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From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette. I'm Greta Johnson and I'm Tricia Bobito and this week on the show we have the

Eminent amazing incredible definitive

Judy Bloom. She's been writing books since the mid-70s. She has books for kids like

Super Fudge, books like Forever, which I remember I really loved in high school or

maybe Summer Sisters. She has a new novel out for adults.

It's called In The Unlikely Event.

This is the woman who has been shaping

childhoods for the last like 50 years.

She's the reason I know not to eat a turtle.

Don't eat tiny pet turtles. Do you want to elaborate on that at all or is that? That's what I learned from Superfudge.

Don't eat a turtle. Yes. Okay. What about like chocolate turtles though with the

walnuts and the caramel? Those are pretty good. I at that point when I read that book I didn't know that those were an option.

Oh fair enough fair enough in which case avoid all turtles altogether.

Yes.

For me it was forever I remember distinctly reading that book when I was I think probably a sophomore or a junior in high school and it was one of those books that I kind of felt like I had to hide under the bed. I grew up in like a very open household but that was still one of those books that I kind of felt like I had to hide under the bed. I grew up in like a very open

household but that was still one of those books and it was like I don't want to talk to my parents about

reading this book. Too steamy, hide it under the mattress. And this is what Judy Bloom is so well

known for, right? She's willing to write about things that freak a lot of people out.

I mean, think about, are you their God?

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