It's episode 236 and time for our summer media update! Join us as we talk about books, games, and comics we've recently enjoyed. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Matthew Mister Invincible by Pascal Jousselin The Jellyfish by Boum How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America edited by Lee Child and Laurie R. King Meghan Read Weird Open Wide by Jessica Gross Devil House by John Darnielle Pour un paquet de Player's by Daniel Grenier Meghan Tries to Read a Series Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines series) by Marko Kloos The Greatcoats by Sebastien de Castell NonFiction standouts Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephan King by Caroline Bicks Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo A Truce is Not Peace by Miriam Toews Jam A Small Change by Rae-Hyeon Kim Cain Culto Chismosa (w Jarina De Marco) BASTA YA (w Xiuhtezcatl and Snow Tha Product) a plague, a pestilence BIMBAMBAU Jam's May/June/July playlist and spreadsheet Cannon by Lee Lai Anna Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! Curious Archive The Most Powerful Type of Worldbuilding (Moldy Worldbuiding) Coriander Noodles Spicy Beef Flavor Soup Base Other Media We Mentioned Miike Snow - Genghis Khan Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Mea Culpa - Dark Hours "About an hour later, once it became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed, it was clear that there wasn't anything to do except to redirect the domain directly to him and kill any plans I had to launch an iOS app for the project." The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood Mercy Thompson (series) by Patricia Briggs Alpha and Omega (series) by Patricia Briggs The "tandem read" books by Sarah J. Maas are Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn. There are some horrifying reading guides to these. Apparently the author doesn't recommend doing this! Gender Reveal podcast The Lee Lai episode is "bonus content" but you can download the trasncript Links, Articles, and Things Forest of (Multiple Nouns) Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two Episode 167 - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report Boiling point of water with elevation 15 Arts Non-Fiction 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. Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole Imperfect Solidarities by Aruna D'Souza Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man by C.E. Gatchalian Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing edited by Dion Kaszas The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar Graphic Design Rules: Hints and Tips to Improve Your Designs by Chen Meihuan Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity by Gerald McMaster Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution by De Nichols, illustration by Diana Dagadita, Olivia Twist, Molly Mendoza, Saddo, and Diego Becas I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin Painter Me Artsy edited by Drew Hayden Taylor The Best of Roy Henry Vickers: 80 Selected Works by Roy Henry Vickers 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade by Winnie Won Yin Wong 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, join our Discord Server, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, September 1st we'll be discussing Post Apocalyptic fiction! (As suggested by nikkinaboo.) Then on Tuesday, October 6th we'll be talking about Cosmic horror! (As suggested by soitgoes4two.)

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