And the Welcome back to Game of Thrones II Electric.

Boop Kallu, I'm your host Anthony.

We are nearing the climax to a Clash of Kings,

and Martin is just brilliant at creating high stakes and low stakes and

setting them next to each other and making them feel as if they are one tapestry of a

larger story. It's a really hard thing to do and we see that this week with some of a

pastry story. It's a really hard thing to do and we see that this week with Sansa's quote-unquote

coming of age. Here with me to talk about this is a leasha from wool shift dust.

Alicia, what would you say your relationship with this particular book is Clash of Kings?

Let's see, so I started, like, I started the first season of Game of Thrones and I can't remember, I think it was actually when,

when Lady got beheaded that I was like no I'm gonna read all the books first.

I paused watching the...

That was the lady beheading was your instigation.

Yeah, even before.

That was like the hook, like if I could see it was horrible to me

torture if I could just see more dogs being wounded.

No, I mean I'm like the animal loving vegetarian who only adopts rescues but that was just so horrifying to me and I think in the way that and then when the Ned Stark beheading people were like oh you didn't even know what you're in for and I'm like well better go see so I can't remember which books were out at that

point but I went and like retour through them all in a couple weeks and then caught back up with the

show yeah all right so do you think that you had, do you think that you read this Sansa plot before you saw it on the screen? Yeah, me too. Although I will say having

revisited this chapter, the show is so in my head. Yeah, exactly For me, Sophie Turner is exactly what she looks like and her relationship

with the Hound is exactly what the show depicted. There's a little difference difference but the show really does

dominate my imagination. Yeah well I had so I had watched the first couple

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