Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

This episode we're talking about Hate Reads! We discuss annoyance reading, hate reading vs reading something you hate, completionism, experiencing bad media as a social bonding experience, and 1-star reviews of books. Plus: Books about women murdering!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Wikipedia)
  • "A spectre is haunting Europe"
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Game of Thrones (Wikipedia)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • "Divergent might have been sloppy in places, but in a bizarre continuity error, both Tris' disabling trauma around guns and an actual gun appears and disappears as is convenient in the final chapters… This violates both Chekhov's Gun and some corollary: if you introduce a gun, it must exist." (from Jam's review; see also "I'm not reading another YA trilogy unless someone guarantees me no queer people die in the second act")
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  • "reading this book felt like having to eat three bags of raw spinach before I was allowed the ice cream sundae I'd been promised" (from Matthew's review)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Links, Articles, and Things

• 161 (number) (Wikipedia)
• Schadenfreude (Wikipedia)
• Mark Oshiro (who Jam mentioned) appears to have deleted their YouTube channel? Or Something? You can still go to their website and the Mark Reads website.
• Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast
  • Episode on Ready Player One
• A recent(ish) episode of Watch+Play (there's a lot of them!)
  • There's also this playlist of shorter, edited videos if you don't want to commit
• Hark (Jam's holiday music podcast)
• Hot take (Wikipedia)
• Hate-watching (Wikipedia)
• Episode 011 - Religious Fiction (the one in which Anna read the book she hated)
• BookTok (Wikipedia)
• Matthew can't find the specific X-Men review he mentioned, but it's buried in this site somewhere (that link specifically is to a scathing review of the final issue of Mutant X)
• Show, don't tell (Wikipedia)

Questions

• What Romance genres do you want us to read?
• What comic would you use to introduce superhero comics to adults (who haven't read them before)?
  • Twitter thread

15 works of Experimental Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
• When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
• Big City by Marream Krollos
• Search History by Eugene Lim
• Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
• The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
• This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
• Oreo by Fran Ross
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
• Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• I was the President's Mistress!! by Miguel Syjuco
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
• Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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Then on Tuesday, November 15th we'll be talking about Podcasts!

This episode we're talking about Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies! We talk about metafiction, superhero origins as cover songs, spaceship detectives, cat biographies, amendments to amendments, alien abductions, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960 by William Boyd
  • Wikipedia
• Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon, translated by Howard Curtis
  • Matthew was wrong about how many books in this series came out in one month, but based on the French Wikipedia article four titles (including this one) were released in 1951.
• Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
  • Jack Sheppard (Wikipedia)
• The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sís
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)
• Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

Other Media We Mentioned

• Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries Series by Gyles Brandreth
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip José Farmer
• What Is the What by Dave Eggers
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)
• Blonde (2022 film) (Wikipedia)
• Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
• Smile (2022 film) (Wikipedia)
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma, Testimony, Theory by Leigh Gilmore
• The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
• Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Wikipedia)
• A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Joshua Chapman (zine series)
  • We can't find a good link for the zines, but it's been collected as a book
• Interview with the Vampire (film) (Wikipedia)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• The Big Lebowski (Wikipedia)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 143 - Amish Romance
• Episode 119 - Regence Romance
• Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance
• Episode 070 - Erotic Romance
• The 7 Best Library Podcasts
• Fictionalized biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
• Autofiction (Wikipedia)
• Isekai (Wikipedia)
• Oliver Cromwell (Wikipedia)
• Epistolary novel (Wikipedia)
• Episode 111 - Happy Birthday Dracula
• Episode 128 - Plucky Kid Detective
• Episode 136 - Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled
• List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources (Wikipedia)
• List of Dewey Decimal classes (Wikipedia)
• National Library of Medicine classification (Wikipedia)
• Zaphod Beeblebrox (Wikipedia)
  • "Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?"
• False memory: Mandela Effect (Wikipedia)

17 Fictional Biographies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander
• Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
• Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac
• American Woman by Susan Choi
• The Black Rose by Tananarive Due
• The Reason for Crows: A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha by Diane Glancy
• Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea by Diane Glancy
• Driving the King by Ravi Howard
• Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe
• Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, translated by Peter Sluglett
• Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
• Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
• Douglass' Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos, translated by Helen Lane
• Empress by Shan Sa
• The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
• Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé

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Then on Tuesday, November 1st we'll be discussing the genre of Investigative Journalism!

