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The climate crisis is a global challenge. But there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution. While urban centres are driving discussions on electrification and policy, rural and remote communities, including many Indigenous areas, face distinct energy realities. Gemma Pinchin from QUEST Canada joins thinkenergy to share how these communities can engage in the energy transition equitably and sustainably. Listen to episode 143 to learn about the diverse approaches to decarbonization in different global contexts. 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Welcome to think energy, a podcast that dives into the fast, changing world of energy through conversations with industry leaders, innovators and people on the front lines of the energy transition. Join me, Trevor Freeman as I explore the traditional, unconventional and even up and coming facets of the energy industry. If you've got thoughts feedback or ideas for topics that we should cover, we'd love to hear from you. Please reach out to us at thinkenergy@hydroanawat.com, everyone, welcome back. Climate change is truly a global issue, and that is true in really every sense of that word. I mean. Carbon emissions come from literally everywhere humans live in the world. Climate impacts are felt across the globe, with no regards to borders, and as a result, the ongoing energy transition, which is one of the main tools we're using to address the climate crisis, also needs to be global, unfortunately, and as I've talked about several times on this show and a bunch of different contexts, there's really no overarching global solution that can be applied everywhere. Of course, electrification is one of the main strategies in most cases, and that can be applied in all different parts of the world, but exactly how electrification is deployed, what technology is going to be used in, what specific use cases, what government policies are going to work. There is by no means a one size fits all approach to those questions. Local context is so important when it comes to the energy transition, and that's a big part about what today's conversation is about. I'm going to assume that, like me, most not all, but most listeners of this show live in or adjacent to or very near an urban center of some sort. I certainly do. I live in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, as such, when we talk about the various technologies or policies or approaches, we probably do so with an urban lens. The things that we're thinking of when we're talking about this stuff is in that kind of urban context. But that isn't everybody's reality. Rural and remote communities have a very different relationship with energy than urban centers in Canada, at least, there are over 280 communities which are home to around 200,000 people who aren't connected to the broader electrical or natural gas grid. The process of decarbonization represents unique challenges for these communities and for these Canadians who get their energy in a very different way from the rest of us. And another aspect of this is that there are also often overlaps between what I'm referring to here as rural and remote communities and indigenous communities, and proper, meaningful engagement with indigenous communities is an extremely important step in making sure that the energy transition is equitable and just for everyone, not to mention as the original stewards of the land most of us live on, we can learn a lot from indigenous communities about how we can exist on this land in a way that is not detrimental to the land and to our own health and well-being. To that end, I'm really excited today to have Gemma Pinchin from Quest Canada on the show to help us pull this apart a little bit and understand this context a bit better. Gemma is a senior lead of research and projects at Quest, and is responsible for the motivating Net Zero action and rural and remote communities research project. Gemma Pinchin, welcome to the show.   Gemma Pinchin  03:42 Thank you so much for having me.   Trevor Freeman  03:44 So why don't we start Gemma by having you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to be working in the role you're in, and also what quest Canada does.   Gemma Pinchin  03:54  Sure. Yeah. So I come from a background in research and policy and kind of like a number of areas. Most recently, I was working with the IESO. I was working on their indigenous relations team, really, in indigenous energy planning and capacity building. So, I have a master's in globalization and international development, and a bachelor's in history. So, a bit of a varied background. I've sort of worked in a bunch of roles, but I've always sort of had an interest in the climate crisis and how communities are really facing that and dealing with that. So, I joined quest in early 2023 and I was really drawn to their mission. It was really inspiring for me. So, the quest is a national charity that focuses on helping communities on their pathway towards net zero. So, they've been around since 2007 and they facilitate connections, empower community champions and advise decision makers. So, we really, we develop tools and resources and convene a variety of working. Groups and also provide advice to decision makers. So, Quest's mission, the one that I was inspired by, is to encourage, assist and enable communities to contribute to Canada's net zero goals.   Trevor Freeman  05:13 And your particular focus, if I'm not mistaken, is on sort of rural and remote communities. How did you, why is that your focus? How did you end up there?   Gemma Pinchin  05:21 Yeah, so through Quests projects, particularly the net zero community accelerator, which works with communities to the end goal is to create community energy and emissions plan we saw, and also through policy work and those kinds of pieces, we saw that there was the net zero transition is sort of chugging along, but there's kind of been a gap. The transition tends to focus more on the urban context. You know, urban population centers, the big cities, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, those kinds of places and that we saw as leaving out a really big chunk of Canadians. I think the statistic off the top of my head is 1/5 of Canadians live in rural and remote places. So, it's not a small statistic. So, we wanted to make sure that as the net zero transition was moving along and progressing that this large group of Canadians weren't forgotten about and the net zero transition is going to rely, and has been relying on rural land, rural populations, you know, to house Renewable Energy for food production as well as carbon sequestration. So, leaving this big group of people out is just kind of inconceivable, I guess. And what quests saw was that this was happening. So, we started this research project to sort of make sure that those voices were being heard and considered as Canada moves through the net zero transition?   Trevor Freeman  07:03 Great. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's one of the reasons why I'm excited to have you on the show today is to talk about that. And as I mentioned in the intro, even this conversation that I often have on on this show tends to focus more on those kinds of urban centers, or features of the energy transition that are more often found in urban centers. How does the traditional grid interact with our customers, things like that? So, I'm excited for this, for this conversation today, I think it'd be helpful before we really dive into it, to define what is a rural and remote community. So maybe let's start with that. What do you consider a rural and remote community and maybe go into what is unique about their energy needs and priorities compared to those in the urban centers.   Gemma Pinchin  07:49 So, my research will, I've completed a literature review, and then I'll be going on and doing work in communities, work with 15 communities. So, I kind of, at the beginning, I was trying to figure out how to define rural, because it's going to be, or it is currently across Canada research project. So, I was trying to figure out if there is a, you know, standardized definition. But it turned out that every single province had a different province and territory has a different definition of rural or remote, and even stats can in order to be considered a rural community, you have to be under 1000 people. But that felt a little bit too small. When I moved to Canada, I grew up in a rural community that had a population of 3000 and it felt very, very rural. So, I felt that was going to be a bit of a barrier for a lot of rural communities, not all rural communities, but, you know, rural communities have varying different population amounts, and then the population for the remote cities for example, like white horse or Yellowknife. They're considered remote due to how far away they are from everything else, but they have quite large population bases for the territories. So, for the sake of my research, we decided on a population cap of 30,000 which is quite large, but we wanted to be able to include those remote cities if they were willing to be a part of the research. And then I really decided that rural communities were in were best placed to sort of define whether they considered themselves rural. I live in, I live outside of Toronto, so I'm not currently live in a place where I would consider it rural, and I think communities themselves are in the best place to define themselves as rural. So that's kind of, it's a little bit vague, but that's kind of what, what we ended up going with. And then in terms of needs and priorities of these communities. Compared to urban centers, a big one is getting energy to communities, particularly remote communities. A lot of remote communities are reliant on diesel or fossil fuels, still, because getting in Ontario, the grid is fairly clean, but some communities just do not have access to it because they're so far away and so remote. So transportation to rural communities is probably one of the biggest differences, I guess. And then the types of emissions are also very, very different. So urban centers, it tends to be, you know, buildings and like cars and things like that. Whereas for rural centers, there's not as many buildings, obviously. So they have transportation to and from is a really big one, and then from the big sectors, so agriculture, mining, those kinds of pieces. Yeah, those are kind of the biggest differences, I would say.   Trevor Freeman  10:58 And as all the examples you gave were kind of in the Canadian context, and that's going to be the basis of going to be the basis of most of our conversation today, but I do know that you did spend some time looking at the international context, and obviously rural and remote living is not a uniquely Canadian thing. Of course. What did you learn through your kind of literature review on energy challenges internationally?   Gemma Pinchin  11:21 Yeah, so for this research, I hoped to sort of just focus on the Canadian context when I just started out, but there wasn't as much readily available literature I would be able to base an entire literature review on. So, while this is sort of a great justification for my ongoing research to be able to do a literature review. It was a little bit frustrating, so I decided to open it up to the usual comparator countries, so the UK, the US, Australia, and then Europe more broadly. And I found that the energy challenges and opportunities, I found that they were quite similar, like, even in the UK. I grew up in the UK, so I'm pretty aware of the sort of differences geographically between Canada and the UK, but everything's much closer together. But still, there is still this, like, big rural, urban divide, and there's still, like, remote communities in the UK, even though that they're not Canada remote, but you know they're still, they're still quite remote when you sort of apply a UK context to it, the biggest challenges and opportunities that I saw was that there needs to be a real consideration for rural needs and not just apply the same lens as urban needs onto that obviously, though we need to use rural space for renewable energies that's sort of across the board, is going to be something that everybody needs, and the costs of the net zero transition to be a barrier for rural communities. So, something I found a little bit interesting that I hadn't considered before was that for diesel dependent communities, that there was such a high cost associated with diesel fuel that there wasn't any extra money left over to fund the net zero transition. So it was kind of, I'd never really considered it that way, that you're spending all this money on this fuel and that's kind of eating up all of your energy costs. There's nothing left over to be able to fund this transition, and that there's this trust in diesel, because it's been what's been working for however long, for like a small, tiny community in Australia or Canada or the US or wherever. You know, it's kind of nerve wracking to give up that piece that's been working for years and years and years and take a risk on this new technology that might not be as effective in in their perception as how diesel has been.   Trevor Freeman  13:57 Yeah, I mean, that's interesting in that I see a lot of parallels between that context and other contexts, including the urban context of we are comfortable with what we know. We are comfortable with the things that we have seen working and experienced working to get us to work and back, or get the kids to school, or heat our homes Exactly. And as soon as someone starts talking about this new thing that we don't really know that that makes us a bit nervous. So, it's interesting that that that applies regardless of where you are. What are some you know, for a lot of our listeners, I think are probably more familiar with the urban context, what are some misconceptions that you have heard or that you've come across when it comes to the energy needs and capabilities of rural and remote communities.   