S&L Podcast - #406 - The Joy of Rat Skeletons

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Alex Brown is here and we talk about all the excellent books getting nominated for and winning awards. Plus why Amazon won't sell ebooks to libraries, how animated rat skeletons are pretty awesome and we kick off our March book, Elatsoe!

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: Oreo Cream Cheese Milk Tea

Alex: Peppermint Tea

QUICK BURNS

Ruth: the British Fantasy Awards were announced!

Richard: Netflix has just come out with a trailer to the new series based on Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.

A trailer for Season 4 of The Handmaid's Tale coming April 28 to Hulu

Seth: The LA times posted the nominees for their The Ray Bradbury Prize for science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction.

Mark: Finalists Announced for the 26th (2021) Audie Awards

Seth: Nghi Vo wins the Crawford award for best fantasy debut with the novel The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Richard: The Perserverence Rover's Red Planet touchdown site has been renamed for Octavia E. Butler, the noted African American science fiction author

Jan: Speaking of Octavia E. Butler: Disney-owned FX is adapting Octavia E. Butler's book "Kindred" as a TV series.

Sheila Jean: Amazon was not providing digital copies to libraries, period.

March madness is here!

Semifinal matches so go vote on Goodreads!

BARE YOUR SWORD

terpkristin: Someone once walked into my office and said, ""I know you're from Maryland because you have Old Bay on your desk."" I love Old Bay and I enjoy crab chips but I once had crab cheese puffs and they were infinitely better. For regular snacking I do sour cream & onion or sour cream & cheddar, preferably in the ridged variety. For all my love of Old Bay, though, I'm allergic to actual crabs. Go figure. Related to the topic of Old Bay, the University of Maryland School of Engineering newsletter gave a recipe for Old Bay snickerdoodles around Christmas. I haven't tried to make them yet. But I did finally pick up cream of tartar to do so.

Ruth: I’m intrigued by the idea of the crab chips but they don’t seem to be available over here in the UK. The closest thing is probably these “Firecracker Lobster” flavour chips ......After posting my comment about crab chips not being available in the UK I immediately realised that I had somehow momentarily forgotten that, while I’ve never seen crab flavour chips, prawn cocktail flavour is literally everywhere. (It mostly tastes like tomato ketchup tbh)

And Trike: My stance against food that tastes like other food is justified. I present Exhibit A: Pringles potato chips that taste like Moa Burgers from the Halo video game. Moa, as in the giant flightless bird. De-extincted for a sci-fi franchise, only to be served up for dinner. Now the imaginary bird food (food bird?) can be had in chip form."

@MitchamBeth

THE FOLD, Peter Clines. Ginormous flying transdimensional monsters are why we can't have nice things. I enjoyed watching the mild English teacher break out of his shell as he unfolds the mystery. (Hey, what if zoom calls worked as gates?)

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

ADDENDUMS

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