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It's episode 230 and time for us to talk about media we've been enjoying! We discuss music, video essays, movies, comics, books, crafts, 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're Enjoying: Matthew The Music Video Is Dead, Long Live The Music Video by Patrick (H) Willems Hobtown Mystery Stories, vol. 2: The Cursed Hermit by Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes, colour by Jason Fischer-Kouhi Witchy Stitching: 25 Patterns to Haunt Your Home by Meg Black The Witchy Stitcher Meghan KEXP "Me more cowboy than you" by the Brudi Brothers Glass Beams (full set) Angine de Poitrine (full set) The kerfuffle Meghan mentioned Live on KEXP podcast Live music at local venues Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker Jam New music highlights (YouTube playlist): The Apple Tree Under the Sea by Hemlocke Springs Nothing's About to Happen to Me by Mitski "23" by Lime Garden "Bend Your Knees" by Henry Mansfield "ça pik un peu quand même" by Miki Jam's full Jan-Feb 2026 New Music Playlist (spreadsheet will be shared in our Discord) Hundreds of Beavers (2022 movie) Raspberry and almond sourdough cake Based on the "Cherry and Almond Bake" recipe from 10-Minute Sourdough by Vanessa Kimbell Anna Twinkleby Nicole Rudolph Who Cursed us with Popcorn Ceilings? The Myth of a Clean Home They're selling us AI floor plans (with @AbbyCox ) TMFD Alum Spotlight: Nicole Rudolph, Fashion Historian Webtoons Love is Loading (mature) by 97pieces Love is Loading (all ages) Our Sunny Days by Jeong Seokchan Our Sunny Days, vol. 1 Other Media We Mentioned Michael Jackson - Thriller Childish Gambino - This is America Beyoncé - Formation Lambrini Girls on KEXP triple j - Like a Version playlist Jam's music podcast The Apothecary Diaries Links, Articles, and Things Artemis II Beyoncé explains why she stopped making music videos YouTube Ditches the Billboard Charts 15 Non-Fiction Books about Psychology 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. Patterns That Remain: a Guide to Healing for Asian Children of Immigrants by Stacey Diane Arañez Litam Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being by Yuria Celidwen Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho What My Bones Know: a Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone by Khameer Kidia But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes From a Frustrated Black Psychologist by Johnathan Mathias Lassiter Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life by Shigehiro Oishi Autistic and Black: Our Experiences of Growth, Progress and Empowerment by Kala Allen Omeiza Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee All the Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live with Anxiety by David A. Robertson Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans by Jenny T. Wang Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 5th when we'll be talking about Sapphic Horror! Join us again on Tuesday, June 2nd we'll be talking about "coming of (old) age" books.

It's episode 229 and time for us to talk about Media Criticism. We talk about what counts as media, the challenges of writing about emerging forms of media, how we interact with criticism, 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…) The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean by Douglas Wolk Marvel Age of Comics: Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic by Stuart Moore, narrated by Jason Lasky Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado Culture Creep: Notes on a Pop Apocalypse by Alice Bolin Pop Classics #15: Ugh, as if!: Clueless by Veronica Litt Selected Amazon Reviews by Kevin Killian We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin Why I love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature edited by Becky Siegel Spratford Bad Indian Bookclub: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds by Patty Krawec Other Media We Mentioned Parasite Eve Clever Girl: Jurassic Park by Hannah McGregor Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky 33 ⅓ The Importance Of Being Earnest | Official Trailer | National Theatre Live Lady Sings the Blues Video Essayists Answer Your Assumptions (with hbomberguy‬, ‪D'Angelo Wallace, and Mina Le, ft. Spencer Agnew) Our Favourite Video Essayists/Reviewers/Reviews Action Button Amanda the Jedi Any Austin Dungeon Chill Every Frame a Painting Folding Ideas I Finished a Video Game Jacob Gellar Jenna Stoeber Jenny Nicholson hbomberguy Lindsay Ellis Matt McMuscles: The Worst Fighting Game Matty Bites Princess Weekes ReRez: Just Bad Games Ryan Hollinger Super Eyepatch Wolf T1J Todd in the Shadows The WWE's complex "Black" history by F.D Signifier Extremely Overdetermined Adventure Game Tier List | Part 1: Re-ranking the Top 20 by Innuendo Studios and Questing Refuge Jam's list of top 10 video essays about media I've never seen Links, Articles, and Things The Times Literary Supplement Bubbles Zine The Comics Staple Libro.fm Audiobook Listening Copy Program 20 Media Criticism 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. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film by Tre'vell Anderson The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin Black Music by Amiri Baraka The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television From Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond by Bethonie Butler Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada by Karrmen Crey Original People, Original Television: The Launching of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network by Jennifer David Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Video Games are Changing Our World by Marijam Did Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema by Karen Han Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World by Wil Haygood The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals by Julia Lee Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship by Lori Kido Lopez The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema From Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris Music Is History by Questlove Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media update! Then on Tuesday, May 5th, we'll be talking about Sapphic horror (as suggested by tmauch)

