Ep 683 - The Princess Diaries, by Meg Cabot
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Imagine waking up one day to find out that you're the heir to the throne of a tiny fictional European country. Now imagine that, after that, you still need to navigate the choppy waters of high school! Also you're flunking Algebra, which has somehow created an opening for your teacher to date your mom. Oh no!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale, |
| 0:11.2 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.2 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:41.7 | Music These are books you should have read by now. Hey everybody. |
| 0:46.4 | Welcome to Overdue, a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:47.3 | My name's Craig. |
| 0:48.3 | My name's Andrew. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm feeling chipper because I think maybe I'm going to learn something about myself that's going to change my station. |
| 1:01.8 | You are always complaining about your station. |
| 1:04.0 | It's really, well, really, I don't. |
| 1:11.4 | Actually, I don't want anybody to notice my station, but it is a station that is kind of hard to be in sometimes. |
| 1:16.5 | Well, but that, okay, so imagine, so I think you're going to be unpleasantly surprised, I think, because you think you don't like your station now, but then you find out a new thing that's going |
| 1:22.3 | to upend your station, and you're going to be like, wow, I wish that I just had my original station to worry about. |
| 1:28.7 | Now I have all this other stuff to worry about. |
| 1:30.5 | Is how it always goes. |
| 1:32.8 | The station's always brighter at the end of the track or something, as they say. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, they say that. |
| 1:41.3 | Yeah, they say that. |
| 1:42.3 | Welcome to our book podcast for each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it this week. |
| 1:48.5 | Andrew, what book did you read? |
| 1:50.0 | I read The Princess Diaries, the novel, not the movie or screenplay or novelization. |
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