Reading the End

BONUS EPISODE: Reboot Camp

Published 27 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

In order to give me an excuse to talk about One Day at a Time, the Netflix sitcom that made me laugh and cry and talk an awful lot about how much I like Rita Moreno, we decided to talk about three properties we’d like to see rebooted. Whiskey Jenny wins this round. It’s not a competition, but if it were, Whiskey Jenny would win it. #JusticeforDrive

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Bonus Episode 7

What we talked about:

One Day at a Time (Netflix)
Terry Crews paints a picture
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Y’all, I am so embarrassed. There is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot being made with a black lead and a black lady as the showrunner. And obviously I knew about this and just forgot that I knew about it and thought that I made up the whole notion. Grr I hate when I am a dingbat.

Drive (Fox TV show)
Man of La Mancha
Brian Stokes Mitchell singing “The Impossible Dream”
Frozen 2 teaser
this is the song from Man of La Mancha that Vanessa Hudgens could have. it’s his niece, not his sister.
The Game (CW, then BET, show)
All-American (CW show)
the Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis

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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 below the jump.

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Review: An Unconditional Freedom, Alyssa Cole

Published 25 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

Alyssa Cole is one of the best romance novelists working, and a new book from her is always cause for celebration. An Unconditional Freedom is the third in her Loyal League series, which follows Union spies working behind Confederate lines to ensure an end to slavery. Daniel Cumberland joined the Loyal League to seek revenge: Born free, then sold into slavery by white men pretending to be abolitionists, Daniel has never recovered from the psychological scars his years in slavery inflicted. He has no interest in a new partner, let alone one as pretty and vivacious as Janeta Sanchez, a…

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Some thoughts on media I haven’t yet consumed: A links round-up

Published 22 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

Some very smart SF people talking about A People’s Future of the United States. The time Virgina Woolf wore blackface. Kat Eschner wonders if it’s time to put aside the Little House books. (It’s a strong yes from me, but I was also never that into them. So.) What does the nostalgia for old-school publishing actually want to return to? (Hint: white dudes.) What does it mean when studios embargo reviews on a movie? Emily Asher-Perrin rocks, and this take on gender fluidity and Steven Universe and She-Ra is very very good. Why do so many books include the tagline…

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Review: Sounds Like Titanic, Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Published 18 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

I am no longer in my memoir phase, my friends. I just am not. When I read Educated last year and recommended it to all and sundry, I added the caveat that I am no longer in my memoir phase, except for weird-culty-religion memoirs, as those are my catnip. But then I saw the synopsis for Sounds Like Titanic, a memoir about a violinist who fake-performed in a professional ensemble for a famous composer who played a loud CD of his music on top of the fake performances the ensemble players were doing. I expected Sounds Like Titanic to feel…

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PODCAST, Ep. 114 – Nontraditional Narratives and Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto

Published 13 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

It’s our very first guest of 2019! This episode, the Jennys welcome the fabulous Charlotte Geater to the podcast to chat about experimental, epistolary, and other unconventional narrative formats. Then we review Gina Apostol’s strange and wonderful new novel Insurrecto, which at least one of us already feels confident is going to be one of our best books of 2019. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 114

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.

1:21 – What we’re reading
5:18 – What we’re anticipating
8:37 – Nontraditional narrative formats
35:01 – Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol
50:09 – What we’re reading next time

What we talked about:

Evvie Drake Starts Over, Linda Holmes
Sylvia Townsend Warner letters
A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars, Nicholas Rankin
This Is What It Feels Like, Rebecca Barrow
A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
Josh Ritter’s new album, Fever Breaks
Three Identical Strangers (movie)
The Jolly Postman, Janet and Allan Ahlberg
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
Bad Kitty, Michelle Jaffe
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, by Theodora Goss
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz
The Unfortunates, B. S. Johnson
Tripticks, Ann Quin
HHhH, Laurent Binet
Ulysses, James Joyce
White Is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi
Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour
Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi
interview with Sofia Samatar in Big Echo
Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
The Lodger, Louisa Treger
S, Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov (this edition is the one I am indignant about)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
The Marvels, Brian Selznick
Dennis Severs’ House
Insurrecto, Gina Apostol

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.

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Review: For a Muse of Fire, Heidi Heilig

Published 12 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

Some of you may recall Heidi Heilig from her previous duology, TIME TRAVELING PIRATES (also known as The Girl from Everywhere and The Ship Beyond Time), and she has returned with a whole new series that won my heart before I ever began it by including music and script pages and letters as well as the straightforward narrative. For a Muse of Fire is about a girl called Jetta whose family is the most renowned troupe of shadow players in Chakrana. She and her parents hope to use their art to gain passage on a boat to Aquitan, where it…

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I FORGOT HOW TO ROUND THINGS UP: A Links Round-Up

Published 7 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

I have not been diligent enough in hunting down links, friends, and that is why there has been a tragic hiatus in links round-ups. But I am back. It is Friday. This weekend, a small mystery: Will a long-anticipated package arrive despite very confusing FedEx notifications? Let’s hope so! What are you looking forward to this weekend, and do you fear it will elude you like an octopus inking you in the face as it squids away? A list of things I would actually like men to explain to me. LOLSOB TO ALL OF THIS. Charlie Jane Anders urges writers…

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Shortly Ever After: January

Published 6 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

Wow, I had this post all planned out in my mind, and then at the very last moment, Tor.com came along with not one BUT TWO circus stories. I don’t know if y’all know this about me, but I hold the controversial opinion that Circus Shoes is the second-best of Noel Streatfeild’s Shoes books, yes, BETTER THAN SKATING SHOES. (This opinion is mainly controversial insofar as very few people know that Circus Shoes even exists.) I read Circus Shoes when I was nine years old, and I’ve been chasing that circus high ever since. (A complaint: If anybody has written…

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Some thoughts on the Blood Heir situation

Published 2 Feb 2019 by Gin Jenny

Okay, enough of my friends have now asked me about Blood Heir that I’ve decided it’s worth posting about. Pray for me. A few days ago, I saw an author on my TL, LL McKinney, criticizing an ARC she had read, a secondary-world fantasy YA debut called Blood Heir, by Amelie Wen Zhao. She initially identified the book as a problem based on its description including the phrase “oppression is blind to skin color”; later, she read through the book and tweeted about elements that played into racial stereotypes, such as a black character dying to further the emotional arc…

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The Glynalong Concludes with Not Nearly Enough Violence

Published 31 Jan 2019 by Gin Jenny

The month of January dies, and I write this to you from the innocent past. Blog readers, I hope the month of January has treated you better than I would choose to treat any of the characters in Elinor Glyn except for Isabella Waring, who was fortunate to escape Paul as a husband but who nevertheless deserved better treatment than Paul gave her. After months of silence, Paul finally gets a letter from the lady, in which she informs him that she has borne his son. He’s thrilled about it, and can’t believe that destiny would keep him from his…

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