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 099 - Books and Stuff
We’re talking about Books and Stuff! Yes, it’s time for one of our occasional “media we actually enjoyed” episodes. We talk about baking, sentient suits of armour, short stories, webcomics, podcasts, and more!
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Things we Recommend
- The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (archive.org link to story)
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas
- Delicious in Dungeon, vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
- Webcomic version
- Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
- Webcomic version
- The Sandman, vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, and Todd Klein
- Saturday by Oge Mora
- À qui la frite ? by Chloé Varin
- A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark
- Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
- Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
- Simon and Martina (YouTube)
- Reply All, episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit
- 99% Invisible, episode 389: Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out
- Who Let The Dogs Out documentary trailer
- Mango Languages (check for access through your local library’s website!)
- Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren
- When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
- Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata
- Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
- Download a free PDF!
Other Media we Mentioned
- Get Ready For This by 2 Unlimited
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Wikipedia)
- I Tried Making DOOM Armor Out of Foam (Doom X Animal Crossing cosplay)
- Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia)
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- Second Life (Wikipedia)
- Scott Pilgrim, vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Links, Articles, and Things
- Dark dining (Wikipedia)
- Martian Manhunter (Wikipedia)
- Kill Bill Ironside Siren Sound
- Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List
- Submit a nomination
- Folk games in Animal Crossing (Twitter thread)
- Shing Yin Khor’s Animal Crossing art installations
- Marina Abramović’s “The Artist is Present”
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Join us again on Tuesday, May 5th it’s our 100th episode when we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Libraries and Information!
Then on Tuesday, May 19th we’ll be talking about Comfort Reads!