Season 4: Episode 3 - ONT Vacation Reads + Author Kate Gateley

Hello fellow nerds and welcome to season 4 of Our Nerdiest Thing! This season, we will be hosting Tuesday episodes all about Our Nerdiest Things, followed by Thursday episodes of our read alongs! On today's episode, we discuss vacation reads, and whether you go to the beach, go on road trips or staycation with the kids, we have recommendations for you! Stick around for our interview with friend of the podcast, Kate Gateley (at 55:45), where we discuss her new book, Severance of the Sorcerer. Show Links: The Pieces We Try To Forget The Pieces We Leave Behind Tessa Bailey Memes  Fangirl Down Secretly Yours Modern Family Taylor Swift 1989 Butcher & Blackbird Academy Games  Fate Inked in Blood Gwen and Art Aren’t in Love  The Hedgewitch of Fox Hall  Paper Towns  An Abundance of Katherines  Let’s Get Lost  13 Little Blue Envelopes  The Road Trip  One Plus One A Thousand Miles  Factory Girls  Join on Thursday for our read along episode of Crescent City, chapters 38-67. Check out instagram.com/ournerdiestthing for more information. Upcoming Read-a-long Schedule: 📖 March: Crescent City: House of Earth & Blood 📖 April: Crescent City: House of Sky and Breath 📖 Late April-June: Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadow Join our instagram channel for even more in depth nerdiness! Catch up on previous seasons of the show by visiting ournerdiestthing.com or by searching for Our Nerdiest Thing wherever you listen to podcasts. Have something nerdy to share? Message us! More about Author Kate Gateley: With a B.A. in Linguistics and a B.Sc. in Physiology from the University of Saskatchewan, Kate Gateley has always been fascinated by history, Celtic Ideology, ancestral memory and generational wounding, and the “Divine Feminine,” and those personal studies continue to influence every aspect of her life, on the pages of her books and off.  When Kate published her first book, Tides of the Sovereign (FriesenPress 2022), Book One of the Lost Wells Trilogy, she knew that it was only the beginning of a story she has always wanted to write—one with heart and meaning that was actually worth sharing. In December, 2022, Tides of the Sovereign was announced as the winning title in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi category of the Canadian Book Club Awards. Concluding now in Book Three, Severance of the Sorcerer, that story has grown far beyond what she could ever have imagined … into something that she dearly hopes can one day find—and deserve—a cherished spot among those volumes of both contemporary fantasy and historical romance that so inspired her growing up. Kate currently lives, and writes, on a small farm in the Cowichan Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island, with her amazing husband, two incredible sons, an adorable dog, several barn cats who don’t earn their keep, and some decidedly ungrateful chickens … all of whom are very dearly loved.