Project Fandom's Book Club Podcast

Listen as discuss the mysterious, sometimes magical, Wink Poppy Midnight.

We discuss sexual awakenings and something called quisping.

16-year-old Starr Carter is the sole eyewitness when her unarmed friend, a young black male, is shot and killed by a white police officer. 

Katya Walker investigates her husband's suicide and finds herself on the run from a global cabal in control of the world's finances. 

We discuss the beautiful and haunting first six issues of The Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta.

Lila and Kell each disguise themselves to play a dangerous game. Meanwhile, White London has a new king. 

We discuss A Darker Shade of Magic, a tale with cross-dressing thieves, dangerous magic, and multi-verse travel. 

In July, we read The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente. It explores what would happen if the internet laid bare everyone's secrets.

In a post-apocalyptic world where humans become monsters, a unique little girl is both hunted and feared. 

The Rat Queens are a group of four badass adventurers, and someone has set them up to be murdered. They must find out who and still protect the city of Palisades. 

Rachel takes the same train every day, getting glimpses into the lives of a couple she names Jess and Jason, who live near the train tracks. One day she sees "Jess" with another man. The next day, "Jess" is missing. 

Buckaroo, Oregon's unfortunate claim to fame is being the birthplace of 16 known serial killers. How is that possible? That's what police officer Eliot Carroll hopes to find out as he heads to Buckaroo after the town's latest homicidal offspring, Edward Charles Warren, is acquitted of murder.

From November 2014 thru January 2015 our winter book club selection was The CHRONOS Files series by Rysa Walker. That included the first book in the series (Timebound), the second (Time's Edge), and the novella between them (Time's Echo).

We discuss our October 2014 book club selection, 'Y: The Last Man' by Brian K. Vaughan.

Sarah, Nina, and John discuss Vicious by V.E. Schwab, a story about testing the limits of death, superpowers, dangerous friendship, and revenge. 

Katie’s got it pretty good. She’s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down, her charming ex-boyfriend pops up, her fling with another chef goes sour, and her best waitress gets badly hurt. And just like that, Katie’s life goes from pretty good to not so much. What she needs is a second chance. Everybody deserves one, after all—but they don’t come easy. Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself do-over: 1. Write your mistake2. Ingest one mushroom3. Go to sleep4. Wake anew And just like that, all the bad stuff never happened, and Katie is given another chance to get things right. She’s also got a dresser drawer full of magical mushrooms—and an irresistible urge to make her life not just good, but perfect. Too bad it’s against the rules. But Katie doesn’t care about the rules—and she’s about to discover the unintend

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark. 

Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash.

In this short preview cast we introduce listeners to how the podcast will work and talk about our early impressions of Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon, our June selection. We'll have a full cast out at the end of June where we'll have an in depth discussion of the book.