Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

It’s episode 215 and time for our annual Battle of the Books! This year we’re each pitching a non-fiction book we think we should all read and discuss and then you (our listeners) get to vote on which one! Plus! A chance for a listener to win a book! You can download the podcast directly [https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bookclub4m/BC4M-215-BattleOfTheBooks2025.mp3], find it on Libsyn [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-215-battle-of-the-books-2025], or get it through Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-club-for-masochists/id1099609621] or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte [https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/meghan_is_reading] | Matthew Murray 🦇 [https://bsky.app/profile/midnitelibrary.bsky.social] | Jam Edwards [https://dice.camp/@raspberryjam] What Book Should We Read? (Click to vote by July 31st!) [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeChaXkyOJxjV8FOVy98MnK369AehHA8RotDQloMpxFD7iBvw/viewform?usp=dialog] * Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216247514-searches] by Vauhini Vara * Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151728-mood-machine] by Liz Pelly * How to Read Now [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60018643-how-to-read-now] by Elaine Castillo * How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60769830-how-far-the-light-reaches] by Sabrina Imbler Titles from our Short Lists * Running Close to the Wind [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195791197-running-close-to-the-wind] by Alexandra Rowland * Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199464033-why-are-people-into-that] by Tina Horn * I Was a Stripper Librarian: From Cardigans to G-strings [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57581277-i-was-a-stripper-librarian] by Kristy Cooper * A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56271339-a-pocket-guide-to-pigeon-watching] by Rosemary Mosco * Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200706911-magical-realism] by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal * Floating Hotel [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195177497-floating-hotel] by Grace Curtis * Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214151495-harriet-tubman] by Bob the Drag Queen Links, Articles, and Things * Review of Mood Machine from Publishers Weekly [https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781668083505] * The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s plot against musicians [https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/] by Liz Pelly * If Books Could Kill [https://www.ifbookspod.com/] Previous episodes * Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-058-the-girl-who-circumnavigated-fairyland-in-a-ship-of-her-own-making] (2018) * Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-070-which-book-should-we-read] (2019) * Episode 083 - The Fifth Season [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-083-the-fifth-season] * Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-103-battle-of-the-books-2020] * Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-107-pet-by-akwaeke-emezi] * Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021 [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-130-battle-of-the-books-2021] * Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-134-piranesi-by-susanna-clarke] * Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022 [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-154-battle-of-the-books-2022] * Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-159-hurts-so-good-the-science-and-culture-of-pain-on-purpose-by-leigh-cowart] * Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023 [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-179-battle-of-the-books-2023] * Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-183-one-book-one-podcast-upright-women-wanted] * Episode 196 - Battle of the Books 2024: One Book One Podcast [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-196-battle-of-the-books-2024-one-book-one-podcast] * Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-202-a-wizards-guide-to-defensive-baking] * Matthew finally made a category [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/category/Battle+of+the+Books+%26%2347%3B+One+Book+One+Podcast] 15 Supernatural Thrillers by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast 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 [https://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/booklists]. * Five Midnights [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fd16e8ff-45bb-47b9-9223-8a71c4e4fed8] by Ann Dávila Cardinal * Empire of Wild [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3b8ed198-5a81-419d-a5a8-bb0419c30765] by Cherie Dimaline * The Good House [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5a071805-3dd0-4433-887c-80640692c20d] by Tananarive Due * Shutter [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7bd370c9-db08-4919-9e0f-56bdf192b0da] by Ramona Emerson * The Macabre [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6ef2d6c7-d182-41e6-9464-3bacfed99921] by Kosoko Jackson * The Only Good Indians [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/79437676-42a1-4936-86ac-b885a7f33ac9] by Stephen Graham Jones * When Devils Sing [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f01d1e21-0d3b-4eaa-92c0-c9134698ca2f] by Xan Kaur * Hammers on Bone [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/99b14140-f741-459d-b9ae-222d88d584de] by Cassandra Khaw * Indian Burial Ground [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d319a4c4-4efd-4c2f-ac3f-3310ebdb8e2f] by Nick Medina * Silver Nitrate [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ff5d5c7e-42a5-4857-943c-e71ededeb1a3] by Silvia Moreno-Garcia * Half-Resurrection Blues [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e670cfdd-39c2-4b85-9492-47e48e736bc8] by Daniel José Older * Trail of Lightning [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8d338b23-6d62-49a0-bcc5-a0aa3cd94293] by Rebecca Roanhorse * Model Home [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/87acd8b6-e38b-46eb-86de-36b971a7b6e6] by Rivers Solomon * Honeysuckle and Bone [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/186b59b2-f5b3-4f1c-9299-372cc339cf10] by Trisha Tobias * The Haunting of Room 904 [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1552b218-7fef-4580-b36e-e941ea6c7d4f] by Erika T. Wurth Give us feedback! * Fill out the form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeraeyyklHzNSfjfU2SSbutEgPzInBax5mhWv-sDCI8cwyRsQ/viewform] to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr [http://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/], join our Discord Server [https://discord.gg/bUxWn4Qyt4], or send us an email [bookclub4m@gmail.com]! Join us again on Tuesday, August 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir and Grit Lit! Then on Tuesday, August 19th when it’s time for our summer Media update when we’ll talk about books, comics, games, music and more!

