Bonus Ep: A Sentimental Education
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hey Witches! We'll be back on Tuesday with our regularly scheduled episodes, but we thought we'd give you the promised sneak peek at Hannah's new book A Sentimental Education. On September 22, Hannah launched her book at Iron Dog Books through a conversation with Minelle Mahtani (Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at UBC) and Lucia Lorenzi (artist and recovered academic).
In this bonus episode, you'll find that conversation as well as a sneak peek of the audiobook version of A Sentimental Education (which is now available on Kobo). If you'd like to learn more about Hannah's writing, you can check out her website hannahmcgregor.com or head over to your local bookseller to scoop a copy of A Sentimental Education! You can always order it online as well anywhere you find books.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Hannah McGregor, and this is a very special podcast episode where I'm going |
| 0:17.4 | to share with you both an audio excerpt of my new book, A Sentimental Education, as well |
| 0:25.0 | as the audio recording of the book launch. The audio that you're about to hear was recorded |
| 0:31.3 | on October 22nd at Iron Dog Books in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which is the traditional |
| 0:39.0 | and unceded territory of the Musqueam Squamish and slave-toothed nations. This is a conversation |
| 0:45.5 | between myself and Manel Matani and Lucia Lorenzi. I will include a little bit more information |
| 0:53.1 | about both of them in the show notes that accompany this episode, and it was recorded |
| 0:58.2 | by my dear friend, Christopher M. Turbulence, aka Marshall Watson. But before we get into the |
| 1:05.4 | recorded launch, I want to share a short five minute excerpt of the forthcoming audio |
| 1:12.3 | book version of A Sentimental Education, recorded, edited and produced by yours truly. So if |
| 1:21.4 | you do like the sound of my voice, which you know, you're listening to this, so maybe |
| 1:26.5 | you do, then maybe you'll also enjoy hearing me read my own book. So without any further |
| 1:32.8 | ado, here is a short excerpt from A Sentimental Education. I was raised on sentimentality. |
| 1:43.5 | Girl heroines whose pluck and imagination and capacity for care elevated them above other |
| 1:49.2 | girls in a world where girlhood itself had no innate value and instead made them remarkable, |
| 1:56.2 | noteworthy. I was raised on Pride and Prejudices Elizabeth Bennett and Anne of Green Gables |
| 2:02.2 | Anne Shirley and Little Women's Joe March on the Little Mermaids Ariel and Beauty and the |
| 2:07.9 | Beast's Bell. All queer girls just a little out of step with the world around them. Prone, |
| 2:14.8 | as I was, to bookishness and flights of imagination and perhaps to an unbecoming surplus of feeling |
| 2:21.6 | that somehow convinced them despite the restraints of their worlds, not to settle, not to comply |
| 2:27.2 | to, quote, want much more than this provincial life, end quote, note one. And they were rewarded |
| 2:35.6 | these plucky girls who were all, it would take me years to realize, white, by beauty and |
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