Ep 381 - The Ghost Bride, by Yangsze Choo

Overdue

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ever wanted to marry a ghost? Then boy do we have a book for you! Spooktober continues with Yangsze Choo's debut novel about a young woman in late 19th-century Malaya who winds up promised to a spectral groom.

It's a fun book that is almost overflowing with hallmarks of different genres. Coming-of-age concerns, supernatural fantasy, historical fiction, romance: it's got a lot going on! But the heart of it all is Li Lan's entertaining exploration of the afterlife, its characters, and its bureaucracies.

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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 that second week of Spooktober.
0:48.8	It's overdue, the podcast by the books you and me need to read.
0:51.8	My name is Craig.
0:53.0	My name is Andrew and this is our fifth or sixth or seventh annual Spookies backtacular
0:59.8	where we talk about bats and pumpkins and stuff.
1:02.0	I went back Andrew and I did find what I think might be the first episode of Spooktober,
1:07.9	which was recorded in 2014 and we were discussing the legend of sleepy hollow.
1:13.2	Okay.
1:14.2	And we talked for eight minutes about a book about Phil Hartman that you read first.
1:20.0	And then...
1:21.0	Well, why did we do that?
1:23.0	I don't know.
1:24.0	You had just read a biography about Steve Hartman.
1:28.0	Steve Hartman.
1:29.0	His brother who's lesser known.
1:33.1	So that's cool.
1:34.1	Our show has always been really tight and just focused on what you guys at home crave.
1:38.9	Yes, totally.
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