Words About Books
Words About Books is a podcast where two aspiring writers, Ben and Nate, read and discuss books. They invite listeners to read along with them or simply enjoy the show. New episodes are released every Sunday.
Episodes
Discussing Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Part II)
This week we save humanity while inventing new words for the deeds we've done. Truely a heartwarming tale of a child's triumph over his human tormentors and nothing else.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsab
Discussing Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
This week the boys talk about being a boy and the struggles of coming of age while constantly being messed with by all the adults around you. The only option available is, of course, overwhelming force. We're going to win this battle and all other battles to come!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - htt
WAOB - Discussing The Corpus Hermeticum (Part 2)
We continue Chy's initiation into the mysteries of Hermes Trismegistus.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Part 2)
Much like actual RPG's level 2 is kind of just there to space out level one and level three.Thumbnail by Jason Rumpff https://www.artstation.com/jrumpff64Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog -
Discussing Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Part 1)
Dungeon Crawler Carl...greatest literary epic of our age or overrated generic litrpg. What do you think? Thumbnail by Jason Rumpff https://www.artstation.com/jrumpff64Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodca
Discussing Artemis by Andy Weir
You've seen men struggle to write women before, but have you seen them struggle to write women...on the moon?Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
This week we're discussing a book that jumps around a bit by talking in a way that jumps around a bit. It's one of the few non-fiction books we cover and I get why. I figured it out.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram
Talking About Tolkien - The Grey Havens (Return, 6-9)
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
This is what the patrons wanted. I hope that this is what they wanted. Be sure to let Ben know how wrong he is for his opinions. Not Nate though.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.
Discussing The Way of Hermes - Corpus Hermeticum (Part 1)
Ben and Chy discuss The Way of Hermes. A new(ish) translation of The Corpus Hermeticum and The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius. Don't know what these things are? I'm honestly not sure if anyone does.*Correction to episode: I accidentally conflate the Nag Hammadi find of the gnostic texts in Egypt with The Dead Sea Scrolls find in the Qumran Caves. The larger point about t
Talking About Tolkien - The Scouring of the Shire (Return, 6-8)
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold... Others can be rectified by a well-armed militia. This is of those.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://disc
Discussing The Biome by Enrique Ventura
Nate tells me I'm opening the flood gates by accepting a request for a review from a new independently published author, but when I hear there's a new books about a mysterious purple substance mutating an ecosystem into some horror movie stuff...well...I just couldn't resist.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6
Talking About Tolkien - Homeward Bound (Return, 6-7)
I don't want to hear anything about 6-7Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (Part 3)
CW: Sexual Content, Mentions of Sexual Violence, Gratuitous Backseat GeneralingWe might have gotten a little too into the war planning.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsabout
Talking About Tolkien - Many Partings (Return, 6-6)
The gang says a series of farewells from East to West.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin (Part 2)
Content Warning: Sexual Content, Explicit Content, Mentions of Sexual ViolenceWell, you've read the content warning. We're back with Part Two of a A Court of Wings and Ruin. In this episode Ben and Nate discuss the upcoming war with Hybern while simultaneously trying to devise a method of quantifying "spice" level. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutb
Talking About Tolkien - The Steward and the King (Return, 6-5)
Faramir kind of checks out for his last two weeks on the job and tries to convince Eowyn that he would be a worthy silver metal. Aragorn also has a romance.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - ht
Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (Part 1)
We're back with the third installment of Sarah J. Maas's Sexy Romance Fantasy. A Sexromantasy, if you will. Last time Feyre failed to stop the king of Hybern from claiming the cauldron. Now she's back at the Spring Court and doing her best to bring Tamlin down from the inside...wait, I mean...like metaphorically...like she's politically sabotaging him, not you know...sexy stuff
Talking About Tolkien - The Fields of Cormallen (Return, 6-4)
Sauron's dead. Volcano's are exploding. Orcs are going nuts and...is that?...THE EAGLES ARE COMING!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Library After Dark by Ande Pliego (Part 2)
And we're back! Is this a podcast that I'm publishing? Did I record this? I finished editing it. I'm putting it in the dropbox. I'm clicking on "schedule for future" and publishing it this coming Sunday at midnight. I'm putting in the title now. Oh wait is this a bone spur in my back? Am I choking to death? Where did all this blood come from? Oh geez everything i
Talking About Tolkien - Mount Doom (Return, 6-3)
The episode is uploaded. But I do not now choose to write the description that I came to write. I will not do this deed.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Library After Dark by Ande Pliego Part I
Bust out your bagpipes as we delve into the depths of an ~~ancient~~ slightly old library. It’s THE LIBRARY AFTER DARK by Ande ~~Peligrino~~ Pliego. Witness the dark secrets of someone who knows that a book reader is reading their mind and so will never directly voice said secret until the end of the book. ~~Suddenly~~ Eventually the elevator crashes and we enter the murder phase of this murder ~~
Talking About Tolkien - Land of Shadow (Return, 6-2)
Tolkien really wants you to know how miserable this last bit of walking is.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Talking About Genre With John Bierce
