Unrelaiable Narrator in visual medium, not an easy thing to achieve (or follow at times).... Worth watching for the gun assembly scene alone.

I read the first short story in the book and that was enough for me.... ;)

I wish you good health

More heartfelt than Pratchett? Consider that discussion tabled ;)

It's a really good conversation! I also relate to the fact I never really thought of 'women's literature' when I was growing up. I just picked up books that seemed interesting to me. Hell, I read books that were clearly for adults when I was probably a little too young to fully appreciate them! I'm glad I did, though I can also appreciate a need to perhaps, well, not censor books by age, but discuss difficult themes with younger readers as a guiding adult. But yeah, I didn't pay attention to the sex of the author, nor to YA as a category (much). I just wanted mind-expanding science-fiction and fantasy, for the most part (I made room for a smidge of general fiction as well lol). From a feminist 'consciousness raising' perspective, I understand, and can appreciate (even get behind to a certain extent) a desire to more actively seek out works by female authors. But I agree that 'segregating' literary analysis and consideration, as it were, by sex, is largely harmful. If women are to be respected and fully considered as fully human subjects, peers in humanity, then our creative works should just be labelled as such: creative works, written by human beings (and within their respecting genres for ease of distribution). And besides, since women's experiences ARE human experiences, even if a book focuses on spheres or themes more traditionally associated with female 'sex roles', that book should still be simply considered LITERATURE, not 'women's literature', because again 'traditionally female' experiences ARE human experiences, because women are human beings.

Great top 50! lists And really nice talks. I learned a lot about not-so-modern board games. My favorite ones are mostly like the Magnus list. I only missed Dune Imperium, Kanban EV, and Lisboa.

It was a lot of fun being part of it. I'm gonna miss chatting with those guys ;)

Hi all, What is the name of the Susana top 19 game, the broken one?

This was such a great discussion! Thank you so much for inviting me, I really enjoyed this one!

Im so buying the audiobook of this..

thanks😊

Great discussion! Some really interesting choices coming out so early, can't wait to see how the lists ramp up in the next epsiodes! My main take away so far is that we need to do a follow up "Games That I Forgot To Add But One Of The Others Did" list 😄 Gotta apologies to the boys for my awkward category system... When Susana asked me for a top 50 list I was just stumped! Only way I coud begin to organise it in my head was to break it down into categories. Thought it'd be an interesting approach and hopefully not too derailing.

KZbin recommended something good to me, for once.

Simply brilliant 👏 👌 👍

Loved this sequence when I first read it and it works so well as standalone... While not a spoiler for the rest of the series as such, if you go back and read Timelessness with this in mind it sort of changes everything ;)

OMG! OMG OMG OMG@ I can't listen today but I'll get to it asap!

Oo fun! Can’t wait to listen! Edit: just read the description… guess i am already listening as i make my way through Anamnesis. It has been one of my favorite threads in the series, so it is nice to have it all together in one place 😃

I haven't read the series, but you did a good summary of key points that I'm always keen to know. Also, if you liked it, I'm quite sure I will! Now, the point is where to put it in my never-ending list of things to read xD Do you know how many books are planned?

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Thank you my friends for such an open and honest conversation about mythology and religion and how it's all tied into story. It's nice to know there are other free thinkers out there 😁Great talk!

A favorite of mine. For a more recent sf novel involving language and linguistics, see Embasytown by China Mieville.

Loved chatting about this one, and you made some very good points Susana! An honour to be there chatting with you all!

Love snow white movie happy i have copy this great movie

Sounds like basic common sense to me. I rarely know most of the points listed above about any of the authors I read. Sometimes it's obvious from the name or they may have a picture on the inside sleeve, but that is never used to decide if I want to read the book. That is what the blurb is for!

Oh this does sound very interesting and, somehow, I missed it completely! Made me think of The Quiet Place, did you ever watch it? In any case, I'm going to watch this one; I've loved all your recommendations so dar!

Loved this discussion, we got some amazing ideas around this book. It definitely has some quirks and things worth discussing! Loved being part of it!

