Ep. 109 Trust Exercise by Susan Choi -- The Stacks Book Club (Brandon Taylor)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Its The Stacks Book Club day, and we're discussing the 2019 National Book Award winner in fiction, Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. Our guest is Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, and if you missed Brandon's first episode you can hear it here. Trust Exercise looks at fiction, perspective, and truth as it ventures back to a 1980's performing arts high school. On this episode we discuss the many twists and turns we experienced as readers and our takes on the characters. We dive deep today, and that means lots of spoilers. You've been warned.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and today is April Book Club Day. |
| 0:12.0 | That's right, we're talking about trust exercise by Susan Joy. |
| 0:15.0 | And to help us break down this award-winning novel, |
| 0:18.0 | we've brought back Brandon Taylor, the author of real life. |
| 0:21.0 | And if you missed it, make sure you hear Brandon's first episode from |
| 0:24.5 | April 1st where he talks all about his personal love of books and his |
| 0:28.2 | amazing novel everything we talk about on today's episode can be found in the |
| 0:32.0 | link in the show notes. |
| 0:33.4 | Before we get into the episode I've got two little things to tell you. |
| 0:36.1 | One, our book club pick for May is The Giver by Lois Lowry. |
| 0:40.8 | It's a middle grade novel about a utopian society and it was written back in 1993. |
| 0:45.0 | We're going to be discussing the book, the story, and if this one still stands the test of time. |
| 0:50.0 | You can hear it all on our episode on May 27th. |
| 0:53.0 | Also, please know that today's discussion of trust exercise |
| 0:57.0 | contains many spoilers. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, let's do it. All right you guys I am back this week |
| 1:10.0 | All right you guys I am back this week with author Brandon Taylor. |
| 1:14.6 | Brandon welcome back. Thank you. Okay we are talking about National Book Award |
| 1:21.1 | winner from 2019 Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. |
| 1:26.8 | We are going to be spoiling this book and as is rarely the case, there actually are |
| 1:32.1 | spoilers in this book. So if you haven't read it yet, |
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