Best selling author Nicholas Binge and literary newbie Hugo Powell are joined today by equally bestselling (USA Today and New York Times bestselling) author L.R. Lam!

L, author of such wonderful works of fantasy such as the weird-queer novel Dragonscale or the Mycah Grey trilogy, shares with us her favorite novel The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow. Not only does The Everlasting deal with some pretty heavy subject material such as gender roles, the traditional versus modern family dynamic, generational trauma, nation building and the rise of facism (phewh), it also does the Time Travel Trope (the three Ts) incredibly well!

Time travel plays an integral role in not only how the plot developes but how the audience interacts with the story. L and Nick describe the structure of the novel being a 'palimpsest', a scroll, use, erase, and reused but whos previous iterations are still visible beneath the current. This metaphor not only describes the actual story itself as the characters experience the same events over and over, but also describes how the plot developes, as we the reader, aware of what has happened in previous cycles, game deeper understanding each time we witness a new cycle. 

Join us again on the 16 April for our quick episodes known as Speed Binges, where we will be joined by Crystal from the 'Based on a book' podcast to discuss Arthur C. Clarkes adaptation of 2001: A space odyssey. 

And you will find the next mainline show on the 30th April, where we will be reading Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor and joined by special author guest Shauna Lawless. 

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