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Recapping Our Favorite Reads of 2023
Our annual holiday tradition is back! Join us we share our respective top five favorite reading experiences of the year. Some of them are new books, some are classics read with a fresh perspective (o…
Published on 2 years ago
Things Fall Apart: Parts 2 and 3
As we come to the end of China Achebe’s novel, we’re discussing whether it ends in a satisfying fashion, contemplating the POV shift in the final chapter, and thinking about the complex role of both …
Published on 2 years ago
Things Fall Apart: Part 1
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is one of the most influential and important examples of world literature in the twentieth century, so we’re very excited to dig in over the next few weeks. In this …
Published on 2 years ago
A 1920s Book Draft
What’s your favorite book from the 1920s? There are certainly plenty to choose from. Maybe it’s a book by Fitzgerald or by Hemingway or even Cather? Maybe it’s a classic mystery or an essential chil…
Published on 2 years ago
A Canticle For Leibowitz: Q&A Episode
We’ve come to the end of another book which means it’s time to dig into to some of your questions. So click that play button and join us as we discuss the final paragraphs of the book, whether it all…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
A Canticle for Leibowitz: To the End
As we come to the end of the fascinating book, we’re discussing the change in the authorial voice, the various enigmatic figures of part three, and whether this is a novel which ends in notes of hope…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Chapters 16-24
We’re deep into Walter J. Miller’s classic dystopian novel, so welcome to our discussion of this middle section, one in which characters believe they’re on the verge of a “renaissance” and are coming…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
A Canticle for Liebowitz: Chapters 9-15
This section of Walter M. Miller’s novel spans two sections, so in this week’s episode we discussed the tightrope walk that is abandoning one now-beloved character in the middle of a book and asking …
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
A Canticle for Liebowitz: Chapters 1-8
Once more into the breach of a new book! We haven’t done many science fiction titles on the show (Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy notwithstanding and that certainly not post-apocalyptic sci-fi), so this week w…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
The Moving Toyshop: Q&A
Thanks to the nature of the questions submitted, this particular Q&A episode ended up taking the form of a romp through the genre. So if you like mysteries, this one’s for you. Happy listening!
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Published on 2 years, 2 months ago