Episode 113 – Seeking Book Recommendations

This episode we’re Seeking Book Recommendations! We’ve each picked some topics and we’re going to perform Readers’ Advisory interviews to help figure out what titles to suggest to each other.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Recommendations Wanted!

• RJ
• • An indie tabletop game
  • Sci-fi/fantasy set in contemporary real world, but the sf/fan elements are NOT secret/hidden/underground
  • Fiction set at Christmastime/non-fiction about Christmas
• Matthew
• • Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Horror
  • Space Opera
• Anna
• • Humanism in/of healthcare
  • Urban fantasy
  • Feminist Essay Collection
• Meghan
• • Fiction (not a thriller) that surprises
  • Poetry
  • Russian language learning materials

Media We Mentioned

• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)
• Sleepaway
• FATE
• GURPS
• God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
• The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Your Republic is Calling You by Kim Young-Ha
• • Meghan discusses this book in Episode 013 – Spies and Espionage
• Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
• Curse Workers series by Holly Black
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Solaris by Stanisław Lem
• • Solaris (1972 film) (Wikipedia)
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
• SCP
• • Document 050 – “The Great Researcher Prank War of ‘██”
  • SCP-087 – “an unlit platform staircase”
  • SCP-2521
  • We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five
  • Top Rated Pages
• IRL by Tommy Pico
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
• • The Day the Saucers Came
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

Links, Articles, and Things

• Desert Bus for Hope
• Gritty (mascot)
• Hark! Podcast
• Cyrillic script (Wikipedia)

20 Religious Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) 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.

• Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives edited by Raimundo Barreto and Roberto Sirvent
• God is Red: a Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria
• Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
• The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B Gad
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
• Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar
• Her Name Is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write about Love, Courage, and Faith edited by Meeta Kaur
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
• In Love With the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur, with Helen Tworkov
• The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita Sanchez
• Why I am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
• Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
• Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese
• I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
• New World A-coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld

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Join us again next week, on Tuesday, November 24th as we give each other the Book Recommendations we asked for this week.

Then on Tuesday, December 1st we’ll be discussing the genre that you chose for us to read, New Weird Fiction!

Finally, on Tuesday, December 15th it’ll be our Best of 2020 episode!