Episode 028 – Accidental Romance

While we planned on talking about all the non-bookclub stuff we read, this turned out to be an Accidental Romance episode! We talk about romances in video games, romance novels (both bad and good), romance manga, and movies we watch with our partners. Plus: Meaghan really loves bicycles. (That counts as a romance, right?)

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Things mentioned (in order of appearance)

• Persona 5 (Recommended)
• Rain World
• Stardew Valley
• Red Dead Redemption
• While the World Is Still Asleep (The Century Trilogy #1) by Petra Durst-Benning, translated by Edwin Miles
• Every Cyclist’s Guide To Canadian Law by Craig Forcese and Nicole LaViolette
• Ultralight Bike Touring and Bikepacking: The Ultimate Guide to Lightweight Cycling Adventures by Justin Lichter and Justin Kline
• A Guide to Falling Down in Public: Finding Balance On And Off The Bicycle by Joe Kurmaskie
• This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself by Juliana Buhring (Recommended)
• Not Without My Sister by Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, and Juliana Buhring
• Yowamushi Pedal Omnibus vol. 4 by Wataru Watanabe (Recommended)
• Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp
• What a City Is for: Remaking the Politics of Displacement by Matt Hern
• The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
• The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule, audiobook read by the author
• Close to You by Kara Isaac
• Public domain romance comics featuring librarians! (Well, a couple of them aren’t romance comics, but they still have librarians!)
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (Recommended)
• Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie
• The Others series by Anne Bishop (Recommended)
• A page from Runaways vol. 2 #1 (not mentioned in the episode, but relevant to the discussion)
• The Edge series by Ilona Andrews
• Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey
• The Anatomist’s Wife (Lady Darby Mystery #1) by Anna Lee Huber
• A Kiss at Midnight (Fairy Tales #1) by Eloisa James
• If I Only Had a Duke (The Disgraceful Dukes #2) by Lenora Bell (Recommended)
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach (Recommended)
• Princess Jellyfish Omnibus vol. 1 by Akiko Higashimura (Recommended)
  • Episode 1 of the anime: Subtitled. Dubbed.
  • Live action movie trailer

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Matthew said “War”, but meant “Romance”)
• Josei manga
• Tokyo Tarareba Girls by Akiko Higashimura (the Josei manga by this author that is about women in their 30s seeking and finding love)
• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• Ride the Divide (Recommended)
• Hell on Wheels
• Yell for Cadel
• Fixation (link to trailer) (Recommended)
• Bicycle Polo
• The Impossible Hour
• Flying Scotsman
• History of the Hour Record for bicycling
• You Never Bike Alone
• Critical Mass
• World Naked Bike Ride
• The Void (Recommended)
• Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Recommended)
• List of adaptations of works by Stephen King
• We All Float Down Here: A Burlesque Tribute to Stephen King
• Who’s on First?
  • Abbott & Costello performance (Recommended)

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, May 16th when we’ll be talking about Westerns!

Then on Tuesday, June 6th when we’ll discuss Rereading Books!