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148: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

148: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Another Book on the Shelf July 15, 2024 July 15, 2024

In Episode 148, Gen and Jette are kicking off Pride Month with Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel memoir, Gender Queer. Show Notes This graphic novel memoir was such a great entry point for talking about gender and sexuality.Maia Kobabe uses Spivak pronouns, e/em/eir.You can check out Kobabe’s other work in a …

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147: Spring Hangout 2024

147: Spring Hangout 2024

Another Book on the Shelf July 15, 2024 July 15, 2024

It’s spring, which means it’s time for another hangout episode. We love having these chats about all the non-podcast books we’ve been reading and the writing projects we’re working on. Show Notes We actually hung out IRL recently. It was so much fun to walk around TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) and …

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144: The Night Eaters (Vol. 1) by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

144: The Night Eaters (Vol. 1) by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

Another Book on the Shelf May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024

In Episode 144, Gen and Jette read the first volume of Night Eaters, a horror graphic novel by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda.You know we’re all about the creepy graphic novels, but this one had the added bonus of being very funny. Safe to say we loved it! Show Notes …

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138: Flung Out Of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Temple

138: Flung Out Of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Temple

Another Book on the Shelf February 27, 2024 February 27, 2024

In Episode 138, Gen and Jette discuss the graphic novel Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer. It reimagines the life of author Patricia Highsmith and the inspiration for her classic lesbian novel The Price of Salt. Show Notes We’ve begun a bit of a tradition of …

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112: Fatale by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

112: Fatale by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

Another Book on the Shelf February 5, 2023 February 5, 2023

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 …

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106: Something Is Killing the Children

106: Something Is Killing the Children

Another Book on the Shelf November 2, 2022 November 2, 2022

It’s almost Halloween! Which means episode 106 is dedicated to all things spooky — specifically Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, and Miquel Muerto. And we’re welcoming guest and friend of the pod, Mike Storey, to talk all things horror and graphic novels. Show Notes …

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5 Spooky Graphic Novels You Should Read This Autumn

5 Spooky Graphic Novels You Should Read This Autumn

Jette Schirmer October 11, 2022 October 11, 2022

We have endured a long and awful summer to get to the best season of all — spooky season. The weather has finally started to cool down and the creepy coffee mugs are in full rotation. I don’t know what it is about 2022 but I want more witches and …

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93: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

93: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Another Book on the Shelf April 27, 2022 April 27, 2022

In Episode 93, Gen and Jette kick off their graphic novel book club with Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. This graphic novel memoirs chronicles Bechdel’s complex relationship with her father, and she does it with nuance, honesty, and humour. It’s a fantastic read and we nerd out a lot on …

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92: Interview with Stephanie Cooke

92: Interview with Stephanie Cooke

Another Book on the Shelf April 27, 2022 April 27, 2022

In Episode 92, Gen and Jette had the pleasure of speaking with Stephanie Cooke — an award-winning writer and editor based out of Toronto, Canada. She’s a comic book fan, avid gamer, movie watcher, and pun appreciator. Her graphic novels, Oh My Gods! and ParaNorthern are out now from Clarion …

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82: Pegamoose Press Interview

82: Pegamoose Press Interview

Another Book on the Shelf November 24, 2021 November 24, 2021

In Episode 82, Gen and Jette chat with Brenda Hickey and Troy Little of Pegamoose Press. We talk about all things comic books and visual storytelling, how great collaborations elevate everyone involved, and the importance of putting pen to paper. It was a fantastic conversation and we’re so excited to …

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In episode 204, Gen and Jette freak out over mushr In episode 204, Gen and Jette freak out over mushrooms and T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead, book 1 in the Sworn Soldier series.

We both meant to read “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which this book is based on, before we recorded, but unfortunately...life. It’s on the list now!

Please send Jette all recos for anything fungi-related- books, cute things, forests to run to. 🍄🍄‍🟫

Our next episode is our summer hangout. Expect more mushrooms and probably (definitely) some Windy City talk. How many books in the series can Gen read before we record?

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #WhatMovesTheDead #TKingfisher #NewEpisode #Mycology Mushrooms | Fungus | Fungi | Horror | Edgar Allan Poe
Since I’m headed there in October, it felt like ti Since I’m headed there in October, it felt like time to start the Vancouver storm series. 

Okay, well, yes the trip is booked but also I was at the mercy of the library and have been waiting for months for the book😆 (and we just saw @stephaniearcherauthor interviewing @maggienorthauthor last week!)

Starting with the goalie felt like such a treat. So many other series you get hints then have to wait. We love a grumpy goalie. And I liked Pippa’s journey with music. Sometimes artistic endeavours are not done well in books but I like this one. 

Can’t wait for the rest of the series.

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #VancouverStorm #HockeyRomance #StephanieArcher romance reads | west coast | hockey | musician | podcast | reading | series | Canadian
I have started hauling all my library books around I have started hauling all my library books around with me all the time just in case I find a cute spot for photos - like a brightly coloured chair at a botanical garden or an old distillery 🪑🪴🥃

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #LexiLafleurBrown #AllanGardens #TheDistilleryHistoricDistrict Library Love | Book Adventures | Shoot Your Shot | Evening the Score | Book Photography
5 4 3 2 1 Book Challenge I can’t remember where 5 4 3 2 1 Book Challenge 

I can’t remember where I saw this so credit to whoever did it first! Thought it would be fun 

5 BOOKS I LOVE
 * Just Kids by Patti Smith
 * In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde
 * Paper Houses by Dominique Fortier
 * The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá
 * Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 

4 BOOKS ON MY TBR
 * In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Cato
 * Into the Fading Twilight by Catherine Cowles
 * Hockey Boy by Brittanée Nicole
 * Something is Killing the Children: Hope is a Knife by James Tynion IV and Kiersten White

3 BOOKS I ALWAYS RECOMMEND
 * The Martian by Andy Weir
 * Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
 * Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

2 MOST RECENT READS
 * Behind the Net by Stephanie Archer
 * What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

1 CURRENT READ
 *  Evening the Score by Lexi LaFleur Brown

#54321Challenge #AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #BookRecommedations
Last night I finally was able to curl up in my new Last night I finally was able to curl up in my new balcony chair and enjoy the gorgeous evening with my book. After having to deal with a hornet nest, heatwaves, and wildfire smoke, it felt pretty great to spend time out there. 

I still want to get a couple more plants to fill out the greenery, but I plan to be our here every night that I can until at least the end of October 🎃

#ReadEverywhere #ReadOutside #SummerReading #CozyVibes #ReaderLife
✨What we’re conjuring this week✨ Hopes 💕 - The ti ✨What we’re conjuring this week✨

Hopes 💕
- The tidying and chores bug catches Jette so she gets her apartment in order
- The weather doesn’t swing into too hot and too humid
- Jette’s special edition Windy City books arrive on time 

Vibes 🌌
- All the hockey romance reading this week
- Fun and adventure when we head to the Fossil Feud launch with @hopelessromanticbooks , @maggienorthauthor and @stephaniearcherauthor 
- Switching it up and making carrot cake lattes instead of lemon pound cake lattes

#WeeklyIntentions #HopesandVibes #AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #WindyCity #FossilFeud Coffee | Hopes and Vibes | Reading | Cleaning | Hockey Romance | Lattes | Crisp Fall Weather
Episode 203 is another instalment in our Page to S Episode 203 is another instalment in our Page to Screen series. This time, we read Clockers by Richard Price and watched Spike Lee’s film adaptation of the same name. 

We loved how the book and the film each have their own distinct vibe and definitely need to watch more Spike Lee films. (And maybe rewatch The Wire?) Richard Price has also written screenplays, including The Wire, The Deuce, and the Martin Scorsese film, The Color of Money, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

This was Mekhi Phifer’s first film and he got the part through an open casting call. Wild! 

Highly recommend this combo of book and film. 

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #PageToScreen #SpikeLee #Clockers #RichardPrice Brooklyn | Jersey | The Wire | Crime | Drama | Adaptation | Reading | Podcast | New Episode
“You’re a part of the Colson crew whether you like “You’re a part of the Colson crew whether you like it or not” 

This was the Sparrow Falls book I was most excited for. As soon as I met the Colson family, I wanted Cope’s story. I guess small-town hockey player mystery is my jam 🤭

Book 4 is already on it way from the library and I’m picking up Into the Fading Twilight tomorrow. And yes, I will be getting to Catherine’s other series’ as soon as I can! (Send your recos!)

