At last, cry the punters! At last Jenny will write a blog post without reference to These Troubled Times! The reporting for American Prison took place in 2014, a very long time ago, practically before human memory began, and thus can tell us nothing about These Troubled Times. Ah, yes, but unfortunately, though Shane Bauer’s initial reporting for Mother Jones led the Obama administration to end all federal contracts with private prisons, the Trump administration under Jeff Sessions reversed that decision. Also, American prison labor is slavery, so in this regard, These Times have always been Troubled. Happy Monday! tw:…
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Is anyone here not yet familiar with Serial Box? It’s a website that creates serial fiction and doles them out in weekly episodes for your delectation and delight. As you can see from the folks who worked on Dead Air — or just by popping in to their website and taking a look around — they’ve developed a terrific stable of authors and a really interesting slate of stories. Subscribing to a Serial Box story makes me feel like I’m waiting at the harbor for the boats carrying the latest installment of a Wilkie Collins novel.1 Dead Air is a…
Leave a CommentHappy Monday! October is three-quarters over, and I am once again over at Lady Business to talk about young adult fiction I love and am excited for. To nobody’s surprise, I have seized this opportunity to talk about an actually completely middle-grade book that I already talked about in this space but I’m not over it yet. Pop on by and check it out!
Leave a CommentWELP I have gotten behind on my links, which means a bunch of these are old. On the other hand, the passage of time has lost all meaning and the news cycle is now 3.2 seconds, so the important thing is probably just that I included some snails in dollhouses for y’all’s Friday. Have a wonderful weekend! These are just some motherfucking snails inside some motherfucking dollhouses. Why casting Nagini as an Asian woman is so offensive. Ron Charles considers whether we still need Banned Books Week, and reaches no real conclusion. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a writer I adore, talks about…
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Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:00 – What we’re reading
2:18 – What we’re learning
6:05 – LOTR Reread: The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapters 6-11
15:53 – Culling books!
27:37 – The Third Annual Forcening commences with Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
48:24 – What we’re reading for next time
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is available under the jump!
Leave a CommentFriends, I am very, very choosy about my “Beauty and the Beast” retellings. To the best of my recollection, the only one that I have ever loved is Robin McKinley’s Beauty.1 I liked Uprooted, but I loved it best when it was doing things other than retelling “Beauty and the Beast.” I hear good things about W. R. Gingell’s Masque, but I am not pinning my hopes on it. So when I tell you that I was blown away by Aliette de Bodard’s novella In the Vanishers’ Palace, a queer retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” I want you to…
Leave a CommentIt’s the best kind of day: Black Sails recap day! I’m over at Lady Business recapping Season 1, Episode 4 of Black Sails in my Sailing the High Squees column with Lady Business editor Jodie. Hop over and check it out! Watch Black Sails if you don’t already!
Leave a CommentToday is a very blessed Wednesday, because we are bringing you a bonus episode with not one! but two! special guests. Friends of the podcast Ashley and Robert came to Louisiana along with Whiskey Jenny, and we somehow talked them into reading Genderbent Twilight, AKA Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, by Stephenie Meyer, for our September bonus episode.
You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Note: We kept saying genderswapped about this book, and I’m annoyed with myself because I actually greatly prefer genderbent, which does not carry the connotation of there being only two genders. So, bother. I am sorry about that, and I will be more attentive to language hygiene next time. Discontented-mouth emoji from me.
Thanks so much to our Patreon subscribers for making this possible!
Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. If you like what we do, support us on Patreon. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).
Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcripts by: Sharon of Library Hungry
Transcript is available below the jump!
Leave a CommentDo you miss Eva Ibbotson? Do you weep softly into your handkerchief that she has died and we will never have another one of her books? Do you want to love Eva Ibbotson but she hates fat people too much? BOY DO I HAVE A BOOK REC FOR YOU. (Castle Hangnail is so cute (but not saccharine!) that I’m going to write the summary in short declarative sentences. If I try to make you read longer sentences about Castle Hangnail‘s plot, the adorability will be too much for you and you will die in the middle.) Castle Hangnail and its…
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