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We bid you Adieu - Until Series 4

Dear literary enthusiasts and feline aficionados, brace yourselves for the thrilling culmination of “Teaching My Cat to Read” Series 3! As we unveil the grand finale, a palpable excitement reverberates through the air. Today, we’re on the edge of our seats, ready to unwrap the latest gem in our collection – a Q&A extravaganza with the podcast team! Join us in the anticipation of laughter,…

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3.15 - Q and A

Back to all episodes In this bonus episode, we discuss the questions you’ve sent in!

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Things We've Yelled About This Episode #3.15

Disco Elysium

Good Omens (2019-)

Nimona (2023)

Nimona, N. D. Stevenson

Gingerhaze (tumblr)

One Piece (2023 -)

One Piece, Eiichiro Oda

Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan

The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin

A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023 -)

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (2010)

Power Rangers (2017)

Jane Austen

Temeraire, Naomi Novik

The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis (our episode here)

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (our episode here)

Emma, Jane Austen (our episode here)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (our episode here)

Uprooted, Naomi Novik (our episode here)

His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik 

Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers (our episode here)

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (our episode here)

Hamlet, William Shakespeare (our episode here)

The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (our episode here)

The Old Kingdom, Garth Nix

Lirael, Garth Nix (our episode here)

Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir

The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells

Curse of Strahd (wiki)

D&D (wiki)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (wiki)

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula, Bram Stoker (our episodes here and here)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (our episode here)

Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (our episode here)

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl (2020)

This infamous line from Avatar: The Last Airbender:

Chuck Tingle

Monstrous Regiment, AMarguerite (ao3)

George Eliot

The Brontës

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (our episode here)

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Sheltie the Shetland Pony, Peter Clover

Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Star Trek

Odd even rule (trope)

Eragon (2006)

Robin Hood (2006-2009)

The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Andy Serkis (imdb)

The Andy Serkis audiobook can be found here

Tom Bombadil; The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tolkien translation (our episode here)

Adapting The Locked Tomb by giving it to Steven Moffat is a reference to this post

Wheel of Time (2021-)

Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Merlin (2008-2012)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (2014)

Benedict Cumberbatch’s name (meme)

Benedict Cumberbatch (imdb)

American Gods (2017-2021)

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Discworld; Terry Pratchett

Going Postal (2010)

Going Postal, Terry Pratchett

Thin Sybil is a reference to the BBC The Watch adaptation of which we speaketh not, we’re still very angry about that

Sybil Ramkin; Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Nobby Nobbs; Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Glup Shitto (meme)

This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud

Bartimaeus, Jonathan Stroud

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse (our episode here)

Howl’s Moving Castle, Dianna Wynne Jones (our episode here)

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (our episode here)

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New episode is up! In which we start planning Season 4 before Season 3's even done, talk house moves, lose books and refind them, and are tormented by the knowledge of our secret chipmunk voices.

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Unveiling the Mystique: A Deep Dive into Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Facebook Instagram YouTube Tumblr Goodreads Pinterest Welcome, fellow book enthusiasts, to a literary journey through three iconic Sherlock Holmes adventures: “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “A Study in Scarlet,” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” Delve into the brilliant mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusted companion, Dr. John Watson. Join us as we…

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3.14 - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Back to all episodes For our final book review of series 3 join us as we discuss the Sherlock Holmes story “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Featuring haunted moors, Scooby-Doo villainy, the John Watson defence squad, and some dogs (no cats). For our other episodes featuring Sherlock Holmes, including “Study in Scarlet”, see our podcast episodes page.  Content…

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Things We've Yelled About This Episode #3.14

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (any page references are to the Reader's Digest edition, which is the only physical copy we have in the house)

Does the dog die (website)

Scooby Doo

The Hound of the Baskervilles wikipedia article

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

Basil Rathbone (imdb)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Doctor Who (1963-1989, 2005-?)

Stranger Things (2016-?)

