In this episode, Jordan and Brendan take some time to respond to listeners’ questions. They discuss the story of their own friendship, book recommendations for younger readers, the power of annotation, discerning helpful vs. harmful content in literature, whether Christian fiction is obligated to overtly evangelize, book vs. film adaptations, and whether you should make yourself read that super-long classic novel.

What We’re Reading:

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Red Harvest by Dashiel Hammett
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Young Reader Recommendations:

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Little Prince by Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Jordan & Brendan’s nostalgic middle grade books:

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer

Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

Holes by Louis Sachar

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG by Roald Dahl

A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket

The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osbourne

Goosebumps series by RL Stein

Animorphs series by KA Applegate

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