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We started a book club but never actually talked about the books, so we started a podcast! And here we are almost a decade later. New episodes every other Wednesday. There will be spoilers, rants, tangents, and creative epiphanies. Follow our reading adventures on Instagram and Blueky: @anotherbookpocast
- 207 - 207 - What We Found Instead - An Interview with Heidi Reimer
In Episode 207, we have a wonderful chat with Canadian author Heidi Reimer about her new novel, What We Found Instead, as well as writing routines, plotting, and book recommendations.
Show Notes
It was so fantastic to have the chance to talk to Heidi about her process writing this book and learning how to craft a novel.
Find Heidi’s debut novel, The Mother Act, wherever books are sold.
Online you can find Heidi on her website, www.heidireimer.com, on Instagram @heidi.c.reimer, and on Substack, The Visibility Letters.
Heidi also coaches writers through the Sarah Selecky Writing School, where she offers coaching for first drafts and revisions.
Heidi Reimer’s Recommendations
Chasing Summer by Frankie Scott
Wild Hope by Joan Thomas
The Wild Beneath by Kelly Anderson
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Sterling Point (2026-)
Other Books Mentioned
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Wed, 16 Sep 2026 - 52min - 206 - 206 - The Dream Thieves (Graphic Novel) by Maggie Stiefvater
In episode 206, we talk about our latest book club book, the graphic novel adaptation of The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater, illustrated by Sas Milledge. This is the second book in The Raven Cycle series, and this one may have convinced Jette to pick up the original novels!
Show Notes
This is Gen’s favourite of the four books in the series because it’s Ronan’s book.
We talked about the first graphic novel adaptation in Episode 180.
We also read Sas Milledge’s debut graphic novel, Mamo, in Episode 194.
Our next book club is Jette’s pick and we’re reading Moonflow by Bitter Karella. More creepy mushrooms and fungus!
Next week we’ll be chatting with Heidi Reimer about her new novel, What We Found Instead.
And to close out September, we’re revisiting an old favourite and reading the long-awaited sequel to Cemetery Boys—Espíritu by Aiden Thomas.
Other Books Mentioned
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 - 51min - 205 - 205 - Summer Hangout 2026
Summer is (finally) winding down, and it's time for a hangout episode! As you know, we are not made for the heat, so we've slowed down a bit on the reading and the writing—but don't worry, we're still absolutely crushing our reading goals.
Show Notes
Gen has done a surprising number of summer activities, and we've even done a bunch together, including a baseball game, a book launch, and a visit to Toronto's Book Bar.
Is baseball the most romantic sport?
We had such a great time at the book launch for Fossil Feud by Maggie North, facilitated by Stephanie Archer and hosted by Hopeless Romantic books. We even made a new book friend!
Next on our bookish event list is Word on the Street, which Gen can finally go to this year. It's happening September 26 & 27 at David Pecaut Square by Roy Thompson Hall. If you're in Toronto, it's free to attend and always a great time for book lovers, so definitely check it out!
Our next episode will be a book club episode, talking about The Dream Thieves graphic novel adaptation by Maggie Stiefvater and illustrated by Sas Milledge.
After that, we'll be chatting with Heidi Reimer about her new book What We Found Instead. It's been a while since we've done an interview and we can't wait!
Books and Authors Mentioned
Windy City series by Liz Tomforde
Paisley Hope: Training the Heart; Riding the High; Freeing the Wild
Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan
Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes
A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance
Catherine Cowles: Delicate Escape; Broken Harbor; Into the Fading Twilight; Beautiful Exile
The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston
Love You to Death by Jenna Lavine
The Hotshot by Piper Rayne
Dearly Departed by Chip Pons
Clockers by Richard Price
Shoot Your Shot by Lexi Lafleur
Dinner for Vampire by Bethany Joy Lenz
Behind the Net by Stephanie Archer
What Move the Dead by T Kingfisher
In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
Face Off by Chelsea Curto
Just for the Plot by Meghan Quinn
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Prospects by KT Hoffman
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Wed, 19 Aug 2026 - 1h 23min - 204 - 204 - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
In episode 204, Gen and Jette freak out over mushrooms and T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead, book 1 in the Sworn Soldier series.
Please send Jette all recos for anything fungi-related- books, cute things, forests to run to.
Show Notes
We both meant to read "The Fall of the House of Usher," which this book is based on, before we recorded, but unfortunately...life. It's on the list now!
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of Ursula Vernon. She writes books under both names, differentiating between her work for children (Vernon) and adults (Kingfisher).
Our next episode is our summer hangout. Expect more mushrooms and probably (definitely) some Windy City talk. How many books in the series can Gen read before we record?
After that, it's book club episode time! The Dream Thieves graphic novel adaptation is officially out, and we'll be talking about it first thing in September.
Books mentioned
How We End by LM JuniperMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan PoeWhat Feasts at Night by T. KingfisherWhat Stalks the Deep by T. KingfisherWed, 05 Aug 2026 - 56min - 203 - 203 - Clockers by Richard Price (Film by Spike Lee)
Episode 203 is another instalment in our Page to Screen series. This time we read Clockers by Richard Price and watched the Spike Lee film adaptation of the same name.
We loved how the book and the film each have their own distinct vibe and definitely need to watch more Spike Lee films. (And maybe rewatch The Wire?)
Show Notes
Richard Price has also written screenplays, including The Wire, The Deuce, and the Martin Scorsese film, The Color of Money, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
This was Mekhi Phifer's first film, and he got the part through an open casting call.
In our next episode, we'll be talking about What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher.
Read along with our next book club pick, the graphic novel adaptation of The Dream Thieves by Maggie Steifvater.
Other Films by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing
She's Gotta Have It
Jungle Fever
Malcolm X
BlacKkKlansman
Other Books, Authors & Films Mentioned
Mystic River
Gone Baby Gone
Dennis Lehane
Annihilation
The Martian
Jurassic Park
Under the Bridge
Wed, 22 Jul 2026 - 56min - 202 - 202 - In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde
In Episode 202, we talk about Jette's book club pick, In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde! As you may know, we're deep in our romance era right now—especially sports romance—and we loved Monty and Reese so much!
Show Notes
In Her Own League is a spin-off of the best-selling Windy City Series, which is currently in development for a TV series!
Emmett "Monty" Montgomery is definitely based on real-life MLB manager Gabe Kapler. You're welcome.
Interconnected romance series for the win every time! We can't wait for Liz Tomforde's next series, Wilder Woods, which takes place in California and follows the Wilder siblings. The first instalment, Cardinal Rule, is set to come out next year.
So many of these romance authors are Canadian, which we love.
We're stoked to be going to the book launch for Fossil Feud by Maggie North, in conversation with Stephanie Archer, author of the hockey romance series Vancouver Storm. Hosted, of course, by Hopeless Romantic Books.
In our next episode, we're taking a wildly different turn for our Page to Screen series by reading Clockers by Richard Price and watching the 1995 Spike Lee film adaptation.
After that, we'll be doing some summer spooky reading with What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher.
Our next book club pick is Gen's, and it's The Dream Thieves graphic novel adaptation of Book 2 of The Raven Cycle Series by Maggie Steifvater, illustrated by Sas Milledge. It's coming out August 4.
Other Books and Authors Mentioned
Helena Hunting
Off Campus Series by Elle Kennedy
Elsie Silver
Becka Mack
Heated Rivalry/Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 - 1h 21min - 201 - 201 - Anderson In Bloom by Jennifer Dugan
It's the end of June, which means it's time for our annual Pride episode! This year, we're talking about Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan, since we're both deep in our romance era and we love us some queer joy.
Show Notes
Is it time for us to move to a small coastal town and live our best storybook romance lives?
