Episode 058 – The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

This month we all read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente as though we were a real book club! We talk about fairy tales, libraries, and book clubs that have met since the beginning of time. Plus: Spoilers, spoilers, everywhere!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Read This Month

• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• That’s it!

Other Media We Mention

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
• Six Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Discussed in Episode 014 – Historical Fantasy
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
• Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
• Dealing with dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
  • Discussed in Episode 053 – Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Earthworm Jim (TV Series)
• Into the Woods (Musical)
• Animal Man #26 by Grant Morrison and Chaz Truog
  • Suicide Squad #58 by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, and Geof Isherwood
• The Bicycle (about a mountain goat) by Jerzy Harasymowicz
• I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• The Canning Season by Polly Horvath

Links, Articles, and Things

• Snake People
• Inanna/Ishtar
• Wyvern
• HARK! – The Holiday Music Podcast
• Other book clubs that discussed this book
  • Things Mean a Lot
  • Escape Club
• The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente describes this book

Questions

• What’s a book that you like us to read in a future episode?

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