A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading books we hate!
Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.
This episode we’re talking about Flash Fiction (aka: microfiction, sudden fiction, micro-stories, & short-short stories)! We discuss poetry hating barbarians, SEO for formats, Twitterature, intentionality, and how academic journals are…
This week it’s another episode where we talk about Media We’ve Recently Enjoyed! We talk about woman’s basketball, resource mining, musicals, translations, and more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through , , , , or…
This episode we’re talking about Cyberpunk fiction! We discuss the aesthetics of neon and grime, cultural fears and xenophobia, techno-pessimism, survival and revolution, noir fiction, and more! Plus: When cybernetic implants meet body horror! You…
This episode it’s the first part of our 2021 Battle of the Books! We’re each pitching a book that we think we should all read and discuss, and you get to decide which one we read! We talk about pombies, wooden book clubs, friendship, and more!…
This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Film & TV books! We discuss media about media, self-pity book purchasing, spoilers, and more! Plus: Kakapos! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through , , , , or your favourite…
This episode we’re playing the storytelling game Plucky Kid Detective! Charles and Meep investigate the summer reading club kickoff party’s missing cake! Will they find out who the thief was? Plus: Dog Person, fedora wearing robots, maps, clues,…
This episode we’re talking about Crime Fiction! We discuss the Venn diagram of crime, mysteries, and thrillers, teenage girls punching robots, whether superhero comics count as crime fiction, teen sleuths, whodunnits, howdunnits, hughdunnits, and…
This episode we’re discussing the dreaded Did Not Finish! We talk about why we don’t finish books, specific titles we didn’t finish, why not finishing books can be good, what “finishing” a book even means, how you “finish” a cross-media…
This episode we’re talking about Literary Theory & Literary Criticism! We discuss what literature even is, books we haven’t read, preconceived notions, and much more! You can download the podcast , find it on , or get it through , , , , or…
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