Jenifer Prince does the cover art for this book. Check out more of her fantastic lesbian art on IG @jeniferrprince
For more romance goodness, be sure to listen to episode 199, all about the romance genre.
We're continuing with the romance theme for our next episode with In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde. And we're even going to a baseball game soon to get in the full spirit of things!
Other Books by Jennifer Dugan
Verona Comics
Hot Dog Girl
Some Girls Do
Love At First Set
The Ride of Her Life
Coven
Other Books Mentioned
Dearly Departed by Chip Pons
Wet Screams published by Little Ghosts Books
Love and Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander
The Prospects by KT Hoffman
Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid
The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid
Decomposition Book by Sara van Os
Sister Holiday Mysteries Series by Margaret Douaihy (Listen to Episode 176 for the first instalment, Scorched Grace)
Wed, 24 Jun 2026 - 53min - 200 - 200 - 200th Episode Hangout Celebration
It's our 200th episode! What better way to celebrate than by talking about all the books we've been reading?
Show Notes
While we've already passed 200 episodes on our other podcast, Teenage Daydream, this one is extra special because it was our first podcast.
Sadly the cafe where Another Book on the Shelf was born—Page One—is no longer, but hopefully they'll open in another location soon.
Shout out to Hopeless Romantic bookshop and Stormbound Books for running the coolest book rebinding workshops.
Artemis II got us through the beginning of April.
For more details about all the romance we've been reading, make sure to listen our episode dedicated to all things romance!
Pizza Hut, please make all our dreams come true and have an adult version of Book It.
Our next episode will be our June Pride episode, and we're keeping it romantic with Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan.
And don't forget to read along with our book club pick, In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde.
Books and Authors Mentioned
Unloved by Peyton Corrine
Slewfoot by Brom
M Train by Patti Smith
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
The Disordered Cosmos by Chandra Prescott Weinstein
The Dead of Summer by Ryan LaSala
The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde
Forty Ways to Know a Star by Julian Scudder
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles
Fall With Me by Becka Mack
Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
In Sensorium by Tanais
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
Training the Heart by Paisley Hope
A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Esperance
Decomposition Book by Sara van Os
Stephanie Archer
Something Is Killing the Children Novel
The Prospects by KT Hoffman
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Ways of Being by James Bridle
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 - 1h 20min - 199 - 199 - Romance Reads
In Episode 199, we're talking about a genre we never thought we'd be talking about: Romance! We've both fallen into the romance genre pretty hard lately, so we thought it was about time we had a proper discussion about some of our favourite tropes, authors, and why we keep coming back to it.
Show Notes
If you told us when we started this podcast that we'd one day dedicate an entire episode to romance, we wouldn't have believed you, but we're so happy to be here. Truly the plot twist we never saw coming.
Next episode is our 200th! We can hardly wrap our heads around it. Come hang out with us as we talk about all things Another Book on the Shelf.
In keeping with the romance theme, we'll be reading Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan for our Pride episode.
And we're reading In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde for our next book club discussion, so make sure you read along!
We did our best to keep track of everything we talked about, but the list of books and authors mentioned might be incomplete.
Books and Authors Mentioned
Sophie Kinsella
Chloe Gong
Rachel Reid
Casey McQuiston
Emily Henry
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
Elsie Silver
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Erin Sterling
Becka Mack
The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde
Paisley Hope
Brynne Weaver
Rebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla Sage
Ashley Poston
Catherine Cowles
Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday
Abby Jimenez
Carley Fortune
Peyton Corrine
Chelsea Curto
Wed, 27 May 2026 - 1h 22min - 198 - 198 - Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
We're getting so close to our 200th episode, but first, we have a book club episode for you. In Episode 198, we're talking about Gen's pick—Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit.
Show Notes
This book felt extremely relevant to everything happening in the world these days, like oof.
Truly so many topics were covered in this book! The rise of Communism and the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, the Carboniferous Era, coal mining, rose production in Colombia, and actually so much more. What a ride.
Rebecca Solnit, we are so impressed with the structuring of this book.
You can read Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language," on the Orwell Foundation website and it is very much worth the read.
Don't be surprised if Gen picks Nineteen Eighty-Four as a future book club read.
If you follow us on Instagram, you may know that we've fallen down the romance rabbit hole, so we decided that our next episode would be all about the romance genre.
After that, it's time for our 200th episode! We still can't believe it.
Our next book club book is Jette's pick, and we're following the romance train still with In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde, which is a spin off of the extremely popular Windy City series.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Trotsky (2009)
By George Orwell:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm
Down and Out in Paris and London
Homage to Catalonia
By Rebecca Solnit:
Men Explain Things to Me
Hope In the Dark
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
The Beginning Comes After the End
Wed, 13 May 2026 - 55min - 197 - 197 - M Train by Patti Smith
In Episode 197, we're talking about M Train by Patti Smith, one of our forever favourite artists.
This year we're making an extra effort to crush our TBRs and reading books that we both already own or have been meaning to read forever, and of course we both have more Patti Smith to read!
Show Notes
We loved this book, obviously, but we raged against the deckled edges the entire time.
Patti Smith is living the life we both want, so we're going to figure out how to do this, too.
If you haven't already, definitely read Just Kids, Patti Smith's book about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe when they were in their twenties living in New York. And then listen to Episode 159!
Patti Smith visits a few cemeteries and we were reminded of our episode about Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez.
Our next episode is a book club episode and we'll be talking about Gen's pick, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit.
Other Books & Authors Mentioned
Haruki Murakami
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 - 1h 09min - 196 - 196 - Slewfoot by Brom
For Episode 196, we have another instalment in our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series with Slewfoot by Brom. This might be our most Bookstagram Made Me that we've ever done, because this book has been everywhere! Since we love all things witches, you know we had to read it.
Show Notes
We loved Abitha and Samson and support all their witchery.
Brom is also an artist and full colour paintings are included in Slewfoot, which was especially helpful for picturing Forest, Sky, and Creek with their strange child faces in the mouths of animals.
Brom has done film concept art for Galaxy Quest (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Scooby Doo (2002), and Van Helsing (2004). He has never taken any formal art classes.
In an effort to crush our TBR, we're reading books we both have on our shelves, and so for our next episode we'll be talking about M Train by Patti Smith.
Don't forget to read along with our book club book, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit, which we'll be talking about in early May.
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 - 1h 10min - 195 - 195 - Spring Hangout 2026
In Episode 195, we're officially wrapping up our 2025 reading goals and chatting about what we've been up to the last three months. (Surviving, mostly!) Lots of books are being read and writing plans are cooking! The real new year starts in spring anyway.
Show Notes
Jette is absolutely crushing her reading goals! And we both may need to update some of our Storygraph goals for 2026 because we're way ahead already.
We visited Hopeless Romantic and the Hopeless Romantic/Little Ghosts crossover store at Union Station in the last few months. If you're in Toronto, we definitely recommend checking them out! It turns out horror and romance are a perfect pair.
Since we have a Romance episode coming up at the end of May, we tried to curb our romance talk, but we will be doing a deep dive soon enough!
In our next episode, we'll be talking about Slewfoot by Brom as part of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series, since we've been seing it everywhere!
After that, we're attempting to tackle our TBRs and reading M Train by Patti Smith, which we both have physical copies of. That episode will be out April 29.
And don't forget to read along with our current book club, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit.