This episode we're talking about Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart! We discuss how much science a book needs to be to count as "pop science," content warnings for books, BDSM, MRIs, and other acronyms! Plus: How many hot sauces we own!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

The Book We Talked About

• Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Other Media We Mentioned

• Nerve - Adventures in the Science of Fear by Eva Holland
• Secretary (2002 film) (Wikipedia)
• Turning by Jessica J. Lee
• Valley Girl by Moon Unit and Frank Zappa
• The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022
• Don't Be Afraid Of The Clowns
• Mary Roach (Wikipedia)
• Frank's RedHot (Wikipedia)
• Gochujang (Wikipedia)
• South Asian pickle (Wikipedia)
• Carolina Reaper (Wikipedia)
• Ultramarathon (Wikipedia)
• Play piercing (Wikipedia)
• Polar bear plunge (Wikipedia)
• Wim Hof (Wikipedia)
• Camino de Santiago (Wikipedia)
• Pain scale (Wikipedia)
• Temperature play (Wikipedia)
• Ocu-less || CheckPoint 407
• K/DA (Wikipedia)
  • More (YouTube)
• Hate-watching (Wikipedia)
• Erotic humiliation (Wikipedia)
• Leather Archives & Museum on Instagram

15 Gardening & Plants Non-fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
• The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen
• Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Metis Plant Use by Christi Belcourt
• The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming by Natasha Bowens
• Wild at Home: How to Style and Care for Beautiful Plants by Hilton Carter
• Luschiim's Plants: A Hul′q′umi′num′ (Cowichan) Ethnobotany by Luschiim Arvid Charlie
• The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family by Darryl Cheng
• The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquillity by E. Barrie Kavasch
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
• Lessons from Plants by Beronda L Montgomery
• American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America by Michelle Obama
• Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
• Grow: A Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them by Riz Reyes
• Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White

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Join us again on Tuesday, October 4th we'll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies/Biographical Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, October 18th we'll be talking about the concept of Hate Reads.

This episode we're talking about Audiobook Fiction! We discuss narrators vs casts, sound effects, music, adaptations, footnotes, and more! Plus: How do you picture the hosts in your mind when you listen to us?

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, narrated by a full cast
• Coasting Trade by Robin McGrath, narrated by Robert Joy, Rick Boland, and Anita Best
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
• What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, narrated by Hillary Huber

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases (Wikipedia)
• The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
• What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
• Welcome to Nightvale (podcast)
• Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes #1 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
• 99% Invisible (podcast)
• The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
• The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Control (video game)
  • Control || Talking Simulator
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson, narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, and Marc Thompson
• The Stanley Parable (Wikipedia) (it's not quite as narrated as Matthew and Jam implied)
  • Official website
• Gadsby (novel) by Ernest Vincent Wright (Wikipedia)
  • "does not include any words that contain the letter E"
• A Void by Georges Perec (Wikipedia)
  • "entirely without using the letter e"
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• My Brain is Different: Histoires of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders by MONNZUSU
• Project X: Challengers - Seven Eleven by Tadashi Ikuta and Namoi Kimura
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, narrated by Ray Porter
• The Sandman (audiobook version)
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, narrated by Marin Ireland
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 133 - Flash Fiction
• Episode 108 - Visual Novels
• Serre - Kinda bilingual anglos play French-language Visual Novel
• Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks
• Audie Awards
• Turns Out Not Everyone Can Picture Things In Their Mind And Sorry, What?
• Lowly Worm (Wikipedia)
• Let's Play (Wikipedia)
• Oulipo (Wikipedia)
• 24-hour comic
• Episode 047b - Terrible Stories by Matthew (you have been warned)
• Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
• ISO 8601 (Wikipedia) (date standard)
• June Is #audiomonth: Narrator Trading Cards Giveaway
• Two-Fisted Library Stories (Twitter bot)
• Digital Accessible Information System (Wikipedia)

