Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

Our attempt to be super efficient in deciding the winner of Print vs. Digital and Library vs. Owning fails. We read off a bunch of Chuck Tingle ebook titles, so if our listeners might have small children in earshot...just maybe consider not. Seriously. UBC archives a pizza box (see link in the notes). Libraries have so many great things, you all! Finally, we end by discussing eating vs. consuming of library materials. Don't eat library materials!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Books & Magazines (which we've read)

• The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum (I think this was the one I read, it's here on Project Gutenberg - Matthew)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003...I was sure I read this earlier, you can download it for free here - Matthew)
• Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
• Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Psychology Today
• Scientific American Mind
• New Scientist
• Nintendo Power (Wikipedia)

Library Resources

• Adobe Digital Editions is a program that allows you to read ebooks on your computer, eReader, and some tablets or which is sometimes used to transfer library ebooks to eReader devices when they cannot be wirelessly downloaded directly onto the device
• hoopla is a resource some libraries have for borrowing audiobooks, movies, ebooks, and comics
• Zinio is a resource some libraries have that allows library patrons to access full-color, digital versions of popular magazines
• Playaway individual audiobooks loaded on a small, simple mp3 player
• The elephant in the library ebook lending room that we don't really mention is OverDrive

Things & Stuff

• E-ink vs. tablets screens - for health and lifestyle
• An old but informative and interesting article about why it is soooooo hard to borrow ebooks from libraries (Digital Trends)
• Chuck Tingle (no he did not win a hugo) (Wikipedia)
• Chuck Tingle's Space Raptor Butt Invasion, the Hugo Awards, and the Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies (Vox)
• My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass….in audiobook, you all! (This should not have surprised us, but it did.)
• Chuck Tingle's Amazon ourve - for reading off all the amazing titles yourself
• Preferring ebooks for certain reading experiences (Book Riot)
• popSLATE is an E-Ink screen case for you phone
• The ebook market in Japan and Manga (and the market in 2016)
• Radish short/serialized fiction app for your phone
• Cell phone novel (Wikipedia)
• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference
• Pocket is a cloud service and app for saving and organizing online articles to read later
• Sarah Scribbles deeply understands us
• Gulliver's Books in Fairbanks, AK is a great used bookstore!
• We meant to discuss sometimes deciding to buy print books to support Independent Bookstores, which recently came up on Book Riot
• Archiving a pizza box at UBC! Notice the previous post is about archiving a "bejeweled hornet's nest"
• Pew Research on 2016 reading trends in the USA
• Teens prefer print to ebooks/ereaders & independent bookstores are bouncing back

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 18th, when we will inflict upon you the "genre" of Non-Fiction Audiobooks!

Then on May 2nd we'll be back for the second of our bimonthly "non-book club media" episodes.

Our attempt to be super efficient in deciding the winner of Print vs. Digital and Library vs. Owning fails. We read off a bunch of Chuck Tingle ebook titles, so if our listeners might have small children in earshot...just maybe consider not. Seriously. UBC archives a pizza box (see link in the notes). Libraries have so many great things, you all! Finally, we end by discussing eating vs. consuming of library materials. Don’t eat library materials!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Books & Magazines (which we’ve read)

• The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum (I think this was the one I read, it’s here on Project Gutenberg  - Matthew)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003...I was sure I read this earlier, you can download it for free here - Matthew)
• Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
• Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Psychology Today
• Scientific American Mind
• New Scientist
• Nintendo Power (Wikipedia)

Library Resources

• Adobe Digital Editions is a program that allows you to read ebooks on your computer, eReader, and some tablets or which is sometimes used to transfer library ebooks to eReader devices when they cannot be wirelessly downloaded directly onto the device
• hoopla is a resource some libraries have for borrowing audiobooks, movies, ebooks, and comics
• Zinio is a resource some libraries have that allows library patrons to access full-color, digital versions of popular magazines
• Playaway individual audiobooks loaded on a small, simple mp3 player
• The elephant in the library ebook lending room that we don’t really mention is OverDrive

