The Secret History by Donna Tartt from Zero to Well-Read
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Think about cheese. |
| 0:02.0 | Make your thoughts cheesier. |
| 0:04.2 | Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipoplae sauce and amadea cheese melt. |
| 0:08.4 | And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's. |
| 0:12.4 | Did we mention it's cheesy? |
| 0:13.9 | Cheese. |
| 0:15.8 | Availments with the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11 a.m. |
| 0:18.1 | Plus and participation may vary. |
| 0:19.2 | Subjects availability. |
| 0:20.9 | Hello, listeners. This is Danica Ellis, and I am letting you know that we are off this week due to illness, but we didn't want to leave you empty-handed. So instead, we have an episode of our new book Riot podcast for you, zero to well-read. |
| 0:41.1 | If you haven't heard about it yet, it is part English class, part that cocktail party |
| 0:48.8 | you are always worried was going to happen where they quiz you on books. |
| 0:52.5 | We're going to prepare you for that. |
| 0:54.0 | We've got all the talking points, all the background on classics of all kinds. So we're talking |
| 1:00.3 | Shakespeare, we're talking Twilight, and today, one of Liberty's favorite books, The Secret History |
| 1:07.5 | by Donna Tart. This is the original Dark Academia novel, the unparalleled book. We get |
| 1:15.8 | so many requests for read-alikes for The Secret History, and I don't know that it can be done. |
| 1:21.0 | So whether you've read it and loved it, or you just want to know what the fuss is all about, |
| 1:30.3 | check out this episode of zero to Well Read and be sure to subscribe for more episodes. We've got a bit of a backlist already so you can |
| 1:37.0 | check those out as well. And that's the Zero to Well Read podcast. And we will be back next week |
| 1:44.1 | with all the books. |
| 1:49.8 | Welcome to zero to well read, a podcast about everything you need to know about the books |
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