It’s episode 214 and time for us to talk about the genre/topic of Non-Traditional Storytelling! We discuss epistolary novels, novels in verse, punctuation, and more! You can download the podcast directly [https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bookclub4m/BC4M-214-Non-TraditionalStorytelling.mp3], find it on Libsyn [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-214-non-traditional-storytelling], or get it through Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-club-for-masochists/id1099609621] or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte [https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/meghan_is_reading] | Matthew Murray 🦇 [https://bsky.app/profile/midnitelibrary.bsky.social] | Jam Edwards [https://dice.camp/@raspberryjam] Things We Read (or tried to…) * Multiple Choice [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28588315-multiple-choice] by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell * Time Machine 2: Search For Dinosaurs [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48728476] and David Bischoff * Inheritance [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61087751-inheritance] by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn * Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQi8lIlLlQ] * Bats of the Republic [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/770c8be4-b0c9-44c4-adb6-d0ffce680768] by Zachery Thomas Dodson * Ducks, Newburyport [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3b3318e2-2542-4e49-a9ee-eaeea6424b63] by Lucy Ellmann * Finding Baba Yaga [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e469cb0d-84ca-4303-9457-4080892994fc] by Jane Yolen Other Media We Mentioned * Choose Your Own Adventure [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure] * S. [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17860739-s] by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst * If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler] by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver * Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelina] by Frances Burney * The Raw Shark Texts [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts] by Steven Hall * Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16200.Ella_Minnow_Pea] by Mark Dunn * A Void/La Disparition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void] by Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair * House of Leaves [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves] by Mark Z. Danielewski * The Argonauts [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22929741-the-argonauts] by Maggie Nelson * We Have Always Lived in the Castle [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89724.We_Have_Always_Lived_in_the_Castle] by Shirley Jackson * Detroit: Become Human [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit:_Become_Human] * Talking Simulator — Detroit: Become Human [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRwfIE4kR0] * Garth Marenghi's Darkplace [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Marenghi%27s_Darkplace] * “I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk7M2jGdnxU]” * Wanted: Dead [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted%3A_Dead] * Mason & Dixon [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413.Mason_Dixon] by Thomas Pynchon * War and Peace [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290979.War_and_Peace] by Lev Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky * Red: A Haida Manga [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7283336-red] by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas * Blue Prince [https://www.blueprincegame.com/] * Can You Solve the Murder?: An Interactive Crime Novel [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227848635-can-you-solve-the-murder] by Antony Johnston * The Call-Out [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60535353-the-call-out] by Cat Fitzpatrick Links, Articles, and Things * Episode 037 - Experimental Fiction [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-037-experimental-fiction] * Oulipo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo] * Reddit threads * Books with experimental or unusual formats - multiple illustrations, combination of mediums, alternating structure etc [https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/wed48y/books_with_experimental_or_unusual_formats/] * Any books with unconventional or creative storytelling formats/structures you'd recommend? [https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/1bn3bfp/any_books_with_unconventional_or_creative/] * List of sandwiches [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sandwiches] * Architecture student writes 149-page thesis without punctuation [https://ubyssey.ca/news/architecture-student-writes-149-page-thesis-without-punctuation/] 15 Non-Traditional Storytelling books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast 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 [https://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/booklists]. * Watercolor Women / Opaque Men: A Novel in Verse [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2488f75f-453b-4e94-9cb2-37bfee5368eb] by Ana Castillo * Inheritance: A Pick-the-Path Experience [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e9690f1f-0f8e-4c89-b807-a9905d9eb1f4] by Darrell Dennis, Medina Hahn, and Daniel Arnold  * The Girl I Am, Was, And Never Will Be [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3641b4fc-4208-4f7a-9dc0-c5247d3302ed] by Shannon Gibney * The Last Final Girl [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b6fed236-cec7-4b5d-a6e3-ee1deaa9e662] by Stephen Graham Jones * Inside Out & Back Again [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9aa25098-783e-443a-8040-9f368c56e193] by Thanhha Lai * Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/63305de0-f6ef-4a78-91a4-217fe5fad427] by Melissa Lozada-Oliva * This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/17dcbeee-5e82-4ec5-8dd1-39f9e5320a93] by Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy * Monster [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ce64b897-9a02-4cd7-a471-1aabd7f2eab2] by Walter Dean Myers * Gabi, A Girl in Pieces [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9ed2c306-9e75-49c9-9146-2e1b36b5a082] by Isabel Quintero * Ain’t Burned All the Bright [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/96a6f5ce-49a2-4500-9214-396b3b40ac51] by Jason Reynolds with art by Jason Griffin * Please Stop Trying to Leave Me [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/aeec649c-e250-4ed6-994c-63e618212f4a] by Alana Saab * Split Tooth [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d393f058-6e12-42ac-b2c0-7be82fdf5794] by Tanya Tagaq with art by Jaime Hernandez * Everything Everything [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2287b99e-a315-462e-8f56-f3b99395d5f7] by Nicola Yoon with art by Frank Yoon * Interior Chinatown [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9ff7b20b-07f7-4d3d-a4f7-7ca29900e7d3] by Charles Yu * Multiple Choice [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9f59676f-c0f8-4670-9210-606c03c30ab2] by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell  Give us feedback! * Fill out the form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeraeyyklHzNSfjfU2SSbutEgPzInBax5mhWv-sDCI8cwyRsQ/viewform] to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr [http://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/], join our Discord Server [https://discord.gg/bUxWn4Qyt4], or send us an email [bookclub4m@gmail.com]! Join us again on Tuesday, July 15th. It's time for our “Battle of the Books!” We’ll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read. Then on Tuesday, August 5th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Rural Noir/Grit Lit.

It’s episode 213 and time for us to talk about “Found Books,”  that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps! We discuss the recently returned book cart, getting books for free, getting rid of books, and more! You can download the podcast directly [https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bookclub4m/BC4M-213-FoundBooks.mp3], find it on Libsyn [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-213-found-books], or get it through Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-club-for-masochists/id1099609621] or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte [https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/meghan_is_reading] | Matthew Murray 🦇 [https://bsky.app/profile/midnitelibrary.bsky.social] | Jam Edwards [https://dice.camp/@raspberryjam] Things We Read (or tried to…) * Aya: Life in Yop City [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13166720-aya] by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie * The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1ebc1490-02f9-4673-b103-993b4c07f6c7] by Slavomir Rawicz * What Strange Paradise [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53773242-what-strange-paradise] by Omar El Akkad * House of Leaves [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves] by Mark Z. Danielewski * The Name of the Rose [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119073.The_Name_of_the_Rose] by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver * Wicked Autumn [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10946475-wicked-autumn] by G.M. Malliet Other Media We Mentioned * Yiddish for Pirates [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893536-yiddish-for-pirates] by Gary Barwin * Boy, Snow, Bird [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079683-boy-snow-bird] by Helen Oyeyemi * Returnal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Returnal] * Hex [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179364-hex] by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier * The Yucky Reptile Alphabet Book [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3348383-the-yucky-reptile-alphabet-book] by Jerry Pallotta and Ralph Masiello * White Dwarf [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Dwarf_(magazine)] (Warhammer magazine) Links, Articles, and Things * #UBCnoox [https://ubcnoox.tumblr.com/] * Meghan’s map [https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1Oc-l6ktlWBZx0m0UknZb3j72DAs9_IS3&ll=45.383336322063045%2C-75.99422351078205&z=11]  * Public bookcase [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_bookcase] (Wikipedia) * Little Free Library [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Free_Library] (Wikipedia) * Against Little Free Libraries [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-03/down-with-little-free-library-book-exchanges] * Vegetarian Peanut Soup [https://cookieandkate.com/west-african-peanut-soup/] * Cottage: North America [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage#North_America] * Sudoku [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku] (Wikipedia) * Paper embossing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_embossing] (Wikipedia) Give us feedback! * Fill out the form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeraeyyklHzNSfjfU2SSbutEgPzInBax5mhWv-sDCI8cwyRsQ/viewform] to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr [http://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/], join our Discord Server [https://discord.gg/bUxWn4Qyt4], or send us an email [bookclub4m@gmail.com]! Join us again on Tuesday, July 1st when we’ll be discussing the genre/format of Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. not prose). Then on Tuesday,  July 15th it’s time for our “Battle of the Books!” We’ll each pitch a book, and our listeners (that means you) will get to vote on which one we all read.

It’s episode 212 and time for us to talk about excellently complicate the non-fiction genre of Linguistics & Language! We discuss 🤔, our academic backgrounds, the power of words, accents, and more!   You can download the podcast directly [https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bookclub4m/BC4M-212-LanguageAndLinguistics.mp3], find it on Libsyn [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-212-language-linguistics], or get it through Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-club-for-masochists/id1099609621] or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte [https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/meghan_is_reading] | Matthew Murray 🦇 [https://bsky.app/profile/midnitelibrary.bsky.social] | Jam Edwards [https://dice.camp/@raspberryjam] Things We Read (or tried to…) * Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36739320-because-internet] by Gretchen McCulloch * Fifty Sounds [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55856548-fifty-sounds] by Polly Barton * In Other Words [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614298-in-other-words] by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Ann Goldstein * I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10385841-i-is-an-other] by James Geary * Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39027389-babel] by Gaston Dorren Other Media We Mentioned * 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29082613-19-ways-of-looking-at-wang-wei] by Eliot Weinberger * Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8444621-through-the-language-glass] by Guy Deutscher * Otherwords - Inside the Fiercest Debate in Linguistics [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbrh_t8WhBc] * Your Computer Is on Fire [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52576269-your-computer-is-on-fire] edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Marie Hicks, and Kavita Philip * What the Font?! - A Manga Guide to Western Typeface [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51952281-what-the-font---a-manga-guide-to-western-typeface] by Kuniichi Ashiya * Giga Town: A Guide to Manga Iconography [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208692589-giga-town] by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by Ko Ransom * The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18482444-the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying] by Marie Kondō, translated by Cathy Hirano * Occasional reminder that whenever you say "sparks joy" you are not quoting Marie Kondo. [https://bsky.app/profile/zackdavisson.com/post/3lfxkuth75c2g]You are quoting her translator, Cathy Hirano. She invented "sparks joy" out of whole cloth. What Marie Kondo says is "This makes my heart go pitter pat.” -Zack Davisson * Eine wie Alaska [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6890542-eine-wie-alaska] [Looking for Alaska] by John Green, translated by Sophie Zeitz * “I would read it in German, for a few reasons [https://www.reddit.com/r/makemychoice/comments/2kg7qm/should_i_read_my_next_book_looking_for_alaska_bz/]” - John Green * Die kleine Fledermaus Wegda [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56928492-die-kleine-fledermaus-wegda] by Nanna Nesshöver and Wiebke Rauers * Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23534636-lingo] by Gaston Dorren, translated by Alison Edwards Links, Articles, and Things * Great Vowel Shift [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift] (Wikipedia) * Lolcat [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat] (Wikipedia) * Kinokuniya [https://usa.kinokuniya.com/] * There are four Kinokuniya shops in Texas. Four! Put one in Denver! * Abugida [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida] (Wikipedia) * Episode 209 - Design [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-209-design] 15 Language & Linguistics Books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast 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 [https://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/booklists]. * Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0c7132e8-b62a-483c-be3a-2ed1e2c9c566] by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows * The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fb5a72ae-5487-4eb7-b57b-804616371e22] edited by Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Lisa Delpit * Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ef3eff95-4d85-431c-8407-83c7190a713f] edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari * Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/748c07e6-ce86-4d73-8938-d2bed23b636b] by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine * Grammar Matters: The Social Significance of How We Use Languag [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/008ffd23-6433-44a2-8c0e-0237f4279091]e by Jila Ghomeshi * A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5438cc12-3e6c-494f-bad7-77e239ce377c] by Tomson Highway * My Broken Language: A Memoir [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d43ee060-f7ae-4b69-9f85-58849b144d47] by Quiara Alegría Hudes * Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/17f686c2-7f87-4056-b1af-a651ca02d837] by Maia Lee-Chin with illustrations by Marta Bertello * Translating Myself and Others [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/405a83eb-98ad-41fa-b82a-6486f2f325b0] by Jhumpa Lahiri * Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter – Then, Now, and Forever [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/dd7a0607-0ed2-4ca4-8185-5edc12334ee8] by John McWhorter * The Ecology of Language Evolution [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4449112f-9ef9-4ea0-9bf9-7139ac1ffe2e] by Salikoko S. Mufwene * Mâci-Nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d26b9c93-2edd-48d8-9a9b-ec1a1272b8e3] by Solomon Ratt with illustrations by Holly Martin * Living Pidgin: Contemplations on Pidgin Culture [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/fa59bb93-8d63-43a5-af4a-7cd3e8f430c4] by Lee A. Tonouchi * Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e6039504-3d6c-4bf3-a607-7da0f6d962a3] by Jing Tsu * Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a6b41022-e7e9-4b77-b311-0052f6e11d2c] by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Give us feedback! * Fill out the form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeraeyyklHzNSfjfU2SSbutEgPzInBax5mhWv-sDCI8cwyRsQ/viewform] to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr [http://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/], join our Discord Server [https://discord.gg/bUxWn4Qyt4], or send us an email [bookclub4m@gmail.com]! Join us again on Tuesday, June 3rd when we’ll be discussing “Found Books,”  that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps. Then on July 1st we’ll be talking about Non-Traditional Storytelling (e.g. fiction that’s not prose)!

It’s episode 211 and we’re talking about books and other media we’ve enjoyed recently! We discuss early internet chatrooms, shuttlecocks, haunted dolls, what constitutes a “banger”, and more! You can download the podcast directly [https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bookclub4m/BC4M-211-SpringMedia2025.mp3], find it on Libsyn [https://bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-211-spring-media-update-2025], or get it through Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-club-for-masochists/id1099609621] or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte [https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/meghan_is_reading] | Matthew Murray 🦇 [https://bsky.app/profile/midnitelibrary.bsky.social] | Jam Edwards [https://dice.camp/@raspberryjam] What We’re Into: * Anna * Acid West [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35259581-acid-west] by Joshua Wheeler * Two Point Museum [https://www.twopointstudios.com/games/two-point-museum/] * Trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUKTszyRU] * R.E.P.O. || Crossing the Streams [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtZjl7YnGyI] * R.E.P.O. [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3241660/REPO/] on Stream * Matthew * Never a Sidekick: Exploring the Dynamic History of Batgirl [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210036494-never-a-sidekick] by Tim Hanley * Yakuza: Like a Dragon [https://likeadragon.sega.com/yakuza-like-a-dragon/] * 7 Weirdest Yakuza: Like a Dragon Quests That Were Bizarre Even by Yakuza Standards [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtfsp48hZw] * Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDXdqqJQPE] * Jam * WEBFISHING [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webfishing] * Trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsRZqHtOIhc] * Murdle Volume 1 [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/39abc3dc-96d4-4783-bb5a-c3a80feeb5e7] by