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“A patchwork memory is the shame of a refugee”
Thanks for stopping by! Today we explore Daniel Nayeri’s outstanding and beautifully written book Everything Sad is Untrue. We trust that you enjoyed this book as much as we did!

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Hello again! So somehow I mixed up my episodes and released the wrong one a few episodes back and didn’t realize it until recently. So to rectify that we are dropping the missing episode now! We hope you enjoyed this fascinating book as much as we did!

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Welcome back! in this episode we take our first dive into J. R. R. Tolkien with his wonderful, and whimsical, and nothing like the movies (thank goodness) book The Hobbit. As always we hope you enjoyed the book and found our ramblings about it helpful.

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Today instead of a book we read and discuss selected works from Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Poems that we read and discuss are:

• As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pg 129)
• Felix Randal (pg 150)
• Binsey Poplars (pg 142)
• God's Grandeur (pg 128)
• Patience, Hard Thing (pg 170)
• The Windhover (pg 132)
• Pied Beauty (pg 132)

We hope you were edified and encouraged in adding poetry to your reading list

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And we’re back for Episode 15! This time we talk about a book about how to read books. The book is called Reading Between the Lines by Gene Edward Veith. We hope that this book and episode are helpful for you!

As for our next book the poems that we will be reading and discussing are (page numbers are from the Oxford World Classics Gerard Manley Hopkins Major Works):

• As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pg 129)
• Felix Randal (pg 150)
• Binsey Poplars (pg 142)
• God's Grandeur (pg 128)
• Patience, Hard Thing (pg 170)
• The Windhover (pg 132)
• Pied Beauty (pg 132)

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Welcome to Episode 14 everyone! In this episode we take a look at Henri Nouwen’s work Return of the Prodigal Son. In this book Henri Nouwen explores the Prodigal Son by way of Rembrandt’s painting by the same name. We hope you enjoy the episode

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And we are back. On this Episode we take a look at Geoffrey Chang’s recent book Spurgeon the Pastor where he explores the incredible pastoral ministry of the “Prince of Preachers” Charles Haddon Spurgeon. There is much we can learn from both Spurgeon and the members of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

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And we’re back! Sorry that we missed dropping an episode last week as would be our normal pattern. We are back this week with a great book and our first foray into the great American author Earnest Hemingway. In this episode we look at one of his most beloved works, The Old Man and the Sea.