Noemí Taboada likes being escorted to glamorous parties by handsome men, and she has every anticipation that she can go on doing so — until her father orders her to go into the Mexican countryside to check on her cousin Catalina. Since Catalina’s marriage to Virgil Doyle — an Englishman and scion to a family that once owned a silver mine but has fallen on hard times — they have heard very little from her, until they receive a letter in which she begs them to come save her. There are ghosts in the walls, she says. They are speaking…
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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…
2 CommentsThis is a transcript of a conversation between KM Szpara, author of Docile, and NK Jemisin, author of numerous books but most recently The City We Became. Video of the interview can be found here. I am posting the transcript on behalf of the friend who made it (who wishes to remain anonymous), because it’s the only place I’ve really seen where anyone involved in this book has addressed its racial issues in any capacity. Docile is set in a near-future alt-America where, according to its author, racism does not exist. It is about debt slavery in the city of…
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 CommentThe Millions did release their massive book preview for the second half of 2019, and honestly, dayenu, but there are other links here too, for you to enjoy! Be blessed! The second half of 2019 Millions Book Preview is here at this link. Let the glad songs of rejoicing resound throughout the land! Here at this link is a deep dive into the cultural concept of Essex, a place I lived and was briefly incredibly happy. Rich people are the worst: Brooklyn preschool edition. “Many of the older feminist utopias sound like delightful fantasies until you learn the price of…
Leave a CommentIt’s our second-ever group podcast, and we are punchy, and also we’re using a brand new microphone and we, meaning I, meaning Gin Jenny, did not calibrate it altogether correctly perhaps. Slash, there was a loud train in the background. So. We are talking at length about A Hope Divided, which is Robert Repino’s first romance novel and Whiskey Jenny’s first Alyssa Cole novel, and we had a grand old time. We hope you will forgive the imperfections in the sound quality. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with…
Leave a CommentHappy Wednesday, friends! It’s a Reading the End / Spectology crossover event, so we’re talking about crossover books: the books that straddle the boundary between speculative and literary fiction. We welcome Spectology’s Adrian Ryan to chat about our genre-crossing faves, then review Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 117 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 1:18 – What we’re reading 6:33 – What we’re playing 11:14 – SEA OR…
Leave a CommentThis podcast is a sad news / glad news situation, because Whiskey Jenny couldn’t make it to recording this time, BUT we have a special guest, the marvelous Renay! We’re chatting about backlist books that we’re excited for, then reading one of the remaining books from Renay’s SF starter pack, Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Episode 117 Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around. 3:56 – What we’re reading 9:03 – What we’re listening to…
1 CommentMmm, this Wednesday y’all all get to experience one of my favorite things about Whiskey Jenny, which is how susceptible she is to advertising. When we see a commercial for Oreos she goes “wow I could really go for an Oreo” and when we read a book about living in a prank-filled super-broed-out polar prison, she goes “maybe I should get a job in Antarctica.” It’s very admirable because she is open to new experiences, but oh my God, don’t get a job in Antarctica. IT SOUNDS AWFUL. This week we’re chatting about books and genres we’ve changed our minds…
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