20 Fiction Audiobooks written & read by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors and Narrators

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, narrated by Catherine Ho
• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, narrated by the author
• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez
• Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
• The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas; narrated by Janelle Monae and Bahni Turpin
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley, narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Robin Miles
• War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi, narrated by Adepero Oduye
• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama
• The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote narrated by the author, Christian Nagler, Fantasia Painter, Drew Woodson, Phillip Cash Cash and Keevin Hesuse
• Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma, narrated by Soneela Nankani, Sunil Malhotra and Vikas Adam
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, narrated by Cherise Boothe
• Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto, narrated by Risa Mei
• The Strangers by Katherena Vermette, narrated by Michaela Washburn
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, narrated by the author
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead, narrated by Beresford Bennett
• The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, narrated by Kyla Garcia
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, narrated by Joel de la Fuente

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Then on Tuesday, October 4th we'll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies!

You asked for it, so in this special bonus episode we're talking about Public Domain Superheroes! We discuss the Golden Age of Comics, masked adventurers, copyright, crossovers, and more! Plus: Time Eggs!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Matthew Murray | Carol Borden

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Project Superpowers (Wikipedia) by Jim Krueger, Alex Ross, Doug Klauba, Stephen Sadowsk, and Carlos Paul
• Masks, vol. 1 by Chris Roberson, Alex Ross (Artist), Dennis Calero (Artist) Jae lee
  • See all the covers
• Miss Fury: The Minor Key by Corinna Sara Bechko and Jonathan Lau
• Swords of Sorrow (Women in Comics Wiki) by Gail Simone and so many others

Superheroes and Masked Adventurers (all links are to Wikipedia)

• Plastic Man
• Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
• Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)
• The Shadow
• The Spider
• Miss Fury
  • Miss Fury and Miss Mills (article by Carol Borden on the Cultural Gutter)
  • Miss Fury Cut Outs
• Miss Masque/Masquerade
• Kato
• Green Hornet
• Red Sonja
• Thor (Marvel Comics)
• Thor in comics - DC Comics
• Hercules (DC Comics)
• Hercules (Marvel Comics)
• Zeus (DC Comics)
• Zeus (Marvel Comics)
• Beowulf (DC Comics)
• Beowulf (Earth-616) (Marvel Fandom Wiki)
• Bucky Barnes
• Black Terror (and Tim!)
• Daredevil (Lev Gleason Publications) (The Death Defying 'Devil)
• Jonah Hex
• The Invaders
• All-Star Squadron
• The Twelve
• Airboy
• Fighting Yank
• Dynamic Man
• Ghost (Public Domain Super Heroes Wiki)
• Cat-Man and Kitten
• Irene Adler
• Dejah Thoris
• Green Lama
• Zorro
• Black Bat
• Purgatori
• Chastity
• Lady Zorro (ComicVine)
• Vampirella
• Jane Porter/ Lady Greystoke
• Pantha (ComicVine)
• Eva, Daughter of Dracula (ComicVine)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard (Wikipedia)
• Night of the Living Dead (Wikipedia)
• Superman (1940s animated film series) (Wikipedia)
• The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Feiffer
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Spicy Library Stories
• Sherlock Holmes & Kolchak the Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder by Joe Gentile, Andy Bennett, and Carlos Magno
• The Incredible Hercules (Wikipedia)
• Aliens vs. Predator (comics) (Wikipedia)
• Freddy vs. Jason (Wikipedia)
• X-Men 2099 (Wikipedia)
• Justice League Unlimited (Wikipedia)
• Justice League Action - Jonah Hex's Space Rodeo! (YouTube)
• Archie vs. Predator (Wikipedia)
• FemForce (Wikipedia)
• Tom Strong (Wikipedia)
  • Public domain characters show up staring in issue #11, there's also some Terra Obscura miniseries that focus on these characters.
• Savage Dragon (Wikipedia)
• Next Issue Project (Wikipedia)
• Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays by Tarpe Mills
• Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (Wikipedia)
• Achtung! Cthulhu (Role-Playing Game) (H.P. Lovecraft Wiki)

