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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from news Talks at be Our.

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Speaker 2: Book reviewer is Katherine Rain's. Every Saturday, she picks a

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Speaker 2: couple of reads for our weekend and she's with us.

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Speaker 2: Now go to Catherine Morning Jack. Okay, let's start off

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Speaker 2: with book number one for this weekend. Tell us about

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Speaker 2: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler.

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Speaker 3: So, Gail Baines is this administrator at a girls school

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Speaker 3: on Baltimore, and one Friday morning towards the end of

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Speaker 3: the year, the headmistress calls her into the main office

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Speaker 3: to let her know that she's going to be away

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Speaker 3: the following Monday, and she should probably mention that Gail

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Speaker 3: won't have a job next year. So Gail, at the

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Speaker 3: age of sixty one, just leaves. She just walks out

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Speaker 3: of the school without even cleaning the desk and drives

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Speaker 3: home and amidst all of the sort of chaos of

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Speaker 3: what's going on with her, her daughter's about to get

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Speaker 3: married and her ex husband Max shows up on the

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Speaker 3: doorstep randomly with a cat and needs a place to stay.

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Speaker 3: And Gail is this mild eccentric character, and you follow

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Speaker 3: her over three days for the day of her daughter's

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Speaker 3: wedding and the day after and this, you know, there's

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Speaker 3: lots of past events that get called up, and you

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Speaker 3: see her habits and behaviorism, where she's in her headspace

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Speaker 3: and her choices, and it's told in her voice, and

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Speaker 3: you really understand her and her honesty and frankness, and

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Speaker 3: what you see is what you get. And it's her

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Speaker 3: story love and heartbreak and her humor. And it's beautifully written.

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Speaker 3: And it's a character driven novel with a little humor

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Speaker 3: and nostalgia.

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Speaker 2: Great, Okay, this sounds cool. So that's by Ann Tyler.

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Speaker 2: That's called Three Days in June. You've also read the

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Speaker 2: sequel by Gene half Correlitz.

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Speaker 3: So this is book two in a series, and you

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Speaker 3: can read the sequel as a standalone, but I actually

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Speaker 3: recommend that you read the Plot, which is the first

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Speaker 3: book first, because in there you meet Jay Kibb finch

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Speaker 3: Boner who's this struggling author and he's teaching and writing

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Speaker 3: in a community college and he comes across a student

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Speaker 3: story plot with a brilliant idea and a student dies

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Speaker 3: and he decides to use this plot as his own

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Speaker 3: best selling novel, and that's where at the start of

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Speaker 3: the plot ends, and then of course the sequels at

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Speaker 3: the end of the plot, And so, without spoiling what

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Speaker 3: happens at the end of that and what happens in

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Speaker 3: the sequel, you take one of the characters out of

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Speaker 3: that first novel and they take the Spotlight, and it

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Speaker 3: happens to be his wife, and she's now a best

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Speaker 3: selling author in her own right, and life couldn't be better.

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Speaker 3: And then she gets this very unwelcome blast for the past,

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Speaker 3: and this manuscript is still floating around and someone sending

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Speaker 3: pages not just to her but in laws and the editor,

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Speaker 3: and she's trying to keep some very dark secrets under wraps,

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Speaker 3: and there's lots of twists. She's Anna herself is a

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Speaker 3: pretty interesting character, not to the nicest, but she doesn't

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Speaker 3: want to risk anything to destroy the perfect life she's built.

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Speaker 3: So that's where it starts, and the author also manages

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Speaker 3: to bring in some great literary humor. Each of the

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Speaker 3: chapters is titled as a well known sequel, such as

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Speaker 3: The Testaments, which is the sequel to their Handmaiden's Tale,

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Speaker 3: and there's lots of puns about spink sequels and publishing,

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Speaker 3: but actually the story's mystery and the surprising inclusion and

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Speaker 3: the unexpected terms of what really pays off in this book,

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Speaker 3: and it's I highly recommend both of them.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Okay, this sounds really good. I really like the

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Speaker 2: sound of that. So that's the sequel by Gene Havel

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Speaker 2: Halmp correlates and your first book is Three Days in

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Speaker 2: June by Ann Tyler. I'm glad, Catherine that the sequel

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Speaker 2: is indeed a sequel. Otherwise that could have been confusing.

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Speaker 2: But there was the first in the series that would

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Speaker 2: really really throw a span in the works, wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: It sure would. But I I like the titles, I

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Speaker 3: like the plot, and now the sequel. I really hope

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Speaker 3: there's a third and I'm really curious to see what

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Speaker 3: it will be. It has to be a trilogy somewhere, right.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think so, I think so. Hey, I've

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Speaker 2: got a recommendation for you two. I have just finished it

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Speaker 2: this week. Africa is not a country. So you know

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Speaker 2: that I love reading non fiction books. I'm a bit

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Speaker 2: of a shocker. Really, I've got to expand and really

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Speaker 2: few more fiction books. But yeah, I was given Africa

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Speaker 2: is not a country a few a few weeks ago. Basically,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of like a just a book challenging kind

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Speaker 2: of stereotypes around Africa and African development, and you know,

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Speaker 2: making fun of the fact that often the continent is

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Speaker 2: treated as country but actually has incredible diversity and you know,

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Speaker 2: diversity of landscapes, people, languages, food, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: So Africa is not a country, is my recommendation that

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Speaker 2: I will throw in the mix as well. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much, Catherine. We will catch you again next week.

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Speaker 2: Katherine Rain's our book reviewer. There Three Days in June

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Speaker 2: by Anne Tyler was her first book. The sequel, by

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Speaker 2: Gene humph Corelitz was her second, and both of those

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Speaker 2: will be up on the News Talks EDB website.

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