Episode 190 - Reading Resolutions and Rants

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re discussing our 2024 Reading Resolutions (and Rants)! We talk about how we’ve already failed our 2024 reading resolutions, audio books, short stories, reading long things, not being able to read long things, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
• Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
• War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia)
• Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy (Wikipedia)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (Wikipedia)
• Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler
• The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways edited by Mike Ashley
• Baldur's Gate 3 (Wikipedia)
• Yakuza (franchise) (Wikipedia)
• Feed by M.T. Anderson
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao
• Minecraft (Wikipedia)
• Two Point Hospital (Wikipedia)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 167 (version 2) - 2023 Reading Goals & 2022 Reading Report
• Which Pokémon are the most goth? 🦇 - Friday Night Spooktacular
• 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
  • Manga, Manhwa, and Webtoon titles on YALSA's 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens List
• Manga for Teen Librarians (page 26) by Matthew Murray & Jean Broughton
• Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023
• Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong (Podcast)
• Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed reading methods
• Literacy crisis in college students: Essay from a professor on students who don’t read
• Hark Episode 354: A Special Kind of Horny
• Topping & Company Booksellers
  • The ladder Matthew mentioned

Our Reading Resolutions

• Anna
  • Read (and finish) a book
  • Listen to audiobook fiction
• Jam
  • Reading (physical books) on public transit
• Matthew
  • Read the books in his office
  • Read (all) the graphic novels on library ebook platform wish lists
  • Read short story collections
• Meghan
  • Read more (very) long books

30 Romance Books by BIPOC Authors (including 11 new releases from 2024)

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 the lists can be found here.

• Our Cursed Love by Julie Abe
• When I Think of You by Myah Ariel (2024)
• Stay with My Heart by Tashie Bhuiyan (2024)
• The Art of Scandal by Regina Black
• A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
• Ana María and the Fox by Liana De la Rosa
• The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton (2024)
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
• Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa (2024)
• Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
• Match Me If You Can by Swati Hegde (2024)
• An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera
• D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins
• Let Me Love You by Alexandria House
• The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang (2024)
• Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo
• To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins
• How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang (2024)
• That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
• Aphrodite and the Duke by J.J. McAvoy
• The Marquis Who Mustn't by Courtney Milan
• The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava (2024)
• The Lover, the Lake by Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, translated by Susan Ouriou
• Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai
• Never Cross a Highlander by Lisa Rayne
• This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (2024)
• The Takeover by Cara Tanamachi (2024)
• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (2024)
• Frankly in Love by David Yoon

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 5th we’ll be talking about the genre of Dark Fantasy!

Then on Tuesday, April 2nd we’ll be discussing Non fiction Graphic Novels and Comics!