Epilagers: A Book & Beer Club
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A book club for Fantasy-Fiction and Nerd-like reading where we crack open a beer as we crack open our books!This is Epilagers, our Nerdy Book & Beer Club, where we explore fantasy fiction books while sampling some amazing craft beer. We try out each book in a two part series so that you can read along with us. We will hit on topics such as writing style, character development, and world building all while trying to decipher the plot and make accurate and sometimes hilarious predictions.We're in the midst of Season 1: "Dystopian Culture"Focusing on including books such as: The Maze Runner, Bartimaeus, the Hunger Games, Mortal Engines, Ender's Game, Uglies, Delirium, and more.Part 1, the Prologue, we discuss how we’re enjoying the style and set up of the plot, discuss how we want the narration to develop, and make hopeful and possibly outrageous plot predictions based on the first 25% of the book. Part 2, the Epilogue, will be a quick summary of the book and many discussion topics a
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Uglies Prologue
Uglies Part 1 Scott Westerfeld Uglies is a 2005 science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a future post scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is considered an "ugly," but then turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16. Tally is about to turn...
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Mortal Engines Movie Review
Movie Review! Mortal Engines Mortal Engines is a young-adult science fantasy novel by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic UK in 2001. The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world running out of resources. Mortal Engines is a...
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Mortal Engine Epilogue
Mortal Engines Part 2 Philip Reeve "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose…
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Mortal Engines Prologue
Mortal Engines Part 1 Philip Reeve "It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea." The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose…
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Ender's Game Epilogue
Ender's Game Part 2 Orson Scott Card Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy...
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Ender's Game Prologue
Ender's Game Part 1 Orson Scott Card Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy...
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The 5 Stages of Grief: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones Season 8 We share our strong opinions, extreme feelings, and many sighs on this final season of the Game of Thrones series from HBO. Join us on this treacherous journey through the stages of grief of an amazing series coming to a horrible and unimaginable end. --- This is…
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Delirium Epilogue
Delirium Part 2 Lauren Oliver In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking...
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Delirium Prologue
Delirium Part 1 Lauren Oliver In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking...
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The Amulet of Samarkand Epilogue
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) Part 2 Jonathan Stroud Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the...
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The Amulet of Samarkand Prologue
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) Part 1 Jonathan Stroud Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the...
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Maze Runner Epilogue
The Maze Runner Part 2 James Dashner If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls...
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Maze Runner Prologue
The Maze Runner Part 1 James Dashner If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls...
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Podcast Trailer
This is Epilagers. A book club for Fantasy-Fiction and Nerd-like reading where we crack open our beer as we crack open our books. Shay and Jay explore new and old books in a two part series so that you, the readers and listeners, can experience the books with us. Spoiler Warning! We will be...
About this show
A book club for Fantasy-Fiction and Nerd-like reading where we crack open a beer as we crack open our books!This is Epilagers, our Nerdy Book & Beer Club, where we explore fantasy fiction books while sampling some amazing craft beer. We try out each book in a two part series so that you can read along with us. We will hit on topics such as writing style, character development, and world building all while trying to decipher the plot and make accurate and sometimes hilarious predictions.We're in the midst of Season 1: "Dystopian Culture"Focusing on including books such as: The Maze Runner, Bartimaeus, the Hunger Games, Mortal Engines, Ender's Game, Uglies, Delirium, and more.Part 1, the Prologue, we discuss how we’re enjoying the style and set up of the plot, discuss how we want the narration to develop, and make hopeful and possibly outrageous plot predictions based on the first 25% of the book. Part 2, the Epilogue, will be a quick summary of the book and many discussion topics a
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