It's episode 228 and time for us to talk about Computers and Computer Science books! We discuss technology, digital humanities, coding, 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…) Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (2016) Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (2022) I could not find a free version of this online Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip (2021) The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games Paperback by Elliot Lichtman (2025) Must Know High School Computer Programming by Julie Sway (2020) In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999) A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu (2016) Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (2012) Other Media We Mentioned The Soul of the New Machine by Tracy Kidder Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents San Francisco by Ellen Ullman Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman ClickArt 65,000 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999) Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson Mother Earth Mother Board Links, Articles, and Things Separating the data from the CHAFF by Matthew Murray 🦇, Fernando Rios, and Seth Erickson 9-track tape Academic Book About Emojis Can't Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of Copyright Media Archaeology Lab Alice Averlong (formerly Foone) README Institute for Advanced Study 15 Computer Science 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. Job Ready Java by Haythem Balti and Alan Galloway Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People by Aditya Y. Bhargava More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media by Bronwyn Carlson and Ryan Frazer Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age by Joseph Migga Kizza Code for What? Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice by Clifford Lee & Elisabeth Soep AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh Creative Coding in Python: 30+ Programming Projects in Art, Games, and More by Sheena Vaidyanathan A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online by Jennifer Wemigwans System Design Interview: An Insider's Guide by Alex Xu Number Theory for Computing by Song Y. Yan Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty) Then on Tuesday, April 21st it's time for our Spring Media Update!

It's episode 227 and time for an emergency backup episode! This episode is the audio version of "Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable" a presentation we gave for the 2022 Ontario Library Association's RA in a Day event. There's also a video version on our YouTube channel. 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 Video version https://youtu.be/hi_C_O_GLIA Slides https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/presentations/7s75df43s Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 17th when we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea). Then on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty).

It's episode 226 and time for us to talk about our 2026 Reading Resolutions! We discuss reading books, not reading books, quitting reading books, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Oh no, the passage of time! 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 2026 "resolutions"/intentions Matthew Read all the personal "book of the month" display books Read all the fiction books owned Read all of the non-comics non-fiction owned Read all the graphic novels owned Be on the internet less and read more Get rid of books monthly Anna Read more fiction Catch up on what fantasy's been up to in the last 15ish years Meghan Read books already owned (for the podcast when possible); rereads ok! Jam Read in tiny bursts if that's the time available Quit books and move on to something else Give Us Suggestions! Suggest puzzle books to Jam Suggest fantasy novels from the last 15 years to Anna Suggest sources for in-depth book reviews Other Media We Mentioned Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs Blood Meridian and the reddit-ification of literature Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones Links, Articles, and Things Circulating Ideas 304: Passive Readers' Advisory, with Lila Denning Tiled Words Puzzmo Minute Cryptic Alto (high-speed rail) Adhesive remover American Gothic 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. Ruby by Cynthia Bond House of Cotton by Monica Brashears An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones The House of Erzulie by Kirsten Imani Kasai A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen Beloved by Toni Morrison Cane by Jean Toomer Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, March 3rd when we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea). Then on Tuesday, April 7th we'll be talking about Media Criticism (as suggested by daftkifty).

