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Close Reads Podcast

Summer Lightning: Chapters 6-13

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Wodehouse Wintertime here at Close Reads, where David, Heidi, and Sean are discussing Summer Lightning. And in this episode—after sharing some favorite passages—conversation gets into how to discuss and think about a writer like Wodehouse on a podcast that takes reading seriously. Happy listening!



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0:00.0

Hey, I'm David Kern.

0:04.0

I'm Heidi White.

0:05.5

And I'm Sean Johnson.

0:06.8

And you are listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing P.G. Whathouse's novel, Summer Lightning.

0:17.1

This is not the first time we have done PG Woodhouse on this show.

0:20.7

But it's the first time in a long time.

0:22.1

And it's the first time this year because this is the first book of 2024.

0:26.2

This is our first time recording in 2024.

0:29.2

Happy New Year, guys.

0:30.5

That's right.

0:31.1

Happy New Year.

0:32.0

It's actually, although people that have recently heard an episode with us on it, it's been longer than that since we

0:38.7

actually recorded because we got, we did get ahead a little bit, uh, so that,

0:44.4

we earned a little vacation.

0:45.8

Vacate. Especially for you, Sean, you weren't on the Q&A for the, for things fall apart.

0:50.4

So it's been a couple weeks for the three of us. I just got home this morning. Well, actually, I got home an hour ago.

0:56.0

We had many adventures and misadventures over this.

0:58.0

Yeah, you had some misadventures, didn't you?

1:00.0

Yeah.

1:01.0

But you didn't get sick?

1:02.0

No.

1:03.0

You encountered sick people along the way.

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