Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This month our genre is True Crime! We discuss bird thieves, rich people, caring more about the stories around the crimes than the crimes themselves, and audiobooks that make us scared to go to bed. Check it out!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…)

• Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
• • Can You Ever Forgive Me? (movie)
  • Noël Coward
  • Edna Ferber
• The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
• • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
• The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• The Mystery of Mary Rogers by Rick Geary
• The Case of Madeleine Smith by Rick Geary
• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• • Letter to the Golden State Killer

Other Media We Mention

• American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
• On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women by Stevie Cameron
• Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women by Katherine McCarthy
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
• The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams
• 30 for 30: A Queen of Sorts (podcast about “ an elaborate baccarat scheme”)
• Treasury of Victorian Murder Series
• Treasury of XXth Century Murder Series
• • The Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
• Rashomon (Wikipedia)
• Long Overdue Episode 79: Meta-Podcast

Links, Articles, and Things

• Yellow journalism (Wikipedia)
• Ann Rule (Wikipedia)
• Gregory Peck (Wikipedia)
• Patty Hearst (Wikipedia)
• Kevin Mitnick (Wikipedia)
• Hamburglar strikes again, feasts on $2,000 in meals using customer's McDonald's app (CBC)

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 16th we’ll be talking about books we’re excited are coming out in the 2nd half of 2019. Plus a segment recorded live at the American Library Association conference in Washington, DC.

Then on Tuesday, August 6th we’ll be discussing the genre of Steampunk!