This episode we're talking about recent media we enjoyed! We discuss TikTok food, video games about boxes, French language books, Pokemon, 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 | RJ Edwards Media We've Been Consuming Anna: B. Dylan Hollis TikTok YouTube Pumpernickel (Wikipedia) Ryan Hollinger Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Matthew: Unpacking How Unpacking's Developers Designed 2021's Coziest Game Hyper Light Drifter Wandersong Meghan: L'homme qui marche by by Jirō Taniguchi The Route of Ice and Salt by Jose Luis Zàrate Football-Fantaisie by Zviane Zviane's comics available in English RJ: Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton Pokemon Legends: Arceus Pokemon Showdown Wikipedia:Unusual articles Volkswagen currywurst Danish Protest Pig Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon Other Media & Things We Mentioned Just Plain Wrong - The Pacifist Vampire Soul Dilemma: Three Books about Amish Vampires & Mennonite Assassins The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle (The Amish vampire book Meghan read) Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Wikipedia) Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico Smile (Beach Boys album) A pixel artist renounces pixel art Thread on Twitter about Dracula Pokemon: Everything You Need To Know About The Great War Theory Morbius (film) (Wikipedia) Diverse Books Reading Smackdown challenges VPL staff to read outside the box Featuring the Diverse Reading Victory Belt Depths of Wikipedia 20 Recent Detective Fiction Novels 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 from Episode 025, we're featuring detective fiction by BIPOC authors published in the last 2 years. Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum Padoskoks: A Jacob Neptune Murder Mystery by Joseph Bruchac Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien Mimi Lee Cracks the Code by Jennifer J. Chow The Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel The Lady of Zamalek by Ashraf El-Ashmawi, translated by Peter Daniel The Conductors by Nicole Glover The Red Palace by June Hur The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur The Case of the Burgled Bundle by Michael Hutchinson The Dying Day by Vaseem Khan Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee The Verifiers by Jane Pek Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder by Xiaolong Qiu Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson 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, May 3rd when we'll be discussing the genre of Astronomy & Space non-fiction! Then on Tuesday, May 17th join us for our 150th episode!

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