Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This episode we're talking about how we ended up working in libraries, literary inspirations for our careers, and what you should think about before you decide you want a to work in a library. Plus: The Library Fairy! Excel exams! Catalogue cards!

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

Books, Links, Articles, and Things

• The article from Matthew's undergrad newspaper for which someone slept in the library (newly digitized!)
• The novelization of Batman and Robin that's still in the the library
• Library Catalogue (and info about catalogue cards)
• The Music Man (the musical)
• • Marian The Librarian
• CEGEP - "a publicly funded pre‑university college in the province of Quebec"
• The Providence Athenæum
• Subscription Library
• Anchor Archive Zine Library
• Discworld
• • The Librarian
• This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
• Second Life
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
  • We Are All Wyveraries: A Love Letter To Libraries
• Rupert Giles (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Lisa Simpson's bookshelf: from the curator of Instagram's Simpsons Library
• The Sword of Maiden's Tears by Rosemary Edghill (the Library student/elf novel Meghan mentioned)
• Readers' Advisory for Library Staff Facebook Group
• Library Employee Support Network Facebook Group
• The On-Call Waltz Anna and Meghan's zine about precarious library work

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 19th when we'll be talking about Military Non-Fiction!

Then come back on Tuesday, July 3rd when we'll talk about other things we're reading!

Our genre this episode is Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy. We talk about anachronisms, comedy in sci fi/fantasy and sci fi/fantasy in comedy, "laugh out loud" funny vs. "clever" funny, 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

Books We Read This Month

• Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
• • Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia article)
  • Nintendo Adventure Books
• Rutabaga the Adventure Chef by Eric Colossal
• Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• • The cover with the ice cream
• Mechanical Failure by Joe Zieja
• Scary Go Round by John Allison
• • The webcomic
• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
• The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
• • His tweet that was mentioned
  • Debbie Reese's commentary posts
  • Hark, Episode 165: Beats and Bimuelos - RJ's podcast about holiday music where they discuss a song from Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh
• Terminal Alliance: Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse by Jim C. Hines
• Monster by A. Lee Martinez
• The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

Other Media and Authors We Mention

• Terry Pratchett
• • Discworld
• Douglas Adams
• • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Jasper Fforde
• • The Eyre Affair
• Christopher Moore
• Kurt Vonnegut
• • Slaughterhouse-Five
• Piers Anthony
• • "Themes of Pedophilia in the Works of Piers Anthony" on LitReactor
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• Bad Machinery by John Allison
• Giant Days by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Lissa Treiman
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
• The Cold Cereal Saga by Adam Rex
• Soulless by Gail Carriger

Links, Articles, and Things

• Cyberpunk derivatives
• • "Clockpunk portrays Renaissance-era science and technology based on pre-modern designs"
• Zip-A-Tone/Screen Tone
• Episode 6, Books in Translation - For more on reading War and Peace
• The Magical Bureaucracies with the Most Paperwork

Questions

• How much comedy do you like in your science fiction or fantasy?

Announcements

• Anna and Matthew will be at ALA in New Orleans. Come say "Hi!"

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 5th when we'll be talking about how (and why) we started working in libraries!

Then come back on Tuesday, June 19th when we'll be talking about Military Non-Fiction!

A potentially controversial episode as we discuss Separating the Art from the Artist. We bring up #MeToo, library neutrality, problematic faves, and firing people out of cannons. What are your thoughts? Can you separate the art from the artist?

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

Books, Links, Articles, and Things

• Me Too movement
• Lemony Snicket > Controversy
• Lemony Snicket Accused of Making Lewd Comments About Female Authors
• Time's Up (movement)
• Trudeau gives Canada first cabinet with equal number of men and women
• Problematic Fave (Know Your Meme)
• "What's the situation with Tamora Pierce?"
• Tintin in the Congo
• Babar the Elephant
• Several pieces about Paul Pope's sexual harassment on Tumblr
• Roc Upchurch Off Rat Queens After Domestic Violence Arrest
• Rat Queens
• #OwnVoices: Why We Need Diverse Authors in Children's Literature
• The Problem with #OwnVoices LGBTQ Lit
• Louise Simonson (writer on Superman: The Man of Steel, New Mutants, and other titles)
• G. Willow Wilson (write on Ms. Marvel)
• Orson Scott Card's long history of homophobia: In honor of the "Ender's Game" trailer release, a look at some of the sci-fi master's most controversial remarks
• Looney Tunes > Racial stereotypes
• The Problem with Apu
• Rurouni Kenshin Creator Nobuhiro Watsuki Fined 200,000 Yen for Possession of Child Porn
• Mangaka Convicted and Sentenced for Schoolgirl Sex "Romp"
• Sensitivity Readers
• In an Era of Online Outrage, Do Sensitivity Readers Result in Better Books, or Censorship?
• White guilt

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 15th when we'll talk about Comedic Science Fiction and Fantasy!

