Ep 431 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We've all heard that a tree grows in Brooklyn. But what ELSE grows there? A love of reading? A bootstraps narrative? We get to the root of the mystery this week on Overdue.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.5 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.3 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's A Podcast where the books you've been meaning to |
| 0:44.1 | read my name is Craig. |
| 0:46.3 | My name is Andrew. |
| 0:48.3 | We're trying out the new style. |
| 0:51.3 | Trying out some different word emphasis this week. |
| 0:55.1 | It's going to be really weird, but I think maybe we'll discover some new ways of speaking |
| 0:59.0 | that are fun, to listen to. |
| 1:02.1 | To look at language a different way on the podcast. |
| 1:08.2 | Yes, and what is this podcast about? |
| 1:13.1 | No, but it's a book. |
| 1:16.2 | Each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it and you the listener |
| 1:21.6 | get to follow along. |
| 1:24.6 | We've usually never read these books before. |
| 1:26.6 | I don't feel like I say that enough in the opening. |
| 1:31.0 | We almost never, like sometimes the person who didn't read the book for the show has read |
| 1:36.0 | the book before, but almost almost it is a book that is new to both of us. |
| 1:44.0 | One of us have not both of us. |
| 1:45.5 | Yes. |
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