Episode 132 - Recent Media We've Enjoyed

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This week it’s another episode where we talk about Media We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about woman’s basketball, resource mining, musicals, translations, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Talked About This Episode

• Maintenance Phase
  • The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline
• Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe
• Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1 by Kamome Shirahama, translated by Stephen Kohler
  • The “Brimmed Hat Group” are the ones who use forbidden magic
• Women's National Basketball Association (Wikipedia)
  • (There are twelve teams!)
• Taskmaster (Wikipedia)
  • Series playlists (YouTube)
  • Paint The Best Picture Of The Taskmaster, Without Touching The Red Mat (YouTube)
• Let’s Game It Out (YouTube channel)
  • I Was Sponsored to Explore New Ways to Torment Colonists - Oxygen Not Included (YouTube)
• Oxygen Not Included (Wikipedia)
• D&D x Magic One-Shot Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons x Magic: The Gathering) by LoadingReadyRun
• Map of NCR Libraries / bibliothèques
  • Tour de Libraries (Twitter)
• StarKid Productions
  • The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals (YouTube)
  • Black Friday (YouTube)
• Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
• Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
• 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
• Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories by Grace Paley
• Napkin by Carta Monir

Other Media We Mentioned

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Your Fat Friend
• You're Wrong About
• The Sims (Wikipedia)
• On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

Links, Articles, and Things

• Library Punk episode 022 - Nonfiction Comics
• Manga in Libraries: Defending the Collection
  • Watch the previous webinars
• Madison (cycling) (Wikipedia)
  • Women's Madison Final - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
• Six-day racing (Wikipedia)
• Heritage Minutes: Basketball
  • “But I need these baskets back!”
• California Sues Activision Blizzard for Being 'Breeding Ground for Harassment'
  • (Content Warning for sexual harrassment, sexual violence, and suicide)
• Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest of Work Conditions
• Alliance française (Wikipedia)
• Bardic Inspiration
• Tickle Me Elmo (Wikipedia)
• Hark! Podcast
• This Little Art by Kate Briggs

20 Historical Fantasy books 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 to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
• Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
• The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
• The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
• A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
• The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
• Bacchanal by Veronica Henry
• The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
• The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang
• The Poppy War by RF Kuang
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• Celia’s Song by Lee Maracle
• Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 7th when we’ll be talking about the format of Flash Fiction.

Then on Tuesday, September 21st we’ll be reading and discussing Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.