Things & Stuff

• E-ink  vs. tablets screens - for health and lifestyle
• An old but informative and interesting article about why it is soooooo hard to borrow ebooks from libraries (Digital Trends)
• Chuck Tingle (no he did not win a hugo) (Wikipedia)
• Chuck Tingle’s Space Raptor Butt Invasion, the Hugo Awards, and the Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies (Vox)
• My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass….in audiobook, you all! (This should not have surprised us, but it did.)
• Chuck Tingle’s Amazon ourve - for reading off all the amazing titles yourself
• Preferring ebooks for certain reading experiences (Book Riot)
• popSLATE is an E-Ink screen case for you phone
• The ebook market in Japan and Manga (and the market in 2016)
• Radish short/serialized fiction app for your phone
• Cell phone novel (Wikipedia)
• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference
• Pocket is a cloud service and app for saving and organizing online articles to read later
• Sarah Scribbles deeply understands us
• Gulliver’s Books in Fairbanks, AK is a great used bookstore!
• We meant to discuss sometimes deciding to buy print books to support Independent Bookstores, which recently came up on Book Riot
• Archiving a pizza box at UBC! Notice the previous post is about archiving a “bejeweled hornet’s nest”
• Pew Research on 2016 reading trends in the USA
• Teens prefer print to ebooks/ereaders & independent bookstores are bouncing back

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 18th, when we will inflict upon you the “genre” of Non-Fiction Audiobooks!

Then on May 2nd we’ll be back for the second of our bimonthly “non-book club media” episodes.

In this (long) episode, Detective Fiction! Join us as we discuss our (least) favorite detectives, inspectors, and PIs in fiction. Also: the problem of pronouncing author names without ever having heard them out loud before, to read in series order or not, all the formats and mediums we can "read" in (Yay!), detective TV versus detective novels, and how much like a P.I are you?

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Recommended

• Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson, art by Brittney Williams, colors by Sarah Stern
• The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims
• Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth
• The City & The City by China Miéville
• The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
• City of Glass: The Graphic Novel adapted by Paul Karasik from a novella by Paul Auster, art by David Mazzucchelli

Read

• Still Life by Louise Penny
• She Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver
• Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins
• Kop by Warren Hammond

DNF

• Written in Blood by Caroline Graham
• The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry, (audiobook) read by Pete Larkin
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Ala Bradley
• An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by A.C. Thompson
• L.A. Noire (video game)
• An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

Links and Stuff

• Temperance Brennan series from Kathy Reichs
• Tattoo artist cozy mystery
• Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham (Wikipedia)
• Ghost in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones
• Welcome to Night Vale
• Review of The Manual of Detection from the New Yorker that describes it as "the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka."
• Midsomer Murders (TV show inspired by the DCI Barnaby mysteries from Caroline Graham)
• Bubblegumshoe - roleplaying game about being a teenage detective
• Counterfeit Monkey - that odd little text game about breaking our language to get around
• chat with me (long distance relationship game)
• Spring Breakers (Wikipedia)
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• Innocent Blood by P.D. James
• Scream in Silence by Eleanor Taylor Bland
• Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
• Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson
• Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
• The City Watch books by Terry Pratchett
• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

Questions:

• Can you deal with a protagonist you don't identify with or like very much?
• What are your favourite detective series or one-offs?
• Are there any detective stories set in prisons?
• Are there some detective fiction genres (other than straight out thrillers) that are more focused on large systemic evils and/or the impacts of history rather than interpersonal conflicts?
• Do you prefer your detectives via TV or in writing?

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Detective Fiction books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 4th for a discussion of print versus digital reading and library borrowing versus owning.

Then come back on Tuesday, April 18th, when we will inflict upon you the "genre" of Non-Fiction Audiobooks!

In this (long) episode, Detective Fiction! Join us as we discuss our (least) favorite detectives, inspectors, and PIs in fiction. Also: the problem of pronouncing author names without ever having heard them out loud before, to read in series order or not, all the formats and mediums we can “read” in (Yay!), detective TV versus detective novels, and how much like a P.I are you?