It's episode 225 and just in time for Valentine's Day we talk about Queer Romance! We discuss what counts and doesn't count as romance, ice hockey, regency, spies, demons, and more! Plus: Matthew reads a book he actually likes, Jam reads a book they dislike, and a fairly large chunk of the episode wasn't recorded and had to be edited around! Guess what points were re-recorded! 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…) Betrothed to the Emperor by Kai Butler (2025) Emperor's Wrath by Kai Butler (2025) If I Told You, I'd Have To Kiss You by Mae Marvel (2025) The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur (2025) The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (2021) With Stars In Her Eyes by Andie Burke (2025) Jam's review Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei (2022) A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (2022) A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander (2025) Not discussed Learning Curves by Rachel Lacey (2025) The Unexpected Heiress by Cassidy Cane (2025) One Love by Matt Cain (2025) Swordcrossed by Freya Marske (2024) First Time for Everything by Henry Fry (2022) - Not actually romance Other Media We Mentioned Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake (2022) Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid (2019) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2019) Bedazzled (2000 film) Bedazzled (1967 film) Links, Articles, and Things Harlequin Enterprises Mills & Boon Episode 210 - Romantasy Episode 207 - Monster Romance Episode 189 - Romantic Comedies & Humorous Romance Episode 168 - Holiday Romance 25 Queer Romance 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. Can't Let Her Go by Kianna Alexander Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Eva Apelqvist Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender Hangry Hearts by Jennifer Chen Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao Love Points to You by Alice Lin Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough Just Like This by Cole McCade Cash Delgado is Living the Dream by Tehlor Mejia A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell Last First Kiss by Julian Winters Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 17th when we'll be discussing our 2026 Reading Resolutions (or non resolutions). Then on Tuesday, March 3rd we'll be talking about Computer Science books (as suggested by Lea).

It's episode 224 and time for us to talk about History books! We discuss queer history, local history, spies, roads, colonialism, 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…) Lapêche : A history of the townships of Wakefield and Masham in the province of Québec 1792 to 1925 by Norma Greggie and Stuart Greggie (1974) Reconciling History: A Story of Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould and Roshan Danesh (2024) The Drive Across Canada: The Remarkable Story of the Trans-Canada Highway by Mark Richardson (2025) Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett (2025) The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini (2020) Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson (2019) How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr (2019) Fool Time part 1: The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois (2025) Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History by Donna Seto (2025) Black History is For Everyone by Brian Jones (2025) When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff (2024) Other Media We Mentioned Video Game History Foundation Video Game History Hour (podcast) If Books Could Kill - The End of History Playing at the World, Vol. 1: The Invention of Dungeons & Dragons by Jon Peterson Dig (history podcast) The Labor of Fashion: Shirtwaists and the Labor Movement in the Early 20th Century Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games by Steenz and Samuel Sattin Links, Articles, and Things Advanced Placement Golden Age of Comic Books Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Harry Benjamin Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Guano Islands Act Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman 28 History 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. The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams Remembering Our Relations : Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones Bad Mexicans : Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded by Gord Hill Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf, translated by Jon Rothschild Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles This Place: 150 Years Retold by multiple authors The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History by Donna Seto Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century edited by Michael D. Shin Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, February 3rd we'll be talking about Queer Romance! Then on Tuesday, February 17th we'll be discussing our 2026 Reading Resolutions (or non resolutions).

