Ep 254 - Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ranking on multiple Saddest Books Ever lists, Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia is a classic young adult novel. A young boy makes a new friend, and their friendship blossoms despite the daily grind of middle school. Then someone dies.
Weep along with us as we swap sibling stories, chat about teacher feelings, and make at least *two* Will Smith references.
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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 | Hey everybody welcome to Overdo. |
| 0:44.7 | This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:48.0 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:49.0 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:50.0 | And each week one of us reads a book. |
| 0:52.8 | We talk to the other person about it. |
| 0:54.2 | You listen along at home. |
| 0:56.8 | And maybe we all learn something. |
| 0:58.1 | This week I read Bridge to Terabithia by Catherine Patterson which is a children's book |
| 1:04.7 | renowned for it's tale of grief, tale of loss. |
| 1:13.7 | But Andrew I understand you need to get some grief off your chest first. |
| 1:18.0 | You're mourning something. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't act like this is just my grief. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm here with you but I'm playing the role of audience surrogate. |
| 1:25.2 | For Bartrivia team, Governor, Quiz, Quisty, R and J. |
| 1:30.2 | Thank you for saying the full name. |
| 1:32.4 | You're welcome. |
| 1:34.4 | We got invited to a big Bartrivia tournament and we didn't do very good. |
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