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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
I know. I know. In our last blog post, I said that my main reading goal for 2023 is to read the books I already own. I promise that is still my goal, but these six books have caught my attention, and I can’t just ignore them. I’m going to …
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 …
It’s our last episode of 2022, so it’s time for a holiday wrap up. 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 …
Well, we made it through 2022. Who would have guessed? Reading and writing were tumultuous this year, to say the least. Jette did a lot of reading. Gen did a lot of writing. This is why we’re a good team. Check out Another Book on the Shelf’s Duo on the …
In Episode 109, Gen and Jette discuss Pet by Akwaeke Emezi. We absolutely loved this one and now plan to read 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 …
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. …