Books & Authors Mentioned
The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde
Elsie Silver
A Five Letter Word for Love by Amy James
Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
This Is a Safe Space by Lucinda Berry
Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age by Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin, and Penn Badgley
Rebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla Sage
Soul Searching by Lyla Sage
Playing for Keeps series by Becka Mack
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter
Wells Ranch Series by Bailey Hannah
Silver Pines Ranch Series by Paisley Hope
All the Missing Pieces by Catherine Cowles
Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan
Passing by Nella Larson
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Fountain by Casey Scieszka
Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Wed, 01 Apr 2026 - 1h 15min - 194 - 194 - Mamo by Sas Milledge
In Episode 194, we chat about the YA graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge. It's her debut graphic novel, originally released as a five-issue miniseries and follows hedge witch Orla O'Reilly, as she and local Jo Manalo try to fix the chaotic magic in Heresden.
Show Notes
We first came across Sas Milledge's work in the graphic novel adaptation of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, which we talked about in Episode 180.
The next instalment of The Raven Cycle adaptations, The Dream Thieves. is coming out August 4.
Orla O'Reilly is giving Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park, which of course we loved.
It turns out that the Jim Hensen project Sas Milledge worked on, was in fact Labyrinth related. She was one of the illustrators for Beyond the Goblin City, a graphic novel collection of short stories that take place in the world of Labyrinth.
She also worked on The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Graphic Novel for DC Comics.
Other Works Mentioned
Junior High by Tegan and Sara Quin, illustrated by Tillie Walden
The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 - 37min - 193 - 193 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
In Episode 193, we're talking about our latest book club selection—it's Jette's pick, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. There's so much going on in this book in the best possible way and we're ready to go read everything Tokarczuk has ever written.
Show Notes
Olga Tokarczuk has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Nobel Prize for Literature.
We would also like to live in the woods and study astrology and translate Blake and attend the Mushroom Pickers society ball.
Shout out to St. Hubert chicken. IYKYK.
In our next episode, we'll be reading the graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge, who also illustrated the graphic novel adaptation of The Raven Boys.
Our next book club book is Gen's pick, and we'll be reading Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. We'll be talking about it on May 11.
Books by Olga Tokarczuk
Mr. Distinctive
House of Day, House of Night
The Empusium
Flights
The Books of Jacob
Wed, 04 Mar 2026 - 55min - 192 - 192 - Property by Kate Cayley
In Episode 192, we're once again teaming up with one our favourite local indie publishers, Coach House Books. This time we're reading Kate Cayley's novel Property.
Show Notes
Coach House Books has never steered us wrong. Make sure to check out their backlist, as well as their new releases and forthcoming titles.
We had a great time trying to figure out where exactly this neighbourhood in Toronto is located. And you know we clocked Nadège Patisserie immediately!
Speaking of Toronto, we're very excited to go on our next book adventure to check out the team-up bookstore in Union Station from two of our favourite indie bookstores: Hopeless Romantic and Little Ghosts Books. If you're in Toronto, this pop-up bookshop will be there until May!
And shout out as always to public libraries everywhere, and especially our very cool Toronto Public Library branches.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Jette's book club pick, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
Other Coach House Books Episodes
26: Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier (The one that started it all!)
51: Coach House Books Fall 2020 Releases (The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges, The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann, Fauna by Christiane Vadnais)
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
128: The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
140: Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier
174: Born by Heather Birrell
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 - 1h 01min - 191 - 191 - Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
It's February, which means it's time for our annual James Baldwin episode. This we're reading his short story collection, Going to Meet the Man, published in 1965.
Show Notes
As you might have noticed, we could talk about Baldwin for hours, so let us know your favourite James Baldwin books!
We spent a good chunk of time before recording trying to figure out why we didn't have a James Baldwin episode in 2022 and we have no answers. We were sure we had done one every year since reading Another Country, but apparently not in '22! Time is fake.
In our next episode we'll be reading Property by Kate Cayley, which is a novel recently released by our fave indie publisher, Coach House Books.
Don't forget to read along with our book club! We're currently reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk and we'll be talking about it on March 4.
Other James Baldwin Episodes
55: Another Country
61: If Beale Street Could Talk
113: Giovanni's Room
141: Notes of a Native Son
166: Go Tell It On the Mountain
Thu, 05 Feb 2026 - 1h 18min - 190 - 190 - Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Yes, we're doing it, we're talking about Heated Rivalry. If you follow us on Instagram you already know that this series has eaten Gen's brain, so it only seemed fitting that we do an official episode.
We're talking about the first two books in Rachel Reid's Game Changers series and the TV adaptation. So hop into Shane's very normal, practical car with us, we're going to the cottage.
Show Notes
This is our longest episode yet, surprising precisely no one, because Gen physically can't shut up about these boys.
Are we going to end up doing an episode on the rest of this series? Probably. Will we wait for Season 2 to drop? That depends how soon we get it.
This show is so Canadian. We're so proud.
The seventh book in the series, Unrivaled, (yes, another Ilya and Shane book!) drops on September 29 of this year. Pre-orders are already open, but if you go here, you already know that.
Canada Dry forever, especially the mini cans.
Our next episode is our annual Jame Baldwin episode. This year we're talking about his short story collection, Going to Meet the Man.
And don't forget to read along with our book club pick, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
Books in the Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid
1. Game Changer
2. Heated Rivalry
3. Tough Guy
4. Common Goal
5. Role Model
6. The Long Game
7. Unrivaled (Forthcoming September 29, 2026)
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 - 1h 37min - 189 - 189 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
It's 2026 and we're back with our first episode of the year! As always, it's a book club book, and we're talking about Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. We had a great time discussing the screenplay style in this one and all the layers of meaning that Yu is playing with throughout the story.
Show Notes
Are there other books like Interior Chinatown? If you have any recommendations, let us know because we absolutely loved it!
Our Kobos continue to hang on to life, but we wouldn't be mad if we had to get new ones. #TheKoboLife
It's Jette's turn to choose a book club book, and she's decided we'll be reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. We've both seen her books everywhere, what with being a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and all, and we can't wait to see what this one is all about.
In our next episode we'll be discussing the book and tv show that has taken over not just Gen's brain, but perhaps our collective societal brain. Yes, we're talking about Heated Rivalry.
Wed, 07 Jan 2026 - 52min - 188 - 188 - 2025 Holiday Wrap Up
In Episode 188, we're saying goodbye to 2025 with a look back at all we've read this past year, and a look forward to what's in store for 2026.
Show Notes
Since we recorded this before we actually had final reading numbers for the year, we'll give you a brief update in our first episode back in 2026 to see where we ultimately landed.
If you're looking for romance books in Toronto, go check out Hopeless Romantic!
We're going to be doing all of the art things in 2026.
Our first episode of 2026 will be Gen's book club pick, Interior China Town by Charles Yu.
After that, we're going to follow Gen down the Heated Rivalry rabbit hole with a Page to Screen episode. (This might be the most unhinged you'll ever see Gen.)
Books and Media Mentioned
Belovedby Toni Morrison
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Fall Shook Up by Piper Sheldon
Happy Medium by Sarah Adler
Wild Love by Elsie Silver
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez
Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver
The Dead Romanticsby Ashley Poston
Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks
My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
Lost in the Garden by Adam S Leslie
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
The Holiday Trapby Roan Parrish
Casket Case by Laura Evans
Daddy Issues by Kate Goldbeck
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
Picture This by Lynda Barry
Crazy Spooky Love by Josie Silver
The Honey Crisp Orchard Inn by Valeria Bowman
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Root Rot by Saskia Nislow
Wild Eyes by Elsie Silver
The Holiday Fakers by Evie Alexander
The Holiday Whoopie by Sara L Hudson
Wild Side by Elsie Silver
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
A Five Letter Word for Love by Amy James
Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 - 1h 07min - 187 - 187 - The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish
It's time for one of our favourite episodes of the year! Yes, episode 187 is our annual FU to JKR, and as always we're reading something hella queer. This year the book of honour is The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish. We spent basically the whole episode gushing about how cute this was. It's the perfect holiday romance read!
