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Joel Dean & Stephen Reece

The Book Report

A weekly Arts and Books podcast featuring Joel Dean and Stephen Reece
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The Book Report

Joel Dean & Stephen Reece

The Book Report

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The Book Report

Joel Dean & Stephen Reece

The Book Report

A weekly Arts and Books podcast featuring Joel Dean and Stephen Reece
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Today we discuss lesbian pocket universes, intricate stonework forest wall THAT DONT EXIST IN THE TV UNIVERSE, and beautiful scenes in the 6th episode of Amazon's Wheel of Time adaptation. The Flame of Tar Valon
Stephen is Back! We cover the 6th episode of the Wheel Of Time Blood Calls Blood. If you stay after the credits we will go on a tangent about the Expanse books and other probably much better Amazon show!
We got to the good episodes!!!! Today we cover the 4th episode in Amazon's Wheel of Time, the first episode that strays far, faaar afield of the books and also the first good pretty much all the way through epiosed. Stephen couldn't be on thi
Tune in for our coverage of episodes 2 & 3 of Amazon's Wheel of Time. Fair warning we had technical issues, a lot of spoilers, a little to drink and a guest on the episode! Thanks again to Joel's BF Dylan Bales for joining us to give the pers
We're Back!!!So Joel has been finally reading the Epic Fantasy series Wheel Of Time, and Amazon is now making it into a show. Stephen and Joel are going to follow along and tell you what they changed from the books, what we wished they would h
What's the book about that guy hallucinating all night? or the one where a husband and wife are separated for a long time and totally wink wink didn't cheat on each other? Play along as we try to stump each other with badly explained plots. Ca
"That was a Journey... that made no sense and I'm sorry we went on" Quote from this episode and oney good explanation for why it took so long to come out. I'd say sorry both Stephen and I went through a move, vacations and job changes also it
There are some house keeping announcments and a shout out at the begining... and then Joel kind of goes on a 15 minute rant about the Oklahoma Legislature. Eventually we get to a place where we pick out a writing prompt and through digital time
Well, we almost get to a point this episode, mostly we have fun dissecting some of our favorite archetype scenes and discussing On Writing Tips. tune in next time when we hopefully share more of our original work. 
After Stephen finally got a switch Joel gave in and played one of the Witcher games and both saw this post on reddit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCZgXHrigo  The guys decided to talk about what other book-to-video-game adaptations we would
Just in Time for Easter!! It's here the fourth and Final part of our "Christian" "Literature" series! I pray that next week I can stop putting everything in air quotes.Today we talk Masturbation, Cult indoctrination, Doxxing, Balancing your
Why does this genre exist? We don't answer that question...or really even ask it but we do go over the best and worst examples of this problematic and prevalent 90s book trend.
More "Christian Lit" this time that doesn't even need to be in quotes, but let's stick with a theme. Last episode we kinda unapologetically shit all over the Left Behind books and modern "Christian" pop culture in general. Today we're focusing
Okay...  We accidentally did a sort-of special episode fr the tenth one in a season again. Today begins a new series on a subject were annoyingly uniquely qualified to discuss... Christian culture books. Left Behind if you are not in the know
Remember when we recommended books? remember how we rewrote the terrible book descriptions into things that actually represented what you were about to read? Well, this episode is just that!We turned it into a game, forcing each other to come
I promise we start talking about the episode's main topic eventually, if you want to skip over all the perfection that is Redwall, Ping-Pong drugs and Wheel of Time bashing go to approx. the 21 mark. Today we discuss the books that changed th
We're back!!!Holidays took a lot longer than we planned and well we kinda forgot to record for a month. Inertia is a difficult piece of reality to overcome. Anyways we finally read our latest short stories and with no restraint on SPOLIERS dis
So today we're gonna talk about things that annoy us (What else is new) Book Tropes and Cliches and the best ways authors have avoided them.Also, we didn't read any more Out of The Silent Planet sry. But we do have new Writing Prompts!!Steph
This isn't an episode about Community... because as amazing as it is, it isn't a book. We are talking about how we hope The Expanse gets at least one movie to wrap up the last 3 books.  Then joel goes on several rants about how book adaptations
Books have been banned for a lot of very very very stupid reasons. That was the original point of this episode it ended up being an excuse for each of us to rant about politics and social issues for an hour... and every now and then relate it b
Well, we're finally here... After judging and discussing hundreds of other professional writers works now you get to do the same to original works written for this podcast...For the read along we are going over Chapters 4, 5, & 6 of CS Lewis'
We once judged books by their covers. Joel read a couple, Stephen did not. Skip that part of the podcast. It's dumb. In part 2. We give an overview of the first 3 chapters of C.S. Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet" in the first segment of our r
Did you know that the Hokey Pokey is an innuendo? Find out more by listening to today's episode!Joel and Stephen discuss their opinions on literature. Is it worth listening to? Probably not. Are you doing anything more important? Also probabl
We have closed out Season Two (because our lives got busy for a bit) by bringing everything full circle and finishing out bothe entire series we discussed in our very first episode!BEWARE SPOILERS for N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy!!
If you have not read book 16 of the Dresden Files entitled Peace Talks STOP NOW. This episode will be filled with spoilers for this book and the entire Dresden files series.  If you have read the book or don't care about spoilers. check out our
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