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Episode 15 (part 2)
Happy New Year from the Books Boys!
TheDean! & PJ chat about their December reading, give their top 3 books they reviewed in 2021, and interview author N. Daniel (ndaniel.us) who called in to talk about his brand new book Burn This City To The Ground
Books discussed include:
- La Casa De Los Espiritus (Isabel Allende, 1982)
- Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle, 350 BC)
- The War Of The Worlds (H.G. Wells, 1898)
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray, (Oscar Wilde, 1890)
- The Sheep Man's Christmas (Haruki Murakami, 1989)
- Burn This City To The Ground (N. Daniel, 2021)
If you like us (and you do), you can get the show early, plus get all of our bonus shows (and a books boys t-shirt!!), at patreon.com/booksboys
In December alone we released:
- Playboys 7 & 8 - detailed reviews / study guides of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Othello (both on the A-level syllabus)
- Film Fellows 3: Nightcrawler
- Poetry Pals 2
- Interviews From The Vault 8: Meghan Cary (about her album Building This House)
- Music Men 2: The Christmas Collection
- Darkplace Dreamers 2: reviewing episode 2 of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
- Caper Captains 6: And Then There Were None (guessing whodunnit in one of the best-selling books in history)
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