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 209 - Design

    Episode 209 - Design
    Mar 4 2025
    It’s episode 209 and time for us to talk about the genre of Design! We discuss graphic design, interior design, the line between design and art, fonts, kerning, footnotes, and more! Plus: Anna talks about evidence synthesis and search design! 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…) Make Your Own Pixel Art: Create Graphics for Games, Animations, and More! by Jennifer Dawe and Matthew HumphriesThe Wright Style: Re-Creating the Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright by Carla Lind The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers by Debbie BerneMaker Comics: Design a Game! by Bree Wolf and Jesse FuchsPatternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns by Jude StewartDesign: The Definitive Visual Guide Other Media We Mentioned Graphic Wit: The Art of Humor in Design by Steven Heller and Gail AndersonBear and BreakfastTwo Point CampusCat Cafe Manager 2Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt Links, Articles, and Things Folio - 019 - immanence 01 - with jam edwards & garbageface aka gnostic front aka karol orzechowskiJam's Pokémon design KerningRiver (typography)Ampelmännchen (East German pedestrian walk signal) 16 Design 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 Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures by Christian Allaire More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Creating A Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer by Christina Chung Exploring Game Mechanics: Principles and Techniques to Make Fun, Engaging Games by Maithili Dhule Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth by Janice George, Leslie H. Tepper, and Willard Joseph Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Josh A. Halstead, Leslie Xia, Farah Kafei, Kaleena Sales, Ellen Lupton, Valentina Vergara, and Jennifer Tobias Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes Reimagined Worlds: Narrative Placemaking for People, Play, and Purpose : A Designer's Manifesto by Margaret Chandra Kerrison The Creative Gene: How Books, Movies, and Music Inspired the Creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble Now You See Me! An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design by Charlene Prempeh Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo by Taku Satoh Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games by Steenz and Samuel Sattin Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall 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 1st we’ll be talking about the genre of Romantasy! Then on Tuesday, April 15th it’s time for our Spring Media Update, as we talk about books and other things we haven’t read for the podcast.
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    52 mins
  • Episode 208 - 2025 Reading Resolutions

    Episode 208 - 2025 Reading Resolutions
    Feb 18 2025
    It’s episode 208 and time for us to talk about our Reading Resolutions for 2025! We discuss our love of spreadsheets, the churn of books in public libraries, literacy, unschooling, 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 2025 Goals/Intentions/Etc. Jam Theme of the year: “Cultivation”Use Storygraph instead of Goodreads Jam on Storygraph Maybe put a book on the nightstand so I’ll read it before bed Meghan Subscribe to print reading material Anna Track favourite reads of the year in the spreadsheetTry to figure out why she reads less fiction than she used to Matthew Read every book on fiction to-read list published before the year 2000Record the “why” when adding books to TBR Other Media We Mentioned Folio podcast Jam’s episode isn’t out yetImmanence British Library Tales of the Weird The Year of the Locust by Terry HayesThe Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov X-Men Classic Omnibus by Chris Claremont and othersRole Models by John WatersRadical Unschooling: We NEED to Talk About This! Sold a Story podcast Links, Articles, and Things Episode 190 - Reading Resolutions and Rantsr/AmItheAsshole (Wikipedia)If Books Could Kill (Wikipedia) 50 Recent Short Story Collections 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. For this list of short story collections, we’ve focused on titles published within the past four years. Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda (2024) Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2024) Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat (2024) Your Utopia by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (2024) Green Frog by Gina Chung (2024) Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman (2024) Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima (2024) Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan (2024) Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi (2024) Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (2024) A Kind of Madness by Uche Okonkwo (2024) Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang (2023) Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (2023) Every Drop Is A Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto (2023) No One Will Come Back for Us: And Other Stories by Premee Mohamed (2023) Drinking From Graveyard Wells by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (2023) Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran (2023) Tiger Work by Ben Okri (2023) Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo (2023) Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele (2023) Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian (2023) New Suns 2: More Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl (2023) The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu (2023) Chrysali by Anuja Varghese (2023) Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong (2023) The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon (2023) Girlfriends by Emily Zhou (2023) Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (2022) Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho (2022) God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu (2022) Self-Portrait with Ghost by Meng Jin (2022) The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai (2022) Bliss Montage by Ling Ma (2022) Uncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather (2022) The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae (2022) The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz (2022) Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers (2022) Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (2022) Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi (2022) Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (2022) Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (2022) Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah (2021) Skinship by Yoon Choi (2021) Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning (2021) Eat The Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza (2021) My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (2021) The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado (2021) 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell (2021) Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (2021) Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap (2021) 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 4th when we’ll be talking about the genre of Design! Then on Tuesday, April 1st we’ll be talking about the genre of Romantasy!
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 207 - Monster Romance

    Episode 207 - Monster Romance
    Feb 4 2025
    It’s episode 207 and time for us to talk about the genre of Monster Romance! We discuss what counts as a “monster,” massive hogs, Beautify and the Beast, listening to audiobooks at 3.5x speed, 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…) Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta A Blue Ribbon Romance by C.M. NascostaSworn to the Orc by Evangeline Anderson, narrated by Ada Sinclair That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf by Kimberly LemmingStrange Love by Ann Aguirre How to Marry a Marble Marquis by C.M. NascostaBull Moon Rising by Ruby Dixon, narrated by Felicity Munroe and Hiro Diaz Other Media We Mentioned In the Arms of the Spider Hunk by Nova WrytzwellThe Shape of Water (Wikipedia)The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel KrausSlave to Sensation by Nalini Singh I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly LemmingMistlefoe by Kimberly LemmingGargoylesTaken by my TBR: A Sentient Object Story by Holly Wilde Links, Articles, and Things Where To Get Started With Monster Romance15 Monster Romance Books That Will Make You the Biggest FanMonster Romance 101Minotaur Sex: The Best New Smut Genre Bad Dragon (Wikipedia) There are lots of other companies doing similar things Hark! Episode 374: Biblically Accurate KrampusWere|House - We Try to Date a Kelpie - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel StreamBaba Yaga (Wikipedia) 11 Monster Romance 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. I Married a Lizardman by Regine AbelMy Summer Girl by Maeve Black The Captive Merman's Promise by Zoey Castile I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica CageQueenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres How to Fail at Avoiding an Alpha Demon by Liz E. Cooper Threads of Fate by Lexi EsmeSasquatch Summer by Talia Greer That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly LemmingSweet Vengeance by Viano OniomohTantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith 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 18th when we’ll be discussing our reading goals and resolutions for 2025! Then on Tuesday, March 4th we’ll be talking about the non-fiction genre of Design!
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    1 hr and 19 mins

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