The Inklings Awards for Literary Excellence
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
And the Inkling Award goes to...
This year, for the first of what I hope will be many times, I'm announcing my awards for the best books I read in four categories, with one bonus:
Non-Fiction
Criticism
Fiction
Theology
Bonus Category: Worst Book of the year
You can find links to the winners above, and a few runner-ups here, here, here, here, and here. Who will win? Who belly-flopped the hardest? Were there any good movies this year? All this and more, plus a preview of things to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Hobbits and hobbitss, welcome to the very first annual |
| 0:09.0 | Inklink Awards for Literary Excellence. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, let's get one thing out of the way, right up front. I do not own the term inkling. |
| 0:25.8 | This is just a fun thing that I am doing. Please don't sue me. I have no idea what the copyright laws are around this. |
| 0:31.5 | So we're really doing it live here. But I've been thinking the end of the year is coming up. |
| 0:37.0 | Things are kind of winding down. |
| 0:38.4 | It's the season of Advent, which if you're not already, you should be Advent maxing. |
| 0:43.1 | You should be in quiet contemplation, serene, hopeful, thoughtful kind of a season vibes |
| 0:49.6 | going on all the way through December until the 25th, which is the beginning, not the end of Christmas. |
| 0:55.4 | Christmas is 12 days long. The season as a whole is 40 days long. So you've got lots of fun |
| 1:00.7 | celebration coming up. But right now we're kind of in a hibernation mode, or at least I am. I've had a |
| 1:05.6 | huge year. I'm feeling very much ready to nest, to sleep on end for hours and hours, and to take stock and think |
| 1:13.6 | about the year that's gone past. I have not yet seen the movie The Return, which we've all been |
| 1:19.6 | very excited about here in the world of Young Heretics. I'm going to go to it soon, and I'll |
| 1:24.6 | get a review up on the channel by the time the year is out |
| 1:29.1 | to let you guys know what I thought of that after all of our journeys with Odysseus this year |
| 1:33.5 | in the Homeric poems. But I haven't gotten to that yet. There have been a lot of movies coming out. |
| 1:37.0 | I of course had to go see Wicked. The Theater Kid in Me required a trip to that movie, which has |
| 1:42.5 | been like 10 years in the making or something. |
| 1:45.1 | And you know what? It's really good. The press tour for it has been weird and extremely |
| 1:48.9 | woke, but the actual movie itself is a really terrific adaptation of what was great about the |
| 1:54.4 | stage show. So if you liked the musical, you'll love it. If you didn't like the musical, |
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