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#118 - BOOK CLUB: Eileen

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

Books, Arts

4.8623 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It's time to discuss Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, our last book club of 2022! We share our non-spoiler thoughts and then dive into the voice messages sent to us by listeners!

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind

0:13.7

Bucs to get to their hearts with your hosts, us.

0:17.2

It's Ariel and Raylene.

0:19.2

Hello.

0:20.2

Hello. So today is our special book club episode ladies and

0:25.8

gentlemen and everyone else we are doing i lean by otessa mosh fag i'm so glad that this got

0:34.7

picked i'm so glad that this got picked i completely agree because i that this got picked. I completely agree with you. This is one of

0:40.1

those books that could have easily become a mashed potato book for like years. Yes. Yes. And I didn't want that to

0:44.5

happen. No, we did not want that to happen. It also turned out perfectly as a winter book. Yeah. It took place

0:52.9

around Christmas and it was snowy.

0:54.7

Yeah, it had that kind of noir vibe that works in the dark of winter.

0:59.0

I don't know about our listeners, but here in Canada, it gets dark at four.

1:05.3

It's like 4.30 and the sun has set and you're like, yeah, fine.

1:09.8

Let's see what the hell I leans up to um the dead of night

1:14.8

we got so many voice clubs this time which is super exciting and i think um i think it's very

1:21.5

interesting because i guess this is like our sixth book club something like that something like that

1:27.0

and some book clubs get a lot more messages than others but this is definitely our sixth book club. Something like that. Something like that.

1:32.3

And some book clubs get a lot more messages than others, but this is definitely the one that we've gotten the most of.

1:34.1

And I think it's because of three things.

1:36.5

One, it's backlist.

1:38.2

So it's probably been on people's list for a long time.

1:41.0

It's pretty easy to get.

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