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Recommended

• Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson, art by Brittney Williams, colors by Sarah Stern
• The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims
• Death in the Vines by M. L. Longworth
• The City & The City by China Miéville
• The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
• City of Glass: The Graphic Novel adapted by Paul Karasik from a novella by Paul Auster, art by David Mazzucchelli

Read

• Still Life by Louise Penny
• She Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver
• Seduction of the Innocent by Max Allan Collins
• Kop by Warren Hammond

DNF

• Written in Blood by Caroline Graham
• The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry, (audiobook) read by Pete Larkin
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Ala Bradley
• An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by A.C. Thompson
• L.A. Noire (video game)
• An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

Links and Stuff

• Temperance Brennan series from Kathy Reichs
• Tattoo artist cozy mystery
• Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham (Wikipedia)
• Ghost in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones
• Welcome to Night Vale
• Review of The Manual of Detection from the New Yorker that describes it as “the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka.”
• Midsomer Murders (TV show inspired by the DCI Barnaby mysteries from Caroline Graham)
• Bubblegumshoe - roleplaying game about being a teenage detective
• Counterfeit Monkey - that odd little text game about breaking our language to get around
• chat with me (long distance relationship game)
• Spring Breakers (Wikipedia)
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• Innocent Blood by P.D. James
• Scream in Silence by Eleanor Taylor Bland
• Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
• Mind’s Eye by Håkan Nesser, translated by Laurie Thompson
• Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
• The City Watch books by Terry Pratchett
• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

Questions:

• Can you deal with a protagonist you don’t identify with or like very much?
• What are your favourite detective series or one-offs?
• Are there any detective stories set in prisons?
• Are there some detective fiction genres (other than straight out thrillers) that are more focused on large systemic evils and/or the impacts of history rather than interpersonal conflicts?
• Do you prefer your detectives via TV or in writing?

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Detective Fiction books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter,  and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 4th for a discussion of print versus digital reading and library borrowing versus owning.

Then come back on Tuesday, April 18th, when we will inflict upon you the “genre” of Non-Fiction Audiobooks!

This episode we tackle the genre of...wait? What do you mean there's no genre? We have to read things that aren't for the book club?! I guess somehow we have time to consume other media outside of our book club picks! If you're curious about what we read/listen/watch/play when we're not way outside of our comfort zone, then listen along for a run down of what we've been into since the beginning of the 2017.

We talk superhot sidekick guys in mystery tv shows, sharing the same haircut with friends, planes, trains, and automobiles, too much snow in Canada (or at least in Vancouver), and Jessi getting scared by her cat.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books

• In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (recommended)
• The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
• The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• • The complete Long Earth series (at least the first couple are recommended for Discworld fans)
• Apartment Therapy: Complete and Happy Home by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Janel Laban (recommended)
• A Life Less Ordinary: Interiors and Insights, Love and Life by Alex Legendre, Zoe Ellison
• Home for Now: Making Your Rented Space or First House Beautiful by Joanna Thornhill
• Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small Cool Spaces by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Comics/Graphic Novels

• Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooke A. Allen, and others (recommended)
• Suicide Squad by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Luke McDonnell, and others
• Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (recommended)

Podcasts

• The Colour Code
• Sooo Many White Guys

Movies/TV

• Coco Before Chanel
• Midsomer Murders (19 seasons)
• Scooby Doo
• The Witch (recommended)
• Lights Out
• The Conjuring (recommended)
• The Conjuring 2
• The Hobbit film series

Games

• Stardew Valley

Other Things Mentioned

• Prisencolinensinainciusol - The song about what the English language sounds like to native Italian speakers
• Early 20th Century Canadian Authors:
• • Gabriel Roy - specifically The Tin Flute
  • Hugh MacLennan - specifically Two Solitudes
• Article in The Globe and Mail on Chinese restaurants in Canada owned by immigrants
• My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates from The Atlantic
• Our episode 007 on Cozy Mysteries from June 2016
• Count Duckula animated TV series (Wikipedia)
• Bunnicula books (Wikipedia)
• Event Horizon film
• Alien: Isolation video game
• Clips from streamers playing (and spoiling) Resident Evil 7

Anna's project on reading the research into #WhatWeRead and sharing her thoughts on it will happen over her Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

Questions

• What are you into reading/watching/playing/or listening to?
• What media do you suggest that we check out?
• Can you recommend (or even name) any early Canadian writers or literature?

