Episode 148 - Spring 2022 Media Update

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about recent media we enjoyed! We discuss TikTok food, video games about boxes, French language books, Pokemon, and more!

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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

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