This episode we’re talking about Beach Reads! We discuss what counts as a beach read, what doesn’t count as a beach read, whether any of us has even been to a beach recently (yes!), and more. Plus: We play “two truths and a lie” with books!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Two Real Books and One Fake

• Contemporary romance (RJ)
  • Just Haven’t Met You Yet
  • Head Over Feet
  • Call Me, Maybe
• Endurance Sports (Meghan)
  • The Pain Cave: Pushing the Limits of Human Endurance
  • Hell on Two Wheels: An Astonishing Story of Suffering, Triumph, and the Most Extreme Endurance Race in the World
  • The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
• Domestic Thriller (Matthew)
  • The Lady in Waiting: A Novel
  • Her Dark Lies: A Novel
  • The Girls Are All So Nice Here: A Novel
• Travel Memoir (Anna)
  • Adventure
  • Food
  • Family

Other Media We Mentioned

• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
• Death on the Beach by Anna Johannsen
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• That’s a Christmas to Me #1 
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Links, Articles, and Things

• What Makes a Book a Beach Read?
• Read it and keep: is it time to reassess the ‘beach read’?
• What Is a Beach Read, and Why?
• Vancouver’s comedic and controversial ‘Barge Chilling Beach’ sign is no more
• Old-Timey Bathing Suit (TV Tropes)
• Call for Papers: Hallmark movies!

Westerns by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Stone Song by Win Blevins
• Prize Money by Celeste Castro
• The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis
• Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• Wounded by Percival Everett
• God’s Country by Percival Everett
• Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma
• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
• Hundred in the Hand by Joseph M. Marshall III
• The Devil’s Revolver by V.S. McGrath
• The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner by Walter Dean Myers
• Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
• That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
• Dream Wheels by Richard Wagamese
• Fools Crow by James Welch
• The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Humour Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, July 19th it’s time for our “we all read the same book” book pitches!