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March 15, 2025

Extra Nate: The Illusion of Gaia

The Illusion of Gaia plan I’ve been thinking for a while about doing small videos on the side and writing on the side as well. I’ve hinted that I’m thinking about some sort of small episodic writing in the future. I think one thing that could help keep my writing chops… limber? Is that the word? One thing that can...

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March 15, 2025

Extra Nate: Bobiverse

This week (or whenever I post this, I don’t know and neither do you) we finish up the second book in the Bobiverse. A book series that’s both cringe and fascinating to me at the same time. It’s a weird combinatino of fun sci-fi ideas that I wish we got to do in Spore (and real life) and pop culture...

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March 15, 2025

Extra Nate: Death on Gokumon Island

We’re back with Extra Nate! I’m attempting to clean up my quarter 1 obligations. I’m giving myself little rewards for finishing out each quarter and for anything I miss, I’m going to run a mile. I’m currently dying of allergies with the sudden shift from winter, to spring, then summer, then back to spring, and (if the weather report is...

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March 9, 2025

Extra Nate: The Bread Mage

Ben if you’re reading this, and you’re not, you’re welcome to make superficial edits to this post. Like changing “Bread Mage” to the actual name of the book and “Evil Inquisitor” to whatever that guy’s job title actually was. I can’t be bothered to go back and look, re-reading books isn’t in my contract. I’ve been struggling to decide what...

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February 23, 2025

Extra Nate: Sonic Canon is a Mess

Today we released a discussion of Sonic The Hedgehog, the comic, but not the comic you’re probably thinking of. There was a brief discussion of Sonic Canon, because Sonic Canon is a mess. It’s terrible. You can’t convince me otherwise. Now I’m going to talk like I’m an authority on this topic because I know you’re either already a Sonic...

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February 17, 2025

Extra Nate: Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Introduction And we’re baaaaaaaaack! It’s Extra Nate! The BEST and only blog to a podcast about books starring a guy named Nate. Season 6 of Words About Books! How crazy is that? We’ve been doing this for one global pandemic, two major US-adjacent wars, and three presidental terms and we’re still going strong! For this season of Extra Nate I...

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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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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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