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Welcome to 2016! In this episode, we celebrate the new year and our first anniversary (!) by catching up with what we have been up to since the end of 2015, launching the the first round of Genre Starter Packs, and delving into The Wicked + The Divine Volume 2: Fandemonium. Happy New Year!
Discussion References
Intro and Catch Up: 00:15
- The Book Smugglers Present 2016 and a new Anthology
- Eight Years of Book Smuggling
- The Airing of Grievances
- Ana and Thea’s Most Excellent Books of 2015
- An October Daye Primer
- Short Business: Short Fiction Survey
- Renay’s birthday books: Flutter, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck, The Invisible Library, Skip Beat, Star Wars: Before the Awakening, Glorious Angels, Alexander Hamilton
Genre Starter Pack; 29:52
Ana — YA Fantasy
- The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner — The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings
- The Demon’s Lexicon series by Sarah Rees Brennan — The Demon’s Lexicon, The Demon’s Covenant, The Demon’s Surrender
- Ash by Malinda Lo
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Ever After
- Avatar The Last Airbender
- Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
- A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moscowitz
- Metamorphosis series by Sarah McCarry — All Our Pretty Songs, Dirty Wings, About a Girl
- Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
Renay – Space Adventure
- Firefly
- Stargate — action Stargate, forever Stargate, space vampire Stargate, grimdark Stargate
- The Fifth Element
- Event Horizon
- Galaxy Quest
- Lost in Space
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach
- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
- Larklight by Philip Reeve
The Wicked + The Divine Volume 2: Fandemonium; 52:45
The Wicked + The Divine
Read Renay’s review of Fandemonium at Lady Business. Add Fandemonium to your reading list on Goodreads.
Recommendations; 01:04:08
Ana: HBO’s Show Me a Hero / BBC’s And Then There Were None
Renay: Note to Self:
- Listen to Your Voicemail
- Why You Should Care About LEGO and Creativity
- 5 Links We Would GChat You If We Were Friends
- How to Shake Up Your Echo Chamber
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