Gemma Pinchin  14:48 So, I think there's this idea that a one size fits all solution for every community, and that solutions that work in urban centers will work in rural centers, and that. Just not, not the case. For example, something obvious like transportation, my literature review highlighted that within urban centers, the most sustainable option would obviously be public transport. But if you apply that same lens to a rural community, you know, cars are bad, and we shouldn't be using them rural communities. It's almost impossible to be sustainable in net zero because they don't have the public transport option. So in that context, looking at it with a different lens, looking at it with a rural lens, you would look at sort of like consolidating car trips or making sure that services like health care and groceries and you know, the things that we take for granted in urban centers, making sure those are close like they're kept in communities, like a lot of services are kind of moving out of rural communities. And that doesn't necessarily seem like a net zero issue, but when people in those communities have to drive like, three times as long to get to their doctor, that's a huge, you know, emissions issue, you know. And it's just, it was an interesting look at the way that we're even myself, before I was doing this, I was like, well, cars are bad, like, you know, like gas cars aren't great for emissions. But the reality is, for rural communities, they need this transportation that there's no there's no other way for them to get around, and it would be incredibly isolating, and you can't function as a society if you're just stuck in your house, you know. So having that different lens and looking at it in a different context. I think that's really, really important as we move rural communities through this net zero transition.   Trevor Freeman  16:51 Yeah, it highlights a point that I know has been made here before, of the energy transition, regardless of where you are, requires a holistic approach. It requires some pretty nuanced thinking, and I think you're highlighting a really great example of that, of it's not just a piece of technology or it's not just a program that's going to resolve this problem for us, there are sort of cascading impacts of this, and primary health care provider shortage in rural communities is directly correlated to higher emissions in those communities and like, that's an interesting picture to paint and something that's important for us to remember. So, you mentioned this earlier, kind of the stats around how many people actually live-in rural communities, I think you said one in 20. That's over 200,000 people that are kind of not connected to, or this is a different stat I'm pulling here. Sorry. This is the number of people not connected to sort of the traditional electricity grid or to the natural gas grid here in Ontario. Talk us through a little bit more you mentioned, kind of the reliance on diesel in those communities. Talk us through sort of the unique challenges when you're not connected to the electricity grid. You don't have that transmission line coming into your community. What is the role that those traditional fuel sources, like diesel, for example, play in those communities?   Gemma Pinchin  18:12 Well, in those communities that aren't connected to, you know, natural gas or the electricity grid, like diesel used to be their only option. You know, modern life, we need electricity power like we need to power modern life. You can't have a modern existence without some form of power. So, you know, diesel, they are completely reliant on diesel. The ones that aren't connected. I mean, it's frustrating, because these communities do tend to be quite far away from the power grid infrastructure. So it's usually considered economically non-viable to connect those remote communities to the provincial power grids, because these communities are also very small. So, it's a small number of people that you would have to spend all this money for the infrastructure to get, you know, the power lines to them, and Canada, Ontario, Canada, both of them are very big, so there's many communities that exist quite far away from power lines or existing grid infrastructure. So, yeah. So yeah, diesel just, it's kind of been their only option for power to have a modern, modern existence, up until, I would say now, well, recently.   Trevor Freeman  19:27 Yeah, that's a great lead into kind of the next part of this is what comes next, if we're, if we're trying to get off of diesel, for example, for power generation, if, sort of the economics and the feasibility of bringing the traditional power grid to remote communities isn't really feasible. What role do other technologies play? And I'm thinking of obviously, like on site, renewable generation or storage, like, what's the option for these communities?   Gemma Pinchin  19:54 So that would kind of be entirely dependent on each community's context, I guess what renewable energy would work there. So, on site, renewable energy is obviously one of the better solutions for diesel dependent communities. But what works in one community might not work in another community. So, you know, solar might work really well. You obviously have to have the right amount of sunlight, but then maybe less so in Ontario, but like, tidal energy for a coastal community might work better, you know? So, it's kind of dependent, and that's a big thing that came out of this research, is that there's not going to be a one size fits all. We can't just say all diesel dependent communities are now having a solar micro grid, and that's what's going to happen. Like you can't do that, but I do know of from my previous life working with indigenous energy planning and energy capacity in Ontario, there are some really cool examples of communities that were slash, are diesel dependent, that have implemented solar micro grids or are implementing, I don't know where, where they're at now, but as a way to get off diesel. And it is, there were some really cool projects that I got to kind of have a tiny little part of it was just a really interesting project to lessen their reliance on diesel.   Trevor Freeman  21:19 So you mentioned indigenous communities, and obviously, when we're talking about rural and remote communities, a lot of those are indigenous communities, or have a higher amount of indigenous population. Talk through the importance of indigenous engagement when it comes to planning and implementing projects like renewable energy projects, that's like a whole extra layer of complexity to some of this. Tell us a little bit about that space.   Gemma Pinchin  21:50 Yeah, so any project that touches indigenous land needs to have robust indigenous engagement. It's, it's their land. They need to, need to be engaged and listened to. It's really an issue of decolonization and decolonizing the energy grid, because it's returning that power that should have remained with them all the time. It's returning that to indigenous communities. And I think it's really important from a culturally obviously, to protect indigenous cultural sites and practices, but also from like a protection of the land. I think the statistic is that 80% of all biodiversity is currently protected by indigenous peoples globally. So, the number is huge. And so, if we're going to be doing any sort of work that's potentially disrupting some sort of biodiversity or anything like that. I think having those voices included is really, really important as we try to fight the climate crisis and any engagement with indigenous people and needs to be really robust, like it actually has to go somewhere. You can't just engage with indigenous people and then just go and do whatever you want. You've got to listen and act on what you're hearing. It's important for decolonization and reconciliation and biodiversity and indigenous culture as well.   Trevor Freeman  23:13 I mean, I think it's just highlighting what engagement actually is and what it isn't. And engagement is not going in and doing a really slick presentation on here's the solution, here's what we're going to implement. It's starting the conversation before the solution is developed, and saying, what is the context within which we're working? What are, what is this community bringing in terms of knowledge and experience? And so how can that local knowledge and expertise be sort of integrated into the decision making and really leveraged to identify appropriate solutions? I mean, you talk about that stat of how much of our protected biodiversity is really on indigenous land or indigenous controlled land, there's no question that there's a knowledge and an expertise there that can be leveraged for this talk us through what that looks like in terms of a strategy for resolving some of these energy challenges.   Gemma Pinchin  24:10 Yeah from my research, this could be indigenous communities or non-Indigenous communities. It kind of counts for everything. What I really found was that there was this push to do sort of a top down, bottom-up approach at the same time. So, the local community was really needed to implement the local context like I've been saying, No, there's no one size fits all, so understanding how to implement these solutions locally needs to come from the local context. But at the same time, we do need a national strategy that has the flexibility in order to provide that sort of like umbrella guidance for what what the local context kind of like. Needs to be achieving, but having that flexibility and that openness to allow local communities to figure out what works best for them in that context. And I don't, I don't really know what that that looks like beyond like that vague framework, but I think empowering local communities to have the, you know, the ability to tailor the solutions to their community is really, really important, because we cannot have a one size fits all solution, but we do need that sort of national guidance, otherwise there won't be that empowerment like that. There needs to be some sort of overarching body or government or whatever that looks like to provide that power to communities, because usually they're small communities, they can't just act and go off roguely on their own. So yeah, so really, that top down, bottom-up approach is really important.   Trevor Freeman  25:54 Is this also an opportunity, is the engagement process when it comes to resolving energy challenges, an opportunity for economic growth. For sort of, is it like a vehicle for that? Is it a vehicle for job creation? For example, in these communities?   Gemma Pinchin  26:14 Do you mean engagement in itself, or just the net zero transition?   Trevor Freeman  26:19 I mean, I think both. Yeah, it's like the engagement process and then the implementation and the solutioning process as well.   Gemma Pinchin  26:25 Yeah. So, I definitely think both would be an opportunity for job creation engagement. There would need to be sort of a community contact, which I sort of foresee being a funded role, funded by who? I'm not sure, but having, having that as a, you know, a paid position, I think would be, is really important as well, to bring funds into the community, to really solidify that. You know, energy companies, or whoever's doing the engagement, they're committed to community, building up the community, and then in terms of economic growth from the energy transition, I think this is a huge opportunity for job creation in rural, remote and indigenous communities. I think a key piece of that, though, is that there needs to be training programs for not because, not only do we need to build, you know, these renewable energy structures, we also need to be able to upkeep and maintain them as we're going along. So, you know, once the solar farm, or whatever it is, is built, there needs to be training for communities to be able to provide maintenance to these structures. But and even from a like on a smaller scale, sort of heat pumps, or having people who usually work on furnaces to be trained on how a heat pump works, so they're able to sort of facilitate that net zero transition. On a smaller scale, there needs to be training provided in rural communities, because we're seeing now that like people are wanting to transition over to, say, heat pumps, but there's not anybody locally who has any expertise on what that what that means, or what that looks like, or how, how to install that. There's only the, you know, the furnace guy. There's not in these rural and remote communities and indigenous communities. There's not anybody providing the, I mean, there's, there's no one there that knows how to do it or how to train people on it. So, if we want to capitalize on job creation, then we need to train people in how to do this. There was also, in my literature review, like one of the things, one of the key things that was looked at was, sort of the carbon sequestration and agriculture. And in agriculture, there was this issue that came up where farmers are now expected to not only provide enough food to sustain our society, they're now also expected to have like a plan for carbon sequestration on their land, but without any training or support of what that looks like and how, how that would work with their farm. So making sure that these tactics that we have, we're training the people locally on how to undertake them and how to keep them going.   