S&L Podcast - #490 - Cosy Adjacent
/Are we living in a Maas society? Veronica has recommendations in joining on the Sarah J. Maas train. Independent bookstores are on the rise. We kick off The Sword of Kaigen and give our spoilery thoughts on Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.
WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?
Tom: Chicken Wings and Mushroom Alfredo Gnocchi
Veronica: Matcha
QUICK BURNS
Seth: NPR book critics reveal what they're looking forward to this summer, and there's a lot of speculative stuff in there, like.
Chris K: Via Locus: 2023 Aurealis Award Winners (best in Australian speculative fiction)
Mark: 200 new independent bookstores in 2023 and 190 more opening in the next two years. Who's doing all this readingMark: From
Joe Abercrombie "It’s now less than a year until the release of The Devils, and I am delighted to reveal its cover(s). In the US:"
Mark: John Scalzi has finished a new book called "When the Moon Hits Your Eye"
BARE YOUR SWORD
Trike: Great Danes are among several regional breeds known as boarhounds. Apparently they were *a* boarhound, not *the* boarhound. I didn’t find an explanation of why Great Danes become the most popular version of the boarhounds.
Photos of Great Danes from the 1800s show them as ancestors to the modern dogs, but not yet in the form we know them today. Which makes sense. Most breeds back in the day had a lot of regional variation, and modern styles hadn’t yet taken over entire lines.
John (Taloni) On the subject of real-world places that sound like they're made up (like Ljosland) it made me flash on Dark Side of the Moon: "...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad."
Seré:
Thanks for Book Briefing. This will serve as a palette cleanser to the Sarah J Maas tunnel I'm currently excavating (i.e I took a look to investigate the fuss and well, I fell in).Veronica notes that Terpkristin is ALSO now reading ACOTAR so I guess I've set us on this path lol
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
KICK OFF
The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story" by M. L. Wang.
WRAP UP
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Amazon Link
Go forth? How about first?
John Taloni
Tying our last two picks together, (definitely a spoiler) what is it with the sudden proposals of marriage? Altho in this case Wendell is more clear as to the reason for his attraction. Emily is smart, more knowledgable about Fae than the Fae themselves, fearless, strategic, and would make a great queen as well as companion on his quest to get back to his throne. I'm afraid, tho, that at the point of the proposal it is really all about his needs. He doesn't show a full understanding of Emily yet.
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