Links, Articles, and Things

• The Cultural Gutter
• Monstrous Industry
• Fox Spirit Books
• Episode 155 - Literary Fan Fiction
• Public Domain (Wikipedia)
• Public Domain Day 2022
• Public Domain Comic Books (TVTropes)
• Public Domain Super Heroes Wiki
• Creative Commons (Wikipedia)
• 5 Great Public Domain Superheroes (& 5 Worst)
• Superman (ice cream flavor) (Wikipedia)
• National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.
• Golden Age of Comic Books
• Canadian Whites (Wikipedia) (Canadian WWII-era comics)
  • The Canadian Captain Marvel Comics #10
• Fox Feature Syndicate (Wikipedia)
• Crestwood Publications (Wikipedia)
• Standard Comics (Wikipedia (Nedor Publishing)
• Quality Comics (Wikipedia)
• Fawcett Comics (Wikipedia)
• Charlton Comics (Wikipedia)
• WildStorm (Wikipedia)
• The 10 Best Crossovers in Archie Comics
• From KISS to 'The Addams Family': The Best 'Scooby-Doo!' Crossovers You Just Have to See
• 12 Strangest Scooby-Doo Crossovers, Ranked
• Eclipse Comics (Wikipedia)
• America's Best Comics (Wikipedia)
• Dynamite Entertainment (Wikipedia)
• Alex Ross (Wikipedia)
  • Afraid Of Cock
  • The printed cover to Justice Society of America #7
• 'Zorro' Licensor, in Role Reversal, Faces Trial for Copyright Infringement
• Black Legion (political movement) (Wikipedia)
• Chaos! Comics (Wikipedia)

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Then on Tuesday, September 20th we'll be discussing the winner of our "we all read the same book" poll and discussing Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart!

This week it's time for our Summer 2022 Media Update episode as we talk about media we've recently enjoyed including video games, comics, books, podcasts, and interior decorating! Plus: Obsolete customary measuring units!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We've Been Enjoying

• Matthew
  • Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun by Izumi Tsubaki, translated by Leighann Harvey
    • The anime no longer on Netflix, but can be found on Hidive
  • Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
• Meghan
  • Graphic Novels
    • Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
    • Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo
    • Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden
  • Murder
    • The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup, translated by Caroline Waigh
    • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
      • Episode 080 - True Crime
  • Interior decorating
    • The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate & Live Well by Deborah Needleman with Virginia Johnson (Illustrator)
• Jam
  • Indie games
    • Wytchwood from Whitethorn Games
    • Garden Story from Rose City Games
    • Miracle Merchant from Tinytouchtales
  • Gender Reveal (podcast)
    • Gender Reveal Starter Packs
• Anna
  • Crashlands from Butterscotch Shenanigans
  • Tasting History with Max Miller
  • Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

Other Media We Mentioned

• Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
• Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh
• Clementine, Book One by Tillie Walden
  • Just Plain Wrong - Zombies, Sharkfarmers, and Beavis & Butthead: Discussing Comics and Graphic Novels with Amish Characters
• Overwatch (Wikipedia)
• The Quest for the Rest by Amanita Design
  • The other point-and-click games Jam was thinking of were the Samorost games, also by Amanita Design!
• Stardew Valley (Wikipedia)
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wikipedia)
• Steven Universe (Wikipedia)
• Napkin by Carta Monir
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
• Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

Links, Articles, and Things

• Bifauxnen (TV Tropes) (princely girls)
• Sailor Uranus (Wikipedia)
• Yonkoma (Wikipedia) - "four cell manga"
• Peter Piper (Wikipedia)
• Peck (Wikipedia)

18 Legal Thrillers by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
• The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
• A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de León
• Hanging Devils by He Jiahong
• They Can't Take Your Name by Robert Justice
• The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan
• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• Pleasantville by Attica Locke
• You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
• Most Wanted by Michele Martinez
• All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
• The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
• The Little Death by Michael Nava
• With Prejudice by Robin Peguero
• Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young
• Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson
• Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
• The Indian Lawyer by James Welch

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Then on Tuesday, September 20th we'll be discussing the winner of our "we all read the same book" poll and discussing Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart!

This episode we're talking about Literary Fan Fiction! We discuss ancient myths, fairy tales, Sherlock Holmes, copyright, Sherlock Holmes, authorized sequels, Sherlock Holmes, and sequels vs reinterpretations! Plus: Sherlock Holmes! (Okay, he didn't get mentioned that much.)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
  • Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was reprinted in Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)
  • Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)
    • Copyright status
• Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Other Media We Mentioned

• The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
• And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer
• Shadow Master Series Volume 3 by Andy Helfer, Kyle Baker, and Joe Orlando
  • Includes the comic in which The Shadow's head is placed on a robot body
• A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
  • Jack the Ripper in fiction (Wikipedia) (Yes, there's an entire article and it mentions at least five additional stories that feature Sherlock Holmes.)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
• Fables (comics) by Bill Willingham (Wikipedia)
• The Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (Wikipedia)
• Beowulf (Wikipedia)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
• Grendel by John Gardner
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
• The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
• The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
• A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia)
• A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
• The Great Mouse Detective (Wikipedia)
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Wikipedia)
• Elementary, Dear Data (Wikipedia) - Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
• House (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Elementary (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Sherlock (TV series) (Wikipedia)
• Dorian Gray (2009 film) (Wikipedia)
• Victor Frankenstein (film) (Wikipedia)
• The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Wikipedia)
• Enola Holmes (film) (Wikipedia)
• Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith (Actually just about cowboys who really like Sherlock Holmes)
• Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the American West by John S. Fitzpatrick

Links, Articles, and Things

• Fan fiction (Wikipedia)
• Matthew was probably combining Robert Ludlum (died in 2001 and since then thirty books have been published under the "Ludlum brand") and Tom Clancy (died in 2013 and since then 18 books have been published under the "Clancy brand")
• Marple: Twelve New Mysteries A 2022 collection of new stories by various authors about Agatha Christie's Miss Marple character
• Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture (Wikipedia)
• Robin McKinley (Wikipedia)
• Frankenstein's monster (Wikipedia)
• How Rocket Raccoon Rescued My Brother, Famed Marvel Writer Bill Mantlo by Mike Mantlo
• Doujinshi (Wikipedia)
  • Doraemon Doujinshi Accused of Infringing Copyright
• Hark Podcast
• Sherlock Holmes (Wikipedia)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Copyrightable Character by Nicholas Perrotti
• Sargasso Sea (Wikipedia)

22 "Literary Fan Fiction" (retellings, adaptations, sequels, parallel novels, etc.) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this booklist, the original story being retold/referenced appears (in parentheses).

• Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)
• The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández)
• The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Windward Heights by Maryse Condé (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)
• The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (The Stranger by Albert Camus)
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)
• Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (A Room With a View by E.M. Forster)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (The Horror of Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells)
• The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter by Nataniel Hawthorne and the Ramayana by Valmiki)
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (The Tempest by William Shakespeare)
• Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez (King Lear by William Shakespeare)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (The Tale of Shim Ch'ŏng)
• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (The Ramayana by Valmiki)
• The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
• My Jim by Nancy Rawles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Wee'git stories)
• Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
• Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Various works by Jane Austen)
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

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Then on Tuesday, September 6th we'll be discussing the format of Audio Book Fiction!

No episode this week due to a variety of technical issues. We'll be back next week with out episode on Literary Fan Fiction!

