In this weirdly chill episode, we talk about memoirs and track cycling and magical fantasy and female relationships and six-legged octopuses. Plus: The mystique of a book club in which you might actually read a book you enjoy.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray

Books and Other Media

• Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi
• The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad
• Unplugged: Evolve from Technology to Upgrade Your Fitness, Performance, Consciousness by Brian Mackenzie, Andy Galpin, and Phil White
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
• Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• The Rider by Tim Krabbé
• The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (Anna mistakenly calls this The Blood Queen)
• Malazan Book of the Fallen (series) by Steven Erikson
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch (video game)
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland
• • Read the webcomic
• Present by Leslie Stein
• Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (board game)
• Bring Your Own Book (party game)
• Simon and Martina (YouTube video series)
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

Links, Articles, and Things

• Quality Time app
• Cycling Track Men’s Team Pursuit Gold Medal Finals – 2012 Olympics
• Lucy Knisley apparently also has a book about her high school experiences in the works, as well as the one Matthew is totally unexcited about on her recent pregnancy and new baby
• Snakes and Ladders (board game)
• Blog post about building a Raspberry Pi powered Readers’ Advisory Machine in which there is a photo of Anna and Matthew playing The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End (Matthew clearly forgets what the actual rules were, but they were terrible)
• PHX Zine Fest
• Books on my shelf I have not read & Two-Fisted Library Studies (zines made by Anna and Matthew)
• Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix
• Our bonus episode on the American Library Association Annual conference and BookExpo America 2017

Questions

• Is the second book being a dud the “curse of the trilogy”?
• What is the best worst board game you have ever played?
• Do you ever recommend YouTube channels to your friends? What channels?

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 21st, when we’ll be talking about Dystopian Fiction!

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