy tales, libraries, and book clubs that have met since the beginning of time. Plus: Spoilers, spoilers, everywhere!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• That's it!

Other Media We Mention

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
• Six Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Discussed in Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Dealing with dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
  • Discussed in Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Earthworm Jim (TV Series)
• Into the Woods (Musical)
• Animal Man #26 by Grant Morrison and Chaz Truog
  • Suicide Squad #58 by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, and Geof Isherwood
• The Bicycle (about a mountain goat) by Jerzy Harasymowicz
• I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

Links, Articles, and Things

• Snake People
• Inanna/Ishtar
• Wyvern
• HARK! – The Holiday Music Podcast
• Other book clubs that discussed this book
  • Things Mean a Lot
  • Escape Club
• The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente describes this book

Questions

• What's a book that you like us to read in a future episode?

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 21st, when we'll be talking about Non-fiction Food and Cooking!

Then come back on Tuesday, September 4th, when we'll discuss our travel reading habits.

This month our genre is Nordic/Scandinavian Noir! There's coldness and darkness in fiction, blood on snow, screaming children, and we ask (and answer) whether Iceland has pizza. Plus: Brendan Fraser in Caveman, P.I.!

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In this episode

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

Books We Read This Month

• Woman with Birthmark by Håkan Nesser
• My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen
• Copper Heart by Leena Lehtolainen
• The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
• • The Keeper of Lost Causes (Film)
• Moscow Noir
• • Akashic's City Noir Series
• The Caveman by Jorn Lier Horst (plus all the rest of the William Wisting series that is currently translated in English)
• • Suggested that you read the series in order. The first one with an English translation is Dregs
• Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• • Yrsa Sigurdardottir takes viewers on a tour of Iceland
• Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík by Arnaldur Indriðason
• The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Interlude

Special guest, Steve Thomas from the Circulating Ideas podcast!

• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
• Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbø
• Joseph Brodsky: "The reason English-speaking readers can barely tell the difference between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky is that they aren't reading the prose of either one. They're reading Constance Garnett."
• Translation Wars - New Yorker article about translations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
• Episode 006 - Books in Translation

Other Media We Mention

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• • Let the Right One In (film)
• The Killing (Danish TV series)
• The Killing (U.S. TV series)
• The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
• • Episode 043 - Page to Screen (Books turned into movies and TV shows)
• The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• Frozen Tracks by Åke Edwardson
• Oldboy (film)
• • Matthew's spooky hallway
• Dublin Murder Squad Series by Tana French

Links, Articles, and Things

• Where is Scandinavia? By CGP Grey
• Episode 004 - Psychological Thrillers
• Ungdomshuset ("the Youth House")
• Freetown Christiania
• Iceland: Where one in 10 people will publish a book
• Literary Iceland Revels In Its Annual 'Christmas Book Flood'
• The statue of the monk hitting the seal
• • Sæmundr fróði
• Icelandic names
• Hygge
• BAMF Girls Club: A live action video crossover series with Lisbeth Salander and Hermione (and more)

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 7th, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente.

Then come back on Tuesday, August 21st, when we'll be talking about Non-fiction Food and Cooking!

This episode we discuss the American Library Association Annual Conference and the many galleys we got there! We talk about wrestling, ballet, leeches, cancer, demons, opium, boobs (twice!), Soviet magic, and much more. Plus: A super secret podcast guest!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | Steve Thomas from the Circulation Ideas podcast

Advanced Reader Copies from ALA

(Dates of publication are what we have available as of the recording of this episode and may change.)

• Giant Days by Non Pratt (Aug. 21, 2018)
• The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (Jan. 15 2019)
• • Anna really wishes she got this one :(
• No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe (Sep. 1, 2018)
• Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth (Oct., 2018)
• • DC Black Label
• Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe by Ali Fitzgerald (Oct. 16, 2018)
• Minding the Store: A Big Story about a Small Business by Julie Gaines and Ben Lenovitz (Oct. 30, 2018)
• The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield (Jul. 17, 2018)
• Breach by W. L. Goodwater (Nov. 6, 2018)
• Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr (Sep. 11, 2018)
• The Governesses by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson (English edition Sep. 25, 2018, in French 1992)
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel (English edition Oct. 23, 2018, in Japanese 2012)
• Sheets by Brenna Thummler (Aug. 28, 2018)
• Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir and Steenz (already published)

Interlude

Special guest, Steve Thomas from the Circulating Ideas podcast!

