Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Cozy Mysteries.

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, and Amanda Wanner discuss why people read cozy mysteries, character vs. plot, how everything seems to be a series, and their favourite punny titles.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Cozy Mysteries We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith
• Books Can Be Deceiving (Library Lover's Mystery, #1) by Jenn McKinlay
• The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart (I finally finished it!)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1) by Alan Bradley

Read

• Ming Tea Murder (Tea Shop Mystery, #16) by Laura Childs
• Swag Bags and Swindlers (Haley Randolph #8) by Dorothy Howell
• The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie
• The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Vish Puri, #2) by Tarquin Hall
• Thread and Gone (Mainely Needlepoint #3) by Lea Wait (almost recommend; not terribly badly written; I just felt the plot/mystery solution was a bit weak)
• Pushing Up Daisies (Dirty Business, #1) by Rosemary Harris

Did Not Finish

• Ghoul Interrupted (Ghost Hunter Mystery #6) by Victoria Laurie
• Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints (A Brothers Grimm Mystery #1) by P. J. Brackston
• From Fear to Eternity (Immortality Bites Mystery, #3; Immortality Bites, #8) by Michelle Rowen
• Six and a Half Deadly Sins (Dr. Siri Paiboun #10) by Colin Cotterill
• Brewed, Crude and Tattooed by Sandra Balzo
• Little Shop of Homicide (A Devereaux Dime Store Mystery #1) by Denise Swanson

More "books" we mentioned

• Shutterbug Follies by Jason Little (recommended)
• Bucko by Jeff Parker and Erika Moen
• Detective Conan/Case Closed by Gosho Aoyama
• From a dog's perspective: Dog On It (Chet and Bernie #1) by Spencer Quinn
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (recommended)
• Bookmobile mystery series include: Bookmobile Cat Mysteries by Laurie Cass and Portland Bookmobile Mysteries by B. B. Cantwell

The Punniest of the Month

• Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife #3) by Sharon Kahn
• Crime Brûlée (A Carolyn Blue Culinary Mystery #1) by Nancy Fairbanks
• The Square Root of Murder (Sophie Knowles #1) by Ada Madison
• Feta Attraction (Greek to Me Mystery #1) by Susannah Hardy
• "With her career as a dress designer in shreds, Polyester Monroe is looking forward to a fresh start. But as it all unfolds, the pattern to a new beginning looks a lot like murder. " - description for Suede to Rest by Diane Vallere
• Dearest Constable Evans and his Heavens
• Oh Glorious, Glorious Puns!

Other Links

• Defining the "Whodunit"
• VPL's online form for Readers Advisory: What Do I Read Next?
• Mysteries with recipes
• Murder most cosy: why mystery novels involving quilts and cats are big business
• VPL Recommended Reads
• Cosy vs cozy
• Diverse cozy mysteries

Questions

• Will someone please write Death By Squats for Meghan and Amanda?
• What are your favourite punny book titles?

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Cozy Mysteries people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Cozy Mysteries.  

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, and Amanda Wanner discuss why people read cozy mysteries, character vs. plot, how everything seems to be a series, and their favourite punny titles.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Cozy Mysteries We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith
• Books Can Be Deceiving (Library Lover's Mystery, #1) by Jenn McKinlay
• The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart (I finally finished it!)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce #1) by Alan Bradley

Read

• Ming Tea Murder (Tea Shop Mystery, #16) by Laura Childs
• Swag Bags and Swindlers (Haley Randolph #8) by Dorothy Howell
• The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie
• The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Vish Puri, #2) by Tarquin Hall
• Thread and Gone (Mainely Needlepoint #3) by Lea Wait (almost recommend; not terribly badly written; I just felt the plot/mystery solution was a bit weak)
• Pushing Up Daisies (Dirty Business, #1) by Rosemary Harris

Did Not Finish

• Ghoul Interrupted (Ghost Hunter Mystery #6) by Victoria Laurie
• Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints (A Brothers Grimm Mystery #1) by P. J. Brackston
• From Fear to Eternity (Immortality Bites Mystery, #3; Immortality Bites, #8) by Michelle Rowen
• Six and a Half Deadly Sins (Dr. Siri Paiboun #10) by Colin Cotterill
• Brewed, Crude and Tattooed by Sandra Balzo
• Little Shop of Homicide (A Devereaux Dime Store Mystery #1) by Denise Swanson