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #SparrowFals #CatherineCowles #Romance #Suspense Oregon | Pro Hockey | Baker | Cupckaes | Thriller
Do you prefer to read at a coffee shop or at home? Do you prefer to read at a coffee shop or at home?

I love the idea of reading in a coffee shop, but the ADHD always gets me. I people-watch. I listen to the sounds of a cafe. I take pictures of my book and my coffee. I always feel like I have to be ‘on’ for some reason. 

So back to the couch for me. I have a reading chair in my reading corner. I have another comfy chair by the window. But lately, it’s just been my raggedy old couch and my romance book against the world 😆

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #CoffeeshopReads #coffeeshop #reading Coffee | Reading | Reading chair | cozy and comfy | cafe sounds
Silver Pines. What a wonderful ranch. Books 2-4 ha Silver Pines. What a wonderful ranch. Books 2-4 have been filled with great characters and so much fun (and hard times, but we need those to get to the good times). Only one more to go and then I’m out of cowboys! (Ranchers? Horseboys? hahaha)

Send recos for more cowboy books, please! Or more @authorpaisleyhope books too!

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #SilverPines #PaisleyHope #CowboyRomance Romance Reads | Western | Cowboys | Kentucky | Canadian Authors
It’s Summerween 🦇🎃👻 and Dearly Departed by @bookso It’s Summerween 🦇🎃👻 and Dearly Departed by @booksovrbros is everything. 

“A sexy Hades-inspired gay rom-com, in which the former god of the Underworld turned grumpy funeral director must find a loophole in the Immortal Retirement Act that banished him to Earth, until the florist next door begins to unravel all his carefully laid plans.”

Immediately, I loved both MMCs. I want to hug Hayden and help him open up. I want to bask in Levi’s sunshine and joy. 

I can’t wait to finish the book and find out both of their fates 🖤

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #DearlyDeparted #ChipPons #Summerween #QueerRomance Hades | Queer Rom-Com | Florist | Funeral Director | Queer Joy | Spooky Reads
Wanna play? 🎶Last song I listened to: 100% by @n Wanna play?

 🎶Last song I listened to: 100% by @newfoundglory 
📺 Last series: I’m watching NCIS but in the order my TV records it, so currently in seasons 4, 14, 19, and 23…
🎬 Last movie: The Mummy
🏅 Best thing about the last month: Finding @corktown_cookies 
📚 Currently reading: Freeing the Wild by @authorpaisleyhope 
🎮 Currently playing: @moonlightpeaks is going to be a problem for me lol
👾 Currently working on: Learning to sketch
🌶️ Sweet/spicy/savoury?: All of the above - depends on the vibe
🎨 Favourite colour: The dark shade of turquoise that is like the deepest depth of the ocean
🤩 Current obsession: Knitting - We are finally back to knitting. So much to catch up on.
☕️ Tea or coffee? Yes, please. Both. 
🌐 Last internet search: 2026 Emmy nominations

(list found on Tumblr - credit to whoever created and all the rebloggers)

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #LastList #Reading #WhatAreYouWatching #TheKoboLife Reading | Listening | Watching | Knitting | Nintendo Switch
In Episode 202, we talk about Jette’s book club pi In Episode 202, we talk about Jette’s book club pick, In Her Own League by @liztomforde.author ! As you may know, we’re deep in our romance era right now—especially sports romance—and we loved Monty and Reese so much! 

In Her Own League is a spin-off of the best-selling Windy City Series, and Jette needs you all to read the series now if you haven’t already. What is the Windy City version of “Re”Heated Rivalry? Windier City? Whatever it’s called - Jette is rereading and relistening on a constant loop 🤭

Emmett “Monty” Montgomery is definitely based on real-life MLB manager Gabe Kapler, right? 🥵 (The elevator… the desk(s)…) You’re welcome. We tried to find our own baseball romance stories at a @bluejays game, but alas… ☹️

Interconnected romance series for the win every time! We can’t wait for Liz Tomforde’s next series, Wilder Woods, which takes place in California and follows the Wilder siblings, coming out next spring.

Have you headed to the Windy City? Do you love Reese and Emmett as much as we do? Tell us below!!

