Spoil Me

Guess what! Turns out I was right about some things and not AT ALL on some others. Also, I can't fucking WAIT until Sonea has her formal battle, I'm so excited.

Thank you to Rachel for sponsoring this episode of Veronica Mars, which makes me a liar because it's sneaking in just before my Christmas vacation and thus my announcement last episode about no more VM until 2019 is not true. Unless you're a regular listener rather than a Patron! In which case, Happy New Year! This episode has one of the more simultaneously silly and upsetting case-of-the-weeks th...

Thank you again to Denise for giving me the blank check to cover this episode! I'm only one episode of coverage away from the end of the book and I have to confess that I'm not at all sure where this is going. Will our little ragtag band of survivors make it to the farm? Will the religion that Lauren invented really take root? You know, it's only just occurring to me that the book is called Parabl...

Hello again everyone! I want to share my heartfelt thanks again with Ashleigh for commissioning so much of these books, and I hate that this is the last episode before my vacation because I'm dying to know what happens! This section is even tougher to read RE: bullying than the last one, which I didn't think was possible since the last section resulted in Sonea getting physically hurt. But no, tha...

Many thanks to Ashlyn for continuing to sponsor this book, and for emailing me with some very provocative questions. I wonder how many listeners had the same thoughts and theories that Ashlyn had about the interlude? Because she shared with me what she believes it's referencing and I think that might be exactly it. This section we get some time with Damaya, who is being a model student at the Fulc...

Hello everyone, and welcome Veronica Mars, the episode in which people are stealing dogs and in which I definitely thought there was something very different going on with Logan's sister. To get right to the point, I thought that she was full of shit and trying to get money out of Logan with a big involved plot that even Logan's father was in on. Spoiler Alert! She's not lying, and her boyfriend i...

Many thanks to Denise for sponsoring this episode! I like that in this section, we start to see more of Lauren sharing this religion that she's made up and there is a much more receptive attitude among her crew than I expected. It seems like it's sort of not something that they intended, but more like her constantly reading her poetry to them is starting to subconsciously sink in. I like it. We ha...

This section of The Dark Lord Of Derkholm is giving me so much agita! It's hard enough knowing that everyone is working so hard and yet being undermine by a saboteur the whole time, but then we're getting whole towns of people disappearing and I don't know what to think about that. I don't know where to start on talking about this section, to be honest. Should I begin with the fact that Shona was...

Greetings, fair listeners! Many thanks to Ashleigh for sponsoring this episode! I'm getting into the second half of the book, and I was so deeply hoping that Sonea was going to finally be free of Regin's harassment at this point. I know that's a foolish wish, and that there's no way one of the main conflicts was going to be wrapped this early, but I just hate reading it. Because here's the thing;...

Many thanks to Agnes and Rachel for commissioning this episode as a Voyeur level so that everyone could watch me flip out when we got to That Part. You know the part. That one. I lost my shit. But first, let's talk about the elephant in the room, and the fact that that elephant was one of the stars of Home Improvement until 1998. Until That Part happened, I thought the reason for commissioning a v...

Shout-out to sponsor Ashleigh for commissioning this episode of The Novice! This shit is really starting to get serious and I'm starting to grow very anxious about how it is all going to shake out. First of all, I cannot emphasize enough how freaky I find it that Akkarin can use that damn ring to read Lorlen's thoughts as well as see AND hear everything going on around him. I swear to god, that is...

Many thanks to Patricia Bing-Grant for commissioning this episode of The Dark Lord Of Derkholm! This is a really fun book and you can tell how much I like it on account of how I sound like I'm on death's door but I wanted to podcast anyway. So, it turns out that Barnabas is actually doing everything he can to fuck up works, by order of Querida. She's hoping that if Mr. Chesney's plan goes badly en...

I want to thank sponsor AND author Robin C. Farrell for commissioning another episode of Resistance Rising! For those who may have forgotten, Robin did the first episode of Resistance Rising with me at the Wannabe level a couple months back, and it was a really fun experience to talk about a book with the actual author! There were definitely some hiccups while I talked about the next couple of cha...

