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Welcome to Beyond the PhIrst Page! This is a virtual book club where siblings Phebe, Phil and Isaac talk character development, plot lines, and overall opinions of the books that we read.
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Club Meeting 72 - The Round House (opens the original)
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This week on Beyond the PhIrst Page Podcast the siblings along with Michael Charles, a citizen of the Navajo nation, discuss The Round House by Louise Erdrich. This national book award winner follows Joe Coutte's a Native American boy growing up on the Ojibwe Reservation in North Dakota. This coming of age novel has many dark themes while keeping the reader laughing throughout. Listen to the end for the siblings ratings and their recommendations for books like The Round House if you are looking
Club Meeting 71 - East of Eden (opens the original)
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This starts off the Beyond the PhIrst Page podcast's chapter on Coming of Age Novels. They discuss East of Eden by John Steinbeck with Archivist Peter Van Coutren from the John Steinbeck Institute in San Jose. Peter is able to give a unique perspective on why Steinbeck wrote certain characters the way he did as well as shed some light on who Steinbecks intended audience was. Listen to the end for great recommendations and overall ratings!
Club Meeting 70 - Chapter 5 Overview (opens the original)
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If you are looking for three amazing books to read this fall listen to this episode of Beyond the PhIrst Page Podcast! We are reading coming of age novels and really bringing three outside the box reads for that genre. This episode doesn’t have any spoilers so listen along as you figure out which of these books you want to go beyond the phIrst page on!
Club Meeting 69 - Blood Song (opens the original)
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Go Beyond the PhIrst Page with the Cornell siblings as they discuss Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. This book wraps up the third and final book in their Chapter on Fantasy Academy Tropes. This book is a must read for fantasy lovers and the siblings debate if the second and third book hold a candle to the first. This book has all the tropes you would want in a fantasy book including one of the most badass academy settings the siblings have ever read.
Club Meeting 68 - Raven Boys (opens the original)
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This club meeting the siblings discuss Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater with Nicole, who loves to read but by her own omission does not gravitate towards the fantasy genre. This was the book in the chapter that the siblings thought readers who didn’t love fantasy would like. It errs more on the side of super natural and magical realism themes. The club members also talk about the young adult genre and the questions they still had at the end of book one. Listen along as Beyond the PhIrst page disc
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