Words About Books

By Ben & Nate

Words About Books is a podcast where two wannabe writers read and discuss books. Read along with us, or just enjoy the show! New episodes every Sunday.

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Words About Books episodes:

February 08, 2026 Discussing Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Part 2
Tried to make the book's deeper themes a little easier to understand. Failed. Posted the episode anyway.
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1h 43min
February 01, 2026 Discussing Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Part 1
This week we tackle a Cyberpunk Classic that is genuinely pretty good but maybe twice as long as it needs to be.
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1h 24min
January 25, 2026 Discussing Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
This week we discuss a highly stylized book about the navigating the complexities of identity in America. Also Nate is a quarter Japanese.
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1h 15min
January 21, 2026 Talking About Tolkien - The Choices of Master Samwise (Towers, 4-10)
Sam loves Frodo more than I have ever loved anything.
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56min
January 18, 2026 Discussing Beware of Chicken Volume 5 by CasualFarmer
There's a new volume of Beware of Chicken and you'd better believe I'm talking about it.
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1h 11min
January 14, 2026 Talking About Tolkien - Shelob's Lair (Towers, 4-9)
Frodo and Sam face down Shelob. Frequent references are made to The Silmarillion.
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50min
January 11, 2026 Discussing The Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay
Starving for Justice! The name writes itself! Anyway, I hope you're ready for the finale of the Hunger Games trilogy! I guess!
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1h 25min
January 07, 2026 Talking About Tolkien - The Stairs of Cirith Ungol (Towers, 4-8)
Frodo and Sam finally cross into Mordor. Ben and Nate become distracted by questions of morality and-ARE THOSE CRUMBS ON SAM'S JACKET?!
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52min
January 04, 2026 Discussing Hell Hole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson (aka the Dune Braintrust)
It's that time of year again! Where Ben and Nate take a brief break and give you an episode from our bonus list. If you want to hear this stuff when it comes out rather than over a year (or 2) later, sign up for your patreon! $3 gets you our entire bonus episode library and we're planning on releasing even more this coming year. Check us out!
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1h 54min
December 28, 2025 End of Year Retrospect & WABie Awards 2025
Ben & Nate are back with real WABies. And someday you might even see the episode if I ever get the video up and running! Yes, Season 6 is over. We give awards to our favorite books, throw out some stats, and head off into the sunset. See you next year!
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1h 15min

FAQs about Words About Books:

How many episodes does Words About Books have?

The podcast currently has 401 episodes available.