The Bookening
3 guys—a pastor, a scholar, and their gleeful provocateur—discuss the great books. We take God and literature seriously—but the second one not overly so.
Latest episodes
Feb 14, 2022 • 2h 13min
Pride and Prejudice Redux
Happy Valentine's Day! It's been six years. Can you believe it? Time for The Bookening to return to the book that started it all. Will our opinions have changed? Will we argue our former selves into the dust? Will we now HATE Pride and Prejudice???? Find out in this mega stuffed episode.
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Jan 26, 2022 • 2h 9min
State of the Show/2022 Booklist/Ender's Game Trial
How is the Bookening moving forward after a 2021 that wasn't what we wanted? What are we reading in 2022? Was Ender's Game a good novel? The answers to all these questions and more in the mega-long super spectacular new episode!
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Dec 15, 2021 • 33min
Ender's Pre-game
Next week (Lord willing) Jake and Brandon will face off in the epic trial of Ender's Game. This week Jake prepares.
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Dec 8, 2021 • 40min
Ender's Game Context
Ender's Game on, Bro!
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Dec 1, 2021 • 47min
A Room with a View, Part 2
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster. Will our heroes decide this book is romantic wish fulfillment? Or just really good?
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Nov 24, 2021 • 1h 11min
A Room with a View, Part 1
In which our heroes discuss E. M. Forster, a gay guy who lived his mom until she died at 90. But also wrote some great novels!
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Nov 17, 2021 • 1h
28 books to give this Christmas (even for really difficult people)
What do a great Russian novel, an iconic horror story, and some classic regency romance all have in common? They all appear on our list of books to buy even the most difficult people for Christmas this year.
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Nov 10, 2021 • 31min
Gender inclusive language and other threats to modern literary style
3 fetters that hold back 21st century style.
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Nov 3, 2021 • 27min
Hamlet, Part 4
ANOTHER EPISODE ABOUT HAMLET!
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Oct 27, 2021 • 54min
The Call of Cthulhu
You didn't think we'd leave you hanging for Halloween did you? It's one of the most influential supernatural stories of the twentieth century, "The Call of Cthulhu", by H.P. Lovecraft. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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