Book Club: V.E. Schwab On ‘The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue’
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Greta Johnsen
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Would you take a deal with the devil?
In The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a new novel from renowned fantasy author V.E. Schwab, a young woman bargains with her soul to live forever. The catch? She’s cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
The novel is Nerdette’s November book club pick. Today, we host a spoiler-free chat with the author about the book, the many years it took her to write it and what comes next.
Later this month, we’ll break it down with our group of panelists … and you! Send us a voice memo with your thoughts on the book. Just record yourself on your phone and send the audio file to nerdettepodcast@gmail.com
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| 0:32.3 | From W.B.E.Z Chicago, this is the Nerdat Book Club. It's just like a regular book club, |
| 0:36.6 | except sometimes the author stops by. This month's book is book club. It's just like a regular book club, except sometimes the author |
| 0:38.4 | stops by. This month's book is V.E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addy Larue. Here is my attempt at |
| 0:46.7 | summarizing it in a tidy paragraph. It's about a girl from the 1700s from France whose curiosities and |
| 0:52.8 | ambitions are bigger than the small town she grows up in. |
| 0:56.4 | And when she finds a way to break free of the expectation to marry and settle down, she takes it |
| 1:01.7 | without thinking twice. But what she thinks is an amazing chance to live unhindered is actually a deal |
| 1:08.3 | with the devil and a centuries-long curse. |
| 1:12.2 | So we are going to have a super-spoilery conversation about this book later this month. |
| 1:17.5 | Today's chat with author V.E. Schwab, also known as Victoria Schwab, will be as spoiler-free as possible. |
| 1:25.3 | Victoria, welcome to Nournett. |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you so much. Also, what a beautiful |
| 1:29.3 | summary. I'm used to like my two-sentence elevator pitch of it, and I feel like yours had so much |
| 1:34.3 | more heart. Oh, thanks. I'll send it over to you if you want. I love it. So it was really funny |
| 1:41.8 | preparing for this interview, because I remember talking to you about Addy LaRue last time we had you on the show in 2016. |
| 1:49.6 | And we actually pulled the audio of that. So let's listen to it just right off the back because it's kind of amazing. |
| 2:00.5 | The thing following Conjuring of Light that I'm most excited about is a book I've actually |
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