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160 - Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Marumaki
20 november 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
It's Non-Fiction November and NaNoWriMo, so for Episode 160 we decided to read Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami. In this essay collection, Murakami talks about everything from his journey as a novelist to his writing routine to his thoughts on school and literary prizes.
Show Notes
As you can probably guess, we absolutely loved this one and we're thinking it's time to read a Murakami novel on the pod. Anyone have any favourites?
Shout out to all translators and especially Rhonda Mullins, who translated several of the books in translation that we've read for the podacst, including pod favourite, Paper Houses.
Our next episode is our annual F*ck You JK episode. We're reading Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore, which is super queer and will also let us have a bit of a spooky season revival.
Other Books and Authors Mentioned
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
On Writing by Stephen King
Books by Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Norwegian Wood
Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
1Q84
Kafka on the Shore
(and more!) Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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159 - Just Kids by Patti Smith
6 november 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
Episode 159 is a book club episode. Gen and Jette talk about Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids. The book chronicles her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe and their early days in New York City before they were the artists we know them as today.
Show Notes
This book. THIS BOOK! We just want to be artists doing all the things with our soulmate muses.
We saw Patti Smith at Budweiser Stage last summer. She was incredible and exactly as cool as you'd think. Listen to her cover of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" if you want to cry.
Patti Smith wrote this book for Robert Mapplethorpe and we'll by crying about it forever.
Check out the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to see some of his work.
We're going to be reading everything else Patti Smith has written.
This podcast is taking a stand against deckled edges. They are the WORST.
Next episode we'll be honouring non-fiction November and NaNoWriMo (though we are not participating) with Haruki Murakami's book, Novelist as a Vocation.
Our next book club selection is Gen' pick, and we'll be reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, about a labyrinthine house.
Other Books by Patti Smith
M Train
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158 - We Mostly Come Out At Night
23 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 10 min
In Episode 158, we're talking about our official spooky season book pick: We Mostly Come Out at Night. This short story collection, edited by Rob Costello, features queer retellings and re-imaginings of classic monster stories and tropes. It was super fun and we had a great time reading it.
Show Notes
Rob Costello's book, The Dancing Bears: Queer Fables for the End Times, came out earlier this year.
Did anyone else play creepy games at sleepovers like Bloody Mary or that Concentrate one? Here's the full Concentrate text. It's, uh, way creepier than I remembered.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Just Kids by Patti Smith, our current book club and Jette's pick. We're excited to read it, but not excited about the deckled edges.
For non-fiction November and in honour of NaNoWriMo (which neither of us is even going to pretend to attempt this year), we'll be reading Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murikami. Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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157 - 6th Anniversary Hangout
9 oktober 2024 · 58 min
In Episode 157, we're celebrating our 6th anniversary of the podcast! It's been an amazing six and we can't wait for another six more.
Show Notes
A huge thank you to all of our regular listeners! We're just a little podcast and we appreciate each and every one of you. We're so glad you join us every episode to talk about books and writing.
We're at more than 13,000 total listens, which may not sound like a lot compared to bigger podcasts, but it's kind of mind blowing for us.
The Bonne Maman advent calendars aren't sold out yet, so you can still get one.
Or get a cookie one from Gen (shamelessly self-promoting the cookie business).
In our next episode, we'll be talking about We Mostly Come Out at Night, a collection of queer horror YA stories edited by Rob Costello.
Read along with our current book club pick, Just Kids by Patti Smith. We'll be discussing it first thing in November.
Books Mentioned
Payback's A Witch by Lana Harper
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
Who Will Bury You by Chido Muchemwa
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
Reality Squall by Jason Krawcyk
I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Amazing Spiderman Edge of the Spiderverse by Gerard Way
Queen B by Juno Dawson
Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry
The Five Year Lie by Sarina Bowen
Ghost 19 by Simone St. James
Freaks, Gleeks and Dawson's Creek by Thea Glassman
The Return by Rachel Harrison
Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle Lees meer -
156 - Who Will Bury You? by Chido Muchemwa
25 september 2024 · 1 uur 16 min
In Episode 156, we've teamed up with one of our favourite indie publishers, House of Anansi Press, to read the short story collection Who Will Bury You? Written by Zimbabwean author Chido Muchemwa, the stories take place across generations, in Toronto and Zimbabwe, and grapple with loss, family, and the meaning of home.
Show Notes
We love working with House of Anansi! This is our seventh episode featuring their books, and we hope to read even more in future episodes. Check out the list of previous HOA books below.
One of the best parts of reading is learning new things and we both realized how little we know about Zimbabwean history and culture. Now we want to know all about the construction of the Kariba Dam, the story of the Zambezi river god Nyami Nyami, and more about the mermaids.
When we talked about flash fiction, Gen talked about The Forever Workshop, available through Substack and run by the cool people at Chill Subs/Write or Die. If you sign up for their paid newsletter, you get the entire back catalog of their self-paced workshops!
Our next episode is our anniversary episode! This one marks six years of being in the podcast business. Can you believe it? We can't. It was 2018. It was a different world.
Other House of Anansi Episodes
20: Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin & Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renee Lavoie
39: Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger & Pallbearing Stories by Michael Melgaard
43: You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
70: A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renee Lavoie
97: A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
128: The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird Lees meer -
155 - Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
11 september 2024 · 1 uur
Episode 155 is a book club episode, and we're talking about Gen's summer pick, Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. It offers up some spooky southern gothic vibes with a side of car races and a family curse.
Show Notes
After picking this book, Gen realized it was blurbed by the author of her last book club pick, Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.
As Jette aptly pointed out, this is the most Gen book ever, complete with fast cars and ill-advised road races.
This is Lee Mandelo's debut novel. He has since written two novellas, Feed Them Silence, and The Woods All Black, the latter of which made it onto Gen's Top 10 Books for 2024.
Our next book club pick has been on Jette's list for ages: Just Kids by Patti Smith. She's finally diving in, and Gen is reading it for a second time. She's ready to be wrecked by it all over again.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Who Will Bury You? by Chido Muchemwa, a short story collection generously sent to us by House of Anansi Press. We love working them and are super excited to see what this one is all about.