G.T. Karber * RuPaul’s Drag Race [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul%27s_Drag_Race] adjacent media * Runnereye [https://www.youtube.com/@RunnerEye] (YouTube) * Drag Her [https://headgum.com/drag-her-a-rupauls-drag-race-podcast] (podcast) * UpUntil Dawn [https://www.youtube.com/@upuntil_dawn] (YouTube) * I Got Dr*nk and Built the Lego Tuxedo Cat (Crashout Included) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438GYuagscQ] * Crystal Envy & Lexi Love’s “Alter Ego” Lip Sync [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sccHU8q3Sr0] * Arrietty & Lydia B Kollins’ “Boogie Wonderland” Lip Sync [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llRzCqX5ygE] * Meghan * Hex [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/de540cfe-b0c7-4e65-bae6-ae832704bc0d] by Thomas Olde Heuvelt * Badminton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton] * Pilou [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilou] * Meeting Infinity [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/4da6bfb1-128c-44ff-8f39-eaef3251d712] and Infinity Wars [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b5a3e16d-aa68-43ba-ad92-de2dc61f3052] (short story collections) Other Media We Mentioned * Didi [https://letterboxd.com/film/didi-2024/] (film) * Doechii - Denial is a River [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0cdbR5ognY] Links, Articles, and Things * RA in a Day [https://accessola.com/events/ra-in-a-day/] * folio - 019 - immanence 01 - with jam edwards & garbageface aka gnostic front aka karol orzechowski [https://rss.com/podcasts/folio/1909099/] * Spaceport America [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America] 15 Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, Myths, and Folklore books by BIPOC Authors: Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcast 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 [https://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/booklists]. * Women Wide Awake: Stories, Sculptures and Poems From Sindhi Folklore [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/78849486-a181-4884-8612-fb9e6629e183] by  Nimra Bandukwala and Manahil Bandukwala * Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy and Romance [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/bd9052fa-4daa-4f4e-8b33-51a4a31edffb] by Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy * The Annotated African American Folktales [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1f8f8147-831c-4e4f-a8f7-7289b3d81daa] by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar * Blackberry Blue: And Other Fairy Tales [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/9f242447-7400-430b-8339-526da1715cbf] by Jamila Gavin * Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b72e4c22-696e-4466-8154-e8d831885cf8] by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon * The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/aaefaaac-1a4e-4b61-9322-9503807dbce0] by Jamie Hernandez * Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c0bfeaf9-d825-406b-800a-44035d029adf] by Tomson Highway * Legends of Vancouver [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/887c7fec-a93e-4b4e-a037-6e9f1759aa9a] by E. Pauline Johnson * Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d5f0e4d2-0361-4e9e-95de-7cf03d9a1b2c] by Dan SaSuWeh Jones, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre * An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0435f720-5b5b-4372-a4b1-2fb0dafa36c9] by Komatsu Kazuhiko, translated by Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda * Rediscovering Turtle Island: a First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5cd36103-d477-463d-b4ae-f203252047de] by Taylor Keen * Night Stories: Folktales From Latin America [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/bdcb9f38-4860-4511-8f8b-337fbc7cd2ad] by Liniers * Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship: Stories From India [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e2bca2fd-c7fd-4515-b3ac-0611ad49124c] by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Uma Krishnaswamy * Vietnamese Folktales for Children: Stories of Adventure and Wonder in Vietnamese and English [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/93d6c12d-f820-407e-90c7-4584d45660b1] by Phuoc Thi Minh Tran, illustrated by Dong Nguyen and Hop Thi Nguyen * The Little Hummingbird [https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8f25f9dc-2697-498b-9505-652b566c2cb5] by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Give us feedback! * Fill out the form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeraeyyklHzNSfjfU2SSbutEgPzInBax5mhWv-sDCI8cwyRsQ/viewform] to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr [http://bookclub4m.tumblr.com/], join our Discord Server [https://discord.gg/bUxWn4Qyt4], or send us an email [bookclub4m@gmail.com]! Join us again on Tuesday, May 6th when we’ll be discussing the genre/topic of Linguistics and Language! Then on Tuesday, June 3rd we’ll be discussing “Found Books,” that is books that we’ve found in public little free libraries, book exchanges, and book swaps.