Show Notes
We need to visit New Orleans immediately. It's calling to us!
Couples reading books aloud to each other is goals. It is peak romance.
A few moments in this reminded us of our spooky season read, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez. Partly because of Lafayette No. 1 and partly for...other reasons.
And some of the quotes and insights from all our loveable characters had us thinking back to our last episode about David Lynch's book, Catching the Big Fish.
Next episode is our Holiday Wrap! We're pretty excited to say goodbye to 2025. And to find out exactly how wild Jette's reading stats are this year.
Other Books by Roan Parrish
The (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
The Remaking of Corbin Wale
(and honestly so many more but those were the ones we mentioned)
Other FUJK Episodes
57: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
83: A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
109: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
135: Pluralities by Avi Silver
161: Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Wed, 10 Dec 2025 - 1h 16min - 186 - 186 - Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
For non-fiction November, and with a nod to NaNoWriMo (RIP), we're reading Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch. Somehow this ended up falling exactly at the intersection of all our interests—creativity, art, yoga, film, science. It's all coming together.
Show Notes
Of course this made us want to do all the creative things. We just have to do them! We know. We know! We're getting there.
This is such a great book to read in little snippets if you need a bit of creative inspiration.
Are we going to have to try Transcendental Meditation? Apparently the Toronto TM centre is in the Royal York Hotel.
Our next episode is our annual FUJK episode, in which we read something hella queer instead of the boy wizard series by she who must not be named. This year we're reading The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish.
And our last episode of the year will be our Holiday Wrap Up episode! How is almost 2026 already?
Books and Movies by David Lynch
Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
Eraserhead (1977)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Dune (1984)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Wild At Heart (1990)
Twin Peaks (1990-1991; 2017)
Lost Highway (1997)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Inland Empire (2006)
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 - 1h 09min - 185 - 185 - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In episode 185, Gen and Jette talk about their latest book club episode, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This was Jette's pick and our third Jenkins Reid episode!
Show Notes
We've done two previous episodes on books by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Way back in the Patreon archive we did a bonus episode on Daisy Jones and the Six which eventually became episode 47 of the podcast. And in episode 99 we talked aboutThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
Taylor Jenkins Reid did extensive research for this book and the story takes place during the very real Space Shuttle Program at NASA in the 80s.
Shoutout to Sally Ride, the first woman in space, and to the Canadarm, the robotic arm that Canada developed for NASA and the Space Shuttle Program.
In our next episode we'll be talking about David Lynch's book on creativity and meditiation, Catching the Big Fish.
And our final book club pick of the year is Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. This is Gen's pick and it works our perfectly because both of us have it on our shelf for ages. We'll be talking about it in our first episode of the new year in January.
Other Books by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Daisy Jones and the Six
Malibu Rising
Carrie Soto is Back
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 - 1h 29min - 184 - 184 - Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez
Episode 184 is our last episode of spooky season (although it's always spooky season in our hearts), and we're reading Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez.
Show Notes
You may remember that we did another episode featuring Mariana Enriquez. In Episode 137, we talked about her short story collection, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
This is Mariana Enriquez's first non-fiction collection.
If you know how we can also become cemetery travel writers or something like that, please let us know!
In our next episode we'll be talking about Jette's latest book club pick, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. We're pretty sure it's going to emotionally destroy us.
Other Books Mentioned
To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by Robert Kirk
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 - 1h 22min - 183 - 183 - 7th Anniversary Hangout
It's episode 183, but even more importantly, it's our 7th Anniversary Hangout Episode! We can't believe it's already been seven years. It's been a blast and we can't wait for another seven more!
Show Notes
We've read so many incredible books over the past seven years and recorded so many fun episodes. Stay tuned for a blog post of our personal favourites coming soon!
Speaking of favourites, or at least popularity, our most-listened to episode is still The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan, followed by Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem in second place, and Colleen Hoover's Verity sliding in at third.
Shout out to our fourth most-listened to episode, Another Country by James Baldwin because it was our very first Baldwin and kicked off our annual tradition and life long love of his work.
There's a new Jedidiah Jenkins books coming out in 2026, so you know we'll be reading that.
If you're in Toronto and you love science fiction, fantasy, and/or children's books make sure to check out the Lillian H. Smith library branch. They have small exhibits set up showcasing books from their extensive collection.
Did you know there's a Ouija museum in Salem?
If your in Europe and want to check out some cute books store cafes, these are the ones Gen went to: Paludan Bog Cafe in Copenhagen, Minoa in Berlin, and Bookstor in The Hague.
In our next episode we'll be talking about Mariana Enriquez's new book, Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave.
And then it's time for our next book club discussion! We're reading Jette's pick, Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Books Mentioned
Elsie Silver's Chestnut Spring Series
Laurie Gilmore's Dream Harbor Series
Exquisite Corpses by James Tynion IV
You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Happy Medium by Sarah Adler
Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks
Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie
Part of Your World by Abby Jiminez
Harriet Tubman Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
Worldtree by James Tynion IV
Minor Arcana by Jeff Lemire
Make Me a Mixtape by Jennifer Whitehead
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Boys Weekend by Matty Lubchansky
The Late Night Witches by Auralee Wallace
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel
It by Stephen King
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 - 59min - 182 - 182 - The Late-Night Witches by Auralee Wallace
In Episode 182, we're kicking off spooky season with the cozy witchy vampire slaying vibes in Auralee Wallace's The Late-Night Witches!
Show Notes
This is like a cozy version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer set in PEI with sea witches. Obviously we loved it.
Auralee Wallace is also the author of the Otter Lake mystery series and the Evenfall Witches B&B mysteries.
Is there going to be second book after this one? There definitely could be!
Our next episode is our 7th anniversary episode! Whoa! We've read so many amazing books over the years.
And this year we've been blessed with three episodes in October, which means we'll have another spooky read for you (as if we ever wait for October for that LOL). We'll be reading Mariana Enriquez's new book, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave!
Other Books and Authors Mentioned
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Rachel Harrison
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 - 50min - 181 - 181 - Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Episode 181 is another installation of our Page to Screen series, this time with Scott Pilgrim! We read the comic series by Bryan Lee O'Malley and watched the film adaptation. It might be the most Toronto thing we've ever read or watched!
Show Notes
The Scott Pilgrim comic series was released in six digest-size volumes between 2004-2010, and was originally published in black and white. Hardcover colour versions were released between 2012-2015.
Edgar Wright directed the film, with Bryan Lee O'Malley as executive producer, and he nails the stylized look so that the film feels like a comic book come to life.
Both the book and the film feature some iconic Toronto locations, including Casa Loma, Sneaky Dee's, the Toronto Reference Library, and Honest Ed's (RIP).
This cast is stacked! In 2020, for the 10-year anniversary of the film, most of the cast reunited for a table read of the script. You can watch it on YouTube
Shout out to Canadian bands Broken Social Scene and Metric for writing songs for the fictional bands in the film (Crash and the Boys and The Clash at Demonhead respectively), and to Chris Murphy of Sloan for being the musical performance supervisor on the film. Beck wrote the songs for Scott's band, Sex Bob-omb.
We truly had a blast reading and watching this. It was just so much fun! We're definitely going to watch the anime series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
We're officially kicking off spooky season with our next episode on October 1. We'll be talking about Auralee Wallace's recent relsease, The Late-Night Witches. Apparently, we're also keeping the CanCon going because it takes place in PEI!
