Hugo, Girl‪!‬ Hugo Girl

Another attack of the clones. We liked it!
DM: Haley
CW/TW: rape, sexual abuse, transphobia, intersexphobia, fatphobia
Music by Pets of Belonging
Links:
The Extractivism of Setting and the Traitor's Text - Vajra Chandrasekera
Jo Walton's Review
 

This month we read Arthur C. Clarke's perfectly fine novel, The Fountains of Paradise. It is fine! And it has an admittedly banger ending, if you can stand the first 200 pages. Recommended, maybe?
Amy is DM.
Music by Pets of Belonging
Links:
Wikipedia - Sigiriya
Sculpture and Poetry of Sigiriya

We discuss the hottest film romance in genre fiction: Twilight! We love it. 
DM: Lori
CW/TW: It's Twilight.
Music by Pets of Belonging

This month we read Philip José Farmer's extended fart joke The Wind Whales of Ishmael. This episode is kinda ridiculous, which is fitting for a book which is also kinda ridiculous. We chatted for 15 minutes before we got into the book, as follows:
0:00-7:00ish - general chat and update on Haley's fava beans, as requested by listener Amber
7:00ish-14:30 - tasting and discussion of Coca-Cola Spiced, which is not very good
14:30-15:30 - an anecdote from Haley's college radio days
15:30-end - an actual episode of Hugo, Girl! the podcast


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Music by Pets of Belonging

This month we read Mary Doria Russell's divisive novel The Sparrow. It's got a bit of everything - Jesuits, space travel, food, friendship, sexual assault, victim-blaming, and child murder. Amy is DM.
Did we mention trigger warning? Yikes!
CW/TW: see description above, and it's really serious so skip this one if you need to! We like you!
By the way, we did a LOT of chatting at the top of this one, so skip to about the 12 minute mark if you want to get straight into the book discussion.

Friend of the pod Anne joined us and quizzed us on past episodes! We also discussed our favorite reads of 2023 and what we're looking forward to reading in 2024.
Happy New Year, and thanks for listening!