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  • Binti 3: Deep Culture

    Binti 3: Deep Culture

    Aug 11, 2024

    This week, we continue Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Complete Trilogy, and discuss the third novella, The Night Masquerade. What is the dividing line between science fiction and fantasy? Is identity reducible? Is Mwinyi an Edward or a Jacob?

  • Binti 2: The Gods Are Many Things

    Binti 2: The Gods Are Many Things

    Jul 28, 2024

    This week, we continue Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Complete Trilogy, and discuss the second novella. What is philosophical dualism? Is Binti a Frodo or a Sam? How are universities exactly like Survivor?

  • Binti 1: Everything Is Connected

    Binti 1: Everything Is Connected

    Jul 15, 2024

    This week, we begin Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: The Complete Trilogy, and discuss the first novella. What is africanfuturism? How do books teach you to read them? Sure, drugs are cool, but have you ever gotten high on math?

  • Great Expectations 5: The Villain Monologue

    Great Expectations 5: The Villain Monologue

    Jul 8, 2024

    This week, we discuss the end of Great Expectations, and what it means to be good!

  • Great Expectations 4: One-Man Class War

    Great Expectations 4: One-Man Class War

    Jun 9, 2024

    This week, we discuss chapters thirty-six to fifty of Great Expectations with twists! So many twists!

  • Great Expectations 3: The Declarative Question

    Great Expectations 3: The Declarative Question

    May 26, 2024

    This week, we continue our discussion of Great Expectations by looking at different kinds of life in London, the death of Pip’s sister, and the ease of making choices when you have no choice at all.

  • Bonus: Hunting Gollum

    Bonus: Hunting Gollum

    May 14, 2024

    In this excerpt from the recent live Patreon Q&A, I discuss my thoughts on the upcoming movie The Hunt For Gollum!

  • Great Expectations 2: Fancy Lad Fight Club

    Great Expectations 2: Fancy Lad Fight Club

    May 11, 2024

    This week, we begin our discussion of Great Expectations by discussing the gothic, coming of age, and the traumas of childhood.

  • Great Expectations 1: Told No Lies

    Great Expectations 1: Told No Lies

    Apr 30, 2024

    This week, we begin our discussion of Great Expectations by discussing the gothic, coming of age, and the traumas of childhood.

  • Great Expectations Introduction: Better Than Bulwer-Lytton

    Great Expectations Introduction: Better Than Bulwer-Lytton

    Apr 16, 2024

    This week, a brief introduction to Dickens, the Victorian Era, what makes Great Expectations the perfect book for this series, and Dickens’ most notorious peer.

  • Daggerspell 3: Live and Learn

    Daggerspell 3: Live and Learn

    Apr 11, 2024

    This week, we conclude Katharine Kerr’s first Deverry novel, Daggerspell!

  • Daggerspell 2: Dark Sides

    Daggerspell 2: Dark Sides

    Apr 1, 2024

    In the second part of our adventure through Katharine Kerr’s Daggerspell, we read to the middle of Chapter Five!

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