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September 4, 2025

Why I Don’t Remember Mass Effect

Ordinarily, in these blog posts, I try to explore aspects of a topic that weren’t fully addressed in the corresponding episodes of the podcast. When it comes to these Mass Effect episodes, it’s difficult to imagine any aspect of the story that was not covered, perhaps to death, in the 4 hours we were on mic. There was something that...

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August 22, 2025

Reading Sherlock Holmes in 2025

Recently on the podcast we covered The Hound of the Baskervilles. This was my co-host’s first Holmes story and he was unimpressed. I mentioned on the podcast that if I had known he had never read any Holmes story before that I would have recommended that he choose a different one. I have read every Sherlock Holmes story ever published...

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July 30, 2025

Extra Nate: Ben Needs To Run A Mile

It’s Extra Nate. The sad blog that now is without images. Tens if not twenties of spicy memes, gone. You see, readers, we have an iron-clad contract. I write a blog loosely related to a book or I have to run a mile for every blog I didn’t do. It’s not a perfect system, but we work every day towards...

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July 30, 2025

Technical Problems

You may have noticed that the blog has a new look and that many of the posts (all of them prior to July 30, 2025) have broken image links. We had a bug that caused our wordpress install to grind nearly to a halt. We had to do a complete reinstallation to fix the issue. I had a back up...

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July 16, 2025

Extra Nate: What More Can I Even Say About The Futurological Congress?

It’s Extra Nate! This week I have to write a long-overdue blog about the Futurological congress or I Ben will make me run a mile. So what can I say? Nothing. The end. Okay, fine. These blogs are about supplemental material to the book rather than a book review or a rehash of the podcast anyway. So what can I...

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July 13, 2025

A Theory About Why Ash Harms Fey in ACOTAR

In Sarah J Maas’s books, Ash wood is the only weakness the fey have that humans are able to exploit. Maas has yet to offer an explanation for why this material, of all substances on Earth, can disrupt the fey’s supernatural healing abilities. Anyone who listened to our recent episode on A Court of Mist and Fury will know that...

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July 6, 2025

Extra Nate: Oblivion is Mid

Welcome Moon and Star. I have provided a place for you. This week we’re talking about Morrowind’s Inferior Sequel’s book: Oblivion. But why is Oblivion the inferior sequel? Also let’s address another question: why is Oblivion an inferior prequel? Yes that’s right. There are 3 Elder Scrolls games in the mainline series that are worth talking about and Oblivion is...

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July 6, 2025

Review Etiquette: Should You Review a Book You DNF’d?

This is the first in a series about good reviewing etiquette. In the various spheres of book social media there have been many heated debates about how reviewers ought to approach a book. The conversation tends to pit authors against readers, especially readers who engage in review-based content creation (that’s me!). I’d like to explore this conversation and why it...

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July 3, 2025

Extra Nate: Burn Notice Recap

Wow this is a long one. Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Ben’s soothing voice read this for you? Sure it would. It’ll only cost you $2 It’s Extra Nate. The only blog companion piece to the hottest book-related podcast that had discussed a Burn Notice book on the entire internet! What Even Is Burn Notice? A lot of people...

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July 1, 2025

Extra Nate: What is a Locked Room Mystery

Hello, my name is Nate. Welcome to my original blog post idea. After reading You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego, I got to thinking. What even is a locked room mystery? Because whatever that was, that wasn’t it. Looking at Wikipedia (as my original source didn’t even list “locked room mysteries” as a subgenre and is thus wrong) there...

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Ben's books

The President Is Missing
it was ok
The President Is Missing
by Bill Clinton
Where to start with this book? Should I talk about how I don't believe that either James Patterson or Bill Clinton actually did much of the writing? Should I talk about how Bill Clinton is spending his retirement creating Bill Clinton fa...
A Court of Mist and Fury
liked it
A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J. Maas
I thought this was pretty ok. I'm team Night Court. I really enjoy that Feyre is getting to have a hipster phase with the cool kids in a fancy Bohemian city. I dont even mind that she has all the super powers, I thought that would bug me...
The Infernal City
it was ok
The Infernal City
by Greg Keyes
I don't often do this, but I'm going to engage in a controversial DNF review. I'm fairly confident that being forced to read every word of the rest of it would only lower my score. I made it about half way through Part 1 of the audio boo...
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback
it was amazing
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback
by Unknown Author
I've read a few translations of Beowulf, and the only thing that's really missing from this one is the original language text. Ringler does a pretty good job of the translation itself. He includes very solid explanation and context as well.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
did not like it
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells
I'm neither a mother nor a daughter so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. Siddalee is a famous stage director who stages a hit play. She's interviewed for a New York Times article. When asked about her childhood she accidentally pr...

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