Podcast
Words About Books
Hosted by Ben & Nate · EN
Words About Books is a podcast where two wannabe writers read and discuss books. Read along with us, or just enjoy the show! New episodes every Sunday.
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Discussing The Way of Hermes - Corpus Hermeticum (Part 1)
4d ago01:30:51Tap to summarizeBen and Chy discuss The Way of Hermes. A new(ish) translation of The Corpus Hermeticum and The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius. Don't know what these things are? I'm honestly not sure if anyone does.*Correction to episode: I accidentally conflate the Nag Hammadi find of the gnostic texts in Egypt with The Dead Sea Scrolls find in the Qumran Caves. The larger point about the mystique around the Dead Sea Scrolls is valid, but I'm off about the circumstances of the find. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - The Scouring of the Shire (Return, 6-8)
6d ago01:46:14Tap to summarizeHow do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold... Others can be rectified by a well-armed militia. This is of those.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Transcribe →Discussing The Biome by Enrique Ventura
1w ago01:42:22Tap to summarizeNate tells me I'm opening the flood gates by accepting a request for a review from a new independently published author, but when I hear there's a new books about a mysterious purple substance mutating an ecosystem into some horror movie stuff...well...I just couldn't resist.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - Homeward Bound (Return, 6-7)
2w ago00:32:21Tap to summarizeI don't want to hear anything about 6-7Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Transcribe →Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (Part 3)
2w ago01:48:46Tap to summarizeCW: Sexual Content, Mentions of Sexual Violence, Gratuitous Backseat GeneralingWe might have gotten a little too into the war planning.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - Many Partings (Return, 6-6)
3w ago01:05:45Tap to summarizeThe gang says a series of farewells from East to West.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Transcribe →Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin (Part 2)
3w ago01:36:45Tap to summarizeContent Warning: Sexual Content, Explicit Content, Mentions of Sexual ViolenceWell, you've read the content warning. We're back with Part Two of a A Court of Wings and Ruin. In this episode Ben and Nate discuss the upcoming war with Hybern while simultaneously trying to devise a method of quantifying "spice" level. Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - The Steward and the King (Return, 6-5)
4w ago01:09:42Tap to summarizeFaramir kind of checks out for his last two weeks on the job and tries to convince Eowyn that he would be a worthy silver metal. Aragorn also has a romance.Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
Transcribe →Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (Part 1)
Jul 1201:23:01Tap to summarizeWe're back with the third installment of Sarah J. Maas's Sexy Romance Fantasy. A Sexromantasy, if you will. Last time Feyre failed to stop the king of Hybern from claiming the cauldron. Now she's back at the Spring Court and doing her best to bring Tamlin down from the inside...wait, I mean...like metaphorically...like she's politically sabotaging him, not you know...sexy stuff. CW: Sexual Content, Sexual AbuseSupport the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - The Fields of Cormallen (Return, 6-4)
Jul 800:49:41Tap to summarizeSauron's dead. Volcano's are exploding. Orcs are going nuts and...is that?...THE EAGLES ARE COMING!Support the showBlue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.socialDiscord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8CThreads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcastBlog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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