A Journey to Three Pines - Episode 6: Bury Your Dead
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Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
We are so excited to journey with you to Three Pines, the fictional French-Canadian village created by Louise Penny for her Three Pines series, featuring Armand Gamache. This spin-off podcast series will tackle each of the books in the series in turn, in a spoiler-FILLED format. Be sure you’ve read the book before listening to the episode.
As you’ve come to expect with all Currently Reading content, Meredith and Roxanna will follow a regular episode format, with regular segments, so you know what to expect each and every time. We love staying focused on the book, rather than conversational rabbit holes.
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1:56 - Putting the Book Into Context
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Published Sept. 28, 2010 by Minotaur Books
4.36 rating on Goodreads
Seasonal setting - Winter
Book Awards: Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2011, The Agatha Award, The New Blood Dagger Award, The Arthur Ellis Award, The Barry Award, and the Dilys Award
Critic Reviews
Meredith’s and Roxanna’s encounters with the book
7:20 - The Setup
16:22 - A Deeper Exploration
Setup and first paragraph
The pacing of the novel
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
Quebec vs American History
Anglophone vs. Francophone history and culture
Themes: “bury your dead”, “with time”
P.345 - Not everything buried is actually dead.
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
One bit of lightness in the entire novel
Location, Location, Location
Relationship between Beauvoir and Ruth Zardo
Who leaked the video?
Enneagram Corner
The Ending
1:14:36 - Superlatives
Favorite Scene
Character MVP
Biggest loser
Best food description
Favorite Quote
No spoilers this episode!
The next book will be A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hey readers welcome to a journey to Three Pines in this special limited edition series from the currently reading podcast, we are doing a deep exploration |
| 0:28.2 | of each book in Louise Penny's Three Pines Mystery Series, and we are diving into it. |
| 0:35.0 | We'll delve into the mysteries of course, but we'll also talk about the characters we love so much, |
| 0:40.0 | the delightful village of Three Pines, and maybe even some other locations and we'll |
| 0:45.2 | chat about all the delicious meal they feast on washed down with a bowl of |
| 0:49.1 | Café O'le. We'll discuss everything from the themes Penny Penny Explores, to why we love Armand-Gamash and all the rest so very much. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, co-host of the Currently Reading Podcast, and the Three Pine series is my favorite book series of all time. |
| 1:05.6 | And I'm Roxanna Kasam Kara, a Canadian reader and show regular on the currently reading podcast. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm making my way through the series and I'm loving it. |
| 1:14.3 | In today's episode we'll focus on Barry You Dead, the sixth in the series. |
| 1:18.4 | And yes, this series must, absolutely must, be read in order. |
| 1:23.6 | It must be read in order and you must know before you get started on any episode of a journey |
| 1:28.3 | to Three Pines that the book that we're discussing that day, in this case, barrier dead, we will be talking |
| 1:35.1 | spoilers. So definitely recommend that if you have not yet read barrier dead, you |
| 1:42.1 | may want to press pause and come back when you've done that reading. |
| 1:45.9 | All right, so this is Barry Your Dead, the six book in the series. Let's do Roxanna a few details just to get us started at the beginning of this. |
| 1:59.8 | So Bear Your Dead came out on September 28, 2010, published by Minitar Books. |
| 2:07.8 | The hardback is 384 pages and as of yesterday, the book had a 4.36 rating on Goodreads for over 86,000 reviews. |
| 2:20.3 | 4.36 that is a good rating. Yeah. Almost unheard of on good reads. It's really high for sure. So what season are we in? We are in winter, and did this book win any awards? |
| 2:37.6 | Rexana, I will tell you that Barry Your Dead won the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2011. It also won the Agatha Award, the New Blood Dagger Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Berry Award, and the Dylus Award. |
| 2:54.1 | It swept award season and for good reason. |
| 2:58.6 | All right, when it came out, it was reviewed, of course, by all the big guys, they, the New York Times said any author who writes |
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