There's going to be three episodes in October, so stick around for our 7th anniversary episode in the middle of the month on the 15th, and then we're wrapping up Halloween season with Mariana Enriquez's new release, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
By Bryan Lee O'Malley: Lost at Sea, Seconds, Snotgirl
Directed by Edgar Wright: Hot Fuzz, Last Night in Soho, Baby Driver
Wed, 17 Sep 2025 - 57min - 180 - 180 - The Raven Boys (Graphic Novel) by Maggie Stiefvater
Episode 180 is a book club episode and we're reading The Raven Boys graphic novel adaptation, based on the novel by Maggie Stiefvater, adapted by Stephanie Williams, and illustrated by Sas Milledge. This is Gen's pick and it was great to bring Jette onto the Raven Cycle bandwagon!
Show Notes
Jette remembers Gen reading this book at their old job while on break (and being emotionally devastated by it).
Luckily this one doesn't end on too much of a cliff hanger. Unlike other books we've read...looking at you Her Majesty's Royal Coven. (Don't worry, you can read all three of those now, too!)
The audiobooks of Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle novels is read by Will Patton, who you might know as the white coach in Remember the Titans.
There are plans to adapt all four books in the Raven Cycle series into graphic novels. The second book, The Dream Thieves, is set to come out sometime next year.
If you don't want to wait for the graphic novels, the other two in the series are Blue Lily, Lily Blue and The Raven King.
In our next episode we'll be talking about another graphic novel, Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley, and its film adaptation. There are six books in the series and the movie is based on all of them, but we're going to at least try to read the first two before we do the episode.
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 - 59min - 179 - 179 - The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki
In Episode 179, Gen and Jette team up with one of their favourite indie publishers, House of Anansi Press. We're reading the newly released English translation of The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. This one broke our hearts.
Show Notes
Ryad Assani-Razaki is a Beninese-Canadian writer and The Hand of Iman, or La main d'Iman in French, is his first novel. It won the Prix Robert Cliche in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Governer General's Award in 2012.
Check out our full list of House of Anansi episodes below.
We did in fact have an episode dedicated to our 100th! What should we do for 200? We're getting close!
In our next episode we'll be talking about Gen's book club pick, the graphic novel edition of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater.
We'll be following up our book club episode with a Page to Screen episode and some CanCon for you with Scott Pilgrim!
Other House of Anansi Episodes
20: 2019 House of Anansi Spring Releases (Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin and Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie)
39: House of Anansi New Releases 2020 (Pallbearing by Michael Melgaard and Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger)
43: You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
70: A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie
97: A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
128: The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
156: Who Will Bury You? by Chido Muchemwa
Other Books Mentioned
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Episode 124)
Paper House by Dominique Fortier (Episode 26)
Born by Heather Birrell (Episode 174)
Parable of the Sower by Octavie Butler (Episode 172)
The Late-Night Witches by Auralee Wallace
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 - 1h 10min - 178 - 178 - Summer Hangout 2025
It's time for a summer hangout episode! We're barely surviving the endless heatwaves and smoky skies, but at least we've got some good books to read.
Show Notes
The bookstore in Port Dover that Gen was talking about is called Beach Reads Bookshop. It's super cute and if you're ever in Port Dover, be sure to check it out!
We are going to make zines and we are putting it here in writing as well to keep ourselves accountable.
The Lillian H. Smith library branch in Toronto houses one of the world's leading research collections of speculative fiction. So cool!
Our next episode is our annual House of Anansi book. We'll be talking about The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki.
Books Mentioned
The Gaysians by Mike Curato
Grace: The Jeff Buckley Story by Tiffanie DeBartolo
Your Blood My Bones by Kelly Andrew
The Orphanage by the Lake by Daniel G Miller
I'll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong
Human Rites by Juno Dawson
Flawless by Elsie Silver
Glittering Edge by Alyssa Villaire
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Syllabus by Lynda Barry
Walking in This World by Julia Cameron
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Night Road by Kristen Hannah
State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg
This SIde of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn
It by Stephen King
Wed, 06 Aug 2025 - 1h 10min - 177 - 177 - Human Rites by Juno Dawson
In Episode 177, we're (finally!) talking about Human Rites, the third book in Juno Dawson's series, Her Majesty's Royal Coven. What a ride! We absolutely adore all these characters.
Show Notes
We've covered this whole series (more or less) on the podcast now! It's been so much fun, but we're sad to say goodbye to these characters.
Episode 142 covers the first book, Her Majesty's Royal Coven, and episode 145 is all about the second one, The Shadow Cabinet.
We didn't get around to reading the mini novella, Queen B, on the podcast, but it's book 0.5 in the series and acts a preqeul going back to Henry VIII's court and the execution of Anne Boleyn.
Nicola Coughlan narrates the audiobooks if you want to check those out!
Join us for a summer hangout in our next episode. We'll be talking about what else we've been reading and probably complaining about the heat.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
Also by Juno Dawson: This Book is Gay, Mind Your Head, Margot and Me, The Gender Games
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (Episode 69)
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (Episode 86)
Doctor Who
Wed, 23 Jul 2025 - 1h 06min - 176 - 176 - Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
In Episode 176, we talk about Jette's book club pick, Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy. It follows tattooed, queer, punk nun, Sister Holiday, as she investigates a string of arson fires at St. Sebastian School where she teaches.
Show Notes
This book was published under Gillian Flynn's imprint with Zando.
The spelling of chequered temporarily broke our brains and Gen forgot how State abbreviations work.
We had a great time reading this and can't wait to read the next books in the series. Blessed Water is out now, and Divine Ruin is slated for publication in January 2026.
In our next episode, we're continuing on with another beloved series of the pod, Her Majesty's Royal Coven! The third instalment, Human Rites, is finally here! We've only been waiting on the edge of that cliffhanger for a year.
Our next book club pick is the graphic novel adaptation of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys, which you might know by now is one of Gen's favourite series. It's not out yet, but will be available July 29, so you still have plenty of time to read it before the episode in September!
Other Books and Media Mentioned
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 - 1h 04min - 175 - 175 - How We End by LM Juniper
Happy Pride! For this year's Pride episode we read How We End by LM Juniper, which follows a group of seven strangers as they navigate a zombie apocalypse.
Show Notes
We fell in love with all of these characters and the little family they create for themselves!
Don't worry, the dog lives.
If you want more Frances (who wouldn't want more Frances?), you can read her short story, 'Til I Die, available on LM Juniper's website as an ebook.
There's also a novella in this world, called How We Began, that is not really a sequel, but a companion book. It's recommended to read How We End first!
As you know, we read all the queer books all year long, including the two books we'll be reading in July.
Our next episode we'll be talking about Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy.
And then the long awaited third instalment of Her Majesty's Royal Coven! We'll be talking about Human Rites by Juno Dawson mid-July.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
The Walking Dead
The Last of Us
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Wed, 25 Jun 2025 - 1h 08min - 174 - 174 - Born by Heather Birrell
In episode 174, we team up with one of our favourite local indie publishers, Coach House Books. This year we're reading the newly released novel, Born by Heather Birrell, which tells the story of a high school teacher going into labour during a lockdown, diving deep into character through multiple viewpoints.
Show Notes
The Coach House Books episode is truly one of our favourite episodes of the year. Their books are always incredible, and of course Paper Houses remains an all time fave.
This book was so good, so you know we rambled about that a bit, but we did get aroung to highlighting some of the amazing writing.
Heather Birrell has several other books, including two short story collections also published by Coach House: Mad Hope and I know you are but what am I?
In our next episode, we're reading How We End by LM Juniper. It's our queer rep Pride pick, but it turns out we're keeping that theme going into July.
Speaking of which, don't forget to read along with our next book club pick, Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy.
After that, we finally get to the next installment of Her Majesty's Royal Coven: Human Rites. It better not end with a cliffhanger this time!
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Wed, 11 Jun 2025 - 43min - 173 - 173 - Another Spring Hangout
Episode 173 is another spring hangout episode! Yes, somehow spring has been the longest season and yet somehow May is already over?? Anyway, come hangout with us while we chat about our fun little trips and how we're both crushing our reading goals this year.
