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439. Later, 2020! With Shana, Claudia and Carrie

Shana, Claudia, and Carrie, gather to talk books, re-reading, knitting, comfort reading, switching genres, books set in California, figuring out what books are five star reads, and the different ways to be kickass.

Happy New Year, and thanks for listening!

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Carrie also shared a list of books set in San Francisco for Claudia that you might like to look at, too:

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This Episode's Music

Adeste Fiddles Album Cover

It’s time to feature my favorite holiday album from Deviations Project, Adeste Fiddles.

This is Favourite Things – I’m sure you recognized it. You can find this album at Amazon.

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  1. Ren Benton says:

    Sourdough by Robin Sloan is also set in San Francisco, and is possibly the only book that has ever made me say, “I want her life.” Includes robotics, a magical sourdough starter, and a minor epistolary romance subplot.

  2. Gwen says:

    Thanks for the warning about consumption in the Cat Sebastian book – looming doom in the near future knocks me right out of my nice cozy suspension of disbelief in a pleasant HEA. Devil in Winter has the heroine’s father dying of consumption and the hero is surprisingly conversant in germ theory, though the PPE available wasn’t so great. (I work with TB patients. Historical TB is not good escapist reading for me.)

    The Penric and Desdemona novella this year (Physicians of… Somewhere) wasn’t a surprise plague (it’s right there in the blurb!) but oof. I love the wonderful marvelous abilities of Desdemona and Penric together, but I couldn’t enjoy them this time – it’s too close to Actual Work especially this year and I couldn’t believe even they could be physician and cure and epidemiologist all at the same time given the rate and severity of illness. The exhaustion was spot on though. I’m re-reading all the rest of the novellas though. Again.

    This podcast is one of the things bringing me a little joy this year. Thank you!

  3. mtc says:

    im liking the border around the transcript very much , it seems to be easier to read somehow , very nice! mamx a from a place called canada

  4. Kareni says:

    Thanks for a fun interview! And thank you, Garlic Knitter, for the transcript.

  5. Stefanie Magura says:

    @Carrie S:

    I’d like to offer a different take on your Kickass Women in History Column.

    While you’re probably right that people reading it know about famous women already, what they know might be very surface level. They might know that they’re famous and not be sure why they are or should be famous. For this reason, I think it’s worth including famous examples among the lesser known ones.

  6. Jeff Adams says:

    Layla Reyne has some wonderful romantic suspense series set in the Bay Area, primarily San Francisco: “Agents Irish and Whiskey,” “Trouble Brewing,” and “Fog City.” All three series are incredible.

    And of course it doesn’t get any better for San Francisco than the entire “Tales of the City” series by Armistead Maupin.

  7. MC says:

    I can empathize with location errors and limited research changing a book. I live in Alaska and haven’t been able to read hardly any fiction set in my state. The worst offender had the heroine on a railway as public transit (doesn’t really exist) wherein she saw a ‘herd of moose’by page 3. Moose do not travel in herds. They are solitary critters unless mating or mama is raising her young. So that one was an insta-DNF.

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