Welcome to our first buddy read where we discuss Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Buddy reads are shorter episodes (approx 45 minutes) where we discuss our thoughts and reactions to book we read together.

Warbreaker gave us a lot to talk about and we could have gone on forever... but we had to stop somewhere.

Lit On Fiction

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Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapter 21 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss:

PS I Love You (2007) film based on the book by Cecilia Ahern

A circle of friends (1995) film based on the book by Maeve Binchy

Mona Lisa Smile (2003) 

Magazine:  Spare Rib (est. 1970s)

https://liberatinghistories.org/periodicals-guide/spare-rib/

“All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership” by Darcy Lockman

Theory on Syrinx by Melissareadsalot:  https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMrGXV7pu/

Katee Robert “Dark Restraint”

“When Women were Dragons” by Kelly Barnhill

“The Rogue King” by Abigail Owen

“Acher” by Dr. Rebecca Sharp

“Zodiac Academy” by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti 

Eve’s UPDATED thoughts - since we recorded Eve has had a change of heart:

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapter 26 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss agency in sacrifice and the power of living for a cause vs. dying for one. Hunt as healer also makes an appearance.

Books mentioned in this Episode:

S. Massery’s The Pucking Coach’s daughter

Lights out by Navessa Allen

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

Deborah Harkness’ All Souls series

Links:

https://www.dadsdivorcelaw.com/blog/fathers-and-mothers-child-custody-myths

https://www.forbes.com/sites/naomicahn/2020/01/26/why-women-lose-custody/

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapters 22, 23, 24 and 25 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss funeral rites and grieving in the Maasiverse, Matriarchial societies, shattering the glass ceiling, the glass cliff, gender roles and power dynamics within the mate bonds across the works of Sarah J Maas, as well as the role of empathy in manipulation as it pertains to power.

Further links discussed in this episode:

On power and empathy:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/neuroscience-in-everyday-life/202006/the-brain-under-the-influence-power

The Statue in the Cathedral of St. Paul

https://theophanesavery.com/adventures-in-gender-fuckery/2019/05/17/you-sexy-devil-the-story-of-the-genie-du-maal/

On Matriarchy

https://www.amazon.ca/Matriarchal-Societies-Studies-Indigenous-Cultures/dp/1433125129

Not Past it Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TQyhslv1MVP31OJZToIFs?si=008ba55be9984009

Books and shows mentioned:

Political Animals (TV series)

A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky

Books we are reading:

Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson

Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapter 21 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this lore heavy episode we discuss the significance of Luna’s statue - both its form and materials.  In this research heavy episode we discuss the various conflations of moon goddesses in the ancient world, as well as goddesses represented by the 8 pointed star:  Aphrodite, Astarte and Inanna.  Descend along with Inanna into the underworld and be a part of the Heroine's Journey.

Books and further links discussed in this episode:

The Hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell

The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock

45 Master Characters. By Victoria Lynn Schmidt 

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

 Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

The Descent of Inanna:

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/215/inannas-descent-a-sumerian-tale-of-injustice/

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapters 18, 19 and 20 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss the meaning of Momento Mori, Art and Music in the Maasiverse, the Meat Market and makeshift cities, the Origins of the Viper Queen, as well as book bannings and what we all can do about them.

Books and further links discussed in this episode:

Invisible Women, by Carolina Criado Perez

Rose And Rook Series by M A Carrick

We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets

Rebecca Not Becky  by Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene

Carpe Diem:

https://medium.com/@RationalBadger/carpe-diem-seize-the-day-a51906828cb9

Trent Reznor vs. John Lennon 

https://markmanson.net/love

Selective attention test”  basketballs and a gorilla

http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html

Kowloon City Tiktok: 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMMvqEcBK/

Brooklyn Library membership for teens

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned

We can be found on Tiktok at

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapters 15, 16 and 17 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss knowing your Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the impacts of isolation, romance vs. love story, and the structure of a romance novel.

Books discussed in this episode:

Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes

Marrow by Trisha Wolfe And Bryn Weaver

Until I Get You By Claire Contraras

We can be found on Tiktok at

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss knowing your rights, isolation vs community, the breeding programs and their implications across the maasiverse, as well as humanism vs machiavellianism, and how all of these concepts interact with freedom vs oppression.

Books discussed in this episode:

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado

We can be found on Tiktok at

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapters 10 and 11 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss meet cutes, relationships and power dynamics across the Maasiverse.  Notable mentions of this episode are cults, ayahuasca and first person past tense and, let us not forget, who is Mr Darcy and Who is Mr. Wickham.

We can be found on Tiktok at

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd

Welcome to the World of Crescent City!  Eve and Sam discuss Chapter 9 of Sarah J Maas’ Urban Fantasy series.  Spoilers abound so listener beware!  Have things to say?  Tell us by email at [email protected]

In this episode we discuss Hunt’s “status quo” prior to the meet cute of the next chapter, various parallels across the Maasiverse, including how banking is portrayed, the harm killing imprints on the psyche, and wars incited by sibling conflict.

We can be found on Tiktok at

Lit On Fiction

https://www.tiktok.com/@litonfiction

Eve: 

https://www.tiktok.com/@eves_reads

Sam:

https://www.tiktok.com/@creativelbd