168 - Spring Hangout 2025

Episode 168 is our first hangout episode of 2025! As always we chat about what we've been up to, what we've been reading, and what we've been (not) writing. Show Notes Shout out to all our library apps always (Libby and Hoopla, we're looking at you), and also LibroFM. It's the audiobook app that lets you support your favourite local bookstore at the same time. (This is not a paid ad, we just love them.) We both support our local indie horror bookshop, Little Ghosts Books. We both agree that 2025 has not been it so far, but there are so many books coming out this year that we're looking forward to. Keep an eye out for Gen's upcoming blog post about their most anticipated releases in March! Our next episode is an instalment of Page to Screen. We'll be reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and watching the film adaptation of the same name. After that we'll be reading Alone in Space, a graphic novel by Tillie Walden. (You might remember Tillie Walden as the artist for Tegan and Sara's graphic novel Junior High. We talked about it in Episode 123.) Don't forget to read along with our book club pick, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Books and Media Mentioned Her Majesty's Royal Coven Trilogy by Juno Dawson Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Book Lovers by Emily Henry Light Carries On by Ray Nadine Private Rites by Julia Armfield Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert Little Fish by Casey Plett Season of the Bruja by Aaron Duran and Sara Soler Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Cull by Kelly Thompson and Mattia de Iulius Over My Dead Body by Sweeney Boo House of Slaughter Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV, Sam Johns, Letizia Candonici The Neighbors by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Letizia Candonici Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff and Jenna Allen The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore by Laurie Gilmore Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday (audiobook featuring voice work by Joshua Jackson!) Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison Cackle by Rachel Harrison A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young Model Home by Rivers Solomon Goddess of Filth by V. Castro The Afterdark by E. Latimer Weyward by Emilia Hart Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno