Bookwarm Games

Wesley Schantz

Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life: O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. - The Winter's Tale You're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski

  1. 3D AGO

    The ‘Globetrotter’ Series of Maps for the Traveller - Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman

    or, "it feels as if the whole city’s looking out for us…" The first in a series of discussions of the companion books, the little books published between His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, beginning with Lyra's Oxford. With continual reference to His Dark Materials and (spoilers) The Book of Dust. An example of a Baedecker on Bohemia: https://aba.org.uk/assets/catalogues/rarebooks@shapero.com/Baedeker2020.pdf On Bohemia and its non-existent coastline in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale: https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/bohemia-winters-tale-seacoast/ (and almost all Pullman's stories are very much winters' tales, aren't they...)The article in the Guardian cribbed from for the epigraph: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jul/27/booksforchildrenandteenagers.philippullman Interview with Margaret Kean: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/philip-pullman-lyras-oxford-bodleian-library-masterclass Unveiling the gargoyles: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/gargoyles-unveiled-0 And a talk at Jericho's St Barnabas: https://www.youtube.com/live/WhbvkC3QZLY Compare Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist; Philip Goff's Galileo's Error; Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity... I've also been reading Kristen Poole’s Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination, and finding it enormously helpful and interesting. Thanks for listening! https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2026/01/out-of-ground-reading-book-of-dust-by.html

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Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life: O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating. - The Winter's Tale You're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski