Episode 199 - Summer Media Update

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

It’s time for our Summer Media Update! We’re talking about podcasts, videos, books, comics, games and more that we’ve recently enjoyed! We discuss Balatro, Carter Vail, Catwoman, and beading!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

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Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Meghan
  • Carter Vail -The Dirt Man
    • Bonus: If I was fish
  • The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
    • The Coode Street Podcast Episode 649: Nghi Vo and The Brides of High Hill
  • In the Palace of Shadow and Joy by D.J. Butler
• Anna
  • The Hoof GP (NOT for the squeamish)
  • Bunker: Building for the End Times by Bradley Garrett
  • Making tiny little beaded fruits :)
    • Any round beaded fruit (Apple, watermelon, orange, pear) from TOMO Handicraft - super easy start point! Use larger center beads and just add 1 or 2 more small beads per row to make the watermelon.
    • Little Cherries from Tezukuri Notes! - I just make the fruit, not the jewelry, but it’s easy and a good next step.
    • Larger Cherries from Tezukuri Notes! - this is the one I kept counting wrong. You can make the berries into any round fruit - I add a stem and leaf based on what I learned from other videos to make an apple and it looks great. I also leave out the center bead apples. But if you are going to make cherries, watch the video all the way through first!
    • Orange (or other round fruit) from Tezukuri Notes! - I tried this one first and it came out ugly. But now that I have done a bunch more and learned better practices, I am going to go back to try it again.
    • Next up - bananas and watermelon slices!
    • (There’ll be a photo of Anna’s project jar of beaded fruits on our Discord Server!)
  • The unsettling universe of ASMR restocking videos (plus the various commentary on them). I always watch them feeling like there is something foundational about the modern American (aspirational) middle class mental landscape represented there, and I am uncomfortably mesmerized by it.
• Jam
  • TV Chef Fantasy League (podcast)
    • TVCFL on youtube
  • Kill James Bond (podcast)
    • KJB Highlights on youtube
  • Balatro (video game)
    • Balatro’s ‘Cursed’ Design Problem (video)
  • Slow AF Run Club by Martinus Evans
• Matthew
  • The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
  • Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang
  • Soara and the House of Monsters, vol. 1 by Hidenori Yamaji
  • Orcs! The Legend by Christine Larsen

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Hark! Podcast
• Perc - Imperial Leather (The track Matthew’s coworker said was “a lot.”)
• She Past Away - Durdu Dünya (The track Matthew said was “listenable.”)
• A bunch of cooking shows Matthew is too tired to find Wikipedia articles for.
• Um, Actually hosted by Ify Nwadiwe
• Philosophy Tube
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Links, Articles, and Things

• Trader Joe’s (Wikipedia)
  • Pirate Joe’s (Wikipedia) (The bootleg Trader Joe’s that used to exist in Vancouver.)
• American Manga Awards (Winners to be announced August 22nd.)

13 Bizarro Fiction Books by BIPOC 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 the lists can be found here.

• Elaine by Ben Arzate
• Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral
• She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin
• The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert by Rios de la Luz
• Technicolor Terrorists by Andre Duza
• Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez & Mark Williams
• Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
• Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones
• Not Seeing Is A Flower by Erhu Kome
• Wet and Screaming by Shane McKenzie
• Jah Hills by Unathi Slasha
• Notes from the Guts of a Hippo by Grant Wamack
• Vegan Zombie Apocalypse by Will-vary

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 3rd when it’s time for episode 200 and we’ll be talking about Library fiction!

Then on Tuesday, October 1st we’ve decided to celebrate 200 episodes with the first of four genres we picked. We’ll be getting ready for spooky season with the Weird West! (That’s supernatural horror westerns.)