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September 16, 2022

November Book Club Choices

Over on Patreon we are asking our members to choose our November book club pick from the following: Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez “On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam...

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August 29, 2022

Ben Read Armada and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next…

I didn’t hate it. That’s it. That’s the click bait. But since you’re here, I did happen to notice something weird when I looked at other reviews of the book. Turns out that people who liked Ready Player One are not big fans of Armada. Believe me when I say I was ready to love this book. Ready Player One...

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July 27, 2022

Ben’s Honest Thoughts on Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

We recently covered Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline on the podcast. These were some of the longest recording sessions that we’ve done. They were also some of the most frustrating. Both Nate and I had a lot to say. I think that Nate would agree that either of us could have done a three hour monologue on the book....

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June 7, 2022

Review – From Truant to Anime Screen Writer by Mari Okada

This is a cross post of a blog I did for https://www.animepodcasterreincarnation.com/ From Truant to Anime Screenwriter is an autobiographical light novel written by Mari Okada. As the title suggests, Okada is a screenwriter of several popular anime and she began life as a “truant.” The word that is translated as “truant” carries a greater weight in Japan than it...

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May 28, 2022

Comic Review: Night of the Ghoul (comiXology Original)

I decided to check out Night of the Ghoul entirely on a whim. This has been an especially hectic year for me and I’ve fallen very behind on my reading. I have not touched my comixology subscription in months. Now that things have settled down I’ve been trying to catch up. I was scrolling through the library and this caught...

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May 24, 2022

Getting Started With Norse Myth

Reading mythology and folklore is extremely rewarding. There’s something magical about going back to some of our oldest stories and seeing just how much they’ve influenced. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there with a lot of agendas who like to muddy the waters on this subject. A simple Google search or browsing of the shelf at the...

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April 13, 2022

Book Review: Shepherd’s Fall by George R Appelt Jr.

Ben reviews a novel by a local independent author. Shepherd’s Fall is the story of a family who moves into a haunted house in central Pennsylvania.

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March 16, 2022

Book Review: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

This book is, as the kids say, “a mood.” It is a book about an orc warrior who has decided to retire from adventuring and open a coffee shop. Along the way she will gather friends, co-workers, loyal customers, and all the other simple things that make life worth living. The story isn’t without conflict, but the stakes are more...

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March 16, 2022

Nate’s GoodReads Review of Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

I couldn’t decide where I wanted to rate this until discussing it with a friend. He gave it 5-stars but I didn’t quite like it to that level. I was trying to decide between 3.5 and 4.5 and I think yeah… 4 is probably where it would be. I don’t know what I was expecting. All I knew is that...

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March 4, 2022

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga Spoiler Review

First and foremost, as the title suggests, there will be spoilers for the entirety of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba series. This is a review about the manga, not the anime adaptation. The manga has been finished for almost 2-years at this point, but I know there are people who may stumble upon this only having watched the anime...

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