Episode 213 - Found Books
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast
Release Date: 06/03/2025
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast
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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info_outlineIt’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 directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
- Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
- The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
- Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
Other Media We Mentioned
- Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
- Returnal
- Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier
- The Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta and Ralph Masiello
- White Dwarf (Warhammer magazine)
Links, Articles, and Things
- #UBCnoox
- Meghan’s map
- Public bookcase (Wikipedia)
- Little Free Library (Wikipedia)
- Against Little Free Libraries
- Vegetarian Peanut Soup
- Cottage: North America
- Sudoku (Wikipedia)
- Paper embossing (Wikipedia)
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Join us again on Tuesday, July 1st when we’ll be discussing the genre/format of Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. not prose).
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