The Bookening

Drumroll ... our heroes reveal the complete book list and talk about what to expect on The Bookening Season 3 for 2018. Full list here! Support us here! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our heroes continue to discuss Dubliners by James Joyce, which they didn't care for, plus "Araby" and "The Dead" which they did. Sorry for the weirdness with Brandon's microphone 1/3 of the way in. That was a thing that happened. Support us here! 00:00 Short introduction thing 00:45 Somebody from something else is here 04:52 Donor Shout Outs 08:12 Epiphanies, or Lack Thereof 17:55 Realism, or Lack Thereof 32:01 Joyce the Exhibitionist 33:58 "Araby" 40:21 "The Dead" 52:41 The Bookening Seal of Approval, or Lack Thereof ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Apologies, we were going to do our 2018 booklist this week, but for boring behind-the-scenes reasons it ended up making more sense to do Dubliners first. However, if you want to get reading for 2018, we're doing CS Lewis's Til We Have Faces in January and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen in February. Throw us a couple bucks on Patreon! THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS EPISODE: 00:45 Our heroes are awesome! 10:52 Donor Shout-outs 18:02 Context begins 19:09 Nathan gives a caveat for Brandon 20:37 Introduction to James Joyce 24:02 Joyce's History 27:27 Ireland 33:36 Joyce's place in Irish History and Culture 35:57 Joyce's depravity 40:15 Wrapping up Joyce's Life 44:27 The theme of Paralysis 49:00 Epiphany 52:05 Baggage check ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our heroes are joined by old pal Dani McNeilly to have some fun and give their thoughts on the Kenneth Branagh movie of Murder on the Orient Express. The actual film discussion starts around the 19:00 mark, but our heroes discuss lots of VERY important things before that, and give an actual up-to-date list of donor shout-outs. If you want to check out the world's only competing Christian podcast on literature, do so here. If you want to support a fine gentleman and manful poet, do so here. If you want to support the McNeilly's ministry, do so here. And finally, if you want to support The Bookening do so here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We're taking this week off to be with our families and all that sort of crap, but here's twenty minutes of our heroes attempting to make the announcement that we're taking this week off to be with our families and all that sort of crap. Enjoy! And happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for all our awesome listeners! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This episode is a second episode about Martin Dressler. Things that happen include: 00:00=EVERYTHING IS AWESOME 2:45=DONOR SHOUT OUTS 4:44=MARTIN DRESSLER AS A DUDE 9:45=ART AND THE AMERICAN DREAM AND STEVE JOBS AND WALT DISNEY 25:30=WHAT ON EARTH WAS MILLHAUSER DOING WITH THIS NOVEL? 30:16=THE WOMEN IN THE NOVEL 40:49=IN WHICH OUR HEROES ADDRESS THE CONCERNS OF ANDREW HENRY, WHO THINKS MILLHAUSER TAPS INTO THINGS AS A WRITER THAT HE PERHAPS SHOULDN'T, WITHOUT EVER SAYING ANDREW HENRY'S NAME FOR SOME RANDOM UNKNOWN REASON, EVEN THOUGH ANDREW WAS JUST ON THE SHOW. Throw us a couple bucks on Patreon! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

IT'S WHAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THE WHOLE YEAR, OUR DISCUSSION OF MARTIN DRESSLER BY STEVEN MILLHAUSER, WAHOOOOOOO!!!! That's right, our heroes are talking Steven Millhauser, that poet of the uncanny creeping at the edges of the mundane (he' s not actually a poet). This is one of Nathan's favorite books we read this year ... BUT SHOULD IT BE???????? Over the next couple weeks, our heroes intend to find out. Our heroes are awesome (00:00) DONOR SHOUTOUTS! (05:00) (Newer donors, you should all be included by the time our heroes do Dubliners) The Contextual Texan Talks Millhauser + Post-Modernism (08:15) Why People (Including Andrew Henry) Have Trouble With Millhauser's Hypnotic Effect (17:07) Magical Realism (28:52) Baggage Check (35:05) Jake And His Family Went To a Cool Museum One Time (51:03) Throws us a couple bucks on Patreon! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Our heroes and friend Andrew conclude their epic discussion of the one and only Ray Bradbury ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

In this episode our heroes discuss the short stories of Ray Bradbury with their pal Andrew Henry. Andrew has 10890591805098 good insights on Ray Bradbury (example: Bradbury was really good at describing smells) and 150815180 good insights on fiction and writing in general. So, if you do the math, what that means is: whether you like Ray Bradbury or don't like Ray Bradbury, this is a good episode for you to listen to. Actually our heroes talk directly to a listener who isn't a huge Bradbury fan, so even if you don't like Bradbury, this one's for you. So stop reading this and listen to it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Things that happen in this episode: Halloween puns! (00:00) The depiction of EVIL (06:00). Daddy issues. (28:00).Fun fact: per some random article by the Imaginative Conservative, SWTWC touches on the following (from a list of the 102 Great Ideas that Mortimer Adler says a great novel can touch upon): Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Courage, Custom and Convention, Desire, Duty, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, God, Good and Evil, Habit, Happiness, Honor, Immortality, Judgment, Knowledge, Law, Life and Death, Love, Man, Memory and Imagination, Mind, Nature, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Pleasure and Pain, Prudence, Punishment, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Senses, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Soul, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Virtue and Vice, Will, Wisdom, and World.Eat your heart our, Marilynne Robinson! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★