Episode 105 – Summer Reading and Challenges

This episode we’re discussing Summer Reading and Challenges! We talk about summer reading programs, struggling with reading during a pandemic, why we’re bad at naming our podcast, ever expanding to-read lists, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Announcements

• We’ve started doing retrospective lists of books by people of colour for genres we covered  on old episodes. You can find a list of the lists here.
• Our stream of the visual novel BAKED:MAGIC
• Bingo sheets for Book Club for Masochists
• • Or try this link

15 Historical Romance Novels by People of Colour (Link)

• An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
• That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole
• Let Us Dream by Alyssa Cole
• Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology
• Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin
• Stars in Their Eyes by Pema Donyo
• A Summer for Scandal by Lydia San Andres
• The Hidden Blade by Sherry Thomas
• The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
• Unmasked Heart by Vanessa Riley
• Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter
• Rebel by Beverly Jenkins
• Indigo by Beverly Jenkins
• A Delicate Affair by Lindsay Evans
• The Preacher’s Promise by Piper Huguley

Media we Mentioned

• The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• One of the Calvin and Hobbes comics featuring Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
• Munchers (Wikipedia)
• • Play Number Munchers on the Internet Archive 
• Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
• Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Links, Articles, and Things

• Literature Review on the Impact of Summer Reading Clubs
  • Is Matthew talking garbage about gamification? Let us know!
• Calgary Public Library – Ultimate Summer Challenge
• BC Summer Reading Club 2020
• TD Summer Reading Club: Home
• A History of Youth Summer Reading Programs in Public Libraries
• Milk caps (Wikipedia): These are Pogs
• THAC0
• Closed Stack Libraries (Wikipedia)
• National Magazine Awards

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 4th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Alternative History.

Then on Tuesday, August 18th we’ll be discussing the book Pet by Akwaeke Emezi!