#86 - Surrealist Books WITH A.S. KING!
Books Unbound
Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay
4.8 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A dream come true! We get to chat books and reading with our long-time favourite: AS King! Books about shy characters? Books for when you can't sleep? Surrealist fiction? We've got you covered!
Find AS King:
Her website: https://www.as-king.com}
Her new book Switch: https://www.as-king.com/books
Her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/as_king_/
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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 with your host's me. |
| 0:15.5 | It's Ariel and me, Raylene. |
| 0:17.8 | And today we have our special guest, AS King, who just took a sip of her coffee or tea |
| 0:23.6 | and what did your mug say? It said, read like you mean it? I love that. It's a Los Angeles Times book |
| 0:29.4 | festival mug and so only one I have left. And yes, hello. I'm so happy to be here on this |
| 0:36.4 | beautiful Sunday. Yes, it is. Today is a very warm day here in Nova Scotia. |
| 0:41.1 | I planted a pink tree over the weekend right in front of my office window. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm going to tell you guys, if you have the ability to plant a pink tree in front of your office window, |
| 0:50.8 | you should do that immediately because the serotonin boost I get every time |
| 0:55.5 | I look outside and there's this beautiful pink little tree. Oh, man. Anyway, how- |
| 0:59.7 | What kind of tree is pink? I need to understand this as a longtime lover of things. |
| 1:03.9 | It's a prairie fire crab apple tree. Okay. Now that's all you had to say. I know what that looks |
| 1:09.3 | like. Wow, that's a beautiful tree. It's so gorgeous. Me and my brother and my boyfriend went out and got some little saplings and it felt like real life Animal Crossing. |
| 1:18.6 | But yeah, the weather is great. How are you guys doing? Amy, how are you in the world? Why does my mind say Philadelphia? |
| 1:25.6 | Kind of close. I'm in Pennsylvania. I'm about an hour |
| 1:29.0 | and a bit from Philadelphia. And it is really hot. And this morning I really discovered why it's hot. |
| 1:35.0 | It's because my air conditioning is somehow broken. So I'm going to have to call someone about that |
| 1:38.8 | after we talk. And I'm in Pennsylvania. It's hot and and it's um pretty though i know it's that you're |
| 1:46.5 | right like the little serotonin boost i did i did this thing mid-covid where whenever that means like |
| 1:51.3 | sometime in october where i decided late in the evening as we do that um i should buy 500 tulip bulbs |
| 1:57.5 | because i love tulip so much and so then i planted them in my front bed I have a it's a |
| 2:02.4 | little house it's you know it's I live in a town now which is very weird for me because I'm a farm |
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