• The Matthew Noe that Steve mentions in relation to a program on graphic medicine was actually interviewed on the Circulating Ideas podcast in May. Check it out!
• Here's a video of the full conversation between Michelle Obama and Carla Hayden (Librarian of Congress)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (Nov. 13, 2018)
• I Lost My Tooth! By Mo Willems (Oct. 2, 2018)
• Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward (Mar. 19, 2019)

End Interlude

• Temper by Nicky Drayden (Aug. 7, 2018)
• The Good Demon by Jimmy Cajoleas (Sep. 18, 2018)
• Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne (Jul. 24, 2018)
• Hocus & Pocus: The Comic Book You Can Play! By Manuro and Gorobei (Sep. 4, 2018)
• Banana Sunday by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Oct. 23, 2018)
• King of Strong Style: 1980-2014 by Shinsuke Nakamura, translated by Jocelyne Allen (Aug, 2018)
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy (Aug. 7, 2018)
• No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore (already published)
• The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang (Oct. 9, 2018)
• How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North (Sep. 18, 2018)
• Do No Harm: Dangerous historical medical treatments from the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum Permanent Collection by Kate Lacour
• • Obtained from the super awesome little New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
• About Betty's Boob by by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau (already published)
• Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels (Sep. 18, 2018)
• Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux (Aug. 21, 2018)
• Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee (Oct. 23, 2018)
• Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin (Sep. 18, 2018)
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough (Oct. 23, 2018)

Matthew's Posters

• A Clog in the Pipe: Data Collection and Transformation Issues in a Library Infrastructure Pilot
• Space for Listening: Using a library unConference as an alternative method of communication

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 17th when we'll be discussing Nordic/Scandinavian Noir!

Then come back on Tuesday, August 7th when we'll be discussing The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente! (We're all reading the same thing for once! Join us!)

This month our genre is Military Non-Fiction! We talk about defining war, sword fighting, genocide, and conscription. Plus: Trebuchets!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

News

• RJ's Bio (and everyone else's bios too!)
• Anna and Matthew will be at the 2018 ALA Conference in New Orleans!
• Come to our Podcast Meetup! (1-2pm, Saturday, June 23rd, at the Networking Uncommons)

Books We Read This Month

• Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
• • Battle of Mogadishu (Wikipedia)
  • Black Hawk Down (film) (Wikipedia)
• Firing Line by Richard Holmes
• A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 by David J. Silbey
• • Philippine–American War (Wikipedia)
• East Timor: The Price Of Freedom by John G. Taylor
• • Indonesian occupation of East Timor (Wikipedia)
  • East Timor genocide (Wikipedia)
  • Timor-Leste: what it's like to travel in a land without tourists
• The Book of Five Rings: A Graphic Novel by Miyamoto Musashi, Sean Michael Wilson, Chie Kutsuwada, and William Scott Wilson
• • Five elements (Japanese philosophy) (Wikipedia)
  • Miyamoto Musashi (Wikipedia)
• War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich
• • The Fallen of World War II (animation)
• Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick M Dennis
• • Conscription Crisis of 1917 (Wikipedia)
• The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World by Sharon Weinberger

Other Media We Mention

• Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
• • Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant (Wikipedia)
  • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents (Wikipedia)
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
• • Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey by Ralph Leighton
• Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson
• • A trebuchet focused Cul de Sac comic
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• • Our episode on Religious Non-Fiction
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Palestine by Joe Sacco
• Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
• Band of Brothers (Wikipedia)
• Saving Private Ryan (Wikipedia)
• Apocalypse Now (Wikipedia)
• Coming Home (Wikipedia)
• The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme by John Keegan
• An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare by Joanna Bourke
• Mud: A Military History by C.E. Wood
• Imperialist Canada by Todd Gordon
• Independence Day (Wikipedia)
• Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
• Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence by Judith Butler
• Call of Duty (Wikipedia)
• Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
• The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin
• War Child: A Child Soldier's Story by Emmanuel Jal
• • Emmanuel Jal - Warchild (YouTube)
• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
• The Golden Voice of the Royal Capital by Tyler Hauck
• • "One of the greatest-ever stars of Cambodian popular music was Ros Sereysothea, who made some electrifying rock'n'roll in the '60s and '70s. Her career ended when she was murdered by the Khmer Rouge, as were two million of her fellow Cambodians. This is her story."
• The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs by Michael Belfiore
• On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

Links, Articles, and Things

• National Atomic Testing Museum
• The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery by William Gurstelle
• "Second annual 'Punkin Chunkin' scheduled for Oct. 21"
• Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program
• Chief of Staff of the Air Force Professional Reading List
• List of wars involving the United States (Wikipedia)
• Cambodian genocide (Wikipedia)
• Malayan Emergency (Wikipedia)
• Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966 (Wikipedia)
• Papua conflict (Wikipedia)
• United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (Wikipedia)
• Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart!
• Bushido Blade (Wikipedia)
• Gun fu (Wikipedia)
• • Equilibrium (Wikipedia)

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