Episode 76: "This Is How You Lose the Time War" buddy-read discussion with Megan Habel
Burn before listening. In this episode, C + D are joined by the beloved Megan during their Virtual Happy Hour date to talk all about their recent buddy-read, This Is How You Lose the Time War.
A Brief Note from Your Hosts:
We recorded this episode with our beloved Megan at an unusual time and with unusual equipment. So please excuse all roommates loudly closing doors, pizza timer beeps, lack of obsession discussion, noises of playing children, audio distortion and cut-outs, etc.
Thanks for listening!
ABOUT THE BOOK, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That’s how war works. Right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
Links To Give You Live:
Choose one of the methods below, and read This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone for yourself.
Add the book to your ever-growing TBR pile on Goodreads
Read the audio or digital edition online with Scribd
Find a digital copy through your local library with Hoopla or Libby
Support independent bookseller and purchase a copy through Bookshop
Have a book you want to suggest to C + D? Already read This Is How You Lose the Time War and want to gush over it along with them? Email currentlyobsessedclub@gmail.com with recommendations, opinions, and more.
Episode Guide: (00:00) D talks what inspired the buddy-reading adventure (03:25) Book first impressions (11:04) Friendship tipping point from respectful rivalry to romance (14:18) “I feel like heartbreak is coming.” (20:25) The great world-building debate (24:54) Organic co-authorship (30:06) Adaptation theories and final thoughts
