Words About Books
Ben & Nate
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Words About Books is a podcast where two aspiring writers, Ben and Nate, read and discuss books. They invite listeners to read along with them or simply enjoy the show. New episodes are released every Sunday.
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Discussing Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 13.09.2026 1h 29minThis week the boys talk about being a boy and the struggles of coming of age while constantly being messed with by all the adults around you. The only option available is, of course, overwhelming force. We're going to win this battle and all other battles to come! Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbooks... -
WAOB - Discussing The Corpus Hermeticum (Part 2) 11.09.2026 1h 33minWe continue Chy's initiation into the mysteries of Hermes Trismegistus. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Part 2) 06.09.2026 1h 17minMuch like actual RPG's level 2 is kind of just there to space out level one and level three. Thumbnail by Jason Rumpff https://www.artstation.com/jrumpff64 Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Part 1) 30.08.2026 1h 21minDungeon Crawler Carl...greatest literary epic of our age or overrated generic litrpg. What do you think? Thumbnail by Jason Rumpff https://www.artstation.com/jrumpff64 Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing Artemis by Andy Weir 23.08.2026 1h 43minYou've seen men struggle to write women before, but have you seen them struggle to write women...on the moon? Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Discussing Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green 16.08.2026 1h 17minThis week we're discussing a book that jumps around a bit by talking in a way that jumps around a bit. It's one of the few non-fiction books we cover and I get why. I figured it out. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - The Grey Havens (Return, 6-9) 12.08.2026 1h 4minI will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing Small Gods by Terry Pratchett 09.08.2026 1h 22minThis is what the patrons wanted. I hope that this is what they wanted. Be sure to let Ben know how wrong he is for his opinions. Not Nate though. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Discussing The Way of Hermes - Corpus Hermeticum (Part 1) 07.08.2026 1h 30minBen 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. ... -
Talking About Tolkien - The Scouring of the Shire (Return, 6-8) 05.08.2026 1h 46minHow 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 show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https:... -
Discussing The Biome by Enrique Ventura 02.08.2026 1h 42minNate 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 show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wor...
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Talking About Tolkien - Homeward Bound (Return, 6-7) 31.07.2026 32minI don't want to hear anything about 6-7 Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (Part 3) 26.07.2026 1h 48minCW: Sexual Content, Mentions of Sexual Violence, Gratuitous Backseat Generaling We might have gotten a little too into the war planning. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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Talking About Tolkien - Many Partings (Return, 6-6) 22.07.2026 1h 5minThe gang says a series of farewells from East to West. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin (Part 2) 19.07.2026 1h 36minContent Warning: Sexual Content, Explicit Content, Mentions of Sexual Violence Well, 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 show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspo...
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Talking About Tolkien - The Steward and the King (Return, 6-5) 15.07.2026 1h 9minFaramir 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 show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas (Part 1) 12.07.2026 1h 23minWe'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 Abuse Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.s...
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Talking About Tolkien - The Fields of Cormallen (Return, 6-4) 08.07.2026 49minSauron's dead. Volcano's are exploding. Orcs are going nuts and...is that?...THE EAGLES ARE COMING! Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/ -
Discussing The Library After Dark by Ande Pliego (Part 2) 05.07.2026 1h 28minAnd we're back! Is this a podcast that I'm publishing? Did I record this? I finished editing it. I'm putting it in the dropbox. I'm clicking on "schedule for future" and publishing it this coming Sunday at midnight. I'm putting in the title now. Oh wait is this a bone spur in my back? Am I choking to death? Where did all this blood come from? Oh geez everything is going black. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNR...
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Talking About Tolkien - Mount Doom (Return, 6-3) 01.07.2026 56minThe episode is uploaded. But I do not now choose to write the description that I came to write. I will not do this deed. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/
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