Sep 2, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
Today on the show, we speak with Kathryn Blaze Baum. She is an award-winning investigative reporter with The Globe and Mail and the author of the instant national bestseller **In Fertility: The Story…
Kathryn Blaze BaumGuestErica SteinHost
Ali FrenchHostYes, I my update is book related and I'm just going to start talking about it, but I'm about to finish the Throne of Glass series.
And I think a lot of people are familiar with her because of A Court of Thorns and Roses, like the ACOTAR series, which is, you know, a little R-rated fantasy series.
However, and I'm going to talk about this because the Throne of Glass series is actually one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.
And there isn't, it's actually not very R-rated at all, the Throne of Glass series, but it's like pure like fantasy.
So kind of like, and I, you know, Throne of Glass and Crest, they all, it's like a multiverse that she has now created.
But, you know, it's so interesting because I've been seeing a lot of this like discourse online about how like this like romanticist genre gets like like people like roll their eyes at it because they're just like, oh, it's smutty or it's X, Y, Z.
But it's so interesting because I never watched Game of Thrones and I've never actually watched Lord of the Rings either.
And I think even, like, Game of Thrones, right? Like, there's so much, like, R-rated stuff going on in Game of Thrones.
Yes, I my update is book related and I'm just going to start talking about it, but I'm about to finish the Throne of Glass series.
And I think a lot of people are familiar with her because of A Court of Thorns and Roses, like the ACOTAR series, which is, you know, a little R-rated fantasy series.
However, and I'm going to talk about this because the Throne of Glass series is actually one of the best fantasy series I've ever read.
And there isn't, it's actually not very R-rated at all, the Throne of Glass series, but it's like pure like fantasy.
So kind of like, and I, you know, Throne of Glass and Crest, they all, it's like a multiverse that she has now created.
But, you know, it's so interesting because I've been seeing a lot of this like discourse online about how like this like romanticist genre gets like like people like roll their eyes at it because they're just like, oh, it's smutty or it's X, Y, Z.
But it's so interesting because I never watched Game of Thrones and I've never actually watched Lord of the Rings either.
And I think even, like, Game of Thrones, right? Like, there's so much, like, R-rated stuff going on in Game of Thrones.
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