Trevor Freeman  29:33 it's interesting. I'm having this I don't know what the word is, let's call it flashback. So, I started my career actually working in international development. I worked in rural Zambia. Oh, cool on water and sanitation. And this conversation you and I are having right now mirrors that conversation. This is going back about almost 20 years now. Of the number of you know well-meaning international funders that came. Into rural Zambia or rural Africa or other parts, and bunked down boreholes and wells and pumps to provide clean water, and then walked away. And three months later, a small little part breaks on that pump, and there's no one around to fix it. Yep, you can't use it. There's no supply chain to provide that washer, that not it. It's the it's almost frustrating. I mean, it is frustrating, I shouldn't say almost frustrating that it seems like such a simple, a simple thing to make sure that solutions implemented are supported in the way that a piece of technology needs to be supported, if it's in downtown Toronto, it still needs to be supported out in the rural community as well. And exactly, who better to support it than the people that live there.   Gemma Pinchin  30:48 Exactly, it's also, it also saves money, because, yeah, you don't have to shuttle someone out from the Toronto's of the world into like, five hours. Five hours is minimum. But like, you know, like, five hours outside of the city to be able to work on these, you know, wind turbines or heat pumps or whatever, the technological solution is, building capacity within local communities is always, it's always going to be a benefit.   Trevor Freeman  31:16 I think that the positive thing is that there's a there's this understanding, I think, that we need capacity building across the board. When it comes to the energy transition, we don't have enough heat pump technicians, heat pump installers, people that know how to do solar and storage. So, we already need to solve this problem when it comes to training people, we just need to make sure that includes our rural and rural communities, our indigenous communities, all these things, exactly. So that brings us to an interesting next question, which is, what's the role of the government here in making sure that this energy transition also works for rural and remote communities?   Gemma Pinchin  31:57 Yes, I've touched on this a little bit, but I definitely think that getting back to my umbrella approach, having sort of policy frameworks that work to empower local decision making and local action, I think that's the role of the provincial and federal governments, is what I'm thinking of. And then funding, funding is a huge piece for rural, remote and indigenous communities. Like I said, there's just not any extra, like in my example earlier, about, you know, diesel generation having to pay all that money to get diesel into the community. There's nothing extra to fund any sort of renewable energy technology. So these funding programs are crucial for these small communities to be able to break away from what they've been doing. They're kind of currently just like floating around the status quo. And that's, that's where they're at having funding available is, is a really key part, really key role, sorry, that federal and provincial governments can play. And then I also think training existing, like we just spoke about, but also training specific for people that work in fossil fuel industries. I think if we were going to have a just transition, we can't just leave people who have been working their whole lives on I'm thinking more Alberta, but people who have been working on oil rigs their entire lives, or in the oil and gas industry their entire lives, and now we're saying we need to move away from that, so we can't just abandon those people. So, making sure there's some sort of like retraining programs or anything like that. I think is a really key role for governments to play.   Trevor Freeman  33:44 For anybody out there who's kind of keeping score here, that's another example of the need for holistic like well thought out process and programs. Is not just about plunking a piece of technology and it's about, as you say, exactly, what do we do with folks who are in industries that are declining as a result of the energy transition? Yeah, you mentioned the financial aspect of this and the role that the government can play, you know, in helping get over that initial capital cost burden. Is there a particular structure or approach? Do you think that would uniquely work for rural and remote communities, or is it kind of similar to incentive programs that work across the board no matter where you are?   Gemma Pinchin  34:31 So, I think grant programs are a really great way for rural and remote communities and indigenous communities to be able to access funding for the initial capital cost. And then in terms of structure, I think, something that I've heard a few times now is that making sure that the application, if we're doing sort of a grant structure that I was thinking, or anything that that needs, sort of like an application reporting. Requirements, making sure that those requirements are not so onerous that it deters communities from applying. So, if we're thinking of a tiny community that has one person working on, you know, climate and energy and 12 other things that are on their desk, it doesn't make sense for them to have this like, hugely onerous task of applying, and then if they get it, you know the reporting structure, it's sort of impossible, and it makes it inaccessible. I heard a story of a community who they had to hire and consultant in order to provide a piece of the information that was needed just for the application, that doesn't even guarantee that you're going to get the funding. So not only you might not get the funding, and then you'd be out however much money it took for you to hire that consultant. So that kind of huge the burdensome applications and reporting is not going to work for rural, remote and indigenous communities like the Toronto's can, like they have the money to be able to hire consultants to do those that work, and it doesn't really affect them. But if you have a tiny budget, and it's just you doing this work, having, you know, not having the capacity in house, and then having to pay someone for funding that you may not get, it's just going to prevent people from applying. So having that, yeah, just making sure that the structure is reflecting the realities that exist in rural, remote and indigenous communities, is really important.   Trevor Freeman  36:32 Yeah, and speaking from experience of having applied for funding programs, as well as administering programs Once we've received funding, and that's both in my kind of current life as well as in past life, it can be a really big lift. And obviously there's a role for due diligence and scrutiny and making sure funds are spent effectively. But if it's a barrier for some segments of our society, that's a problem. The other thing I think I'd mention is, like the time it takes sometimes to learn about process apply for this funding. You know, those, those large, urban, sort of entities that have resources, can jump on this stuff really quick, and often by the times the smaller communities or smaller entities get around to it, the funding is all allocated and gone. And so I think protecting, protecting that in the process is pretty critical.   Gemma Pinchin  37:34 Yeah, and having, having specific funding streams that are only for rural and remote communities and indigenous communities, I think is really important as well.   Trevor Freeman  37:45 Yeah, absolutely. So, Gemma, it's, it's great that you have this, this approach and this, this view of of the challenge facing these communities. But obviously there's a lot of stakeholders involved that kind of need to adjust and align and figure this out. How do we make sure that those connections are happening, that all these different stakeholders, be it government or some of the technology or service providers as well as community members? How do we overcome that disconnect when it when it comes to this approach?   Gemma Pinchin  38:18 Yeah, so that's a huge, huge issue that I saw through this research and continue to see and my answer might be a bit fluffy bunny, but I really think that communication is a key thing. I don't think that all of I think the way that we're approaching it right now is very, very siloed, and everyone's kind of just doing their little part, making sure that we have communication between them, I think, is sort of the, the first, most basic step, you know, breaking down those silos and then having structures that support working together. So again, in that, maybe in that umbrella approach, having policies that support people working together, as opposed to having, you know, this, like competition, or, you know, this is my work, and I'm, I don't, I don't need to work with you, because it's not in my, like, exact purview, having, a structural system that makes sure that we're able to break down those silos, because we're not going to get anywhere if we don't. We need to make like we've been talking about, the holistic approach. We need to make sure that all of the stakeholders, and like everybody, is really working on this.   Trevor Freeman  39:39 Yeah, absolutely. What do you think our next steps are? What do you think is the sort of the most critical next step to ensure that we are moving in this direction, that we're actually going to start to see some progress here?   Gemma Pinchin  39:50 So I think in terms of, I mean, for rural and indigenous communities, I definitely think we need more research like what I'm. Doing. I think these are voices that haven't necessarily been heard, and if we're going to have an energy transition, we need to include these voices. And I think the best way to do that is to sort of do research like mine and figure out what their needs are, and how we can how we can progress to that next step. There's, I mean, there's some amazing thinking, specifically of like indigenous organizations that are already doing great work in this, this space, like indigenous clean energy and the Center for Indigenous Environmental Research. So, they, they're already doing this, but just consolidating all of that, that and having people governments actually listen, I think is really, really important. I think, yeah, those voices just need to be heard and listened to. Otherwise, we're not going to get anywhere. It'll be, like you said, like we just putting in technology and then just kind of, like leaving it there, and that's not, it's not going to work. We're not going to get anywhere with that, that sort of approach. So, making sure, you know, local context is understood and local voices are heard.   Trevor Freeman  41:15 Yeah, well, as we kind of wrap our conversation here, I guess, thank you for the work you're doing, and for elevating those voices and making sure that we're pulling, we're pulling that front and center in the conversation of the energy transition. And so, thanks to you and to Quest.   41:31 Thank you.   Trevor Freeman  41:33 So, we always wrap our interviews with a series of questions just to learn a little bit more about you. So, we'll dive right into that. Okay, what is a book that you've read that you think everybody should read?   Gemma Pinchin  41:45 So, this is my, my favorite book. It's called The Secret Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab, or V Schwab, and its a, it just, it's a really, it's a novel, and it's a really beautiful look. It's kind of fantasy. There's like a fantasy element, but it's a look at human connection and what it means to be known, and those, those kinds of pieces. And it's really beautifully written. And I just really love it.   Trevor Freeman  42:15 What about a movie or a show that you think everyone should watch?   Gemma Pinchin  42:20 So, there's a French film. It's called Portrait of a Lady on fire, and it's really beautifully done. The sound editing, there's like, no, no. It sounds weird, but there's like no music in the backgrounds, really. But there's pieces where music is played, and it's really poignant, and it's a it's a love story between two women, and it's just, it's really, it's really gorgeous and heartbreaking and all of the things I love.   Trevor Freeman  42:49 Yeah, that sounds awesome. If someone was to offer you a free round-trip flight anywhere in the world, where would you go?   Gemma Pinchin  42:54 I'd go to Japan. That's where my fiancé and I are planning to take our honeymoon. So, we're kind of like looking into that and getting really excited about it. So that's where I would go.   Trevor Freeman  43:07 That's awesome. Who is someone that you admire?   Gemma Pinchin  43:09 My fiancé, she's just the strongest, she's kind. She's really practical, which is a really admirable quality, I think, for me, but also, you know, she's really empathetic, and, yeah, she's just a really magical person.   Trevor Freeman  43:29 Good answer. And to wrap it up, what is something about the energy sector or the energy transition that you are particularly excited about?   Gemma Pinchin  43:36 I'm really excited to see, sort of, the continued empowerment of local communities as we move through the energy transition, and how they're going to be able to move their communities through this climate crisis by looking at things you know, holistically the energy transition, but also, you know, biodiversity, nature based, carbon sequestration, and then also tying in sort of that holistic approach with, you know, healthcare and those pieces to better the community as a whole.   Trevor Freeman  44:09 Well, it'll be nice to as always as all parts of the sector. It's great to see success stories, and it'll be really great to see success stories in the space as well. So exactly, I'm also excited about that. Jeb, I thanks so much for your time today, and thanks for sharing your research with us. And like I said, elevating those voices, I really appreciate it.   Gemma Pinchin  44:29 Thank you for having me on.   Trevor Freeman  44:31 Thanks very much. Take care. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the think energy podcast. Don't forget to subscribe. Wherever you listen to podcasts, and it would be great if you could leave us a review. It really helps to spread the word. As always, we would love to hear from you, whether it's feedback comments or an idea for a show or a guest. You can always reach us at thinkenergy@hydroottawa.com  