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for all the books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, March 21st for our first anniversary episode where we'll discuss Detective Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, April 4th when we'll discuss "digital vs physical" and "library vs owning".

This episode we tackle the genre of...wait? What do you mean there’s no genre? We have to read things that aren’t for the book club?! I guess somehow we have time to consume other media outside of our book club picks! If you’re curious about what we read/listen/watch/play when we’re not way outside of our comfort zone, then listen along for a run down of what we’ve been into since the beginning of the 2017.

We talk superhot sidekick guys in mystery tv shows, sharing the same haircut with friends, planes, trains, and automobiles, too much snow in Canada (or at least in Vancouver), and Jessi getting scared by her cat.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books

• In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (recommended)
• The Blue Castle  by L.M. Montgomery
• The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• • The complete Long Earth series (at least the first couple are recommended for Discworld fans)
• Apartment Therapy: Complete and Happy Home by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Janel Laban (recommended)
• A Life Less Ordinary: Interiors and Insights, Love and Life by Alex Legendre, Zoe Ellison
• Home for Now: Making Your Rented Space or First House Beautiful by Joanna Thornhill
• Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small Cool Spaces by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Comics/Graphic Novels

• Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooke A. Allen, and others (recommended)
• Suicide Squad by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Luke McDonnell, and others
• Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (recommended)

Podcasts

• The Colour Code
• Sooo Many White Guys

Movies/TV

• Coco Before Chanel
• Midsomer Murders (19 seasons)
• Scooby Doo
• The Witch (recommended)
• Lights Out
• The Conjuring (recommended)
• The Conjuring 2
• The Hobbit film series

Games

• Stardew Valley

Other Things Mentioned

• Prisencolinensinainciusol - The song about what the English language sounds like to native Italian speakers
• Early 20th Century Canadian Authors:
• • Gabriel Roy - specifically The Tin Flute
  • Hugh MacLennan - specifically Two Solitudes
• Article in The Globe and Mail on Chinese restaurants in Canada owned by immigrants
• My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates from The Atlantic
• Our episode 007 on Cozy Mysteries from June 2016
• Count Duckula animated TV series (Wikipedia)
• Bunnicula books (Wikipedia)
• Event Horizon film
• Alien: Isolation video game
• Clips from streamers playing (and spoiling) Resident Evil 7

Anna’s project on reading the research into #WhatWeRead and sharing her thoughts on it will happen over her Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

Questions

• What are you into reading/watching/playing/or listening to?
• What media do you suggest that we check out?
• Can you recommend (or even name) any early Canadian writers or literature?

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for all the books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter,  and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, March 21st for our first anniversary episode where we’ll discuss Detective Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, April 4th when we’ll discuss “digital vs physical” and “library vs owning”.

This episode we tackle (and get distracted repeatedly from) the genre of Non-Fiction Romance, Relationships, and Dating books. We discuss what's it like reading a book about dating when you're in a committed relationship, the difficulties of finding books about alternative relationships, and whether or not we'd date people who hate reading. Plus! A rant about the lack of diversity in the publishing industry.

