Happy Pride Season! Corene, Sadie, and Virginia have some on-brand suggestions for your any-time-in-the-year reading to celebrate Pride. Books mentioned on this episode: My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman, Flamer by Mike Curato, and These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling.
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A Book with an Object in the Title
Eggs, shells, suits, lemon squeezer, bookmarks, pens, coffee machines... These are just some of the objects you will hear about today on our slightly unhinged podcast. Books mentioned on this episode: How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny Reichert, The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa, translated by Polly Barton, and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit:The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal.
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Short Story Month
You know Virginia loves a good short story, but the others are more neutral about this format. How about you? Maybe our book choices today can convince you to give one a try? Books mentioned on this episode: Panics by Barbara Molinard, translated by Emma Ramadan, Everything Good Dies Here by Djuna, translated by Adrian Thieret, and The Perfect Crime, edited by Vaseem Khan and Maxim Jakubowski.
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Asian Heritage Month 2025
Join us this May and celebrate Asian Heritage Month by exploring authors of Asian descent. There are so many wonderful voices to discover! Books mentioned on this episode: These Deadly Prophecies by Andrea Tang, Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, and Halfway There by Christine Mari.
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Books that Took a Long Time to Finish
Books that took us a long time to finish. Why? We are not really sure. They were not doorstoppers, but yet, we started these books a while back and only finally managed to finish them now for this episode. If you are looking for incentives to finish that book you have also started months or years ago, or if you are a fan of extended metaphors, then this episode is for you. Books mentioned on this episode: The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim, BloNote by Tablo, and The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Keep It Fictional is a weekly podcast for book lovers, by book lovers. Build your TBR with Al, Corene, Emma, Fiona, Gabriel, Liz, Mark, Sadie, and Virginia from the Port Moody Public Library. Warning! This podcast contains strong opinions and may cause an increase in your library holds list.
Music by James Barth
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