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January 16, 2025

Ben’s 2024 Year in Books

The overwhelming majority of the books I read in 2024 were covered on Words About Books. There were several books and novel-length manga I read that I did not make podcast content on. I thought it might be fun to go over them here. If the presence of so much manga surprises you, then you might not know that I...

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October 12, 2024

Dune Post Mortem: Zen and the Art of Thinking Machines

As of this month, Words About Books has officially covered all of the Dune books written by Frank Herbert. It’s a strange feeling. Words About Books can often be a sarcasm-filled mess of rants, interruptions, and audio memes. In addition to its being a difficult environment for emotional honesty, it can be difficult to say exactly what you mean, in...

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September 17, 2024

Extra Nate: Bioshock

Here I am with a non-book for some reason. Probably because Ben gave me access to this blog and he never checks it so I can slip in a video game. I guess there are books for this series and I will never read them. So this is the best you’re going to get. I just finished the first game...

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August 7, 2024

Extra Nate: The Mystery of the Yellow Room Review

It’s Extra Nate! Prepare for spoilers! Okay I’ll keep this one short. The Mystery of the Yellow Room… not good. Not a fan. Not great. Sorry Dame Agatha Christie but I have to disagree with you on this one. This is absolutely cheating. It’s kind of BS. The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a locked room mystery. Locked room...

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July 22, 2024

Extra Nate: Throne of Glass Book Review

It’s Extra Nate! This time I’m talking about Throne of Glass, the thing I read instead of reading A Court of Mist and Fury. Because Ben put up a poll on Patreon. And the Patrons made their voices heard. And they wanted us to only read one book. And that book was ToG. Not ACoMaF. Thanks. So here we are,...

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July 9, 2024

Extra Nate: The Monogram Murders Book Review

It’s time for some EXTRA NATE! BOOK REVIEW Are you tired and depressed about our presidential election? Saw the debate and realized that the only thing standing between another Trump presidency was a zombie man? Realizing that this November will be a stressful and depressing endeavor and, like, maybe we don’t even deserve democracy anymore? Well come with me! Back...

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June 10, 2024

Extra Nate: Revisiting The Chocolate War

It’s Extra Nate! With a topic nobody asked for or cares about other than me. Re-re-discussing the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. You remember that, right? The book I talked about like 4 years ago that only I read and Ben didn’t? I read it in high school and it stuck with me and I wanted to see how I...

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June 3, 2024

Extra Nate: Murder She Wrote: Gin and Daggers

It’s time for some Extra Nate! What am I talking about this time? *Checks notes* hmmmm… well this is gonna be a challenge. Murder She Wrote: Gin & Daggers. A book I almost forgot to review. It’s Murder She Wrote except as a book. From what I can tell Murder She Wrote is about a successful murder mystery author who...

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May 12, 2024

Ben Explains Mona Lisa Overdrive

There are surprisingly few good summaries of what happened in Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson, so I’m writing my own. This is what I believe happened. This contains spoilers for the entire Sprawl trilogy. Background Mona Lisa Overdrive is the third book in The Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson. “Trilogy” is used loosely when referring to these books. They...

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May 1, 2024

Nate Talks: Bridge to Bat City by Ernest Cline (NEW RELEASE)

I thought I was out… …but he keeps dragging me back in! Ernest Cline’s best book yet! Also the one that most people will care the least about so that’s kind of a bummer. For those who don’t know I’m the world’s foremost Ernest Cline scholar (not by choice) second only to my book club partner Ben. I’ve read his...

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