Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

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  • A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.
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  • Episode 201 - Weird West

    Episode 201 - Weird West
    Oct 1 2024
    It’s episode 201 and time for us to discuss the genre of Weird West! (Just in time for Halloween!). We talk about the potential temporal and geographic restrictions on western fiction, folklore and tall tales, 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…) Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian, narrated by John PirhallaThe Gunslinger by Stephen King, narrated by George GuidallTread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse The Sixth Gun Omnibus, vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree, and Tyler Crook The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles and Raúl the ThirdLone Women by Victor LaValleRiver of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Other Media We Mentioned Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether, Psychopomp and Molly Tanzer The New Adventures of the Lone Ranger (Probably the version Matthew saw)Lucky LukeThe Shootist by Glendon Swarthout The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Links, Articles, and Things Episode 029 - WesternsEpisode 082 - Steampunk Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women WantedSpace Western (TVTropes)Skin-walkerLand-grant university Map shows where Colorado’s 8 known free-roaming wolves wandered in SeptemberLibro.fm’s Audiobook Listening Copy ProgramJonah Hex 10 Weird Western Books by BIPOC Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Witch Owl Parliament by David Bowles and Raúl the Third Vampires of El Norte by Isabel CañasThe Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole DavisDeathless Divide by Justina Ireland The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (forthcoming 2025) Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird Western Collection by Nicole Givens KurtzLone Women by Victor Lavalle The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom LinTread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang 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, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 15th when it’s time for our “We All Read the Same Book” episode as we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher. Then on Tuesday, November 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Dark Academia.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 200 - Library Fiction

    Episode 200 - Library Fiction
    Sep 3 2024
    It’s episode 200, which means it’s (finally) time for us to discuss Library Fiction! We talk about the stereotypes and tropes of library fiction, unacknowledged work of library workers,and more. Plus: we talk way more about our actual jobs than we usually do. 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…) Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark LawrenceEx Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore by Paula Guran (below are direct links to many of the stories from this collection) In the House of the Seven Librarians by Ellen KlagesIn Libres by Elizabeth BearThose Who Watch by Ruthanna Emrys Paper Cuts Scissors by Holly Black Summer Reading by Ken Liu Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link With Tales in Their Teeth, From the Mountain They Came by A.C. Wise The Librarian’s Dilemma by E. SaxeyThe Green Book by Amal El-MohtarA Woman's Best Friend by Robert ReedIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Xia Jia, translated by Ken LiuThe Sigma Structure Symphony by Gregory BenfordThe Fort Moxie Branch by Jack McDevitt The Last Librarian: Or a Short Account of the End of the World by Edoardo Albert How Can I Help You by Laura Sims Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen Other Media We Mentioned The Library of Mount Char by Scott Hawkins The Empty Crown by Rosemary Edghill Meghan meant The Abortion by Richard Brautigan (not Trout Fishing in America) The Midnight Library by Kazuno Kohara The Invisible Library by Genevieve CogmanBookhunter by Jason ShigaUnshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill BarnesLibrary Comic by Gene Ambaum and Willow PayneWelcome to Night ValePiranesi by Susanna Clarke Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonAbbott Elementary Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides by Chuck Tingle My Librarian Is A Beautiful Lesbian Ice Cream Cone And She Tastes Amazing by Chuck TingleParty GirlPublic Enemy - Fight the Power Fictional Librarians 50 Fictional Librarians, RankedRupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)Barbara Gordon (DC Comics)The Librarian (Discworld) Lucien (The Sandman) Evelyn Carnahan (The Mummy)Marian Paroo (The Music Man)Librarians (Welcome to Night Vale) “While their description is never fully given, minor details of their physical characteristics have been described:” yellow, gnarled teethsharp claws and pincersWingsTentaclesthousands of spiny legsrattles (that make noise when they move) thoraxes Links, Articles, and Things Two-Fisted Library Stories zines North Boulder Library is ready to open (there’s a slide in image 6!) 15 Librarian & Library Fiction by POC Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison WattsCora's Kitchen by Kimberly Garrett Brown The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu The Library of Fates by Aditi KhoranaThe Plotters by Kim Un-Su The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle MonáeOur Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth OzekiThe Library Thief by Kuchenga ShenjéThe Cartographers by Peng ShepherdBookhunter by Jason Shiga 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, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 1st we’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s Supernatural Horror Westerns) Then on Tuesday, October 15th it’s time for our “We All Read the Same Book” episode as we discuss A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Episode 199 - Summer Media Update

