The Banderpod

S5:E9 - Carolyn Weber & 'Four Questions God Asks'

Rachel Donahue [https://www.instagram.com/rachelsdonahuepoetry/] interviews Dr. Carolyn Weber [https://www.carolynweber.com/] about how poetry has shaped her life and faith, and also her newest release, Four Questions God Asks [https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781540905406_four-questions-god-asks]. Carolyn is best known for her memoir Surprised By Oxford [https://bookshop.org/p/books/surprised-by-oxford-a-memoir-carolyn-weber/ed845545e4570a1e?ean=9780849921834&next=t], which has been turned into a movie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised_by_Oxford] (available on Apple [https://tv.apple.com/mx/movie/surprised-by-oxford/umc.cmc.nrdh8pfbkpjczjc18e7vhdts?l=en], Angel [https://www.angel.com/movies/surprised-by-oxford] or Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Surprised-Oxford-Rose-Reid/dp/B0CMR243JL]) but Carolyn is also a poet and the trajectory of her entire life has been altered by how deeply she engaged with a John Donne poem which helped her understand the gospel as a graduate student. Mentioned in this episode: • Surprised by Oxford (2022) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised_by_Oxford] • Four Questions God Asks - [https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781540905406_four-questions-god-asks]Carolyn Weber [https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781540905406_four-questions-god-asks] • Surprised by Oxford - [https://bookshop.org/p/books/surprised-by-oxford-a-memoir-carolyn-weber/ed845545e4570a1e?ean=9780849921834&next=t]Carolyn Weber [https://bookshop.org/p/books/surprised-by-oxford-a-memoir-carolyn-weber/ed845545e4570a1e?ean=9780849921834&next=t] • Holy is the Day - [https://bookshop.org/p/books/holy-is-the-day-living-in-the-gift-of-the-present-carolyn-weber/c789a774a9f71a9b?ean=9780830843077&next=t]Carolyn Weber [https://bookshop.org/p/books/holy-is-the-day-living-in-the-gift-of-the-present-carolyn-weber/c789a774a9f71a9b?ean=9780830843077&next=t] • Sex and the City of God - [https://bookshop.org/p/books/sex-and-the-city-of-god-a-memoir-of-love-and-longing-carolyn-weber/e0e632b449625f40?ean=9780830845859&next=t]Carolyn Weber [https://bookshop.org/p/books/sex-and-the-city-of-god-a-memoir-of-love-and-longing-carolyn-weber/e0e632b449625f40?ean=9780830845859&next=t] • Holy Sonnets - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sonnets]John Donne [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sonnets] • ‘Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God’ - John Donne [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44106/holy-sonnets-batter-my-heart-three-persond-god] • Rime of the Ancient Mariner - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner] • Surprised by Joy - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised_by_Joy]C.S. Lewis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised_by_Joy] • Homegoing: Poetry for a Season - [https://bookshop.org/p/books/home-going-poetry-for-a-season/5d7936a6afb301ed?ean=9780988057296&next=t]Carolyn Weber [https://bookshop.org/p/books/home-going-poetry-for-a-season/5d7936a6afb301ed?ean=9780988057296&next=t] • Summering - [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24514810-summering]Carolyn Weber [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24514810-summering] • Rebecca [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)] - Daphne du Maurier [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)] • Ties that Blind [https://bookshop.org/p/books/ties-that-blind-unraveling-stories-that-keep-us-in-the-dark-dr-alan-e-godwin/bcc0c80a96ee87f5?ean=9781977284396&next=t] - Dr. Alan Godwin [https://bookshop.org/p/books/ties-that-blind-unraveling-stories-that-keep-us-in-the-dark-dr-alan-e-godwin/bcc0c80a96ee87f5?ean=9781977284396&next=t] • George MacDonald Press - David Jack [https://theroomtoroam.com/] • Introduction to Poetry - [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/introduction-to-poetry]Billy Collins [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/introduction-to-poetry] I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/]! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter [https://son-of-laughter.com/] for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende [http://www.instagram.com/starclad.magpie/] for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan [https://sdgmorgan.com/] for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com [https://sdgmorgan.substack.com/] & bammerhab.substack.com [http://bammerhab.substack.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com [https://bandersnatchbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

