Way back in February, so long ago that dinosaurs still walked among us and we had to use spider skillets to make baked goods at the flames of an open hearth, the absolute angels at Tor sent me an ARC of Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth. It would be hard for me to convey the pure, all-consuming joy that I felt while read Tamsyn Muir’s Harrow the Ninth — hard both because language fails when one attempts to express transcendence, and also because in these quarantimes one struggles to understand happiness. Still, though, if you cast your mind back through the…
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Whilst I continue to dearly miss Whiskey Jenny, I am delighted to welcome Book Riot’s Alice Burton to chat with me about nonfiction, a genre Whiskey Jenny rarely reads! (When I am on a hiatus, Whiskey Jenny can do a series of mystery novel podcasts without me.) We build a nonfiction starter pack for nonfiction newbies, and chat about some of the nonfiction we’re particularly excited for in the back half of the year. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 131 Here are…
Leave a CommentHello, quarantined listeners! It’s us, the quarantined podcasters! We apologize for the audio of this episode, which is not of the high quality to which you have become accustomed. This is because one of us didn’t have a good-quality mic (we are procuring one!) and one of us did have a good quality mic but failed to use it when recording in Zencastr because we, and by we I mean I, Gin Jenny, are gently losing our wits. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode…
Leave a CommentHappy Wednesday, friends! Because we took December off, we never got to co-watch The Knight Before Christmas, but are we deterred from watching a Christmas movie by the mere fact of its not being Christmas? We absolutely are not! If linear time can abandon us entirely in these dark times, then we can surely watch a made-for-TV Christmas romcom in February. It is… an experience. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 127 Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin…
Leave a CommentHello hello! It’s a busy and stressful week, but amongst all the chaos and caucusing, at least there is a new podcast to solace your ears. We’re here this week to talk about our resolutions from last year, the new resolutions we’re making for this year (if any), and how to make sense of The Three Musketeers. (The answer, to nobody’s surprise, is alcohol). We also fail, again, to identify and read a podcast book that will be as delightful as it sounds when we read its synopsis online. One of these days we are going to successfully read a…
Leave a CommentI know, I know! Y’all have missed us and we have been MIA! Honestly, the podcast has been cursed over the last little while. First we had a podcast audio disaster, which we hoped and believed we could come back from, but wow, we could not. So we lost that podcast (argh) and then had some health and family issues, mostly on the side of me, Gin Jenny, that put us on a bit of a podcast hiatus. Nevertheless, we persisted! Eventually! And here we are back with a short episode just to catch y’all up on what we’ve been…
Leave a CommentBreak out the red wine and, unrelatedly, the pumpkin spice everythings! It’s autumn in the sense that both of us Jennies have now experienced weather that is cooler than 80 degrees, and we are celebrating! We’re kicking off our Three Musketeers readalong in this podcast (chapters 1-7), updating you on the results of our summer book preview, and previewing some books we can’t wait to read in the fall season. Then we wrap up with a review of Eric Gansworth’s unexpectedly sad YA novel Give Me Some Truth. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or…
Leave a CommentSomehow it is October, and though many months of the year have passed, we are ever more convinced that linear time is a collective hallucination. We hope that you are experiencing Autumn, and we welcome in the settingsiest time of year by chatting about our thoughts on book settings. (I am opposed to them, and Whiskey Jenny is in favor.) In this podcast, we welcome the marvelous Ashley Wells, whom we do love but whom I invited to the podcast to punish her for forcing me to read this goddamn Irish book. She made us a game!!! We haven’t had…
Leave a CommentWe are back after an unscheduled hiatus to commence the 2019 Hatening, wherein I Haten Whiskey Jenny incredibly successfully — even more successfully, if you can believe such a thing, as the year I forced her to read The Easter Parade. But it’s all in good fun, as mainly we are just really elated to be back podcasting together. We missed it! And you! You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 122 I say this in the podcast, but please accept content warnings for…
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