The Summer Book: Second Half

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we dig into the second half of Tove Jansson’s delightful novel, The Summer Book. We discussed whether this is a fundamentally feminine book, the fascinating (and moving) absence of the father throughout, the complex presentation of the grandmother as a character, Jansson’s masterful ending, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.3	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.8	And you're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing
0:11.2	Tsovay Jonson's The Summer Book.
0:13.8	This is our second conversation on the summer book.
0:16.7	It's the second of two, because we're going to discuss the second half of this book.
0:20.6	It's not a long book.
0:22.2	It's just mathematically.
0:23.1	It's short.
0:25.1	So we're going to discuss the second half, which really means we're going to discuss the whole thing.
0:29.0	We need to discuss something real quick here.
0:30.8	We'll do a little inside baseball conversation.
0:32.8	Last week we discussed off the air what to do with the Q&A because of the retreat and all that.
0:38.9	Officially, what should we do, guys?
0:41.2	The thing that we decided we were going to, which I can't remember.
0:45.8	We had been leaning towards not doing an official Q&A episode on this book.
0:49.2	Yeah, because we're going to be a bat.
0:52.8	Yeah, and blowing rock.
0:54.3	And we'll do, we'll record a special episode for you to have that week,
0:59.0	it would be a one-off.
1:01.5	So, okay, so there's going to be no Q&A episode then in the traditional sense.
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