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Episode 169 - What is a Book? (Part 2)
Manage episode 355976511 series 1210826
This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Media We Mentioned
- DC Pride 2022 #1
- Tic Tac Tome: The Autonomous Tic Tac Toe Playing Book by Willy Yonkers
- Homestuck (Wikipedia)
- Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Wikipedia)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Wikipedia)
- Lasers & Feelings
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Links, Articles, and Things
- Episode 144 - What is a Book?
- I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to
- Episode 108 - Visual Novels
- Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia)
- Demian's Gamebook Web Page
- KineticNovel (Wikipedia)
- Hypertext fiction (Wikipedia)
- HyperCard (Wikipedia)
- Flip Book (Wikipedia)
- Desert Bus for Hope
- Microform (Wikipedia)
- Rice writing (Wikipedia)
- Matthew was just wrong about this
- Changes to new editions of Roald Dahl books have readers up in arms
- Jaffa Cakes: Legal Status (Wikipedia)
- That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law
- Fountain (Duchamp) (Wikipedia)
20 Books Adapted into Film/TV by BIPOC Authors (and 7 Being Adapted Soon)
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.
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (1985)
- The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (1989 mini-series)
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol & Thomas Christensen | Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club (1993)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison | Beloved (1998)
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie | Smoke Signals (1998)
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis (2007)
- Q&A by Vikras Swarup | Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Push by Sapphire | Precious (2009)
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly | Hidden Figures (2016)
- Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston | Silence (2016)
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese | Indian Horse (2017)
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give (2018)
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)
- Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Chararipotra | Tiny Pretty Things (2020 TV series)
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger (2021)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee | Pachinko (2022 TV series)
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese (2023 TV series)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (2023)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Exit West (2023)
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind (2023)
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu | The Three-Body Problem (2023 TV series)
- Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Blackout (forthcoming film & TV series)
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl (forthcoming TV series)
Give us feedback!
- Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!
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Join us again on Tuesday, March 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Gender Theory/Studies!
Then on Tuesday, March 21st we’ll be talking about Moving and Management of Books!
206 episodes
Manage episode 355976511 series 1210826
This episode we’re continuing our conversation from last year and talking about What is a Book? We talk about hypertext, instruction manuals, visual novels, campfire stories, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Media We Mentioned
- DC Pride 2022 #1
- Tic Tac Tome: The Autonomous Tic Tac Toe Playing Book by Willy Yonkers
- Homestuck (Wikipedia)
- Doki Doki Literature Club! (Wikipedia)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Wikipedia)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Wikipedia)
- Lasers & Feelings
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Links, Articles, and Things
- Episode 144 - What is a Book?
- I read all 337 books in Skyrim so you don't have to
- Episode 108 - Visual Novels
- Choose Your Own Adventure (Wikipedia)
- Demian's Gamebook Web Page
- KineticNovel (Wikipedia)
- Hypertext fiction (Wikipedia)
- HyperCard (Wikipedia)
- Flip Book (Wikipedia)
- Desert Bus for Hope
- Microform (Wikipedia)
- Rice writing (Wikipedia)
- Matthew was just wrong about this
- Changes to new editions of Roald Dahl books have readers up in arms
- Jaffa Cakes: Legal Status (Wikipedia)
- That time the X-Men’s humanity was put on trial in a real court of law
- Fountain (Duchamp) (Wikipedia)
20 Books Adapted into Film/TV by BIPOC Authors (and 7 Being Adapted Soon)
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.
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (1985)
- The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (1989 mini-series)
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol & Thomas Christensen | Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan | The Joy Luck Club (1993)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison | Beloved (1998)
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie | Smoke Signals (1998)
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi | Persepolis (2007)
- Q&A by Vikras Swarup | Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Push by Sapphire | Precious (2009)
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly | Hidden Figures (2016)
- Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston | Silence (2016)
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese | Indian Horse (2017)
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give (2018)
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han | To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018)
- Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Chararipotra | Tiny Pretty Things (2020 TV series)
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger (2021)
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee | Pachinko (2022 TV series)
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | American Born Chinese (2023 TV series)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker | The Color Purple (2023)
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid | Exit West (2023)
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam | Leave the World Behind (2023)
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu | The Three-Body Problem (2023 TV series)
- Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Blackout (forthcoming film & TV series)
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl (forthcoming TV series)
Give us feedback!
- Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read!
Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email!
Join us again on Tuesday, March 7th we’ll be discussing the genre of Gender Theory/Studies!
Then on Tuesday, March 21st we’ll be talking about Moving and Management of Books!
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