Podcasts about chrestomanci

In case you haven't noticed, there's a lot going on *gestures everywhere*, so rather than get into anything too tragic, as we're wont to do, we've instead gathered some Comfort Media for Interesting Times (™)–that is, the pop culture we turn to when things are rough and we're in need of a boost to help us make it through. This episode, in the style of our Pop-Culture Round Ups, we trade off sharing cozy books, music, and TV shows that bolster our spirits and help us feel warm inside. Lit "rounded up" this Episode: Howl's Moving Castle (1986) by Diana Wynne Jones On a Sunbeam (2018) by Tillie Walden Eva Ibbotson's 5 romance book set in the early 1900's, but especially The Reluctant Heiress (1982)  A Countess Below Stairs  (1981) The Discographies of Maaya Sakamoto (Shounen Alice and Single Collection: Nikopachi (2003)) and Hikaru Utada (Bad Mode (2022) and Ultra Blue (2006) Show Notes: What's Sparking Joy: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, Blue Box (aka Aoi no Hako) on Netflix Other lit discussed this episode: Spinning by Tillie Walden, My Happy Marriage, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones, First Love (J-Drama) Correction: Tessa from The Reluctant Heiress is a staunch "republican," not "communist." Check out SLL Live in 2025: April 2025 - Romance in CNY: ⁠⁠⁠https://romanceincny.com/⁠⁠⁠ July 2025 - RomantiConn: ⁠⁠https://www.romanticonn.com/⁠⁠ On Future SLL Episodes: A Court of Thorns and Roses/A Court of Mist and Fury, Strangers Again, Let's Get Divorced, and Trope Spotlight: Forced Proximity. Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SexLoveLitPodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠; on Instagram , Tumblr, and BlueSky @SexLoveLitPodcast. Our cover art is by Charcooll (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/charcooll/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). TheSLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What's Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr;Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Sex. Love. Literature. is a pop culture podcast that relishes the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in media. Join pop culture scholars (and besties) Ayanni and Corinne as they deep dive into why the “sex-stuff” in media matters. Main episodes drop the last Friday of the month.

We're continuing Diana Wynne Jones' beloved Chestomanci with The Lives of Christopher Chant! We follow Christopher as he journeys through the Anywheres, chafes under the controlling adults in his life, and dedicates himself to cricket and cricket alone. A romp, a revelation, the best time we've had in quite a while - you owe it to yourself to revisit Throgmorten's charms. This episode has laughs and tears AND some very triggering salmon sandwiches. We'll leave you with a resounding: “WONG!”EPISODE MEDIAOur other Chrestomanci episodes:Charmed LifeWitch WeekWe somehow haven't covered The Magicians of Caprona although I swore we had??? Guess we gotta! Also I'm losing my mind!Plus our million other DWJ episodes, which we will continue producing indefinitely in our quest to become the Preeminent Diana Wynne Jones Podcast™️MUSIC - Pippin the Hunchback and Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

QuestBoundReader joins the podcast for a free for all discussion covering all of The Wandering Inn through Book 7, The Rains of Liscor.   QuestBoundReader's Youtube Channel QuestBoundReader's Review of The Rains of Liscor   Books Mentioned: Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher; The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding; Malazan by Steven Erikson; Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan; Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; Tortall Universe (various) by Tamora Pierce; Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones; The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede; Tanya Huff; Louis McMaster Bujold (various including Vorkosigan saga); A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik; Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi; The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez; Kraken Rider Z by David Estes; Practical Guide to Evil by ErraticErrata; Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson; He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon; The Iron Prince by Bryce O'Connor and Luke Chmilenko; The Will of the Many by James Islington; Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman; The Bound and the Broken by Ryan Cahill; Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Book Recommendations: Dragonus - Temeraire by Naomi Novik; Beware of Chicken by CasualFarmer Oshi - The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner; Vorkosigan Saga by Louis McMaster Bujold; Hidden Legacy and the Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews

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APOLOGIES FOR SOME SOUND ISSUES RIGHT AT THE START AND END OF THIS RECORDING.Amy Twigger Holroyd is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design (website). Through design-led participatory research, she explores plural possibilities for post-growth fashion systems: alternative ways of living with our clothes that meet our fundamental human needs and respect ecological limits.Her main project pursuing this is Fashion Fictions, which invites you to to imagine, explore and enact enticing alternative fashion worlds. Stage One: Worlds is to write an enticing, possible parallel world (as I type, there are 213 which you can still add to here). Stage Two: Explorations is to generate visual and material is to prototypes of those worlds (eg a mocked-up WhatsApp chat). Stage Three: Enactments is to try and experience the prototyped Worlds. Our conversation covers: -How fashion (the clothes people wear, and how those are created) are an expression of society.-Her motivation: using participatory fiction to expand the sense of possibility, because so many people feel hemmed in.-She's currently excited by the realisation that we can write stories, and then, by enacting them, we can make them real. It is a sort of magic. By the way, the sound problems come from having to use the back-up recording. I hope they don't interfer with your enjoyment too much.LinksKeep & ShareBook Amy co-authored: Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion.Arturo Escobar -- Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of WorldsThe Great Transition Initiative, expressed in a book called 'Journey to Earthland' by Paul Raskin.Diana Wynne Jones' series with numbered worlds is Chrestomanci.Kate FletcherTimings0:51 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?12:43 -- BONUS QUESTION: What is your project, Fashion Fictions?22:41 -- BONUS QUESTION: What are the themes in your findings from Fashion Futures?29:41 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?33:58 -- Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?41:10 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?44:31 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?46:12 - Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?48:02 - Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?More details here.Twitter: Powerful_TimesWebsite hub: here.Please do like and subscribe, to help others find the podcast.Thank you for listening! -- David

On today's episode, Joe and Jill discuss why they love books that have magic schools and offer book recommendations for folks who want books featuring magic schools that aren't that magic school. Books mentioned in this episode: Witchlings by Claribel Ortega  A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik  Carry On by Rainbow Rowell  SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki  The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss  Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston  Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey  Akarnae by Lynette Noni  The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness  The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin  The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes  The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani  Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko  The Magicians series by Lev Grossman  The Heir Chronicles by Cinda Williams Chima, specifically The Wizard Heir  Charmed Life – The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Book 1 by Diana Wynne Jones  The Circle of Magic Series by Tamora Pierce – book One is Sandry's book The Divine Dungeon Series by Dakota Krout  And Mother of Learning by nobody103  The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Susan and Sinéad do a deep dive into one of Susan's 'soul book's - Diana Wynne Jones' classic Charmed Life. Come with us as we discuss the issues of power and responsibility the novel deals with, as well as a very serious scholarly debate about who is more of a 'peacock' - Chrestomanci or Wizard Howl - and an appreciation for Gwendolen Chant, the most unapologetically evil character in children's literature. We discuss the idea of multiple worlds and the mechanics of travelling between them, and how important it is for Cat, the book's protagonist, to finally step into his own potential, and we share a little about how the masterful Diana Wynne Jones has influenced both of us as writers and as people.Referenced in the episode is the work of:Aishwara Subramanian: "'So Would You Mind Telling Me Where I Am? It's a Stately Home of Some Kind, Isn't It?' (Charmed Life)", proceedings of the Diana Wynne Jones Conference, 2019Robin Stevens: Keynote Address, Diana Wynne Jones Conference, 2019Diana Wynne Jones' own words from Reflections: On the Magic of Writing, 2012To buy any of the books mentioned in this episode see our Irish and UK bookshop info below:Our Irish bookshop partner is Halfway Up the Stairs bookshop in Wicklow: www.halfwayupthestairs.ieIn the UK, check out our storefront on https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclosure: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After hearing the news that the estate of Dr Seuss was going to stop publishing several of their more questionable and outdated titles, Gary and Becca gathered booksellers Jenni, Kylie, and Kelly to chat about some of their favorite children's books, from ones they grew up with to new ones on our shelves today! There are a ton of recommendations in this episode, so be sure to check out the list below!   The Story of Babar by Jean De Brunhoff  My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett  The 13 Clocks by James Thurber  Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene  Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner  Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol  Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds by David A. Adler and Susanna Natti  Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  Animorphs: The Invasion by K.A. Applegate  Goosebumps #1: Night of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell  Small Spaces by Katherine Arden  City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab  Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown  Once Upon a Space-Time by Jeffrey Brown  Princess Pulverizer #1: Grilled Cheese and Dragons by Nancy Krulik and Ben Balistreri  Princess in Black by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and LeUyen Pham  The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill  The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan  City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda  Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee  Neither by Airlie Anderson  Warriors #1: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter  George by Alex Gino  I'm Not a Girl by Maddox Lyons, Jessica Verdi, and Dana Simpson  And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones  The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones  Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones  Inkheart by Cornelia Funke  Test of Courage by Justina Ireland  The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf  The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf  Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack  The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz and Hatem Aly    You can now find us on Patreon! Unlock exclusive content by subscribing today! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra!  Send us your questions to podcast@mystgalaxy.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,  YouTube, and TikTok!  And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com!

