Words About Books
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.
Episodes
456 episodes
Talking About Tolkien - Appendix A (Part 1)
Any hope of getting through these Appendices quickly is soon abandoned. Ben and Nate discuss the founding and fall of Numenor which accounts for like 6% of Appendix A.
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.
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 ot...
WAOB - Discussing The Corpus Hermeticum (Part 2)
We continue Chy's initiation into the mysteries of Hermes Trismegistus.
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/jrumpff64
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/jrumpff64
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?
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.
Talking About Tolkien - The Grey Havens (Return, 6-9)
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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.
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 episod...
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 ...
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....
Talking About Tolkien - Homeward Bound (Return, 6-7)
I don't want to hear anything about 6-7
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.
Talking About Tolkien - Many Partings (Return, 6-6)
The gang says a series of farewells from East to West.
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 Hybe...
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.
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 b...
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!
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 th...
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.
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 t...
Talking About Tolkien - Land of Shadow (Return, 6-2)
Tolkien really wants you to know how miserable this last bit of walking is.
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 o...