"Dr Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered:

'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'" p. 153, The Hound of the Baskervilles

Looking into the camera like you're on The Office (meme)

The Locked Tomb series, Tamsyn Muir

Sherlock (2010-2017)

Sherlock is Garbage and Here's Why, hbomberguy (youtube)

Moon's haunted (meme)

"One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly it came no doubt from his own masterful nature, which loved to dominate and surprise those who were around him. Partly also from his professional caution, which urged him never to take any chances. The result, however, was very trying for those who were acting as his agents and assistants. " p. 273, The Hound of the Baskervilles

Conan Doyle's belief in fairies (wiki)

Grimspound, Dartmoor (wiki)

Beowulf (our episode here)

Yeth-hound (wiki)

Buckfastleigh (wiki)

Bond Boys/Girls (wiki)

Piers Morgan

"I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids" (wiki)

a surprise tool that will help us later (meme)

Spiritualism (wiki)

Harry Houdini is an actual wizard (this post, wiki)

A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (our episode here)

Miss Marple; Agatha Christie

Miss Marple parlour scene (this trope)

Found footage (wiki)

Dracula, Bram Stoker (our episodes here and here)

As far as I can tell, the G. K. Chesterton Afterword for the Reader's Digest edition of A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles is an amalgamation of the essay "A Defence of Detective Stories" from his book The Defendant, and an essay simply called "Sherlock Holmes" that can be found in G. K. Chesterton: An Anthology, ed. D. B. Wyndham Lewis.

Steven Moffat (imdb)

Mark Gatiss (imdb)

Jeremy Brett (imdb)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)

Ian Richardson (imdb)

Donald Churchill (imdb)

Brian Blessed (imdb)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) (youtube)

Elementary (2012-2019)

Elementary Season 2 Episode 18, "The Hound of the Cancer Cells"; Season 4 Episode 16, "Hounded"

Buzzfeed Unsolved (youtube)

Hamlet, William Shakespeare (our episode here)

Benoit Blanc; Knives Out (2019), The Glass Onion (2022)

Eugenics (wiki)

Phrenology (wiki)

" 'It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.' " p. 142, The Hound of the Baskervilles

Knives Out (2019)

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet, William Shakespeare; Act I Scene 5

Benny Hill theme tune (youtube)

Benoit Blanc in the no-smoking zone (youtube)

Rian Johnson (imdb)

Leverage (2008-2012)

This moment from Leverage Season 5 Episode 10, "The Frame Up Job"

" 'Funny weather we're having, isn't it?' he said, lamely.

'Is it?' said Crowley. 'I honestly hadn't noticed.' And he reversed back down the country lane in his burning car.'

'That's probably because your car is on fire," said R. P. Tyler, sharply." p.338, Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (2006 paperback)

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (our episode here)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (our episode here)

Cat Rating: 7/10

What Else Are We Reading?

The Locked Tomb series, Tamsyn Muir

Wheel of Time (2021-?)

Bernadette Banner on Wheel of Time (youtube)

Anno Dracula, Kim Newman (our episode here)

Next Time on Teaching My Cat To Read

Q&A

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New episode is up! Featuring the Watson Defence Squad, a critical mass of hijinks and shenanigans, and the prototypical Scooby-Doo story.

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Happy Halloween - all our Gothic Books

As the autumn leaves rustle in the crisp night air, and shadows lengthen with the setting sun, we extend a spine-tingling welcome to the darkest corner of our book podcast. In this special post, our literary spotlight falls on the Gothic and Halloween-themed tales that send chills down the bravest of spines. It’s a time when we relish the macabre and delight in the sinister, and our podcast is…

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You know what Holmes deserves to have a Scary Moment every now and then in exchange for not becoming an evil mastermind.

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““I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland’s skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive. I have not lived for years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing.””

— — Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles, deftly weaponizing his working knowledge of How To Cohabitate With An Autistic Man™

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

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Hound of the Baskervilles - 1929, Germany - Swedish One Sheet 28" X 39.5" [2088x2938]

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Four chapters into Hound of the Baskervilles...

Dr Mortimer is a Strange Little Man*.

Literally two seconds after meeting Holmes, "I confess that I covet your skull"--

(*: actually Watson describes him as 'very tall', but being a Strange Little Man has nothing to do with stature.)

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This is Holmes cupping his hands around Watson’s face and saying “there you are” fondly. Btw. If you even care.

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Things We've Yelled About This Episode #3.13

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (all page references from the 2019 paperback)

"The emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense." Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir - blurb

“In the myriad year of our Lord - the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death! - Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth.” p.15, Gideon the Ninth

While you were x i studied the blade (meme)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, Moira Quirk (audible)

Moira Quirk (imdb)

No thoughts head empty (meme)

Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

“Captain Deuteros cleared her throat over the fresh internecine squabbling. “Does anyone else want to take this opportunity to admit that they’re already dead, or a flesh construct, or other relevant object? Anyone?”

