We’re sad to say goodbye to dragon month, but happy to send it off with a book club chat about Moniquill Blackgoose’s incredible first installment of the Nampeshiweisit series, To Shape a Dragon's Breath. This book follows the journey of Anequs, who bonds with a dragon hatchling and becomes the first Nampeshiweisit of her people in generations. However, the laws of the Anglish colonisers require her to receive formal training in dragon riding, or face the death of her dragon or even herself. Anequs leaves her home to enrol in a dragon academy. However, it’s far from smooth flying and she faces condescension, suspicion, and outright hostility from the Anglish there.

Join us as we chat all about magic dragon schools, the importance of oral storytelling and indigenous knowledges, and the ways that fantasy holds up a mirror to the devastating past and present of living in a settler colony.

Be warned: This is a book club episode, so we will be getting into spoilers!

MENTIONS

🐉 Our BOTM is To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose.

📚 BOOKS: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers; To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose; Ida by Alison Evans

🎬 MOVIES: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

🖼️GALLERY: Flinders University Museum of Art

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Join us for our hilarious interview with USA Today, Indie, and Sunday Times bestselling author Rebecca Thorne. Rebecca talks us through her life-long love of dragons, retrospective worldbuilding, the phenomenon of cozy fantasy, and the joy of writing established lesbian couples. We had an absolute blast talking to Rebecca, so we know you'll enjoy this interview: described by participants as "cozy, like the genre".

This month we’re reading How to Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Grab your copy and have a read before our bookclub on 21st May!

MENTIONS

Movies/TV
Dragonheart (1996)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Books
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Dragonology by Dugald Steer
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde
Tomes and Tea series by Rebecca Thorne
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce
The McBrides series by Amy Barry
Moss'd In Space by Rebecca Thorne
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Sir Callie series by Esme Symes-Smith
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

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This week, Justina & Payton have diligently done their homework on dragon mythology to share with us the history of dragons across time and culture. This includes their connections to colonialism, Christianity, creation, harvest, life, nature and more . . . and then Amy asks us what we would hoard if we were dragons (no books allowed!), and the conversation hatches into something else entirely (I fear that I cannot list the topics here, you'll simply have to listen).

This month we’re reading How to Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Grab your copy and have a read before our book club on 21st May!

MENTIONS

Books:

Beowulf

Dragonfruit, Makiia Lucier

The Rainbow Serpent, Dick Roughsey

Dragonflight, Anne McAffrey

Dragons:

Mushu, Mulan

Puff, Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow & Lenny Lipton

Toothless, How to Train Your Dragon

Falcore, The Neverending Story

Haku, Spirited Away

Barney, Barney & Friends

Other:

A History of Dragons in Western Literature, Yvonne Shiau

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