In this 80 minute episode we talk about Essay Collections! We get into some deep topics this time, talking about precarity, race relations, and cultural differences between Canada and the USA. We also wonder if it's possible to find books about feminism that blow your mind when you're already familiar with the idea. Plus! The three kinds of CanLit and knowing what a zine isn't.

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

Books We Read This Month

• My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle
• Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• • The TED Talk version
  • Beyoncé - ***Flawless ft. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
  • Rape Culture Is Surveillance Culture
• Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents by Ellen Ullman
• Toy Time!: From Hula Hoops to He-Man to Hungry Hungry Hippos: A Look Back at the Most- Beloved Toys of Decades Past by Christopher Byrne
• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
• Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum
• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
• • The original essay
• Browse: The World in Bookshops edited by Henry Hitchings

Other Media and Authors We Mention

• Hark! RJ's holiday music podcast
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• Mary Roach
• The New Kings of Nonfiction
• In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
• David Sedaris
• So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
• Joe Sacco
• Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers
• The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
• Dave Barry
• Chuck Klosterman
• Why I am no Longer Talking to White People About Race (Meghan is talking about this book when she mentions the British conservative politician who thinks people should just get better jobs instead of more affordable housing)
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
• Bear by Marian Engel
• Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber
• Best American Science and Nature Writing Series
• The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture
• Rise of the Videogame Zinesters by Anna Anthropy
• Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate by Zoe Quinn

Links, Articles, and Things

• Book Riot Insiders Forum
• Hogan's Alley, Vancouver
• • "Hogan's Alley was the first and last neighbourhood in Vancouver with a substantial concentrated black population."
• What Is CanLit? by Douglas Coupland
• • "CanLit is when the Canadian government pays you money to write about life in small towns and/or the immigration experience. If the book is written in French, urban life is permitted, but only from a nonbourgeois viewpoint."

Questions

• What's the difference between essays and chapters?
• Is a blog post an essay?
• How long can an essay be?
• Is long form journalism an essay?
• Is a journal issue an essay collection?
• Do you like it when authors use personal and self-reflective frameworks as part of the essay format?
• Are you attending ALA in New Orleans? Want to be on this podcast? Get in touch!

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 1st when we'll talk about Separating the Art from the Artist!

Then come back on Tuesday, May 15th when we'll be talking about Comedic/Humourous Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Our Fiftieth Episode Extravaganza is our longest episode ever! We answer your questions! We answer our questions! We talk about library fines, reading parties, stats, and much 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 | Jessi

Here are the Bingo cards you can download! (And yes, Matthew did choose the Halloween theme for these because of course he did.)

The Questions:

• What are your actual library jobs?
• Why did you start the podcast?
• • British Columbia Library Association Readers' Advisory Interest Group
• How are your genres selected?
• • Current genre list
  • The Readers' Advisory Device
• What is the usual process for making the podcast? How do you do it from two different countries? How long does it take?
• • We could not find the "um ah" file. Sorry!
• Matthew's mom says through email: "Hi, I enjoy listening to your podcasts especially when you go off topic a little. I never realised that Librarians are professional READERS. I am amazed that you have to read so much and so widely. I also enjoy your individual tweets about the trials of being a librarian."
• Kifty ask on Twitter: "What would Vespidae's favourite book be? Follow-on question: Would it be scratch 'n' sniff?"
• • Jon Newell's blog
  • The crazy map
• Caleb asks on Facebook: "What's the one trope in reading a book/graphic novel/media consumption vehicle that completely turns you off?"
• Vikki asks on Facebook: "Are there some approaches you have that are good at helping readers narrow down what they might like to try next?"
• Walden100 asked in an iTunes review: "since you are all librarians maybe you could talk about the difference between Canada/US in a future episode?"
• • Idea Stores in the UK
• Who is the tallest/shortest podcaster?
• Do you think the book club has worked to make you better at Readers Advisory? How do you hope it is helping others to become better at Readers' Advisory?
• What's with that weird tone you use when editing in other content?
• Does your utter lack of feedback on the podcast make you feel like you're shouting out into the void?
• • 1% rule (Wikipedia)
• What genre/type of book are irresistible to you?
• Tell me more about these mythic reading parties? How do I throw one? Do I have to shush people if they talk?
• What genres do you dread having show up?
• What do you do when you're not reading?
• What was your favorite reading experience from bookclub so far?
• Why are your email and website address so weird?
• • Iskra - sekcija za ljevičarsku intelektualnu misao i aktivizam
• Have you appeared on any other podcasts?
• • S.S. Librarianship
  • • Episode 22 ("You should keep writing things!"): Matthew talked about zines and why they should be in libraries.
    • Episode 44 ("A child was more likely to get Infinite Jest... or Lady Chatterley's Lover."): Matthew talked about Raspberry Pi computers and maker spaces.
    • Episode 66 ("It's this great love story - between a girl and her rocket ship."): Anna and Matthew talked about their experiences at the 2015 ALA Conference in San Francisco, and conferences in general.
    • Episode 76 ("Open Source Toasters..."): Matthew talked about X-Men comics.
  • Circulating Ideas - Episode 127: Matthew talks about various library things
  • Meanwhile... Back at the Comic Book Shop: Blog vaguely connected to Matthew's old radio show
• How do you feel about your iTunes reviews?
• Where are the samples in your intro from?
• • Teen Titans Go
  • Perversion for Profit
  • Puffy Ami Yumi - Teen Titans Theme
• Why did you pick that song as your theme song?
• • To Arrakis by DarkSunn from the Free Music Archive
• Stats!

Our special guests were (in order): Sam Mills, Jorge Cardenas, Inti Dewey, Jon Newell, and RJ Edwards.

Questions

• Should we do a year or nothing but romance genres?

Announcements

• Anna and Matthew will be tabling at Grid Zine Fest, April 14, 2018 in Salt Lake City

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 17th when our genre will be Essay Collections!

Then come back on Tuesday, May 1st when we'll talk about the idea of Separating the Art from the Artist.

This episode we discuss the genre of Southern Gothic! We talk about the "key elements" of Southern Gothic fiction (plantations, swamps, secrets, and racism), gothic vs goth fiction, vampires, rural fiction, pessimism, the fantastic, and space crystal meth. Plus: One of us is utterly baffled by the popularity of this genre and we debate the differences between swamps and marshes.

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

Books We Read This Month

• The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin
• • The historical Axeman of New Orleans
  • "On March 13, 1919, a letter purporting to be from the Axeman was published in newspapers saying that he would kill again at 15 minutes past midnight on the night of March 19, but would spare the occupants of any place where a jazz band was playing. That night all of New Orleans' dance halls were filled to capacity, and professional and amateur bands played jazz at parties at hundreds of houses around town. There were no murders that night."
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
• • Read the whole story (it's very short)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
• • Spoilers from 38:00 to 43:15 (Matthew warns you)
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
• • Spoilers from 53:40-54:40 (when Meghan talks about the movie)
  • Movie version
• Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due
• The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories by Charlaine Harris

Other Media We Mention

• Gentle Ben
• • Airboats

• The Silver Chair (BBC)
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• On Cormac McCarthy and Southern Literature
• Goth: Undead Subculture by Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Editor), Michael Bibby
• Oregon Trail (one of many versions available on Archive.org)
• Hellboy: The Corpse by Mike Mignola
• Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• Welcome to Night Vale
• Trailer Park Fae by Lilith Saintcrow
• Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
• Grave of the Fireflies

Links, Articles, and Things

• Our Gothic Fiction episode (#2!)
• This article on Southern Gothic from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature is really long and in depth, but worth it if you are intrigued about the whys and wherefores of Southern Gothic.
• Huffington Post's article on The Evolution of Southern Gothic
• Crime Fiction Lover's article on Grit Lit: An Introduction to Southern Noir is good for thinking about closely aligned genres and how they overlap
• Readers' Advisory for Library Staff facebook group (where we often ask for recommendations)
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Tasmanian Gothic
• Northerns
• Scandinavian Noir
• Riverworld
• Kate Warne, the Pinkerton's first female detective

Questions

• Can you name any region-specific genres?
• How do you feel about real people showing up as major characters in historical fiction?
• What is your theoretical ideal Southern Gothic novel?

Announcements

• Ask us questions for our 50th episode! Deadline: March 24th!

• Anna and Matthew will be tabling at Grid Zine Fest, April 14, 2018 in Salt Lake City

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 3rd for our 50th episode extravaganza!

Then come back on Tuesday, April 17th when our genre will be Essay Collections.

This episode we catch you up on what books and comics we've been reading and shows we've been watching. We discuss guitar-playing ghost talkers, being haunted by a goldfish, and Anna learns why she should never tell Matthew to "go for it" when he threatens to include old theme songs in the podcast.