Spaghetti, magic and Italian cities abound in this episode! We kick off the discussion with the treasure that is Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. Lovely, naive, almost tapestry-like illustrations and a simple folk tale.   And then we indulge in another Diana Wynne Jones: The Magicians of Caprona! In this second book of the Chrestomanci series we visit a world where song is magic, and magic is song. Romeo and Juliet influences are thick in the air; there is, as usual with Diana Wynne Jones, a war just over the horizon. And, if you weren't sold yet, some brilliant cat characters the likes of which we haven't seen since The Amazing Maurice.   We reference our Shooting Stars episode about Howl's Moving Castle too, which you can find here.   You can see and purchase all the books we've ever discussed at our bookshop dot org shopfront here.   Transcripts are available on our website here.   Our intro music, What A Wonderful Day, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com

Season 2 Episode 39: The Chronicles Of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones! Ready to meet an indie author? We will read you the first chapter. It's up to you to finish the book! But, first...we talk smack! C. Derick Miller is an author, producer, screenwriter, and gonzo journalist from the conservative community of Greenville, TX. Sam Cloud-Miller is a graphic artist and liberal rights activist from Austin, TX. Now residing in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, it's a great combination for a podcast! They'll keep talking long after you've stopped listening. Peace to the peaceful. Truth to the masses. Hell to the tyrants. Find ‘Butterflies Make Me Angry' on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Stitcher, YouTube, or wherever you listen to podcasts! Buy novels, merch, and see more at http://cderickmiller.com . Our theme music, “Butterflies Make Me Angry”, is performed by Whiskeyhat and written by Tommy Cross and C. Derick Miller. (Yes, I own the rights to this music so no funny business about copyrights). Follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the Slasher App @howlgrowlsnarl

A boarding school for witch orphans, a bunch of imposters, and a griffin—it's time for part two of our dive into Diana Wynne Jones' Chronicles of Chrestomanci! The post Episode 144 – The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Part 2 appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

A boarding school for witch orphans, a bunch of imposters, and a griffin named Klartch—it's time for part two of our dive into Diana Wynne Jones' Chronicles of Chrestomanci!Some Links You Might Find Interesting:Power Plays: Paradigms of Power in "The Pinhoe Egg" and "The Merlin Conspiracy" by Martha P. HixonChildren's Literature Association Quarterly by Ruth WaterhouseCritical Practice by Catherine Belsey‘“Now Here: Where Now?” Magic as Reality and as Metaphor in the Work of Diana Wynne Jones’ by Catherine Butler"Why don't you be a tiger?": The Performative, Transformative, and Creative Power of the Word in the Universes of Diana Wynne Jones by Debbie Gascoyne"False Pretences" and the "Real Show": Identity, Performance, and the Nature of Fiction in "Conrad's Fate" by Caroline WebbImagining Other Worlds in Diana Wynne Jones’ Witch Week by A.K. LarkwoodOur Website | Twitter | Facebook | Patreon | Merch

Is Chrestomanci a type of magic? A government office? A person? Find out in the first of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci novels. Join us for a discussion of the nine-lived Cat and his sister Gwendolyn, magical pranks, and mystical multiverses.Looking for more DWJ? Check out Ep 201 - Howl's Moving Castle.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

Is Chrestomanci a type of magic? A government office? A person? Find out in the first of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci novels. Join us for a discussion of the nine-lived Cat and his sister Gwendolyn, magical pranks, and mystical multiverses.Looking for more DWJ? Check out Ep 201 - Howl's Moving Castle.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

Missy has lucked out once again, as Fake Geek Girls is taking a look at one of her favorite childhood book series: Diana Wynne Jones' Chronicles of Chrestomanci! The post Episode 143 – The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Part 1 appeared first on FAKE GEEK GIRLS.

Missy has lucked out once again, as Fake Geek Girls is taking a look at one of her favorite childhood book series: Diana Wynne Jones' Chronicles of Chrestomanci! We're talking about Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, multiverses, orientalism, and why children's literature is good, actually.Some Links You Might Find Interesting:"Why don't you be a tiger?": The Performative, Transformative, and Creative Power of the Word in the Universes of Diana Wynne Jones by Debbie GascoyneDevils, Demons, Familiars, Friends: Toward a Semiotics of Literary Cats by Maria NikolajevaMoving Between Worlds: Foreignness in Diana Wynne Jones' Multiverse by Gabriela SteinkeThe Physics of Responsibility: Alternate Worlds and Adolescent Choices by Molly BrownDiana Wynne Jones : The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature by Farah MendlesohnOn Fairy-Stories by J. R. R. TolkienOur Website | Twitter | Facebook | Patreon | Merch