We sit down with Wabby Award Winning Author John Bierce to discuss the relatively new genres of Progression Fantasy, LitRPG, and Isekai. ---Pre-order Mage Errant in hardcover at a bookstore of your choice and send John a proof of purchase at mage.errant.bonus.story@gmail.com to get access free early access to a new short story. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bs
Talking About Tolkien - The Tower of Cirith Ungol (Return, 6-1)
We're back! Find out how Sam gets past an army of orcs to rescue Frodo using no less than 3 magic items requiring attunement.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks
World First - Two Idiots Talk About Stoicism on a Podcast
Today the boys are talking about Epictetus...kind of.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Nate Discusses All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse III) THE FINALE
The last Bobiverse episode is finally out! Now that we're done we can reflect on the experience. We're also going to tie up some storylines and get rid of The Others in a very dramatic way. Enjoy! Or don't, I'm not your dad.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wor
Nate Discusses All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse III) Part I
Welcome to the two-part finale of the Bobiverse on Words About Books. This episode we talk about Bob and his various quests to hook up with a redhead, fight a fascist pacific island government, become a dolphin, and maybe become the greatest smooth jazz singer of all time.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads -
Discussing Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Wealthy, but not ultra-wealthy, boy genius Artemis Fowl commits crimes to further enrich himself. It's like real life, but these crimes are committed against the fairy folk. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsabo
Talking About Tolkien - The Black Gate Opens (Return 5-10)
My master Sauron the Great bids thee welcome.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
What do you want? It's a secret. Go away.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
WAOB - What even is a cult (Ft. Cultish by Amanda Montell)
Ben and Chy are back. This time we sit down to try to hammer out a definition of the word "cult."Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Nate tried to force Ben to read a book that he would hate. Ben surprises Nate with his ability to appreciate anything a wide variety of stories. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.
Talking About Tolkien - The Last Debate (Return, 5-9)
Hey, Patreon people...sorry that this one is up a little late. Recording was delayed due to an outbreak of tornadoes and I was not able to get to the editing in time. We'll have something special up for the patrons at some point.We find out where that ghost army went. Gandalf proposes an all out assault on Mordor.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialD
Discussing Chain of Command by Frank Chadwick Part I
Finally some good f*king food! Is what I would have put at the beginning of this episode if the original clip from Gordon Ramsay wasn't loud and full of gross background noise. You'll have to just settle for it being in the description. In all seriousness Nate is pretty pleased to be reading books he really enjoys again. There have been a handful of mid books this year already that didn&
Talking About Tolkien - The Houses of Healing (Return, 5-8)
The hands of the King are the hands of a healer. Everyone knows this, and always has.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good: Part II: by Timothy Zahn
The epic conclusion after Ben returns from getting that seltzer!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Talking About Tolkien - The Pyre of Denethor (Return, 5-7)
And so passes Denethor son of Ecthelion...Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good: Part I by Timothy Zahn
This week Nate reads and discusses another Thrawn book. This is for us. Also Ben's brain leaves his skull like Homer Simpson listening to Flanders' talk about cider and juice.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wo
Talking About Tolkien - The Battle of the Pelennor Fields (Return, 5-6)
“Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Odyssey Part IV - Are We Done Yet?
A Fourth Part?!?!? Not since season 1 have we seen such a thing! And to be real, Homer (or the collection of people known as Homer) really could have trimmed a lot of this down. Just a bit too much at the end and it's clearly running out of steam but Ben and Nate, but mostly Ben, are here to ride this until the wheels fall off and there is no more Odyssey left to speak of.Support the showBlue
Talking About Tolkien - The Ride of the Rohirrim (Return, 5-5)
Theoden has arrived too late. He's cut off from Gondor by an army of orcs...then he meets Ghân-buri-Ghân, who really just wants to never have to talk to any of these people again.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wor
Discussing The Odyssey Part III - Don't Eat the Cows
Odysseus finishes his telling of his tale to the king of the Phaeoeociians. First by recounting that time that he spent a year sleeping with a Goddess. Then that time he went to the underworld. Then that time he went back to the Goddess's island to sleep with her under the guise of burying his drunk friend. Then that time he heard some sirens singing. Finally ending with some monster confront
April Fools: Special Announcement: Words About Old Books
Nate has regrettably left the podcast, and there are going to be some changes to how we do things around here. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Talking About Tolkien - The Siege of Gondor (Return, 5-4)
The armies of Sauron have crossed the river. Denethor is unhappy to say the least.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Odyssey - Odysseus Tries to Get Home (Part 2)
In this episode we follow Odysseus as recounts the first 3 years of his journey to the Phaeacians. Nate's internet connection struggles to remain connected. Ben's car continues to fall apart. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www
Talking About Tolkien - The Muster of Rohan (Return 5-3)
Rohan gets ready for war. Merry starts to wonder why he never sees Eowyn and Dernhelm in the same place at the same time...Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing The Odyssey - Telemechus Sets Out (Part 1)
We're finally reading The Odyssey. Well, some of us are at any rate...Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Talking About Tolkien - The Passing of the Grey Company (5-2)
