Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021

This episode it’s the first part of our 2021 Battle of the Books! We’re each pitching a book that we think we should all read and discuss, and you get to decide which one we read! We talk about pombies, wooden book clubs, friendship, and more! Plus: Digressions about superheroes! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Which book should we all read? I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories by Mariana Enriquez  Vote for which book you’d like us all to read Vote! Our Shortlists RJ’s Shortlist Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi Circe by Madeline Miller A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery Meghan’s Shortlist The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow  The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Wanderers by Chuck Wendig The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Anna’s Shortlist Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Media We Mentioned The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Loki (TV series) (Wikipedia) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Links, Articles, and Things Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read? Episode 083 - The Fifth Season Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020 Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Dear Prudence Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia) The Shirley Jackson shirt RJ was wearing Arsenal Pulp Press Hark! Podcast Mangasplaining Canada Reads (Wikipedia) Spider-Man (Wikipedia) Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe) (Wikipedia) Miles Morales (Wikipedia) Ben Reilly (Wikipedia) The New 52 (Wikipedia) Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Wikipedia) Imaginary Prisons (Wikipedia) Wyvern (Wikipedia) Sixties Scoop (Wikipedia) Canadian Indian residential school system (Wikipedia) Cultural genocide (Wikipedia) 1976 Argentine coup d'état (Wikipedia) 15 Spy/Espionage books by Authors of Colour 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 POC (People of Colour) authors to help our listeners diversify their readers’ advisory. All of the lists can be found here. This is our retrospective book list for Episode 012 - Spies & Espionage.  Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent by Lorisa Bates A Hope Divided : A Novel of the Civil War by Alyssa Cole A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de Leon Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo, translated by Casey Loe Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill A Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin Your Republic Is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim The Starlet and the Spy by Ji-Min Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Quotients by Tracey O’Neill The Strivers' Row Spy by Jason Overstreet Open House by Nabil Saleh Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson 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, August 3rd it’s time to jack in and download because we’ll be reading the genre of Cyberpunk! Then on Tuesday, August 17th it’s time for another of our episodes in which we discuss books, movies, and other media we consume that aren’t for the podcast!