Other Books Mentioned
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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154 - I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
28 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
In Episode 154, it's time for another instalment of #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones. We just can't stay away from the spooky books this summer, but this one has a distinctly summer vibe with it's unique twist on the slasher genre. You'll want to read it with a bowl of popcorn handy!
Show Notes
If you like your horror with a dose of meta, Scream-style, then this book is for you. We had a such a great time reading and talking about this. It's so much fun!
You might recognize Stephen Graham Jones from his New York Times bestselling book, The Only Good Indians, or My Heart is a Chainsaw. He's written so many books, and we're definitely eager to check them out!
Our next episode is a book club episode, and we're sticking with our spooky summer vibes. We'll be discussing Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo, so get ready for some ghosty southern gothic goodness. Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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153 - Reality Squall by J. Krawczyk
14 augustus 2024 · 56 min
In Episode 153, Gen and Jette talk about Reality Squall by J. Krawczyk. Space-time gets funky in this one, so you know we loved it!
Show Notes
One of Jason's other books, It Look Like Dad, was published by Little Ghosts Books, one of our favourite Toronto bookstores that is also a publisher!
Jason Krawczyk is not just a writer of books, but a filmmaker too. His production company is called Alternate Ending Studios.
We've talked about time travel before on the pod—the first time being way back in Episode 9 with Eating the Dinosaur—but we've never read about different dimension and universes colliding. Whoa.
Shout out, as always, not just to our local bookstores, but also our local libraries. Even if you don't use your library card, just getting one helps support them. Plus, why wouldn't you want access to everything that Hoopla and Libby and Kanopy has to offer?
Summerween continues in our next episode with I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones.
Other Books by Jason Krawczyk
“Crusade” – Hellbound Books – Madame Gray’s Vault of Gore 2021
“An Earth That Knows Magic” – Black Hare Press – Novella 2022
“It Looks Like Dad” – Little Ghosts Books – Novella 2023
Films by Jason Krawczyk Lees meerWriter/Director, The Briefcase (2013) Ft. Vincent Pastor and Kip Pardue. Crystal Palace Festival
Writer/Director, He Never Died (2015) Ft. Henry Rollins and Steven Ogg. SXSW, Fantasia
Writer/Producer – She Never Died – (2019) Companion sequel to He Never Died
Writer/Director – Sunset Superman (2023) Ft. Michael Jai White and Billy ZaneDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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152 - Summer Hangout 2024
31 juli 2024 · 56 min
The sun is out, the weather is sweaty, which means it's time for our summer hangout episode. We're talking about what we've been reading over the last couple months and checking in on our reading goals now that we're halfway through the year.
Show Notes
The Aberfoyle Antique Market runs until late October if you want to check it out.
Write or Die has some amazing writing workshops. If you're interested in Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya's Queer Imagination workshop, she's running it again in September. Or sign up for her Gays and Ghouls queer horror workshop in October.
Keep an eye out for Gen's next blog instalment of most anticipated 2024 book releases coming soon.
Read along with our current book club pick, Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo, which we'll be talking about in September.
Books Mentioned
The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Marion Gibson
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Five Year Lie by Sarina Bowen
Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James
US by Sara Soler
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
Beautyland by Marie Helene-Bertino
Future Feeling by Joss Lake
The Artists Way series by Julia Cameron
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Ghost 19 by Simone St. James
Murder Road by Simone St. James
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Body Work by Melissa Febos
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Caden Mark Gardner & Willow Catelyn Maclay Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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151 - Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
17 juli 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
In Episode 151, we're doing another instalment of Page to Screen with Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey and the mini series of the same name. It's a true crime story based on the 1997 murder of Reena Virk in Victoria, BC.
Show Notes
This is our second true crime story, the first being way back in Episode 8 with Killers of the Flower Moon. In a strange coincidence, that film adaptation stars Lily Gladstone, as does Under the Bridge.
We're fully committed to Summerween at this point. Next up we have a hangout episode, which will surely feature some thrillers, then a book from Little Ghosts Books, followed by Stephen Graham Jones' upcomjng release, I Was a Teenage Slasher.
Don't forget to read along with our book club book, Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo.
Other Books Mentioned
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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150 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3 juli 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
It's our 150th episode! Very fittingly, it's a book club episode, which is the entire reason this podcast exists. In this episode, we're talking about Jette's pick, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and we loved reading more of Moreno-Garcia's work.
Show Notes
We can't believe we've recorded 150 episodes of book content! Of those episodes, 38 have been book club discussions. That's...a lot of books. And somehow our TBRs are still threatening to topple over.
It was way back in Episode 59 that we talked about Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
This book is loosely based on The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells, which was published in 1896. The film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer came out in 1996.
Our next episode is another instalment of Page to Screen and we'll be discussing Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey and the series adaptation of the same title.
Our next book club pick is Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo.
Other Books Mentioned
By Silvia Moreno-Garcia — Silver Nitrate, Certain Dark Things, Velvet Was the Night, The Seventh Veil of Salome
By H.G. Wells — The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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149 - Angels in America by Tony Kushner
19 juni 2024 · 1 uur 16 min
In Episode 149, Gen and Jette continue to celebrate Pride Month with Tony Kushner's award-winning play, Angels in America. We had to cut ourselves off eventually because we could talk about this play forever.
Show Notes
We went to see this play last December at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. It was produced by That Theatre Company and directed by Craig Pike. (Yes, Torontonians, Craig Pike of Craig's Cookies.) It was phenomenal and we knew we had to read the play and dedicate an episode to it.
The play runs about 7 hours long in total and is technically two separate plays: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika.
HBO made a mini series, adapted for the screen by Tony Kushner, in 2003.
In 2017, The National Theatre produced a revival starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane and it eventually went to Broadway.
This play has won a lot of awards and it's very clear why. We'll definitely make it a point to see any production of this that we can get to.
This spring, Gen went to see another 7-hour long play called The Inheritance, put on by Canadian Stage Company. It's a reimagining of E.M. Forester's novel Howard's End and also deals with AIDS and being gay in America, but in a contemporary setting that takes place before and after the election of Donald Trump.
Our next episode is our 150th! Appropriately, it is a book club episode. We'll be talking about Jette's pick, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia.