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #WindyCity #LizTomforde #Baseball Reese Remington | Emmett Montgomery | Windy CIty Warriors | Chicago | Baseball | Romance Reads
It’s Summerween, baby 👻🎃 A Spell to Wake the Dead It’s Summerween, baby 👻🎃

A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance is the perfect mix of mystery and witchy. Mazzy and Nora dabble in tarot and witchcraft. They end up finding a dismembered body after casting a spell at the beach. Nora feels like the woman’s spirit is in her. They find another body! Things get more dangerous, and it’s hard to know which adults to trust. Oh, and there might be a cult behind everything. 🦇

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #Summerween #SpookySZN #PlayDateWithTheUniverse Spooky Reads | Witches | Tarot | Cape Cod
And then another series was over. Rebel Blue Ranch And then another series was over. Rebel Blue Ranch will always be one of my favourite ranches. 

A wonderful take on second-chance romance; we get to tag along with Camille as she finds herself again and, in turn, her first love, Dusty. 

Can I move to Meadowlark? Or a ranch somewhere? Thanks. 

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #RebelBlueRanch #LylaSage #RomanceReads #CowboyRomance Wild and Wrangled | Done and Dusted | Swift and Saddled | Lost and Lassoed | Ryder family | Romance | Summer Reads
We went to a Jays game last night because I guess We went to a Jays game last night because I guess all the sports romance has turned us into sports people now? Truly the plot twist we never saw coming and I'll keep saying it.

I read The Prospects while I was on my trip to the East Coast and I loved it. It had a bit of enemies to lovers/friends to lovers/second chance romance combo thing going on, which is to say Gene and Luis were once friends but had a falling out and now that they're on the same minor league baseball team, they get a chance at romance.

They also might get a chance at the majors, even if that complicates their budding relationship. Of course, it all works out in the end, and Gene Ionescu gets to break down some barriers as a trans baseball player knocking out a bunch of firsts in the sport. Overall, it's a sweet story of Gene and Luis finding their way to each other and towards their dreams, both old and new. 

"Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie because it's Gene's walk-up song 🎵 

#SportsRomance #QueerRomance #PrideMonthReads #RomanceGenre #TheProspects
Weekly Intentions (inspired by @bookpals as always Weekly Intentions (inspired by @bookpals as always)

📖 Finish reading The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
🥐 One half hour of French per day with the Pinsleur audio lessons I borrowed on @libby.app
🧶 Finish knitting my Umbria summer top
🌸 Get back into my movement/exercise routine after being away
🖋 Dive back into revisions on my novel manuscript
☕️ Make time for some slow mornings and remember that all of this is aspirational and not mandatory 

Writer Life | Book Podcaster | Read Everyday | Learn Everyday | Toronto Writers
How much did Jette read this week? 📚🎧 Total 🎧 9.1 How much did Jette read this week? 📚🎧

Total
🎧 9.15 hours
📖 1075 pages

There was a lot of walking, knitting, and finally enjoying the balcony before the incoming hot, humid summer (and too much revenge procrastination bedtime due to work melting her brain), which means lots of reading!! 

What did you read this week?

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #WhatIReadThisWeek #BalconyReads #SummerReads Paisley Hope | Catherine Cowles | Ashley Poston | Liz Tomforde | Jenna Levine | Audiobooks | Library Love | Weekly Reads
Sometimes you have to read a book that tells all t Sometimes you have to read a book that tells all the things you already know. Gets outside. Look at trees. Listen to the water. Create little adventures that get you into nature. 🌲🌳🌱🪴🍂🍃🪺🍄🌵

I preordered some books the other week and got a free picnic blanket, so if anyone wants to read and knit outside this summer (in the shade on cool days, of course), give me a shout! 

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #ForestTherapy #Nonfiction Summer Reads | Nature | Get Outside | Picnics | Trees | Water
This was a really good day ☕️📖🎧🌊🧶 #AnotherBookOnT This was a really good day ☕️📖🎧🌊🧶

#AnotherBookOnTheShelfPodcast #ElsieSilver #FeverDream #SherbourneCommon Knitting | Mast Coffee | Reality TV | Emerald Lake | Lemonwood | Vanilla Sock | Lake Ontario | Audiobook | Reading
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