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A Meal of Thorns
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A speculative book club, where critics, writers, and scholars join us to talk about thorny, interesting titles. A podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/amealofthorns/
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Wrapping up Monday's episode on Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn, with @kjy1066.bsky.social, like
Tiffany Pollard "Beyoncé?" meme but instead it says "Igjarjuk?"
August 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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One sticker left at the #ReaderCon freebie table!
A table with bookmarks, flyers, and free books, with one square sticker with the Meal of Thorns logo.
July 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This is indeed a great way of capturing the vibe!

(Original screenshot from FB, Ziv Wities says "so this is a book that superficially looks like THIS, but ACTUALLY what it's doing is THIS")
Charles Keegan's Tor cover for Fire Logic, showing a white-looking woman in mail armor and a ripped red cape with a big curved sword, like a falchion-scimitar thing, standing in a rocky pass. Great fantasy painting, doesn't really set you up for this book. Kathleen Jennings' Small Beer Fire Logic cover: a less realistic, simpler illustration, curving tree branches against a white background. A brown-skinned woman with a long braid and a blade in each hand in simple medieval-ish cloth garments looms over their shoulder at a flying crow. Vibe is stranger, more mysterious/whimsical, slightly recalls the Ruth Robbins Earthsea illustrations.
February 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Nominating folks, take note!
A Meal of Thorns, hosted by Jake Casella Brookins - Hands down the most exciting new podcast project of 2024, this virtual book club from the Ancillary Review of Books
February 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"Go to space," they said. "See the wonders of the galaxy," they said. "Perish from the hundreds of unsolvable problems that don't exist on our beautiful planet," they said. We're talking about KSR's AURORA with Hilary Strang of
@podcastonmars.bsky.social!
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The cover of Kim Stanley Robinson's AURORA, a spaceship that's two rings around a central cylinder, against a field of stars, and a picture of Hilary Strang, a white woman with glasses and long brown-blonde hair.
January 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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A PRIMER ON UTOPIAN PHILOSOPHY MENTIONED @thelitcritguy.bsky.social
The "brazil mentioned" image of the anime character Yui Hirasawa, in a pink and beige hoodie with a snail on it, arms raised with a bottle of champagne in one hand and a glass in the other, but instead of her face it's a cartoon portrait of Ernst Bloch by Pascal Kirchmair.
January 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM