The CodeX Cantina

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Join our Patreon to pick our reads. 📖 Join our PATREON!: https://www.patreon.com/thecodexcantina ☕️ Buy Us a Coffee/S...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Let's talk about Mono no Aware. "Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata is a masterpiece and helped earn him the Nobel Prize in 1968.  Yasunari Kawabata Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbH_u7Oveys&a...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! A hopeful story from Flannery O'Connor! Let's talk about class, predestination, and more in "Revelation" by Flannery O'Connor. Flannery O'Connor Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFTSFjtIDWg&list=P...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! While we close out the read-along of "The Idiot" today with parts 3 and 4, we hope you consider joining us for more Dostoevsky reads! We'll leave a link here for more of his books if you should want to share y...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We are looking at an Untittle Poem today [The whole soldier doesn't suffer -...] by Lyudmyla Khersonska today. From words without borders: "Lyudmyla Khersonska lives in Odessa, Ukraine. She is the author of tw...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We head to Chicago for "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks today. A brief, but poignant story about boys skipping school to hang out at a pool hall. Let's talk about identity and more today. Poetry Playlist: ht...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Today we are continuing with "The Idiot" Part 2. This part slowed down a bit but we got to spend more time with the characters and diving deeper into Nihilism. The Idiot In-Depth Playlist: https://www.youtube....

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Today we are looking at Decomposition by Lyuba Yakimchuk. A poem that looks at, well... decomposition. Things are breaking down. We also talk about the symbol of the sunflower in Ukrainian Literature and cultu...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! A plot summary of this one was difficult to address. We kind of deal with an individual who's going through a second-person journey of a writer's experience.  Lorrie Moore Playlist: https://www.youtube.co...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Imperialism? Colonialism? What does the elephant symbolism mean? Let's talk about George Orwell's maybe autobiographical, maybe fictional, short story "Shooting an Elephant" today. George Orwell Playlist: http...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Today we are talking about some of the poetry from Borys Humenyuk. Specifically, some of the publically available poems from Words for War. Our poems were translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky. W...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Join our Patreon to pick our reads. 📖 Join our PATREON!: https://www.patreon.com/thecodexcantina ☕️ Buy Us a Coffee/S...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We read this in January and am just now getting the videos out. Thanks for your patience as we work through the logistics of real life! Let's talk about the things we wish we had known back in January before s...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We pause to look at "Words for War" a collection of Ukrainian poems. We talk about "Make Love" by Yurii Izdryk today. Our version was translated by Boris Dralyuk. Words for War Playlist: https://www.youtube.co...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Let's talk about "King of the Bingo Game" by Ralph Ellison today! A story that seems to talk about control, class, race, and more.  Ralph Ellison Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62b3BxbTMlM&...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We are embarking on a part-by-part discussion of "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky! Today we talk about faces, intentions, and goodness in a person with Part 1! Let's talk more about the Prince Myshkin and Nast...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Is it madness? Is it all imagination and fear takes over? Let's take a look at "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe today! Edgar Allan Poe Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7PyOjBQdY&a...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Let's talk about Brazil's Hilda Hilst today. She's frequently compared to Clarice Lispector and particularly this book is compared with "Agua Viva". This is a great work that is a meditation on death, language...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! I'm sure we all want the ending explained and to know "what does it mean"? We've seen lots of book reviews so we thought we'd go against the grain for those who have read the book and want to have a spoiler bo...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! A crazy mind experiment! Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges experiments with epistemology, metaphysics, solipsism, and more! I'm sure we all want this story explained and clear-cut answers on "Wha...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We continue down the journey of Dubliners with the middle story "A Little Cloud" by James Joyce! With amazing themes of class, social mobility, nationality, religion and more, let's talk about what this could...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! We look at an incredibly popular short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell today! A great story about the hunter and the hunted, strength, and perhaps a nod to the fall of tsarist Russia. ...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Is the meaning to life found within the fly? Do you see this as more class commentary or a commentary on post-war feelings? A great little piece "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield. Katherine Mansfield Playlist:...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Jack London has a way with words. Let's talk about man vs nature, intellect vs instinct, and needs vs desires with "To Build a Fire" today! Jack London Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fmAJKB9v78&amp...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! Spoiler Free "Why Read?" Series Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zosyOZHcLmY&list=PLHg_kbfrA7YBoRL_dSsmL_7bCOff1Csm5 ✨Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see...