Another Book on the Shelf

Gen and Jette
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So we started a book club but never talked about the books so we decided to start a podcast to talk about the books.

  1. 6d ago

    201 - Anderson In Bloom by Jennifer Dugan

    It's the end of June, which means it's time for our annual Pride episode! This year, we're talking about Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan, since we're both deep in our romance era and we love us some queer joy.  Show Notes Is it time for us to move to a small coastal town and live our best storybook romance lives? Jenifer Prince does the cover art for this book. Check out more of her fantastic lesbian art on IG @jeniferrprince For more romance goodness, be sure to listen to episode 199, all about the romance genre. We're continuing with the romance theme for our next episode with In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde. And we're even going to a baseball game soon to get in the full spirit of things! Other Books by Jennifer Dugan  Verona Comics Hot Dog Girl Some Girls Do Love At First Set The Ride of Her Life Coven Other Books Mentioned Dearly Departed by Chip Pons Wet Screams published by Little Ghosts Books Love and Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander The Prospects by KT Hoffman Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid Decomposition Book by Sara van Os James Baldwin Sister Holiday Mysteries Series by Margaret Douaihy (Listen to Episode 176 for the first instalment, Scorched Grace)

    54 min

  2. Jun 10

    200 - 200th Episode Hangout Celebration

    It's our 200th episode! What better way to celebrate than by talking about all the books we've been reading? Show Notes While we've already passed 200 episodes on our other podcast, Teenage Daydream, this one is extra special because it was our first podcast. Sadly the cafe where Another Book on the Shelf was born—Page One—is no longer, but hopefully they'll open in another location soon. Shout out to Hopeless Romantic bookshop and Stormbound Books for running the coolest book rebinding workshops.  Artemis II got us through the beginning of April. For more details about all the romance we've been reading, make sure to listen our episode dedicated to all things romance! Pizza Hut, please make all our dreams come true and have an adult version of Book It. Our next episode will be our June Pride episode, and we're keeping it romantic with Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan. And don't forget to read along with our book club pick, In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde. Books and Authors Mentioned Unloved by Peyton Corrine Slewfoot by Brom M Train by Patti Smith Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit The Disordered Cosmos by Chandra Prescott Weinstein The Dead of Summer by Ryan LaSala The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde Forty Ways to Know a Star by Julian Scudder The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles Fall With Me by Becka Mack Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack VenCo by Cherie Dimaline Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern In Sensorium by Tanais Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates Training the Heart by Paisley Hope A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Esperance Decomposition Book by Sara van Os Stephanie Archer Something Is Killing the Children Novel The Prospects by KT Hoffman The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor Ways of Being by James Bridle Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

    1h 21m

  3. May 27

    199 - Romance Reads

    In Episode 199, we're talking about a genre we never thought we'd be talking about: Romance! We've both fallen into the romance genre pretty hard lately, so we thought it was about time we had a proper discussion about some of our favourite tropes, authors, and why we keep coming back to it. Show Notes If you told us when we started this podcast that we'd one day dedicate an entire episode to romance, we wouldn't have believed you, but we're so happy to be here. Truly the plot twist we never saw coming. Next episode is our 200th! We can hardly wrap our heads around it. Come hang out with us as we talk about all things Another Book on the Shelf. In keeping with the romance theme, we'll be reading Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan for our Pride episode.  And we're reading In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde for our next book club discussion, so make sure you read along! We did our best to keep track of everything we talked about, but the list of books and authors mentioned might be incomplete. Books and Authors Mentioned Sophie Kinsella Chloe Gong Rachel Reid Casey McQuiston Emily Henry Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young  Elsie Silver The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore Erin Sterling Becka Mack The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde Paisley Hope Brynne Weaver Rebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla Sage Ashley Poston Catherine Cowles Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday Abby Jimenez Carley Fortune Peyton Corrine Chelsea Curto

    1h 22m

  4. May 13

    198 - Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

    We're getting so close to our 200th episode, but first, we have a book club episode for you. In Episode 198, we're talking about Gen's pick—Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. Show Notes This book felt extremely relevant to everything happening in the world these days, like oof. Truly so many topics were covered in this book! The rise of Communism and the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, the Carboniferous Era, coal mining, rose production in Colombia, and actually so much more. What a ride. Rebecca Solnit, we are so impressed with the structuring of this book. You can read Orwell's essay, "Politics and the English Language," on the Orwell Foundation website and it is very much worth the read. Don't be surprised if Gen picks Nineteen Eighty-Four as a future book club read. If you follow us on Instagram, you may know that we've fallen down the romance rabbit hole, so we decided that our next episode would be all about the romance genre. After that, it's time for our 200th episode! We still can't believe it.  Our next book club book is Jette's pick, and we're following the romance train still with In Her Own League by Liz Tomforde, which is a spin off of the extremely popular Windy City series.  Other Books and Media Mentioned The Giver by Lois Lowry The Trotsky (2009) By George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four Animal Farm Down and Out in Paris and London Homage to Catalonia By Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me Hope In the Dark A Field Guide to Getting Lost The Beginning Comes After the End

    55 min

  5. Apr 29

    197 - M Train by Patti Smith

    In Episode 197, we're talking about M Train by Patti Smith, one of our forever favourite artists. This year we're making an extra effort to crush our TBRs and reading books that we both already own or have been meaning to read forever, and of course we both have more Patti Smith to read! Show Notes We loved this book, obviously, but we raged against the deckled edges the entire time. Patti Smith is living the life we both want, so we're going to figure out how to do this, too. If you haven't already, definitely read Just Kids, Patti Smith's book about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe when they were in their twenties living in New York. And then listen to Episode 159! Patti Smith visits a few cemeteries and we were reminded of our episode about Somebody Is Walking On Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez. Our next episode is a book club episode and we'll be talking about Gen's pick, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. Other Books & Authors Mentioned Haruki Murakami Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

    1h 9m

  6. Apr 15

    196 - Slewfoot by Brom

    For Episode 196, we have another instalment in our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series with Slewfoot by Brom. This might be our most Bookstagram Made Me that we've ever done, because this book has been everywhere! Since we love all things witches, you know we had to read it. Show Notes We loved Abitha and Samson and support all their witchery. Brom is also an artist and full colour paintings are included in Slewfoot, which was especially helpful for picturing Forest, Sky, and Creek with their strange child faces in the mouths of animals. Brom has done film concept art for Galaxy Quest (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Scooby Doo (2002), and Van Helsing (2004). He has never taken any formal art classes. In an effort to crush our TBR, we're reading books we both have on our shelves, and so for our next episode we'll be talking about M Train by Patti Smith. Don't forget to read along with our book club book, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit, which we'll be talking about in early May.

    1h 10m

  7. Apr 1

    195 - Spring Hangout 2026

    In Episode 195, we're officially wrapping up our 2025 reading goals and chatting about what we've been up to the last three months. (Surviving, mostly!) Lots of books are being read and writing plans are cooking! The real new year starts in spring anyway. Show Notes Jette is absolutely crushing her reading goals! And we both may need to update some of our Storygraph goals for 2026 because we're way ahead already. We visited Hopeless Romantic and the Hopeless Romantic/Little Ghosts crossover store at Union Station in the last few months. If you're in Toronto, we definitely recommend checking them out! It turns out horror and romance are a perfect pair. Since we have a Romance episode coming up at the end of May, we tried to curb our romance talk, but we will be doing a deep dive soon enough! In our next episode, we'll be talking about Slewfoot by Brom as part of our #BookstagramMadeMeDoIt series, since we've been seing it everywhere! After that, we're attempting to tackle our TBRs and reading M Train by Patti Smith, which we both have physical copies of. That episode will be out April 29. And don't forget to read along with our current book club, Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit. Books & Authors Mentioned The Windy City Series by Liz Tomforde Elsie Silver A Five Letter Word for Love by Amy James Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James This Is a Safe Space by Lucinda Berry Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age by Sophie Ansari, Nava Kavelin, and Penn Badgley Rebel Blue Ranch Series by Lyla Sage Soul Searching by Lyla Sage Playing for Keeps series by Becka Mack When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter Wells Ranch Series by Bailey Hannah Silver Pines Ranch Series by Paisley Hope All the Missing Pieces by Catherine Cowles Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan Passing by Nella Larson The Creative Act by Rick Rubin  The Fountain by Casey Scieszka Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran The Changeling by Victor LaValle The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Game Changers Series by Rachel Reid Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

    1h 16m

  8. Mar 18

    194 - Mamo by Sas Milledge

    In Episode 194, we chat about the YA graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge. It's her debut graphic novel, originally released as a five-issue miniseries and follows hedge witch Orla O'Reilly, as she and local Jo Manalo try to fix the chaotic magic in Heresden. Show Notes We first came across Sas Milledge's work in the graphic novel adaptation of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, which we talked about in Episode 180.  The next instalment of The Raven Cycle adaptations, The Dream Thieves. is coming out August 4. Orla O'Reilly is giving Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park, which of course we loved. It turns out that the Jim Hensen project Sas Milledge worked on, was in fact Labyrinth related. She was one of the illustrators for Beyond the Goblin City, a graphic novel collection of short stories that take place in the world of Labyrinth. She also worked on The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Graphic Novel for DC Comics. Other Works Mentioned Junior High by Tegan and Sara Quin, illustrated by Tillie Walden The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda

    38 min
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So we started a book club but never talked about the books so we decided to start a podcast to talk about the books.

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  • Creator
    Gen and Jette
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    201
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Gen and Jette
  • Show Website
    Another Book on the Shelf

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