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Close Reads Podcast

Frankenstein: Volume II, chapters 1-5

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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This week David, Heidi, Karen, and Josh discuss the monster's ability to speak so eloquently and his unique form of self-education (and a bunch of other stuff, of course). If you like this episode please do rate and review wherever you get your podcasts.


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0:00.0

Hey everyone, David Kern here. Welcome to Close Reeds. Before we get into the show today with our special

0:04.7

guests, Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs, who are joining Heidi White and I for our discussion of

0:09.0

Frankenstein. I wanted to remind you about how you can join the conversation. Head over to

0:12.8

Facebook, search for Close Reads in that search bar, and you can join the conversation over on the

0:16.5

Close Reads podcast discussion group. And over on Instagram, you can follow us at Close Reeds Podcasts.

0:20.9

We also have our newsletter, which is close reads.substack.com.

0:24.4

And we have bonus episodes and some sweet show swag over at patreon.com slash close

0:30.2

reads, where we are currently discussing crime and punishment a little bit at a time.

0:34.7

The Close Reeds audience is the greatest audience in the podcast world,

0:38.0

and we're thankful you've taken the time to be a part of it. So thanks for that. Thanks for

0:42.1

listening. And with that, here is today's episode. Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here

0:48.7

on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I am David Kern. I am joined by my friends Heidi White.

0:55.8

I almost said Tim McIntosh,

1:00.6

but it's Josh Gibbs, I just old habits die hard and the Karen Swallow Prior. Welcome back to the show,

1:05.9

everyone. Thanks for being here. Thanks, David. Thank you. Thank you. We're here to discuss Frankenstein. We're going to be discussing what for most of you will be volume two chapters one through five. Some of you, if you

1:13.2

have the addition like mine, will be not so clear. And you may have to do a little digging

1:21.3

to make the math all match up. But I was thinking that just to clarify where we are, it might

1:26.9

be a good idea to summarize what happened in these five chapters.

1:31.5

Karen, would you be willing to do that for us just to make sure that we're all, you know, all of us here and then also the listeners are kind of on the same page of what we're discussing this week.

1:39.0

Would you be, would you be up for that for me?

1:40.4

Oh, sure, sure.

1:41.6

I'll stumble through this. So at the end of volume one, basically,

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