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Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode David and Heidi discuss the themes of forgiveness and repentance in Home, the way Boughton's preserve's memory in the house, the association of silence and memory, the way Glory and Jack are reaching towards one another (especially outside the house), and much more.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm David Kern.

0:03.3

I'm Heidi White.

0:04.6

And this is Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader.

0:08.0

We're here to discuss Marilynne's home.

0:10.4

We're going to discuss pages 50 to 100, roughly.

0:13.8

We've been reading it in segments of about that much time.

0:16.7

But first, Heidi, how's it going?

0:18.0

What's going on with you?

0:19.4

Well, I am doing great, except for I'm reading this really sad book.

0:25.5

Read Nana Karenina again, are you?

0:27.1

That's right. I can't get enough.

0:30.4

So, Home is a pretty sad book, but I want to talk about degrees of sadness in a minute.

0:36.0

Before we do that, though, I need to remind you about our friends

0:38.8

over at Skola Academy because they are making the Close Reads podcast possible during the month of

0:45.1

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0:51.1

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0:54.2

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0:59.4

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1:04.2

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1:09.1

history, and more. Pricing and scheduling are flexible.

1:14.5

I almost made it through, Heidi.

1:15.8

Something always trips me up, and it was the word scheduling of all the words.

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