Ep 631 - The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

An early-90s Bengali novel that was translated into English relatively recently, The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die has a lot going for it, but as with many books the thing we'll remember the most is the murderous horny ghost aunt.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey, everybody welcome to Overdo. It's a podcast about the books you've been
0:45.1	meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew more like Aunt Drew
0:52.4	well more like Aunt Drew.
1:00.0	Yeah, that's right. I'm a bug. I got six legs. I dig around in the dirt in the ground. Yeah. That's me.
1:02.0	Ants do have six legs. Wow, yeah.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:06.0	How many legs did you think ants?
1:07.0	I don't know. I got just pop quiz hot shot.
1:08.0	I think I just kind of panicked and did like, wow, bugs have lots of legs.
1:12.0	But bugs do have a lot of legs
1:16.3	Simon has a book called hello bugs that he really likes there's not an aunt in it though
1:22.1	Why not I don't know.
1:24.0	It's like the most common type of bug.
1:26.0	Grasshoppers, ladybugs, dragonflies.
1:29.0	Yeah, I mean consider the humble ant.
1:32.0	Beattels, they can carry a lot of weight relative to an ant.
1:36.0	By-bye, butterfly.
1:38.0	Welcome to our book podcast, where every week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it.
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