Episode 118 - Reading Resolutions and Intentions for 2021

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Our Reading Resolutions and Intentions for 2021! We discuss failing our reading resolutions from 2020, reading in a pandemic, reading for fun, reading for work, reading (or not reading) books given to us as gifts, and how we deal with To Read lists. Plus: Matthew’s appalling reading plans for 2021.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• I’m on lockdown so I watched all 14 Land Before Times by Jenny Nicholson
• SciShow YouTube channel
• Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson
• Drokk! Judge Dredd readthrough podcast
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Links, Articles, and Things

• Stream of The Lady’s Choice (with Matthew & Meghan)
  • Part 2 on Friday, January 22nd, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific at https://www.twitch.tv/bookclub4m
• Stream of Northanger Abbey (with Matthew & RJ)
  • Part 2 on Friday, January 29nd, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific at https://www.twitch.tv/bookclub4m
• Episode 093 - 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions
• Episode 114 - Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations
• Our 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions Bingo sheet

18 Cozy Mystery Books by POC (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 the lists can be found here.

• The Plot Is Murder by V.M. Burns
• In the Dog House by V.M. Burns
• Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man by Claudia Mair Burney
• A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette
• Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis
• Mama Solves A Murder by Nora DeLoach
• A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
• Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
• Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon
• Going Nowhere Fast by Gar Anthony Haywood
• The Company You Keep by Angela Henry
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (forthcoming, May 2021)
• The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
• Mayhem & Mass by Olivia Matthews
• Deep Fried Trouble by Tyora Moody
• Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
• The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
• Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 16th we’ll be discussing What makes a good book cover? Design and art of books!