Science fiction is such a massive genre that it’s difficult to know where to start. So why not start at the beginning? With the grandmother of it all, Mary Shelley. Most people who know anything about Mary Shelley know the mythology of how Frankenstein came to be. Lord Byron invited …
In Episode 25 Gen and Jette discuss Sadie by Courtney Summers. This time we team up with local bookstore, BMV Queen, and their bookclub for a group discussion. We recorded on location and had an incredible discussion with an awesome group of ladies! Sadie was the perfect book to discuss …
In Episode 24 Gen and Jette talk about the books we hated. You can’t love every book you read. We don’t usually spend much time talking about the books we didn’t like, because we’d rather talk about the books we loved. We want to recommend books. That’s the whole point …
In Episode 23 Gen and Jette take on another genre breakdown by asking, “What makes a classic?” It turns out this question is trickier than we thought, but we try to answer it anyway. We take a look at the attributes of uncontested classics and see how they might apply …
In Episode 22 Gen and Jette indulge in Another Cup of Tea during a night at the hotel. Which hotel? The Broadview Hotel. Jette won a free night’s stay and we decided to record from our room. We went live on Instagram for this edition of Another Cup of Tea …
In Episode 21 Gen and Jette talk about Shade, The Changing Girl, their 2019 May/June book club selection. This collection of comics on DC’s Young Animal imprint is about an alien, Loma, who embodies a teenage girl. The story follows Loma as she travels across the universe to earth in …
In Episode 20 Gen and Jette team up with House of Anansi Press to discuss two of their 2019 Spring books: Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renee Lavoie and Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin. Autopsy of a Boring Wife, translated from French by Arielle Aaronson, is like a Québécois …
In Episode 19 Gen and Jette do another genre breakdown by asking, “What is YA?” We talk about the history of Young Adult literature, its recent rise in popularity, and which books are categorized as YA. It’s a genre that’s come a long way since we were teenagers and it …
In Episode 18 Gen and Jette discuss Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, and its HBO limited series adaptation. This is one of those rare instances where the adaptation fully lives up to the source material. Flynn deftly peels back the layers of violence that affect her characters, while Jean-Marc Vallée …
In Episode 17 Gen and Jette talk about The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, their 2019 March/April book club selection. Valente takes on the trope of the “fridged” woman in superhero stories. The term was coined by author Gail Simone and was named after the Green Lantern comic in …
