The Book Table

No Mourners. No Funerals. Yes Waffles! Our own Whisper-Dregs gathered to discuss their thoughts on Leigh Bardugo's hit YA fantasy-heist novel, Six Of Crows. For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Christopher Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Nicky Louisa | @otterbewriting Rebecca | @rumy91989 Shelly | @shllybkwrm Stephen The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this episode of THE BOOK TABLE, some of our gaming whisperers discuss elements of storytelling in some of their favourite video games. For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Ayesha Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Louisa | @otterbewriting Rich The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

For our twelfth episode, we had a lively discussion of Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind, a book that has quickly become considered an exemplar of the fantasy genre. For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Rebecca | @rumy91989 Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Shelly | @shllybkwrm Emma | Christopher | Sara (by proxy) | @fantasticpiggy The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this free-form discussion, several of our whisperers talk about the pros and cons of all the different ways we consume literature -- whether it be print (hardback, paperback, mass market), digital (kindle, nook, iBooks), or audio. For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Akhi | @akhipill Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Louisa | @otterbewriting Rebecca | @rumy91989 Sara | @fantasticpiggy Tanis The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Our designated #LOGHSQUAD discusses the recently-released English translation of the first light novel in this acclaimed Japanese science-fiction series, as well as its comparison to the popular anime adaptation. [Spoilers start at about 48:00] For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Akhi | @akhipill Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Mike Robert Shelly | @shllybkwrm Stephen The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

What about fantasy that doesn't fit the genre-typical western Medieval European setting? In this episode, some of our whisperers discuss books they've read that explore non-western themes and places, as well as a bit about the genre as a whole! For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode, you heard from: Akhi | @akhipill Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Louisa | @otterbewriting Rebecca | @rumy91989 Books mentioned in this episode include: The Emperor's Blades by Brian Stavely Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster Dune by Frank Herbert Tamora Pierce's Tortall series Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh Uprooted by Naomi Novik Harry Potter / Pottermore by J.K. Rowling The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky The Native Appropriations blog post mentioned can be found at: http://nativeappropriations.com/2016/03/magic-in-north-america-part-1-ugh.html The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this episode we discuss Shadowshaper, a great urban fantasy YA novel! We pretty much loved it overall. Spoilers start at about 24:12. Shadowshaper is by Daniel José Older | www.ghoststar.net | @djolder We mentioned his video on Why We Don't Italicize Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gCI3Ur7FM Check out Louisa's blog post on The Importance of Being Bennie! http://backroomwhispering.com/2016/03/18/the-importance-of-being-bennie/ For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Louisa | @otterbewriting Sara | @fantasticpiggy Shelly | @shllybkwrm The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Join us for a special interview with Rinske Verberg, a talented author from the Netherlands. As part of her education, she learned about Left Brain and Right Brain approaches to creative writing... but also a Left Knee approach?! Recommended watching: Iain McGilchrist: The Divided Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI Recommended reading: Writing Down the Bones: http://goo.gl/dkxOlZ The Artist's Way: http://goo.gl/n6q4nr Note: This was the first Writers' Nook episode recorded as a Writers' Nook episode, but for convenience, previous "Nanosodes" have been renamed "Writers' Nook." In this episode you heard from: Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Rinske| http://www.rinskeverberg.nl/ The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

How do you define fantasy literature? At what point was there a shift from mythology and fairy tales to what we consider to be fantasy today? Some of our more well-read Whisperers discuss these questions and more in this episode of The Book Table. For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Akhi | @akhipill Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this special Valentine's Day episode, a panel of Whisperers teases apart different ways sex is treated (or ignored) in fantasy literature. We cover works from Harry Potter to Anita Blake and all sorts in between. We recommend that only mature audiences join us for this lively discussion of "the juicy bits" of fantasy! For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Stephen (Moderator) Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Madeleine | @madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 Dave | Akhi | @akhipill Thomas | The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Join us for a special interview with Dave and Rebecca Kordesh, a recently (almost a month!) married couple who fell in love while plotting a novel. Hear how that novel is going and how they manage to be writing partners and romantic partners! In this episode you heard from: Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Rebecca | @rumy91989 Dave | The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this episode we discuss the "Japanese-inspired Steampunk dystopia" novel Stormdancer, by Jay Kristoff. We liked parts, but weren't so enthused about others - let us know what you thought, listeners! Spoilers start at about 28:48. For listeners of The Book Table, Audible is offering a free audiobook and a 30-day free trial! Sign up at http://audibletrial.com/TheBookTable. In this episode you heard from: Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 Shelly | @shllybkwrm Stephen The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Nanosode 04: Your NaNoWriMo 2015 winners are back! Madeleine and Rebecca have a discussion over character genders, especially why they think they have opposite predilections from each other when it comes to choosing their characters' genders. In this episode you heard from: Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Happy Holidays! Members of Backroom Whispering got together just before Christmas to discuss how religion is discussed and used in YA literature, including but not limited to His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, and the Chronicles of Narnia. We had a lot of different thoughts, so we hope you enjoy! Continue the conversation on our Facebook and Twitter pages! In this episode you heard from: Moderator: Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Akhi | @akhipill Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 Louisa Sara (read by Dorothy) | @fantasticpiggy The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this episode of The Book Table, we discuss the series His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. We had a lot to say on this topic, if an hour and a half is too much there's a built-in pause-and-stretch-break with our spoiler cut at 35:47. If you would like spoiler-free content, feel free to stop listening at that point. In this episode you heard from: Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 Shelly | @shllybkwrm Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

We had many fearless Whisperers participate in National Novel Writing Month this past November...and not all of them were entirely successful. In this third special Nanosode, hear from two of our Whisperers who didn't quite manage to make that coveted 50,000 word mark. In this episode you heard from: Dorothy | @bwp_dorothy Shelly | @shllybkwrm The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Our second special episode on NaNoWriMo features two among us who won – wrote 50,000 words and just kept going! They discuss how they got through it and how their stories went at the end. In this episode you heard from: Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

In this episode our panel discusses the question: What is Young Adult Fiction? Join us for a lively discussion as we pick apart the unique characteristics of YA and what makes its style and the audience it addresses distinct. While some would argue that the writing style is simplified, the ideas juvenile, and the main characters teens, others believe that there really is no difference between YA and other genres due to the complexity and depth of modern YA and that it is just a marketing strategy. What do you think? Send us any thoughts you have, and we’ll discuss on a later episode! In this episode you heard from: Akhi | @akhipill Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 Sara | The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

Three of our brave Whisperers, the self-named #monarchsofdarkness, talk briefly about their NaNoWriMo 2015 endeavours! In this episode you heard from: Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca | @rumy91989 Dave | The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com

The inaugural episode of The Book Table! We discuss An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Spoilers start at about 29:26. In this episode you heard from: Akhi | @akhipill Madeleine | @madnbooks | youtube.com/madnbooks Rebecca Shelly | @shllybkwrm The Book Table is a podcast from Backroom Whispering Productions. Our theme music is by Mark Wayne. If you liked this podcast, rate us on iTunes! Or get in touch with us: Twitter | @BackroomWhisper Facebook | facebook.com/BackroomWhispering Email | BackroomWhispering@gmail.com