A Novel Review Book Podcast
Hello and welcome to A Novel Review podcast series.
Through this podcast Seamus will tackle the endless world of literature, one book at a time!
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Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
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Two coming of age novels in a fantasy world richly imagined by Ursula K. Le Guin. Ged is a reckless and young mage from Gont, learning through action the consequences he faces form those actions while Tenar is a young girl, stripped of her family, name and made to serve the nameless ones. Both stories are similar in that both Ged and Tenar have to search for their identity within their true selves, though the stories are incredibly varied.
‘A Wizard of Earthsea’ is a sweeping adventure novel taking us to all corners of the world, while ‘The Tombs of Atuan’ are a deeply personal, introspective journey in an impersonal world. A rich tapestry of adventure and personal attendance, Le Guin’s ability to tell a tale will comfort you, as well as wow you.
Painting: Today I painted two paintings for two books. He first is Ged reasoning with a dragon and the second is Tenar, stripped of all features as she is in the novel.
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
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Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
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What is the cost of selling your blood for money? Sanguan is a man who sells his blood but understands that it comes at a price and that the money he makes has to be spent on something meaningful. But through the course of his life, meaning takes many forms and Sanguan discovers that sacrifice takes many forms as he wrestles with his familial identity and understanding of what it means to have a family.A sweeping yet tightly written novel, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant is a gripping and raw novel interspersed with moments of darkly lit humour about life.
Painting: Today I painted dripping blood morphing into money
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
Naked Earth by Eileen Chang
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
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The Odyssey. That great journey that is now the hallmark for all subsequent journeys, but as we are ferried along this perilous path, we ask the question – can a hero return home both physically and mentally?
Stylistically more complex than the Iliad, the Odyssey weaves a tale of myth and fiction as one man struggles to return to his home, and even if he makes it home after 20 years, what place does he now occupy?
Painting: Today I painted a boat battling the seas
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
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The Iliad was originally orally comprised making up part of the epic cycle. There was a paradox when it was written down. It went from being a flexible and fluid piece of literature that stretched with the imagination of the bard to a rigid story, captured and chained to the page. But, the paradox is, we are now thankful to have this historical piece of literature in a near original state that reaches across the annals of time to tell us a story that remains as fresh and prevalent as once that was written today.
Painting: Today I painted Achilles standing tall on the battlefield
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
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Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
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Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple is an epistolary novel that spans the years and distance between two sisters that are trying to survive their respective worlds. Celie is stuck in an abusive relationship, married to a man that views her as his property to do with what he likes. Nettie escapes the doldrums of domestic life, becoming a part of a mission in Africa. The duality of their lives is intimately entangled in the social landscape they find themselves in as they struggle through with a perseverance that inspires and defines.
Painting: Today I painted letter addressed to Nettie
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua
Naked Earth by Eileen Chang
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod
Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com
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Monday Jul 07, 2025
Monday Jul 07, 2025
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The Citadel of the Autarch is the final in the series Book of the New Sun and it is safe to say it ends how it begins… shrouded in mystery. A climax? I think so… Answers? Possibly… but do I know what actually happened? Ill save that for the second read. A masterpiece of a series that presents itself as something simple but the closer you look, the more confused you are. Severian limps to the end of this story and at the conclusion, you are left wondering if you lost your mind while others gained…
Painting: Today I painted a man at the dawning of a new sun
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lich Before the Darkness by Timothy Stormcrow
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
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Monday Jun 30, 2025
Monday Jun 30, 2025
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‘Whatever in creation exists in without my knowledge, exists without my consent’ A quote from today’s novel that is equally stark as it is brutal as it is mythic as it is beautiful. Cormac McCarthy’s famed novel, Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West weaves a tale that draws from historical narrative. A novel with a mythic quality to it, the prose is stripped and yet indulged with a biblical beauty to swallow us as the reader into a world that will shock you but keep you reading for more.
Painting: Today I painted a man amongst the bloody outline of a beast.
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
“Blood Meridian” by Cormack McCarthy
“The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker
“Swinging Between Water and Stone” by Steven Mayoff
“The Midnight Project” by Christy Climenhague
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
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Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Tuesday Jun 24, 2025
Two men. Achilles and Odysseus. Two central themes across two books. The Iliad and the Odyssey. War and Home. One lives a life of inscincere happiness. The other a life of authentic grief, but is one better than the other? Painting: Today a photo I took while in Israel studying archaeology. It is an elderly couple walking hand in hand through a ruinous city. It is entitled, 'Until the End of Time. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Bibliography: Albacini, F. (c.1825) Wounded Achilles. Marble sculpture. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. Homer (2003) The Iliad. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised and updated by P. Jones. London: Penguin Classics. Homer (2003) The Odyssey. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised by D.C.H. Rieu and updated by P. Jones. London: Penguin Classics. Mengi, M. (ed.) (2004) Odysseus and Calypso. Red figure vase, clay. Paris: Louvre Museum. Sartre, J.-P. (1946) Existentialism is a humanism. Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/students/dtc/students2011/maitland/philosophy/sartre-eih.pdf (Accessed: March 2025) Woolven, S. (2020) Until the End of Time. Photo. Additional segments throughout the podcast include: • Mantle Piece Moments • What are you reading? • On that Quote Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
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Two boys and a kite with nothing but life ahead of them. A turn of events sees the world come down faster than a cut kite and suddenly the world and future of the boys’ lives is uncertain. Set against the backdrop of the Coup of the Taliban and spanning as far as the United States we learn that you can take the boy out of Afghanistan, but does this physical distance equate to an emotional separation and freedom?
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a powerful novel about friendship, betrayal, and redemption. Set in Afghanistan and later the United States, it follows Amir, who struggles with guilt after betraying his loyal friend Hassan.
Painting: Today I painted a boy flying a kite
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
“The Patience Stone” by Atiq Rahimi
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
“Blood Meridian” by Cormack McCarthy
“The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
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Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
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In the Sword of the Lictor, the duty and honour bound Severian continues to wrestle with the moral responsibility he can’t quite escape. The novel passes like an ethereal dreamscape as Severian continues to pass through this world and our pages, and with each turning page, another piece of what Severian holds dear is taken from him, shredding his identity down until he is left with nothing but himself.
Painting: Today I painted an ethereal city how I envisioned Dr Talos and Baldanders were occupying
Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include:
“The Sword of the Lictor” by Gene Wolfe
“Pefection” by Vincenzo Latronico
Additional segments throughout the podcast include:
Mantle Piece Moments
What are you reading?
On that Quote
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5
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