In Episode 46 Gen and Jette talk about The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan, our 2020 April/May book club selection. We head to upstate New York and fall in love with farm animals and candy shops in Hilarie Burton Morgan’s memoir. She writes about “Love, Livestock, and Big Life …
In Episode 42 Gen and Jette dive deep into The Shale Project developed by Sienna Tristen and Avi Silver. This time for book club we read two books–Tristen’s The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming and Silver’s Two Dark Moons. The Shale Project is more than books, it’s a whole planet with …
In Episode 38 Gen and Jette talk about Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano, their 2020 January/February book club selection. We love Shea Serrano and we had a great time discussing his latest book. It let us go off on a bunch of movie tangents and talk about some …
In Episdoe 34 Gen and Jette talk about The Institute by Stephen King, our 2019 November/December book club selection. King’s latest novel follows a group of children with special powers who are prisoners of a mysterious Institute that runs experiments on them. We chat about fate and chance, shady governments, …
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 …
