Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part I
Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal
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4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Our reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments has commenced!
This week, we’re talking about book chapters 1 through 23. So … spoilers abound.
Join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky and Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins as they contemplate the motives of Aunt Lydia, wonder what’s in that darn safe and talk smack about the mean girls of Gilead.
To follow along with us, read The Testaments through chapter 46 (pages 124-282) before next Friday, September 27.
And hey, we want to hear from you too! Share your thoughts with us by recording your voice with your smartyphone. (Please be succinct!) Then email the audio file to [email protected], preferably by Tuesday evening. You may hear yourself in an episode!
And when you need to tweet or Instagram something really important about the club, just use #NerdetteBookClub on the internets, and so will we.
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| 0:39.6 | just like a normal book club except nobody knows if you didn't do the reading. I'm here with Heather |
| 0:44.1 | Heverleski who writes the Ask Polly Advice column for New York Magazine. Hey, Heather. Hi. And I'm here |
| 0:50.5 | with Jill Hopkins, host of the Morning Am on WBEZ Sister Station Vocalo. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, Jill. |
| 0:55.7 | Hey, Greta. |
| 0:56.6 | Okay, so we're going to talk about the first chunk of the Testaments, which is up to page 133. |
| 1:02.3 | That is through chapter 23. |
| 1:04.6 | That means obviously we will be discussing spoilers up to that point in the book. |
| 1:09.2 | As you read the next chunk this week, we want you to chime in. |
| 1:12.5 | You can record yourself and email it to us at Nerdat Podcast at gmail.com. So speaking of voicemails, |
| 1:17.9 | I actually think we should start with one that we got from Emily in New Jersey because I feel like |
| 1:22.7 | she's saying something that a lot of us probably thought when we got to the end of this reading section. |
| 1:27.0 | On the topic of baby Nicole, let me just say now that I've gotten to page 133. I knew it. I knew that |
| 1:34.3 | third narrator was baby Nicole. So yeah, were you guys also like very non-surprised by that? |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:46.1 | Okay, so we'll get to the whole Daisy Baby Nicole thing a little later on. |
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