Other Media Mentioned
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
Caroline, or Change
Munich (2005)
Lincoln (2012)
West Side Story (2021)
The Fabelmans (2022) Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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148 - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
5 juni 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
In Episode 148, Gen and Jette are kicking off Pride Month with Maia Kobabe's graphic novel memoir, Gender Queer.
Show Notes
This graphic novel memoir was such a great entry point for talking about gender and sexuality.
Maia Kobabe uses Spivak pronouns, e/em/eir.
You can check out Kobabe's other work in a number of anthologies, including Gothic Tales of Haunted Love and Be Gay, Do Comics.
Super into all the required classes that Kobabe took in High School at the Waldorf School.
Watch our Instagram for some Pride book recs this month, and check out some of our queer reading lists on the blog:
A Queer Reading List to Keep Pride Going All Year Long
Top 7 Pride Month Books to Celebrate Queer Joy
Our love for The Storygraph is never ending, especially the reading stats.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Angels in America by Tony Kushner. We went to see the play last December, so now we're going to read it, and probably watch the HBO mini series and/or the National Theatre production.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
Pet by Akweke Emezi
Tranny by Laura Jane Grace
The Laramie Project Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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147 - Spring Hangout 2024
22 mei 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
It's spring, which means it's time for another hangout episode. We love having these chats about all the non-podcast books we've been reading and the writing projects we're working on.
Show Notes
We actually hung out IRL recently. It was so much fun to walk around TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) and then chat for hours at Cafe Landwer afterwards.
While at TCAF, we got to chat with Cecil Castellucci, who wrote Shade, The Changing Girl—one of our first (maybe the first?) graphic novel episodes!
We're so on top of our reading goals this year. Wild.
October's reading theme might end up being books about cursed films.
Gen's Top 10 Books of 2024 is up on the blog! We broke it into two posts: Part 1 and Part 2
Our 150th episode is coming up, and very fittingly it's going to be a book club episode. We're reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia and will be talking about it July 3.
In our next episode we're kicking off Pride month with Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, which is a graphic novel memoir.
Other Books & Media Mentioned
By Lynda Barry: What It Is; Syllabus
The Witching Hours published by Cloudscape Comics
By Cecil Castellucci: Shade, The Changing Girl; Girl on Film
Everyone Is Tulip by Dave Baker
Mourning Doves Are People Too by Demi Naito
The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson (Episode 145)
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Episode 146)
The Night Eaters, Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Episode 144)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Alison
Cats Cafe by Matt Tarpley
A Guest in the House by EM Carroll
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 6 by James Tynion IV
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson
Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 e… Lees meer -
146 - Starling House by Alix E Harrow
8 mei 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
In Episode 146, Gen and Jette talk about their most recent book club pick—Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. We are so here for the spooky houses and gothic vibes!
Show Notes
Eleanor Starling was giving Mark Ryden and Margaret Keane vibes.
Starling House is a portal fantasy of sorts, as is Harrow's debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January. She also wrote a short story called "A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies."
Our next book club pick is The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia MorenoGarcia. It's based on H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. So we're sticking with the gothic, spooky vibes. We loved Mexican Gothic and we're sure this one is going to be great! We'll be discussing it first thing in July.
We may also have to watch the 1996 film, The Island of Doctor Moreau, starring Val Kilmer, Marlon Brando, and Fairuza Balk, among others. It looks like a wild time.
Other Books Mentioned
Lost in the Neverwoods by Aiden Thomas
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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145 - The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson
24 april 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
In Episode 145, we're back with the sequel to Her Majesty's Royal Coven! This is probably the fastest we've ever read the second book in a series, but we simply couldn't wait. So much happened in this book. Can we have the next one already please?
Show Notes
Juno Dawson is absolutely killing us with these cliffhangers. Yes, another one. Always with that last sentence!
The next book in the series, Queen B, seems to be a prequel of sorts. It's a shorter novel that traces the origins of HMRC that began with Anne Boleyn.
The final instalment of the trilogy doesn't appear to have a release date yet, but looks like it might be called Human Rites. Unfortunately, we couldn't find very much information about it at all, so it looks like we'll be waiting awhile for it!
HMRC is currently in development to be turned into a TV series, from the producers of The Crown. You know we'll be watching whenever it drops.
Join us next time for a book club episode. We'll be discussing Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.
Other Books & Media Mentioned
The Sixth Sense
Twilight by Stephenie Meyers
Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins
The series that must not be named (you know the one) Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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144 - The Night Eaters (vol 1) by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
10 april 2024 · 1 uur
In Episode 144, Gen and Jette read the first volume of Night Eaters, a horror graphic novel by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda.
You know we're all about the creepy graphic novels, but this one had the added bonus of being very funny. Safe to say we loved it!
Show Notes
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda have worked in all corners of the comic/graphic novel world, including Marvel and their co-created series, Monstress, published by Image Comics. They've both won Hugo and Eisner awards, and Liu is the first ever woman (and woman of colour) to win an Eisner in the Best Writer category.
Shout out to Hoopla, as always. We love being able to read even more graphic novels through their library platform.
Somehow we stumbled across this graphic novel separately...maybe? Hard to say. We might just share a brain now.
Another shout out belongs to the Concord Bookshop, where Jette snagged her copy of Night Eaters from their amazing graphic novel section.
In our next episode, we'll be talking about the sequel to Her Majesty's Royal Coven, The Shadow Cabinet, because that cliff hanger means we need to discuss it ASAP!!
Other Books Mentioned
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera
Paper Houses & Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
The Martian by Andy Weir
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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143 - Spring Hangout 2024
27 maart 2024 · 50 min
In Episode 143, Gen and Jette talk about everything they've been up to so far this year, including what books they've been reading and what they've been writing.
Show Notes
We may end up squeezing in an episode on The Shadow Cabinet as a follow up to Her Majesty's Royal Coven.
Word to the wise if you decide to work through The Artist's Way — buy a smaller notebook.
In our next episode we'll be talking about the graphic novel The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda.
Our current book club pick is Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, so make sure to read along with us before the episode drops on May 8.