Show Notes
Snag some cute knitting notions, like button and stitch markers, from our talented friend Riley! She's @_soft.spokenon Instagram and she's going to have a shop update very soon.
Speaking of knitting, Jette went to the Fibre Witch Festival when she was in Salem!
She also hit up the Harvard National History Museum and got to look at a lot of cool, weird rocks. Is spooky crystal/rock horror a thing? Jette is going to make it a thing.
Check out the Woo Woo Podcast for more witchy and weird content!
Our next episode is our annual Coach House Books episode! We'll be reading on of their upcoming novels, Born by Heather Birrell.
We're all set for Pride month with How We End by LM Juniper. Think zombie apocalypse with a cool trans main character!
And don't forget to read along with our current book pick, Scorched Grace by Margaret Douaihy.
Other Books and Media Mentioned
After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Horse by Gerladine Brooks
The Honeys by Ryan LaSala
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Universality by Natasha Brown
The Strawberry Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Alone in Space by Tillie Walden
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Freaks, Gleeks and Dawson's Creek by Thea Glassman
Paranoid Gardens by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon
Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Walking in the World by Julia Cameron
Syllabus by Lynda Barry
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lydia Cohen Loigman
Gold Diggers by Sanjena SathianWed, 28 May 2025 - 58min - 172 - 172 - Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
Episode 172 is a book club book! This month we're talking about Gen's pick, Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. The novel follows Lauren through her journal entries as she is forced from her home and navigates a hostile world ravaged by climate change and social inequality.
Show Notes
Gen has been putting off this book for a long time because it takes place largely in the mid-late 2020s and that felt a little too close to home.
Parable of the Sower is the first book in a planned series that Octavia Butler unfortunately didn't have the chance to finish, as she died of a stroke in 2006. The second book is Parable of the Talents, which was published in 1998. The planned third book was to be called Parable of the Trickster.
As you can probably guess, a lot of what happens in this book was distressingly familiar.
Did Suzanne Collins read Parable of the Sower? Inquiring minds would like to know. There are definitely some common themes with The Hunger Games series.
Our next book club selection is Jette's pick, Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy. It's about a tattooed, queer nun who solves mysteries! What more could you ask for? This is the first book of the Sister Holiday mysteries and we'll be talking about it in July.
Next episode is a(nother) spring hangout episode. We'll be talking about everything else we've been reading, which is always a fun time.
Keep an eye out for our annual Coach House episode. We'll be reading their forthcoming publication, Born by Heather Birrell.
Other Books Mentioned
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne CollinsWed, 14 May 2025 - 1h 11min - 171 - 171 - Don't Let The Forest In by CG Drews
Episode 171 is another instalment of our series #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt and this time we're reading Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews. This one has all the things we love: dark academia vibes, queer representation, and creepy forests that start growing inside your body (literally!)
Show Notes
You might know C.G. Drews on Instagram as @paperfury! They always have funny writing memes and gorgeous bookish flat lays.
You've also probably seen Don't Let the Forest In because it's been all over Bookstagram and BookTok. It fit so perfectly with our current creepy nature horror vibes that it was a natural pick for this episode.
Somehow Jette and Gen both ended up listening to The Honeys by Ryan La Sala at almost the same time without even knowing it. That one also features twins and nature being weird and creepy. (And if you listen to the audio, you'll hear some extra buzzy sound effects, too!)
On May 1, C.G. Drews is releasing a prequel short story to Don't Let the Forest In about Thomas! It will be available on their Instagram as a carousel or downloadable on their Patreon.
In our next episode, we'll be talking about Gen's book club pick, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Buckle up for a dystopian world that's set in our current time! Is this what it was like to read 1984 in 1984?
Jette is keeping our next book club pick a secret until we record the next episode, so stay tuned to find out what it will be!
Other Books and Media Mentioned
The Sixth Sense
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
The Afterdark by E. Latimer
PET by Akwaeke Emezi
Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews (Coming October 2025)
You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews (Coming 2026)Wed, 30 Apr 2025 - 46min - 170 - 170 - Alone in Space by Tillie Walden
In Episode 170, Gen and Jette chat about Tillie Walden's graphic novel collection, Alone in Space. This collection includes Walden's first three books, as well as earlier comics from her younger years.
Show Notes
We love books like this that inspire us to make little stories in unexpected forms. Should we be keeping a journal with sketches?
Lynda Berry has daily journal-style drawing exercises in her book Syllabus.
Shout out to Little Ghosts Books in Toronto. We love them so much! Buy some of their books or their cool merch and know you're supporting an amazing queer owned indie bookshop.
In our next episode we'll be reading Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews. If you've been on Bookstagram for a while you might know them as @paperfury
After that, it's time for our book club episode! We'll be talking about Gen's pick, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Other Books & Media Mentioned
By Tillie Waldon: On A Sunbeam, Clementine, Spinning
David Sedaris Diaries
All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
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Wed, 16 Apr 2025 - 59min - 169 - 169 - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Episode 169 is another instalment of Page to Screen, where we read a book, watch the screen adaptation, and talk about both. This time we're discussing Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and the 2018 film adaptation of the same name, directed by Alex Garland.
Show Notes
The book and the movie are so different, but they're both so good in their own ways!
We can't wait to read the rest of the books in the Southern Reach series: Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution.
Neither of us had ever heard of the New Weird literary genre, which Vandermeer is considered a part of, but we are here for it.
We continue to take a firm stance against deckled edges on books.
Our next episode we'll be talking about the graphic novel Alone in Space by Tillie Walden, a collection of Walden's early short comics,
Read our latest blog post, March 2025 Book Releases for Comfort Reading, where Gen rounds up anticipated March releases. (Which are now all out for you to read! Comfort not guaranteed.)
Other Books and Media Mentioned
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer
The Martian by Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Giden the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Pan's Labyrinth
Mulholland Drive
Other Page to Screen Episodes
151: Under the Bridge
130: Silence of the Lambs
119: Fight Club
102: Little Women
91: The Martian
80: Jurassic Park
61: If Beale Street Could Talk
48: Mystic River
27: The Virgin Suicides
18: Sharp Objects
Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram and check out our website!Wed, 02 Apr 2025 - 1h 24min - 168 - 168 - Spring Hangout 2025
Episode 168 is our first hangout episode of 2025! As always we chat about what we've been up to, what we've been reading, and what we've been (not) writing.
Show Notes
Shout out to all our library apps always (Libby and Hoopla, we're looking at you), and also LibroFM. It's the audiobook app that lets you support your favourite local bookstore at the same time. (This is not a paid ad, we just love them.) We both support our local indie horror bookshop, Little Ghosts Books.
We both agree that 2025 has not been it so far, but there are so many books coming out this year that we're looking forward to. Keep an eye out for Gen's upcoming blog post about their most anticipated releases in March!
Our next episode is an instalment of Page to Screen. We'll be reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and watching the film adaptation of the same name.
After that we'll be reading Alone in Space, a graphic novel by Tillie Walden. (You might remember Tillie Walden as the artist for Tegan and Sara's graphic novel Junior High. We talked about it in Episode 123.)
Don't forget to read along with our book club pick, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.
Books and Media Mentioned
Her Majesty's Royal Coven Trilogy by Juno Dawson
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater
Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Light Carries On by Ray Nadine
Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Little Fish by Casey Plett
Season of the Bruja by Aaron Duran and Sara Soler
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Cull by Kelly Thompson and Mattia de Iulius
Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo
House of Slaughter Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Letizia Candonici
The Neighbors by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Letizia Candonici
Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff and Jenna Allen
The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore by Laurie Gilmore
Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday (audiobook featuring voice work by Joshua Jackson!)
