A Month in the Country: To the End
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re discussing the second half of J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country, which means we’re chatting about Alice Keach, Mr Moon, what the fresco in the church reveals, Tom Birkin’s past, and much more. Oh—be warned: there’s also an off-the-rails conversation about wet neckerchiefs.
(Reminder: we are away at a conference the rest of this week so there will be no episode next week. We will run the Q&A episode on July 26.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:09.7 | And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the incurable reader, which means presumably you are an incurable reader. |
| 0:17.5 | Congratulations on that. |
| 0:18.9 | We are here to discuss a month in the country. J.L. Carr's lovely little |
| 0:23.5 | novel. We're going to discuss the second half of the book last week. As you probably know, we discussed |
| 0:28.5 | the first 68 pages or so. Today we are going to discuss page 69 through page 135, roughly, |
| 0:35.3 | depending on your edition, which means that we are going to discuss the end |
| 0:37.8 | of the book. And then just a little bit of housekeeping here. Next week, we are off because we |
| 0:43.5 | are all at a conference together. And then the week after that, we will do the Q&A. So, Heidi, |
| 0:48.7 | you're in charge of the Q&A thread on Facebook. So we get that up. When should I put that up? Go ahead. |
| 0:56.6 | Just put it up Friday tomorrow when this episode goes up and then they'll give people two weeks to |
| 1:01.5 | put their questions in. All right. This is exciting. Heidi, how are you? I'm doing so great. |
| 1:08.2 | Sitting on my porch. The weather's perfect. It's summer. I'm warm enough. She has like two |
| 1:14.0 | months of Colorado summer that she actually doesn't complain about. That's exactly right. |
| 1:19.1 | So enjoy it, guys. Yeah, well, we can't. But next week you'll be in Charleston. |
| 1:24.5 | I'll enjoy my inner peace. This is what I'm saying. That's what I meant to. |
| 1:34.4 | And then next week, you'll be able to go to South Carolina where it's going to be straight out of Dante's Inferno. |
| 1:35.8 | Tim. |
| 1:37.4 | I'll still want to eat outside, you guys. |
| 1:38.4 | Whatever. |
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