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🗓️ 20 May 2024
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This week we travel back to Bois Sauvage to revisit the work of acclaimed author Jesmyn Ward. Sing, Unburied, Sing introduces us to a family on hard times, preparing to welcome back a member from prison while also grappling with the ghosts that demand their attention. For more discussion of Jesmyn Ward, head to Ep 283 - Salvage the Bones.
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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 |
0:46.8 | meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew and we're here to |
0:52.3 | discuss I'm not buried. |
0:55.0 | You are not buried. |
0:57.0 | You are not buried and you are singing in fact. |
1:00.0 | These are two true statements about my friend Andrew. |
1:05.0 | How does that make you feel? |
1:07.0 | It makes me feel like I did it, we did it again. |
1:10.0 | We found another intro based on like a superficial service level yeah |
1:15.3 | pun about the title of the book that we read for our book podcast that's honestly |
1:19.4 | the easiest way to start a show if you're out there thinking about podcasting yourself |
1:24.3 | Don't think too hard about the opening no and I and obviously we don't do that here anymore I do listen sometimes listen to old episodes when we're doing research for oh yeah an author that we've done already and you go back far enough and sometimes we just like talk about whatever's going on which I think is I don't |
1:42.6 | charm to it. |
1:43.4 | No I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. |
1:45.4 | It's just like it doesn't even occur to me to try to do that anymore because what |
1:48.9 | could we possibly talk about that we haven't already talked about? |
1:51.6 | That is my biggest feat. |
1:54.0 | We will get to the book Sing Un Buried Sing by Jesmin Ward, which I read for our book podcast. |
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