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
Model Home by Rivers Solomon
Goddess of Filth by V. Castro
The Afterdark by E. Latimer
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez BuenoWed, 19 Mar 2025 - 1h 04min - 167 - 167 - The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
In Episode 167, Gen and Jette discuss their latest book club pick, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. As children of the nineties ourselves, we loved revisiting this decade through Klosterman's pop culture lens.
Show Notes
One of our earliest episodes—episode 9!—was also a Chuck Klosterman book. We read his essay collection Eating the Dinosaur and absolutely loved it.
This might be our longest episode. There was so much jam-packed into this book we could have talked about each chapter for an hour.
Our next episode is a hangout episode. We'll be talking about everything we've been up to lately.
Later this month we'll be doing another Page to Screen episode about Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and the film adaptation
For our next book club pick we'll be reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. It's a dystopian novel that takes place in 2024, in a world ravaged by climate change. Gen's been meaning to read it for years, and decided it's finally time.
More Books by Chuck Klosterman
Fargo Rock City
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Killing Yourself to Live
But What If We're Wrong
I Wear the Black Hat
Chuck Klosterman IV
Chuck Klosterman X
Other Books and Media Mentioned
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Falling Down
In the Company of Men
American History X
Jurassic Park
Dallas
The Sopranos
Seinfeld
The Pit
Romeo + Juliet
Titanic
The Phantom Menace
The Matrix
American Beauty
The Blair Witch ProjectWed, 05 Mar 2025 - 1h 43min - 166 - 166 - Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Yes, it's time for our annual James Baldwin episode. This year we're reading Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It On the Mountain.
Show Notes
Thankfully, we're not close to running out of Baldwin books just yet, but we may have to do a retrospective at some point anyway. Really we just want an excuse to re-read Another Country.
Go Tell It On the Mountain is on both Modern Library and Time's list of Top 100 Books of the 20th Century. (The Time list is actually weirdly specific to between 1923 and 2005, but it's easier to say 20th century.)
Find the full list of all our James Baldwin episodes below.
The next episode is a book club episode and we'll be reading Jette's pick, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. As children of the 90s, we're looking forward to revisiting this decade.
Other James Baldwin Episodes
55: Another Country
61: If Beale Street Could Talk
113: Giovanni's Room
141: Notes of a Native SonWed, 19 Feb 2025 - 53min - 165 - 165 - Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Episode 165 is another instalment of #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt, and this time Gen and Jette are reading Book Lovers by Emily Henry.
Show Notes
The banter between Nora and Charlie is perfect and we need to know if this is true for all Emily Henry books.
The town hall meeting was giving major Gilmore Girls vibes and we loved it.
We love a Sarah MacLachlan reference.
The next episode is our beloved annual James Baldwin episode. We'll be reading Go Tell It On the Mountain.
Don't forget to read along with our book club pick, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman, which we'll be talking about in early March.
Update - The Rural Diaries and Slouching Towards Bethlehem are still holding strong at #1 and #2
Other Books by Emily Henry
Beach Read
People We Meet on Vacation
Happy Place
Funny Story
Great, Big, Beautiful Life (Coming April 2025)
Other Books Mentioned
The Dream Harbor Series by Laurie Gilmore
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
More #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt Episodes
60: The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
69: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
75: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
86: Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong
99: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
114: Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan
118: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
125: Verity by Colleen Hoover
139: The Twist of the Knife by Anthony Horowitz
154: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham JonesWed, 05 Feb 2025 - 52min - 164 - 164 - Light Carries On by Ray Nadine
In Episode 164, Gen and Jette talk about the graphic novel, Light Carries On, by Ray Nadine. The story follows Leon and the ghost of Cody, who is tethered to Leon's camera.
Show Notes
Is ghost romance it's own sub-genre? It should be. And if it is we would like to read all the rest of them please. So far in this theme we also have Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore and Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas.
Speaking of Cemetery Boys, the sequel comes out later this year and we are stoked!
We loved the art style in this one and the way that it helped build the atmosphere and tone of the story.
Of course graphic novels always get us excited for TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival). It's already in our calendars even though it's not until June.
Our next episode is #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt and we're finally reading some Emily Henry. We're leaning into our love of books with, you guessed it, Book Lovers.
Other Books & Authors Mentioned
Everything is Going Wrong edited by Mark Bouchard
Raise Hell by Jordan Alsaqa & Ray Nadine
A Sea of Unspokend Things by Adrienne Young
Monstress by Sana Takeda & Marjorie Liu
The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu
Lucy FoleyDon’t forget to follow us on Instagram and check out our website!
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 - 45min - 163 - 163 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
It's a new year and we're kicking it off, as always, with a book club episode. Gen's pick for the end of 2024 was Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. It follows the narrator through his journal entries as he records his life amongst the statues and tides that occupy a series of labyrinthine halls that he calls home.
Show Notes
This one prompted a discussion about what counts as fantasy.
Piranesi is only Susanna Clarke's second novel, published sixteen years after her debut, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was adapted for TV as a miniseries by BBC1. It came out in 2014.
Our next book club book is Jette's pick and we're revisiting Chuck Klosterman with his essay collection, The Nineties.
As is now January tradition, our next episode is a graphic novel episode. We'll be talking about Light Carries On by Ray Nadine.
Other Books & Media Mentioned
Peter Pan by JM Barrie
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Stephen King
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna ClarkeWed, 08 Jan 2025 - 53min - 162 - 162 - Holiday Hangout 2024
It's the end of the year, which means it's time for Gen and Jette to see how they did on the reading and writing goals they set back in January. (Spoiler: We crushed the audiobook minutes.)
Show Notes
We recorded part of the episode and then had technical difficulties, so the first part of this is re-recorded. Since it's the first time we've lost any significant audio in 162 episodes, we think we've done pretty well so far.
We're already pencilling in an episode for Her Majesty's Royal Coven, Book 3.
Our first episode back in January will be on Wednesday the 8th, since doing it on the 1st seemed kinda weird. We'll be talking about Gen's book club pick, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Jette's book club pick for January/February is The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman. Going back to our roots to kick off the year!
Books and Media Mentioned
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven
The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore
Southern Cross by Becky Cloonan
Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The House Where Death Lives edited by Alex Brown
We Mostly Come Out at Night edited by Rob Costello
From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keogh
My Murder by Katie Williams
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters
The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore by Laurie Gilmore
Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday
Come Out Come Out by Alexia Onyx
Private Rites by Julia ArmfieldWed, 18 Dec 2024 - 45min - 161 - 161 - Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!Wed, 04 Dec 2024 - 53min - 160 - 160 - Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Marumaki
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!)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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - 1h 18min - 159 - 159 - Just Kids by Patti Smith
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
DevotionWed, 06 Nov 2024 - 1h 11min - 158 - 158 - We Mostly Come Out At Night
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.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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - 1h 09min - 157 - 157 - 6th Anniversary Hangout
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 TingleWed, 09 Oct 2024 - 58min - 156 - 156 - Who Will Bury You? by Chido Muchemwa
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 BirdWed, 25 Sep 2024 - 1h 15min - 155 - 155 - Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
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
The Raven Cycle by Maggie StiefvaterWed, 11 Sep 2024 - 1h 00min - 154 - 154 - I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
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.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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 - 1h 01min - 153 - 153 - Reality Squall by J. Krawczyk
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 KrawczykWriter/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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 - 55min - 152 - 152 - Summer Hangout 2024
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 MaclayDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 31 Jul 2024 - 55min - 151 - 151 - Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
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 KrakauerDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 17 Jul 2024 - 1h 08min - 150 - 150 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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 TremblayDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 03 Jul 2024 - 1h 20min - 149 - 149 - Angels in America by Tony Kushner
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)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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 - 1h 16min - 148 - 148 - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
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 andBe 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
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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!Wed, 05 Jun 2024 - 1h 01min - 147 - 147 - Spring Hangout 2024
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 1and 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 edited by R.F. Kuang
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 22 May 2024 - 1h 05min - 146 - 146 - Starling House by Alix E Harrow
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 GarciaDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 08 May 2024 - 1h 10min - 145 - 145 - The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson
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)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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 1h 25min - 144 - 144 - The Night Eaters (vol 1) by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
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 LehaneDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 59min - 143 - 143 - Spring Hangout 2024
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 ReaderDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 49min - 142 - 142 - Her Majesty's Royal Coven
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 MarketDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 59min - 141 - 141 - Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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)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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 1h 10min - 140 - 140 - Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier
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.
