Ep 251 - Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Laura Esquivel's best-selling novel Like Water For Chocolate is a work of revolutionary magical realism. No really, it takes place during the Mexican Revolution and chronicles the life of a young woman whose strong emotions affect the world around her.
Join us for a chat about exploding showers, sexual food, and everyone's favorite birthday boy Waluigi.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday while Luigi, Happy Birthday |
| 0:48.7 | to you, and many more. |
| 0:55.6 | That's right folks. |
| 0:57.7 | As we record this on Saturday, July 22nd, we're just one day past the birthday of that |
| 1:03.6 | iconic Nintendo character, while Luigi. |
| 1:06.5 | Welcome to Overdo, a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 1:10.2 | My name is Craig. |
| 1:11.2 | My name is Andrew. |
| 1:12.6 | Also known as Waluigi. |
| 1:14.0 | We love Waluigi. |
| 1:15.7 | As anybody who's listened to this podcast for any amount of time knows. |
| 1:19.5 | Yep. |
| 1:20.5 | That's true. |
| 1:21.6 | We talk about them every week here on Waluigi Corner, the opening segment of Overdo |
| 1:25.3 | podcast podcast about books. |
| 1:27.4 | But then what do we talk about after we talk about Waluigi every week? |
| 1:30.6 | Every week when we're done talking about Waluigi, we talk about books. |
| 1:33.5 | One of us reads them, the other one is here for the fun times. |
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