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A Readers’ Advisory Podcast about becoming better library staff by reading every genre, whether we like them or not! Every month we read books from a new, randomly picked genre; then on the podcast we discuss our reading choices, experiences, opinions, appeal factors, and other related topics as friends and library workers.

Jun 7, 2022

This episode we’re talking about Classics! We talk about what makes a book a classic, whether a classic has to be good or not, fiction vs non-fiction classics, and how classics change over time. Plus: Pro strats and speedrunning techniques for classics!

(Apologies for some audio problems this episode, should be fixed for next time!)

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

Other Media We Mentioned

Links, Articles, and Things

22 Classics by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

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Join us again on Tuesday, June 21st we’ll be talking about Beach Reads.

Then on Tuesday, July 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Humour Non-Fiction!