Category: Thoughts, More Words About Books

April 11, 2024

Some Thoughts on Sex and Gender in Dune

Frank Herbert’s Dune Chronicle is a series of science fiction books that deal with multiple themes, but central to every book is the longevity of humanity as a species. The series begins in a future so distant that Earth exists only as a memory of a mythological past. In spite of this, human society has regressed to aristocracy. Technology and...

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July 31, 2023

Some Final Thoughts Regarding Hunt for the Skinwalker…

We needed a filler episode on the podcast, and I thought it would be fun to cover Hunt for the Skinwalker. It was fun, but little did I know how perfectly timed the episode would be (or did I? How deep does this go?). One short week after the episode came out the “news” was filled with headlines like the...

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January 3, 2023

Book Barbarian: Sketchy Mailing List or Hidden Indie Gem?

The year was 2019. Little did I know how the world was about to change over the next few months. I was going to start a podcast! A few months after that it was 2020 and COVID destroyed all of our lives. At this stage of Words About Books’ development we were still trying to figure out exactly what our...

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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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January 24, 2022

Ben’s 2021 Nonfiction Reviews

A long time ago when we started Words About Books we had a simple goal: read more books. We thought that doing a podcast would make us more accountable and force us to make time for an activity that was too easy to shove aside. Also, we wanted to be better writers. We knew that we needed to read well...

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July 19, 2021

The Letters of Tolkien

I recently read The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. I did a Goodreads review of the book that may help a fan of Lord of the Rings, or even just someone who is curious about Tolkien, decide if the book is for them or not. On the blog, I wanted to talk a little more about how the book made me...

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October 12, 2020

The Beautiful Purgatory of No Man’s Sky

Recently, our sister podcast Words About Games did an episode on No Man’s Sky. They did an excellent job of dissecting and analyzing all of the new content, game design, and technological accomplishments of Hello Games’s flagship product. If any of that sounds interesting to you, then I highly recommend listening to their podcast. I will not be talking about...

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May 23, 2020

Words About Words – Creative (noun; informal)

In this series, I’ll be discussing words that for whatever reason always bother me when I hear them. I’ve tried talking to Nate about these things, but he usually tells me that he hears his wife calling him, and then the Zoom meeting ends. So I’m taking my pedantic rants to the street. Welcome, Dear Reader, to Words About Words....

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