    Episode 199 - Summer Media Update
    Aug 20 2024
    It’s time for our Summer Media Update! We’re talking about podcasts, videos, books, comics, games and more that we’ve recently enjoyed! We discuss Balatro, Carter Vail, Catwoman, and beading! 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 Join our Discord Server! Things We Read (or tried to…) Meghan Carter Vail -The Dirt Man Bonus: If I was fish The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo The Coode Street Podcast Episode 649: Nghi Vo and The Brides of High Hill In the Palace of Shadow and Joy by D.J. Butler Anna The Hoof GP (NOT for the squeamish)Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley GarrettMaking tiny little beaded fruits :) Any round beaded fruit (Apple, watermelon, orange, pear) from TOMO Handicraft - super easy start point! Use larger center beads and just add 1 or 2 more small beads per row to make the watermelon.Little Cherries from Tezukuri Notes! - I just make the fruit, not the jewelry, but it’s easy and a good next step.Larger Cherries from Tezukuri Notes! - this is the one I kept counting wrong. You can make the berries into any round fruit - I add a stem and leaf based on what I learned from other videos to make an apple and it looks great. I also leave out the center bead apples. But if you are going to make cherries, watch the video all the way through first!Orange (or other round fruit) from Tezukuri Notes! - I tried this one first and it came out ugly. But now that I have done a bunch more and learned better practices, I am going to go back to try it again.Next up - bananas and watermelon slices!(There’ll be a photo of Anna’s project jar of beaded fruits on our Discord Server!) The unsettling universe of ASMR restocking videos (plus the various commentary on them). I always watch them feeling like there is something foundational about the modern American (aspirational) middle class mental landscape represented there, and I am uncomfortably mesmerized by it. Jam TV Chef Fantasy League (podcast) TVCFL on youtube Kill James Bond (podcast) KJB Highlights on youtube Balatro (video game) Balatro’s ‘Cursed’ Design Problem (video) Slow AF Run Club by Martinus Evans Matthew The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang Soara and the House of Monsters, vol. 1 by Hidenori YamajiOrcs! The Legend by Christine Larsen Other Media We Mentioned The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Hark! PodcastPerc - Imperial Leather (The track Matthew’s coworker said was “a lot.”)She Past Away - Durdu Dünya (The track Matthew said was “listenable.”)A bunch of cooking shows Matthew is too tired to find Wikipedia articles for.Um, Actually hosted by Ify NwadiwePhilosophy Tube When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo Links, Articles, and Things Trader Joe’s (Wikipedia) Pirate Joe’s (Wikipedia) (The bootleg Trader Joe’s that used to exist in Vancouver.) American Manga Awards (Winners to be announced August 22nd.) 13 Bizarro Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Elaine by Ben Arzate Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert by Rios de la Luz Technicolor Terrorists by Andre DuzaClickers by J.F. Gonzalez & Mark WilliamsCoyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones Not Seeing Is A Flower by Erhu KomeWet and Screaming by Shane McKenzieJah Hills by Unathi Slasha Notes from the Guts of a Hippo by Grant Wamack Vegan Zombie Apocalypse by Will-vary 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, follow us on Instagram, join our Facebook Group or Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September 3rd when it’s time for episode 200 and we’ll be talking about Library fiction! Then on Tuesday, October 1st we’ve decided to celebrate 200 episodes with the first of four genres we picked. We’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s supernatural horror westerns.)
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    50 mins

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