The Lamppost in the Woods

What’s a podcast in the twenty-first century without a little gender-based disagreement?

Today we split our fellowship down the middle as the girls pick one of their favorite books to go head-to-head with one of the guys' favorites. We hope you've read The Clockmaker’s Daughter and Ender’s Game because in this episode, there are no neutral parties.

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We all deal with guilt, so it’s no surprise to find that many of the greatest stories in history portray a guilty conscience. This episode, the team takes on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the Son of Perdition himself, Judas Iscariot as we discuss the portrayal of guilty characters in literature and try to give a little hope for dealing with guilt in real life.

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Time to break out your scones and milky tea, because for this season's spotlight we’re doing that absolute classic of female romance fantasy written by a life-long spinster: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. No, but seriously, P & P is a classic, and we would be remiss in our duties as bibliophiles if we left it out.

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In this episode, the team breaks down the best, worst, and the most surprising reads of 2022. Listen along to find out what books to avoid reading for yourself as well as some books that are just too good to pass up!

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The team is back this month to discuss: "What makes a book a flop?" Between familiar jabs of Catch 22, we take a look at maligned literature and ask ourselves "what went wrong" with some of the most hated books of all time.

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The second-most famous Christmas character has become possibly the most legendary folk hero in world history. In this episode, the team interrogates the many faces of the "fat man in the red suit" while trying to answer that age-old question: Should you believe in Santa Claus?

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Join our fellowship as we dive into one of our very favorite classics: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (yes, it’s all one book). Get ready to laugh, cry, and fangirl as we ponder a burning question: who is the Lord of the Rings?

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This episode, the team gets a spooky surprise as they review Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. This novel interweaves the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil and the dark history and folklore of Vlad Tepes, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia known as "Vlad the Impaler", and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula.

Listeners beware!

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Finally. We told you it was coming, and here it is: our throw-down, knock-out, WWE-style wrestling match over Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Is it the masterpiece so many believe it to be or is it a literary failure? Find out today as our team discusses the triumphs and shortcomings of this polarizing novel. 

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This episode, the team digs into the listener's choice, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. 

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive.

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