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
Aug 11, 2021 • 1h 18min
Howl's Moving Castle, Part 1
Move aside, Miyazaki! The Bookening is talking about the awesome Diana Wynne Jones novel that is Howl's Moving Castle. If you haven't read it, what are you waiting for? Brandon provides some much needed context in this episode. Plus Jake talks all about Harry Potter world.
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Aug 4, 2021 • 48min
Watership Down, Part 4
It's part 4 of our Watership Down discussion. Yay!
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Jul 28, 2021 • 51min
Watership Down, Part 3
What makes Watership Down the perfect adventure story? ALL THREE MEMBERS OF THE BOOKENING are finally together to tell you all about it, in this CLASSIC episode of our fine, fine podcast. Enjoy.
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Jul 21, 2021 • 6min
State of the Show!
IS THIS THE END OF THE BOOKENING??!??!?
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Jul 14, 2021 • 43min
John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson: A tangent
John Updike, Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace, Dennis Johnson ... these are the people we talk about today for some reason.
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Jul 7, 2021 • 42min
A Watership sidebar on anthropomorphic animal stories
The Bookening talks anthropomorphic animal stories. Hopefully we'll have all 3 of us to finally LITIGATE Watership Down next week.
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Jun 30, 2021 • 54min
Watership Down, Part 2: Great Watership Down Podcast
In which a whole bunch of thoughts about Watership Down by Richard Adams are spilled into a microphone. Bonus ep with Nathan and Brandon coming later this week.
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Jun 23, 2021 • 55min
Watership Down, Part 1
Did we actually like this book? Our first episode on Watership Down by Richard Adams. Context. What else do you need to know?
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Jun 16, 2021 • 59min
The once and future King Arthur podcast
In which our heroes come up with a new Patreon motivator that's pretty exciting, talk about King Arthur stuff that happened after Sir Thomas Mallory, and other things.
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Jun 9, 2021 • 1h 2min
Audiobooks!
You asked for it! And Brandon's son ran over his internet cable. We have all the luck lately. But Nathan and Jake are talking audiobooks, baby!
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