The only things deader than these paths are Eowyn's dreams.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
The stunning conclusion* to the Legends and Lattes Trilogy! It's B&B2! What did the boys think of Fern's midlife crisis? How did it stack up to the other Legends and Lattes Books? What small business are we going to build this time? Find out on another exciting installment of Words & something else that starts with a W (I'm very tired and forgot to upload this).Support the s
Talking About Tolkien - Minas Tirith (Return, 5-1)
Gandalf and Pippin arrive in Minas Tirith where they meet the Lord Steward Denethor. You ever see this guy eat a tomato?Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Chad Dingleton Discusses Chuck Tingle's Compilation Book
Special Guest Chad Dingleton is here to discuss a compilation of Chuck Tingle short stories! Also check our the free episode on Patreon.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsabou
Discussing Ship of Destiny by Frank Chadwick (Part 3)
We discuss the exciting conclusion to Ship of Destiny by Frank Chadwick.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Trailer: Pendragon Soldiers of Halla by D. J. MacHale
On PATREON! Ben and Nate finally discuss what everyone has been waiting for with bated breath. The final book in the epic 10-book Pendragon series. All your answers will be answered. All the mystery will be revealed. The final satisfying entry in a 10-book series that we covered the first book of and then skipped to the end! Only on Patreon!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/words
Discussing Ship of Destiny by Frank Chadwick (Part 2)
We continue our adventure with Sam Bitka and his lady-owl-friend. Prepare for thrilling engagements and alien wonders. But will it be enough to hold Nate's attention? Will we get a part 3? Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagr
Discussing Ship of Destiny by Frank Chadwick Part 1
Ben's wife insisted he read a book with a strange cover. You won't believe what happened.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsa
Talking About Tolkien - The Choices of Master Samwise (Towers, 4-10)
Sam loves Frodo more than I have ever loved anything.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Talking About Tolkien - Shelob's Lair (Towers, 4-9)
Frodo and Sam face down Shelob. Frequent references are made to The Silmarillion.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbook
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?!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.words
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!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/pr
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!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.thre
Talking About Tolkien - Journey to the Crossroads (Towers 4-7)
It is the calm before the storm. Frodo, Sam and Gollum enjoy a quiet moment of reflection and so do Ben and Nate.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Merry Yule (Reginsmal and Fafnismal)
As the long night approaches, we tell tales of ancient Gods and Heroes to fortify our courage. Join us in the retelling of Reginsmal and Fafnismal from the Poetic Edda. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspod
Talking About Tolkien - The Forbidden Pool (Towers, 4-6)
Gollum enters a forbidden pool and sings a song about murdering everyone. Do you want Faramir to take the shot?Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing Virtual Light by William Gibson
Love the bridge...not so keen on Rydell and Chevette.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Nate's Naruto Conclusion
A bonus episode in which Nate lays out his concluding thoughts on Naruto.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Talking About Tolkien - The Window On the West (Towers, 4-5)
Detective Faramir is on the case. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Discussing the Rest of Naruto (Part II)
We finish our discussion on Naruto. If Ben had only held out we could have just had a 3 hour conversation on Naruto non-stop. But here we are finishing the last, rather small, two arcs.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wo
Talking About Tolkien - Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit (Towers, 4-4)
Sam teaches us why it's important never to leave our campfires unattended and to ensure that they are properly extinguished when we are done with them.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - ht
Nate Discusses Naruto Part I
Let's face it, nothing is going to beat Hulk Hogan for Nate's Nightmare November. But this one might come close.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Ectoplasm and Photoshop - The History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle (Part 3)
The last episode on Arthur Conan Doyle's History of Spiritualism...I promise. We get into the specifics of how manifestation works, the various physical proofs offered on behalf of the Spiritualism, and some of the theology behind the movement.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net
Talking About Tolkien - The Black Gate is Closed (Towers, 4-3)
Frodo arrives at the Black Gate expecting sweet death to soon follow. (Un)fortunately, Gollum knows another way and the road goes ever on and on. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blo
We Decide Donkey Kong Canon Once and For All
This week of Nate's Nightmare November, we take a break from talking about Hulk Hogan to instead talk about Donkey Kong. First we talk about some book but then we get into the real meat of things when we convene the Council of Nicaea to finally decide once and for all what is Donkey Kong and what is blasphemy and lies.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.so
Talking About Tolkien - The Passage of the Marshes (Towers, 4-2)
Gollum leads Sam and Frodo through The Dead Marshes. With each step towards Mordor, Frodo's burden threatens to consume him.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.
Surprise! Hulk Hogan had a SECOND BOOK! Hollywood Hulk Hogan BROTHER!
We did it! Nate has achieved maximum Hulkage brother! Ben didn't even know what hit him. He was caught so completely off guard, it was beautiful. It was my master plan. Nothing else this Nightmare November will be able to top that intro, DUDE but I will try my hardest. Enjoy another 2 hours of talking about Hulk Hogan's life INSIDE the ring BROTHER!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky
