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Mythology (And A Little Folklore)

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time, adaptation news, the Star Wars LEGO Special, and some favorite sf/f featuring mythology.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Skyhunter by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads, and Kingdom of Sea and Stone by Mara Rutherford, published by Inkyard Press.

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News

TIME chooses 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time [TIME]

Star Wars LEGO Holiday Special [io9]

Marsai Martin to adapt Savvy by Ingrid Law [Deadline]

Emma Roberts is producing author V.E. Schwab’s teen vampire series [EW]

Books Discussed

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams 

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman

Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams (tw: rape on the page)

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Serpentine by Cindy Pon