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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast. This month there's a newly-released transcript for OATH OF GOLD by Elizabeth Moon, that means transcripts for episodes covering all three books in The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy are now available.

News and Events

We've decided to move to a twice-monthly release schedule for our regular episodes, with Patrons receiving up to one bonus episodes per month depending on their reward tier (Patrons will receive more details in a post before the end of the month). Thank you for bearing with us while we work this out, we love making the podcast and want to have a release schedule that fits with our changing lives.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast. This month there's a newly-released transcript for OATH OF GOLD by Elizabeth Moon, that means transcripts for episodes covering all three books in The Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy are now available.

News and Events

We've decided to move to a twice-monthly release schedule for our regular episodes, with Patrons receiving up to one bonus episodes per month depending on their reward tier (Patrons will receive more details in a post before the end of the month). Thank you for bearing with us while we work this out, we love making the podcast and want to have a release schedule that fits with our changing lives.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

News and Events

I (Robin) am in the end-stages of a multi-state move. My microphone has been located, but I almost immediately had to travel for work, then I'm traveling again to help a family member.

Hello Everyone! I hope you enjoyed receiving the Late July Reviews ahead of time last week. It was an accident with the newsletter scheduling so I wanted to send something at the official time so you're not confused by what would otherwise be a three-week gap between emails. Please enjoy Folio being lovely on the new futon.

Robin

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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I (Robin) am in the end-stages of a multi-state move. My partner and I have been in the new apartment for a few weeks and our things finally arrived from the movers. We're setting up the new space and hopefully soon I'll locate my microphone (which is pretty important for the podcast).

Greetings

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News and Events

I've moved and we're in the new apartment but (as on mid-July) our things haven't arrived yet, so that's been interesting.

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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I'm moving this month, and it's looking like the newsletters will proceed uninterrupted. However, the podcast schedule will be a bit wonky for the next couple of months, and one review spot is being replaced with a personal essay about a book I re-read for the first time in years. Nicole also has a bunch of stuff going on, and we're going to have a monthly episode schedule through August to allow us some flexibility.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

News and Events

I'm moving this month, and it might affect 1-2 of the newsletters but so far I've managed to keep content queueing so hopefully there won't be a disruption. This also means the podcast schedule will be a bit wonky for the next couple of months. Nicole has a bunch of stuff going on, and we're going to have a monthly episode schedule through August to allow us some flexibility.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

News and Events

I'll be moving in late June/early July, so I'm trying to plan newsletter content for a few weeks when I'll probably be reading but won't have the time to write reviews. I might curate a list of recommendations by genre, or do something else to highlight older reviews. It'll affect 1-2 of the newsletters, but shouldn't affect more than that. This also means the podcast schedule will be a bit wonky for the next couple of months. Nicole has a bunch of stuff going on, and we're going to have a monthly episode schedule through August to allow us some flexibility.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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I (Robin) was a guest on Fables and Reflections last month, discussing The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. You can find Robin's written review of the book at this link.

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I had an exciting moment recently! I joined Reddit because I want to recommend books to people and there's an entire subreddit where people ask for book recommendations, so it all works out. Since I started a spreadsheet tracking characteristics of the books I'm reading (in order to generate the blurb paragraphs I use), I was able to give someone a recommendation based on POV style, genre, etc. with just a couple of filter settings on the spreadsheet! It's a small moment of usefulness, but I enjoyed it.

News and Events

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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Robin was a guest on Fables and Reflections, discussing The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. You can find Robin's written review of the book at this link.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast. We recently added a transcript for one of our older episodes and redesigned the look of the site, so it's a good time to check in.

News and Events

No news at the moment.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast. We recently added a transcript for one of our older episodes and redesigned the look of the site, so it's a good time to check in.

I was in a weird reading slump for the last several weeks where almost the only thing I could handle was re-reads. I think I'm coming out of it, but that (and the recent release of the newest Incryptid book) is part of why I discussed reading the entire Incryptid series during the last few newsletters. For a while I could only read things that I'd read before or things by an author whose writing I trust, like Seanan McGuire (she's very clear about what will and will not be in her work, which lets me know whether I should be able to handle even her books that are new to me).

I think I'm mostly out of the slump but I am considering having a pause where one of the upcoming editions of the newsletter is a reruns edition with links to reviews from before the newsletter started. Hopefully I won't need that, but we'll see how it goes.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast. We recently added a transcript for one of our older episodes and redesigned the look of the site, so it's a good time to check in.

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Our podcast network, Certain Point of View, is doing a celebration of all things Batman for the first two weeks of March! Check out #DarkKnightFortnight for more info and related tweets.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

News and Events

Our podcast network, Certain Point of View, is doing a celebration of all things Batman for the first two weeks of March! Check out #DarkKnightFortnight for more info and related tweets.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

News and Events

No major news at the moment!

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

News and Events

No major news at the moment!

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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The 2022 prompts are now available from the annual reading challenge! It runs from January 1st to December 31st each year. Find info and links here.

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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Our livestreams are being replaced as a monthly event by the opportunity to vote on books in my reading queue. You can find those links at the end of the newsletter.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events

Our livestreams are being replaced as a monthly event by the opportunity to vote on books in my reading queue. You can find those links at the end of the newsletter.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events

Our livestreams are being replaced as a monthly event by the opportunity to vote on books in my reading queue. You can find those links at the end of the newsletter.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events

The livestream is on the last Saturday of every month, which means this month it's on November 27th at 6PM Pacific / 8PM Central / 9PM Eastern. You can watch it on Twitch or Youtube. This is a very important livestream because it's our last regularly scheduled one. The livestreams were originally intended as a reward for our $5+ Patrons, and that reward is being replaced by the opportunity to vote on books in my reading queue.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

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Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Greetings

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events: The monthly livestream is on the last Saturday of every month, which means this month it’s on August 28th at 6PM Pacific / 8PM Central / 9PM Eastern. You can watch it on or . We’ll play games with friends and guests, and answer your questions.

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events: The monthly livestream is on the last Saturday of every month, which means this month it’s on August 28th at 6PM Pacific / 8PM Central / 9PM Eastern. You can watch it on or . We’ll play games with friends and guests, and answer your questions.

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events: The monthly livestream is on the last Saturday of every month, which means this month it’s on July 31st at 6PM Pacific / 8PM Central / 9PM Eastern. You can watch it on or . We’ll play games with friends and guests, and answer your questions.

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons). Remember to head to Transcripts That Burn for all available transcripts of the podcast.

Upcoming events: The monthly livestream is on the last Saturday of every month, which means this month it’s on July 31st at 6PM Pacific / 8PM Central / 9PM Eastern. You can watch it on or . We’ll play games with friends and guests, and answer your questions.

Welcome to the Books That Burn Fortnightly Roundup! Releasing every two weeks (one week early for Patrons. I’m Robin, I handle the written communications for the podcast, which includes books reviews, posting transcripts, social media, and things like this newsletter! My co-host, Nicole, handles our audio editing and makes the monthly livestreams go smoothly. Our transcriptionist, Heather, makes the transcripts for all our episodes and bonus content. Since this is the first edition of the newsletter, all our transcripts are “new”, so please head over to Transcripts That Burn in order to browse our currently available episode transcripts.

Upcoming events: The monthly livestream is on the last Saturday of every month, which means this month it’s on June 26th at 6PM Pacific / 8PM Central / 9PM Eastern. You can watch it on or . We’ll play Jackbox games with friends and guests and answer your questions.