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Episode 80 – Boathouse and Chill

July 26, 2020 caitlintriall

Happiest Sunday, Clovers!

In today’s episode, we’re covering Chapters 29, 31, and 34 of Time’s Convert! This rounds out the storyline for Diana, Matthew, and Marcus in the present before we get into the heart of the book – Marcus’s past! In these chapters, we’re talking about the trouble with spellbinding, parenting and trauma, breaking analogies (and characters), and what kind of a cake you bake for solstice. There may or may not be wasps.

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In case you missed it, we’re running a contest! If you send us your best Apollo-style chortle, we’ll put you in the running for a $50 USD donation to the charity of your choice! The contest is open until 2 August 2020 and the contest details are here. If you’d like to get in touch, you can e-mail us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @chamomilenclove. If you’d like to become part of our Facebook community, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers, we’d love to have you!

We hope you enjoy the episode.

xoxo

Cait and Jen

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Episode 79 – The Judgemobile

July 12, 2020 caitlintriall

Happy Sunday, Clovers!

It’s a beautiful, hot midsummer day here at C&C East. We hope that you are safe, well, and healthy and that you’re ready for an unexpectedly musical episode of Chamomile & Clove.

In this episode, we’re covering Chapters 20 and 24 of Time’s Convert. It’s Matthew’s rebirthday party and we’ve FOOLISHLY invited Baldwin to dinner to make a ruckus in the name of family time. It gives us a great opportunity to talk about acceptance, tolerance, body image, vampire hierarchy, and why biting is (and simultaneously is not) a great tool for solving problems. Guys, there’s so much biting today. There is also a lot of improvised singing, so consider yourselves warned.

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Our reading schedule for Time’s Convert is here. Don’t forget to follow along with the All Souls Discussion Group‘s read-along of the novel this summer — we’re going in a different order, but there’s great discussion in the community and you should check it out. You can find us on Facebook as part of the Chamomile & Clove Clovers group or on Twitter @chamomilenclove. We’d love it if you reviewed our show on iTunes, became a patron through Patreon, or bought some C&C swag on Redbubble.

Love you always. See you next time,

Yours, musically,

Cait and Jen

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Episode 77 – For Worser, For Better

June 14, 2020 caitlintriall

Clovers,

We hope this finds you well and safe on a gorgeous Sunday morning.

At the outset of this episode, we’re taking a couple of moments to talk about the #BlackLivesMatter movement and how we’re working on dismantling racism in our lives outside the podcast and what that means for our podcast work going forward. We’re committed to you, our listeners, to truly intersectional feminism, and to learning (and forking up) in public. There may or may not be some of that in this episode — but here we go anyway.

In this episode, we’re talking about Chapters 3, 5, and 8 of Time’s Convert. It’s partially about awkward transitions (wee), defensive cocktails, and parenting and blind panic (we see you, Diana), but it’s also about decolonizing history, authorial and audience expectations, and what happens when you transition from a trilogy to a Very Different Book in the same universe.

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You can find us — as usual — at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com or on Twitter @chamomilenclove. You can also find us on Facebook and in our Facebook group, the Chamomile and Clove Clovers.

xoxox

Cait and Jen

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Episode 74 – Morality Snag

April 26, 2020 caitlintriall

Photo by Kate Stone Matheson on Unsplash

Happy Sunday, Clovers!

Wherever you are in the world, we hope it’s a peaceful, quiet day and that you’re safe and healthy and making the best of things. Today’s episode covers Chapters 7, 10, and 13 of Time’s Convert and Phoebe Taylor’s first few days as a vampire (and as Miriam’s daughter!). Join us for a discussion of maturity, privilege, morality, and more as we see what life is like on the other side of rebirth.

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You can keep in touch with us by following us on Twitter, e-mailing us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, joining our Facebook group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers, or by finding us on Instagram. We’re so excited to keep discussing Time’s Convert and what’s next for the world of All Souls and hope to see you soon.

Take care of each other,

xoxo

Cait and Jen

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Episode 73 – Muppet Mitmore

April 12, 2020 caitlintriall

You guys! We’re back!

Thanks for giving us a little bit of a break to decide how we’re going to process Time’s Convert — it’s a very different book from the All Souls Trilogy, so we decided to approach it in a non-linear (but highly sensical!) way. Today, we’re starting strong with Chapters 1, 2, and 4 — we’ve got a VERY AWKWARD dinner party to attend before we turn Phoebe into a vampire and begin her afterlife. You can dive into the new story (and join us on #TeamFreyja) at the link below.

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Between now and our next episode, you can find us at chamomileandclovecast@gmail.com, in our Facebook group, the Chamomile & Clove Clovers, or on Twitter @chamomilenclove. You can also support us on Patreon or purchase merchandise on Redbubble.

We love you, we hope you’re safe, and we’ll see you next time.

xoxo

Cait and Jen