Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part 3

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’ve finished The Testaments!

Press play and join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky and Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins for this final installment of the #NerdetteBookClub.

You’ll hear how each of us rated the book on a scale of 1-10 warm milks (10 being the best, obviously), what the professional reviewers thought, and how much your fellow book club members liked it!

Plus, if you need post-Testaments-reading recommendations, check out this week's Nerdsletter (and subscribe)!

And hey! Thanks for being a part of our inaugural book club. Did you enjoy it? Please send feedback, good or bad, to [email protected]. We want to know what you thought!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago,
0:25.7	join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen, wherever you get your podcast.
0:33.4	I'd rather be fat and happy than skinny and sad.
0:34.3	That's true.
0:35.4	I've been both.
0:36.7	There's frozen gods.
0:41.8	Welcome to the Body Image Podcast, Greta and Jill.
0:53.4	From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerdat Book Club. It's just like a normal book club, except for real nobody's going to notice if you didn't read the book and are just showing up to like eat the snacks or whatever.
0:55.4	I'm here with Heather Havreleski.
0:58.1	She writes the Ask Polly Advice column for New York Magazine.
0:58.7	Hey, Heather.
0:59.6	Hi, Greta.
1:01.3	Also here is Jill Hopkins.
1:04.7	She's the host of the morning amp on WBEZ's sister station Vocalo.
1:05.3	Hey, Jill.
1:06.3	Hello, Greta.
1:08.1	We finished this damn book.
1:09.0	Woo! Woo! finished this damn book.
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