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This week, Brooke, Stacy, Shannon, and Sara are recommending dystopian fiction. When choosing to read any of the books mentioned today, please be aware of your triggers, and seek out content warnings if necessary. Titles mentioned include: Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (The Marrow Thieves #1) Kate L. Mary, The Fertile Ones Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking Keri Lake, Juniper Unraveling (Juniper Unraveling #1) Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) Colleen Cowley, Subversive (Clandestine Magic #1) Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) Elizabeth Stephens, Lord of Population (Population #1) Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon #1) Cecelia Ahern, Flawed (Flawed #1) Rachel Vincent, Menagerie (Menagerie #1) Lily Mayne, Soul Eater (Monstrous #1) You can always contact the Book Bistro team by searching @BookBistroPodcast on facebook, or visiting: https://www.facebook.com/BookBistroPodcast/ You can also send an email to: TheBookBistroPodcast@gmail.com For more information on the podcast and the team behind it, please visit: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/book-bistro

Vampires, magic, faustian bargains author Victoria Schwab has written about it all.

Summary: Welcome to LoveFest number six, where Holly and Devin gush about the acclaimed fantasy author V.E. Schwab. Every ten episodes our hosts come together to highlight where their tastes intersect. While you may think of V.E. Schwab as being squarely in Holly's wheelhouse, this author is more similar to Neil Gaiman and infuses empathy, care, and creativity into plots so that even the most sensitive romance reader can find something to love.  Topics Discussed: Author Background (4:04): Completing her first work at the age of 19, V.E. Schwab (pronouns she/they) has since published more than twenty works for YA and adults. Publishing under the monikers Victoria Schwab and V.E. Schwab, this author is best known for fantasy series that blend with reality and creepy, ghost-filled plots. Highlights for Holly and Devin generally are her monthly newsletter and her almost poetic, haunting style.  Series (10:25): Cassidy Blake Series City of Ghosts Tunnel of Bones Bridge of Souls Shades of Magic Series A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of Light The Fragile Threads of Power Villains Series Vicious  Vengeful Victorious (pub date TBD) Standalones (34:01): Gallant The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue  The Near Witch Hot On the Shelf (55:05): Devin: Bride by Ali Hazelwood Holly: James by Percival Everett What's Making Our Hearts Race (59:45): Devin: Season 2 of Extraordinary on Hulu Holly: Perfect Days, Japanese film    Instagram: @heartsanddaggerspod Website: www.heartsanddaggerspod.com   If you like what you hear, please tell your friends and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so that we can find our perfect audience.

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: being immersed in spreadsheets and the publishing woes of Iron Flame Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: foodie books that symbolize different thanksgiving dishes The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  .  2:19 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 2:01 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 2:46 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 10:52 - Currently Reading Patreon 11:08 - Current Reads 11:41 - Slewfoot by Brom (Meredith) 14:50 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 13:52 - The Novel Neighbor 16:44 - Krampus by Brom 17:14 - Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab (Kaytee) 17:29 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab 19:53 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier 19:54 - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud 19:55 - 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson 20:17 - Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab 21:16 - Under the Influence by Noelle Crooks (Meredith) 23:22 - Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis 25:32 - The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger 27:30 - The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende (Kaytee) 31:19 - Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker (Meredith) 34:32 - Article about racial bias media coverage 35:46 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven 35:50 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 35:59 - Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff 36:08 - Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton (Kaytee) 36:25 - Foyles UK 39:59 - Deep Dive: Foodie Books to Create Your Thanksgiving Plate 41:20 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver  43:26 - Taste by Stanley Tucci  43:44 - Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Mananasala 44:33 - Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwauchi 45:42 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan 46:39 - A City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller 47:39 - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain 48:49 - Chef's Kiss by T.J. Alexander 49:22 - La Cucina by Lily Prior 49:32 - Chocolat by Joanne Harris 49:33 - Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel 50:09 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree 50:37 - Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree 50:53 - The House Witch by Delemhach 51:34 - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 51:55 - Still Life by Louise Penny 52:34 - The Novel Neighbor on Instagram 53:06 - Meet Us At The Fountain 53:14 - I wish to convey my most heartfelt thankfulness to our listeners and to Kaytee herself for a wonderful bookish partnership. (Meredith) 54:00 - I wish for listeners to let me know about their favorite Indie bookstores. (Kaytee) 54:19 - Indie bookstore SURVEY Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. December's IPL will be a yearly recap from us, so we can give our beloved Indies a break for the holidays! Trope Thursday with Kaytee and Bunmi - a behind the scenes peek into the publishing industry All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the special insights of an independent bookseller The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Victoria Schwab, bestselling author of Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, and the international bestseller The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue joins Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall to talk about the 1973 Rolling Stone article by Cameron Crowe, “The Allman Brothers Story: How Gregg Allman Keeps Band Going After Duane's Death” , and its adaptation into the 2001 Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. Order V.E. Schwab's latest novel in the Shades of Magic series, The Fragile Threads of Power. And if you haven't already, check out The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, now in paperback! Order Maggie's newest book, The Siren, the Song, and the Spy If you like us, you'll also enjoy: Following the pod on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/failuretoadaptpodcast/ Following the pod on X: https://x.com/FailureAdapt Supporting Failure to Adapt on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FailureToAdaptPodcast

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: International meetups and fall reading Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: how we've prepped our travel TBR The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . :10 - Bite Size Intro 1:48 - Currently Reading Patreon 3:13 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 6:54 - Current Reads 7:01 - You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (Kaytee) 7:07 - Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron 10:08 - How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann (Meredith) 15:30 - Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler (Kaytee) 18:28 - The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni (Meredith) 19:58 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live 20:06 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 23:33 - Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton (Kaytee) 23:42 - Fairyloot 26:52 - Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Meredith) 28:33 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 28:41 - The Princess Bride William Goldman 29:31 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 31:00 - Megs.Tea.Room on Instagram 32:22- Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls  32:39 - Deep Dive: Prepping Our Travel TBR 33:45 - Jordys.Book.Club on Instagram 38:04 - Libro.fm 38:28 - By Gaslight by Steven Price 41:32 - Waypoints by Sam Heugan 41:45 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab 43:45 - Meet Us At The Fountain 43:52 - I wish to meet our London bookish friends. (Kaytee) 44:08 - send us an email at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com if you are going to make it! We will be at Foyles on Charing Cross Rd October 7, 2023. 45:51 - My wish is that you would partake with me in creating all the fall reading vibes. (Meredith) Spooky ASMR Fall ASMR Warm Cider and Cinnamon candle Pumpkin Woods candle Warm Autumn Moss candle Crisp Morning Leaves candle Barefoot Dreams Contrast Trim Throw Blanket Jooja Knit Throw Blanket   Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredithmondayschwartz on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

Vampires, magic, faustian bargains author Victoria Schwab has written about it all.

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing: Bookish Moments: reading on certain dates and galley homework Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: we are bookish travel agents, choosing books to match your travels The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 1:15 - Bookish Moment of the Week 1:24 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 2:05 - Fable App 4:31 - Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou (pre-order. Release date September 12, 2023) 6:16  - Current Reads 6:23 - Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield (Mary) 10:24 - CR Season 5: Episode 33 10:44 - The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett (Kaytee) 11:19 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 12:54 - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcet  13:52 - Royal Blood by Aimee Carter (Mary) 15:04 - Storygraph 15:44 - American Royals by Katharine McGee 15:47 - The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot 15:56 - Spare by Prince Harry 16:19 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson 16:20 - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 17:02 - A Beginner's Guide to America by Roya Hakakian (Kaytee) 20:00 - What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman (Mary) 21:55 - Go As A River by Shelley Read (Kaytee) 25:39 - Deep Dive: Books To Take You Around the World 25:51 - CR Season 4: Episode 44 26:14 - CR Season 4: Episode 5 27:15 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 27:58 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center 28:00 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed 28:43 - Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke 29:46 - Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer 30:56 - How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith 31:57 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 32:50 - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid 34:57 - Happy Place by Emily Henry 35:43 - The Cider House Rules by John Irving 35:46 - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 36:10 - The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser 36:29 - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 37:20 - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia 37:35 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman 37:48 - Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys 38:17 - Violeta by Isabel Allende 38:26 - Storygraph 39:07 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab 39:32 - Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke 39:44 - Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch 39:45 - Love and Luck by Jenna Evans Welch 40:08 - The Dry by Jane Harper 40:31 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 40:57 - Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane 41:00 - Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen 42:00 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 42:01 - The Martian by Andy Weir 42:05 - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield 42:03 - ANY J. Ryan Stradal book  42:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain 44:12 - I wish all libraries did adult summer reading programs. (Mary) 45:06 - I wish parents would buy their kids Kindle Fires and turn them into reading only machines. (Kaytee) 45:14 - Kindle Fire (but wait until Prime Day to get a discount!) 45:45 - Hoopla 45:56 - Libby 45:57 - Libro.fm 45:58 - Instructions to download Libro.FM (Libby should have no issues) Connect With Us: *Please note the change in Meredith's Instagram handle. This was recorded prior to the change. We apologize for any inconvenience.* Meredith is @meredithmondayschwartz on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

If you are into ghosts and things of that nature, then this book is for you, it is about a girl who can see goes and help goes onto the other side and is almost turned into a ghost permanently herself. Hope you guys enjoy it. I will be back with the next book in the series very soon. This is a three book series so stay tuned.

123. epizód: Nagyon sok dolog érdekel és gyakran változik, hogy mi legyek, ha nem író (Vendég: Korbély Emma) Emma a 100 szóban Veszprém ifjúsági díjasa, így elmondhatja magáról, hogy tizenöt és fél évesen elsőkötetes író lett belőle. Ikertestvére nélkül el sem tudja képzelni az életet, néha közösen is írnak történeteket, bár Emma az aktívabb szerző. Úgy mondja, már a sokadik könyvének áll neki, de eddig mindig csak az ötödik oldalig jutott. Majd talán most sikerül, bár csak annyit árult el, egy mesekönyvön dolgozik. Arról érdeklődve, hogy mit olvas a kortársaktól, szerényen azt mondja, nem igazán ismeri őket, mégis azonnal megemlti Tóth Krisztinát vagy Grecsót. A kedvence egyébként Victoria Schwab, akit felnőtteknek is jószívvel ajánl. Ha olvas, akkor az igazi, klasszikus könyvet veszi kézbe már csak az illata miatt is. Mesél egy érdekes kutatásról, amiből kiderült, az e-könyv olvasása közben összekeveredhet a cselekmény a fejünkben. Amikor a szerkesztő megjegyzi, most már Emma is a halhatatlanok közé került, magabiztosan és öntömjénezés nélkül, őszintén hozzáteszi: ez volt a cél. Megérdemli, ezt itt tesszük hozzá.