Many thanks to Tristen Haidet for sponsoring this episode of Deep Wizardry! I have to confess, y'all, I was mighty concerned throughout these chapters. There are so many things going on that are all a REALLY BIG DEAL! So first, let's talk about the giant shark. Actually, you know what? I'm not sure I want to do that. That scares me. So maybe let's talk about the fact that Nita has agreed to sacrif...

Many thanks to Ashlyn for commissioning the next episode of The Fifth Season, and for introducing me to this beautiful, heartbreaking book. Also I want to apologize again for having to reschedule, which is always a bummer. Hopefully it will not happen again. This episode, Ashlyn asks me to revisit the interlude and see if there's anything that I notice about it. She has something in mind that is a...

Thank you very much to Jacqui for commissioning this episode! I'm really surprised at how hard everything gets ramped up this episode, although I'm not going to lie; I'm still distracted by what's going on with Veronica's mom. This episode is really packed with plot lines. First we have the case of the week, which is about an overachieving student named Sabrina who is getting harrassed by someone...

Many thanks to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode of The Novice. This is a really really surprising couple of chapters because shit starts to pop off way sooner than I expected. In these chapters we meet Rothen's son for the first time, and it turns out that he's kind of a sweetie pie. This isn't too surprising, but I was definitely not expecting something romantic to sprout between him and S...

Thank you so much to D'Nique for commissioning another episode of Parable Of The Sower! These chapters are really much more hopeful than probably any of the others so far. I am fascinated by these characters, and really irritated with some of them as well. I have to admit that I'm really worried about our crew teaming up with a family that has a baby. I know that it's to the other family's advanta...

Everyone say thank you to Anonymous for commissioning me and RoShawn to cover The Perks Of Being A Wallflower as a power couple! If you weren't able to make our Crowdcast, that's a shame because it was a lot of fun (and not everything in a Crowdcast makes it into the final episode) but it's still available to watch if you want. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/spoil-me-perks-of-being This movie was love...

Hey there delightful listeners, and welcome to the next episode of Veronica Mars in which we get to see some of the aftermath of Veronica going to see her mother. Now, I'm not entirely sure whether there's something going on that I'm not supposed to know as a viewer yet, but I am having a really hard time understanding how Veronica was able to sit with her mom and get this whole sordid tale out of...

Hello everyone! Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning so much of this book, and I'm getting really into the storyline now. I'm getting so mad at the teachers for either falling for the shit Regin is putting out there about Sonea, or for turning a blind eye. I'm not sure just how complicit they are but I'm tempted to quantify it at "very". Dannyl, meanwhile, is out here standing up to some pirate...

Thank you to Ashlynn for commissioning this book, which is absolutely ripping my heart out. There is so much to cover in these chapters that I went over time just a tad, but damn there is a lot happening! The second-person perspective has "us" sitting with what is undoubtedly the Stone Boy and realizing a little belatedly that there's something weird about the kid. So far that's as far as it's gon...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! These chapters are full of goodies and more little germs for theories regarding what's going on with the High Lord. So let's talk about Regin and what a little devious genius he is when it comes to doing shit to fuck with poor Sonea. He plants a stolen pen in her "backpack" and frames her for theft, which effectively shuts down any support that...

Hey there lovely listeners! Many thanks to Charissa for commissioning this episode, which turned out to be kind of a weird one. I'm very interested in hearing your opinions on this, folks, because my primary gripe this episode is that Veronica is acting way out of character to further the plot and it just feels kind of cheap to me. She's this amazing investigator until we need Duncan's identity to...

Guys! There are whale wizards and wizards becoming whales! This was a really wild section, and I am once again taken aback by Diane Duane's incredible imagination. I love that there's still so many ways to surprise me. In this section, our lovely friends transform into whales, via two different methods. Kit uses something called a whalesark which holds the memories of a previous whale who died, wh...