Let's Get Pixilated TSP Ep 90
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07/06/17 • 42 min
Karen Daugherty of Outlander Medicine joins me to wrap up The Scottish Prisoner with Author's Notes and overall thoughts, in this week's podcast episode, "Let's Get Pixilated."
Pixilated is our favorite word from the Author's Notes section. It means to get drunk. I think we need a t-shirt or shot glass with the title phrase on it. It's more intriguing than hammered or trashed.
We muse over Diana Gabaldon's other favorite words to use: miasma, alacrity, ozone, inexorable...can you name any more?
Even well-read readers sometimes require a dictionary!
We laugh, go down rabbit holes, and come back to Jamie, Lord John, Claire, Laoghaire, Voyager, and how almighty stinky the 18th century must have been. We are ever thankful for daily showers, and the oh so magical, anti-perspirant and deodorant stick.
What were your favorite parts of The Scottish Prisoner?
What's Coming up? The Fugitive Green chapters 1-3, from Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection.
How can you participate? To have your questions, comments for the regular read along, email or call in to the listener line 3 days prior to airing for inclusion. Join the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday nights at 6pm PT/9pm ET to discuss the previous latest podcast chapters using the hashtag #ADoO. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post.
The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
All images are Wiki Commons. Click link for attribution.
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Karen Daugherty of Outlander Medicine joins me to wrap up The Scottish Prisoner with Author's Notes and overall thoughts, in this week's podcast episode, "Let's Get Pixilated."
Pixilated is our favorite word from the Author's Notes section. It means to get drunk. I think we need a t-shirt or shot glass with the title phrase on it. It's more intriguing than hammered or trashed.
We muse over Diana Gabaldon's other favorite words to use: miasma, alacrity, ozone, inexorable...can you name any more?
Even well-read readers sometimes require a dictionary!
We laugh, go down rabbit holes, and come back to Jamie, Lord John, Claire, Laoghaire, Voyager, and how almighty stinky the 18th century must have been. We are ever thankful for daily showers, and the oh so magical, anti-perspirant and deodorant stick.
What were your favorite parts of The Scottish Prisoner?
What's Coming up? The Fugitive Green chapters 1-3, from Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection.
How can you participate? To have your questions, comments for the regular read along, email or call in to the listener line 3 days prior to airing for inclusion. Join the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday nights at 6pm PT/9pm ET to discuss the previous latest podcast chapters using the hashtag #ADoO. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post.
The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
All images are Wiki Commons. Click link for attribution.
Enjoy A Dram of Outlander?
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Previous Episode
Persistence and Peace TSP Ep 89
The Scottish Prisoner comes to an end after 43 chapters. In this podcast episode, "Persistence and Peace," we find secrets kept, kindnesses extended, obligations honored, the passing of a King, and threads that forever will bind Jamie Fraser and Lord John Grey together. They simply don't know the extent of it yet.
Lord John and his valet Tom Byrd return to Argus House in London. John helps Hal in quietly dispatching of the Irish Brigade involved in The Wild Hunt plot and attend George 2's state funeral. John feels a sense of accomplishment having made use of Charlie Carruthers' information. The Crown is safe and the people never knew anything happened. It was closed and done. John returns home to find a sweet and small gift from his friend Stephan, the graf. One that holds future adventures for them together.
Jamie fell in to the clockwork of Helwater. He worked in the open and helped in his small way, William grow. The boy loved his groom Mac. The sweet moments of Yule are recounted when young Willie helps gather all the wood and branches for the bonfire celebration. He was a bonnie lad indeed. Jamie could burst from the love he felt for the boy. The bittersweet knowledge of this boy with another's name and his child with Claire in the unknown future. He can claim neither, yet is bound to both. Jamie becomes known by Helwater and his past places fall away. This is where he belongs, prisoner or not, this is his home for as long as it can be. If only Claire could see the boy. Would she approve and love him too? Would his parents? The voices of his dead infiltrate the air around him and his dreams. A heartbreaking and beautiful time for Jamie.
For both John and Jamie, their friendship is reduced to the formality of the time, by their statuses as prisoner and jailor, but it remains intact for future resurrection. They each hold an important secret for the other. Only a true friend would extend such a faithful courtesy.
What's Coming up? The Scottish Prisoner week 22 will cover the Author's Notes and be a wrap-up show. Watch for the announcement on the next read-a-long to tackle.
How can you participate? To have your questions, comments for the regular read along, email or call in to the listener line 3 days prior to airing for inclusion. Join the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday nights at 6pm PT/9pm ET to discuss the previous latest podcast chapters using the hashtag #ADoO. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post.
The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
All images are Wiki Commons. Click link for attribution.
Enjoy A Dram of Outlander?
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Next Episode
Their Course is Set AFG Ep 91
With this podcast episode, "Their Course is Set", we delve into the brand-new novella by Diana Gabaldon, A Fugitive Green. It is one of seven novellas within the recently released Seven Stones to Stand or Fall. This novella features the stories of Minerva Wattiswade aka Minnie Rennie and Harold "Hal" Grey, Lord Melton/Duke of Pardloe, and how they came to be the dynamic and fascinating long wed couple we meet in the Outlander series and other novellas. I hope you enjoy the six to eight-part podcast series.
Minnie Rennie, daughter of book and information dealer Andrew Rennie, finds herself going to London alone in the spring of 1744. She is there to do work for her father, find her mother whom she's never met, and make social connections.
Due to her unconventional upbringing, she's a worldly, savvy, clever, and self-assured young woman of 17-years. She's been working in her father's business her whole life. She's never met her mother. Our Claire also had an unconventional upbringing after the death of her parents. This seems to be a building block for strong and culturally challenging women. London is not a safe place for a single young woman. Her father has set-up two bodyguards (the O'Higgins'), and a safe place to stay. He's also arranged for a marriage broker to get her in to society and find her a proper Englishman to wed. This was a surprise to Minnie and she is impressed by her father's trap.
Hal on the other hand is an absolute mess. His life is in turmoil after the death of his wife Esme and child during a too early labor, he kills Nathaniel Twelvetrees in a duel for having an affair with his wife Esme, and the continuing shadow left from his father's suicide on the eve of being arrested for being a Jacobite and traitor to the Crown. Hal is in his early twenties, but he's lived a lifetime already. He's emotionally fragile and physically unwell. He's also the target of a job meant for Minnie.
This takes place during Dragonfly in Amber when Jamie and Claire Fraser are in Paris post Wentworth and pre-Jacobite uprising. We meet some familair and new characters along the way.
Here are the links I promised for what I found extra interesting within the pages of these first chapters.
- Madagascar hissing cockroaches - Frederick the roach presumable for the Bonnie Prince to give to Louise his mistress.
- Culpeper's Herbal - in some form this has been in print since 1653
- Persian Letters - the book Jamie purchased from Andrew Rennie
- Collected Sermons of the Reverend George V. Sykes - it is a real book, written by Diana Gabaldon's great-great grandfather.
What's Coming up? The Fugitive Green chapters 4-6, from Seven Stones to Stand or Fall collection.
How can you participate? To have your questions, comments for the regular read along, email or call in to the listener line 3 days prior to airing for inclusion. Join the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday nights at 6pm PT/9pm ET to discuss the previous latest podcast chapters using the hashtag #ADoO. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post.
The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook.
All images are Wiki Commons. Click link for attribution.
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