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mindy are discussing: Bookish Moments: a bookish car surprise and a triumphal return Current Reads: all the great stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: the deets on reading vacations! The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 1:53 - Currently Reading Patreon 4:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week 4:57 - Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau 8:11 - Current Reads 8:17 - Scribd 8:29 - What Can Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwartz (Mindy) 12:41 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (Meredith) 14:50 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab 16:24 - The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Mindy) 19:13 - Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie (Meredith) 23:22 - A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie 24:02 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Mindy) 24:13 - Denisereads75 on Instagram 24:17 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  26:02 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 26:51 - Gilded by Marissa Meyer (Meredith) 28:22 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 30:17 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 30:46 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer 31:27 - Cursed by Marissa Meyer 32:37 - Deep Dive: The Ins and Outs of Bookish Vacations 32:49 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny 33:41 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman 40:34 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman 49:46 - Meet Us At The Fountain I wish I could find a series that combined police procedural and courtroom drama like Law and Order. (Mindy) 50:49 - Crimson Lake by Candice Fox 50:52 - The Defense by Steve Cavanagh (Eddie Flynn #1) 50:58 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino I wish that small, concentrated book retreats happen in 2023. (Meredith) Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

¡Nueva temporada en la Habitación 101! Regreso como se suele hacer el primer día de clase: contando cómo me ha ido el verano. Y, como aquí de lo que se habla es de libros, vamos a repasar cuáles han sido las lecturas que he hecho durante la temporada estival.El caso Alaska Sanders, de Joël Dicker.No está solo, de Sandrone Dazieri.El hacedor de flanes, de Susana de Ory.La paciente silenciosa, de Alex Michaliedes.Elevación, de Stephen King.La vida invisible de Addie LaRue, de Victoria Schwab.Un verdor terrible, de Benjamin Labatut.Supersaurio, de Meryem El Mehdati.Carcoma, de Layla Martínez.Hacia rutas salvajes, de Jon Krakauer.Matadero cinco, de Kurt Vonnegut.Oxford 7, de Pablo Tusset.La casa al final de Needless Street, de Catriona Ward.Guía del club de lectura para matar vampiros, de Grady Hendrix.La chica salvaje, de Delia Owens.Para cualquier duda o comentario, las formas de contactar conmigo son a través de Twitter (@greenpeeptoes) o en el canal de Telegram del programa (t.me/habitacion101)También espero tus comentarios en https://emilcar.fm/habitacion101 donde podrás encontrar los enlaces de este episodio.

This week, Leah and Bri discuss the TV show First Kill (2022, 1 season on Netflix). Sound effects credits: “Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) "Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) Support the show

Here it is: an extra main episode for Pride month! We watched the new Netflix vampire show 'First Kill', created by Victoria Schwab.

Tonight we're chatting with Christopher Farnsworth—he's the author of REUNION and seven other novels, including FLASHMOB, which was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year, KILLFILE, and THE PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE series. He has also written a novella with mega-selling author James Patterson, and worked as a screenwriter and journalist. He has twice been a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, and his books have been translated into ten languages and published in more than a dozen countries, and optioned for film and TV.ABOUT REUNION (A girl detective. A boy genius. A warrior princess. A young magician. Four young people with extraordinary gifts.For years, they solved mysteries, caught crooks, and slayed monsters. They were secret heroes, keeping an idyllic small town in the middle of America safe from the things that lurked in the dark.Then, the year of their high school graduation, the darkness came for them.During what the media called “New Year's Evil,” a demonic force rose to turn their hometown into a literal Hell on Earth.They gathered to stop it. They fought. And they won.The rest of the world never discovered the truth behind the disaster. For 20 years, the four tried living like normal people.Now their past is coming back to haunt them.The darkness is gathering once more. They're summoned back to their hometown to face it, along with everything else they left behind.Last time, they saved the world. This time, they'll have to do something much harder.They'll have to save each other.For fans of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Victoria Schwab, REUNION is the story of what happens when the good guys grow up.Find the book here: https://amzn.to/3AiOBnW

This week we are joined by Rachel Rausch, Teen Services Librarian at the Orange Branch.  Katy and Rachel discuss a controversial topic this week... books that everyone loved that we just DID. NOT. LIKE! These are books that take the world by storm, reach the top of the best sellers list, or end up with a huge book club buzz, and sometimes we just don't get it.  Rachel does NOT recommend The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by Victoria Schwab, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, or The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.  Katy does NOT recommend My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, and Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune.  Listen to what other staff members of the Delaware County District Library just didn't like, and read more about today's episode here. Do you have a topic you want to hear us cover? Please email libraryguys@delawarelibrary.org  Music Credit:  Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

“A shudder, a plunge, a second of darkness, and I'm back in the in-between.”   Aurelien is back to talk about "Tunnel of Bones" (2019) by Victoria Schwab, a positively paranormal tale of Parisian peregrination. The second book in the City of Ghosts series, it's another spooky adventure with Cassidy Blake.  No spoilers in this one!   Listen to Aurelien talking City of Ghosts #1:  https://pca.st/q4c3x3r6 Keep up with the author at https://www.victoriaschwab.com/  Check out the movie "As Above, So Below" (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2870612/ 

Victoria Schwab once told me at a writing retreat that if you stay in publishing long enough, you'll experience every kind of up and down there is, from cancelled series to best selling books. I love that advice, and I think the same is true for our emotions during the pursuit of (and the having of) our dreams. We have to be willing to feel all those emotions if we want to create sustainable publishing careers. If you enjoy this episode and want to work with me one-on-one to create your burnout-proof writing career, learn more at www.isabelsterling.com

Looking for a spooky read? Sally introduces listeners to Victoria Schwab's Cassidy Blake series: City of Ghosts, Tunnel of Bones, and Bridge of Souls.

***THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE EPISODE! THERE ARE NO SPOILERS FOR GALLANT OR ANY OF VICTORIA'S OTHER BOOKS. THERE IS A PREVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF WHAT TO EXPECT FROM GALLANT, BUT AGAIN, NO SPOILERS!*** Welcome back to Books on the Brain! In this week's episode, we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with the astounding Victoria Schwab. We talk about Victoria's career and journey, the "booktok" effect, and of course, get the inside scoop about the recently released Gallant (out March 1, 2022). Please make sure to go and follow Victoria on all social media platforms and find their wonderful books at bookstores around the world. You can send us a DM or comment on our Instagram @booksonthebrainpodcast! You can also send us an email: booksonthebrainpod@gmail.com We upload on Wednesdays, and you can find us individually Deirdre (she/her) @deirdremorganrose on Instagram & TikTok, Danielle (she/her) @d.j.books on Instagram and TikTok, and Carli (she/they) @carliiimoon on Instagram and TikTok. Thank you to LEO PR for the advance reader copies of Gallant! All opinions and thoughts are our own! current reads:  Victoria: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephan Graham Jones Danielle: Twisted Hate by Ana Huang  Carli: A Collection of Poems by Emily Dickinson Deirdre: The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin  Danielle's Review of Gallant: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4550104559?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1 Deirdre's Review of Gallant:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4582671996 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/booksonthebrainpod/message

"When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it...". This time around, we`re talking about the urban horror/fantasy, "This Savage Song", by Victoria Schwab! Content Warnings: *Blood and gore *Torture and severe bodily trauma *Death via car accident *Discussions of mental health, and instances of ableist language *Brief mentions of suicide Source For The Trivia Corner Segment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Für_Elise Cover Art: "Sincerely Media" on Unsplash, via anchor.fm Intro/Outro Music: "The Grand Entrance", by Astrofreq from Pixabay Trivia Corner Music: "Fur Elise", by JosepMonter from Pixabay Fire Sound Effect: "Crackling Fireplace - Nature Sounds", by JuliusH from Pixabay Police Siren Sound Effect: "Police Siren", by sofialomba from Pixabay Follow Us Online: twitter.com/bndpod facebook.com/booknerddiaries instagram.com/bndpod Check Out Our Website: bndpod.wordpress.com E-Mail Us: bndpod@gmail.com Advertise With Us, or Leave A Donation: ko-fi.com/bndpod (Click On "Shop" to see advertising options) PLEASE Leave Us A Five-Star Rating And Review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-nerd-diaries/id1519847155 Or subscribe to us on Patreon, to get perks like early ad-free eps, two bonus eps a month, scripts, notes, and our monthly newsletter: patreon.com/bndpod

Hi friends! THROWBACK EPISODE TIME! Today we dive into a very fun trope: forbidden love! We also discuss some fun side tropes and techniques, like lethal kisses and much more! Books mentioned include The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab, and Firelight by Sophie Jordan! We also recommend a bunch of other books that include forbidden love. All the books can be found here: https://bookshop.org/lists/ep-12-lethal-kisses-the-vampire-academy-forbidden-love Amazon book club: https://amzn.to/2PilPya Hosted by Hanna (@hannasandvig), Joanna (@joanna_reeder), Alison (@alisoningleby) and Valia (@valialind). Follow us on Instagram: @readingqueenspod. We'll be doing weekly shoutouts, so tag us #readingqueenspod Artwork by Hanna Sandvig. Music by Stephen Roy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/readingqueens/message