It's episode 223 and time for us to talk about our favourite reads (and other things) from 2025! We talk vampires, monster romance, cultural studies, linguistics & language, and more. Plus: Guess how many of our favourite reads are actually from 2025 (it's more than zero!). 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 Genres (and "genres") we covered in 2025: Fiction Episode 207 - Monster Romance Episode 2010 - Romantasy Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling Episode 216 - Rural Noir/Grit Lit Episode 219 - Vampires Episode 221 - Epic & High Fantasy Episode 222 - Books from the 1980s Non-fiction Episode 206 - Cultural Studies Episode 209 - Design Episode 212 - Linguistics & Language Other Episode 213 - Found Books Episode 218 - Book Club Books Favourite Fiction For the podcast Anna Of Monsters and Mainframes (2025) by Barbara Truelove (Episode 219 - Vampire Fiction) Jam Strange Love (2019) by Ann Aguirre (Episode 207 - Monster Romance) Matthew Hunger's Bite (2025) by Taylor Robin (Episode 219 - Vampire Fiction) Meghan Assassin's Apprentice (1995) by Robin Hobbs (Episode 221 - Epic & High Fantasy) Not for the podcast Jam Delicious in Dungeon (2017-2024) by Ryoko Kui Matthew Revolutions: Mars (2024-2025) by Mike Duncan Meghan Between Two Fires (2012) by Christopher Buehlman Anna Mercy Thompson series (2006-2024) by Patricia Briggs Moon Called (2006) Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Matthew Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (2018) by Gaston Dorren (Episode 212 - Language & Linguistics) Meghan Clever Girl : Jurassic Park (2024) by Hannah McGregor (Episode 206 - Cultural Studies) Anna Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) by Neil Postman (Episode 206 - Cultural Studies) Jam In Other Words (2015) by Jhumpa Lahiri (Episode 212 - Language & Linguistics) Not for the podcast Meghan A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places (2024) by Christopher Brown Anna Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022) by Douglas Rushkoff Jam Twenty Questions (2023) by Mac Barnett Matthew Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2021) by Cal Flyn Other Favourite Things of 2025 Anna Bear and Breakfast Nongshim Shin Ramyun Stir Fry Gourmet Spicy Noodles With Cheese New York City FunkyFrogBait Jam Getting into drag (and writing a friend-newsletter about it) Penguin Cafe Orchestra "Touch Fabric" project (Glurp) Matthew Akira, vol. 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo Akira Club by Katsuhiro Otomo Type Help Dungeon Chill The Mysterious Serial Experiments Lain PS1 Game The Tim Traveller The First Ever WORLD Tram Driver Championships Grand Sumo Highlights Blue Whirlwind: A Ukrainian sumo wrestler Meghan Anciients (prog metal) Comforting (atmospheric metal) Long pool Runner-Ups Jam Fawns' Blood by Hal Schrieve (Episode 219 - Vampires) Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Episode 218 - Book Club Books) Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell (Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling) Two Point Museum (Jam has clocked 150+ hours) Wikipedia (consider making a donation!) Anna Guards! Guards! By Terry Prachett Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis Matthew 25 tracks from 2025 Books Inheritance (Episode 214 - Non-Traditional Storytelling) Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (Episode 206 - Cultural Studies) Comics Akane-Banashi (vols. 4-6) by Yuki Suenaga and Takamasa Moue The Apothecary Diaries (vols. 2-4) by Itsuki Nanao and Nekokurage Beetle & the Chimera Carnival by Aliza Layne Blue Period (vols. 13-14) by Tsubasa Yamaguchi Brain Damage by Shintarō Kago Deprog by Tina Horn and Lisa Sterle Dial H for Hero, vol. 1: Enter the Heroverse & Dial H for Hero, vol. 2: New Heroes of Metropolis by Sam Humphries and Joe Quinones Fool Night (vols. 2-4) by Kasumi Yasuda GACHIAKUTA (vol. 1) by Kei Urana Home Office Romance by Kintetsu Yamada Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Mermaid Saga (vols. 1-2) by Rumiko Takahashi Vampirella: Dark Powers by Dan Abnett and Paul Davidson / Red Sonja: The Superpowers Collection by Dan Abnett and Jonathan Lau The Wrong Earth (vol. 1) by Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle Meghan French À l'ombre du moulin : une enfance à Gatineau 1934-1948 by Bernard Lacroix Deep café : Une jeunesse avec la poésie de Léonard Cohen by Malcolm Reid Non-fiction The Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting by Casey Johnston 2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies edited by Niko Stratis and Tuck Woodstock From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades of Horror Video Games by Bitmap Books Fiction Horror/Dark Fantasy Sunshine by Robin McKinley Don't let the Forest In by CG Drews The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier #1) by Caitlín R. Kiernan Fantasy Circe by Madeline Miller To Clutch a Razor (Curse Bearer #2) by Veronica Roth The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Scifi Martin Hench (series) Cory Doctorow Paradox (series) by Rachel Bach Romantasy / Romance One Dark Window (The Shepard King Duology) by Rachel Gillig A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell Translation Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki, translated by Helen O'Horan Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes Articles, links, and other media NYPL's Top Ten Comics and Graphic Novels of 2025 (Posted October 3rd!!!!) Never Satisfied by Taylor Robin List of avant-pop artists Mangasplaining Episode 1: Akira Vol 1 25 Non-Fiction Politics 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. The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacón Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Alejandra Cross Iran in Revolt: Revolutionary Aspirations in a Post-Democratic World by Hamid Dabashi Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani-Kay Trask We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act by Bob Joseph We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America by Paola Ramos The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power by Jody Wilson-Raybourd Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 6th when we'll be beginning our year of "listener suggested genres" with History! Then on Tuesday, February 3rd we'll be discussing Queer Romance!