More “books” we mentioned

• Shutterbug Follies by Jason Little (recommended)
• Bucko by Jeff Parker and Erika Moen
• Detective Conan/Case Closed by Gosho Aoyama
• From a dog’s perspective: Dog On It (Chet and Bernie #1) by Spencer Quinn
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (recommended)
• Bookmobile mystery series include: Bookmobile Cat Mysteries by Laurie Cass and Portland Bookmobile Mysteries by B. B. Cantwell

The Punniest of the Month

• Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami (Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife #3) by Sharon Kahn
• Crime Brûlée (A Carolyn Blue Culinary Mystery #1) by Nancy Fairbanks
• The Square Root of Murder (Sophie Knowles #1) by Ada Madison
• Feta Attraction (Greek to Me Mystery #1) by Susannah Hardy
• "With her career as a dress designer in shreds, Polyester Monroe is looking forward to a fresh start. But as it all unfolds, the pattern to a new beginning looks a lot like murder. " - description for Suede to Rest by Diane Vallere
• Dearest Constable Evans and his Heavens
• Oh Glorious, Glorious Puns!

Other Links

• Defining the “Whodunit”
• VPL’s online form for Readers Advisory: What Do I Read Next?
• Mysteries with recipes
• Murder most cosy: why mystery novels involving quilts and cats are big business
• VPL Recommended Reads
• Cosy vs cozy
• Diverse cozy mysteries

Questions

• Will someone please write Death By Squats for Meghan and Amanda?
• What are your favourite punny book titles?

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Cozy Mysteries people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Books in Translation.

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, and Jorge Cardenas discuss the reasons for reading books in translation, publishing barriers to international works, the importance/effect of a translator, which language should you read a book in, the Canadian context, grants to read War and Peace, and what makes a great book.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Jorge Cardenas | Matthew Murray

Recommended

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by H.T. Willetts (Russian)
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver (Italian)
• Bitter Rose by Martine Delvaux; translated by David Homel (Quebec)
• Closely Watched Trains by by Bohumil Hrabal; translated by Edith Pargeter (Czech)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco; translated by Guido Waldman (Italian)
• Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa; translated by Gregory Rabassa (Peru)
• The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac; illustrations by Quentin Blake; translated by Sarah Adams (French)
• HHhH by Laurent Binet; translated by Sam Taylor (French)
• Arvida by Samuel Archibald; translated by Donald Winkler (Quebec)

Other Books Read/Listened

• 70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado; translated by Michael Reynolds (Italian)
• The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara; translated by Randall A. Major (Serbian)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; translated by Alison Anderson (French)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian)
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; translated by Ken Liu (Chinese)
• Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō; translated by Cathy Hirano (Japanese) (audiobook)

DNF

• The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olse; translated by Steve Schein (Danish)
• The Dinner by Herman Koch; translated by Sam Garrett (Dutch)

Questions:

• Do you seek out or avoid works in translation?
• Do you ever feel like you are missing context/need more footnotes?
• Have you read a book than was significantly better or worse in one language than another?
• Are there genres that exist only (or predominantly) in non-English languages?

Links/Other

• Good-Bye and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi - "a book translated from Japanese to Spanish to English and purportedly released without Tatsumi's knowledge"
• 15 books with more characters than you can keep track of - Infographic
• Valeria Luiselli
• Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
• Translation Wars - New Yorker article about translations of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
• Marathon reading of War and Peace - BBC
• 2016 BBC adaptation of War and Peace - Wikipedia
• Why Americans don't read foreign fiction - The Daily Beast
• Why do you read translations? - Goodreads
• Icelandic christmas book spree - NPR article
• "Do MPs ever abuse Hansard?" - "the late Philippe Gigantes, during a filibuster in the Senate, read one of his books into the record, which contributed not only to the filibuster but also provided a comp[l]ete French translation he later had published."
• Japanese Golf Comics
• Books translated into Klingon - "Four Klingon translations of works of world literature have been published: ghIlghameS (the Epic of Gilgamesh), Hamlet (Hamlet), paghmo' tIn mIS (Much Ado About Nothing) and pIn'a' qan paQDI'norgh (Tao Te Ching)."