Welcome to all of our new listeners from Bustle!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Recommended

• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
• The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson
• It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single by Sara Eckel

Other Books

• She's Just Not That Into You: The Fab Femme's Guide to Queer Love and Dating by Aryka Randall
• Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships by Jillian Deri
• If Someone Says "You Complete Me," Run!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships by Whoopi Goldberg
• The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love by Ty Tashiro
• Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher
• Why Him? Why Her?: Understanding Your Personality Type and Finding the Perfect Match by Helen Fisher (this book has been published under like three different titles)

Did Not Finish

• Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship by Joshua Harris
• The Geek's Guide to Dating by Eric Smith
• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage
• Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
• Juggling the Rainbow: A zine of personal writing on non-monogamous relationships

Other Books Mentioned

• Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown
• Genreflecting
• Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick
• All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Links and Stuff

• BiblioCommons (Wikipedia)
• The Center - The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada
• Reader's Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook group)
• Chicken Soup for the Soul (Wikipedia)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Wikipedia)
• Faringor: the planet in Mass Effect games where a horror movie was filmed
• The Lusty Argonian Maid: from the Skyrim game
• Consent Isn't Enough: The Troubling Sex of Fifty Shades by Emma Green (article in The Atlantic)
• How Josh Sundquist found his soul mate
• Tim Minchin - If I Didn't Have You
• Savage Love
• The Read podcast
• Blood type personality theory (Wikipedia)
• Master of None (Wikipedia)

Contest!

• Win a copy of the new issue of the Two-Fisted Library Stories fiction anthology zine: Spicy Library Stories!
• Follow us on Twitter and retweet one of our Tweets about this episode!

Questions

• What are your recommendations for Non-fiction romance and relationship books?
• When you think of "Non-Fiction Relationships" do you consider books about parenting, divorce, or other non-romantic relationship?
• How do you pronounce the last letter of the alphabet?

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for all the Non-Fiction Romance/Relationship/Dating books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, March 7th for the first of our semi-regular "things we read that aren't for the podcast (except now they are)" episodes.

Then come back on Tuesday, March 21st, for our first anniversary episode when we'll talk about Detective Fiction!

This episode we tackle (and get distracted repeatedly from) the genre of Non-Fiction Romance, Relationships, and Dating books. We discuss what’s it like reading a book about dating when you’re in a committed relationship, the difficulties of finding books about alternative relationships, and whether or not we’d date people who hate reading. Plus! A rant about the lack of diversity in the publishing industry. 

Welcome to all of our new listeners from Bustle!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Recommended

• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
• The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson
• It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single by Sara Eckel

Other Books

• She's Just Not That Into You: The Fab Femme's Guide to Queer Love and Dating by Aryka Randall
• Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships by Jillian Deri
• If Someone Says "You Complete Me," Run!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships by Whoopi Goldberg
• The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love by Ty Tashiro
• Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher
• Why Him? Why Her?: Understanding Your Personality Type and Finding the Perfect Match by Helen Fisher (this book has been published under like three different titles)

Did Not Finish

• Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship by Joshua Harris
• The Geek's Guide to Dating by Eric Smith
• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage
• Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
• Juggling the Rainbow: A zine of personal writing on non-monogamous relationships

Other Books Mentioned

• Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown
• Genreflecting
• Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick
• All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

Links and Stuff

• BiblioCommons (Wikipedia)
• The Center - The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada
• Reader’s Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook group)
• Chicken Soup for the Soul (Wikipedia)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Wikipedia)
• Faringor: the planet in Mass Effect games where a horror movie was filmed
• The Lusty Argonian Maid: from the Skyrim game
• Consent Isn’t Enough: The Troubling Sex of Fifty Shades by Emma Green (article in The Atlantic)
• How Josh Sundquist found his soul mate
• Tim Minchin - If I Didn't Have You
• Savage Love
• The Read podcast
• Blood type personality theory (Wikipedia)
• Master of None (Wikipedia)

Contest!

• Win a copy of the new issue of the Two-Fisted Library Stories fiction anthology zine: Spicy Library Stories!
• Follow us on Twitter and retweet one of our Tweets about this episode!

Questions

• What are your recommendations for Non-fiction romance and relationship books?
• When you think of “Non-Fiction Relationships” do you consider books about parenting, divorce, or other non-romantic relationship?
• How do you pronounce the last letter of the alphabet?

