Ep 568 - Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Are you a spy? If you are, you have to tell us. Are you a 6th grader? Well then, tell us if you identify with Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet, a girl with a keen but (perhaps overly) righteous eye just trying to get through adolescence.

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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.
0:42.5	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoot's podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:45.4	My name is Craig.
0:46.8	My name is Andrew.
0:48.2	I'm going to spy on you.
0:50.4	Whoa.
0:51.4	And I'm going to write it down in a book and you're going to find it and it's going to make
0:55.5	everybody mad.
0:56.5	And this is two things.
0:58.1	This is the plot of the movie Mean Girls and it's also has something to do at the book
1:03.4	that you read this week.
1:04.4	Yeah, welcome to our book podcast.
1:06.4	Andrew later will do a dramatic reading from his Spino book, I suppose.
1:11.7	Yeah.
1:12.7	Which is Germain.
1:16.0	That's also a name, Germain.
1:17.2	I'm Andrew.
1:18.2	Sorry.
1:19.2	Which is Andrew to the book that we are bringing to this podcast this week where one of us reads
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