Meanwhile in Canada:

• Literary Translation in Canada - l'Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada/Literary Translators' Association of Canada
• Why aren't there more translations in Canada publishing? - The National Post (includes numbers on English/French translation grants)
• The forgotten mimics - The National Post (includes the House of Anansi controversy)
• Canada Council Translation grants:
• • National
  • International
• Quebec SODEC grants - (In French only)
• Ambos - magazine of Quebec translated literature aimed at English audiences

Places to find reading suggestions:

• Reading the world - review
• Funny/uplifting Arabic novels - list
• 2015 Nobel prize in literature - The Guardian article on Svetlana Alexievich
• Translation awards - Wikipedia
• Three Percent - a resource for international literature
• Asymptote Journal - World lit
• Canadian books in translation fall 2015 - 49th parallel
• A book that was originally published in another language - Book Riot Read harder challenge

Other podcasts

• Three Percent Podcast - A whole ongoing podcast on the topic of translated and international literature connected with the Three Percent blog mentioned above
• Fiction in translation - The Guardian podcast
• Bestsellers around the world - Books on the Nightstand podcast

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Books in Translation people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Books in Translation.  

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, and Jorge Cardenas discuss the reasons for reading books in translation, publishing barriers to international works, the importance/effect of a translator, which language should you read a book in, the Canadian context, grants to read War and Peace, and what makes a great book.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Jorge Cardenas | Matthew Murray

Recommended

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by H.T. Willetts (Russian)
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver (Italian)
• Bitter Rose by Martine Delvaux; translated by David Homel (Quebec)
• Closely Watched Trains by by Bohumil Hrabal; translated by Edith Pargeter (Czech)
• Silk by Alessandro Baricco; translated by Guido Waldman (Italian)
• Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa; translated by Gregory Rabassa (Peru)
• The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac; illustrations by Quentin Blake; translated by Sarah Adams (French)
• HHhH by Laurent Binet; translated by Sam Taylor (French)
• Arvida by Samuel Archibald; translated by Donald Winkler (Quebec)

Other Books Read/Listened

• 70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado; translated by Michael Reynolds (Italian)
• The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara; translated by Randall A. Major (Serbian)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; translated by Alison Anderson (French)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian)
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; translated by Ken Liu (Chinese)
• Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō; translated by Cathy Hirano (Japanese) (audiobook)

DNF

• The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olse; translated by Steve Schein (Danish)
• The Dinner by Herman Koch; translated by Sam Garrett (Dutch)

Questions:

• Do you seek out or avoid works in translation?
• Do you ever feel like you are missing context/need more footnotes?
• Have you read a book than was significantly better or worse in one language than another?
• Are there genres that exist only (or predominantly) in non-English languages?

Links/Other

• Good-Bye and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi - “a book translated from Japanese to Spanish to English and purportedly released without Tatsumi’s knowledge”
• 15 books with more characters than you can keep track of - Infographic
• Valeria Luiselli
• Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
• Translation Wars - New Yorker article about translations of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
• Marathon reading of War and Peace - BBC
• 2016 BBC adaptation of War and Peace - Wikipedia
• Why Americans don’t read foreign fiction - The Daily Beast
• Why do you read translations? - Goodreads
• Icelandic christmas book spree - NPR article
• “Do MPs ever abuse Hansard?” - “the late Philippe Gigantes, during a filibuster in the Senate, read one of his books into the record, which contributed not only to the filibuster but also provided a comp[l]ete French translation he later had published.”
• Japanese Golf Comics
• Books translated into Klingon - “Four Klingon translations of works of world literature have been published: ghIlghameS (the Epic of Gilgamesh), Hamlet (Hamlet), paghmo’ tIn mIS (Much Ado About Nothing) and pIn’a’ qan paQDI’norgh (Tao Te Ching).”

Meanwhile in Canada:

• Literary Translation in Canada - l'Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada/Literary Translators' Association of Canada
• Why aren’t there more translations in Canada publishing? - The National Post (includes numbers on English/French translation grants)
• The forgotten mimics - The National Post (includes the House of Anansi controversy)
• Canada Council Translation grants:
• • National
  • International
• Quebec SODEC grants - (In French only)
• Ambos - magazine of Quebec translated literature aimed at English audiences

Places to find reading suggestions:

• Reading the world - review
• Funny/uplifting Arabic novels - list
• 2015 Nobel prize in literature - The Guardian article on Svetlana Alexievich
• Translation awards - Wikipedia
• Three Percent - a resource for international literature
• Asymptote Journal - World lit  
• Canadian books in translation fall 2015 - 49th parallel
• A book that was originally published in another language - Book Riot Read harder challenge

Other podcasts

• Three Percent Podcast - A whole ongoing podcast on the topic of translated and international literature connected with the Three Percent blog mentioned above
• Fiction in translation - The Guardian podcast
• Bestsellers around the world - Books on the Nightstand podcast

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Books in Translation people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Religion (non-fiction).

