The Song Of Achilles: Being God’s Favourite Little Boy Is Bad, Actually

06/26/22 • 52 min

Teaching My Cat To Read: The “very serious” Book Review Podcast

Join us for a discussion of Madeline Miller’s 2012 novel, The Song Of Achilles, which is a modern retelling of the life of Achilles and Patroclus from childhood to death. We talk about the original text of the Iliad (a lot!), the masterful work of art that is the 2004 movie Troy, and which bits of this book made us cry like babies.

Content Warnings
Particularly heavy discussion of assault and rape throughout the episode.
Also discussion of suicide, murder and war.

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Particularly heavy discussion of assault and rape throughout the episode.
Also discussion of suicide, murder and war.

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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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Mini Ep - Dracula: A Preponderance of Malewives

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In this mini-episode we discuss DRACULA by Bram Stoker! We discuss the fun questions we introduced in series 2 for a book we’ve previously read in series 1. Including who’s the manipulator in this book, and what would the right move review be that Dracula is looking for for his London home (he probably won’t have to do a house share for £1k a month...)

We originally read Dracula for series 1 episode 5.

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