It's episode 220 and time for us to talk about books from the 1980s! Okay, I say "books" but it's really "science fiction and fantasy novels from the 1980s." 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…) The Further Adventures of Batman (1989) Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (1989) Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (1987) Dawn by Octavia Butler (1987) The Kindly Ones by Melissa Scott (1897) When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger (1897) First edition cover The "more cyberpunk looking" cover Other Media We Mentioned Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Batman (1989) Batman (1960s) The Wrong Earth, vol.1 by Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Dragonriders of Pern Mort by Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett Gravity Falls Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981) E.T. by William Kotzwinkle Return of the Jedi (novel) by James Kahn Links, Articles, and Things Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1980s The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Beanie Babies Labubu 20 Books of the 1980s 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. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (1980) Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko (1980) Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (1981) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) Zami, A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982) In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton (1983) Suder by Percival Everett (1983) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (1984) Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985) An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986) Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (1987) Dawn by Octavia Butler (1987) The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (1987) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987) Scorpions by Walter Dean Meyers (1988) White Badge by Ahn Junghyo (1989) Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid by Evelyn Lau (1989) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 16th we'll be talking about our favourite books of 2025! Then on Tuesday, January 6th we'll be beginning our year of "listener suggested genres" with… non-fiction history!

It's episode 221 and time for us to talk about Epic & High Fantasy! We talk about maps, magic, monsters, whether Pokémon counts as epic fantasy, 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…) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb Other Media We Mentioned Masters of Reality by John Darnielle Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffery Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Discworld by Terry Pratchett Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon Swords Comic His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist The Old Kingdom by Garth Nix The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne The Will of the Many by James Islington Redwall by Brian Jacques The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist and others The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Betrayal at Krondor Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Links, Articles, and Things List of high fantasy fiction (Wikipedia) 20 Epic & High Fantasy 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. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu The Unbroken by C. L. Clark The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez Liar's Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina Seventhblade by Tonia Laird Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, December 2nd when we'll be talking about Books from the 1980s. Then on Tuesday, December 16th we'll be talking about our favourite books of 2025!

It’s episode 220 and time for us to talk about the winner of our One Book One Podcast Battle of the Books:  How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler! We discuss content warnings, anthropomorphising sea critters, our relationships with the ocean, salps, goldfish, whales, octopus, crabs, 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…) How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler My Life in Sea Creatures: What the Ocean’s Animals can Teach us About Ourselves My Life in Sea Creatures: A young queer science writer’s reflections on identity and the ocean I can’t actually find any edition of the book with this on the cover, though it’s frequently listed as the subtitle on various book websites. I have no idea why there are different titles. Other Media We Mentioned Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Fear of Big Things Underwater by Jacob Geller How a Game Lives: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller Links, Articles, and Things Episode 215 - Battle of the Books 2025 Gender Reveal Episode 136: Sabrina Imbler Sabrina Imbler on Defector Sharks Aren't Fish by Hank Green  Noisestorm - Crab Rave Ghost Ship warehouse fire Pulse nightclub shooting Sci-Hub 11 Steampunk Fiction 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. To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose Clockwork Curandera Vol 1: The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles, Raúl The Third, Stacey Robinson, and Damian Duffy Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus  Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen The Black God’s Drums by P. Djélí Clark The SEA is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng Rebel Skies by Ann Sei Lin A Magic Fierce and Bright by Hemant Nayak Everfair by Nisi Shawl NewsPrints by Ru Xu City of Secrets by Victoria Ying Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 4th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Epic and High Fantasy! Then on Tuesday, December 2nd we’ll be reading books from the 1980s!

It’s episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it’s possible to not read vampire stories, how much blood is too much blood, vegetarian vampires, books that mysteriously show up on our holds lists, 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…) Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove The Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle Jam’s review on Storygraph Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin Ex.Mag, vol. 05: Bloodsucker Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve Meghan’s books Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (498pg) Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (336pg) Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (767pg) The Informers by Brett Easton Ellis (240pg) Quicksilver by Callie Hart (624pg) The Passage by Justin Cronin (784pg) Other Media We Mentioned Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe and James Howe What We Do in the Shadows Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Murphy Brown Count Duckula Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Silver, vol. 1 by Stephan Franck Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film) The Lost Boys The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica, vol. 1 by Amy Chu and Maria Laura Sanapo Leviathan by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli The Last Express Murder On The Rotoscoped Express | The Last Express by Dungeon Chill Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman Not A Drop To Drink - Session 0 - Vancouver Island By Night || Dice Friends Vampire: The Masquerade Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness) (Icelandic “translation” of Dracula) Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Links, Articles, and Things Renfrew–Collingwood Renfrew station Renfield The Living and the Dead: Morbius the Living Vampire, the Comics Code, & Marvel Comics’ Horror Boom Jiangshi Count von Count Mercy Brown vampire incident Vampire Child (TV Tropes) War Rocket Ajax Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins Vampirella Maila Nurmi (Vampira) Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) 20 Vampire Novels 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. The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png  Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Now Comes the Mist by Julie C. Dao A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal The Vampire Skeleton by Sara General Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 21st we’ll be discussing How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (or whatever the UK title is). Then on Tuesday, November 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Epic and High Fantasy!

It’s episode 218 and time for us to talk about the Book Club Books! We discuss what counts as a book club, religion, food memoirs, historical fiction, girls loving each other in 1954, the prison industrial complex, and more! Plus, we discuss geographic-specific food we miss! 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…) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Dua Lipa In Conversation With Michelle Zauner Service95 Book Club: Michelle Zauner On Writing Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner’s Writing Soundtrack For Crying in H Mart South Korean Chef Songsoo Kim’s Leek & Daikon Jeon Pancake Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Other Media We Mentioned Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Leech by Hiron Ennes In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein Nimona by N.D. Stevenson Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Dua Lipa - Let's Get Physical Work Out Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet feat. So!YoON! (Korean Version) Final Fantasy VII Remake Links, Articles, and Things Marcel Proust How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing reading and their own lives  Below the Fray: Dua Lipa versus the literary landscape Mangasplaining Foods We Miss Del’s lemonade Clam cake Dunkin’ Donuts Stuffies Alaska blueberry ice cream (Okay, that’s just a link to the ice cream place in Alaska Anna likes) Pickled cheese Eggplant parm grinder Bánh mì Fruiterer Buffalo chicken calzone Pizza in the United States vs. Pizza in Canada Sushi Cheese and onion crisps 15 Book Club Books by BIPOC Authors (Being Read This Month) 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. The books below are being read by book clubs in September 2025, so you can read along with them! The group reading the book is included in parentheses. Fearless and Free: A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Mocha Girls Read) Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley (Good Morning America YA Book Club) Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown (Well-Read Black Girl Book Club) Resting Bitch Face: Poems by Taylor Byas (The Audacious Book Club) The Trees by Percival Everett (Service95 Book Club) How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler (Book Club for Masochists) The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (Subtle Asian Book Club) Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus is Alive! Stories by Melissa Lozada-Olivia (Weird Girl Lit) The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Las Comrades and Friends National Latino Book Club) Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (Erin & Dani’s Book Club/The Indigenous Reading Circle) The House of Doors by Twan Eng Tan (Bluestockings Queer Book Club) Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P Johnson by Tourmaline (Pep & Hughes Queer History 101 Book Club) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Read the Rainbow St. Louis) One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Eclectix the Book Club) Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (The Adam Silvera Book Club) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Vampires! Then on Tuesday, October 21st we’ll be discussing How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (or whatever the UK title is).

