Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part 2
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We’re two thirds of the way through Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, and we’ve got a lot to talk about.
This week is all about chapters 24 through 46, and our panel of intrepid feminists questions whether these storylines are just a little toooo convenient, whether it’s really possible to rip a person apart with your bare hands … and what the deal is with all that warm milk.
Want to be a part of the #NerdetteBookClub? Easy! Just press play and join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky and Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins.
Just make sure you finish The Testaments before next Friday, October 4. That’s when we’ll talk all about the ending.
And we want to hear what you thought about the book! (Please tell us how you felt on a scale of 1 to 10 warm milks.)
Share your thoughts with us by recording your voice with your smartyphone. Then email the audio file to nerdettepodcast@gmail.com, preferably by Tuesday evening. You may hear yourself in the final episode!
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:13.6 | Jill. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello! |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:18.3 | Justin brought you a gift. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh my gosh what is this? |
| 0:20.8 | Is it warm milk? From W.B. E.Z. Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the nerd at book club. |
| 0:29.0 | It's just like a normal book club except you bring your own warm milk. I'm here with Heather Havraleski who writes |
| 0:35.1 | the Ask Polly advice column for New York magazine. Hey Heather, hi Greta. I'm sorry you don't |
| 0:39.9 | have any warm milk over there in LA. I'm extremely sorry and slightly angry about my lack of warm milk, honestly. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm also here with Jill Hopkins, host of the Morning AMP on W be easy sister station Vocalo, |
| 0:52.1 | hey Jill. M mmm this is to |
| 0:54.0 | rub it in. Okay so we are talking today about the second chunk of the |
| 1:02.2 | testments that's up to page 282 which is We are talking today about the second chunk of the testaments. |
| 1:02.8 | That's up to page 282, which is through chapter 46. |
| 1:06.9 | So this is your spoiler warning for that. |
| 1:09.7 | That means next week we're going to finish this book. |
| 1:11.6 | So as you finish it we definitely |
| 1:13.4 | want you to chime in record yourself and email it to us you can send it to nerd at |
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