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, and Matthew Murray discuss how/whether reading non-fiction is different than fiction, Scientology, new religious movements, travelogues, biographies, how religion interacts with different cultures, accessibility, and Meghan geeks out about charismatic Christianity.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Religion (Non-Fiction) We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Scientology)

Read

• Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America by Ivan Richmond (Buddhism)
• Holy Laughter and the Toronto Blessing: An Investigative Report by James A. Beverley (Christianity)
• Generation J by Lisa Schiffman (Judaism)
• Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett (interfaith)
• Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell (Various - Middle East)
• How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness by Harold S. Kushner (interfaith?)

Did Not Finish

• From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by John Krakauer

More "books" we mentioned

• Buddha by Osamu Tezuka

Other Links

• Should atheists read the great books of religion?
• Oh, Dewey Decimal - you so screwy
• Two-Fisted Librarians

Interpreting Meghan

• Eschatology
• One Church Problem

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Religious non-fiction people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Religion (non-fiction).  

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, and Matthew Murray discuss how/whether reading non-fiction is different than fiction, Scientology, new religious movements, travelogues, biographies, how religion interacts with different cultures, accessibility, and Meghan geeks out about charismatic Christianity.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Religion (Non-Fiction) We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Scientology)

Read

• Silence and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America by Ivan Richmond (Buddhism)
• Holy Laughter and the Toronto Blessing: An Investigative Report by James A. Beverley (Christianity)
• Generation J by Lisa Schiffman (Judaism)
• Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett (interfaith)
• Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Gerard Russell (Various - Middle East)
• How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness by Harold S. Kushner (interfaith?)

Did Not Finish

• From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by John Krakauer

More “books” we mentioned

• Buddha by Osamu Tezuka

Other Links

• Should atheists read the great books of religion?
• Oh, Dewey Decimal - you so screwy  
• Two-Fisted Librarians

Interpreting Meghan

• Eschatology
• One Church Problem

Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Religious non-fiction people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Psychological Thrillers.

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri,Meghan Whyte, and Matthew Murray discuss appeal factors (atmosphere vs plot, literature vs pulp), the violence against women trope,grown-ass women, the Twist (plot, not dance), reading a book because you mistake it for something else, search strategies,non-linear narratives and unreliable narrators, science with fairies, board games, word-cloud based thriller descriptions, and the Bestsellers problem.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri| Meghan Whyte| Matthew Murray

Psychological Thrillers We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison (AF)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (MW)
• Dare Me by Megan Abbott (MW)
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (AF/MW) (sci-fi crossover)

Other books read

• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (MM)
• Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (MW) (beach read)
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (MW) (Catholic psychological thriller)
• The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (MW) (pulp)

Did Not Finish

• The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olsen (MW)
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (AF)
• Gone Girl by Gllian Flynn(AF) - BTW follow-up to the episode, Anna had actually guessed the twist correctly on this one :(
• The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (AF)

A few more "books" we mentioned

• The Island (movie)
• Fairy Science Books
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Just writing it here cause we said the title and you should read it!)

Other Links

• Alex Barclay's top 10 psychological thrillers from The Guardian. (The article Meghan unsuccessfully selected from.)
• At Leisure with Joyce Saricks: Psychological Suspense, Horror's Disturbing Sibling.
• The word cloud and fake psychological thriller descriptions (ask to join the Facebook group)

Questions

• Do "Cozy Thrillers"exist?
• Are there any psychological thrillers set in fantasy worlds?

Check out our Pinterest board, Tumblr posts, and big list of all the Psychological Thriller books people in our club read (or tried to read).

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Psychological Thrillers.  

Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri,Meghan Whyte, and Matthew Murray discuss appeal factors (atmosphere vs plot, literature vs pulp), the violence against women trope,grown-ass women, the Twist (plot, not dance), reading a book because you mistake it for something else, search strategies,non-linear narratives and unreliable narrators, science with fairies, board games, word-cloud based thriller descriptions, and the Bestsellers problem.

