Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about the very many genres we’ve read for the podcast…and which ones we’d read again! We discuss Jeff VanderMeer’s Zorro, Boat Fiction, We Have Always Hosted The Podcast, Bubble Gum Fiction, Cheese-based Erotica, whether the 1980s count as Historical Fiction, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Old Episodes

• Episode 090 - Adventure Fiction
• Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History
• Episode 086 - American Gothic
• Episode 143 - Amish Romance
• Episode 160 - Biographical Fiction & Fictional Biographies
• Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction
• Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance
• Episode 151 - Classics
• Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Episode 110 - Comedic/Humorous Fiction
• Episode 021 - Coming of Age
• Episode 147 - Contemporary Fantasy
• Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries
• Episode 127 - Crime Fiction
• Episode 131 - Cyberpunk
• Episode 025 - Detective Fiction
• Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers
• Episode 041 - Dystopian Fiction
• Episode 070 - Erotic Romance
• Episode 135 - Erotica
• Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction
• Episode 045 - Family Sagas
• Episode 002 - Gothic Literature
• Episode 014 - Historical Fantasy
• Episode 098 - Historical Fiction
• Episode 001 - Historical Romance

Other Media We Mentioned

• Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha (Here’s a time stamped link to the finals performance in a half hour video of the top 10 songs this year. I can’t link solely to the performance due to region locking, booooo.)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)
• Marvel Snap (Wikipedia)
• Far Cry (Wikipedia)
• Tomb Raider (Wikipedia)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Wikipedia)
• The Sandman (comic book) (Wikipedia)
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• My Macaroni And Cheese Is A Lesbian Also She Is My Lawyer by Chuck Tingle
• Inheritance: A pick-the-path experience by Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold & Medina Hahn
• The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
  • The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante || Talking Simulator (stream Matthew watched)
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Links, Articles, and Things

• Hark! The Holiday Music Podcast
• Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (Wikipedia)
• World Goth Day (Wikipedia)
• Just Plain Wrong
• Bubblegum music  (Wikipedia)
• Episode 028 - Accidental Romance
• Dairying and Cheese Erotica

12 Southern Gothic books by Authors of Colour

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.

• Ruby by Cynthia Bond
• House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
• The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
• Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
• 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

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Fantasy! 

Then on Tuesday, June 20th we’re talking about how we’re bad at scheduling!