Willkommen bei einer ganz besonderen Episode von bücherreich, einem Podcast größtenteils über Bücher! Ich blicke zurück auf mein Lesejahr 2021 mit Tops und Flops, Statistiken, meinen Lesevorsätzen für 2022 und einer Auswahl an Versprechern des Jahres ganz zum Schluss der Episode. Viel Spaß! Statistiken: Die beliebteste Episode dieses Jahr war „21 Bücher für 2021“ mit 386 Downloads, gefolgt von „Mein Lesemonat Juli 2021“ (354 Downloads) und „Mein Lesemonat März 2021“ (347). Insgesamt wurden meine Folgen 61.195 Mal angehört (2021: 50.257). Das umfasst auch alle „alten“ Episoden und ist echt der Hammer für mich. Danke für's fleißige (nachträgliche) Hören! 98 Bücher mit insgesamt 40.450  Seiten habe ich im Lesejahr 2021 gelesen. Im Schnitt sind das 413 Seiten pro Buch und 8 Bücher pro Monat. Mit dem Ergebnis bin ich sehr zufrieden. Im Vergleich zu 2020 sind es 9 Bücher und 3.552 Seiten weniger - 2020 war aber auch quantitativ ein komplettes Ausreißerjahr für mich. Noch ein paar mehr Details: Die Bücher teilen sich auf auf 40 Hörbücher (40,8 %; Vorjahr: 44 / 41,1 %), 3 E-Books (3,1 %; Vorjahr: 3 / 2,8 %) und 55 „klassische“ Bücher (56,1 %; Vorjahr: 60 / 56,1 %). 44 Bücher/Hörbücher (45 %; Vorjahr: 38 / 36 %) im Jahr 2021 waren Rezensionsexemplare. Ich gehe mit drei Rezensions-Hörbüchern ins Jahr 2022, was ich wieder völlig in Ordnung finde. Erreichen meiner Lese-Ziele 2021: Was das Erreichen meiner SuB-Abbau-Ziele angeht, habe ich dieses Jahr guten Fortschritt gemacht, aber meine Ziele leider nicht erreicht. Meine Ziele lauteten: Von 40 ungelesenen Büchern auf unter zehn kommen Bei den ungehörten Hörbüchern auf unter 100 kommen Meine SuB-Höhen lagen am 31.12.2020 bei 40 Büchern und 116 Hörbüchern. Am 31.12.2021 liegen sie bei 20 Büchern und 103 Hörbüchern, wobei alle Zu- und Abgänge des Jahres berücksichtigt wurden. Somit habe ich netto 20 Bücher statt 30 und 13 Hörbücher statt 17 „weggelesen“. Ich bin über dieses Ergebnis trotzdem sehr glücklich und werde im Laufe von 2022 bestimmt die SuBs soweit minimieren, dass ich mich wieder sehr wohl damit fühle und mich nicht mehr so einschränken muss wie in den Jahren zuvor, was Neuzugänge angeht. Von den „21 Büchern für 2021“ habe ich immerhin 13 (62 %) gelesen oder gehört. Übrig geblieben sind 7 eBooks (keine hohe Prio für mich) und ein Hörbuch. Die übrig gebliebenen heißen: „Die Chemie des Todes“ von Simon Beckett „Kalte Asche“ von Simon Beckett „City of Bones“ von Cassandra Clare „City of Ashes“ von Cassandra Clare „Der Übergang“ von Justin Cronin „Die Arena“ von Stephen King „Sturmtochter“ von Richelle Mead „Die 100“ von Kass Morgan Bei der „Rache des SuB“ habe ich vier von fünf Büchern 2021 gelesen und das letzte Buch von der Liste („Die hellen Tage“ von Zsuzsa Bánk) zum Jahreswechsel halb durchgelesen gehabt. Es ist also in Arbeit. Und bei der „Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge“, bei der es um Qualität statt Quantität ging und man sich 12 Bücher raussuchen sollte, von denen man sich bestimmte Lese-Momente versprach (z.B. überrascht werden, aus dem Alltag entfliehen, die Augen geöffnet bekommen), habe ich alle 12 gelesen. Das waren: „Ein wenig Leben“ von Hanya Yanagihara Teil 1-3 der „Die sieben Schwestern“-Reihe von Lucinda Riley* „19 Minuten“ von Jodi Picoult „Kindred“ von Octavia Butler „The kitchen God's wife“ von Amy Tan „Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera“ von Gabriel García Márquez „Das Geschenk eines Regentages“ von Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa* „Daisy Jones & the Six“ von Taylor Jenkins Reid „Der Monstrumologe“ von Rick Yancey „Britt-Marie war hier“ von Fredrik Backman „Das Lied von Vogel und Schlange“ von Suzanne Collins „Einen Scheiß muss ich“ von Sean Brummel Flops 2021: „Die Villa am Rande der Zeit“ von Goran Petrovi? „Das Jesus-Video“ von Andreas Eschbach „Ivory & Bone“ von Julie Eshbaugh „Zeitspiel“ von Kim Harrison „Der Monstrumologe“ von Rick Yancey „Monsters of Verity 1 & 2“ von Victoria Schwab „Hör mir zu, auch wenn ich schweige“ von Abbie Greaves* „In Aufruhr“ von Inga Vesper „Was ich dir schon immer sagen wollte“ von Alice Munro Diese Bücher haben von mir alle zwei Sterne erhalten. Tops 2021: „Der größte Spaß, den wir je hatten“ von Claire Lombardo* „Daisy Jones & the Six“ von Taylor Jenkins Reid „Der Marsianer“ von Andy Weir „Kleine Stadt der großen Träume“ von Fredrik Backman* „Aurora erwacht“ von Jay Kristoff und Amie Kaufman* „Das Babel-Projekt - Lifelike“ von Jay Kristoff* „Vergissmeinnicht: Was man bei Licht nicht sehen kann“ von Kerstin Gier* „Vanitas - Rot wie Feuer“ von Ursula Poznanski* „Die Sache mit dem Glücklichsein“ von Jason Reynolds* Meine Lesevorsätze 2022: 2021 war für mich aufgrund weiterhin wegfallender Sozialkontakte (Danke vielmals, Corona) und überwiegend Home Office wieder quantitativ ein sehr erfolgreiches Lesejahr. Meine SuB-Abbau-Ziele habe ich trotzdem nicht komplett erreicht. Deswegen möchte ich folgende Ziele 2022 erreichen: SuB-Abbau: Zum 31.12.2021 habe ich es nicht geschafft, bei meinen Hörbüchern wie geplant ein „UHu“ zu werden, also von 116 auf unter 100 ungelesene Hörbücher zu kommen. Ich bin bei 103 ungelesenen Hörbüchern herausgekommen. Es wäre schön, wenn ich bis 2023 auf 85 ungehörte Hörbücher runterkomme. Bei den ungelesenen Büchern wollte ich von 40 auf unter 10 kommen. Das ist mir leider nicht gelungen, aber immerhin habe ich halbiert und somit noch 20 ungelesene Bücher zum Jahreswechsel auf dem SuB. 2022 möchte ich auf max. fünf ungelesene Bücher reduzieren. Mein Lesefutter hole ich mir dann bei meinen eBooks, Neuerscheinungen/Rezensionsexemplaren sowie aus der Bibliothek (siehe nächster Punkt). Anmeldung bei den „Hamburger Bücherhallen“: Im Laufe des Jahres 2022 möchte ich mich bei den „Hamburger Bücherhallen“ anmelden, der hiesigen Bibliothekskette mit etlichen Niederlassungen. Dort sind auch etliche Bücher zu finden, die ich für mein Projekt „Autor(innen) lesen“ brauche. Projekt „Autor(innen) lesen“: Es gibt eine Handvoll Autoren und Autorinnen, von denen ich entweder begeistert bin oder noch so gar nichts gelesen habe, obwohl ich schon so viel Gutes über sie gehört habe. Von diesen Autoren und Autorinnen möchte ich gerne ALLES lesen, was sie an Büchern bisher veröffentlicht haben. Teilweise ist der „Backlog“ so groß, dass ich nicht alle 2022 schaffen werde. Daher starte ich mit Jay Kristoff, Fredrik Backman sowie Anne Freytag. Victoria Schwab stand eigentlich auch auf meiner Liste, aber die drei Bücher von ihr, die ich 2021 gelesen habe, haben mich alle enttäuscht, daher werde ich erstmal das von ihr lesen, was noch auf meinem SuB ist, aber keine Bücher darüber hinaus von ihr verfolgen – es sei denn, irgendeine Reihe von ihr haut mich komplett aus den Socken. Weitere Autoren und Autorinnen, die mich interessieren, sind Brandon Sanderson, Colleen Hoover und Adriana Popescu. Vielleicht was für 2023, wenn mir das Projekt Spaß bringt. Reihen, die ich 2022 beenden/weiterlesen möchte:  „Die sieben Schwestern“ von Lucinda Riley, ab Band 5 „Succubus“ von Richelle Mead, ab Band 2 „Outlander“ von Diana Gabaldon, ab Band 8 „Harry Hole“ von Jo Nesbo, ab Band 1 (Band 3 bereits gelesen) „Magisterium“ von Cassandra Clare und Holly Black, ab Band 2 „The Diviners“ von Libba Bray, ab Band 2 „David Hunter“ von Simon Beckett, ab Band 1 „Chroniken der Unterwelt“ von Cassandra Clare, ab Band 1 (Leserunde mit Melli vom Podcast „Seitensprung“) Leserunden: Die Reihe „Chroniken der Unterwelt“ von Cassandra Clare ist schon Asbach-uralt, aber ich habe sie immer noch nicht gelesen. Die Reihe war auf meiner „21 für 2021“-Leseliste enthalten, aber ich habe es nicht mehr geschafft, sie zu lesen. Und das, obwohl ich schon so viel Gutes von der Reihe gehört habe! Als ich dann im Podcast Seitensprung gehört habe, dass es Melli auch so geht, und sie plant, 2022 eine Leserunde zu starten, bei der alle sechs Bände der Fantasy-Reihe im 2-Monats-Rhythmus gelesen werden, war ich sofort Feuer und Flamme. Mit Leaplansandreads von Instagram möchte ich gerne die Reihe „Die sieben Schwestern“ von Lucinda Riley weiterlesen. Die ersten vier Bände haben wir 2021 zusammen gehört und haben noch einige Bände vor uns. Jay Kristoff wird 2022 außerdem ein erscheinungsreiches Jahr haben. Seine Werke lese ich immer gerne mit meiner Freundin Ramona. Weitere Leserunden sind nicht konkret geplant, bestimmt gibt es aber das eine oder andere weitere Buch, das ich nicht alleine lesen werde. Bei den privaten SuB-Abbau-Challenges, die ich im Lesegarten mitbetreue, werde ich 2022 wieder verstärkt bei den Monatschallenges statt bei der Jahreschallenge teilnehmen, da ich bei der Jahreschallenge im Orga-Team bin und somit die Überraschung ein wenig „raus“ ist, was die Aufgaben angeht. Es macht mir weiterhin wahnsinnig Spaß, zusammen in Teams zu lesen und sich auszutauschen. Und man greift durch die Mottos durchaus zu Büchern oder Hörbüchern, die man sonst noch lange nicht gelesen hätte.  „12 für 2022“: Letztes Jahr habe ich euch zum ersten Mal auswählen lassen, welche Bücher von meinen SuBs (=Stapel ungelesener Bücher/Hörbücher/eBooks)  ich lesen soll. Für 2021 hatte ich euch 21 Titel auswählen lassen, und davon leider 8 doch nicht geschafft zu lesen. 2022 wollte ich nicht mehr so viele Titel auf der Liste haben und möchte daher 12 Titel auswählen lassen. Folgende Titel sind es geworden (sortiert nach Häufigkeit der Stimmen): „Miss Merkel – Mord in der Uckermark, #1“ von David Safier* „Die Tage, die ich dir verspreche“ von Lily Oliver „Das Wunder von Narnia (Die Chroniken von Narnia, #1)“ von CS Lewis „Dark Canopy (Dark Canopy, #1)“ von Jennifer Benkau „City of Bones (Chroniken der Unterwelt, #1)“ von Cassandra Clare „Die Chemie des Todes (David Hunter, #1)“ von Simon Beckett „Der Anschlag“ von Stephen King „Kurt“ von Sarah Kuttner „Honigtot (Honigtod-Saga, #1)“ von Hanni Münzer „Der Schwarm“ von Frank Schätzing „In der Brandwüste (Die Auserwählten, #2)“ von James Dashner „Der Letzte seiner Art“ von Andreas Eschbach Sehnlichst erwartete Neuerscheinungen 2022: Auf diese Bücher freue ich mich besonders im Lesejahr 2022, sodass sie jetzt schon auf meiner Rezi-Liste gelandet sind. Ich hoffe, ich erhalte diese Bücher als Rezi-Exemplare! (Reihenfolge folgt grob dem Erscheinungsdatum): „Perfect Day“ von Romy Hausmann* „Aurora entflammt“ und „Aurora erleuchtet“ von Jay Kristoff und Amie Kaufman* „The Maid“ von Nita Prose* „Home - Haus der bösen Schatten“ von Riley Sager* „Dreiviertel tot“ von Christina Stein* „Das Mädchen mit dem Drachen“ von Laetitia Colombani* „Roxy“ von Neal + Jarrod Shusterman* „Rabbits“ und „Rabbits. Spiel um dein Leben“ von Terry Miles* „Miss Merkel - Mord auf dem Friedhof“ und „Miss Merkel - Mord in der Uckermark“ von David Safier* „Die verschwundene Schwester“ von Lucinda Riley* „Der Tod im Anflug“ von Marcus Schwarz* „Summer of Hearts & Souls“ von Colleen Hoover* „Das Labyrinth“ von Simon Stålenhag* „Vier Frauen und ein See“ von Viola Shipman* „23 Uhr 12 - Menschen in einer Nacht“ von Adeline Dieudonné* „Obsidio“ von Jay Kristoff und Amie Kaufman* „Zimt - Auf den ersten Sprung verliebt (Band 1)“ von Dagmar Bach* „Tief in den Wäldern“ von Chevy Stevens* „Das Reich der Vampire“ von Jay Kristoff „Der schönste Zufall meines Lebens“ von Laura Jane Williams* „Todesrache“ von Andreas Gruber* Wenn euch diese Episode gefallen hat, könnt ihr auf meiner Webseite in die Vorjahres-Rückblicke bis 2013 reinhören. Wie war euer Lesejahr 2021? Besucht mich auf meiner FACEBOOK-Seite http://www.facebook.de/Podcastbuecherreich und erzählt mal oder hinterlasst mir hier einen Kommentar. Ich würde mich wahnsinnig freuen. :) Eure Ilana *Das Buch wurde mir als Rezensionsexemplar vom Verlag oder dem Autor/der Autorin zur Verfügung gestellt. Ich benutze Affiliate Links von Amazon.de, d.h. ich erhalte eine Provision, wenn ihr sie klickt und Produkte bestellt. Näheres siehe “Impressum und Rechtliches“.

In this episode, romance author, Charmyra E. Fleming kicks off the 24th episode and the second to the last episode of this season! On this episode M.A.I. Quote of the Day, is a quote by Victoria Schwab, author of Our Dark Duet. Next, she discusses the close of #NaNoWriMo and her thoughts on how she wrapped the month by missing her goal of writing 50,000 words, and the lessons learned in the pursuit. This week's M.A.I. Sip of the Week, is a festive holiday cocktail, Spicy Gingerman Holiday Cocktail. Finally, the episode wraps with a little Prince History about the 20 Year Anniversary of The Rainbow Children album. As always, the Creative Calfuray, "M.A.I." Branded Merchandise is available on the Creative Calfuray website and Etsy. Click Here to check it out! As a token of my appreciation, if you choose to purchase Creative Calfuray's "M.A.I." Branded Merchandise, you are eligible to receive 10% off by using the coupon code: MAITHANKYOU at checkout! Be sure to read my weekly blog "M.A.I. Pop Life" on my website, and check out my website and social media pages! To connect with me and engage, follow me on social media! www.CreativeCalfuray.com Become a Purple Charm VIPatron Click Here! Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Librarians Sarah and Desirae welcome WAPL book club members Michele and Heather for a conversation about the best books we read this year. We talk about inspiring characters who overcame obstacles, stories that delve into parent-child dynamics, and the impact of social media—and how the future might look. Part 1 of 2. Titles discussed in this episode include: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab, Educated by Tara Westover, The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker, Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage, Followers by Megan Angelo, and the “Nosedive” episode of Black Mirror from Season 3. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

Esta trilogía fue una recomendación de Juli, que ama a su autira, para Yae que suele detestar los libros de fantasía, ¡y a ambas nos encantó! En este episodio recorremos el mundo maravilloso que construye Victoria Schwab utilizando una estructura narrativa para nada convencional. Charlamos sobre los personajes complejos y diversos que lo habitan, y los conflictos sumamente humanos que los mueven. Si te gusta la acción, el drama familiar, los piratas, los personajes femeninos fuertes, el Londres de la revolución industrial, y sobre todo, las aventuras inolvidables, no hay dudas de que esta trilogía es para vos. Sinopsis: Kell es uno de los últimos magos viajeros con una extraña habilidad para viajar entre universos paralelos conectados por una ciudad mágica. Existe un Londres Gris, sin magia y con un rey loco: el rey George III. Un Londres Rojo, donde se honra la vida y la magia y donde Kell creció junto a Rhy Maresh, heredera de un imperio esplendoroso. Un Londres Blanco, donde la lucha por controlar la magia dejó una ciudad en ruinas. Y mucho tiempo atrás, había un Londres Negro. Pero ya nadie habla de eso. Oficialmente, Kell es el viajero Rojo, embajador del imperio de Maresh y responsable de circular la correspondencia entre los nobles de cada Londres. Extraoficialmente, es un contrabandista, al servicio de quienes estén dispuestos a pagar por objetos de mundos que jamás verán. Se trata de un hobby con consecuencias mortales, que ahora sufre en primera persona. En viaje, Kell se topa con Delilah Bard, una ladrona con aspiraciones idealistas. Ella le roba, lo salva de un enemigo letal y finalmente lo obliga a llevarla a otro mundo en busca de aventuras. Una magia peligrosa emerge y la traición acecha en cada rincón. Para mantener a todos los mundos a salvo, tendrán primero que pelear por seguir con vida. Livres es un podcast independiente sobre literatura, producido por Julieta Ninno y Yael Crupnicoff. Nos encontrás en instagram como @livrespodcast Nuestra intro: Track: Sunflower — Soyb [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/dG1U3NuR9Pk Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/sunflower

Hoje um Descobrindo sobre uma autora que eu me apaixonei e tive que trazer minha parabatai para conversarmos sobre isso. Vem conhecer mais sobre a Rainha Schwab. Livros: https://amzn.to/3AYzFI1 Redes Sociais: Twitter: @starfirelivros Insta: @starfire.livros Tiktok: @starfire.livros Agradecimentos: A Diana, por deixar a Gio gravar; a Marina, por enviar os livros que faltavam da Schwab; e a Gio por ser minha parabatai. Twitter: @termineicast

"A little special. A little strange. Not quite alive but definitely not …"   It's that time of year, spooky friends! The spookiest season of all. Let's tell ghost stories!   Gather round the fire for "City of Ghosts" (2018) by Victoria Schwab, the story of a strange girl with a dead best friend, the ability to see ghosts, and parents who move her to Edinburgh, Scotland. Part Lydia Deetz, part Lyra Belacqua, and all her excellent spooky self, Cassidy Blake is your next weird best friend.  No spoilers in this one!   Find more from Victoria Schwab at https://www.veschwab.com/books/   -- * Theme: Magical Transition by Kevin McLeod * Additional music and sound effects from zapsplat.com

Strange Love Book Club is a podcast where your two hosts, Caitlyn and Diana, discuss queer books. Every episode discusses a new queer book. This minisode we're talking about First Kill, a short story by Victoria Schwab.

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As the heirs to opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the difference between good and evil and the blurry gray area in between. This title is intended for teens, however, it may contain language or themes that some readers may find offensive. Recorded with permission of HarperCollins. Click here to see this title in the Houston Public Library catalog.

