Hey, everyone. If people ask you what you're doing right now, you can say, oh, listening to an

educational podcast about books, but of course, you don't have to say that it's two grown men

talking about a little wizard. Today's book is Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets by

J.K. Rowling. I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic, a father, and the only things that I have in common

with Ron Weasley are that I'm afraid of spiders

and I have a best friend who is more successful than I am.

I'm David Vance, Kellen's best friend.

Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets is a 3,000-page Russian novel cataloging the brutality of life under Stalin.

In the spirit of Orwell, it examines the hypocrisy of the Russian Revolution, devoting five chapters to the study of psychological torture alone.

It won the Newberry Medal.

And this is the bookpile.

Shilil 9-9 says,

I love that I can listen to this podcast

and be totally entertained as I fold my laundry,

clean my kitchen, and ignore my kids.

We've also got one from,

calls himself Joe parentheses, not Biden. He says i love this podcast i learn cool and

helpful stuff without the normal dry format i laugh my way through books about blood writing tidying up

and predictable irrationality thanks joe that's either he's talking about four different books, or he knew that we were going to be talking

about the Chamber of Secrets, because I feel like all of that happened.

Say those four again.

Blood, writing, tidying up.

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