Bridgeburners Book Club

It's Mat week and boy have we got a Mat for you. This time, it's Mat, but instead of Regular Mat... it's Lucky Mat! Lucky Mat luckily wins some money before luckily stabbing a guy in the chest. Come …

This week, it's time for three grown men to discuss a Nancy Drew style boarding school mystery investigation! How many cauldrons will be scrubbed? Are we stuck in the tower forever? Will the Wienermo…

On this episode we talk about the difficulty of following TV adaptations of epic fantasy series as a non-reader, before diving into the longest chapter of the book! The ter'angreals are tingling, Egw…

We get to the bottom of whether the lord of the rings actually needed the ring in the Lord of the Rings as well as our strategies for eagle-borne bombing runs in this breezy episode! This week we fin…

We discuss the Amazon show and vacations before getting into a classic round of chapter chat. Will the Egwene's day ever end? Did Robert Jordan finally figure out how magic works in book three? Is Ga…

This week, we do a whole lot of comparing The Dragon Reborn with Season 3 of the show before flexing our renowned Boston accents to talk about a certain box of documents! Robert Jordan's prose has le…

As much as we love our big thick boy Perrin, it's about time for a perspective shift to the White Tower! Will baby Bornhald and his men become a little more intimidating than Elmer Fudd? Is Verin for…

Rand attempts to force destiny, Moiraine tries her hand at catfish noodling, and entire towns are getting married at once this week, but not before we continue our series on fantasy creature milking …

In this one we talk growing power levels, creepy toilet men, and manage to offend all of our bovine listeners. Make sure to stick around to the end for the details of the hit new game show "Jarra" ho…

It was not the beginning... but it is a beginning. The beginning of a new season, and the next installment in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time! We explore new acronyms, we rope in a guest, and we le…

Join us as we wrap the second half of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary on this one! We give our final thoughts on our pitiable protagonist, talk through what we thought could have been done better struc…

Come get Weir-d with us as we talk through chapters 1-15 of Andy Weir's second  follow up The Martian, Project Hail Mary, soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling! We explore what we l…

There are neither beginnings nor endings in podcasting. Although you could probably determine exactly when we began fairly easily... and you would realize that this is the 50th episode of the Bridgeb…

Put Your Clothes Back on, I said *SecUnit*. It's all happening, today we're talking about Martha Wells' fantastic series The Murderbot Diaries! We discuss the longtime fascination with robots and art…

We selected three fun short stories to discuss today, and you absolutely don't need to read them to enjoy! We read RSA Garcia's adorable Nebula award-winning "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200", Gen…

As we prepare to tackle our next full readalong, come on in and join us our first go at some shorter book discussions with Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time and Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kin…

Listen as we bounce around our thoughts on various subgenres and the books thereof before diving into the climax of The Great Hunt! We talk how much description is enough for an evocative battle sequ…

We debate whether or not Robert Jordan's intimate proclivities made their way into his writing, before discussing our upcoming special episodes as well as catching up on what we've been reading outsi…

This week, Rand attends a party where nobody is having fun and nothing is accomplished. Thom Merrilin receives a lovely gift from Robert Jordan before Rand makes a foolish choice that leaves his frie…

We have a talk about talking, movies, and sci-fi short stories before getting into how we feel about The Great Hunt so far. Rand and friends carry out their totally not useless in the end plan to att…