Episode 208 - 2025 Reading Resolutions

It’s episode 208 and time for us to talk about our Reading Resolutions for 2025! We discuss our love of spreadsheets, the churn of books in public libraries, literacy, unschooling, and more! 

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

2025 Goals/Intentions/Etc.

• Jam
  • Theme of the year: “Cultivation”
  • Use Storygraph instead of Goodreads
    • Jam on Storygraph
  • Maybe put a book on the nightstand so I’ll read it before bed
• Meghan
  • Subscribe to print reading material
• Anna
  • Track favourite reads of the year in the spreadsheet
  • Try to figure out why she reads less fiction than she used to
• Matthew
  • Read every book on fiction to-read list published before the year 2000
  • Record the “why” when adding books to TBR
    

Other Media We Mentioned

• Folio podcast
  • Jam’s episode isn’t out yet
  • Immanence
• British Library Tales of the Weird
• The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
• The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov
• X-Men Classic Omnibus by Chris Claremont and others
• Role Models by John Waters
• Radical Unschooling: We NEED to Talk About This! 
• Sold a Story podcast
  

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 190 - Reading Resolutions and Rants
• r/AmItheAsshole (Wikipedia)
• If Books Could Kill (Wikipedia)
  

50 Recent Short Story Collections 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.

For this list of short story collections, we’ve focused on titles published within the past four years.

• Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda (2024)
• Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2024)
• Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat (2024)
• Your Utopia by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (2024)
• Green Frog by Gina Chung (2024)
• Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman (2024)
• Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima (2024)
• Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan (2024)
• Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi (2024)
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (2024)
• A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo (2024)
• Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang (2023)
• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (2023)
• Every Drop Is A Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (2023)
• No One Will Come Back for Us: And Other Stories by Premee Mohamed (2023)
• Drinking From Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (2023)
• Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran (2023)
• Tiger Work by Ben Okri (2023)
• Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo (2023)
• Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele (2023)
• Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian (2023)
• New Suns 2: More Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl (2023)
• The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu (2023)
• Chrysali by Anuja Varghese (2023)
• Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong (2023)
• The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon (2023)
• Girlfriends by Emily Zhou (2023)
• Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (2022)
• Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho (2022)
• God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu (2022)
• Self-Portrait with Ghost by Meng Jin (2022)
• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai (2022)
• Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (2022)
• Uncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather (2022)
• The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae  (2022)
• The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz (2022)
• Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers (2022)
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (2022)
• Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi (2022)
• Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (2022)
• Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (2022)
• Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah (2021)
• Skinship by Yoon Choi (2021)
• Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning (2021)
• Eat The Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza (2021)
• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (2021)
• The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado (2021)
• 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell (2021)
• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (2021)
• Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap (2021)
  

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