Books Mentioned
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
A Twist of the Knife by Anthony Horowitz
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Couplets by Maggie Milner
The Silent Woman by Minka Kent
Leslie F*cking Jones
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Fall On Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan Maguire
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
Freaks, Gleeks and Dawson's Creek by Thea Glassman
The Fran Lebowitz Reader Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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142 - Her Majesty's Royal Coven
13 maart 2024 · 59 min
In Episode 142, Gen and Jette discuss their latest book club selection, Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. Obviously we loved the witchy vibes and the stellar queer rep, but also the end of this book had us screaming. Yes, it ends on a cliffhanger!
Show Notes
We haven't done a book quite like this one before! Obviously we've done witchy books in the past, but not one that was so action-packed and full of such cool world building.
Spoilers abound! Especially by the end. We need to read the next book immediately and may have borrowed it on Libby while we were recording lol
If you loved the series about a certain boy wizard about which we no longer speak, but find that author loathsome, this book is exactly the grown-up, queer positive version you're looking for.
Our next book club selection is Gen's pick and we'll be reading Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. It has some gothic haunted house vibes that sound amazing.
Next episode is a hangout episode to catch you up on everything we've been reading, writing, etc. and there's a high chance we'll end up talking about the sequel to HRMC.
Other Books by Juno Dawson
HRMC #2: The Shadow Cabinet
This Book Is Gay
Mind Your Head
Margot & Me
The Gender Games
Clean
Meat Market Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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141 - Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
28 februari 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
In Episode 141, it's time for another James Baldwin book!
If you've been around for a while, you'll know that James Baldwin is one of our favourite authors, so we've turned it into an annual tradition to read one of his works every February. This time we're reading Baldwin's non-fiction with his first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son.
As usual, we had an incredible time talking about this, and we just need more Baldwin in our lives.
Show Notes
Baldwin wrote the introduction to the 1984 edition while he was in Amherst, Massachusetts. The universe is telling us we need to go visit.
Another Country was our first Baldwin book, and it's still one of our favourites. You could start anywhere with his work, but this one remains high on the list and we're so glad it was the first one we read.
We loved getting to learn more about Baldwin's life in America and abroad in Europe.
Be sure to read Jette's blog post 5 Must-Read James Baldwin Books That Will Change Your Life.
Yes, we already dropped a Pale Shadows reference in this episode.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson.
Other Books by James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Devil Finds Work
The Fire Next Time
Another Country (Episode 55)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Episode 61)
Giovanni's Room (Episode 113) Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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140 - Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier
14 februari 2024 · 53 min
In Episode 140, Gen and Jette get to revisit one of their favourite books, Paper Houses, with the sequel, Pale Shadows. Dominique Fortier's follow-up to her reimagining of Emily Dickinson's life, traces the publication of Dickinson's poems after her death and the women who helped it happen. Lees meer
Obviously we loved this. It's time to add every Emily Dickinson collection to our reading lists.
Show Notes
We learned a lot about the process of readying Emily's poems for publication, which included removing dashes and deciding on which word Emily intended for the poem. There are several different collections with slightly different versions of the poems. The one being published in Pale Shadows was edited and transcribed by Mabel. A later edition was done by her daughter, Millicent.
Shout out to Coach House Books for never steering us wrong. Paper Houses was the first book of theirs we ever read on the podcast.
If you haven't listened yet, check out Episode 26 on Paper Houses.
Emily Dickinson's Herbarium was also published and it has been digitized by Harvard Library for anyone to look through.
In our next episode we'll be reading James Baldwin's essay collection, Notes of a Native Son.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
Dickinson (HBO TV series)
The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Other Coach House Books Episodes
36: Disfigure by Amanda LeDuc
51: 2020 Fall Releases
62: Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
74: And Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier
88: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
117: Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras
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139 - The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
31 januari 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
In Episode 139, Gen and Jette continue their #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series with The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz. It's our first whodunnit style mystery, and we had a great time.
Show Notes
While we've definitely seen this book floating around Instagram (hence why we picked it), we've also seen a lot of others by Anthony Horowitz. Probably because he's written...to say a lot would be an understatement.
Fun fact: it's possible that Horowitz has committed more fictional murders than any other living author!
He's written instalments for both Sherlock Holmes and James Bond, having been selected by the Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming estates to continue the respective stories.
Did you catch our brief mention of our other podcast? To follow our rewatch of One Tree Hill (and The OC before that), check out Teenage Daydream Podcast.
Our next episode we've been anticipating since the books was announced — it's the follow-up to podcast favourite, Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier, which we talked about way back in Episode 26. This one is called Pale Shadows and we can't wait to be incoherent messes about it.
After Pale Shadows, join us for our annual James Baldwin read on February 28. Lees meerOther Books and Media Mentioned
Knives Out
Glass Onion
Columbo
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Riley Sager
Sue GraftonDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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138 - Flung Out Of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Temple
17 januari 2024 · 47 min
In Episode 138, Gen and Jette discuss the graphic novel Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer. It reimagines the life of author Patricia Highsmith and the inspiration for her classic lesbian novel The Price of Salt.
Show Notes
We've begun a bit of a tradition of reading a graphic novel as our second episode of the year, and we're loving it. It's especially fun to talk about the illustrations alongside the writing.
It was fascinating to learn more about Patricia Highsmith—both the good and the bad—and we'd love to learn more.
Did you catch the Paper Houses references? We're going to have many more coming when we read the follow up book, Pale Shadows, in early February.
Our next episode we'll be talking about The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz.
Don't forget to read along with our current book club pick, Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. We'll be talking about that one first thing in March.
Other Books & Media Mentioned
Carol (2016 film)
May December (2023 film)
Highsmith: Her Secret Life (2004 film)
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith
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137 - The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
3 januari 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
It's our first episode of 2024, and as usual we're kicking it off with last year's final book club book. In episode 137, we're talking about The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez. It's a fantastically strange and creepy collection of short stories, so of course we loved it.
Show Notes
Neither of us knows enough about Argentinian history, so some of the sociopolitical context goes over our heads, but it's clear that the disappearances during Argentina's Dirty Wars have a significant influence on some of the stories.