S5:E8 - Bethany Faulk & 'Seichō Summer'

Annie Beth Donahue interviews Bethany Faulk about the newest Bandersnatch Book release, Seichō Summer [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer]! Bethany describes Seichō Summer as a kind of 90’s Little House on the Prairie, albeit with sushi rather than smoked meats! But both Faulk and Laura Ingalls Wilder lightly fictionalized their own childhoods to make a story that could resonate with all generations about feeling misplaced somewhere… until you slowly grow up and connect the dots. (成長 - Seichō is Japanese for “growth”) Bethany started with her own teenage journals to remember the joys and angsts she’d forgotten and to lovingly recreate the 90’s and to write this coming of age novel from a true place. Annie Beth and Bethany also discuss how Bethany once got a sushi roll named after her! Mentioned in this episode: * Seichō Summer - [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer]Bethany Faulk [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer] www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/seicho-summer] * National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Novel_Writing_Month] * Little Women [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women] - Louisa May Alcott [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women] * The Anxious Generation [https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/] - Jonathan Haidt [https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/] * Little House in the Big Woods - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_in_the_Big_Woods] Laura Ingalls Wilder [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_in_the_Big_Woods] * Flicker.Press [https://flicker.press/] Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/]! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter [https://son-of-laughter.com/] for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende [http://www.instagram.com/starclad.magpie/] for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan [https://sdgmorgan.com/] for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com [https://sdgmorgan.substack.com/] & bammerhab.substack.com [http://bammerhab.substack.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com [https://bandersnatchbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

S5:E7 - Melissa Woodruff & Bandersnatch Books

Carolyn Givens [https://carolyncgivens.com/] interviews Melissa Woodruff [https://substack.com/@lightheadedbubble] about her path to being a reader, then a homeschool mom who writes novels, works at her church, and now has become a full partner in Bandersnatch Books! From Radio Shack to camp counseling, Melissa has weaved through life with energy, love and engagement with everyone who God sends her way. When she stumbled into Bandersnatch Books’ booth in the Great Homeschool Convention in 2023, she was mostly looking for good things to read, to fill her inexhaustible need for good books for herself and her kids, but instead she discovered three new friends and sparked a vision for what Bandersnatch Books could become. We’re excited to introduce Melissa to you, and we know you’ll love her as much as we do! Mentioned in this episode: * Melissa Woodruff [https://www.instagram.com/thetiredinspiredmom/] * Eternal Church - Fort Mill, SC [https://eternalchurch.net/] * Season 4: Episode 10 - Melissa Interviews Carrie, Annie Beth and Rachel [https://bandersnatchbooks.substack.com/p/s4e10-q-and-a-and-the-future-of-bandersnatch] * The Red Door [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/red-door] - Rachel Lulich [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/red-door] * Promise - [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/promise]Loren Warnemuende [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/promise] * Goblabet [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/goblabet] - Ken Priebe [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/goblabet] * Real Poems for Real Moms - [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/store/p/real-poems]Rachel Donahue [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/store/p/real-poems] * Great Homeschool Convention - South Carolina [https://greathomeschoolconventions.com/locations/south-carolina] * Gallows Hill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_Hill_(novel)] - Lois Duncan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_Hill_(novel)] * Project Hail Mary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary] - Andy Weir [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary] Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/]! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Jacob Collins [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-collins-fort-mill-sc/] for key audio assistance! Son of Laughter [https://son-of-laughter.com/] for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende [http://www.instagram.com/starclad.magpie/] for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan [https://sdgmorgan.com/] for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com [https://sdgmorgan.substack.com/] & bammerhab.substack.com [http://bammerhab.substack.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com [https://bandersnatchbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

S5:E6 - S.D. Smith & 'The Green Ember'

Carolyn Clare Givens [https://carolyncgivens.com/] interviews S.D. Smith [https://sdsmith.com/about-sam/] (The Green Ember [https://sdsmith.com/the-green-ember-series/]) about where the Green Ember came from, how he seeks to serve his audience, how he stumbled into a grace-filled vocation (albeit with hard work and a calling) and the strange concatenation of events that could possibly align to allow for an entire barbecue restaurant to be filled with only bearded men on a Tuesday! Sam is also releasing a new Green Ember book: The Lost Legend [https://store.storywarren.com/products/lost-legend]! Carrie and Sam further discuss his role in the Oscar nominated short film Forevergreen [https://sdsmith.com/about-sam/] directed by Nathan Engelhardt [https://www.instagram.com/nathan.engelhardt/?hl=en] and Jeremy Spears [https://www.instagram.com/whittlewoodshop/?hl=en]. Mentioned in this episode: * S.D. Smith’s Site [https://sdsmith.com/] * The Lost Legend - [https://store.storywarren.com/products/lost-legend]S.D. Smith [https://store.storywarren.com/products/lost-legend] * The Green Ember Series - [https://sdsmith.com/the-green-ember-series/]S.D. Smith [https://sdsmith.com/the-green-ember-series/] * Forevergreen - Short Film [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EPW7JUMTM&t=13s] by Nathan Englehardt [https://www.instagram.com/nathan.engelhardt/?hl=en] and Jeremy Spears [https://www.instagram.com/whittlewoodshop/?hl=en] * “Leporine” Definition [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leporine] * Withywindle Podcast [https://withywindle.substack.com/] * CiRCE Institute [https://circeinstitute.org/] * Sarah MacKenzie - Read-Aloud Revival [https://readaloudrevival.com/] * Tale of the Three Trees [https://biblicalviewpoint.com/2021/12/10/the-tale-of-three-trees/] Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/]! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter [https://son-of-laughter.com/] for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende [http://www.instagram.com/starclad.magpie/] for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan [https://sdgmorgan.com/] for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com [https://sdgmorgan.substack.com/] & bammerhab.substack.com [http://bammerhab.substack.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com [https://bandersnatchbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

S5:E5 - Ambre Sautter & Reshelving Alexandria

A.B. Donahue interviews Ambre Sautter about “Reshelving Alexandria” a bookish community on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/groups/reshelvingalexandria/] and later on Substack [https://www.reshelvingalexandria.com/] (organized originally in 2017). Ambre is a wife and mother of five living in the picturesque landscapes of Iowa, and she aims to be a guide for others on their literary journeys, especially in curating their own home libraries. Though she is a homeschooling parent, Ambre doesn’t primarily use her home library for syllabi, but mostly as a place to track all the souvenirs of the places that books have taken her. (Also did you know the librarians of the Library of Alexandria were all pirates? It’s true!) Mentioned in this episode: * Ambre Sautter [https://substack.com/@ambresautter] * Stories from the Ashes Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-the-ashes-podcast/id1624178397] * Reshelving Alexandria [https://www.reshelvingalexandria.com/] * The Red Door [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/red-door] - Rachel Lulich [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/books/red-door] * The Token - [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6226134-the-token]Samuel Shellabarger [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6226134-the-token] * Steele Savage (Illustrator) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_Savage] * Nellie Bly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly] * The Talisman Ring [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talisman_Ring] - Georgette Heyer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talisman_Ring] * The Unknown Ajax [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Ajax] - Georgette Heyer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Ajax] Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books [https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/]! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter [https://son-of-laughter.com/] for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende [http://www.instagram.com/starclad.magpie/] for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan [https://sdgmorgan.com/] for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com [https://sdgmorgan.substack.com/] & bammerhab.substack.com [http://bammerhab.substack.com/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bandersnatchbooks.substack.com [https://bandersnatchbooks.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]