[...]

Gideon looked away, blushing with a shame she didn’t interrogate, and found Teacher in the doorway with his hands folded before his gaudy rainbow sash. Nobody had heard him enter.

“Maybe later, Lady Judith,” he said.” pp.342-3, Gideon the Ninth

Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson

Good Omens (2019-?)

Crowley sauntering compilation (youtube)

David Tennant (imdb)

Masterpost of Gideon and Harrow’s names for each other

Harry Potter series, Joke Rowling (donate to your local trans charity today)

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

Locked room murder mystery trope (tvtropes)

“These were sophisticated skeletons. Hers returned with a cup of hot tea on a tray and waited until she took it to retreat.Gideon had noticed that their fine motor control would have been the envy of any necromancer, that they moved with perfect concert and awareness. She was in a position of some expertise here. You couldn’t spend any time in the Ninth House without coming away with an unwholesome knowledge of skeletons. She could’ve easily filled in for Doctor Skelebone without practising a single theorem.” pp.92-3, Gideon the Ninth

Sabriel, Garth Nix (our episode here)

Getting a good grade in necromancy (meme)

Can have little a murder, as a treat (meme)

Skyrim

“It would have been neater, perhaps, if all Gideon’s disappointments and woes from birth downward had used that moment as a catalyst: if, filled with a new and fiery determination, she had equipped herself down there in the dark with fresh ambition to become free. She didn’t. She got the depression.” p.46, Gideon the Ninth

Tumblr post discussing Tolkien’s use of different registers of formality - I have scrolled my tags until my eyeballs fell out, but I cannot find this post - if anybody else knows where it is, give us a shout!

Small Gods, Terry Pratchett (our episode here)

“Five people had died that day; it was weird how the small things ballooned out in importance, comparatively. The tragedy saturated the stiffening bones and static hearts lying in state at Canaan House , but there was also deep tragedy in the flawed beams holding up their lives. An eight-year-old writing love letters to a terminally ill teenager. A girl falling in love with the beautiful stiff she’d been conceived solely to look after. A foundling chasing the approval of a House disappointed with her immunity to foundling-killing gas.

Gideon lay on the floor, facedown, and became hysterical.” p.396, Gideon the Ninth

“Harrow’s dark eyes were on Gideon’s, past the blade pointed at her skull. “Oh, I have hurt your heart,” she said.” p.51, Gideon the Ninth

“I have rustled your jimmies” - reference to this interview with Tamsyn Muir

Frankenstein, Mary Shelly (our episode here)

Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

“LORD, WE KNOW THERE IS NO GOOD ORDER EXCEPT THAT WHICH WE CREATE…

Azrael’s expression did not change.

THERE IS NO HOPE BUT US. THERE IS NO MERCY BUT US. THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE IS JUST US.

The dark, sad face filled the sky.

ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. 

AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOME DAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael’s features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”, p.264, Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett (1992 British paperback edition)

The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. LeGuin

“[...]we (forgive us)

 lived happily during the war” - We Lived Happily During the War; Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky 

Kate McKinnon interview - once again, my google-fu has failed me, if anyone knows which interview this is or can remember anything about it other than ‘Kate McKinnon explains the lesbian gaze to sceptical man”, let us know!

Poor little meow meow (meme)

Everyone is beautiful and nobody is horny - this article 

Aren’t you tired of being nice, don't you want to just go apeshit (meme)

“Her adept said: “I’ll keep it off you. Nav, show them what the Ninth House does.”

Gideon lifted her sword. The construct worked itself free of its last confines of masonry and rotten wood and heaved before them, flexing itself like a butterfly.

“We do bones, motherfucker,” she said.” p.409, Gideon the Ninth

Gaslight gatekeep girlboss (meme)

She’s everything, he’s just Ken (buzzfeed)

This post about Gideon and Cam

Temeraire series, Naomi Novik (our episodes here, here and here)

Tamora Pierce

Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer (our episode here)

Alanna: The First Adventure (our episode here)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Unknown (our episode here)

Taylor Swift

Cat rating: 10

What else are we reading?

Protector of the Small, Tamora Pierce

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

Good Omens (2019-?)

Next Time on Teaching My Cat To Read

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

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