Ep. 282 You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi -- The Stacks Book Club (Sam Sanders)
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Podcaster and journalist Sam Sanders returns to discuss You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi for The Stacks Book Club. In our conversation of this romance novel, we wonder if the book actually qualifies as such under the rules of romance novels. We also discuss how the story feels like real life because it mirrors the messiness of actual love stories, who we are rooting for, and we brainstorm casts for the upcoming screen adaptation.
There are spoilers on today's episode.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for September 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know what sucks really bad? |
| 0:02.3 | Missing out on tickets to the biggest tour of the year. |
| 0:06.8 | Not Taylor Swift, not Beyonce, but the live in the stacks tour. |
| 0:13.3 | We have only three stops left, so you need to grab your tickets now before you have major |
| 0:20.1 | FOMO for the rest of your life. |
| 0:22.7 | I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on Sunday, September 24th. |
| 0:28.0 | I will be in New York City with KSA layman on Monday, September 25th, and you can find |
| 0:32.9 | me for the last stop of the tour on Wednesday, October 18th, with a few special guests which |
| 0:39.3 | we will announce real, real soon. |
| 0:42.2 | I promise you a night of big laps, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could |
| 0:47.6 | possibly imagine. |
| 0:49.8 | Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and get them before they're gone. |
| 0:57.5 | And I can't wait to see you live in the stacks. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and it is the stacks book club day. |
| 1:18.5 | My friend and fellow podcasters, Sam Sanders is back. |
| 1:23.3 | We're going to discuss you made a fool of death with your beauty by a quake a messy. |
| 1:28.4 | It is a messy love story about second chances and grief. |
| 1:33.7 | And today, Sam and I talk about the rules of the romance novel, whether or not this book |
| 1:38.3 | is actually a romance novel, who we were rooting for, the mess of it all, and so much more. |
| 1:44.3 | And yes, there are spoilers in today's episode. |
| 1:47.4 | Make sure you listen through to the end of the episode to hear what our September club |
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