S03.30: A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh: It's Grown Up!

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We’re headed back to 2007 this week, to talk about Mary Balogh’s A Matter of Class, which Sarah’s editor gave her as assigned reading when she was writing A Rogue By Any Other Name. We’re leaving plot and character aside here and really digging into structure, so expect conversations about timelines, about language and yes…about tense. Because, Jen.

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0:00.0	Jen, my book is done.
0:01.6	My grade reports are done.
0:03.0	Yeah, school's out forever!
0:05.9	Okay, not quite.
0:12.1	Okay, not quite. It's not summer yet, but it feels like it over here. It obviously does. It's like the best time of the year.
0:20.0	My summer vacation is April through June.
0:25.0	We'll see there.
0:27.0	And then I start over again.
0:30.0	We need to get ourselves on cycle so we can both be off at the same time.
0:34.0	I know and then we could just sit around and read romance novels and talk to each other about them.
0:39.0	Except that's what we do anyway.
0:42.0	That's true. That's true.
0:45.0	Wait, so I quickly.
0:46.0	So you do grave reports?
0:48.0	So I do them at the end of the first quarter in the third quarter.
0:50.0	So what are the kids do in the fourth quarter? They just get a grade but
0:54.3	I don't have to write comments. Oh does that make sense? Because they're like
0:57.6	prescriptive. Sure. But at the end of the year it's over and you can't fix
1:02.0	anything so it's over.
1:03.2	You're like they aren't going to remember any of this.
1:05.8	They don't care.
1:06.8	Yeah exactly.
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