309 episodes
The Bookening Church of the King
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4.3 • 183 Ratings
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3 guys—a pastor, a scholar, and their gleeful provocateur—discuss the great books. We take God and literature seriously—but the second one not overly so.
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Memory. Identity. Barbra Streisand.
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Proust Preview
We haven't got our actual podcast recorded yet but here's a taste of why you should read along.
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The 39 Steps
An ordinary (kind of) man caught in extraordinary circumstances! A race against time to expose a dangerous spy ring! Long walks through Scotland! It's John Buchan's immortal (?), classic (?): The 39 Steps.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Mysterious intelligent rats??? Please don't refer to our podcasters like that!
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy is a great writer. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella about a middle-aged man named Ivan Ilyich. Yep, he dies. It's sad, moving, thoughtful, ironic, true to life, etc. And unlike some other Tolstoy books we could name, it's short. Worth your time.
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Dominic by William Steig
Check out the Kickstarter for our friend's non-woke children's book, The Rainbow Knight.
The Bookening talks about a charming kid's book by the quirky children's author (and longtime New Yorker illustrator) William Steig.
We talk about some of his early books of "symbolic pictures" too—too dark to be kid's stuff. You have been forewarned! You can check out The Agony in the Kindergarten here, or About People here.
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Customer Reviews
Three Men and a Book
Three men and a book
On Rushdie we look
We grimace at nihilist Cormac
We stare into Steinbeck
From Hemingway’s pine deck
Not one of them D-list or bored hack
We mingle with l’Engle
That stale old Pringle
Reluctantly we dine on Kline
Goth drama we broker
Like Poe and Bram Stoker
Til Tolstoy refreshes our mind
We’re the Evansville bureau
Of swell Ishiguro
Dennis Johnson’s worth we will laud
Through we tried to abstain
From Johnny Tremain
We learned not every Newb’ry’s a fraud
Now like baked beans in Boston
We identify with Austen
Sure, Fanny and Darcy we admire
But strength, thy name’s Knightley
Pods well done, and spritely
To bless you, hear listener, we aspire
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