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for all the Non-Fiction Romance/Relationship/Dating books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter,  and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, March 7th for the first of our semi-regular “things we read that aren’t for the podcast (except now they are)” episodes.

Then come back on Tuesday, March 21st, for our first anniversary episode when we’ll talk about Detective Fiction!

In our first non-genre episode for 2017 we take on Planning and Tracking Your Reading! We discuss if (and how) we track our reading, how we plan what to read in the future, and reading challenges. Plus: A kitty!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Notes 'n' Things

• The reading spreadsheet Anna tried to use in 2016 - pretty much identical to what Brenna Clarke shared at the RA in a Day 2015 as her tracking spreadsheet
• The reading spreadsheet Anna's going to try to use in 2017 includes her planning on sheet 1 and her tracking process on sheet 2.
• Brenna Clarke Gray's reading tracking spreadsheet for 2016
• Goodreads
• Librarything
• Bibliocommons
• Vancouver Public Library 2016 staff reading challenge
• Article about Brenna Clarke Gray's presentation at BCLA RAIG in 2015
• Blogpost breaking down Matthew's graphic novel reading in 2015
• Pottermore
• Meghan's blog post about Reading Resolutions
• A huge list of 2017 reading challenges

Books and Comics We Mentioned:

• Space: Punisher by Frank Tieri, art by Mark Texeira
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• The Young indiana Jones series of books
• Spider-Man: The Lizard Sanction by Diane Duane
• The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn
• Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey
• Congo by Michael Crichton
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• The Transformers: Robots in Disguise by John Barber and others
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye by James Roberts and others (this is the one to read if you're interested)
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, and Brooke A. Allen
• John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus by whoever was hanging around Marvel at the time

Questions

• Do you track your reading? How?
• What are your 2017 reading goals?
• What's your favourite boys adventure media tie-in novel?
• Can you recommend a classic travel narrative for Anna?

Check out our Pinterest boards and Tumblr posts for all the books people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group!

Join us again on Tuesday, February 21st, when we discuss Romance & Dating Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, March 7th it's the the first of our semi-regular "things we read that aren't for the podcast (except now they are)" episodes.

In our first non-genre episode for 2017 we take on Planning and Tracking Your Reading! We discuss if (and how) we track our reading, how we plan what to read in the future, and reading challenges. Plus: A kitty!

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Notes ‘n’ Things

• The reading spreadsheet Anna tried to use in 2016 - pretty much identical to what Brenna Clarke shared at the RA in a Day 2015 as her tracking spreadsheet
• The reading spreadsheet Anna’s going to try to use in 2017 includes her planning on sheet 1 and her tracking process on sheet 2.
• Brenna Clarke Gray’s reading tracking spreadsheet for 2016
• Goodreads
• Librarything
• Bibliocommons
• Vancouver Public Library 2016 staff reading challenge
• Article about Brenna Clarke Gray’s presentation at BCLA RAIG in 2015
• Blogpost breaking down Matthew’s graphic novel reading in 2015
• Pottermore
• Meghan’s blog post about Reading Resolutions
• A huge list of 2017 reading challenges

Books and Comics We Mentioned:

• Space: Punisher by Frank Tieri, art by Mark Texeira
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• The Young indiana Jones series of books
• Spider-Man: The Lizard Sanction by Diane Duane
• The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn
• Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey
• Congo by Michael Crichton
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• The Transformers: Robots in Disguise by John Barber and others
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye by James Roberts and others (this is the one to read if you’re interested)
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, and Brooke A. Allen
• John Carter, Warlord of Mars Omnibus by whoever was hanging around Marvel at the time

Questions

• Do you track your reading? How?
• What are your 2017 reading goals?
• What’s your favourite boys adventure media tie-in novel?
• Can you recommend a classic travel narrative for Anna?

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 21st, when we discuss Romance & Dating Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, March 7th it's the the first of our semi-regular “things we read that aren’t for the podcast (except now they are)” episodes.