Chamomile & Clove

Wherever you are, we hope you are well and safe --- we hope you get to spend the day remembering, honoring, and celebrating the caring, nurturing people in your life. If today is hard for you, we wi…

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 P…

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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 ap…

Happy Sunday, Clovers.

At long last, you have the nerd-a-riffic, highly specific content you've been waiting for -- the whole All Souls Trilogy plot shebang in one spreadsheet. It was a (very colo…

We promise -- the plot and time travel discussion is coming -- we're just chickens. Procrastinating chickens. This week, we're talking about all the themes covered by the All Souls Trilogy -- identi…

How does one wrap up a trilogy? How does one pick up all of the threads of plot and character and all of the questions we asked in the dozens of episodes we asked in between the first cover and the …

Y'all, you know what's coming. It's big, it's messy, it's COLOR-CODED. It's Cait's Book of Life plot slideshow! Once you grab a copy of the slideshow and the beverage of your choice, you're ready to…

We can't believe that the day has finally come, but it's time to close the last cover on Deb Harkness's The Book of Life and close out our chapter discussion of the All Souls Trilogy. Hours and hours…

It's a momentous day. Somehow, on Matthew and Diana's wedding anniversary (four hundred and something years later), Cait and Jen have made their way to the climax of the Book of Life. In Chapters 37…

In this episode, we're planning a heist! Join us as we discuss Chapters 34-36 of the Book of Life and learn how Diana plans to acquire... the Book of Life. We'll talk about symmetry, villainy, some …

In today's episode, we're tackling Sol in Sagittarius -- Chapters 31-33 of Deborah Harkness's The Book of Life. In these chapters, we've got to christen some babies, exchange Christmas presents, chec…

In today's episode, Cait and Jen talk about the end of Sol in Libra -- Chapters 27 and 28 of The Book of Life! In these chapters, Diana tracks down the last page of Ashmole 782 and returns to the Bod…

In this episode, Cait and Jen discuss Chapters 25-26 of Deborah Harkness' The Book of Life and continuing the search for the last missing page of Ashmole 782. There's mild extortion, magic, and cake…

In this episode, Cait and Jen cover Chapters 23-24 of Deborah Harkness's The Book of Life. Join in to discuss the Gallowglass reveal--unrequited love, incomplete romantic triangles, complex implicati…

This week, we're discussing Chapters 18-20 of the Book of Life. Jack raises difficult issues for us and for our story -- mental illness, the fallibility of our protagonists, the trauma inflicted by B…