Happy Pride to all of our beautiful LGBTQIA2S+ friends, we hope you spent some time celebrating your wonderful self and continue to do so all year round! We have an extremely exciting, hilarious, sincere, and thought-provoking episode for you this week. We are celebrating some of our favourite queer authors and books with a full cast of queer bookish creators, who nearest and dearest to all of our hearts. Please make sure to check out all of our guests on all of their socials and send them all the love you can muster. You can send us a DM or comment on our Instagram @booksonthebrainpodcast! You can also send us an email: booksonthebrainpod@gmail.com We upload weekly on Wednesdays, and you can find us individually Deirdre (she/her) @deirdremorganrose on Instagram & TikTok, Danielle (she/her) @d.j.books on Instagram and TikTok, and Carli (she/they) @carlirokochy on Instagram and @libraryofcarli on TikTok. Bridge (she/her): @bridgelikesbooks (TikTok/ Instagram) Greg (he/they): @gregslibrary (Instagram/YouTube) @justgreggy (TikTok) Cait (she/they): @caitsbooks (Instagram/TikTok/YouTube) Kati (they/them): @kati.reads.books (Instagram/TikTok) Jaysen (he/him): @ezeekat (Instagram/TikTok/YouTube) Need a rec? Here are all the authors we mentioned: Casey McQuiston, Marino Tamaki, Melinda Lo, Aiden Thomas, Karen Callendar, Adam Silvera, Mason Deaver, Victoria Schwab, Heather Walter, Alexandria Bellefleur, Becky Albertalli, Anna-Marie McLemore, Leah Johnson, Sophie Gonzalez, Adiba Jaigirdar, David Levithan, Alex Sanchez, Steven Salvatore, Isaac Fitzsimmons, Jason June, Alice Oseman, Alison Bechdel, Roxanne Gay Current Reads: Deirdre: The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies) by K.J. Charles Carli: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Greg: How to be Remy Cameron Danielle: Neon Gods by Katee Robert Kati: Burn It All Down by Nicolas DiDomizio Cait: The Off-Campus series, The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid Jaysen: The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon, The Girl From The Sea by Molly Ostertag Bridge: The Fabulous Zed Watson! By Basil Silvester and Kevin Silvester Tik Tok accounts mentioned: @jennaslitpicks Seagull guy: @aarynskelly --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/booksonthebrainpod/message

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Úspešná autorka mnohých bestsellerov Victoria Schwab nám ponúka úžasné hrôzostrašné dobrodružstvo ideálne pre každého milovníka fantasy. V druhej časti mysterióznej série sa o Cassidy Blakovej sa Cass s rodičmi (a so svojím najlepším priateľom - duchom Jacobom) ocitne v Paríži, kde Blakovci nakrúcajú druhý diel televízneho seriálu o najstrašidelnejších miestach na svete. Bolo by fajn užívať si Paríž, croissanty a výhľad z Eiffelovky, keby pod mestom v hrôzostrašných katakombách nestriehlo nebezpečenstvo. Keď Cassidy náhodou prebudí silného poltergeista, na to, aby ho poslala ďalej, ako to robila s duchmi, uviaznutými za Oponou, jej doterajšie skúsenosti nestačia. Lenže času je málo a duch je čoraz silnejší a nebezpečnejší. Ponorte sa spolu s ňou do sveta duchov, prízrakov a zjavení a odhaľte tajomné zákutia svetov, o ktorých ste nemali ani tušenia. číta: Dominika Žiaranová

Bridge of Souls: Book By Victoria Schwab (Book 3 of Cassidy Blake series) "This atmospheric ghost story from Schwab (the Monsters of Verity duology) chills and charms while challenging readers to face their fears. Courageous, quick-witted Cassidy inspires, her relationship with Jacob is tender, and the thrilling conclusion is sure to gratify." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Begs to be read in the dark of night." -- Kirkus Reviews "Schwab paints an eerie portrait of haunted locales and her descriptions of the various ghosts and their terrible ends will send shivers down even the bravest readers' spines . . . This fast-paced, spooky ghost story filled with international adventure is sure to please horror enthusiasts and armchair travelers." -- School Library Journal Website: https://gobookmart.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support

Hi friends! Today we dive into a very fun trope: forbidden love! We also discuss some fun side tropes and techniques, like lethal kisses and much more! Books mentioned include The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab, and Firelight by Sophie Jordan! We also recommend a bunch of other books that include forbidden love. All the books can be found here: https://bookshop.org/lists/ep-12-lethal-kisses-the-vampire-academy-forbidden-love Amazon book club: https://amzn.to/2PilPya Hosted by Hanna (@hannasandvig), Joanna (@joanna_reeder), Alison (@alisoningleby) and Valia (@valialind). Follow us on Instagram: @readingqueenspod. We'll be doing weekly shoutouts, so tag us #readingqueenspod Artwork by Hanna Sandvig. Music by Stephen Roy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/readingqueens/message

First Draft Episode #294: Cassandra Clare Cassandra Clare is #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, the forthcoming Sword Catcher duology, and co-author of the Magisterium series. She joins First Draft to discuss her most recent Shadowhunter novel, Chain of Iron, the latest installation of the Last Hours trilogy, and to answer listener questions. This episode is brought to you by It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morril, out now! And by Freedom, the easy-to-use app that blocks distracting apps and websites, letting you get into deep work flow. Use offer code FIRSTDRAFT for 40% off a yearly or forever plan. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: Hear my first conversation with Cassandra Clare on First Draft here Pacemaker is the word count software Cassandra uses to stay on top of her deadlines Sixth Sense (movie) Holly Black, Newberry Honoree and New York Times bestselling author of the Spiderwick Chronicles, The Curse Workers, Magesterium, and her most recent series, Folk of Air. Hear her First Draft interview here.

Jessica shares a few spooky reading recommendations for middle grade readers: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden, City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab, and The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste. If you’re in grades 4 to 7, these eerie tales might be just what you’re looking for!

In this episode we celebrate International Women's Day by talking about our favourite female authors. From our favourite female authors, to ones we think need more recognition. We would love to hear about your favourite female authors as well! Be sure to send us a DM or comment on our instagram @booksonthebrainpodcast! We upload weekly on Wednesdays, and you can find us individually @deirdremorganrose on Instagram & TikTok, @d.j.books on Instagram and TikTok, and @carlirokochy on Instagram and @libraryofcarli on TikTok. Update to some book release dates we mentioned: Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab the third book in the Cassidy Blake series came out on March 2, 2022 and Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard comes out May 4, 2021. The bookshop Deirdre ordered the special copy of the Night Circus from is The Odyssey Bookshop --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/booksonthebrainpod/message

This week we read City of Ghosts and Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab! We tap into the literary Veil alongside Cass as she explores haunted European locations with her parents, ghost hunters, The Inspectors! Next Week: Put down your spell books witches and ghouls for an hour as we read to you scary and spooky leyendas (legends) from where our families are from! Don't forget to send us your scary stories for the following week!

Join us this week as discuss a classic, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley! Short and sweet episode this week! Next Week: We continue the celebration of Spooktober with Victoria Schwab's City of Ghosts! Find out next week about our thoughts and feelings on a haunted girl and her ability to open the Veil between the living and the dead. Don't forget to submit your short spooky stories and legendas so we can read them during our special Halloween episode!

What's that creaking sound down the hall? Did you feel a sudden chill in the air? And where is that haunting piano music coming from?  It's Halloween-time! And we're sure you're getting into the spirit—scary noises and all.  To celebrate this spooky season, we're talking with four authors who specialize in writing scary stories for kids! On this episode, you'll hear from Victoria Schwab, Max Brallier, India Hill Brown, and R. L. Stine. We asked them what it is about spine-chilling books that's so compelling for young readers. Each author also shares a spooky read-aloud from their latest book!   Additional Resources Learn more about the Cassidy Blake series by Victoria Schwab Learn more about the Acorn line Mr. Shivers series by Max Brallier Learn more about The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown Learn more about the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine Guests: Victoria Schwab: Victoria is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels for readers of all ages, including City of Ghosts, the Shades of Magic series (which has been translated into over 15 languages), This Savage Song, and Our Dark Duet. Victoria can often be found haunting Paris streets and trudging up Scottish hillsides. Usually, she's tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up stories. Visit her online at veschwab.com. Max Brallier: Max Brallier is the author of more than 20 books for children, including the Galactic Hot Dogs and The Last Kids on Earth middle-grade series. Under the pen name Jack Chabert, he is the creator and author of the Eerie Elementary series with Scholastic Branches. Max lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. India Hill Brown: India Hill Brown is a southern belle who recently moved back down south to North Carolina after living in NYC and working at HBO. Her day job is in social media, and her passion is writing. Her freelance work has been published in Teen Vogue, Essence, Sesi Mag, and The Everygirl. Visit her at booksandbighair.com or on Twitter at @booksandbighair. R.L. Stine: R.L. Stine's books have sold more than 300 million copies, making him one of the most popular children's authors in history. Besides Goosebumps, R.L. Stine has written series including: Fear Street, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Dangerous Girls. R.L. Stine lives in New York with his wife, Jane, and his King Charles spaniel, Minnie. www.RLStine.com. Special thanks: Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl Sound mix and recording by Daniel Jordan Produced and edited by Mackenzie Cutruzzula  

Up this week is dystopian "Bachelor" novel The Selection, by Kiera Cass. We explore why you shouldn't save your ex-boyfriend's pennies, what NOT to name your child, and learning by osmosis (which is definitely 100% a thing, according to the shady government instructors who have no ulterior motives). TW: Brief mention of sexual assault, war violence If you like The Worst Thing We Read, help us grow by spreading the word! You can support us by leaving a 5-star review on Apple iTunes. Follow us on Instagram @worstthingweread, Twitter @worstthngweread, or email us at worstthingweread@gmail.com. Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/102293261-kaitlyn-burton https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12635391-savanah-tiffany Book rec: A Darker Shade of Magic, Victoria Schwab

This week, we're talking ghosts, magic, and the macabre with Victoria Schwab. Writing as both Victoria (for YA) and V.E. (for "adult"), Schwab has a deep and compelling catalog of amazing books. Most recently, she's spooking the middle grade crowd with City of Ghosts and thrilling fans of her runaway success Vicious with its sequel, Vengeful. She's also returning to the Shades of Magic world with The Steel Prince, a comic book prequel from Titan Comics. Busy much? On this episode, Shiri and I talk to Victoria about her early career, finding (and making) a creative routine that works for you, keeping the process vibrant by writing across genres and audiences, scaring kids, and telling stories across media. We also talk about the arbitrary divides that categorize books for different age groups and why stories twinged with fantastical elements are so much fun. Hint: They show us a world vastly more interesting than our own.

For our third Elemental Humor episode Victoria Schwab joins us as we field questions taken from our audience at Phoenix Comic-Con. Here are the questions: How do you add humor to a serious story without breaking the tension? How do I move beyond the "Dad jokes" and into properly funny writing? When is humor necessary in horror? Where is the line between a comedic book, and a book that uses humor as a subgenre. How do you make dialog sound natural, while still sounding funny? Credits: this episode was recorded live at Phoenix Comic Con by Jeff Cools, and mastered by Alex Jackson

Victoria Schwab, who also writes as V.E. Schwab, joined us in Phoenix to talk about crossover fiction—in this context the term means books that target a given demographic but which have a much broader appeal, or books which straddle the line between age demographics. We discuss some good crossover examples, and how some of the boundaries work, and then we cover some of the techniques we use when writing crossover works.   Credits: this episode was recorded live at Phoenix Comic Con by Jeff Cools, and mastered by Alex Jackson