Book Club For Masochists: A Readers Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Anthropology Non-Fiction! We discuss culture, society, linguistics, and more! Plus: Teeth, teeth, teeth! 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 Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo by Mary Douglas Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, vol. 1 by Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen, and Daniel Casanave Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King Other Media We Mentioned The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners by Paul Beck, Edward Mast, and Perry Tapper Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulić The Anthropolo

This episode we’re discussing “What is a Book?” Is it our most self-indulgent episode yet? We don’t know, but we do know that the conversation gets pretty existential at times and we talk about what “reading” means, whether something stapled can be a book, and the ephemeral nature of everything. 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 Other Media We Mentioned Building Stories by Chris Ware Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wikipedia) Lightspeed Magazine Highlights for Children (Wikipedia) The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges (Wikipedia) Supercrash by Yves Bourgelas Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo Naruto, vol. 1 by by Masashi Kishimoto Wolverine #900 Links, Articles, and Things Episode 143 - Amish Romance Just Plain Wrong Podcasters Panel: A Glimpse Behind the Microphone Down Time wit

You voted for it, so this episode we’re talking about Amish Romance! (Just in time for Valentine's Day!) We discuss romance, sex, chasteness, cultural appropriation, bonnet rippers, and terrible pies! 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 | RJ Edwards | Tillie Yoder Things We Read (or tried to…) The Amish Widow's Secret by Cheryl Williford The Coffee Corner by Amy Clipston Made with Love by Tricia Goyer and Sherry Gore An Amish Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Beckstrand, Charlotte Hubbard, and Kelly Long Between You and Me by Susan Wiggs Other Media We Mentioned The Dawn of Christmas: A Romance from the Heart of Amish Country by Cindy Woodsmall Snowfall by Shelley Shepard Gray Christmas at Rose Hill Farm: An Amish Love Story by Suzanne Woods Fisher Little Fish by Casey Plett Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry N

This episode we’re talking about 2022: The Year of Book Two! (And sequels!) We discuss why we read (or don’t read) sequels, favourite book twos, reading series out of order, and more! Plus: Shocking reveals that don’t leave an impact because we’ve forgotten who the character is... 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 | RJ Edwards 2022: Year of Book Two Book 2 challenge on Storygraph Goodreads shelf (use “2022 Year Of Book 2”) Twitter hashtag: #2022BookTwo Instagram hashtag: #2022BookTwo Media We Mentioned The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (The Invisible Library #1) The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) Goosebumps by R.L. Stine (Wikipedia) Animorphs by Katherine Applegate (Wikipedia) Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal (Wikipedia) Hogfather by Terry Prachett (Discwor

This episode we’re talking about Architecture Non-Fiction! We discuss statement architecture vs everyday architecture, subway stations, terrible people, and a big book of fun facts! 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 | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Tadao Ando: Houses by Philip Jodidio  The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka and Kira Obolensky The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster Soviet Metro Stations by Christopher Herwig and Owen Hatherley There, unfortunately, isn’t another book, Matthew just misunderstood what the essay was called. Matthew’s photos of Soviet metro stations The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt Why city flags

This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2021! We discuss our favourite fiction and non-fiction reads for the podcast (and not for the podcast) as well as other things that helped us get through the year! 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 | RJ Edwards Bookshop.org list of (most) our our top titles https://bookshop.org/lists/favourite-reads-of-2021  Favourite Fiction For the podcast Matthew Dreamships by Melissa Scott (1992) Episode 131 - Cyberpunk Anna Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)  Episode 123 Psychological Horror  Tied with Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Meghan Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott (1995)  Episode 131 - Cyberpunk RJ The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith (Japanese 2005,

This episode we’re talking about Thrillers! We discuss what makes a thriller thrilling, characters running around, helicopters, cozy thrillers, non-thrilling thrillers, 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 | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Red Eagles by David Downing The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North Dark Matter by Blake Crouch  The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams The Rook by Daniel O’Malley Rabbits by Terry Miles Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Books Meghan read and didn’t talk about In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy Contagion by Robin Cook Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards Flowers of Darkness by Tatiana de Rosnay Pandemic by Robin Cook Vortex by Catherine Coulter Other Media We

This episode we’re talking about Adaptations! We discuss (the fictional) Junji Ito's Anne of Green Gables, The Muppets presents Dune the Musical, bad wigs in adaptations, 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 | Appleberry Media We Mentioned Peter and the Wolf (Wikipedia) Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wikipedia) Spider-Man in film (Wikipedia) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wikipedia) Spider-Ham Spider-Verse (Wikipedia) Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series) (Wikipedia) Spider-Man (Japanese TV series) (Wikipedia) Spiders-Man (Wikipedia) The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien  The Lord of the Rings (film series) (Wikipedia) Lord of the Rings - trailer (YouTube) Harry Potter (film series) (Wikipedia) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - trailer (YouTube) Batman in film

This episode we discuss non-fiction books about Music! We talk about sea shanties, whether musical scores count as non-fiction, reading about music we’re unfamiliar with, how we interpret lyrics, and more! Plus: We made a playlist of music for you to listen to based on the books we read! 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 | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) 808s & Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin 808s & Heartbreak (Wikipedia) Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas by Gerry Smyth Wellerman (Wikipedia) Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture by Jace Clayton Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff  They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hani

