Book Eaters Podcast

Tracy Stegall rejoins the Book Eaters Podcast to discuss the vast world of speculative fiction and the interesting book premises whose origination is difficult to understand. April leads the discussion with a rum-based twist of the White Russian cocktail in honor of a beloved stoned character from The Big Lewbowski entitled The Dude Abides.

April and Michele talk about banned books. The cocktail is the Rosemary Pickford, a pun on a cocktail based on the sweetheart of the 1920s Mary Pickford, and the cocktail with her namesake.

In this episode, April and Michele talk about books that have been translated from another language into English. They ponder why Americans don't read more translated stories. April expresses her desire to be closer to the text and Michele challenges her to learn another language. April crafts a drink which is a translated version of the Jungle Bird.

April and Michele enjoy a cocktail fashioned after M-Bot, a character from the Brandon Sanderson penned Skyward book series. They discuss the many times that robots showed up as characters in their favorite novels, what a robot is, and where our fear of sentience in robots originates. The cocktail includes truffle oil, rum, orange juice, and vanilla extract.

April and Michele welcome Cayte Peach to join them as they discuss the book series the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. In this spoiler-heavy episode, the Book Eaters Podcast takes a myriad of avenues, discussing in detail parts of the book series, the audiobook adaptions, Jordon Con, as well as the recent first season of the television show. As long time fans of the series there is quite a bit of gushing and certainly a great deal of spoilers. We recommend that you read the entire series as well as watch the show before listening to this episode. As is our way, a drink was fashioned for the show entitled Tel'aran'rhiod, it contains rum, whiskey, mint tea, honey, and cream. It can be served on ice or hot.

In the first episode of Season Three of Book Eaters Podcast, Michele and April join forces with April's long-time friend and soon-to-be sister-in-law, Marcia Hudson. They discuss the book A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. Join them as they drink their way through history. The featured drink is Grog, made with sugar, water, rum, and lime juice. Beer, wine, tea, cola, and coffee are also consumed and discussed.

Special Guest Agnes Gomillion joins the Book Eaters Podcast to talk about publishing from an authors perspective. We take a deep dive into 'The Record Keeper" including some content that might be considered a spoiler and Agnes hints at what is to come in the 'Seed of Cain' scheduled for release in September of 2021. Early childhood memories are also discussed.

In this episode we are joined by our friend and library professional Christina to talk through all things library. We talk about where our love for libraries originated, what kind of programs and offerings are available and how library lending works.

In this Iris lead episode Michele and April are joined by thriller author E. A Aymar, who also writes under the pseudonym of E.A. Barres. Michele explains why she doesn't enjoy books about the love of New York City, April talks about her recent obsession with historic crime novels, our guest Ed shares with us his inspirations and writing process and Iris somewhat successfully manages to keep everyone on the topic of influential authors.

For those of you who said we were editing out all the drunk bits, this episode is evidence that we are listening to your feedback. In this episode Michele speaks passionately as only a person who has had to many drinks can, about literary mechanisms including creating copies of characters, forbidden love, and unnecessary plot twists. Meanwhile Iris calmly explains what kind of humor she enjoys, and April expresses her opinions on character resurrections and odd couple type romances. The love of puns and absurd humor is discussed, and they all discover that they might just be fodder for the deeper plan.