In the mean time you can listen to this "bonus" episode in which we announce who won our Battle of the Books!

(And if you haven't had a chance yet, make sure to check out Episode 154 - Battle of the books 2022.)

This episode we're giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2022! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Books We Pitched

• Vote for the book you want us to read and discuss!
• Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
• Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Our "Long List" of Titles

• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
• Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
• Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
• Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies by Derek Delgaudio

Podcast Episodes

• Just Plain Wrong - Zombies, Sharkfarmers, and Beavis & Butthead: Discussing Comics and Graphic Novels with Amish Characters (Featuring Matthew!)
• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?
  • Episode 083 - The Fifth Season
• Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020
  • Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021
  • Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries

Links, Articles, and Things

• PEDMAS - Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction
  • Order of Operations (Wikipedia)
• Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien
• What Should I Read Next?
• At sign (@) (Wikipedia)
• Soft sign (ь) (Wikipedia)
• Financial domination (FinDom) (Wikipedia)
• "Our cats opened the bathroom cabinet drawer, thereby blocking the bathroom door from opening."

30 LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
• Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
• A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome
• A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
• When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Cordova
• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
• Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Francisco J. Galarte
• Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun Harrison
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
• Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
• All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Continuum by Chella Man
• The Black Trans Prayer Book edited by J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi
• Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir
• nîtisânak by Jas M. Morgan
• Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
• I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
• I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 2nd we'll be discussing the genre of Literary Fan Fiction.

Then on Tuesday, August 16th we'll be discussing an update on what media we've been enjoying outside of the podcast!

This episode we're talking about Humour Non-fiction! We talk about how truthful stand-up comedy is, identifying books from the call number, giant mosquitos, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
  • 99% Invisible, Episode 471: Mini-Stories: Volume 12 (features Mary Roach talking about several "footnotes" from Fuzz)
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
• You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
• I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
  • The Little Mermaid - Part of Your World (YouTube)
  • Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury (YouTube)
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Other Media We Mentioned

• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Wikipedia)
• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert and others
• Science ...For Her! by Megan Amram
• A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord
• Bike Snob: Systematically Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by BikeSnobNYC
• I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
• Jumanji (Wikipedia)
  • Giant mosquitoes scenes (YouTube)
• Bee Movie
  • Anna meant a B movie (Wikipedia)
• Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
• A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird by Rosemary Mosco
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (Wikipedia)
• The Amber Ruffin Show (Wikipedia)
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Wikipedia)
• Wow, No Thank You.: Essays by Samantha Irby
• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
• Hot Poetry Inside || LoadingReadyLIVE Ep86 (begins with the humorous monologue about cancer diagnosis)
• Decoder Ring - Truly Tasteless Jokes (podcast about joke books in the 1980s that Anna mentioned)
• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Links, Articles, and Things

• David Sedaris (Wikipedia)
• Dave Barry (Wikipedia)
• Mary Roach (Wikipedia)
• Sarah Vowel (Wikipedia)
• Bill Bryson (Wikipedia)
• Patrick F. McManus (Wikipedia) (the "outdoor living" author Anna read when she was a kid)
• Garfield by Jim Davis (Wikipedia)
• Giant Moustique Monument
• David Rakoff (Wikipedia)
• Molly Ivins (Wikipedia)
• Al Franken (Wikipedia)
• Nora Ephron (Wikipedia)
• Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook group)
• Popemobile (Wikipedia)
• Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia)
• Sumarian bar joke (Reddit thread)
• Complaint tablet to Ea-nasir (Wikipedia)

15 Humour Non-fiction books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen
• She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
• Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang
• Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
• Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge
• Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
• Barely Functional Adult: It'll All Make Sense Eventually by Meichi Ng
• Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
• Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
• You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
• The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman
• The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had): A Memoir by Sophie Santos
• Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
• How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 19th when it's time for us to pitch our "we all read the same book" books!

Then on Tuesday, August 2nd we'll be discussing the genre of Literary Fan Fiction.