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**Tortall Recall**

Seven friends read and discuss their way through Tamora Pierce’s Tortall books so you don’t have to–but like, you can, we’re not going to stop you.

Latest Episodes:

Sandry Outtake: Chaos Descends May 06, 2020

Instead of releasing this outtake on Patreon, it’s here! For you! On the main feed!

The music used in this episode is Crunk Knight by Kevin MacLeod.

Episode 39: Sandry’s Book, Part 1 Mar 01, 2020

Kelley, Amy, Shelby, and Grace are back with Tortall Recall’s first installment of the Circle of Magic series. The first part of our discussion of Sandry’s book features: Mild chaotic energy! Good friends! And more puns than ever before!

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 38: Tortall Superlatives Dec 29, 2019

Abby, Amy, Aurora, and Kelley bring you a special episode with a high school yearbook superlatives theme. We discuss our favorite Tortall characters and creatures, along with the awards we think they would win. Tune in to find out our nominations for best animal friend, stubbornest chin, most-likely-to-get-stuck-in-bird-form-forever, and more!

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 37: Not Terrier Oct 31, 2019

Gus, Amy, Grace, and Shelby discuss why we’re not discussing Terrier and the other Beka Cooper books. In this episode: Different mindscapes! Exhaustive diaries! The binary of cat to no-cat! And a spontaneous sing-along.

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 36: Trickster’s Queen, Part 2 Oct 05, 2019

Shelby, Grace, Aurora, and Abby are back with the second part of our discussion of Trickster’s Queen. In this episode: Bird corner, Birds will be men, Tortall = the CIA?, and we weren’t going to go there again, but ‘If only they’d solved monarchy…..’

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta.
Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 35: Trickster’s Queen, Part 1 Aug 31, 2019

Abby, Aurora, Grace, and Shelby begin their discussion of Trickster’s Queen. In this episode: Our first ever feature on crow fashion, queers for revolution, and all the answers to ‘how does a darking do language?’

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta.
Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 34: Things We Like Aug 18, 2019

In this special Tortall Recall episode, all seven hosts (Gus, Grace, Kelley, Aurora, Amy, Shelby, Abby) talk about the things they like that are not the Tortall books. The things we like, as recommended by the hosts within the episode, include:

—from Gus and Grace—
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Love Might Be Too Strong a Word by Charlie Jane Anders
Viscera by Gabriel Squalia
Shirley Jackson
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Fledging by Octavia Butler
She-Ra
No Dogs Allowed by Sidney Gish
The entire discography of Janelle Monae
Brandi Carlile

—from Kelley and Aurora—
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager
Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience by Rebecca Roanhorse
BTS
Tutarchela
Basiani
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
One Day at a Time
Steven Universe
Great British Baking Show

—from Amy, Shelby, Abby—
Shedunnit Podcast
Be the Serpent
Get Booked
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Toast (within this the Monk series)
The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre
The collected schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
Runaways Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughn and Runaways by Rainbow Rowell
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag
Paranatural by Zack Morrison

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 33: Trickster’s Choice, Part 2 Jun 23, 2019

Abby, Amy, Aurora, and Kelley finish their discussion of Trickster’s Choice. In this episode: More crow content; Snark levels through the roof; and Where would YOU hide your six knives?

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Crunk Knight and Charm.

Episode 32: Trickster’s Choice, Part 1 May 12, 2019

Abby, Amy, Aurora, and Kelley begin their discussion of Trickster’s Choice. In this episode: A) So much crow content – maybe even… A crowmance? B) two girls with swords and two girls with birds, and C) Kyprioth: a fancy boy.

Here is a link to Kelley’s excellent Tortall drawing

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Episode 31: Animortall Recall, Part 2 Mar 17, 2019

Amy, Abby, and Grace still can’t tell you who they are, but boy, can they ever tell you more about Animorphs. Part 2 of this patron-supported bonus episode continues their discussion of the first four books of K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs series. Join them to talk about: Can’t a Book Restructure a Government? Tobias: Prince of Hawks, Hawk Forever! Shormship Cormorm! Cute Teen Crushes, Cute Teen Friends!

Abby and Grace guested on episode seventy-seven of Wheels Up in Forty

Our Patreon is www.patreon.com/tortallrecall. Check it out for our new stickers! Our Patrons for this episode are: Jo, Abigail D, Vague Dark Entity, Ethan, Lemons, Math, Emmie, Isabel, Katherine, Abigail L., Courtney, Sophie, Michaila, Emilie, Rebekah, Gretal, Starbit and Negev.

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Content discussed in this episode includes: Discussion of children in life-threatening situations. Discussion of ableism and and ableist language. Discussion of war and warfare, violence and death.

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