Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

It’s time for our Spring Media Update episode! We talk about art installations, manga, board games, comics, and birds. So many birds.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

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Media We’ve Been Consuming

• Jam
  • Quality Assurance in Another World by Masamichi Satō
  • Wingspan (board game designed by Elizabeth Hargrave)
  • Redactle
    • New York Times responds to Only Connect resemblance
• Anna
  • Meow Wolf
    • Convergence Station
  • Terraria
    • Terraria Ep1 || Mine O'Clock
  • Amanda the Jedi
    • Explaining the Chaotic Disaster of Madame Web
• Meghan
  • Lisa LeBlanc 
  • Long books : 
    • The Abominable by Dan Simmons (663 pages)
    • Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher (513 pages)
    • The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (760 pages)
  • Bungalow Details Interior by Jane Powell
• Matthew
  • Spy x Family, vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
  • Giant Days Library Edition, vol. 1 by by  John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin

Birds We Mentioned

• Chickadee
• Emu
• Cassowary
• Kākāpō
• Shoebill
• Tawny Frogmouth
• Pesquet's parrot (Dracula Parrot)
• Kiwi
• Hawk
• Pigeon
• Crow
• Chicken

Links, Articles, and Things

• OLA RA in a Day
• Yotsuba&!, vol. 1 by Kiyohiko Azuma
• Chiac
• Acadia
• Birds Aren’t Real
• Only Connect
• Bungalow

12 Political Thrillers 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.

• Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams
• The Caretaker by A.X. Ahmad
• The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq
• Exceptional Circumstances by James Bartleman
• The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
• The Sniper by Chang Kuo-Li, translated by Roddy Flag
• The Executioner’s Game by Gary Hardwick
• What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris
• One in the Chamber by Robin Peguero
• Grant Park by Leonard Pitts Jr.
• Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
  

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Join us again on Tuesday, May 7th we’ll be discussing books from Indie Publishers!

Then on Tuesday, June 4th we’ll be discussing non-fiction Pop Culture!