Words About Books

<p>Words About Books is a podcast where two wannabe writers read and discuss books. Read along with us, or just enjoy the show! New episodes every Sunday.</p>

Night of the Living Dummy II by R. L. Stein (A Trailer)

Words About Books is finally covering the Dummy book that everybody wanted/we thought we were getting the first time around. It's going live on Patreon only Saturday 11/8/2025! Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

11-06
02:28

Discussing Hulk Hogan's Book: My Life Outside the Ring (Part I)

It's Nate's Nightmare November! We're talking about a wreslting book, again! This time we're talking about THE wrestler of the 1980s, Hulk Hogan. I can't wait. I've been so excited for this. Because it's so bad. It's just terrible. A grown man tells you a lot of lies or exaggerations, craps on his wife, then says "I wish her all the best." This is what my dog would have wanted. Don't forget to support us on Patreon! My dog would have wanted that too. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.a...

11-02
01:32:05

Discussing Silent Invasion The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook

A surprisingly sober and intelligent discussion of the Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot invasion of 1973. Stan Gordon is my new favorite UFOlogist. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

10-26
01:27:28

Discussing The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Part 2)

We conclude our discussion of The Exorcist. Will good triumph over evil? The answer may confuse you. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

10-19
01:25:30

Discussing The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Part 1)

We spend a long time bringing Nate up to speed on Christianity. Then we spend a long time talking about The Exorcist. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

10-12
01:50:52

Abandoning Jeff the Killer: Scars of Corruption

Well, hey guys, you know, they can't all be winners. Sometimes you try something thinking it will be fun and it turns into more of what we in the podcasting biz call "a learning experience." And that's what Jeff the Killer: Scars of Corruption is: a learning experience. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wor...

10-05
02:04:23

Discussing Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling (Part 2)

I hope you're ready for part 2. We've got family abandonment, alien perversion, duels to the ego death, fish people, jellyfish people (they're different), and of course lots of drugs. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

09-28
59:14

Discussing Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling (Part 1)

This is without a doubt the strangest book I have ever read. I love it. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

09-21
01:02:26

Discussing Yumi and The Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

Are you ready for the Sanderlanche? Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

09-14
01:59:48

Continuing to Discuss Mess Effect by Shamus Young until the end of time

This week nobody asked for this. Ben didn't. Nate didn't. The fans didn't. But yet here we are because SOMEBODY didn't write a book that would take 2 parts despite being 400+ pages. Blame that guy. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

09-07
01:46:17

Discussing Mess Effect by Shamus Young Part I

This week Nate tackles something very near and dear to his heart: Mass Effect. Also Shamus Young, a writer who had tragically passed away just a few short years ago. Ben is also here. Sometimes. He's around here. Occasionally he has some good observations that are born out of Nate failing to properly get his point across or describe Shamus Young's writing concepts and then he has to go back and add in a lot of post-recording footgate to better explain himself. This episode started with about ...

08-31
01:43:42

Discussing World War II (and also The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K DICK)

This week Nate did research into WW2 and because of that, you have to also hear about it. Suck it Ben. Nate read: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler by Stephen Kotkin Then Nate watched a bunch of videos: Battlefield (an oldie but a goodie. Just all of them but specifically the Battle for Russia, the Battle for France, Midway, Stalingrad, and Kursk) Soviet Storm: World War II in the East (which isn't on youtube anymore but IS on Prime) There are definitely other videos Nate watched that are not comi...

08-10
01:36:06

Nate Discusses The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick

It's finally here. Nate reluctantly is forced to read a book he knew he wouldn't like going in. Uno Reverse! Nate is going to make his pain at reading this book into Ben's pain at listening to him discuss it. Prepare for Xanax Ben and Overstimulated Nate. The ultimate WAB Duo. Will anybody survive? Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https:...

08-03
01:34:41

Discussing A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas (Part 2)

Content Warning: Explicit Sexual Content. The one in which Feyre and Rhys make it to second base. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

07-20
01:32:42

Discussing Oblivion: The Infernal City by Greg Keyes

This week we tackle a current topic... well from like 2 months ago when we put it up on the patreon to be voted on. I don't think anyone is talking about the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake anymore so we're a little late to the party. That's just the kind of people WAB are. We show up at 3am after all your guests have already gone home bringing too much alcohol and snacks that you are absolutely going to be eating and drinking because we went through all this trouble, you jerk. Now turn on ...

07-06
01:09:21

Nate Discusses Burn Notice: The Fix by Tod Goldberg

This week Nate talks about one of his favorite TV shows from the late Bush/early Obama years! Burn Notice! The book in question is the first Burn Notice book and it is essentially an episode of the show but with some added confusion where Nate maybe understood the major details but not so much the connective tissue. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast ...

06-29
01:24:23

Discussing The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Today the boys discuss one of the worst things we've ever had the displeasure of reading. We didin't go in thinking we'd like it. We figured it would be something that just wasn't for us and we could understand (maybe) why others liked it even if it wasn't for us. What we got instead? Awful. Absoilutely positively awful. This is the story of an abused child learning that her abusive mom was a person too and learning to forgive her... no wait, sorry scratch that last part. She learns to apolog...

06-15
01:06:45

Discussing The Futurlogical Congress by Stanislaw Lem

This week the boys spin a wheel of books contributed by our Patreon and land on The Futurlogical Congress. How will we solve our overpopulation problem? Just never stop building. And drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

06-08
01:03:18

Discussing The World of Ice & Fire by George R R Martin

This week the boys discuss information from A Song of Ice & Fire, repackaged into a wiki book and sold to you as merchandise... hold up. Have we done this before? I feel like we've done this before. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

06-01
01:15:33

Discussing Star Wars - Thrawn Ascendency - Chaos Rising by Timothy - Zahn (Part 2)

Thrawn faces off with The Benevolent Yiv. The boys struggle to stay on topic. Star Wars Theme Kazoo Cover by Morpeef - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGV1XVH92cSupport the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C Threads - https://www.threads.net/@wordsaboutbookspodcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wordsaboutbookspodcast Blog - https://blog.wordsaboutbooks.ninja/

05-25
59:32

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