Jette has never used a Ouija board. It seems to be one of those things that people are genuinely afraid to use. We don't need to accidentally conjure malevolent spirits! (Power to the teenage girls who are trying to though.)
Our next book club book is Jette's pick, and we're reading Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. There's witches and gender stuff and the corruption of power. It sounds like it's going to be great. We'll be talking about that one in March.
We'll be back in two weeks with a graphic novel. It was TBD when we recorded, but we've since decided to read Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer. It's a reimagining of real life author, Patricia Highsmith, and her inspiration for the classic lesbian novel, The Price of Salt.
Until next week, check out our latest blog post all about the thrillers you can cozy up with this winter and keep an eye out for Gen's round up of anticipated reads for 2024.
Other Books Mentioned
By Mariana Enriquez – Things We Lost in the Fire, Our Share of Night
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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136 - 2023 Holiday Wrap
20 december 2023 · 43 min
It's the end of the year, so it's time for our annual wrap-up episode! Join us as we chat about what we've been up to the last few months, how we did with our reading and writing goals this year, and what we have coming in the new year. We've got a few teasers in there to look out for!
Show Notes
Obviously one of our most hotly anticipated 2024 episodes is the sequel to Paper Houses. We'll be talking about Pale Shadows early next year.
We both read a lot of horror and queer lit this year.
Our first episode in January will be Gen's book club pick, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez. We're ready for some weird short stories, so grab your copy and read along over the holidays!
Books Mentioned
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
Pluralities by Avi Silver
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins
Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
You're on an Airplane by Parker Posey
Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Season of the Bruja by Sara Soler and Aaron Duran
Yoga For Witches by Sarah Robinson
Luna by Tamara Driessen
The Photographer's Playbook
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moira Fowley
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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135 - Pluralities by Avi Silver
6 december 2023 · 1 uur
In Episode 135, it's time for our annual FUJK book selection.
Once upon a time, before a certain author who wrote a book about a certain boy wizard revealed herself to be a piece of trash, we had begun working out way through the series. Now we choose a queer trans author to read instead!
This year we're reading Pluralities by Avi Silver. We absolutely loved it! Prepare for some obsessed rambles. This was definitely a favourite!
Show Notes
We've read so many good books for this series! See below for the full list.
You may recognize Avi Silver from Episode 42 about The Shale Project. We read Silver's book Two Dark Moons and Sienna Tristen's The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming.
In our next episode we're wrapping up 2024 (HOW?!). Join us for a chat about our favourite books and episodes of the year, and some of our reading and writing goals for the new year.
Other FUJK Episodes
57: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
83: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
109: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Other Books Mentioned
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
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134 - Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins
22 november 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In Episode 134, it's the re-return of podcast fave Jedidiah Jenkins. We're talking about Jenkins' latest book Mother, Nature, about a road trip he takes with his mother and their relationship.
Show Notes
This is Jenkins' third book and our third episode about one his books (yes, we've done all of them). I think that officially makes him our most revisited author!
Are we going to have to do a cult book soon?
Jedidiah and his mom listen to some really interesting sounding podcasts on their trip, including ones about DB Cooper, the feral pigs tweet, and cult leader Sherry Shriner.
We've got an eye any future Jedidah Jenkins writing retreats.
Our next episode is our annual middle finger to JKR, and this time we're reading Pluralities by Avi Silver — another author we've read before! You might recognize them from our episode on The Shale Project.
Books, Authors and Episodes Mentioned
To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins (Episode 12)
Like Streams to the Ocean by Jedidiah Jenkins (Episode 65)
These Violent Delights (Episode 69) & Our Violent Ends (Episode 86) by Chloe Gong
The Rural Diaries (Episode 46) & Grimoire Girl (Episode 133) by Hilarie Burton Morgan
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes (Episode 60) & Hayley Alrdrige is Still Here (Episode 114) by Elissa R. Sloan
Autopsy of a Boring Wife (Episode 20) & A Boring Wife Settles the Score (Episode 70) by Marie-Renée Lavoie
Paper Houses (Episode 26) by Domnique Fortier Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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133 - Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan
8 november 2023 · 1 uur 16 min
In Episode 133 Gen and Jette revisit one of their favourite authors, Hilarie Burton Morgan, and kick off Non Fiction November with Grimoire Girl. Burton's latest book combines personal stories with her tips and simple spells for creating your own personal grimoire.
Show Notes
We have allll the ideas and creative inspiration now. Like so many projects are brewing.
Some questions we got to consider while discussing this book include: What body of water do you most relate to? Which planet/celestial body is your favourite?
We need to visit Wethersfield Garden.
The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan is still our top episode ever. Will Grimoire Girl beat that?
If you're not quite ready to create your own oracle deck, check out The Tessera Oracle.
For some essay writing ideas check out Summer Brennan's Essay Camp on Substack.
Our next episode we'll be re-revisiting another podcast favourite, Jedidiah Jenkins. We'll be talking abouy his latest book Mother, Nature.
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132 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
25 oktober 2023 · 1 uur
In Episode 132, Gen and Jette tackle a horror novel with The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay. It had a moment that shocked both of us and definitely gave us lots to talk about.
Show Notes
We're officially in our fifth season of the podcast!
Gen has a theory that the horror genre is like country music. Listen to the end of the episode to find out why.
The movie adaptation with M. Night Shyamalan is called Knock at the Cabin and has a few changes to the books that we talk about.
Spoilers abound in this episode, for both the book and the movie, even though neither of us has seen it.
Will we watch the movie? Undecided.
In keeping with the spooky theme, but on a completely different note, we'll be discussing Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan in our next episode.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
The Silence of the Lambs
Riley Sager
The Exorcist
Saw
Funny Games
Stephen King
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Eyes Throat Guts Bones by Moïra Fowley
Other Books by Paul Tremblay
Survivor Song
A Head Full of Ghosts Lees meer -
131 - 5th Anniversary Hangout
11 oktober 2023 · 47 min
Episode 131 is an anniversary hangout. We're celebrating 5 years of Another Book on the Shelf. 5 years of great books, great discussions, and amazing listeners! We can't wait to bring you another 5 more! Lees meer
Show Notes
We're actually going places out in the world now and it's very exciting.
