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This month's book is The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

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Genderqueer, All Boys Aren't Blue, The Bluest Eye, Flamer, Looking For Alaska, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lawn Boy, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Out of Darkness, A Court of Mist and Fury, Crank, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and This Book is Gay.

We hear about Orwell all the time, Orwellian, and we know what they're doing with Animal Farm. In fact, ironically, they're treating Animal Farm in a very Orwellian way with this cartoon adaptation we talked about. But one novel that doesn't get talked about nearly as often in that context is Infinite Jest, the David Foster Wallace novel that came out in the mid'90s. It's like 1,000 pages long, nonlinear, and if you've ever read it or attempted to read it, you know it's like 1,000 pages long. The story doesn't follow a linear path; footnotes are everywhere, and by the end you aren't entirely sure what the story was about.

Dagmar Herzog, who wrote Sex after Fascism, explained that Sagusch also argued in favor of exposing children to pornography.

I can't help but think of the distinction between Howard Rourke and Peter Keating in The Fountainhead. If you haven't read it, you should.

the AAP issued a new guide titled, and we told you about this yesterday, Uology, a puberty guide for everybody targeted towards children ages nine through 13 years old. And this is a book, as we mentioned yesterday, supposedly a children's book, nine through 13, and it is one of the topselling children's books on Amazon right now.

I think it's a book from the American Academy of Pediatrics putting a book out like that.

What if the recent popularity of coloring books comes not from the creativity they purportedly inspire, but from the submission they induce?

It may be lost to the fans of coloring books that their success peaked in the 19th century when such publications taught children how to behave and obedience seems to be what many of us crave in these pandemic days.

Stay within the lines.

Yes, coloring books teach submission.

Shelby Steele writes about it in his book White Guilt.

the release of Andrew Klavan's latest book The Truth and Beauty. After years of studying the gospels and trying to find the true meaning of Jesus's words Klavan is ready to share what he has found. It's for anyone who's striving for belief in a materialistic world and I could not recommend it enough. It's a beautiful book in keeping with the title. Head to Amazon and order your copy of The Truth and Beauty today.

when they read his book, Righteous Indignation, which is a good book.

or read, uh, The Power and the Glory Graham green, you know, the, the protagonist, the Christian protagonist in that movie is a cowardly drunken, uh, scoundrel who, who finally discovers his faith and courage at the end after a, a long and devastating journey.

This month book club is John Steinbeck's epic East of Eden. You can tune in to hear Ben discuss the novel

Genderqueer, All Boys Aren't Blue, The Bluest Eye, Flamer, Looking for Alaska, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lawn Boy, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Out of Darkness, A Court of Mist and Fury, Crank, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and This Book is Gay.

the couple has made it back into the news this week with Jada now on the interview circuit to promote her upcoming memoir, which is called Worthy.

There are so many surprising things in the book, but the thing that surprised me the most that I actually had to reread it because I said, is this true? Right.

It was not a divorce on paper. Right. But it was a divorce. So from the year 2016, which is seven years ago now, y'all have been apart.

Steven Spielberg has a similar pedigree nonwithstanding occasional projects like The Color Purple and Amistad.

I'm sorry never mind I'm thinking of the zombies from I Am Legend

Jonah Goldberg, I think Liberal Fascism is one of the most important books of the last 50 years.

You'll have the opportunity to meditate on the words of Psalm 46, Be still and know that I am God and hear powerful excerpts from The Read of God and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.

There's a principle in screenwriting called Save the Cat. It's a phrase coined by Blake Snyder