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

Books We Mention

• Sandman Mystery Theatre by Matt Wagner, Steven T. Seagle, and Guy Davis (and others)
• Motor Crush by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr
• Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
• The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill
• • Read the webcomic version
  • A plush dragon
• Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson (the book Matthew mentioned that talked about D&D and zines)
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
• Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson
• • Mother Earth Mother Board article in Wired about Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables
• Fatherland: A Family History by Nina Bunjevac
• Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life by Annie Spence
• Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green

Other Media We Mention

• Coco
• Speed Racer
• • Into It 28: Speed Racer with Jay Rachel Edidin
  • Theme songs in order of sample: Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass, Stan Bush, Sponge, Ali Dee & The Deekompressors
• Dice Friends — Escape from Semolo Plateau
• vlogbrothers
• • Wikipedia entry

Links, Articles, and Things

• 24 in 48 Readathon
• Jane Austen inspired RPG (an example of a game with no combat)
• Grid Zine Fest, April 14, 2018 in Salt Lake City

Questions

• Can you recommend any fiction about guitar-playing ghost talkers from Mexico?
• What's the best thing to be haunted by?
• What's the worst thing to be haunted by?
• Do you play any RPGs? What do you play?
• Can you recommend a book about the sewer system for Anna?
• Can you tell us where the word "punchy" comes from?

Ask us questions for our 50th episode! Deadline: March 24th!

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

Join us again on Tuesday, March 20th when we'll be talking about Southern Gothic books!

Then come back on Tuesday, April 3rd for our 50th episode extravaganza!

In last week's episode (Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing) Matthew threatened to read some of the fiction he'd written for exercises from Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering the Craft: A Twentieth-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story. For better for worse he's recorded some, so here you go. (He didn't even do some of them properly!)

If for some reason you want more of Matthew's fiction, check out Two-Fisted Library Stories, the fiction anthology zine he edits.

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 6th when we'll catch you up on what other things we've been reading.

Then come back on Tuesday, March 20th when we'll be talking about Southern Gothic books!

This month our genre is Creative Writing/Books About Writing! With real, live, award-winning authors! (Well, one anyway.) We discuss our own experiences with these sort of books, why people might read them, and whether hairstyles might affect someone's ability to stop time. Plus: Meghan reveals her knowledge about accordions!

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

Books We Read This Month

• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg
• The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of the Eulogy by Julia Cooper
• The Elements of Style (Illustrated) by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, illustrated by Maira Kalman
• Steering the Craft: A Twentieth-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki
• Triggering Town: Letters and Essays on Writing Poetry by Richard Hugo
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Books and Other Media We Mention

• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (featuring RJ!)
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
• Hamlet's Hit Points by Robin D. Laws
• The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki
• Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson
• Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life
• How to Be An Accordion Player: An Instructional Booklet with Illustrations by Geoff Berner
• • Accordion Noir Festival
  • Accordion Noir radio show
  • Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar
  • Daloy Polizei (Fuck The Police) by Geoff Berner

Links, Articles, and Things

• Running the Game by Matthew Colville
• Game Master Tips
• Jon Newell's D&D blog
• Weird Fiction episode of our podcast featuring Jon Newell
• Can I Get An Amen? by Nate Harrison, the story of the famous "Amen Break" (That's the "classic beats" music sample in the episode)
• Manga In Theory and Practice discussion in the "Wait, What?" podcast.
• "Half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme or lazy rhyme or slant rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds." (Wikipedia)
• Dingbat (Wikipedia)
• Dear Dick by Mackenzie Cole
• Hark! RJ's podcast (that we forgot to mention) that reviews holiday music. Check it out!

Questions

• Do you have any favourite writing inspiration type books?
• What's your favourite writing exercise?
• Should authors be reading creative writing how-tos or just read more books?

Ask us questions for our 50th episode!

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

Join us again on Tuesday, March 6th when we'll catch you up on what other things we've been reading.

Then come back on Tuesday, March 20th when we'll be talking about Southern Gothic books!

This episode we look back on our Reading Resolutions from last year and discuss our plans for reading in 2018!

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

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Links, Articles, and Things

• Two-Fisted Library Stories
• Books on my shelf that I have not read
• National Novel Generation Month
• Book Riot's Reading Tracking Spreadsheet
• Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder Challenge
• The Master List of 2018 Reading Challenges
• Circulating Ideas - The Librarian Interview Podcast

Questions

• Do you have any Reading Resolutions in 2018?
• Send us questions for our 50th episode!

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!

Join us again on Tuesday, February 20th (not the 16th as we said in the podcast) for our episode on our Non-fiction Creative Writing Books!

Then come back on on Tuesday, March 6th when we'll update you on our non-book club reading!