The Bookening

Our heroes continue their epic journey through all the books they read in 2017. They award prizes for the best line, best setting, worst book, best book and more!

Nathan makes it sound like next week is Mansfield Park but that is actually the first week of February. Next week is somethin' special.

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Our heroes are looking back on all the books they read in 2017 and awarding the coveted Bookening awards of excellence in such categories as:

Coolest male character

... And more!

Our heroes continue to discuss Til We Have Faces, and decide that the ending freaks them out. Here's some things that happen:

1:15 Donor Shout-outs

Our heroes dig into the semi-wonderful, but also kinda icky story of CS Lewis , and his final novel Till We Have Faces.

Things that happen in this episode:

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This episode requires a bit of explanation. What happened was that our heroes gathered together to record their 2017 year-in-review. But, as you'll hear, one thing led to another, and before they knew it, they had recorded an episode on Star Wars, and why this new movie (with its abandonment of the traditional Star-Warsian mythological underpinning) is probably a death knell for the franchise. We do still plan on doing a 2017 Redux, but it will be later in January, after Til We Have Faces. Warning: Spoilers abound, even apart from in the part that Nathan says contains spoilers.

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Drumroll ... our heroes reveal the complete book list and talk about what to expect on The Bookening Season 3 for 2018.

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Our heroes continue to discuss Dubliners by James Joyce, which they didn't care for, plus "Araby" and "The Dead" which they did. Sorry for the weirdness with Brandon's microphone 1/3 of the way in. That was a thing that happened.

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00:00 Short introduction thing

Apologies, we were going to do our 2018 booklist this week, but for boring behind-the-scenes reasons it ended up making more sense to do Dubliners first. However, if you want to get reading for 2018, we're doing CS Lewis's Til We Have Faces in January and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen in February.

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THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS EPISODE:

00:45 Our heroes are awesome!

Our heroes are joined by old pal Dani McNeilly to have some fun and give their thoughts on the Kenneth Branagh movie of Murder on the Orient Express. The actual film discussion starts around the 19:00 mark, but our heroes discuss lots of VERY important things before that, and give an actual up-to-date list of donor shout-outs.

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We're taking this week off to be with our families and all that sort of crap, but here's twenty minutes of our heroes attempting to make the announcement that we're taking this week off to be with our families and all that sort of crap. Enjoy! And happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for all our awesome listeners!