Check out Gen's cookie website Honeybee Cookie Co. and get your Christmas orders in!
Our next episode we're sticking with the creepy October theme and reading The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay just in time for Halloween.
Don't forget to read along with our current book club selection, Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan.
Books Mentioned
The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
Gotham Academy, Volume 2: Calamity by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kerschl, and Mingjue Helen Chen
Bear by Marian Engel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Volume 1 by Jordie Bellaire and Dan Mora
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
You're On and Airplane by Parker Posey
What Draws Us Near (published by Little Ghosts Books)
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Tombs by Junji Ito Still
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
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130 - The Silence of the Lambs
27 september 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
In our latest instalment of Page to Screen, Gen and Jette talk about The Silence of the Lambs. We had a great time talking about the classic film and the novel by Thomas Harris to kick off spooky season. It's easy to see why Hannibal Lecter has captivated people! We're not saying we like him necessarily, but he's definitely fun to read about (and watch!)
Show Notes
The Silence of the Lambs film is one of only three to have won all five major awards at the Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins, and Best Actress for Jodie Foster.
The film is also the only horror film to have won Best Picture.
We're both ready to dive deep into the Hannibal Lecter canon, including all the books, films, and tv adaptations.
In our next episode we'll be celebrating our fifth (!!!) anniversary of the podcast!
Other Books & Screen Adaptations in the Hannibal Series
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
Hannibal (2001 film)
Red Dragon (2002 film)
Hannibal Rising (2007 film)
Hannibal (2013-2015 tv show) Lees meerClarice (2021 tv show)Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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129 - Bear by Marian Engel
13 september 2023 · 1 uur
In Episode 129, Gen and Jette dive into "the most controversial Canadian novel" ever written. A woman goes to work in Northern Ontario and begins a relationship with a bear. Spoiler in 2023, it wasn't that wild. Or was it? Lees meer
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128 - The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
30 augustus 2023 · 51 min
In Episode 128, Gen and Jette team up with one of their favourite local publishers, House of Anansi Press, to read The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird. It's the second book of poetry for the pod and we absolutely loved it.
Show Notes
House of Anansi's namesake comes from the spider god of West-African tradition, Kwaku Anansi, who created the world.
House of Anansi is located in Toronto. Be sure to check out their sister imprint, Groundwood Books, for children's and young adult lit.
If you're looking for the book version of the annual CBC Massey Lectures, it's House of Anansi you want!
The All + Flesh was published on August 8 and is available for purchase.
The other book of poetry we talked about on the pod is Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne, published by our other fave indie publisher, Coach House.
Our next episode is a book club episode! We'll be talking about Bear by Marian Engel (also published by House of Anansi). It's going to be an interesting one!
If you haven't already, take a look at the Narcisse snake pits in Manitoba, but be warned! It is very much a writing pit of snakes.
Other House of Anansi Episodes
20: House of Anansi Press 2019 Spring Books
39: House of Anansi New Releases
43: You Are Not What We Expected – Interview with Sidura Ludwig
70: A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie
97: A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
Other Book Mentioned
I Am Still Too Much by Brandi Bird
The Rez Sisters by Thomson Highway
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127 - Summer Hangout 2023
16 augustus 2023 · 58 min
It's time for another hang out episode! In this episode, Gen and Jette talk about what they've been up to and what they've been reading (actually so much!). We may be ready for fall already, but we're making the most of summer while it's still here.
Show Notes
Check out our latest blog post, Top 7 Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2023
The new show on Netflix about the Sacklers and the opioid crisis is called Painkiller.
Our next episode we team up with House of Anansi Press to read a new poetry collection, The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird.
Books Mentioned
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood
The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood
Surfside Girls by Kim Dwinell
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera
The Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
The Book of Phobias and Manias by Kate Summerscale
Always Never by Jordi Lafebre
Ripple Effects by Jordan Hart and Matthew Noe
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
The Beauty by Jason A. Hurley and Jeremy Haun
Welcome to Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan (of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys), Brendan Fletcher, and Karl Kerschel
Stillwater by Chip Zdarsky
Ghost Tree by Bobby Curnow
Life is Strange: Dust by Emma Vieceli
Tell Me Everything: A Memoir by Minka Kelly
House of Slaughter by James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children spin-off)
You're On An Airplane by Parker Posey
Mother, Nature by jedidiah Jenkins
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Junior High by Tegan and Sara Quin\
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
Steering the Craft by Ursula Le Guin
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Sordidez by E.G. Condé
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Syllabus by Lynda Barry
Romancing the … Lees meer -
126 - Sordidez by E.G. Condé
2 augustus 2023 · 59 min
In Episode 126, Gen and Jette team up with indie publisher Stelliform Press. They generously sent us a copy of their recent release Sordidez by E.G. Condé, which follows different members of communities trying to survive in a world ravaged by war and climate catastrophe. Lees meer
Show Notes
We first heard about Stelliform Press at last year's Word on the Street festival. They publish stories that centre climate change and environmental justice.
The book about Guatemala that Gen couldn't remember the name of is Bitter Fruit by Stephen Schlesinger. It details the CIA's operation to overthrow the country's democratically elected government in 1954.
Find more of E.G. Condé's work at www.egconde.com or follow him on social media — @CloudAnthro on Twitter and @boricuascribe on Instagram.
Our next episode is going to be our summer hangout! Join us for some iced tea and reading/writing updates.Other Books Mentioned
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade (also published by Stelliform)Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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125 - Verity by Coleen Hoover
19 juli 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
It's time for another round of #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt! Actually, it was mostly BookTok this time. We're finally diving into one of Colleen Hoover's books. Verity has been all over Instagram and TikTok, and when friend of the pod Kattie read it, we knew it was time. We had a lot to say about this one. Let us know where you fall on the CoHo books – love or hate? We want to know. Lees meer
Show Notes
Are we going to read another CoHo book for the pod? Maybe.
In our next episode we're teaming up with a new indie book publisher that we discovered at Word on the Street—Stelliform Press. They publish mostly speculative climate fiction and we'll be talking about their new release, Sordidez by E.G. Condé.
