The Bookening

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The Bookening provides some much needed context on C. S. Lewis, as our heroes embark on their multipart quest to talk through all The Chronicles of Narnia. Also, our heroes court a little controversy by having their usual issues with Lewis. But also, they really like him and are looking forward to talking through his books. But on the other hand, he has some issues that are, shall we say, problematic. But on the other hand, he's pretty great. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!

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Brandon and Nathan hammer home their recent forays into poetry by reading and examining three poems together: The Wild Swans at Coole, The Art of Losing, and Digging. Next week Jake will be back and we'll start on Narnia!

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Brandon is still recovering from ACL surgery, so Nathan, Jake, and Dubstep Dani (the mom who's a bomb of reading) review Witness for the Prosecution, the wonderful 1957 feature film starring Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. 

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Chillax and join us for a mellow summer episode. After teaching you how to make the perfect margarita (no, seriously), Nathan walks you through his top ten summer reads. What about Brandon and Jake you ask? Well, one of them is on vacation and one is recovering from surgery. So Nathan decided to do this ultra-rare solo outing. The good news is you get to hear about a great detective, spoooooky psychology, an inimitable humorist, plus Jordan Peterson and Stephen King? Oh my. 

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Do women like poetry? Our heroes answer this horribly sexist question in this episode. And then Brandon at long last gives us a linear discussion of poetry. 

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We're gonna go ahead and call this a bonus episode instead of a real one. It was recorded on a crazy late night in Brandon's kitchen without the best sound quality. But we thought it was worth releasing because there's some good discussion and a good lead in for next week's real poetry episode. Plus you get to hang out with the women of The Bookening.

Support us here! So close to reading Narnia and making Jake wear elf ears.

Oh dear. It's another thing that Nathan didn't particularly like. But also it's a pretty good thing at being what it is. Our heroes discuss it in this episode. 

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After playing "Guess the literary quote", our heroes answer some email and end up talking about why they do the show the way they do the show. 

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In this episode our heroes continue to discuss Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. They have good things to say about it. This is a quality episode of The Bookening. You should listen to it, and benefit from it.

Support us here! Our heroes provide some much needed context for The Old Man and the Sea.