In this bonus episode of Teaching my Cat to Read, Lotti is joined by two friends of the podcast to discuss the first THREE episodes of THE WHEEL OF TIME on Amazon prime. Featuring questions such as what did we like in the adaptation, what we hope for in future episodes, and why Nynaeve is the MVP. 

Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Wheel of Time. Spoilers for the books THE EYE OF THE WORLD, NEW SPRING. 

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Discussion of fantasy violence, death of characters. 

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For our final episode of series 1, we answer questions from you, our listeners! Find out what our favourite genres are, which author we would want to meet (and why), and which of the books we have read for series 1 we enjoyed reading the most!

We also discuss the first few books which we are going to read for series 2! Make sure to stick around for the whole episode to find out which we will be reading. 

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For our final book of season one we read ‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ the first book in Ursula K le Guin’s Earthsea series. Ged makes a mistake at the beginning, and then makes some more mistakes, potters around the world of Earthsea and does magic and other things. During his adventures, he acquired an Otak, which is very much like a cat, so you know we have feelings about this book. What else do we think of this book? Listen to the episode to find out!

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Discussion of patriarchy, general magical violence

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Join us for a robust discussion of Beowulf, one of the most well-known Old English poems. We talk about the monstrous feminine, the political landscape of 7th-10th century Britain, and wanting to fight Seamus Heaney. The cat has actually read this one, sort of.

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War, battles, Beowulf rips someone’s arm off. 

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Join us for a discussion of Lirael, Garth Nix’s sequel to Sabriel and the second in the Abhorsen trilogy. We talk about bloodlines, loneliness, and our shared burning desire to become Assistant Librarians in the Great Library of the Clayr.

Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation, mild gore / zombies, 

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Join us as we discuss Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, first published in 1818. Featuring: the ethics of marrying your surrogate sister; just, like, a lot of hubris; rating your professors by the odiousness of their physiognomy; and parental abandonment. Spoiler alert: we make fun of Victor, a lot.

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Grave robbing, sort-of incest, discussions of violence and colonialism, child death

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This episode we read ‘The Final Empire’, the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series.
Listen to us yell about using crime to solve all your problems, doing shots shots shots of magic metal in order to overthrow the government and the fantasy genre’s ongoing problem with magical bioessentialism.

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Racism, slavery, bioessentialism and rape mentioned. 

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In today’s episode, we read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, and discuss a lot of the heavy themes it covers (see the content warnings below). We recommend you check out a plot summary before listening to our rantings about the failings of the institution of marriage, poor parenting techniques, and which few of the characters in this book we WOULDN’T fight.

Content Warnings
Domestic abuse, substance abuse, addiction, rape, 1840s societal treatment of all of the above

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We read a short children's story “My Friend Mr Leakey” written by J. B. S. Haldane, who can only be described as a mad scientist. Join us for a discussion of transmutative justice, English versus Brazilian magic, and post-war fantasy literature.

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1930’s-era British racism, eugenics, colonialism

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In this episode, we discuss our myriad issues with the Peter Jackson adaptations, the wider Middle-Earth legendarium, and the possibility of the Arkenstone being a Silmaril. Join us as we wish for the movies to lower our coffins into our graves when we die, so that they can let us down one last time.

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Discussions of antisemitism, racism, race essentialism, mention of Nazism

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