Tonight on GeekNights, we bring you the GeekNights Book Club: The Tale of Genji part 1. We have a lot to say, so we're splitting this one in two. This first episode covers our reactions to the work as fiction. We'll save some of the meta conversation for a followup episode to come. You can use this handy chart to follow along.
For those interested, the next book club book will be N. K. Jemisin's The City We Became.
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I met a podcaster from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless episodes
Stand in the desert…
And on the shownotes, these words appear:
My name is Genji, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Announcement thread from 2½ years ago.
Just want to say that the night after recording this episode I finished reading the next book club book, “The City We Became”. Now I can read whatever the fuck book I want, muahahaha.