In which we have a wonderful time returning to the first Chrestomanci book and remembering how it all began - with a very confused little boy, his parasitic sister and her parallel universe counterpoint. Diana Wynne Jones’ characteristically complex child protagonists are in fine form as we follow Cat, Gwendolen and Janet along on intentional and unintentional capers and world-hopping. Madeleine and Grace reflect on the stressors of childhood and the all-consuming effort to stay out of trouble, made even more complicated by a mysterious half-burned matchbook and grim specters hanging around the castle. Put on your silk dressing robe and join us!More Chrestomanci books have been requested by many listeners - thank you! If you'd like to make a request, email us at dragonbabiespodcast@gmail.com.MUSIC - Pippin the Hunchback and Thatched Villagers by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Thank you again to Patricia for commissioning this entire book! This was such a fun one, and I think this is my favorite finale of all the Diana Wynne Jones books so far. This series of chapters, Christopher has to retrieve the Chrestomanci's lives from where they've been called into series Eleven, and it takes all of Tacroy's training to get him in and out of there in one piece. He winds up having to sacrifice one of his extra lives, and now he's just got the two left. Meanwhile, Throgmorten is unleashed on Uncle Ralph and it's honestly so wonderful. Sweet, sweet justice. Thanks for listening, and I will see you again soon with a new episode!

Thank you so much to Patricia for commissioning this next episode of this wonderful book. This section, it turns out that the Chrestomanci's people have found out that Tacroy (aka Mordecai) was one of the Wraiths, and they are questioning him very closely but he manages to really cover for Christopher and nobody suspects his involvement at all. This is curious since Chrestomanci knows that Christopher has been spirit traveling, but hey. Speaking of, the Godden tricks him and gets him stuck in a wall until she can bully him into helping her figure out what happens after her stint as the goddess is over...turns out that they're totally gonna kill her. Whoops! So guess what, she runs off to Christopher's world! Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you to Patricia for continuing to commission this book! I'm stoked that this series of chapters is all focused on Christopher's magical education, because I'm very eager for him to finally prove himself. Christopher is not happy living at Chrestomanci castle. He's the only young person there, nobody really cares about talking to him or entertaining him, the magic built into the place is oppressive, and he's not allowed off the grounds due to the magical barriers. Even though his tutor is a sweet, reasonable guy, Christopher can't make himself pleasant and it's taking a toll. Also, he dies two more times. Honestly, Christopher, you are just hopeless. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Mark and Brian present their first Colorful Characters segment with the Pirate Queen of Connaught. Also, their Top 5 licensed properties that should be RPGs and Nashville's Parthenon!Download mp3 (36MB)Show linksVoyagersDr. Who Adventures in Time and SpaceFault Lines TrilogyMage: The AscensionThe Fast and the Furious seriesSavage WorldsPokemonTunnels and TrollsHitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyFATE CoreWarp SystemDragaeraSkulduggeryChronicles of ChrestomanciLords of Gossamer and ShadowGalactic Milieu SeriesDrama SystemGlobal FrequencyHollowpointDestroyer SeriesFeng ShuiNashville’s ParthenonAGC's DriveThruRPG Picks for this episode!Mark: Cyberpunk 2020 (R. Talsorian)Brian: A Star Beyond the Stars (Modiphius)Purchasing through our Affiliate Links help support the show and future AGC Studios projects!Email: armorgoesclank@gmail.comTwitter: @armorgoes

We kick off 2017 with a new franchise, and it's one of Rob's favourites! After some discussion of why Sam may or may not be a fan, we get into some talk about establishing narratives, introductions, and why the story involves a great meta-textual metaphor for growing up. This Week's Watching ROGUE ONE (2016): Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (2016): Antoine Fuqua, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt Recommendations THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (2005): Andrew Adamson, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977): Stephen Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr MRS DOUBTFIRE (1993): Chris Columbus, Robin Williams, Sally Field LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001): Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen Footnotes J.K. Rowling's literary predecessor, whom Sam mentions at the start, is the late Diana Wynne Jones, whose Chrestomanci series of books covers some of the same ground as HP. On the subject of books, we also mentioned Jill Murphy and The Worst Witch. There's a good introduction (hah!) to the panning shot Rob talks about, as well as various other camera techniques, here. Here's more on J.K. Rowling's meticulous approach to plotting and, finally, a plug for Peter Jackson's NZ film company (not that he needs one!), where Rob worked in the mid-2000s.

Join us for a spirited discussion of one of our favourite fantasy authors - the late, great Diana Wynne Jones! Author of Howl's Moving Castle, Archer's Goon and the Chrestomanci series, among many others, Diana was described by Neil Gaiman as "...the best writer of magic there is, for readers of any age." But, after so much success, why isn't she a household name? What is her place in today's crowded YA fiction market?  And just how much of her difficult childhood is evident in her stories? Our panel of intrepid fantasy fans set out to answer these and other questions on their whistle-stop tour of her life and works. Links Buy Diana Wynne Jones' books on Amazon Listen to The MuggleNet Academia Podcast: "Second Sight - Editing the Harry Potter Books with Cheryl Klein" Visit Natasha's blog Join our new Goodreads group!