A Study in Scarlet: The Book of Mormon (No Not That One)
05/29/22 • 55 min
This week, we’re talking about A Study In Scarlet, the first full-length Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Join us for a discussion of frontier Mormonism, flatmate compatibility, and - of course - yelling about how badly Moffat and Gatiss botched it on the BBC. Give us a listen to find out what the cat thinks about it all.
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Discussions of misogyny & animal death,
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This week, we’re talking about A Study In Scarlet, the first full-length Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Join us for a discussion of frontier Mormonism, flatmate compatibility, and - of course - yelling about how badly Moffat and Gatiss botched it on the BBC. Give us a listen to find out what the cat thinks about it all.
Content Warnings
Discussions of misogyny & animal death,
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If there’s a book you want to recommend to us to read, just send us a message/email and we’ll pop it on our long list (but please read our review policy on our website first for the books we accept).
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Cosmere: Time to Get Out My Conspiracy Diagrams
This week, friends of the podcast, Liv and AJ, join Lotti to discuss all things Cosmere! In this episode we discuss the following books and series: The Final Empire, Stormlight Archive (all four books), Warbreaker, Mistborn era 2, Secret History, Sixth of Dusk, Elantris, Mistborn Era 1... This is not a spoiler free episode. Please check timestamps below.
Things we chat about in this episode about include: Which is our favourite magic system in the series, what is our favourite magical world, why we love Sanderson’s writing, and most importantly, which world we think our darling cat would love to live in.
As always with Sanderson’s Books, Journey Before Destination matters quite a lot.
P.S. had a few audio issues at the start - apologies!
See timestamps below for specific spoilers which we feel we'd not want to know about before reading the books.
10:49 Hoid using magic systems which shouldn't be there (Stormlight)
12:10 Oathbringer (C88), a warbreaker worldhopper, and easter eggs/crossovers
13:32 Way of Kings Interlude (Who the people at Purelake were)
17:15 MAJOR SPOILER Rhythm of War. Shallan's backstory, Voidbringers
19:00 MAJOR SPOILER Rhythm of War - Who gets a shard
20:22 MAJOR SPOILER - Stormlight Archive/Oathbringer
30:50 Favourite worldhopping moments from across the cosmere
32:14 Secret History, and who the leaders of the Ghostbloods is in Stormlight Archive
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