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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Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 53min - 139 - 139 - The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
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.
Other 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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 1h 02min - 138 - 138 - Flung Out Of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Temple
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
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithWed, 17 Jan 2024 - 46min - 137 - 137 - The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
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 MachadoDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 1h 17min - 136 - 136 - 2023 Holiday Wrap
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 McGuireDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 42min - 135 - 135 - Pluralities by Avi Silver
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
A Shot in the Dark by Victoria LeeWed, 06 Dec 2023 - 1h 00min - 134 - 134 - Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins
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
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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 1h 00min - 133 - 133 - Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan
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.
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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 1h 16min - 132 - 132 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
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 GhostsWed, 25 Oct 2023 - 1h 00min - 131 - 131 - 5th Anniversary Hangout
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!
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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Wed, 11 Oct 2023 - 46min - 130 - 130 - The Silence of the Lambs
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)
Clarice (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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!Wed, 27 Sep 2023 - 1h 07min - 129 - 129 - Bear by Marian Engel
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?
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Wed, 13 Sep 2023 - 1h 00min - 128 - 128 - The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
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 isBecause 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
Paper House by Dominique FortierWed, 30 Aug 2023 - 51min - 127 - 127 - Summer Hangout 2023
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 Beat by Gwen Hayes
Moonheart by Charles de Lint
Seven Tears into the Sea by Terri Farley
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
The Blue Salt Road by Joanne M. Harris
Sealskin by Su BristowDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 58min - 126 - 126 - Sordidez by E.G. Condé
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.
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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 - 58min - 125 - 125 - Verity by Coleen Hoover
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.
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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Wed, 19 Jul 2023 - 1h 05min - 124 - 124 - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
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.
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!
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 - 1h 02min - 123 - 123 - Junior High by Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, and Tillie Walden
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.
Show Notes
Tegan and Sara's memoir High Schoolwas 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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Wed, 21 Jun 2023 - 45min - 122 - 122 - Canadian Authors
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, Microserfs)
Episodes with Canadian Authors & Books
10: Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey
20: House of Anansi Press 2019 Spring Books (Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie & Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin)
25: Sadie by Courtney Summers
26: Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
36: Disfigured by Amanda Leduc
39: House of Anansi New Releases (Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger &
Pallbearing Stories by Michael Melgaard)
42: The Shale Project (Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver & The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen)
43: You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
50: From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
51: Coach House Books 2021 Fall Releases (Imago Stage by Karoline Georges & Fauna by Christiane Vadnais)
59: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
62: Because the Sun by Sarah Burgoyne
70: A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie
74: And Miles To Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyne Saucier
82: Pegamoose Press
88: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
92: Interview with Stephanie CookeDon’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!
Wed, 07 Jun 2023 - 51min - 121 - 121 - Spring Hangout
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
The Magicians by Lev GrossmanWed, 24 May 2023 - 40min - 120 - 120 - The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
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.
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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Wed, 10 May 2023 - 59min - 119 - 119 - Page to Screen - Fight Club
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.
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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 KawaguchiWed, 12 Apr 2023 - 1h 04min - 117 - 117 - Coach House Books - Sing, Nightingale by Marie Hélène Poitras
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 SaucierDon’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!
Wed, 29 Mar 2023 - 55min - 116 - 116 - Another Cup of Tea - Winter Hangout 2023
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.
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 EndeDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 15 Mar 2023 - 44min - 115 - 115 - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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.
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 CaliforniansIf 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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Wed, 01 Mar 2023 - 1h 16min - 114 - 114 - Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan
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.
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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Wed, 15 Feb 2023 - 1h 01min - 113 - 113 - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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.)
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 aboutIf 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 WorkDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 - 52min - 112 - 112 - Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
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.
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 , andSomething 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 JunkiesSat, 21 Jan 2023 - 47min - 111 - 111 - The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
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.
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
Lovecraft Country by Matt RuffDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!Wed, 04 Jan 2023 - 1h 00min - 110 - 110 - 2022 Holiday Wrap Up
It's our last episode of 2022, so we're taking a look back at our reading and writing goals for the year, as well as looking ahead to 2023.
Show Notes:
We may have dropped the ball on 52 Weeks of Short Stories, but that doesn't mean we won't try something new in 2023. The Artist's Way, anyone?
Jette is so close to being done her graphic novel script!
Gen finally finished the first draft of her YA novel!
We can't wait for all the events next year, like Word on the Street, TCAF, and Toronto Festival of Authors.
Stelliform Press is a new to us publisher that we hope to work with in the new year!
Check out our holiday wrap-up blog post for more of our 2023 reading and writing goals.
Our first book club pick of 2023 is Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion.
Books Mentioned:
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV & Werther Dell'Edera
Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja
Sandford Meisner on Acting
How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming by Michael E. Brown
Persuasion by Jane Austen
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
Through the Woods by Emily Carrol
Shades of Fear edited by Allison O'Toole
By Chance or Providence by Becky Cloonan
Making A Scene by Constance Wu
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
Thoreau and Me by Cedric Taling
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Book of Accidents by Chuck WendigDon’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 newsletterand add us to Pinterest!
Wed, 21 Dec 2022 - 40min - 109 - 109 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
In Episode 109, Gen and Jette discuss Pet by Akwaeke Emezi. We absolutely loved this one and are now planning on reading everything Emezi has written, including Bitter, the prequel story to Pet.
Show Notes:
This episode is in keeping with our annual December tradition of replacing a discussion about a certain series featuring a certain boy wizard in favour of queer, and especially trans, stories. Check out last year's discussion of A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee, and our episode on Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas from the year before that.
The name of the poem by Dylan Thomas featuring the line "rage against the dying of the light" is called "Do not go gentle into that good night." Another poem that Gen loves is, "In my craft or sullen art." The radio play that she has yet to read is called Under Milk Wood.
Emezi's novel You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty, their first romance, is partially inspired by Florence + The Machine's song "Hunger." That might be enough for us to give romance a try.
Other Books by Akwaeke Emezi
Bitter
The Death Vivek Oji
Freshwater
You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit MemoirDon’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!
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 - 57min - 108 - 108 - NaNoWriMo 2022
It's November, aka National Novel Writing Month, so in episode 108 Gen and Jette talk all things writing! We get into the projects we're currently working on, the ones that have fallen by the wayside (ahem, 52 weeks of short stories), and what we're doing to cultivate a writing routine. As always, we come away with some fresh inspiration and creative spark.
Show Notes
We were bright eyed and bushy tailed when he began our 52 Weeks of Short Stories challenge at the beginning of this year. 2023 is calling for some softer, gentler writing goals.
Both Gen and Jette have committed to working through The Artist's Way...one of these days.
If anyone remembers a show where they'd have a word of the day, please let us know what it is.
Listen to Episode 106: Something Is Killing the Children for more graphic novel goodness and more about the project Jette is working on.
Books Mentioned
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. LeGuin
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
How to Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander CheeDon’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!
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 - 1h 03min
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