Table of (Mal)Contents
By Aaron Armstrong, Dave Schroeder, and friends
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Episodes: 267
May 6, 2019
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Join Aaron Armstrong, Dave Schroeder and friends as they talk about the books they love (and many they really don't) to help you be a better reader.
| Episode | Date |
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Your Next Favorite Book: Faith, Hope, and Carnage
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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I'm a Christian—Now What? A Q&A at Landmark Booksellers
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Introducing Your Next Favorite Book
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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A Very (mal)Contented Christmas
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Introducing: Wildwood Flower Season 2
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Introducing: Feel For the Game, Season 2
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Introducing: Wildwood Flower
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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The Trial Separation
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May 24, 2021 |
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Sitting at the Top of the Christian Publishing World
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May 17, 2021 |
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Feeling the Randomness
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May 10, 2021 |
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Breaking Reading Slumps and Books that Keep Us Up At Night
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May 03, 2021 |
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Why Dave Can't Stop Talking About the End of the World (on World Book Day)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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When Sports Books Aren't About Sports
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Hemingway, Returning to Conference Bookstores, Canada's Ken Burns
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Celebrating Beverly Clearly
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Special Announcements & Questionable Timing
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Mourning McMurtry
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Identity Crisis-ish
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Too Christian and Not Christian Enough
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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End Times Prophesying, Fathers & Sons, and Basic Reading Comprehension
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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#ComicBookClub
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Storytelling vs Culture Warriors
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Haircuts, Heresy, & Hockey Fights
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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"It's Not Me, It's You (Two)"
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Introducing: No Chill Enneagram: Watch Party
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Not At All Controversial Opinions
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Funny Book Titles, Failure, & More Books with Pictures
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Survival Stories, Poor Choices, & Lukewarm Receptions
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Organizing Bookshelves, Positive Boosts in Book Sales, & Purely Hypothetical Publishing Decisions
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Planning Our Reading Plans for 2021
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Introducing: We Wonder: Advent
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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The 2020 (mal)Contents Book Awards!
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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School Libraries and Mermaids in the Time of COVID-19
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Art of Audiobook Narration
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Prog Rock, Christmas Persecution, & Christmas Seminary
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Yes, Christians Can Write Good Fiction Too
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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All the Tenuous Connections
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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A (Thankfully) Short Talk About Being Thankful
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Spooky Season, Christmas, & Mormons at the Door
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Politics, Reading Lists, & Other Dinner Conversations
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Science Faction, Ezekiel, Apollos, & English Class Confessions
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Finding Happiness & Failing to Finish Sentences
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Having None of It in Nunavut
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Pocket Protectors, Activate!
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Audience Questions, 9/11, & Drastic Tonal Shifts
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Bach, Bono & Music Bios
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Masters of Tangents
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Influencers of Influencers
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Cat Fashion Shows
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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It's All Dave's Fault (and Other True Sayings)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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The Writer's Kid
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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The One Where We Keep Not Talking About Books
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Quest Squads, Book Club Names, & Boring Book Descriptions
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Dave vs the Internet Connection
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Scarlet vs the Canadian
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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5 Questions for Scarlet
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Social Media is Bad For You
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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The Nicolas Cage of Podcasts
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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A Conversation on Learning About Other People’s Experiences
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Pet Advice, Dave’s Deflection, & SWAT Team Rabbits
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Hope, Happiness, & Lunch Shovels
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May 26, 2020 |
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American History Pop Quiz, Hot Shot!
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May 19, 2020 |
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The YA Grab Bag of Surprise!
