Episode 150 - Chaos Reigns

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

For our 150th episode, Chaos Reigns! We discuss the differences between talking about fiction and non-fiction, genres that don’t get the respect they deserve, our favourite pies, what genres we’re least and most looking forward to reading for the podcast, the horrors of virtual presentations, and more! Plus: Matthew’s Technically Correct Corner!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders
• Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
• Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez
• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (the book Meghan couldn’t remember the title of)
• Gamechanger (the Bounceback) by LX Beckett
• Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
• Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
• Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price

Podcast-Related Links

• Manga in Libraries Book Club (Monday, May 23rd, 8:00pm Eastern)
• Episode 143 - Amish Romance
• Utterly Unfamiliar and Downright Detestable: Readers’ Advisory Beyond Your Own Taste (OLA - RA in a Day Presentation)
• Our Twitch channel! (Pokémon ranking, Friday, May 20th, 6:30pm Pacific)
• Episode 148 - Spring 2022 Media Update (RJ talks about Pokemon)
• Mascot Mischief (RJ’s game!)
• Spicy Library Stories #7
• Episode 029 - Westerns
• Data visualization of Book Club for Masochists' Connections with Other Podcasts
• Episode 036 - Favourite Podcasts

Other Podcasts

• War Rocket Ajax: Episode 383 - The Christmas Specials Special f/ RJ and Ian from HARK
• The Coode Street Podcast
• What Should I Read Next?
• Reading Glasses
• Plus on est de fous, plus on lit!
• Drokk!
• Finish It!
  • Order A Pizza - Visual Novel Stream (Guest starring Matt & Chris Yule from Finish It! Podcast)
• Just Plain Wrong
• Smart Podcast, Trashy Books

Links, Articles, and Things

• $1 Million Of Frugal Librarian's Bequest To N.H. School Goes To Football Scoreboard
• Mary Roach (Wikipedia)
• Honey Heist
• Coydog (Wikipedia)
• Koi (Wikipedia)
• Coyote $21,000 in debt after wandering through university campus
• Conger Eel (Wikipedia)
• Seattle Storm (Wikipedia)
• Doppler (Twitter)
• Anemometer (Wikipedia)
• Gritty (Wikipedia)
• Phillie Phanatic (Wikipedia)
• The Mountain Goats (Wikipedia)
• Parasocial interaction (Wikipedia)
  • Accessory fruit (Wikipedia)
• Strange times for berry club
• Tourtière (Wikipedia)
• Epistolary novel (Wikipedia)

18 Recent Non-Fiction Audiobooks by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) 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 our lists can be found here.For this retroactive genre (or in this case, format) from Episode 27, we’re featuring non-fiction audiobooks by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years.

• You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce
• Carefree Black Girls by Zeba Blay
• Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
• High-risk Homosexual: a Memoir by Edgar Gomez
• The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky
• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.
• Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen
• Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
• Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples by Chief Clarence Louie
• Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers by Dylan Marron
• Don't Worry: 48 Lessons on Relieving Anxiety from a Zen Buddhist Monk by Shunmyo Masuno
• An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
• Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
• Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
• Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A. J. Verdelle
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (2nd edition) by Edgar Villanueva
• Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang, Philip Wang, & Phil Yu

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Classic Fiction! (Whatever that means!)

Then on Tuesday, June 21st we’ll be talking about Beach Reads!