Ivy Tara Blair: Unplugged - Quarantine Edition Podcast
1) 'Lets Take the Long Way Home'
from ‘Lets Take the Long Way Home’ - a book about deep platonic intimacy, this is a description of how they came to realize what was between them was beyond the usual definition of the word ‘friendshi...Show More
2) 'Cryptonomicon - Crunch'
A hilarious chapter from Neal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon in which a man tackles the most dangerous breakfast cereal ever.
3) 'Ancillary Justice' Ann Leckie
Two characters try to come to terms with their distaste for each other…it’s kind a crunchy :)
4) 'Ancillary Mercy' Ann Leckie
*SPOILERS* Very pin-point spoilers for books 1, 2 and 3! Oh my goodness - reading 2 different AI’s and the internal narrative voice of one of them…the deliciousness of so much subtle layering that Ann...Show More
5) 'The Dispossessed' scenes by Ursula K. le Guin
Scenes from Ursula le Guin’s classic novel, The Dispossessed. Her prose is unmatched in it’s lyricism and beauty, and I can never get enough of it.
6) ‘Snow Crash’ Neal Stephanson
This is the first chapter of Neal Stephanson’s Snow Crash - the Deliverator…oh my goodness this is one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. I laugh every time I read it :D
7) ‘Time Skip’ Charles de Lint
A reading of the short story ‘Time Skip’ by Charles de Lint. Ghosts? Time travel? Old photos? In this short story, de Lint makes urban fantasy both spooky and charming :)
8) ‘A Wind in the Door’ Madeline L’Engle
A reading of a scene from Madeline L’Engle’s ‘A Wind in the Door’ - Meg, Charles Wallace, & Calvin all meet…a new friend