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In Episode 149, Gen and Jette continue to celebrate Pride Month with Tony Kushner's award-winning play, Angels in America. We had to cut ourselves off eventually because we could talk about this play forever.Show NotesWe went to see this play last December at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. It was produced by That Theatre Company and directed by Craig Pike. (Yes, Torontonians, Craig Pike of Craig's Cookies.) It was phenomenal and we knew we had to read the play and dedicate an episode to it. The play runs about 7 hours long in total and is technically two separate plays: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika.HBO made a mini series, adapted for the screen by Tony Kushner, in 2003.In 2017, The National Theatre produced a revival starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane and it eventually went to Broadway. This play has won a lot of awards and it's very clear why. We'll definitely make it a point to see any production of this that we can get to.This spring, Gen went to see another 7-hour long play called The Inheritance, put on by Canadian Stage Company. It's a reimagining of E.M. Forester's novel Howard's End and also deals with AIDS and being gay in America, but in a contemporary setting that takes place before and after the election of Donald Trump. Our next episode is our 150th! Appropriately, it is a book club episode. We'll be talking about Jette's pick, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia. Other Media MentionedThe Inheritance by Matthew LopezCaroline, or ChangeMunich (2005)Lincoln (2012)West Side Story (2021)The Fabelmans (2022)

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In Episode 148, Gen and Jette are kicking off Pride Month with Maia Kobabe's graphic novel memoir, Gender Queer. Show NotesThis 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 number of anthologies, including Gothic Tales of Haunted Love and Be Gay, Do Comics.Super into all the required classes that Kobabe took in High School at the Waldorf School.Watch our Instagram for some Pride book recs this month, and check out some of our queer reading lists on the blog:A Queer Reading List to Keep Pride Going All Year LongTop 7 Pride Month Books to Celebrate Queer JoyOur love for The Storygraph is never ending, especially the reading stats. In our next episode we'll be talking about Angels in America by Tony Kushner. We went to see the play last December, so now we're going to read it, and probably watch the HBO mini series and/or the National Theatre production.Other Books and Media MentionedPet by Akweke EmeziTranny by Laura Jane GraceThe Laramie Project

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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 NotesWe actually hung out IRL recently. It was so much fun to walk around TCAF (Toronto Comic Arts Festival) and then chat for hours at Cafe Landwer afterwards. While at TCAF, we got to chat with Cecil Castellucci, who wrote Shade, The Changing Girl—one of our first (maybe the first?) graphic novel episodes! We're so on top of our reading goals this year. Wild.October's reading theme might end up being books about cursed films.Gen's Top 10 Books of 2024 is up on the blog! We broke it into two posts: Part 1 and Part 2 Our 150th episode is coming up, and very fittingly it's going to be a book club episode. We're reading The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia and will be talking about it July 3.In our next episode we're kicking off Pride month with Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, which is a graphic novel memoir.Other Books & Media Mentioned By Lynda Barry: What It Is; SyllabusThe Witching Hours published by Cloudscape ComicsBy Cecil Castellucci: Shade, The Changing Girl; Girl on FilmEveryone Is Tulip by Dave BakerMourning Doves Are People Too by Demi NaitoThe Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson (Episode 145) Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (Episode 146) The Night Eaters, Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Episode 144)The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootAngels in America by Tony KushnerThe Broken Girls by Simone St JamesThe Fran Lebowitz ReaderGiant Days, Vol. 1 by John AlisonCats Cafe by Matt TarpleyA Guest in the House by EM CarrollSomething is Killing the Children, Vol. 6 by James Tynion IVWitchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion GibsonVivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela BannosHorror Movie by Paul TremblaySilver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno GarciaThe Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 edited by R.F. KuangBeautyland by Marie-Helene BertinoThe Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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In Episode 146, Gen and Jette talk about their most recent book club pick—Starling House by Alix E. Harrow. We are so here for the spooky houses and gothic vibes!Show NotesEleanor Starling was giving Mark Ryden and Margaret Keane vibes.Starling House is a portal fantasy of sorts, as is Harrow's debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January. She also wrote a short story called "A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies." Our next book club pick is The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia MorenoGarcia. It's based on H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau. So we're sticking with the gothic, spooky vibes. We loved Mexican Gothic and we're sure this one is going to be great! We'll be discussing it first thing in July.We may also have to watch the 1996 film, The Island of Doctor Moreau, starring Val Kilmer, Marlon Brando, and Fairuza Balk, among others. It looks like a wild time. Other Books MentionedLost in the Neverwoods by Aiden ThomasPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisAlice in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollVelvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno GarciaCertain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia

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In Episode 145, we're back with the sequel to Her Majesty's Royal Coven! This is probably the fastest we've ever read the second book in a series, but we simply couldn't wait. So much happened in this book. Can we have the next one already please?Show NotesJuno Dawson is absolutely killing us with these cliffhangers. Yes, another one. Always with that last sentence!The next book in the series, Queen B, seems to be a prequel of sorts. It's a shorter novel that traces the origins of HMRC that began with Anne Boleyn. The final instalment of the trilogy doesn't appear to have a release date yet, but looks like it might be called Human Rites. Unfortunately, we couldn't find very much information about it at all, so it looks like we'll be waiting awhile for it!HMRC is currently in development to be turned into a TV series, from the producers of The Crown. You know we'll be watching whenever it drops.Join us next time for a book club episode. We'll be discussing Starling House by Alix E. Harrow.Other Books & Media MentionedThe Sixth SenseTwilight by Stephenie MeyersMother, Nature by Jedidiah JenkinsThe series that must not be named (you know the one)

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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 NotesMarjorie Liu and Sana Takeda have worked in all corners of the comic/graphic novel world, including Marvel and their co-created series, Monstress, published by Image Comics. They've both won Hugo and Eisner awards, and Liu is the first ever woman (and woman of colour) to win an Eisner in the Best Writer category.Shout out to Hoopla, as always. We love being able to read even more graphic novels through their library platform.Somehow we stumbled across this graphic novel separately...maybe? Hard to say. We might just share a brain now.Another shout out belongs to the Concord Bookshop, where Jette snagged her copy of Night Eaters from their amazing graphic novel section. In our next episode, we'll be talking about the sequel to Her Majesty's Royal Coven, The Shadow Cabinet, because that cliff hanger means we need to discuss it ASAP!!Other Books MentionedSomething is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'EderaPaper Houses & Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda MullinsThe Martian by Andy WeirFight Club by Chuck PalahniukMystic River by Dennis Lehane



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