Ep 601 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon

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

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically oversimplified) one-line summary of what's going on in this week's book.

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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 Overdewards a podcast about the books you've been meaning to
0:45.2	read.
0:46.2	My name is Craig.
0:47.2	My name is Andrew.
0:48.2	These ghosts didn't bring presents.
0:50.2	Oh no.
0:51.2	These ghosts didn't bring food to the potluck.
0:55.0	Those ghosts did you unkindness, it sounds like.
0:58.0	I feel like they never let me know if they were coming to coffee.
1:02.2	I sent them the calendar invite.
1:04.8	They never responded.
1:05.8	It's a real rudeness of ghosts.
1:09.3	A negligence of ghosts.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.7	As you surmise to this is a book podcast where one of us reads the book and tells the other
1:18.8	person about it.
1:20.3	And this week Andrew, what did you read?
1:22.7	I read Ununkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.
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