#70: Gilead (ep. 8)
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Tim and David conclude their discussion of Marilynne Robinson's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead. include whether Jack should have left town, whether Jack is a bad guy, and much, much more. This episode covers pages 215 through the end of the book.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Close Reeds here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.0 | I am David Kern and I am joined this week by Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:13.0 | Tim, how are you, sir? |
| 0:15.0 | I'm great. |
| 0:17.0 | Tim McIntosh, no Angelina Stanford? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, Angelina, Angelina could not make it with us this week. |
| 0:23.1 | She is, what did she decide she was doing? |
| 0:26.6 | She was going to go to Aruba as well. |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, that's great for her. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah, I think she's probably on a, she's probably, |
| 0:34.3 | we should have issued a press release. |
| 0:35.5 | That's what we should have done. |
| 0:36.7 | We should have issued a press release. Well, what we should have done. We should have issued a press release. |
| 0:38.8 | Well, yeah, Angelina is not joining us this week. |
| 0:40.9 | She's got some things going on. |
| 0:42.5 | So we are going to be holding down the fourth this week as we finish up on Gilead. |
| 0:47.8 | And then our next book is going to be, do we need a drum roll? |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, everybody knows what it is, but we could do a drum roll just for fun i'll do a drum roll for fun ready set go all right the next book is going to be |
| 0:59.8 | acith christi's the murder on the oregon express we're going to spend a few weeks on that throughout |
| 1:03.7 | the month of october leading up to the november 6th release of the new movie version of that book |
| 1:09.6 | which stars many people from Daisy Ridley, |
| 1:13.3 | who was just in Star Wars, to Johnny Depp, to Kenneth Brenna, and I think, is it Judy |
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