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! 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…) 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 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 Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! 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!

It’s episode 216 and time for us to talk about the genre of Rural Noir / Grit Lit! We discuss what counts as “rural,” whether “coastal noir” is a thing, how intense these stories can be, 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 Recommend a genre for us to read in 2026! Things We Read (or tried to…) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden The White Girl by Tony Birch Other Media We Mentioned True Grit by Charles Portis Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The Dry by Jane Harper Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader Scalped: The Deluxe Edition, Book One, by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra Rez Metal (documentary) Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene by Ashkan Soltani Stone and Natale A Zappia Revolutions: Welcome to the Martian Revolution Links, Articles, and Things Episode 049 - Southern Gothic List of states and territories of the United States by population density Rhode Island is the 2nd most densely populated state Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir Casa Bonita Gritty (Hockey RPF) on AO3 11 Rural Noir and Grit Lit 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. The White Girl by Tony Birch All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby Wounded by Percival Everett These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko Wade in the Water by Nyani Nkrumah Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 19th when it’s time for our summer Media update when we’ll talk about books, comics, games, music and more! Then on Tuesday, September 2nd we’ll be discussing Book Club Books, whatever that means.

It’s episode 215 and time for our annual Battle of the Books! This year we’re each pitching a non-fiction book we think we should all read and discuss and then you (our listeners) get to vote on which one! Plus! A chance for a listener to win a book! 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 What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!) Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler Titles from our Short Lists Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink by Tina Horn I Was a Stripper Librarian: From Cardigans to G-strings by Kristy Cooper A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird by Rosemary Mosco Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen Links, Articles, and Things Review of Mood Machine from Publishers Weekly The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s plot against musicians by Liz Pelly If Books Could Kill Previous episodes Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2018) Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? (2019) Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021 Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022 Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023 Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted Episode 196 - Battle of the Books 2024: One Book One Podcast Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking Matthew finally made a category 15 Supernatural Thrillers 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. Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline The Good House by Tananarive Due Shutter by Ramona Emerson The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Model Home by Rivers Solomon Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, August 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir and Grit Lit! Then on Tuesday, August 19th when it’s time for our summer Media update when we’ll talk about books, comics, games, music and more!

It’s episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, 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…) Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell Time Machine 2: Search For Dinosaurs and David Bischoff Inheritance by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer Bats of the Republic by Zachery Thomas Dodson Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen Other Media We Mentioned Choose Your Own Adventure S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Frances Burney The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn A Void/La Disparition by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Detroit: Become Human Talking Simulator — Detroit: Become Human Garth Marenghi's Darkplace “I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.” Wanted: Dead Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Blue Prince Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel by Antony Johnston The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick Links, Articles, and Things Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction Oulipo Reddit threads Books with experimental or unusual formats - multiple illustrations, combination of mediums, alternating structure etc Any books with unconventional or creative storytelling formats/structures you'd recommend? List of sandwiches Architecture student writes 149-page thesis without punctuation Non-Traditional Storytelling 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.     Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again 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. Then on Tuesday, August 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir/Grit Lit.

