Episode 114 – Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations

This episode we’re Receiving Book Recommendations! Last episode we asked each other for books in specific areas and this week we’re back with our suggestions for table top role playing games, folklore, healthcare, poetry, urban fantasy and more.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Recommend

• An Indie Tabletop Game
  • The Queen of Cups
    •  TTRPG Safety Toolkit by Kienna Shaw & Lauren Bryant-Monk
  • The Skeletons
• Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko
    • Natalie Kononenko (Wikipedia)
  • Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso
  • Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
    • Baba Yaga cross stitch Matthew’s working on
• Humanism in/of Healthcare
  • 2020 Summer Reading for Compassionate Clinicians – The Gold foundation
  • The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine by Abraham M. Nussbaum
  • Journal of Applied Hermeneutics – Canadian Hermeneutic Institute 
• Fiction that Surprises
  • Bunny by Mona Awad
  • Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah
• Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World
  • The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
  • Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
  • Spellhacker by M.K England
  • The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta
  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
  • The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
  • The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
• Urban Fantasy
  • Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
• Horror
  • Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
  • Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
    • Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia)
  • The Fog Knows Your Name
• Poetry
  • Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich
  • Ledger by Jane Hirshfield
  • Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán
  • Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Queer Poets Write About Nature by edited by Dylan Ce
• Feminist Essay Collection
  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
  • Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas
  • Christmas Inn Maine by Chelsea M. Cameron
  • Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins
  • The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum
• Russian Language Learning Materials
  • Learn to Read and Write Russian – Russian Alphabet Made Easy
  • Sputnik: An Introductory Russian Language Course, Part I by by Julia Rochtchina
• Space Opera
  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Suggestions from our Listeners!

• An Indie Tabletop Game
  • Bluebeard’s Bride from Magpie Games
• Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko
  • On the Banks of the Yaryn by Aleksandr Kondratiev
• Humanism in/of Healthcare
  • The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
• Fiction that Surprises
  • Slade House by David Mitchell
• Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World
  • Empire State by Adam Christopher
  • The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
  • Finna by Nino Cipri
• Urban Fantasy
  • God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
  • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
• Horror
  • And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
  • Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
• Poetry
  • The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy
• Feminist Essay Collection
  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman and Daisy Hernández
  • Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
• Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas
  • Whiteout by Elyse Springer
  • Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife by Llew Smith
  • Mangos & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
  • Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert
• Russian Language Learning Materials
  • We Read These Tales by Syllables by Vladimir Suteev
• Space Opera
  • Alien People by John Coon
  • Dreamships by Melissa Scott
  • A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright

Other Media We Mentioned

• Fiasco
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki
• Tomie by Junji Ito
• Spirit of the Season
• The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart
• Atomic Blonde (Wikipedia)
• Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• House of Reeds by Thomas Harlan

Links, Articles, and Things

• Eisner Award for Best Lettering (Wikipedia)
• Lambda Literary Award (Wikipedia)
• Episode 078 – Supernatural Thrillers
• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)

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