I know y’all had given us up for dead but the triumphal return of the Reading the End Bookcast has finally arrived! Whiskey Jenny and I return to talk about that whole Harry Potter / magic in America debacle, then to discuss authors who can’t leave their fictional worlds behind. We review (finally) Simon van Booy’s Father’s Day, and we answer a burning question from listener Ashley. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Note: We experienced so many technical difficulties in the making of this podcast that we began to entertain the possibility that the podcast was cursed. If the audio sounds weird at all, that’ll be why.
SHOW NOTES
Upload of Anne of Green Gables is pending. I did not get a chance to scan it yet! Sorryyyyyyyy.
What We’re Reading
My Holiday in North Korea, Wendy Simmons
Bangkok Tattoo, John Burdett
BUT NOT CITY ON FIRE
Here are a couple of links about the problems with the Pottermore history of American magic (one, two, three).
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice
The Charioteer, Mary Renault
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy, Helen Fielding
Ender series, Orson Scott Card
Anne of Green Gables (et seq.), L. M. Montgomery
Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
The Three Musketeers (et seq.), Alexandre Dumas
Amelia Peabody series, Elizabeth Peters
Stephanie Plum series, Janet Evanovich
Life and Death (i.e., genderswapped Twilight), Stephenie Meyer
Gray, E. L. James
Featured Book
Father’s Day, Simon van Vooy
Reading for Next Time
The Regional Office Is Under Attack, Manuel Gonzales
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour