Episode 193 - Spring Media Update
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast
Release Date: 04/16/2024
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast
It’s episode 221 and time for us to talk about Epic & High Fantasy! We talk about maps, magic, monsters, whether Pokémon counts as epic fantasy, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Ursula K. Le Guin by Jo Walton by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist by Evan Leikam by Davinia Evans by Robin Hobb Other Media We Mentioned by John Darnielle by Anne McCaffery by J.R.R. Tolkien by Terry Pratchett by Michael J. Sullivan by...
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It’s episode 220 and time for us to talk about the winner of our One Book One Podcast / Battle of the Books: How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler! We discuss content warnings, anthropomorphising sea critters, our relationships with the ocean, salps, goldfish, whales, octopus, crabs, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Sabrina Imbler My Life in Sea Creatures: What the Ocean’s Animals can Teach us About...
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It’s episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it’s possible to not read vampire stories, how much blood is too much blood, vegetarian vampires, books that mysteriously show up on our holds lists, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Barbara Truelove by Sarah Winifred Searle by Taylor Robin by Hal Schrieve Meghan’s books...
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It’s episode 218 and time for us to talk about the Book Club Books! We discuss what counts as a book club, religion, food memoirs, historical fiction, girls loving each other in 1954, the prison industrial complex, and more! Plus, we discuss geographic-specific food we miss! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Celeste Ng by Maria Semple by Patricia Lockwood by Michelle Zauner Service95 Book Club: by Malinda Lo by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ...
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It’s episode 217 and time for our Summer Media Update! We discuss shelf trophies, sumo wrestling, Kpop Demon Hunters, blogs in book form, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) Jam (video game) (podcast) (Talking Heads concert film) Matthew The places sumo matches happen are “sumo halls” The Lightning Round (Thunderbolts) Meghan and BookTube () Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series (Les...
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It’s episode 216 and time for us to talk about the genre of Rural Noir / Grit Lit! We discuss what counts as “rural,” whether “coastal noir” is a thing, how intense these stories can be, and more! Plus: Should fiction about Gritty (the mascot) be classified as about a "real person"? You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Tom Franklin by Bonnie Jo Campbell by David Heska Wanbli Weiden by Tony Birch Other Media We Mentioned by Charles Portis...
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It’s episode 215 and time for our annual Battle of the Books! This year we’re each pitching a non-fiction book we think we should all read and discuss and then you (our listeners) get to vote on which one! Plus! A chance for a listener to win a book! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | by Vauhini Vara by Liz Pelly by Elaine Castillo by Sabrina Imbler Titles from our Short Lists by Alexandra Rowland by Tina Horn by Kristy Cooper by Rosemary Mosco by Vanessa Angélica...
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It’s episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell and David Bischoff by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn by Zachery Thomas Dodson by Lucy Ellmann by Jane Yolen Other Media We Mentioned by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst by Italo...
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It’s episode 213 and time for us to talk about “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps! We discuss the recently returned book cart, getting books for free, getting rid of books, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie by Slavomir Rawicz by Omar El Akkad by Mark Z. Danielewski by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver ...
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It’s episode 212 and time for us to talk about excellently complicate the non-fiction genre of Linguistics & Language! We discuss 🤔, our academic backgrounds, the power of words, accents, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | | | Things We Read (or tried to…) by Gretchen McCulloch by Polly Barton by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein by James Geary by Gaston Dorren Other Media We Mentioned by Eliot Weinberger by Guy Deutscher edited by Thomas...
info_outlineIt’s time for our Spring Media Update episode! We talk about art installations, manga, board games, comics, and birds. So many birds.
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Media We’ve Been Consuming
- Jam
- Quality Assurance in Another World by Masamichi Satō
- Wingspan (board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave)
- Redactle
- Anna
- Meghan
- Lisa LeBlanc
- Long books :
- The Abominable by Dan Simmons (663 pages)
- Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher (513 pages)
- The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (760 pages)
- Bungalow Details Interior by Jane Powell
- Matthew
- Spy x Family, vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
- Giant Days Library Edition, vol. 1 by by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin
Birds We Mentioned
- Chickadee
- Emu
- Cassowary
- Kākāpō
- Shoebill
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Pesquet's parrot (Dracula Parrot)
- Kiwi
- Hawk
- Pigeon
- Crow
- Chicken
Links, Articles, and Things
- OLA RA in a Day
- Yotsuba&!, vol. 1 by Kiyohiko Azuma
- Chiac
- Acadia
- Birds Aren’t Real
- Only Connect
- Bungalow
12 Political Thrillers by BIPOC 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.
- Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams
- The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad
- The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq
- Exceptional Circumstances by James Bartleman
- The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
- The Sniper by Chang Kuo-Li, translated by Roddy Flag
- The Executioner’s Game by Gary Hardwick
- What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris
- One in the Chamber by Robin Peguero
- Grant Park by Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor
- American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
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Join us again on Tuesday, May 7th we’ll be discussing books from Indie Publishers!
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