I don’t know if y’all heard, but I conned my pal Jodie (of Lady Business) into watching Black Sails and recapping it with me. Head over there to see what we have to say about Episode 3, the episode voted Most Likely to Bounce New Viewers Off the Show and For Good Reason Too But I Hope You’ll Stick With It Because It Really Gets So Good.
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I typically don’t review any of the academic nonfiction that I read here on the old blog, for a couple reasons: Sometimes I am reading it for writing research, and I feel weird talking on here about my creative writing. For whatever reason. Probably deep feelings of inadequacy. Let’s not dwell. Often it is very boring to people who are not me. I don’t want y’all to know how many books I read about the aftermaths of historical atrocities. A lot of academic nonfiction is inaccessible unless you have credentials with a university library; so a lot of folks wouldn’t…
Leave a CommentIt’s Friday! Hooray! I am participating in the 24in48 Readathon this weekend, and I could not be more excited for it. Are you participating too? Do you have all your snacks and books picked out? While we wait for its glorious commencement, have some links! THE MILLIONS BOOK PREVIEW for the second half of 2018 has dropped, bringing joy unto us all in these dark times. I was cranky when I read this and therefore only wrote down, like, six books on my TBR list. SUCCESS. “The idea that everyone involved is playing a game of three-dimensional chess at all…
Leave a CommentListeners, I got my first electricity bill since summer began in earnest, and I am delighted to report that it is NOT THAT BAD. My central air and heat has caused me some stress and dismay over the last year, but it’s all proving worth it. If you are in a place where central air comes standard, I congratulate you and rejoice in our shared happiness. If not, I hope that you are finding other ways to keep cool, and I commend to your ears this, our latest podcast. We read Lily Anderson’s YA horror novel Undead Girl Gang and suggest some candidates for Great American Authorship who aren’t white dudes. Plus, what we’re reading, what we’re listening to, and what we’ll be reading for next time. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.
1:43 – What we’re reading
6:09 – What we’re listening to
8:17 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 6-10
23:44 – Great American Novelists (who aren’t white dudes)
38:17 – Undead Girl Gang, Lily Anderson
51:06 – What we’re reading next time
Here’s the Jonathan Franzen profile that Whiskey Jenny is talking about. It’s magical.
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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 CommentMy wonderful friend Alice recently was excavating the origins of our friendship (we have been friends for six years!), and she found an email from me where I described my reading like this: The, uh, the really really trashy kind of trashy romance novels. Where everyone is called Alexandra and Gareth, and they cause a scandal and a hissing by making out in the arboretum and then Gareth is like, “Darling, why do you care what the cats at Almack’s say of you? Let’s make love all day in my decadently decorated bedroom!” and Alexandra is like, “And the men…
Leave a CommentIn one and the same week there have dropped a profile of Jonathan Franzen that was everything I wanted it to be and our VERY FIRST BONUS PODCAST EPISODE, made possible by our wonderful Patreon patrons. So, I mean, those are two things making me happy, even though there’s a lot that sucks about this week. And I hope those things can make you happy, too.
This time around, we’re discussing The Man from U.N.C.L.E., one of the greatest movies of our time and a top candidate for me to donate to a Kickstarter for a sequel to. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
There are no time signatures because we literally only talk about one thing this week, and it’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and everything we love about it. Please enjoy. Here is Henry Cavill’s face half in shadow.
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 CommentSome time ago, when my Twitter TL was having many conversations about genre fiction and fanfiction and literary fiction, and I was chatting to my brilliant friend Maureen about how to solve genre wars, I got the notion of writing some posts with litfic recommendations for lovers of fanfiction. Then, as tends to happen, I got distracted by life events and the world being on fire and I didn’t do anything about it. BUT. Then I read this extremely litficcy book, America Is Not the Heart, by Elaine Castillo, and when I say extremely litficcy you should understand that I…
Leave a CommentIt’s Wednesday, and I am running out of ways to say that the world feels more on fire than usual. But I hope that our podcast can be a small escape from the news. Call your reps, then hunker down under a weighted blanket with some chocolate cake and join in with our extremely high level of enthusiasm for Lord of the Rings and the books we already own and are determined to read at last — plus a literary fiction book that was really really not in our wheelhouse.
You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!
0:21 – What we’re reading
3:05 – What we’re learning
9:01 – LOTR Reread: Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, Chapters 1-5
26:10 – Summer TBR Piles
39:47 – Halsey Street, Naima Coster
49:31 – What we’re reading next time
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 cut!
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