Ep 41 - Our Favourite Comfort Reads

Hardcore Literature

Benjamin McEvoy

Studyguide, Arts, Literature, Bookclub, Alevel, Courses, Bookreview, Books, Gcse, Education

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hardcore Literature, your favourite book club.
0:04.0	Deep dives into the greatest books ever written, provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses.
0:12.0	We don't just read the great books, we live them.
0:15.0	Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy and many more.
0:20.0	We'll relish the most moving art ever committed to
0:22.4	the page and stage from every age. Join us and me, your host, Benjamin McAvoy, on the reading adventure
0:30.1	of a lifetime with hardcore literature. Hello and welcome back to Hardcore Literature.
0:38.4	Wherever I find you today, I hope you're doing well.
0:42.4	And I hope you can take a pause or a little break to enjoy what promises to be a very special show.
0:51.5	Special because we're talking about those books that are near and dear to our hearts.
0:58.7	Those books that moved us in childhood, those books that give us strength in times of weakness.
1:05.4	We're talking about comfort reads. And today's show is built off the incredible comments from readers and patrons of the
1:14.1	Hardcore Literature Book Club. I put the call out a few days ago asking readers what books they
1:20.8	turn to in need of comfort and what makes a comfort read. And the response was staggering. So today, I will be reading
1:31.7	each of these insightful meditations on the books that provide lovers of literature with comfort.
1:37.7	I'll be engaging with the ideas thrown up and will close the show with my own personal comfort reads. I would like to say
1:48.4	a huge thank you to everyone who left a comment on this discussion at patreon.com forward
1:55.9	slash hardcore literature and thank you for listening and deep reading the great books along with us
2:03.9	as a community. Before we dive in to the comments, let's think a little bit about the nature
2:10.1	of comfort. Now, seeking out a comfort read or desiring to find comfort within the pages of a book would presuppose that you're
2:19.5	not exactly comfortable right now because you wouldn't seek out that which you already have.
2:26.5	You wouldn't try to attain a state you are already in. So if you're desiring to read a comfort,
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