Some great reading there!! And really looking forward to the secret project and your next books! Reading Timelessness this year was definitely a highlight of my reading year, and can't wait to read the new books! Best wishes for 2024, Susana!!

The Hexologists: totally agree, well-written but trying to hard to be quaint imo. I wanted more. 7/10 but won't be continuing. JS&MN: an all-time favourite for me, magic comes alive in the words and the world - the best of fantasy. 🥳 Sun Eater: very good but hmm, JS&MN is way, way higher for me hehe. So glad you enjoyed it this much. My favourite installment would be Kingdoms of Death. I binged the series too. I think I'll get Book 6, wait for Book 7 and read them all instead of having to reread twice. 😁 Happy New Year!

This is one of the best films of all time. It's also one of the best for a sequel. Ripley is bad ass in this and in a perfect way that doesn't challenge a man. Its got comedy and its scary and my favorite Bill Paxton role! 😅

Enjoyed this discussion and great guests

The discussion was awesome!! So happy and honoured to have joined!

absolutley nailed it Susana, and that's why I will be downloading the audio books as soon as I can

The narration and writing are so apt, I started with this one despite strong advice not to do so. 🤩 Really enjoying, thank you so much for sharing this installment with potential readers.

Amazing to have this as a free listen! Thank you :)

Always a pleasure talking to you Susana. And I must confess I was pleasantly surprised that you seemed to like my stories for someone so averse to horror. Thank you!

Yeah its pretty damn good. I just seen both of them.

I honestly have not watched this hone, but I knew the others you recommended, so I trust you! Will definitely see if I can find it. It sounds quite curious and different!

Great film! Brilliant dialog, topics and theory crafting. The only bad things I can say is, the lighting was horrible and the set was.. ok-ish. Other than that i love the film!

What did you think of the sequel?

The first 10 minutes or so are kinda hard to get through, feeling like someone's home movie. But once the conversation starts, boy does it get good. As you say, completely rivetting... clever and thought provoking without being preachy or conceited. The "filmaking" technique may be lacking but concept, dialogue, stroy-telling and acting (though this last suffers from poor staging, lighting and editing) are rich and more than worth and hour and a half of anyone's time. If I had one criticism of these elements it would be the slightly face palm end twist... though completely unexpected, it was a very convenient way to prove the point to the viewer...

Very nice episode. Love the concept and these long-form discussions.

I definitely *looove* this series of videos! I agree with you, some audiobook narrators can completely break the immersion, so go for whatever you like the most. I hope you end up doing a review, would be very interested on knowing your thoughts of it! Like you, I haven't read anything by this author yet.

I like short blurbs too. 😊 The story was interesting, I liked it, but it didn't wow me as much as I hoped. Happy reading!

Hello Susana and Paromita👋🏻 this was a great chat! I agree Susana that I wish people would be more open about books they didn’t like or DNF even if the author is a friend. I think one thing that holds most people back, including myself, is we are so used to having no filter and typing away in comment sections online without any repercussions that many people struggle to speak critically in a professional manor without making it too emotional or personal. So that type of discourse is extremely challenging for people which is why we seem to mostly get rant reviews or never hear about the book again if someone didn’t like it. Hope you both have a good day!

A great challenge to set yourself for Paromita! Thank you for such an interesting conversation. We would DNF tv shows, games, movies if we aren’t enjoying them. So why not books? It may be a sense of pride of course. While I always shelved it for now rather than DNF

Well said - but sometimes it feels as if the internet forgets that people are allowed to have opinions and * gasp * differ.

Saying it like it is 👏

Great soundtrack also! Yasmine Hamdan with Hal is amazing.

Amazing film. My only complaint would be the slightly silly "Fangs N' Hiss vamp attack" ending. But watching the extra Behind The Scenes softens even the cringiness of that into a nice juxtaposition with the thoughtfulness of the rest of the movie. Definitely watch the extras if possible!

Listening. I read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time about four months ago and it was a really thought-provoking read.