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124 - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
5 juli 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
In Episode 124, Gen and Jette talk about The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder. This was Jette's pick for our book club and we loved the dystopian vibes and talking all about memories. Lees meer
Show Notes
Yōko Ogawa has won every Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and Yomiuri Prize.
Playing It Cool is a 2014 film starring Chris Evans, Aubrey Plaza, Michelle Monaghan, Anthony Mackie, Topher Grace, and Luke Wilson. With such a stacked cast, you'd think Gen would've heard of it.
Our next book club pick is Bear by Marian EngelDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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123 - Junior High by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden
21 juni 2023 · 45 min
Gen and Jette up their CanCon for Pride this year with Junior High — a middle grade semi-autobiographical graphic novel from Canadian musical duo Tegan and Sara, with the illustrations of Tillie Walden. Lees meer
Show Notes
Tegan and Sara's memoir High School was released in September 2019 and has since been turned into a TV series on Amazon Freevee. We've never heard of this show or Amazon Freevee, but we're definitely going to look it up.
There is going to be a sequel to Junior High! It's called Crush, but there's no word yet on a potential release date for it.
Tegan Sara's latest album is called Crybaby and came out in 2022.
If you've never listened to Tegan and Sara before, go do it now! Gen recommends starting with So Jealous.
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122 - Canadian Authors
7 juni 2023 · 52 min
In Episode 122, Gen and Jette keep up their CanCon with a discussion of Canadian authors.
Show Notes
If you're unfamiliar with CanCon, it's the stipulation that all Canadian media contain a certain percentage of content produced, written, etc. by Canadians.
It turns out we have a lot of episodes about books by Canadian authors (though not 35% as dictated by CanCon...we're working on it LOL). Find them all listed below.
Listen to the CBC Massey Lectures for free on the CBC Radio website
Alicia Elliot's new novel, And Then She Fell, is expected September 26.
Anne Michael's new novel, Held, is expected November 9.
Should we do an episode on Marian Engle's Bear?
We did our best to list everything we talked about below, but it's very likely that we left something out since we talked about a lot. (Buckle in, she's a long one)
Our next episode we'll be talking about Tegan and Sara's new graphic novel, Junior High (more CanCon!)
Books & Authors Mentioned
Robert Munsch
Fiona Staples (Saga)
Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals)
Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer)
Margaret Atwood
Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers)
Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries)
Margaret Laurence (The Stone Angel)
L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
Roberston Davies
Alice Munro
Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang)
Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes)
Yann Martel (Life of Pie)
Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)
Miriam Toews (A Complicated Kindness, Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows)
Esi Edugyan (Hald-Blood Blues, Washington Black)
Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranqulity)
Courtney Summers (Sadie, The Project)
Silvia-Moreno Garcia (Mexican Gothic, Certain Dark Things, Velvet Was the Night, Silver Nitrate)
Madeleine Thein (Do Not Say We Have Nothing)
Anne Michaels (Fugitive Pieces)
Marian Engle (Bear)
Douglas Coupland (Generation X, Girlfriend in a Coma, Hey Nostradamus, All Families Are Psychotic, Terry, Microser… Lees meer -
121 - Spring Hangout
24 mei 2023 · 40 min
In episode 121 Gen & Jette sit down for Another Cup of Tea and a spring hangout. We're talking all about what we've been reading lately and what we have planned for the coming months.
Show Notes
If you're in Toronto on May 27 & 28, be sure to stop by the Word On the Street festival.
Find out more about Gen's upcoming summer retreats.
Our next episode (for real this time) is all about Canadian authors.
Read along with our current book club pick, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, which we'll be discussing first thing in July.
Books Mentioned
The Cannibals by Tingu
Vicious Creatures by Sarah Gordon
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Sing Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
The Girl and the Glim by India Swift
Junkwraith by Ellinor Richey
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
These Witches Don't Burn & This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Losers by Andy Diggle and Jock
Surfside Girls by Kim Dwinell
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno Garcia
Small Mercies by Denis Lehane
Tombs by Junji Ito
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
Moonheart by Charles de Lint
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
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120 - The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
10 mei 2023 · 1 uur
In Episode 120, Gen and Jette dive into the latest book club pick and talk all things writing with The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. This one has been on Gen's list for a while and the consensus it that it should be required reading for any writer or artist. Lees meer
Show Notes
You can sign up for Gen's writing and yoga retreat here: Fort Erie July 17-20 & The June Motel in PEC September 8-10
Our next episode is all about Canadian authors because we gotta get that CanCon. But sincerely Canada has some really incredible writers and we can't wait to talk about them.
And the next book club selection is The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder. Read along with us this May & June so you know what's going on when we talk about it on July 5!
Other books and authors mentioned
How to Write and Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (listen to the episode)
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins (listen to the episode)
A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm (listen to the episode)
Henry David Thoreau
Jack London
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119 - Page to Screen - Fight Club
26 april 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. Lees meer
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118 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Kawaguchi Toshikazu
12 april 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
In Episode 118, Gen and Jette continue their series #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt with Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It takes place in a Tokyo cafe that allows people to time travel...though there are a few rules. We're always suckers for a time travel story and immediately fell in love with this one.
Show Notes
Before the Coffee Gets Cold actually began as a stage ply and was adapted into a novel in 2015.
There is also a film adaptation that came out in 2018, and in 2021 it was announced that the novel was being developed for television.
The cafe in the novel is called Funiculi Funicula after the song, which was apparently written to mark the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. The more you know.
If you want more of us losing our minds over time travel particulars, check out one of our very early episodes (episode 9!) about Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman.
In our next episode we'll be continuing with another series, Page to Screen, and talking about Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk alongside the 1999 film.
Other Books Mentioned
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi Lees meer -
117 - Coach House Books - Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras
29 maart 2023 · 56 min
In Episode 117, Gen and Jette discuss a new release from Coach House Books — Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins. We always love the unique books from Coach House, and this one is no exception.
Show Notes
Obviously we talked about Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier (also translated by Rhonda Mullins).
The books we read from Coach House never fail to make us looks at writing in a fresh way and spark our creativity.
Shout out to Rhonda Mullins for her amazing translation of so many wonderful books!
In our next episode we'll be talking about Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Other Coach House Episodes
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
2020 Fall Releases (The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges, Fauna by Christiane Vadnais, The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann)
Disfigured by Amanda Leduc
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier Lees meerDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter or email us at hello@anotherbookontheshelf.com. We’d love to hear from you! Sign up for our newsletter and add us to Pinterest!
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116 - Another Cup of Tea - Winter Hangout 2023
15 maart 2023 · 45 min
In episode 116, Gen and Jette sit down with a cup of tea for a casual chat about what they've been up to and what they have planned for the spring, and of course what they've been reading. Lees meer
Show Notes
Gen is co-hosting two yoga and writing retreats in the summer — one in Fort Erie and one in Prince Edward County — find out more about them at Wild Wandering Creations.
Next time you're in Boston, make sure to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — or at least read up about one of the most infamous unsolved art heists.
Jette stumbled across a new cafe last time she was in NYC. It's called The Lost Draft and it sounds amazing.
Check out Self Made Hero, a graphic novel company that publishes a lot of biography and non-fiction titles.
If you haven't already hopped on the astronomy nerd train with us, check out Episode 107 about How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Michael E. Brown
In our next episode we'll be talking about a new Coach House release — Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras, translated by Rhonda Mullins.
Our current book club pick is The Writing Life by Annie Dillard.
Books & Media Mentioned
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
The Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley Doyle
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Steering the Craft by Ursual K. LeGuin
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The Only One Left by Riley Sager (coming June 20)
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
On Photography by Susan Sontag
At Work by Annie Leibovitz
Thoreau and Me by Cédric Taling
Basquiat by Julian Voloj & Søren Mosdal
The Neverending Stoy by Michael Ende
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115 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
1 maart 2023 · 1 uur 16 min
In Episode 115, Gen and Jette talk about Jette's most recent book club pick — Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. How have we gone 115 episodes before doing a Didion episode? I know, right. While Jette can't remember where the idea for this book as her pick even came from, she's glad she picked it. This collection of essays from the 1960s, mostly focusing on California, makes it clear why Didion is a classic. Lees meer
Show Notes
If you're ever in LA, you must visit the Howard Hughes Headquarters
This is the SNL skit that Jette is still laughing at – The Californians
If you love Joan Didion be sure to check out the Netflix documentary The Centre Will Not Hold
Other Works by Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
Blue Nights
The White Album
South and West: From a Notebook
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114 - Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan
15 februari 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In Episode 114, Gen and Jette read the latest novel from Elissa R. Sloan, Hayley Aldridge is Still Here. The novel follows the life of former child star Hayley Aldridge as she tells her story and works to get out from under a conservatorship that she's been in for a decade. Sound familiar? Sloan draws on the real life stars of the '90s and early '00s and slots Hayley's story seamlessly into that history. Lees meer
If you loved the Sloan's last book, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes (which we talked about in Episode 60), you're going to love this one.
Show Notes
We really did treat our young celebrities very badly back in the day. A lot of what makes Hayley Aldridge so effective is knowing that everything that happened to her was also happening in real life.
Reading this made us think of so many young stars, such as Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, and Brad Renfro.
So, conservatorships should be banned, right? Why are they allowed?
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113 - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
1 februari 2023 · 52 min
In Episode 113, Gen and Jette return to one of their all time favourite authors, James Baldwin. We're finally talking about Giovanni's Room, probably Baldwin's most well known novel. Get ready to be devastated and blown away by Baldwin's writing all over again. (No, we'll never get over it. Yes, we will continue to ramble our glowing praise.) Lees meer
Show Notes:
Did anyone out there read any James Baldwin at the university level or do many of us have this appalling gap in our literary education?
As always, there were some lines in this novel that absolutely wrecked us. Which one is living in your brain rent free for the rest of time?
For more about Paris, listen to Episode 97 about A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm.
For more James Baldwin, check out Episode 55 on Another Country and Episode 61 where we talk about If Beale Street Could Talk and the film adaptation.
In our next episode we'll be returning to another well loved author, Elissa R. Sloan, with her latest book Hayley Aldridge is Still Here. The episode is out February 15, the day after the book's release date.
Other Books by James Baldwin
Another Country
If Beale Street Could Talk
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Notes of a Native Son
The Fire Next Time
The Devil Finds Work
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112 - Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
21 januari 2023 · 48 min
In Episode 112, it's time for another instalment of our unofficial graphic novel book club — this time with Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. We cover volumes 1 & 2 (with little sneak peeks at volumes 3–5) of this supernatural noir thriller from one of the most celebrated duos in graphic novels today. Lees meer
Show Notes
Ed Brubaker has won a whopping 7 Eisner Awards for his work, which includes Batman, Catwoman, Winter Soldier, Criminal, Incognito, and Reckless among many others.
Sean Phillips' son also works in graphic novels and has actually done some of the colouring for Phillips' work.
We loved diving into all these different decades and getting a bit more of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythology (even if we still can't pronounce it).
For more graphic novel goodness, check out our episodes on Shade, the Changing Girl, The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, Fun Home , and Something is Killing the Children. And listen to our interviews with Stephanie Cooke, and with husband and wife duo Brenda Hickey and Troy Little of Pegamoose Press.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin.
Other Books by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Reckless
Criminal
Incognito
Fatale
The Fade Out
Kill or Be Killed
My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies
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111 - The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
4 januari 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
In Episode 111, Gen and Jette talk about their most recent book club book, The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. It's a retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "The Horror at Red Hook" that subverts the xenophobic message of the original tale. Lees meer
Show Notes:
We fell down a Lovecraft rabbit hole that made us realize how little we know about him (and how many references we probably missed in the novel!)
As with so many books we read, we now want to get our hands on everything else Victor LaValle has written...and also up out Lovecraft knowledge so we're better prepared to catch those references
Turns out we've inadvertently made Lovecraft the theme for January. For more Lovecraftian vibes, stay tuned for our next episode on Ed Brubaker's graphic novel Fatale.
Read along with our current book club pick, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion.
Other Books Mentioned
By Victor LaValle – Slapboxing with Jesus, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Changeling, and Destroyer (graphic novel)
The Girls by Emma Cline
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
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