Keep It Fictional Port Moody Public Library

It's just three of us today, so in addition to telling you about the books we read for this Asian Heritage Month episode, we also sneak in a few bonus reading suggestions. Books mentioned on this show: The Lantern and the Night Moths edited and translated by Yilin Wang, Welcome Me to the Kingdom by Mai Nardone, and Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.


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Here are some more upcoming releases Corene, Emma, Sadie, and Virginia are looking forward to this season. Plus, find out what is the best book each of them has read so far this year. Books mentioned on this episode: Cicada Summer by Erica McKeen, Dark Wire by Joseph Cox, Finding Mr. Write by Kelley Armstrong, Funeral Nights by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih, The Bounty Hunter and the Tea Brewer by Faith Erin Hicks, Toward Eternity by Anton Hur, Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi, and The Novices of Lerna by Angel Bonomini and translated by Jordan Landsman.


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It's that time of the year again for us to look forward into the future to see what books have the potential to be our favourites of 2024. We will be talking about books coming out in May, June, July, and August in 2024. Stay tuned for Part 2 next week.

Books mentioned on this episode: Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer, Yona of the Dawn Volume 41 by Mizuho Kusanagi, The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin, Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa and translated by Stephen B. Snyder, The Briar Club by Kate Quinn, There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari, Little Fortified Stories by Barbara Black, One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun and translated by Jung Yewon, The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava, The Joyful Song of the Partridge by Paulina Chiziane and translated by David Brookshaw, Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson.


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Today, we talk about the book equivalent of a "turducken": genre mashups. Do the authors we read for today have the chops to mix things up and create something amazing? Let's find out. Books mentioned on this episode: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas, Yona of the Dawn series by Mizuho Kusanagi, Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, and Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister.


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Celebrate National Poetry Month with us and check out a poetry collection or a novel in verse from your local library. Books mentioned on this show: The Carrying and The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon, Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin, The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson, Root Fractures by Diana Koi Nguyen, and Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty.


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We welcome all tea and non-tea drinkers to another episode of Keep It Fictional! This week we dive into Sadie's obsession and read books with tea in it. We also try to figure out what tea we would be, if we were a type of tea. Books mentioned on this episode: The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill, The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton, The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly, and The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard.


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