In this double-header episode, Kenneth reflects on the two books that immediately follow the Book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament of the Roman Catholic Bible, the Book of Lamentations and the Book of Baruch. How are these books connected, what do they tell us about this part of Israel's history, and how can they speak to our faith lives today? Have you read the Book of Lamentations or the Book of Baruch? Do you tend to go back to the same books in Scripture or do you occasionally try venturing into lesser known books like these two? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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The Book of Lamentations + The Book of Baruch

In this episode, Kenneth breaks down the longest book of the Bible, the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah. Have you read the Book of Jeremiah? Do you have a favorite verse? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Book of Jeremiah

In this episode, Kenneth is transported to the coastal Carolina marsh near the town of Barkley Cove, which is wrapped up in a murder mystery. Who could have killed the popular former star high school quarterback and left his body to rot in the swamp? Did the elusive, legendary marsh girl have anything to do with it? When is the last time you felt sucked into a book's setting? What summer read would you recommend? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Where the Crawdads Sing

In this episode, Kenneth faces the anger, rage, and sadness of Ta-Nehisi Coates in the book that won him the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Between the World and Me. How does Coates explain what's going on with racism and police brutality in the United States to his teenage son? Have you read any of Ta-Nehisi Coates' books or essays? What did you think of them? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Between the World and Me

In this episode, Kenneth goes on the arduous journey from Mexico to the United States with a young mother, Lydia, and her eight-year-old son, Luca, fleeing for their lives from a dangerous cartel hellbent on capturing them before they make it to safety by crossing the border. Along the way, they will encounter all sorts of people. Can they be trusted, or are they agents of the cartel closing in on them? Are Lydia and Luca willing to make the sacrifices necessary to survive as they are tested to their ultimate limits, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? What are your thoughts on American Dirt? Do you have any interest in reading it if you haven't already? What other migrant or refugee books set around the United States-Mexican border would you recommend? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

American Dirt

In this episode, Kenneth uncovers some truly unfathomable intelligence schemes and military plots that never made it off the drawing board. Synthetic goat poop that could defeat the Nazis? A tsunami bomb that could wreak havoc on Japan in World War II? Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs intended to take down Castro in Cuba? Yep, all that and more is detailed in this book! What is the wildest military or government intelligence scheme that you like to tout at trivia night? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Nuking the Moon

In this episode, Kenneth returns to Panem just in time for the 10th Annual Hunger Games and enters the mind of a young Coriolanus Snow. How will he rise to power and become the President Snow we know from the original trilogy, and what sacrifices will he have to make along the way? What is your favorite Hunger Games book? How about your favorite Hunger Games movie? Are you excited for the movie adaptation of this prequel? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

In this episode, Kenneth enters the cynical mind of rebellious teenager Holden Caulfield, who finds himself expelled from yet another school. Can Holden pull himself together and find happiness somewhere in his life, or is the world so phony that it's all just a hopeless, meaningless endeavor? Did you have to read The Catcher in the Rye in school? Do you think it would make a good movie if Salinger's estate ever permits an adaptation? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Catcher in the Rye

In this episode, Kenneth finds himself in another dystopian world, a world in which teenage criminals run rampant at night, terrorizing the weak and innocent. When the state ultimately intervenes, the question becomes is goodness itself the goal, or is the free choice of goodness more important? Do you prefer Anthony Burgess' book or Stanley Kubrick's film? Which is your ideal version of A Clockwork Orange? What are your thoughts on the final 21st chapter? Is the story better with or without it? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A Clockwork Orange

In this episode, Kenneth follows the intertwined fates of two families and watches as their lives play out according to the familiar biblical story lines of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. What is your favorite story by John Steinbeck and why? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

East of Eden

In this episode, Kenneth and his special guest take on the zombie apocalypse. Will they make it out alive? Have you read The Walking Dead or watched the show on AMC? Which do you prefer and why? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Walking Dead

In this episode, Kenneth examines the first of the prophetic books of the Bible, Isaiah. Have you read the Book of Isaiah or any of the prophetic books? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Book of Isaiah

In this episode, Kenneth witnesses a once unbreakable friendship between two girls crumble. Can they come together and salvage their relationship? What is your favorite book about friendship? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sula

In this episode, Kenneth watches a young black girl's obsession with beauty and conformity consume her as her life gradually disintegrates in the face of violent adversity. Have you read Toni Morrison before? Which one of her books is your favorite? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Bluest Eye

In this episode, Kenneth meets a character suffering from a terrible drug addiction in a cruel dystopian world. (Please note that the explicit language the author used in the story was replaced with appropriate substitutions when quoting from it.) What is your favorite dystopian short story? Let me know by emailing bookblurbs19@gmail.com or follow the show on social media at www.facebook.com/bookblurbs19 or twitter.com/bookblurbs19. You can also leave a voice message at anchor.fm/bookblurbs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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