Episode 95: Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Notes:

Leigh Bardugo is the New York Times author of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, Six of Crows Duology, King of Scars Duology, Ninth House, and several other books set within the Grishaverse. The Netflix series Shadow and Bone just realeased on April 23rd and has already been renewed for a second season. It references mostly the original trilogy, but will expand to include some of her other books included the Six of Crows duology. You can follow her on instagram at @lbardugo.

The Verbivore mentioned how gambling is addicting, because it uses a random schedule of reinforcement and compared how Leigh Bardugo paid off moments in the book as similarly addictive for that same reason. Here is what Simply Psychology has to say about random reinforcement schedule:

“This kind of schedule results in high, steady rates of responding. Organisms are persistent in responding because of the hope that the next response might be one needed to receive reinforcement. This schedule is utilized in lottery games.” - https://www.simplypsychology.org/schedules-of-reinforcement.html

The Verbivore reads the first sentence of chapter one of Six of Crows. Here is that quote:

“Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache.”

The Verbivore mentions that the Six of Crows is a heist story. Here is an article that discusses some of the elements of those stories:

https://litreactor.com/columns/the-8-keys-to-a-good-heist-story

Books Mentioned:

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

The Shadow and Bone Trilogy Boxed Set: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

TV Show Mentioned:

Shadow and Bone - Season 1 Streaming on Netflix

Music from: https://filmmusic.io
’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)