SEASON 5 EPISODE 9: SANCTUARY

Our theme for chapters 40-44 of The Raven Boys is sanctuary, which is fitting as everyone could really do with a safe place right now!

In this section, Neeve has kidnapped Whelk, but not well enough. Adam seeks out Blue for comfort but decides to make a third path, as Persephone suggested, and he disappears. As Maura is telling Blue about her father, the Raven Boys turn up to enlist her help to find Adam. Everyone converges at Cabeswater.

This episode was recorded on 27 November 2021.  

Show notes

This week we’re reading chapters 40-44 through the theme of sanctuary. If you’d like to read along with us, you can find the full breakdown here.

If you’re not familiar with the mysterious ticking noise, watch it here. We are not sorry.

The sanctuary scene from The Hunchback of Notre Dame is where Quasimodo saves Esmeralda from being burned alive (GRIM). And it’s a song - 

And Jen V can’t hear sanctuary without thinking of this scene from The Simpsons -

This is episode 15 from season 11, when Homer becomes a missionary.

Read more here about asylum seekers being offered sanctuary by churches in Australia.

And more here about families seeking sanctuary from churches in the US. 

There’s also an article here from CNN about the legality of it.

The Ada Limón poem Jenn D mentions is called Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds. Here’s an excerpt:

Read more here about the whole rocket asteroid situation.

Here is why we don’t actually have the same 24 hours in the day as Beyonce.

Homecoming, the Beyonce documentary, and Being Serena, the Serena Williams doco.

More about Heikala - the artist Jenn D talks about.

Next week is our last week with this text! We’re reading Chapters 45-48 through the theme of friendship and wrapping up the book. We aren’t ready! We never are!

For season 6, we’ll be reading Carry on by Rainbow Rowell. We’re super exited about this - themes here! But first we’ll be watching another one of our fave films, Mad Max: Fury Road.

Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.

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