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May 12, 2020 |
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Concentric Circles of Canadian Hatred
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May 04, 2020 |
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Reading in the Time of Quarantine, Losing Literacy, & Favorite Reading Spots
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Real Celebrities, Diet Ice Cream, & How We Speak Online
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Scarlet the Benevolent Dictator
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Virus Punching, Proverbs, & Being C.S. Lewis-ish
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Big News, Deserted Islands, & the Many Ways to Spell Charlotte
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Social distancing's toll, new projects, & sucker-punching 2020
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Episode titles, writing advice, & what’s bad for bookstores
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Social Distancing, Post-Apocalyptic Nightmares, & the Special Handling List
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Advance Memoirs, Nick Cage’s Pyramid Tomb, & Recording Around Landscaping
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Sincerity, Awkwardness, & Some Reasonably Big News
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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The Mechanics of Mystery Stories, Minnesotan Authors, & Holden Caulfield
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Criticism & Community, Side Hustles, and the Power of Moments
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Half-Canadians, Fluid Language, & the Uniqueness of American Christianity
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Super Bowls, Anna Karenina, & Cries for Help
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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UFOs, Scary Stories, & J.J. Abrams
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Libraries, weird publishing stories, & Eastern Orthodoxy
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Boys in a Bookstore Wearing Microphones
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Weird Manliness Book Trends, John Eldredge, & Fairy Tales
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Saints and Scoundrels, Women's Bible Studies, & Teleconferencing Guests
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Becoming an Author, Endorsing a Book vs a Person, & the Story You Need to Tell
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Misunderstood Authors, Tom Clancy, and the Wendell Berry Jar
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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The Talk
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Our Best Books We Read For Our Enjoyment in 2019
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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The One With All The Swearing
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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We're Thankful For That Time We Talked to Leif Enger
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Poetry & Plumbing, Good Illustrations, and a Defense of Leadership Books
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Hutchmoot, Life Changes, & a New eBook
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Pyramid schemes, trolling literary people, & marginalia
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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What Women Really Want…
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Sensitive Subject Matter, Bad Book Covers, & Audiobook Narration
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Dentistry vs Writing, Teaching International Students, & a New Definition of Procrastination
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Neighborhood Library Boxes, Balanced Diets, & Leadership Book or Captain Picard
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Workshopping Gladwell Book Titles, Talking to Strangers, & Middle School Bullies
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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When Reading Got Fun, How Not to Impress Girls, & What Not to Read During Class
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Creeping on Wendell Berry, coffee talk, & why physical books are best
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Destroying Books, Writing Tell-Alls, and Our Favorite International Authors
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Pat Conroy, Loving Yourself Appropriately, & (mal)Contents vs Gut Check
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Great westerns, frustrating sci-fi tropes, & capturing the creative imagination
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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Midlife Crises, Ordinary Lives, and #Chafey
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Our favorite sidekicks, the first books in our book clubs, & 3-word descriptions
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Should we reject books by authors who rejected the faith?
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Historical fiction, splitting hairs, and honoring an American icon
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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The Sewage Blaze
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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What made us want to write, imitating others, and the spectrum of writers
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Christian vacation reads, movie references, & Aaron is boring
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Bias in biographies, sucker punching as a family, & owning #40Dave
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Being Terrible at Patriotism, Canada vs America, & Barnabas vs Avocado Toast
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Book conventions, cat poetry, & Amazon vs humans
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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"A story has to be true to be beautiful and good"
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Buying vs borrowing books, loving the library, & being part of the problem
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Summer reading, getting fatter & happier, and what not to read on vacation
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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The Writer’s Process, Writing Like You Speak, and Coldplay vs Dave Matthews
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Questioning questionable content, preachy fiction, and James Bond
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May 27, 2019 |
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Wiping books out of existence, organizing our libraries, & hurtful words
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May 20, 2019 |
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Proposing to propose, taking chances, and the problem of how-to-books
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May 13, 2019 |
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Short books, getting self-promo-y, & enjoying Spring
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May 06, 2019 |
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Writing a bestseller, social contracts, & reading Annie Dillard
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Nostalgia, mindless reading, and untapped holidays
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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"Moby Dick is the reason I went into British literature"
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Online reading groups, platform-building, and pronouncing "against"
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Good biographies vs bad ones, the Tolkien movie, and Canadian coffee
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Personality types and fictional characters, and books for every Enneagram type
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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Personality profiles, the Enneagram, and Chicken Dave Schroeder
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Leaders are Readers, But They’re Not If…
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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3-Word Descriptions, Retitling Books, and Keeping People from Reading Bad Books
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Advice for aspiring authors, avoiding comparisons, when not to write
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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How we read so much, cat-rants, and Dave’s new nickname
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Why do they always kill the dog, cats, and Nic Cage ruins everything
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Relationship issues, marriage books, and fur babies
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Books that make you laugh, having dinner with authors, and why we don’t loan books
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Do humble C- - - - -ists exist, contract reveals revisited, and pronouncing GIF
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Feb 04, 2019 |