This episode we’re playing Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled! There’s illegal printing presses, malformed creatures, rooftop chases, stolen hats, tea ceremonies, and a masquerade ball! 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 Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Links, Articles, and Things Hearts of Magic: Threads Entangled Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands Victor and the Bully - Spooky 365 (YouTube) The One Shot Podcast - Episode 319. Hearts of Magic Part 1 Dark Mori (Mori Girl Wiki) 13 Supernatural / Paranormal (Non-Fiction) books 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)

This episode we’re talking about Erotica! We discuss the relationship between erotica and porn, the differences between erotica and romance fiction, fanfiction, and much 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 | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Thirty by Jill Emerson   Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren La technique du périnée by Florent Ruppert and Jérôme Mulot Kink: Stories edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell Permission by Saskia Vogel Neon Gods by Katee Robert Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne (NSFW) Little Cat by Tamara Faith Berger Other Media We Mentioned Penthouse Letters The Fermata by Nicholson Baker Discards by Nicholson Baker Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird

This episode we’re discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke! Major spoiler warning for this episode as we talk about a lot of various plot points! (Though we don’t reveal everything.) There’s an extra spoiler siren immediately before we start diving into the plot in depth. 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 | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (buy it from our store) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) (Wikipedia) The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern SCP-3008 (Ikea) SCP-087 (stairs that go down forever) SCP Foundation (Wikipedia) BLAME! Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde by Julie S. Lalonde God Bless Y

This episode we’re talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are Cosmopolitan for scientists! 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 | RJ Edwards Announcements We made a transcript for this episode! If you have suggestions for how you'd like to see transcripts from our podcast presented (e.g. formats, etc.), let us know! Things We Read (or tried to…) Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World edited by James Thomas, Robert Shapard, & Christopher Merrill Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel &

This week it’s another episode where we talk about Media We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about woman’s basketball, resource mining, musicals, translations, 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 | RJ Edwards Media We Talked About This Episode Maintenance Phase The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler The “Brimmed Hat Group” are the ones who use forbidden magic Women's National Basketball Association (Wikipedia) (There are twelve teams!) Taskmaster (Wikipedia) Series playlists (YouTube) Paint The Best Picture Of The Taskmaster, Without Touching The Red Mat (YouTube) Let’s Game It Out (YouTube channel) I Was Sponsored to Explore New Ways to Torment Colonists - Oxy

This episode we’re talking about Cyberpunk fiction! We discuss the aesthetics of neon and grime, cultural fears and xenophobia, techno-pessimism, survival and revolution, noir fiction, and more! Plus: When cybernetic implants meet body horror! 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 | RJ Edwards Battle of the Books 2021 Vote for which book you’d like us all to read! Things We Read (or tried to…) Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott Dreamships by Melissa Scott Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow edited by Jason Heller & Joshua Viola SP4RX by Wren McDonald Imago by Tristan Alice Nieto Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick Pay-what-you-can version of the ebook Samurai 8: La légende de Hachimaru, Tome 1 by Masashi Kishimoto and Akira

This episode it’s the first part of our 2021 Battle of the Books! We’re each pitching a book that we think we should all read and discuss, and you get to decide which one we read! We talk about pombies, wooden book clubs, friendship, and more! Plus: Digressions about superheroes! 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 | RJ Edwards Which book should we all read? I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez  Vote for which book you’d like us all to read Vote! Our Shortlists RJ’s Shortlist Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi Circe by Madeline Miller A

This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Film & TV books! We discuss media about media, self-pity book purchasing, spoilers, and more! Plus: Kakapos! 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 | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards | Appleberry Things We Read (or tried to…) Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano and Arturo Torres  Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation by Questlove Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss, Mathew Klickstein Hollywood vs. the Author edited by Stephen Jay Schwartz Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies by Ann Hornaday The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sester

This episode we’re playing the storytelling game Plucky Kid Detective! Charles and Meep investigate the summer reading club kickoff party’s missing cake! Will they find out who the thief was? Plus: Dog Person, fedora wearing robots, maps, clues, thrilling escapes, 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 Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Links, Articles, and Media We Mentioned Plucky Kid Detective by anna anthropy and Remy Boydell. Library Punk episode 014 - Manga (featuring Matthew!) Nancy Drew (Wikipedia) Encyclopedia Brown (Wikipedia) Penny (Inspector Gadget Wiki) Beaker (Muppet Wiki) Dog Man by Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Confetti cake (Wikipedia) Acme Corporation (Wikipedia) Acme Products (TV Tropes) Bubble and squeak (Wikipedia) Circus Windows by John Allison 15 Zines by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of

This episode we’re talking about Crime Fiction! We discuss the Venn diagram of crime, mysteries, and thrillers, teenage girls punching robots, whether superhero comics count as crime fiction, teen sleuths, whodunnits, howdunnits, hughdunnits, 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 | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Wicked Things by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Whitney Cogar Circus Windows by John Allison (webcomic) The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, translated by Alison Watts Criminal: Cruel Summer by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, andJacob Phillips Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weid

This episode we’re discussing the dreaded Did Not Finish! We talk about why we don’t finish books, specific titles we didn’t finish, why not finishing books can be good, what “finishing” a book even means, how you “finish” a cross-media property, and returning to books we stopped reading. Plus: Speedrunning books! 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 | RJ Edwards Books We Did Not Finish Reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien Rivendale (Wikipedia) Shelob (Wikipedia) A Walking Song The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at