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri| Meghan Whyte| Matthew Murray

Psychological Thrillers We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison (AF)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (MW)
• Dare Me by Megan Abbott (MW)
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (AF/MW) (sci-fi crossover)

Other books read

• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (MM)
• Along Came a Spider by James Patterson (MW) (beach read)
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Defending Jacob by William Landay
• Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (MW) (Catholic psychological thriller)
• The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (MW) (pulp)

Did Not Finish

• The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olsen (MW)
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (AF)
• Gone Girl by Gllian Flynn(AF) - BTW follow-up to the episode, Anna had actually guessed the twist correctly on this one :(
• The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (AF)

A few more “books” we mentioned

• The Island (movie)
• Fairy Science Books
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Just writing it here cause we said the title and you should read it!) 

Other Links

• Alex Barclay's top 10 psychological thrillers from The Guardian. (The article Meghan unsuccessfully selected from.) 
• At Leisure with Joyce Saricks: Psychological Suspense, Horror’s Disturbing Sibling. 
• The word cloud and fake psychological thriller descriptions (ask to join the Facebook group) 

Questions

• Do "Cozy Thrillers"exist?
• Are there any psychological thrillers set in fantasy worlds?

Check out our Pinterest board, Tumblr posts, and big list of all the Psychological Thriller books people in our club read (or tried to read).

Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Amanda Wanner | Matthew Murray

We discuss online reading vs book reading ("I just want to read the wiki article"), whether pop science is formulaic, if we read non-fiction to learn explicit facts or provoke thought generally, the impact of blog writing/reading on technology books, our audiobook preferences, anti-narratives (handbooks), edutainment, "There is some fiction in my non-fiction!," lying by omission, hate reads, and more…

Technology (Non-Fiction) We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• What is Code? by Paul Ford, long-form article from Bloomberg Magazine
• The Making of Crash Bandicoot by Andy Gavin (The series of blog posts Matthew read; for the deep nerds out there)
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
• Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell
• Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucen by Douglas Coupland (for a unique experience of technology reading)
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua

Other books read

• Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder
• The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
• The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? by Patrick Tucker

A few more "books" we mentioned(or that Meghan wanted us to mention since she couldn't be there)

• The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living by Charles Haine
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
• Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents by Lisa Gitelman
• How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe by Chris Impey (example of odd "padding" in non-fiction, but the science stuff is coooool)
• BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey
• What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

Other/Links

• 7 Things You Should Read About Technology's Role in Our Future
• Hatoful Boyfriend - The pigeon dating game
• Why so few violent video games? by Gregory Avery-Weir (short, funny, recommended)
• The World Future Society - produces The Futurist magazine for which Patrick Tucker is an editor…
• That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (an example of a book where the author really invites you to debate and disagree with the arguments in their work)

Check out our Pinterest board of all the Technology (non-fiction) books people in our club read (or tried to read).

 Your Hosts This Episode

Anna Ferri | Amanda Wanner | Matthew Murray

We discuss online reading vs book reading (“I just want to read the wiki article”), whether pop science is formulaic, if we read non-fiction to learn explicit facts or provoke thought generally, the impact of blog writing/reading on technology books, our audiobook preferences, anti-narratives (handbooks), edutainment, “There is some fiction in my non-fiction!,” lying by omission, hate reads, and more…

Technology (Non-Fiction) We Read (or kinda):

Recommended

• What is Code? by Paul Ford, long-form article from Bloomberg Magazine 
• The Making of Crash Bandicoot by Andy Gavin (The series of blog posts Matthew read; for the deep nerds out there) 
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 
• Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter by Tom Bissell 
• Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucen by Douglas Coupland (for a unique experience of technology reading) 
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua 

Other books read

• Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder 
• The State of Play: Creators and Critics on Video Game Culture edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson 
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson 
• The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? by Patrick Tucker 

A few more “books” we mentioned
(or that Meghan wanted us to mention since she couldn’t be there)

• The Urban Biking Handbook: The DIY Guide to Building, Rebuilding, Tinkering with, and Repairing Your Bicycle for City Living by Charles Haine 
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson 
• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage 
• Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents by Lisa Gitelman 
• How It Began: A Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Universe by Chris Impey (example of odd “padding” in non-fiction, but the science stuff is coooool) 
• BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google by John Palfrey 
• What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly 

Other/Links

• 7 Things You Should Read About Technology’s Role in Our Future
• Hatoful Boyfriend - The pigeon dating game
• Why so few violent video games? by Gregory Avery-Weir (short, funny, recommended) 
• The World Future Society - produces The Futurist magazine for which Patrick Tucker is an editor…
• That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (an example of a book where the author really invites you to debate and disagree with the arguments in their work) 

Check out our Pinterest board of all the Technology (non-fiction) books people in our club read (or tried to read).