In Episode 95, Gen and Jette finally take on the science fiction genre! We’ve put it off until now because neither of us thought we read much sci-fi, but it turns out we’ve read more than we thought and we actually love it! A lot of the books we talk …
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” Joan Didion In Episode 73, Gen and Jette discuss the broad category of essay collections. From Joan Didion to Chuck Klosterman to Samantha …
In Episode 49 Gen and Jette get out their magnifying glasses and trench coats for a genre breakdown trying to solve the mystery genre. We had lots of fun breaking this one down and looking at all the different sub-genres within mystery. (Including bumbling detective, amateur detective, caper/heist, comedy detective, …
In Episode 44 Gen and Jette do another genre breakdown and tackle graphic novels. We start with the history and definition of the graphic novel. Then we talk favourites and adaptations. And finally, we look at what makes the graphic novel a unique and effective form of storytelling. Check out …
In Episode 35 Gen and Jette have another genre breakdown and ask: memoirs, fact or fiction? This is one of our favourite genres and we had a great time discussing it. We talk about the themes that run through many memoirs and examine the grey area of creative non-fiction, semi-autobiographical …
In Episode 29 Gen and Jette do another genre breakdown and this time we’re haunted by horror! We take on the spookiest of genres in our latest genre breakdown. So many genres cross over with horror and we had so much fun picking this one apart, talking about some of …
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 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 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 16 Gen and Jette do a genre breakdown and ask: “What is fantasy?” If you’re a genre reader–and even if you’re not–you know that the lines between genres can get very, very blurry. So many authors play in the margins of genres. You’ll find yourself asking, “Is this …
