Book Club For Masochists: A Readers Advisory Podcast

This episode it’s time for One Book One Podcast as we discuss the novel Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey. We talk about spoilers, horse operas, spoilers, relationships, spoilers, queer coming-of-age stories, and spoilers. Plus: Spoilers! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards The Book We Read Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Other Media We Mentioned River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Wikipedia) Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Wikipedia) The Walking Dead (TV series) (Wikipedia) Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Links, Articles, and Things Horse Opera Episode 029 - Westerns Smart Bitches Trashy Books review of Upright Women Wanted Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read Cha

This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith  Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith  Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi  No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay  White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les f

This episode it’s time for our Summer 2023 Media Update! We talk about chairs, orangutans, weird music, and 17 novellas! Plus, lots more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media & Things we Talked About  Meghan Graphic Novels L'Esprit du camp by Cab, Michel Falardo Friday by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martín, coloured by Muntsa Vicente Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge Looking at Stuff Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold, Charles W. Schwartz (illustrator) Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John R. Stilgoe Novellas Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire The Singing Hills Cycle by Nghi Vo Voidwitch Saga by Corey J. White Matthew Ducks by Kate Beaton Weird Music Venjent - Flowi

This episode we’re talking about the fiction genre of Pulp! We talk about aliens, Mounties, sleuths, and vigilantes as discuss what counts as pulp and what doesn’t! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante by Richard Tooker The Aliens by Murray Leinster “All the Colors of the Rainbow” by Leigh Brackett Republished in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Lisa Yaszek The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. I edited by Rakesh Khanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy Sally the Sleuth by Adolphe Barreaux - Forward by Tim Hanley Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties edited by Don Hutchison Planet Scumm - Issue 15: Major Arcana The Battle of York by Jame

No new episode this week, but we'll still be releasing two episodes this month! Vote in our 2023 Battle of the Books! Vote for which we should read! Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Spear by Nicola Griffith, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi, or The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing? You decide!  You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Books We Pitched Meghan - Spear by Nicola Griffith Jam - Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Matthew - Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi Anna - The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Vote for which we should read! Our “Long List” of Titles Meghan Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Koncan (Wikipedia) The Daughter of Doctor M

This episode we’re talking about non-fiction books about Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs! We discuss unexplained aerial phenomenon, owls, exobiology, and aliens wearing hats! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum Death from the Skies! These Are the Ways the World Will End… by Philip Plait Death from the Skies! The Science Behind the End of the World… Search for the Unknown: Canada’s UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory by Matthew Hayes Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy, illustrated by Amy Grimes Picturing Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in

This episode we’re talking about the concept of mass promotional book clubs! Whether it’s One City, One Read, Canada Reads, or Oprah’s book club, listen to us discuss if we read book club books, the celebrity book club we wish existed, and the idea of “the book club book.” You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV and Desmond Tutu, translated by Douglas Carlton Abrams Links, Articles, and Things Oprah’s Book Club Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Reese's Book Club Buffs One Read Rams Read Canada Reads One City One Book One Book, One Vancouver | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons  Wanted: A Hitchhiker's Guide

This episode we’re talking about the genre of Fantasy! We discuss whether fantasy needs magic, clam powers, forklore, Tears of the Kingdom, worksonas, It’s Always My First Day at Wizard School, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, narrated by Kirt Graves The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang The Chill by Scott Carson Nothing but Blackened

This episode we’re talking about the very many genres we’ve read for the podcast…and which ones we’d read again! We discuss Jeff VanderMeer’s Zorro, Boat Fiction, We Have Always Hosted The Podcast, Bubble Gum Fiction, Cheese-based Erotica, whether the 1980s count as Historical Fiction, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Old Episodes Episode 090 - Adventure Fiction Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History Episode 086 - American Gothic Episode 143 - Amish Romance Episode 160 - Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance Episode 151 - Classics Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy Episode 110 - Comedic/Humorous Fiction Episode 021 - Coming of Age Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries Episod

This episode we’re talking about the genre of Economics! We discuss economic philosophy, Excel spreadsheets, micro vs macro, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis, translated by Jacob Moe Other Media We Mentioned Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal

This episode we’re talking about recent media we’ve experienced and enjoyed! We discuss Return of the Obra Dinn, Worlds Beyond Number, Horror Queers, If Books Could Kill, Superman Smashes the Klan, Incredible Doom, Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media we Experienced Jam Mystery Games: Curse of the Golden Idol Tangle Tower Return of the Obra Dinn Podcasts: Off Book They Died on Space Mountain (with Ben Schwartz) Lateral Episode 1 of the quiz show of the same name (which is now unlisted on YouTube) Worlds Beyond Number Episode feed Life hacks: Make cooking feel like a magic ritual  Delete the Twitter app Custom printed to-do list Anna Dinkum Winkeltje: The Little Sho

This episode we’re talking about Domestic Thrillers! We discuss lies, stressful reading, spoiling endings, characters who are not great people, and whether we’d read other books from this genre. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter Recipe for a Perfect Housewife by Karma Brown The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware I’m the Girl by Courtney Summers Bad Fruit by Ella King Glasshouse by Charles Stross At Least You Have Your Health by Madi Sinha Other Media We Mentioned Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Big Little Lies (TV series) (Wikipedia) Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Archie Meets KISS by Alex Segura and Dan Parent Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware All the Rag

This episode we’re talking about The Moving and Management of Books! We all own a lot of books. And we’ve all made big moves! We talk about when we leave books behind, how we choose the ones we keep, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned Wonderland, vol. 6 by Yugo Ishikawa Links, Articles, and Things Count Duckula (Wikipedia) Ero guro (Wikipedia) 28 Family Sagas by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) 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. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi An Unlasting Hom

This episode we’re talking about Gender Theory & Gender Studies! We discuss theory vs studies, memes, feminism, books that should exist but don’t, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G. and J.R. Zuckerberg Other Media We Mentioned BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler Body Out

This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more! You can download the podcast  directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Media We Mentioned DC Pride 2022 #1 Tic Tac Tome: The Autonomous Tic Tac Toe Playing Book by Willy Yonkers Homestuck (Wikipedia) Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia) Everything Everywhere All at Once (Wikipedia) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Wikipedia) Lasers & Feelings Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud Links, Articles, and Things Episode 144 - What is a Book? I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to  Episode 108 - Visual Novels Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia) Demian's Gamebook Web Page KineticNovel (Wikipedia) Hypertext fiction (Wikipedia) HyperCard (Wikiped

It's almost Valentine's Day, so this episode we’re talking about Holiday Romance! We discuss what counts as a holiday, Christmas, nostalgia, 1st vs. 3rd person narration, and how all the stories we read are “fine.” Plus: There’s only one bed! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun Heartstopper by Alice Oseman Someone to Trust by Mary Balogh Yule Planet by Angel Martinez Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber Other Media We Mentioned The Red Satin Collection by Giselle Renarde The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer (the Hanukkah one Jam mentioned) Casper Gets His Wish by R. Cooper (the elf one Jam mentioned) (from Episode 063: Cheap eBooks) The Frontier Romance: Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity by Judith Kleinfeld Links, Articles, and Thi

(Hello! This is a re-upload. The first version had a syncing error that snuck in at the very end of the editing process. We've re-exported it and this version sounds much better!) This episode we’re talking about our 2023 Reading Goals! We discuss intentions, resolutions, anti-resolutions, and give a report on how well we fulfilled our reading goals last year. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards 2022: Year of Book Two Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two 2023 Resolutions   Matthew: Read more non-fiction Meghan: Quit trying to read fiction when she doesn’t feel like it Read more of what she owns (borrow less from the library) Anna: Read more graphic novels Take pictures of favorite reads Jam:  Theme for the year: Intention Return to tracking picture book reading Media We Mention

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Sports books! We discuss how to define sports, live sports, weird rules, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-OOPS Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball (YouTube) (lots more below in “Links, Articles, and Things”) Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook, narrated by Atli Gunnarsson Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter by Matt Hern Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-Changing Female Athletes by Laken Litman A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper, narrated by Adam Lazarre-W

This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Jam Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg Episode 160: Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies Matthew Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu Episode 158 - Audiobook Fiction Meghan