Bridgeburners Book Club

We take our first trip to the house this week, when we begin our reading of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.  Follow us through all of Part 1 and the first entry of Part 2: "Batter-Sea". We discuss how the…

One more time around the wheel! We give our final critique and ratings, discuss the future books, the Amazon adaptation, and Robert Jordan's own words. One book ends... and with the turning of a page…

This is part 2 of our The Eye of the World Final Chapters Megasode! We discuss the Easter Egg Hunt of Valere, abrupt endings, and Robert Jordan hesitating to harm any of his characters. One more epis…

This is part 1 of our Eye of the World Final Chapters Megasode! We talked so long that we decided to split it up into two episodes after all. We discuss a new addition to the scope of the show before…

We're out the the Ways and on to Fal Dara before you know it this week! Moiraine fires up her blowtorch, our boys are too embarrassing to take out into public, and we're *so* surprised that Lan is a …

The gang is finally back together and we have a convenient new fast travel and fast plot device known as the Ways, a place that the book spends longer discussing than describing. We really explore wh…

This one is a beast of an episode! We talk about what makes a good bookstore and discuss some of our favorites. Rand embraces his new role as "very special boy that can't truly make a mistake" and de…

We took on four chapters this week and ended up with a neatly divided pair of stories! Rand adopts an Ogier who tells him that he's the most specialest boy in the whole wide world, Nynaeve goes Metal…

Either we get into some Memento Tarantino fever dream non-linear storytelling this week, or Mat and Rand are stuck in some sort of time loop. Questionable structural decisions lead us into a broader …

As we dive a little deeper into the back half of The Eye of the World, we find ourselves along for a real American road trip style hitchhiking and busking tale with Mat and Rand as they use their und…

We finally go big and make it through four chapters in one episode! Egwene and Perrin get caught up with a bad crowd(vegans) and barely escape before being conscripted into the pacifist army. Rand an…

Tyler dreams up a unique twist on a familiar business model, Perrin discovers that he's a dog person and Rand has an embarrassing manic episode up on the mast while Mat strokes his dagger. Thank you …

It's spooky season and the gang gets involved in some zany Scooby Doo style hijinks. Thanks to our friends at the Shadar Logoth Board of Tourism for sponsoring this week's episode!

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We talk about more of our favorite fantasy characters, now with added femininity! This week's chapters include stories, songs, dancing, dancing, also dancing, and epic but brief battle scenes. Kaiju …

We're coming at you with a little throwback this week! Due to unforeseen technical calamities, the release of our next Wheel of Time chapter discussions is delayed for a few days. To hold you over un…

This week we have more travel, a training montage, bathhouse banter, dark dreams, falsely accused cats, smart mouthed spirit mediums, mud spattered white cloaks and the dread-inducing return of Nynae…

The journey has kind of sort of mostly officially begun! After some time spent checking out each other's weapons in the stables, the party finally hits the road. We discuss hand-pulled ferries, whirl…

Surely the group will leave Emond's Field at last in this episode... Surely! This week Sean makes an important confession before we discuss Neil Gaiman and magic systems. Tam is in need of some very …

In this episode we discuss Cenn Buie's long list of complaints and the individual levels of thickness to be found in our favorite Two Rivers folk. We dive into chapters 2 and 3 of The Eye of the Worl…