Episode 217 - Summer Media 2025

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!

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In this episode

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

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Jam
  • Bear and Breakfast (video game)
  • Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists (podcast)
    • "The Look" Summer Vacation Special
  • Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads concert film)
• Matthew
  • Sumo Wrestling
    • Blue Whirlwind - A Ukrainian sumo wrestler
    • Sumopedia
    • The places sumo matches happen are “sumo halls”
  • House to Astonish
    • The Lightning Round (Thunderbolts)
    • Daredevil Villains
  • Kpop Demon Hunters
    • Saja Boys - Soda Pop
• Meghan
  • Romantasy and BookTube (Bookhalla)
  • Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series en francais (Les Aventures d'Anita Blake, tueuse de vampire)
  • The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman
• Anna
  • Honey, I Joined a Cult
  • Puzzles
    • Odd Pieces
  • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Media We Mentioned

• Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

Links, Articles, and Things

• LRR Twitch Stream Highlights 2025-08-16
• The pretty books YouTube short
• Chuck E. Cheese

15 True Crime books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast 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.

• Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry
• In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown's Most Powerful Crime Boss by Peter Chin and Everett De Morier
• Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado
• A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story behind the Missing Forty-Three Students by Anabel Hernández
• Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe
• Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae
• Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes by Laci Mosley
• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator), Philip Gabriel (Translator)
• No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference by Cheryl Neely
• Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett by Michael Nest, Deanna Reder, Eric Bell
• Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million by Tanya Smith
• The Gangs of Zion: a Black cop's Crusade in Mormon Country by Ron Stallworth
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
• Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime by Padma Viswanathan

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Join us on Tuesday, September 2nd we’ll be discussing Book Club Books, whatever that means.

Then on Tuesday, October 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Vampires!