Ali, Aradia, and Bree

The Hot Nuance Book Club

Arts EN ↓ 38 episodes

A podcast in which a novelist, a screenwriter, and a podcaster walk into a book, diving into its craft and impact in their mission to bring nuance back. Join your hosts Ali ( @92aliboo ), Aradia ( @BestFirstChair ), and Bree ( @mostlybree ) as they take you back to the 1990s to read one of Bree's childhood favorite fantasy novels: Exiles: The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn. Grab your own copy and read along with them each week as they ask important questions like: what was going on with the wind in the 90s? and can you boyboss too close to the sun? Join us for our book club discussions

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Ali, Aradia, and Bree

Episodes

Ruins of Ambrai (Flight, parts 9-16): Perfectionist Therapy Meeting - S01 Ep12 25.09.2023 1:49:36

Welcome to episode 12 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for Flight (parts 9-16) in The Ruins of Ambrai. Ali identifies with Glenin, Aradia is not sold on being a writer, and Bree has finished writing a book! Can you relate to our fears about how saying one wrong thing will get you living in a box with a racoon under a bridge? == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https://amzn.to/3p0jU3k Kobo: htt...

Ruins of Ambrai (Flight, parts 1-8): Agag, Agog, Aghast - S01 Ep11 18.09.2023 1:45:14

Welcome to episode 11 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for Flight (parts 1-8) in The Ruins of Ambrai. Our heroes are on the run with our villains in hot pursuit! Ali might not be a Collan stan, but she might be founding People for the Ethical Treatment of Collan’s Brain. The cat is a ladder, the cactus is a doom circle, and we yearn for a boy damsel. == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https:/...

Ruins of Ambrai (Betrayals sections 13-19): The F*ck Pie Room - S01 Ep10 28.08.2023 1:52:53

Welcome to episode 10 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for the plot to speed up in the final section of Betrayals (parts 13-19) of The Ruins of Ambrai. Ali turns into an indigent teakettle, Aradia fully embraces the chaos of being a first time reader, and Bree gleefully guides us all deeper into moral quagmires. == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https://amzn.to/3p0jU3k Kobo: https://www.kobo...

Ruins of Ambrai (Betrayals sections 10-12): Nobody Dares Fart - S01 Ep09 21.08.2023 1:45:06

Welcome to episode 9 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for Collan to take up botany in Betrayals (parts 10-12) of The Ruins of Ambrai. We reminisce over our childhood horse fantasies, roast Collan for not acting like he’s in his 30s, and get understandably confused by all these Saint-derived names. == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https://amzn.to/3p0jU3k Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/eboo...

Ruins of Ambrai (Betrayals sections 6-9): Let’s Get This Name Salad Eaten - S01 Ep08 14.08.2023 1:26:20

Welcome to episode 8 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for the language of flowers in Betrayals (parts 6-9) of The Ruins of Ambrai. We learn that our childhood Barbie play habits predicted our current careers, and that we favor term limits except in cases of international superspies. We also want to know what your family crest would be! == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https://amzn.to/3p0jU3...

Ruins of Ambrai (Betrayal sections 1-5): Medieval Banksy - S01 E07 07.08.2023 1:27:28

Welcome to episode 7 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for Betrayals (parts 1-5) in The Ruins of Ambrai. We learn more about Glenin's great ambitions and tackle that light topic with absolutely no current real world urgency: reproductive rights. == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https://amzn.to/3p0jU3k Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/exiles-58 Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandn...

Ruins of Ambrai (Ladders, part 2): Gender-Flipped Locker Room Talk - S01 E06 31.07.2023 1:19:27

Welcome to episode 6 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where we are swimming through Ladders (parts 7-15) in The Ruins of Ambrai (pages 246-285). We go on side-quests, dig deeper into the Ladder Song, and dissect sexism reversals that don’t quite land right. == Buy the Ebook == Amazon: https://amzn.to/3p0jU3k Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/exiles-58 Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnobl...

Ruins of Ambrai (Ladders, part 1): If It’s In Italics I’m Not Reading It - S01 Ep05 24.07.2023 1:45:00

Welcome to episode 5 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where we are climbing the first half of Ladders in The Ruins of Ambrai (pages 209-245). We start with a digression into the blurb on the back of the book, then turn our attention to all the discomfort that is a “marriage market.” We discuss paternity rights there and here, and experience Aradia having their first real cliff-hanger moment as a first...

Ruins of Ambrai (Cailet): Maypole of Death - S01 Ep04 10.07.2023 2:11:31

Welcome to episode 4 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where we are tackling the Cailet section of the intro of The Ruins of Ambrai (pages 154-208).Here is where we open up the worldbuilding firehose! Aradia and Ali continue to send Gorynel Dessee to jail over his manipulation of children’s memories, much to teenage-Bree’s chagrin. The bad guys clearly took notes in Evil 101 because they built a secret...

Ruins of Ambrai (Sarra): I’m Going to do the Home Install - S01 Ep03 03.07.2023 2:14:56

Welcome to episode 3 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where we are tackling the Sarra section of the intro of The Ruins of Ambrai (pages 95-153). Sarra fails all facial recognition tests but still gains a profound insight into her purpose in life. Ali gives us marathon advice, Aradia reminds us that we’re all time travelers, and Bree helps us unpack some contradictory attitudes towards sex and marriag...

Ruins of Ambrai (Glenin): You want to have Murder Punch-Card Lady in your corner - S01 Ep02 26.06.2023 1:41:20

Welcome to episode 2 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where we are tackling the Glenin section of the intro of The Ruins of Ambrai (pages 49-94). The genealogy is hitting hard and fast in this week’s episode, as are issues of biology and control. We spend some time on publishing in the 1990s and get tangled in the philosophical differences between the Weavers of the Loom and the Wheel of Time. == Buy...

Ruins of Ambrai (Collan): Fine, we'll allow the boy - S01 Ep01 19.06.2023 1:41:58

Welcome to episode 1 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where we are tackling the Collan section of the intro of The Ruins of Ambrai (pages 3-48). The use of self-contained POVs to start the story is something Bree knows can turn new readers away from the book, but Ali and Aradia are already deeply invested in the boy saved by the wind. We agree with his dislike of hats, identify his Main Character Hair...

Hot Nuance Book Club: Season 1 Trailer 08.06.2023 2:37

Welcome to episode zero of the Hot Nuance Book Club! Today we’re just letting you know that we’re here. (We’re also queer! Happy pride month!) And we’re inviting you to join our book club! Each week, we’ll be reading ~50-100 pages of Exiles: The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn, and breaking down what we read and what we think about it. Bree read the book in her teens in the 1990s when it released,...