The Bookening talks anthropomorphic animal stories. Hopefully we'll have all 3 of us to finally LITIGATE Watership Down next week. 

In which a whole bunch of thoughts about Watership Down by Richard Adams are spilled into a microphone. Bonus ep with Nathan and Brandon coming later this week. 

Did we actually like this book? Our first episode on Watership Down by Richard Adams. Context. What else do you need to know? 

In which our heroes come up with a new Patreon motivator that's pretty exciting, talk about King Arthur stuff that happened after Sir Thomas Mallory, and other things. 

You asked for it! And Brandon's son ran over his internet cable. We have all the luck lately. But Nathan and Jake are talking audiobooks, baby! 

Nathan lost the episode. He stinks. 

SOME MUCH NEEDED CONTEXT FOR LA MORTE D'ARTHUR!!

Dark magic is always lurking at the edges of Christendom, trying to get in. That's one of the themes of the King Arthur stories, and the ways it plays out can be shocking. How does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight fit into the Arthur mythos? What does it have to tell us about storytelling without psychology? And, like we said, does it reflect a Christian code of morality and influence or a pagan one? All these questions and more answered in THIS EPISODE!

Was King Arthur a real dude? How has the Arthurian romance come down to us? Which cultures has it drawn from, and what has it picked up along the way? The Bookening discusses all these issues and more in the first of our Patron-sponsored mini-series on the tales of King Arthur. 

King Arthur next week we promise! Brandon had something come up, so Jake and Nathan talk about twelve books that will make you rich.