Fill out this year’s reading survey for use in our soon to be recorded in a future episode. Also, be sure to make your guesses for how many books Ben and Matt will read in…
Why Glen Weldon’s New Batman Book, The Caped Crusade, Matters Right Now
- June 2, 2016
- Tagged as: batman, Glen Weldon
I was dreading Glen Weldon’s new book, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Not because Weldon’s a bad writer. He’s not; he’s outstandingly good. A movie, book and comic book critic…
America loves conspiracy theories. “Freaking out over imagineered shadowy plots,” wrote James Poulos for The Week last spring, “is one of our most durably American habits.” In his self-described “weird Western” novel The Man Who…
Book Review: Luke Skywalker Can’t Read And Other Geeky Truths by Ryan Britt (Plume, 2015)
- February 17, 2016
- Tagged as: Ryan Britt, Star Trek, star wars
When I brought Ryan Britt’s new book home from our local library, my 8-year-old daughter—who came to Star Wars last year by way of Rebels and now proudly proclaims herself “a bigger Star Wars geek than…
In 1978, as Star Wars reached its first birthday, I was in first grade. One of my few clear memories from that school year is sitting at a lunch table, happily reading the paperback novelization of…
Featuring Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono You’ve been waiting for Part 2 of our 2015 behind the scenes outtakes, and they have finally arrived!
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Book Review: Welcome to Night Vale
- October 30, 2015
- Tagged as: Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale
If you’ve ever listened to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, then you already know this fictional (one can only hope) little town that bakes under a desert sun (one presumes it is our sun,…
Book Review & Reflections: Armada by Ernest Cline
- September 4, 2015
- Tagged as: Armada, Ernest Cline, ready player one
At the risk of my geek cred losing some hit points, I confess I still haven’t read Ernest Cline’s acclaimed debut novel, Ready Player One (which, like another book on my must-read-ASAP list, is coming…
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is an unexpected addition to my summer reading list. I know I am late to this party. I noticed Susanna Clarke’s novel on bookstore shelves (remember those?) when it was…
The Divine Comedy – Introduction and Reading Schedule
- May 2, 2015
- Tagged as: dante, divine comedy, Easter, lent
During the 2015 Lenten and Easter seasons, Ben is hosting a devotional reading of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. We’ll start out with the opening cantos of Inferno on Ash Wednesday, February 18th, and finish up…
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