Chamomile & Clove

Wherever you are, we hope you are well and safe --- we hope you get to spend the day remembering, honoring, and celebrating the caring, nurturing people in your life. If today is hard for you, we wish you peace and hope that you find something today that brings you joy. Who knows, maybe it will be this episode!

Phoebe's frisky, and so are we! Today, we're exploring consent, parenting, and the relationship between sexuality and feeding in vampire novels while discussing Chapters 18, 22, and 23 of Time's Convert. It's sensual, silly, and also very serious -- so, about what you'd expect.

You can always reach us at [email protected], or you can follow us on Twitter, or you can join our Facebook group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers. We're eager to hear your thoughts and feelings about this episode or any others -- we're so grateful for your continued love and support.

Take care of each other,

xoxo

Cait and Jen

Wherever you are in the world, we hope it's a peaceful, quiet day and that you're safe and healthy and making the best of things. Today's episode covers Chapters 7, 10, and 13 of Time's Convert and Phoebe Taylor's first few days as a vampire (and as Miriam's daughter!). Join us for a discussion of maturity, privilege, morality, and more as we see what life is like on the other side of rebirth.

You can keep in touch with us by following us on Twitter, e-mailing us at [email protected], joining our Facebook group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers, or by finding us on Instagram. We're so excited to keep discussing Time's Convert and what's next for the world of All Souls and hope to see you soon.

Take care of each other,

xoxo

Cait and Jen

You guys! We're back!

Thanks for giving us a little bit of a break to decide how we're going to process Time's Convert -- it's a very different book from the All Souls Trilogy, so we decided to approach it in a non-linear (but highly sensical!) way. Today, we're starting strong with Chapters 1, 2, and 4 -- we've got a VERY AWKWARD dinner party to attend before we turn Phoebe into a vampire and begin her afterlife. You can dive into the new story (and join us on #TeamFreyja) while we get busy posting the new reading schedule on our website.

Between now and our next episode, you can find us at [email protected], in our Facebook group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers, or on Twitter @chamomilenclove. You can also support us on Patreon or purchase merchandise on Redbubble.

We love you, we hope you're safe, and we'll see you next time.

xoxo

Cait and Jen

Happy Sunday, Clovers.

At long last, you have the nerd-a-riffic, highly specific content you've been waiting for -- the whole All Souls Trilogy plot shebang in one spreadsheet. It was a (very colorful, slightly stressful) labor of love, but it definitely puts things in a whole new perspective. You can download the PDF version of the slides here:

This episode wraps our wraps, closes all the books, answers all the questions -- well, at least most of them. We're talking about trilogy structure, strong plotting choices, sneaky plotting choices, a little bit of time travel, and all our favorite things about the All Souls Trilogy. You don't want to miss it.

If you're interested in our other trilogy wrap episodes, you can check out Episode 70: The List on the Seat of Our Pants or Episode 71: The Narrative Ish. Our book-level wrap episodes are here.

Until we start Time's Convert in April or so, you can find us on Twitter, Facebook, Redbubble, and Patreon. You can always e-mail us at [email protected].

Thanks for the journey, y'all. It's been amazing.

We promise -- the plot and time travel discussion is coming -- we're just chickens. Procrastinating chickens. This week, we're talking about all the themes covered by the All Souls Trilogy -- identity, family, love and trauma, redemption, the meaning of the epigraph, and on and on. While wrapping our brains around these huge topics, we're also talking about redeeming antagonists, the price of responsibility, divinity, cosmic duologies, and even a little tiny bit of time travel. It's a big, meaty episode, so dig in and let us know what you think by shooting us a message on Twitter, sending us an e-mail, or by joining our discussion group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers on Facebook.

If you haven't already, please leave us a rating or review on the podcast application of your choice! You can also support us via Patreon or by purchasing some C&C swag on Redbubble.

Keep your eyes peeled for our Time's Convert reading schedule on Twitter and Facebook. Also, MARK YOUR CALENDARS for All Souls Con this October in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Next time, we PLOT.

How does one wrap up a trilogy? How does one pick up all of the threads of plot and character and all of the questions we asked in the dozens of episodes we asked in between the first cover and the last? You try your damned best and see what shakes out at the end. We made a list and we tried to follow it, y'all.

In this episode, we're talking about character arcs, genre, antagonists, narration, fated mates, patriarchy, and women in fiction as they apply to the entire trilogy.... and we're just getting started. Next time, it's themes and motifs and maybe some time travel and... well, we'll see how far we get.

Thank you SO much to all of you who participated in our giveaway with the All Souls Discussion Group! We're so glad you enjoyed the prizes and can't wait to collaborate with Deb's team again, soon. If you have a minute, we'd love if you review us on iTunes or Google Play or Facebook or the pod-gatherer of your choice. You can also follow us on Twitter, become a member of our Facebook group, support us on Patreon, or buy our merch on Redbubble. If we're not to your taste, we hope you'll check out our friends Daemons Discuss, the All Souls Witchy Women, and the All Souls Pod!

Thanks for all that you do to keep us going. We love you!

xox

Cait and Jen

Join us in episode 69 for discussion of themes, motifs, listener feedback, and favorites, as we close out our discussion of The Book of Life.

Y'all, you know what's coming. It's big, it's messy, it's COLOR-CODED. It's Cait's Book of Life plot slideshow! Once you grab a copy of the slideshow and the beverage of your choice, you're ready to embark upon the semi-epic discussion of the *seven* primary plots in the Book of Life and what does (and doesn't) make the story move. In this episode, we're also talking about character arcs and the results of our Clovers Facebook group polls before moving into our discussion of the themes, motifs, and highs and lows of the Book of Life in our next wrap. If you have something to contribute, now is the time!

You can reach us via e-mail at [email protected], on Twitter @chamomilenclove, or on Facebook. You're also welcome to rate us on Podchaser, support us on Patreon, or check out our pod merchandise on Redbubble.

See you next time!

We can't believe that the day has finally come, but it's time to close the last cover on Deb Harkness's The Book of Life and close out our chapter discussion of the All Souls Trilogy. Hours and hours of planning and note-taking, laughing, crying, recording, and editing has come to an end. In this episode, we're talking about Chapters 40 and 41 of the Book of Life, including the narrative conceit of blood rage, Diana's character arc, and an unexpected (and apparently VERBOTEN) reference to Grease 2.

We managed to get through it without getting super emotional, but this feels momentous. As we close out the trilogy (and 2019), we want to make sure you know how blessed we are to be a part of this fandom and to have shared this incredibly detailed and magically expansive world with you. Thank you for your comments and e-mails, your tweets and hugs, your thought-provoking and inspiring engagement with this text. What an honor it's been to go on this journey with you.

There's still time to e-mail us your questions and comments for both our Book of Life and trilogy wrap discussions, so please drop us a line at [email protected] if you've got something to say about this book or ANYTHING ELSE.

If you'd like, you can also follow us on Twitter @chamomilenclove or join our Facebook group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers. You can also support us by visiting our Redbubble store, our Patreon page, or simply by leaving a rating and review on Facebook, Podchaser, or the podcast app of your choice.

Thank you for making this so much fun. We love you.

With love, from cover to cover,

Cait and Jen

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It's a momentous day. Somehow, on Matthew and Diana's wedding anniversary (four hundred and something years later), Cait and Jen have made their way to the climax of the Book of Life. In Chapters 37-39, they're talking about rescuing Matthew, James Bond, Peak Diana, moral authority, and the difference between justice and vengeance. It's a fitting end to a momentous, exciting story and C&C is so glad you're a part of it.

If you have THOUGHTS, IDEAS, QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, or POLL IDEAS for the book and trilogy wrap episodes, now is the time! Get in touch via Twitter @chamomilenclove, by e-mail at [email protected], or through our Facebook page.

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