# 220 - Book Club: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Wife of the Party
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Today, I sit down with my friends Cathy and Kirsten to book club the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead. We talk about how the book was impactful, what we liked about it, and what we’re reading next. We also talk about turning 50, our health, Cathy getting a puppy, our busy summer plans, and much more!
Our next book club will be “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my god, episode 220. That's crazy. That's crazy. I know Halston and I had our four-year |
| 0:06.8 | anniversary and didn't realize it to like four weeks later or something or like, |
| 0:11.6 | ah, Halston came in with this orchid and I had given nothing, I've given him nothing. |
| 0:16.4 | Sorry, Halston, I love you. |
| 0:19.8 | 220 book club, Kirsten, Kathy and I read the Nickel Boys. It was a really great book, |
| 0:25.4 | really great book, well written, hard to read only because of the subject matter, |
| 0:30.9 | but I think, you know, it's kind of based on a true place called the Dozier School for Boys, |
| 0:38.4 | which is a reformatory school kind of detention center for boys, juvenile boys in Florida, |
| 0:45.7 | that was just horrific. So not a beach read, but a very good read. So if you're interested in a |
| 0:53.8 | good read historical fiction, the Nickel Boys was really great. Our new book club book for next time |
| 1:00.4 | is, thank you, is pure and easy by Zuzana Clark. So if you'd like to pick that up and read along, |
| 1:06.4 | that's next month's, thank you, next month's book club book. Thank you for showing up every week, |
| 1:11.3 | thank you for your comments, thank you for your book club of suggestions. I am stacking them up |
| 1:16.2 | because we're going through our resources and then I'll pull some of that, some of those emails |
| 1:21.1 | out when we get stumped sometimes. So thank you very much, keep them coming. Thank you for supporting |
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| 1:37.6 | this point. It took me four years. So thank you for taking a moment to peruse them and maybe purchase |
| 1:44.6 | something. If you need something that sponsors our podcast, that would be lovely. Yeah, that's it. |
| 1:50.7 | So I hope you enjoy this episode of the book club with Kathy and Kiersten. |
| 2:20.7 | I got something I need. Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates. You got a brand new key. |
| 2:29.6 | I think that we should get together and try for more to see. |
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