In Episode 30 Gen and Jette talk about Cherry by Nico Walker, our 2019 September/October book club selection. This semi-autobiographical novel tackles war, addiction, and bank robbery. It follows an unnamed narrator through a tour in Iraq as an army medic, and then home, where his resulting PTSD triggers his …
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 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 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 …
In Episode 12 Gen and Jette talk about To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins. Our January/February book club selection takes us from Oregon to Patagonia as we travel with Jedidiah Jenkins on the trip of a lifetime. But it’s more than just a physical journey–it’s an emotional journey …
In Episode 10 Gen and Jette discuss Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey, our 2018 November/December book club selection. We’re officially caught up on book club episodes! And this one was written by a local Toronto-based author. Dey’s quirky novel revolves around Billie Jean Fontaine. She stumbles into an isolated town and …
In Episode 9 Gen and Jette talk about Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, our 2018 September/October book club selection. Klosterman is one of Jette’s favourite writers, so we were always going to read one of his essay collections. Rather than dive into every essay in the collection, we pick …
In Episode 8 Gen and Jette discuss Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, our 2018 July/August book club selection. This non-fiction book investigates a series of murders of Osage people in Osage County, Oklahoma during the 1920s. The time period came to be known as the “Reign of …
In Episode 5 Gen and Jette discuss Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs, our 2018 May/June book club selection. In this memoir, she tells the story of her brother, Harris, who died of a heroin overdose at the height of his comedic fame. It is an unflinchingly …
In Episode 3 Gen and Jette discuss The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman, our 2018 March/April book club selection. Hoffman’s latest novel is a prequel to her acclaimed novel Practical Magic. The story begins in the sixties in New York City, and follows Franny, Jet, and Vincent Owens from …
