Dex & Dad Book Review: Recent Episodes
Dex & Dad Book Review
We live in Iowa City, where nerding out over the books we love is expected. Maybe that’s true where you come from too, or maybe you don’t have many people who want to discuss books with you. Either way, we think this podcast will help you enjoy your reading more.
We couldn't examine the irony and absurdity of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams without examining its remarkably sincere, deep, but still sort of preposterous cousin, the Little Prince, which Antoine de Saint-Exupery published 36 years earlier.
Dex and Dad subtly disagree about the narrative arch of a call back to primitive roots.
Dex and Dad ask the hard-hitting questions of this 1932 novel about life in the 1870s. Such as, why does it not focus more on mosquitoes?
Ember is a mysterious place. A city with no sunlight, a designed society in it's final stages. Two children try to find a solution, or a way out of their troubled world.
Dex and Dad forge ahead with the difficult third podcast, bravely examining deep questions of fidelity, bravery and the nature of humanity
Aru is a young middle schooler who finds out she has some powerful ancestors, and she must take care of some inherited unfinished business.