Monday, April 20, 2026

#97 April 2026


Steph confesses to DNFing a book she thought would be right up her alley, but she’s got other books on the go. Candice continues her monthly genre challenge with a Canadian historical fiction book. Meanwhile both have a lot to say about the end of the world.

Cory Doctorow will be in Guelph on May 8th! Buy your tickets now!

Books

The Gilda Stories by Jewell Gomez 

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris  

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World by Dorian Lynskey 

Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow by various authors 

The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore 

The Laundryman’s Boy by Edward Y.C. Lee https://bookshelf.ca/item/ihViYpG-txVQzGRZSNIZMQ 

They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada by Cecil Foster 

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix 

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix  

The Troop by Nick Cutter 

Movies

The Godfather Trilogy

Hot Fuzz

Fast and the Furious series

Links

The Genre Challenge on Storygraph 

The Canadian Challenge on Storygraph 

Fable book app 

Follow Candice on Fable 

Timestamps

1:00 Steph starts by admitting to putting away a novel unfinished

7:37 The Godfather trilogy and other comfort watches

17:45 Bookclub preview chat 

26:40 Steph’s reading update

30:00 Candice’s reading update

44:33 New book tracking app!

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