Episode 122 - Bad Book Reading Habits

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

It’s our 5th anniversary episode and this time we’re discussing Bad Book Reading Habits! Sticky notes, bookmarks, tagging and tracking, borrowing more library books than we can read, books on display in video calls, reading books out of order, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Which host is a book goblin? (The answer may surprise you.)

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • The copy of the book mentioned that had marginalia
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Acquired Traits by Raissa Berg
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros
• ttyl by Lauren Myracle

Links, Articles, and Things

• Marginalia (Wikipedia)
• WereBear (Wikipedia)
• Convergence (Wikipedia)
• Goblin (Dungeons & Dragons) (Wikipedia)
• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia)
• Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews
• Twitterature (Wikipedia)

30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years

Since 2020, we’ve been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we’re creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016.

Fiction

• Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
• Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Non-Fiction

• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
• In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
• Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
• From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Young Adult

• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• Strangers by David Alexander Robertson
• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Picture Books

• Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain
• You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel
• Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

Poetry

• NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
• From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx
• it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Comics

• This Place: 150 Years Retold
• Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls
• Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
• Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson
• Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 6th we’ll be talking about the genre of Psychological Horror! (With a special guest co-host!)

Then on Tuesday, April 20th we’ll be giving an update on non-podcast media we’ve been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing.