648: Magical NDA

Store up some mana and watch out for maleficers and maw-mouths! We’re going to discuss Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, which takes the familiar story of a school for teenage magicians and does some very different things with it! Before the Spoiler Horn, we talk generally about the books and why you should read them. Then we dig into some of the details of how the series changes as it comes to its end.

[Our next Book Club selection is “Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution” by R.F. Kuang.]

Naomi Novik's "Scholomance" trilogy

Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Dan Moren, Erika Ensign and Glenn Fleishman

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Referenced Works A Deadly Education [Amazon] [Apple] The Last Graduate [Amazon] [Apple] The Golden Enclaves [Amazon] [Apple] Scholomance series Show Notes & Links What are we reading?

Aleen:

• “Signal Moon” by Kate Quinn
• “The Rose Code” by Kate Quinn
• World of the White Rat series by T. Kingfisher
• “Swordheart” by T. Kingfisher
• “Nettle and Bone” by T Kingfisher
• “The Nova Incident” by Dan Moren

Glenn:

• “Housebreaking” by Colleen Hubbard
• “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
• “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King

Erika:

• “Dead Spots” by Melissa F. Olson
• “The Necessity of Trans Joy” by Izzy Wasserstein

Dan:

• “Blitz” - Daniel O’Malley
• “Nightwatch over Windscar” by K. Eason
• “Locklands” by Robert Jackson Bennett
• “Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott

Jason:

• “Blitz” - Daniel O’Malley
• “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King
• “A Gathering of Shadows” by V.E. Schwab

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