Close Reads #33: Recapping a Year in Reading
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Tim, Angelina, and David discuss some of the books that excited them most in 2016.
Titles include a difficult Great Book, a fantastical novel about a runaway slave, and several books of culture criticism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the SIRC Institute Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.7 | You are listening to Close Reads, and I'm David Kern, joined, as always, here on Close Rees by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:18.8 | Angelina, Tim, how's it going? |
| 0:22.7 | Hey, David, It's going good. |
| 0:23.6 | Going good, yeah. |
| 0:28.3 | And today is Friday, December 30th. |
| 0:30.4 | This will be put live. |
| 0:35.2 | This episode will be live on January 2nd, Monday, January 2nd. |
| 0:39.5 | So we are right around that New Year time, so I'll just say happy New Year to both of you. |
| 0:41.5 | How were your Christmases? |
| 0:42.9 | How was your Christmas? |
| 0:43.9 | How do I ask that question? |
| 0:45.5 | Christmas I? |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah, how are your Christmas eye? |
| 0:48.2 | How are your Christmas eye? |
| 0:48.9 | Christmas-e? |
| 0:52.4 | Remember how we're trying to not be pretentious on this show? |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, when was that ever a thing i sneaked |
| 0:57.8 | i was in the fine print of my contract oh okay well you you know never to care about what the fine princess |
| 1:04.9 | uh angelina how was your christmas i'm a new christmas first christmas in a new home first christmas in a new home. It was a lot of fun. I actually had it with your family. I was so disappointed that you were a no-show. You know, you just fled when you heard I was coming. Yeah, something like that. |
| 1:21.8 | No, it was great. It was great. Then I got the flu, so it's been rather miserable since then. But i think i'm on the mend sort of so anything i |
| 1:29.4 | say outrageous today i'm just going to blame on a low grade fever and pretty you know loopie flu loopiness |
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