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All three members of the cast are in different locations this month, so our bonus discussion might seem a little lackluster.

There are, though, three excellent reasons to give this one a listen:

1. You will learn all kinds of new things you didn’t know about books that have been banned or challenged.
2. Aaron really screwed up (BIG TIME!) when we compiled the list for this podcast and takes some time to remedy the situation.
3. You might win our first ever trivia contest, which might allow you, dear listener, to win an actual book from us.

You read that right. We’re going to give a free book away. All you have to do is answer a trivia question and email our show!

Can you be the lucky winner?

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It would stand to reason that a writer that has led an interesting life could write an interesting novel.

Unless you’re E. M. Forster.

If you’re him, you would lead an interesting life and then write a real clunker about despicable people doing deplorable things. You might posit that you’ve written a work filled to the brim with themes that your prose would never adequately explore.

None of which will matter when you eventually write A Passage To India.

Yeah, we didn’t care for this “essential novel.”

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What happens when we die? Do we exist in an ethereal plane that cannot be perceived by human conscience? Are we forced to spend eternity as the background characters in another person's dreams? Do we have to exist eternally seeing ourselves from the perspectives of those who knew us when we were alive? Will we get to meet Mary Shelley?

All of these possibilities-- and quite a few more-- are posited in neuroscientist David Eagleman's delightful (and short) book of stories. Rodney discovered this book as part of another discussion club and was moved enough by it to share it with Aaron and Rebecca. The three of them are now going to share it with you.