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The Book Pile

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8598 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Love, pride, loss, grief, strength; what do these words have in common? They all have one syllable. Anyway today's book is Little Women, which is only slightly disappointing when you discover that it's not actually about teeny tiny people . . . just normal-size humans. Also, Kellen and Dave discuss The Rock's questionably motivational speech, and Kellen discovers a code behind one of the sisters' names. * To buy the book, Little Women, or listen to it free on Audible AND support the podcast,...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone.

0:07.1

Today's book is Little Women, an American classic that tells the story of, on average, three and a half sisters.

0:13.2

It has inspired on-screen adaptations like Little Women, Little Women, Little Women, and Sex in the City.

0:20.6

The author is American icon Louisa May Alcott.

0:24.6

And this is The Book Pile. I'm Kellan Erskine. I'm a comic and a father of one little woman and two little men, which sounds like a 90s Nickelodeon sitcom.

0:38.2

And I'm David Vance.

0:39.7

I was annoyed when I found out Louisa May Alcott had to write under a male name to be taken seriously.

0:45.3

Then I remembered I didn't watch or read Little Women until 2019 because it was about girls.

0:50.7

So maybe I'm the issue here.

0:54.6

As always, please feel free to leave us a glowing review.

1:00.8

An imaginary color says,

1:02.7

The Book Pile finally did an episode on a Brandon Zanderson-Sanderson book.

1:07.7

Now I have no excuse not to write a review, I said said and then didn't write a review for over a month.

1:13.7

I've been listening to this podcast for at least two years now and it's never failed to delight.

1:18.7

It's funny, it's informative, and it's even clean so you can listen headphone free without fear of your family's judgment.

1:26.1

Unless your family doesn't think lots of JFK jokes are funny and then a few

1:33.2

other very nice things ending with long live the book pile well thanks long live you an imaginary

1:40.5

color east coast i'm going to be in rhode island for the first time ever this Thursday, March 23rd.

1:47.1

I forget what city, but it doesn't matter because everything in the whole state is walking

1:50.6

distance.

1:51.4

Then I'll be at the Comedy Loft in Chikipy, Massachusetts this Friday and Saturday, March 24th and 25th.

1:58.8

Go to Kellanerskin.com for tickets. So, Kellan, in 2019, I went from knowing

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