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Books Unbound

#29 - BOOK CLUB: The Memory Police!

Books Unbound

Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

Books, Arts

4.8623 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Our second book club episode featuring voice clips from YOU!! In this book club episode we discuss The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa!

Unbinding books to get to their heart with Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay! Submit your book requests at booksunboundpodcast.com and support the podcast on patreon! patreon.com/booksunbound

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we unbind books to get to their hearts

0:14.6

with your host, me, it's Ariel, and me, Raylene.

0:18.4

So today we have a very special episode.

0:21.3

It's our book club episode.

0:23.3

Woo!

0:24.4

So this is our second book club and, you know, now we're experienced.

0:28.8

We know what we're doing.

0:30.3

It's not going to be as much of a train wreck.

0:33.1

And we're really excited because actually what we discovered last time is that this format works so well for podcasting.

0:41.0

So if you haven't read the book or you have, we are going to basically do a bit of a non-spoilery section at the beginning.

0:48.2

Share our feelings.

0:49.6

And then we will warn you.

0:51.0

It will be very clear.

0:52.3

We'll say there might be spoilers now if you want to

0:55.2

click off. But then we're going to start listening to all of our listeners submissions because,

1:00.7

like we mentioned, this was our book club. So people submitted voice clips 30 seconds of an idea

1:06.2

or a thought or a feeling they had about the book. And I can't wait to listen to them. We don't listen to

1:11.4

them in advance. We have no idea. Yeah, so we have no idea how people felt about the book.

1:16.5

But I guess that that is the leading question. Raylene, how did you feel about the memory police

1:23.3

by Yoko Ogoa? Hopefully, that's slightly right pronunciation. Right, who knows? Well, if anyone has

1:30.4

seen my reading vlog, you'll know that throughout the entire book, I had no idea how I felt.

1:35.2

I couldn't decide if I liked it or if I didn't like it because there would be parts that I loved

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