Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we talk about Books That Changed Our Lives and Books That Haunt Us. We talk about comics, cooking, problematic faves, what caused us to study what we did in school, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Questions we discuss

• Is there such a thing as a "life-changing book"?
• What do we mean when we use that phrase?
• What distinguishes a "life-changing" book from a "favorite book"?
• Do you have any "life-changing" books?
• Are there any books that haunt you?

Media We Mention

• Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
• Sandman, vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III
• • “Dramatically Different ‘absolute Sandman’ Recoloring Is Absolutely Necessary”
• Hark Podcast
• 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
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block
• • Which Baby for the Billionaire? by Tiana Cole (I couldn’t find a book/sitcom/game show just called “Which Baby?!”)
  • Which Witch Is Witch
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Number 6 Fumbles by Rachel Solar-Tuttle
• Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
• Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible by Madhur Jaffrey
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• • Episode 006 - Books in Translation
  • Dark Souls
• Deerskin by Robin McKinley
• • The Girl Without Hands
• Cul de Sac: This Exit by Richard Thompson
• How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
• Bitch (magazine)
• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators by Char Booth
• Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Links, Articles, and Things

• Rural book borrowing in peril as libraries slam PC budget cuts

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