Episode 024 - Other Stuff We Read

This episode we tackle the genre of...wait? What do you mean there’s no genre? We have to read things that aren’t for the book club?! I guess somehow we have time to consume other media outside of our book club picks! If you’re curious about what we read/listen/watch/play when we’re not way outside of our comfort zone, then listen along for a run down of what we’ve been into since the beginning of the 2017.

We talk superhot sidekick guys in mystery tv shows, sharing the same haircut with friends, planes, trains, and automobiles, too much snow in Canada (or at least in Vancouver), and Jessi getting scared by her cat.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books

In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri (recommended) The Blue Castle  by L.M. Montgomery The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter The complete Long Earth series (at least the first couple are recommended for Discworld fans) Apartment Therapy: Complete and Happy Home by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Janel Laban (recommended) A Life Less Ordinary: Interiors and Insights, Love and Life by Alex Legendre, Zoe Ellison Home for Now: Making Your Rented Space or First House Beautiful by Joanna Thornhill Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small Cool Spaces by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

Comics/Graphic Novels

Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters, Brooke A. Allen, and others (recommended) Suicide Squad by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Luke McDonnell, and others Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (recommended)

Podcasts

The Colour Code Sooo Many White Guys

Movies/TV

Coco Before Chanel Midsomer Murders (19 seasons) Scooby Doo The Witch (recommended) Lights Out The Conjuring (recommended) The Conjuring 2 The Hobbit film series

Games

Stardew Valley

Other Things Mentioned

Prisencolinensinainciusol - The song about what the English language sounds like to native Italian speakers Early 20th Century Canadian Authors: Gabriel Roy - specifically The Tin Flute Hugh MacLennan - specifically Two Solitudes Article in The Globe and Mail on Chinese restaurants in Canada owned by immigrants My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates from The Atlantic Our episode 007 on Cozy Mysteries from June 2016 Count Duckula animated TV series (Wikipedia) Bunnicula books (Wikipedia) Event Horizon film Alien: Isolation video game Clips from streamers playing (and spoiling) Resident Evil 7

Anna’s project on reading the research into #WhatWeRead and sharing her thoughts on it will happen over her Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

Questions

What are you into reading/watching/playing/or listening to? What media do you suggest that we check out? Can you recommend (or even name) any early Canadian writers or literature?

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 21st for our first anniversary episode where we’ll discuss Detective Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, April 4th when we’ll discuss “digital vs physical” and “library vs owning”.