The CodeX Cantina

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Today Ray Bradbury uses "All Summer in a Day" to talk to us about classroom bullying and its effects. Do these kids actually experience remorse? What are some of the tips you picked up on in this piece? Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Do you have a Short...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Let's talk about Civil Disobedience, Nonviolent Resistance, and the concept of worldly possessions to a Christian. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit your entry he...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Let's look at the classic "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and I don't mean the Disney movie version. Let's look at the tale spun by American writer Washington Irving.  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is one of Una's favorite books of all time. When we heard that Ryan North and Albert Monteys were going to create a Graphic Novel/Comic adaptation, we were excited! Let's start a Spoiler-Free chat and then move a bit deeper as we play some games related to the book and cha...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Let's talk about privilege and class divide in Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House" today. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Do you have a Short Story or Novel you'd think we'd like or would want to see us cover? Submit your entry here: https://forms.gl...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Spotted Horses was originally released as a short story. It was later reworked to a novella and injected into The Hamlet book of the Snopes Trilogy. Let's talk about the snake oil salesman trope as well as Helen of Troy today! Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmatio...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! This week we're looking at "The Cove" (also called "The Clearing") by Luisa Mercedes Levinson. Themes of oppression and a strongly admired piece of feminism. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Publication Info 1:31 Plot Summary 2:37 Analysis Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmi...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! We look at "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang today. This was the novella that inspired the 2016 movie Arrival. It dealt with fascinating concepts in language acquisition, writing, and more in this Sci-Fi story. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 Linguistic...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! What a great cast of characters with Mrs. Mooney, Polly, Bob Doran. But what's with the intro and how does it tie into the ending? Let's chat about what James Joyce did with "The Boarding House" and how that conveys some messages. If you're reading through the rest of Dubliners, please check out our playlist....

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Let's talk about the biblical allusions in "Shingles for the Lord." A popular and comedic piece that follows up with the Grier family in the Yoknapatawpha County. We need to talk about the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard today. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_con...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! This week we are looking at "The Slaughteryard" sometimes translated as the Slaughterhouse by Esteban Echeverria. One of Argentina's first work of prose, let's take a look at this piece and maybe talk a bit of the historical context that we can share. I'm sure the Unitarians can sound familiar but it's not th...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! We're going to have a fireside chat about Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Chaos Rising today. Very fun SciFi Star Wars book that will be the new in-universe Thrawn Origin story. We read this story with friends: Nerdy Narrative: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVXw-rVWALBklE2syuN4myw Brad Proctor: https://www.yo...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! We are looking at "The Featherless Buzzards" by Julio Ramon Ribeyro today. A great story dealing with topics such as child labor and trash. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUKpfRIbCXmiFvqxIw?sub_confirmation=1 You can reach us on Social Media: ▶ http://instagram.com/thecodexcantina ▶ http://t...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Okay, so we finished out chapters 3 and 4 for this video. So we'll cover the rest of the book with a bit of a focus on these sections. Let's chat about the Old South and New South in "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. There are many references to Heritage and Racism that can help explains some of t...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Today we look at Clarice Lispector's "The Crime of the Mathematics Professor." A great piece with a really interesting interpretation of salvation and grace. However, we don't agree at all on this. What did you guys think? Translated by: William L. Grossman Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzdqkkUK...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Let's focus on Faulkner’s usage of Time in this novel, The Sound and the Fury. It's an area with a lot of contention for how to interpret it. Maybe adding more fuel to the fire that this book is about subjective truth. Let's look at an interpretation of time and how it interacts with the Compson boys: Benjy,...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Okay, so Chapter 1 can be a show stopper for many people. I know it was for me on my first read. Let's talk about Benjy Compson and his view of the world. He is a very unique narrator with his Associative Thinking. We bounce between April 7th, 1928 and many other points in the Compson Timeline. Let's walk thr...

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Let's kick off our In-Depth series on "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. We're going to be talking about the different narrators, what you need to know about the book before reading, and some of the themes that will be explored. Our goal is to arm you with information that could help you get more o...

Let's wrap up "Absalom, Absalom!" one of our favorite books that we'd put on a rocketship and blast into outer space. Why? Le'ts talk about it today...

Welcome to The CodeX Cantina where our goal is to get more people talking about books! This week we are looking into Chapter 7 of "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner. Let's talk about the Structure of Tragedy. Specifically, with Aristotle's Poetics. 

Welcome to The CodeX Cantina where our goal is to get more people talking about books! This week we are looking into Chapters 5 and 6 of "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner. Let's talk about Fatalism and the Religion and Predestination this week!

Welcome to The CodeX Cantina where our goal is to get more people talking about books! This week we are looking into Chapters 3 and 4 of "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner. Let's talk about Fatalism and the Religion and Predestination this week!

Welcome to The CodeX Cantina where our goal is to get more people talking about books. Let's talk about summary, review, and analysis for Chapters 1 and 2 as we go in-depth with "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner. We need to start talking about Greek tragedies, the Old South/New South, and Wisteria with today's episode. 

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! One of the most important books in American Literature is "Absalom, Absalom!" Let's kick off our in-depth series with what are some things to know before starting. We structured this for both new readers to Faulkner as well as readers with some experience. We put a lot of thought into how the plot constantly...