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
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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).
Then on Tuesday, July 15th it’s time for our “Battle of the Books!” We’ll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read.