EPISODE TWENTY – REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS

An American, a Canadian and a Brit walk into a bar. But this isn’t a bad joke, this is the Ladies of Valhalla…

This month they are taking a look at their best of 2019, and giving a sneak peek into their recommendations for 2020 

The Ladies of Valhalla podcast is hosted by Sarah Miles, Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh and Jessica Garris-Schaeffer, and is a monthly look at media from female-identifying creators, or featuring female-identifying characters.  You can find the hosts on Twitter (@ValhallaLadies) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/ValhallaLadies) or email them on info@ladiesofvalhalla.com

The Ladies of Valhalla logo was created by Jessica Garris-Schaeffer.

‘The Valhallan’, the theme music for Ladies of Valhalla, was created by SuperbadLarry

Best of 2019:

• Books
  • Terry Pratchett’s Discworld 
  • I’m absolutely fine : a manual for imperfect women 
  • Feminists don’t wear pink and other lies 
  • Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race 
  • Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
  • Rebecca Roanhorse, Trial of Lightning, Storm of Locusts 
  • The Institute by Steven King
  • Dig, AS King
• Comics
  • Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
  • Pretty Deadly
  • Wicked and Divine
  • For The Love of God Marie!
  • Die
  • Are You Listening?
  • Assassin Nation
  • Coda
  • Murder Falcon,
  • HoX PoX aka House of X, Powers of X aka Powers of Ten
  • Giant Days
  • Crowded
  • Skyward
  • Sabrina
  • b.b.free
  • Mister Miracle 
• TV shows
  • Sabrina
  • The Good Place
  • She-Ra: Princess of Power
  • Deadly Class
  • Mindhunter
  • Tuca and Bertie
  • The Mandalorian
  • Watchmen 
  • Umbrella Academy
  • Brooklyn 99
  • Jack Ryan season 2
  • Dark season 2 
  • Dr Who
  • Another Life
  • The Witcher
• Movies
  • Captain Marvel
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
  • Endgame
  • Alita Battle Angel
  • Ready or Not (older viewers)
  • US (older viewers)
  • Midsommar (older viewers)
  • John Wick 3
  • Pokemon Detective Pikachu
  • Aladdin (live action)
  • Toy Story 4
  • John Wick 3 – Parabellum
  • Knives Out
  • Booksmart
  • Crawl (older viewers)
  • The Farewell
  • Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (older viewers)
  • Missing Link
  • Rocketman
  • Dolemite Is My Name
  • Serenity 
• albums / songs / musicians
  • Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
  • Taylor Swift – Lover
  • My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade
  • Billie Eilish – Bad Guy
  • The Faint – Ego Work
  • Spotify playlist for working out
  • Purity Ring
  • Polisa
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • Rituals of mine
  • Churches
  • Billie Eilish
  • Tom Waits
• Twitter or Instagram accounts
  • iWeigh
  • Jamela Jamil
  • BodiPosiPanda
  • The Supplement Review
  • Strom Sports Nutrition 
  • KellySue DeConnick
  • yesImhotinthis (insta)
  • eggandbee (insta) 
  • no_collective (insta) 
  • coachcuz (insta)
  • amanda deibert (twitter)
  • 41strange (twitter)
  • magicrealismbot (twitter)
  • MrMeogi (twitter)
  • Gail Simone (twitter)
  • oddlypleasing (twitter)
  • jamiemckleive (t
  • chip zdarsky
  • ryan North
  • katie Cook
  • lucy nisely
  • kate beaton
  • cat staggs
  • warandpeass
  • theanimated life (inst)
  • cisperfrenchfrie 
  • katanacomics
  • highfructosemag
  • Juxtaposemag
  • Beautifulbizarremagazine
  • Jpahonen
  • Beezlebubsofficial
  • digitalmeddle
  • sketchshark
  • loisvb
• Conventions
  • Thought Bubble
  • NYCC
  • Portsmouth
  • True Believers
• Food
  • Cheese!
  • Steve’s bagels
  • Seven Bone
  • Hello Fresh!
• Favourite episode from 2019?
  • Episode 12 – To all the boys I’ve loved before 
  • Kristen Gudsnuck interview
  • Kelly Thompson interview
  • Storykiller 

Anticipating in 2020:

• Books
  • Gideon the Ninth
  • Children of Virtue and Vengeance (children of blood and bone book 2) – Tomi Adeyemi
  • An Ember in the Ashes series by Saba Tahir (book 5)
  • Seanan McGuire : October Daye series book 14,  ghost roads series
  • The Bird King, G Willow Wilson
  • Seanan McGuire – Wayward Children / Every Heart A Doorway
• Comics
  • Eat, and Love Yourself (Sweeney Boo!)
  • The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
  • The Killing Horizon
  • Finger Guns
  • Alienation
  • Amethyst
  • Die
  • b.b.free
  • anything Kelly Thompson
  • A Conspiracy of Ravens
  • Wicked Things, John Allison & Max Sarin (6 issue mini) 
• TV shows
  • The Old Guard
  • Dr Who
  • Umbrella Academy
  • Locke and Key
  • Sabrina – january 24th 
  • Dark season 3
• Movies
  • Wonder Woman 1984
  • The Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
  • Mulan
  • Halloween Kills (older)
  • A Quiet Place part 2 
  • Onward & Soul (both Pixar) 
  • Antlers
  • Bill and Ted Face The Music 
  • Matrix sequel
  • John Wick 4
  • Marvel Eternals
  • Black Widow
  • The Kingsman
• Conventions
  • Thought Bubble
  • NYCC
  • Portsmouth
  • True Believers
  • Fan Expo Toronto
  • London (Ont) 
  • TCAF

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Dearest Listeners,

I would like to apologize for not being able to join the ladies for this month’s podcast. On Saturday morning around 3 am (the day before we were set to record) My husband and I lost one of our beloved Dachshunds, Bug. If you have listened to any of our podcasts or follow me on social media, you have probably gathered that my dogs are more important to me than most other things in my life. I know not everyone will understand and that is completely ok, but to us, we lost a member of our family. Bug was born with special needs and we always knew that unfortunately, his life with us would be cut short. But that never stopped us from loving him and giving him the best life we possibly could. I feel blessed to have been the one to raise and love him. He taught me things that you can’t learn from books or school. He taught me compassion, patience, and unconditional love. We will always miss him, and right now we have a Bug sized hole in our lives that is going to take some time to close. Again I apologize for my absence and thank you for understanding. I will be back next month ready to be my normal weird self, whether you all like it or not! <3

All my love,
Lady J