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 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) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! 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.

It’s episode 212 and time for us to talk about excellently complicate the genre the non-fiction genre of Linguistics & Language! We discuss 🤔, our academic backgrounds, the power of words, accents, 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…) Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren Other Media We Mentioned 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher Otherwords - Inside the Fiercest Debate in Linguistics Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Marie Hicks, and Kavita Philip What the Font?! - A Manga Guide to Western Typeface by Kuniichi Ashiya Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by Ko Ransom The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondō, translated by Cathy Hirano Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo.You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth. What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat.” -Zack Davisson Eine wie Alaska [Looking for Alaska] by John Green, translated by Sophie Zeitz “I would read it in German, for a few reasons” - John Green Die kleine Fledermaus Wegda by Nanna Nesshöver and Wiebke Rauers Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren, translated by Alison Edwards Links, Articles, and Things Great Vowel Shift (Wikipedia) Lolcat (Wikipedia) Kinokuniya There are four Kinokuniya shops in Texas. Four! Put one in Denver! Abugida (Wikipedia) Episode 209 - Design 15 Language & Linguistics 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. Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Lisa Delpit Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Grammar Matters: The Social Significance of How We Use Language by Jila Ghomeshi A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism by Tomson Highway My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases by Maia Lee-Chin with illustrations by Marta Bertello Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter – Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter The Ecology of Language Evolution by Salikoko S. Mufwene Mâci-Nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree by Solomon Ratt with illustrations by Holly Martin Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Culture by Lee A. Tonouchi Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 3rd when we’ll be discussing “Found Books,”  that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps. Then on July 1st we’ll be talking about Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. fiction that’s not prose)!

 It’s episode 211 and we’re talking about books and other media we’ve enjoyed recently! We discuss early internet chatrooms, shuttlecocks, haunted dolls, what constitutes a “banger”, 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 What We’re Into: Anna Acid West by Joshua Wheeler Two Point Museum Trailer R.E.P.O. || Crossing the Streams R.E.P.O. on Stream Matthew Never a Sidekick: Exploring the Dynamic History of Batgirl by Tim Hanley Yakuza: Like a Dragon 7 Weirdest Yakuza: Like a Dragon Quests That Were Bizarre Even by Yakuza Standards Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils Jam WEBFISHING Trailer Murdle Volume 1 by G.T. Karber RuPaul’s Drag Race adjacent media Runnereye (YouTube) Drag Her (podcast) UpUntil Dawn (YouTube) I Got Dr*nk and Built the Lego Tuxedo Cat (Crashout Included) Crystal Envy & Lexi Love’s “Alter Ego” Lip Sync Arrietty & Lydia B Kollins’ “Boogie Wonderland” Lip Sync Meghan Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Badminton Pilou Meeting Infinity and Infinity Wars (short story collections) Other Media We Mentioned Didi (film) Doechii - Denial is a River Links, Articles, and Things RA in a Day folio - 019 - immanence 01 - with jam edwards & garbageface aka gnostic front aka karol orzechowski Spaceport America 15 Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore 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. Women Wide Awake: Stories, Sculptures and Poems From Sindhi Folklore by  Nimra Bandukwala and Manahil Bandukwala Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy and Romance by Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy The Annotated African American Folktales by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar Blackberry Blue: And Other Fairy Tales by Jamila Gavin Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America by Jamie Hernandez Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions by Tomson Highway Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan SaSuWeh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History by Komatsu Kazuhiko, translated by Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda Rediscovering Turtle Island: a First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America by Taylor Keen Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America by Liniers Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship: Stories From India by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy Vietnamese Folktales for Children: Stories of Adventure and Wonder in Vietnamese and English by Phuoc Thi Minh Tran, illustrated by Dong Nguyen and Hop Thi Nguyen The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, May 6th when we’ll be discussing the genre/topic of Linguistics and Language! Then on Tuesday, June 3rd we’ll be discussing “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps.