Or: Inside baseball, the podcast! Today, I welcome Adrian of the Spectology podcast to talk about this year’s Hugo Awards, which were, in technical terms, a shitshow. Before we begin, here’s a link full of links about what happened at the ceremony, in case you are curious. You can also check out the full list of this year’s winners, who were terrific. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below, or download it directly to take with you on the go! Bonus Episode Here’s a list of everything we talked about! Robert Silverberg and his whole deal…
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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 CommentsWhew, it is really summer, isn’t it? And I’m welcoming guest second chair Claire Rousseau to share our Summer 2020 book previews, natter on about our quarantine media, and review NK Jemisin’s latest novel The City We Became. (Spoilers, I loved it, with one reservation that was emotionally big but tiny in the scope of the book.) Claire is a longtime friend, a recent Hugo finalist, and enthusiastic reader of SF, so I feel very lucky to have her on. Unless something goes awry, Whiskey Jenny should be back next time, which will also be lovely! You can listen to…
Leave a CommentWhilst 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 CommentAttentive listeners will notice this is NOT the podcast in which we review Quan Berry’s book We Ride Upon Sticks, and also that one of us Jennys is absent from it. Whiskey Jenny is taking a short podcast break (everything is fine! she just needed a pause!), but since we both want you to have cheery quarantine content to enjoy, I am pressing on, with the assistance of some kind and helpful guest hosts. Today I’m welcoming Friend of the Podcast Renay to chat about the media we’re consuming in quarantine, how the heck to recommend comfort reads effectively, and…
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…
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