# 281 - Book Club: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Wife of the Party

Berty Boy Productions

Comedy, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews, Education

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Today, on Wife of the Party Podcast, I sit down with my friends, Cathy & Kirsten to book club the book “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” by Judy Blume. We also talk about The Machine Premier, my southern family being in LA, dating Bert again, empty nest, and much more!

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0:00.0	Book club. Who's ready for book club?
0:03.0	Kathy Kirsten and I talk about.
0:05.0	Judy Blooms, are you there, God?
0:07.0	It's me, Margaret.
0:08.0	We all three read this book when we were young.
0:11.0	And we read it again. And boy, is it a good book?
0:15.0	It is short, quick read. Took about three hours to read it.
0:20.0	Probably for about a 10-year-old girl, nine-year-old girl.
0:23.0	So many things are covered in this book.
0:25.0	I forgot about. All I remembered reading was about.
0:28.0	You must, you must, you must increase your bust.
0:31.0	And the girl got her period.
0:32.0	It was all, you know, this was the book where the girl gets her period.
0:36.0	But there's so much more in this book.
0:38.0	There's lots of family dynamics happening.
0:41.0	There's questioning religion happening.
0:44.0	There's some judgment of others happening.
0:48.0	There's having big crushes on boys and being all fluttery told me about that.
0:53.0	There's just so much in this little cute little adorable book.
0:56.0	And I went to see the movie and I loved the movie.
0:59.0	It was really, really fun.
1:00.0	So I'm super glad we read this book because it's such a classic.
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