Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part I (Chapters 1 Thru 23)

Nerdette Book Club Testaments Part 1
If you want to read ‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood — and you don’t want to read it alone — you’ve come to the right podcast. This week, we’re talking about chapters 1 through 23. Paula Friedrich/WBEZ/Book cover art courtesy of Penguin Random House
Nerdette Book Club Testaments Part 1
If you want to read ‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood — and you don’t want to read it alone — you’ve come to the right podcast. This week, we’re talking about chapters 1 through 23. Paula Friedrich/WBEZ/Book cover art courtesy of Penguin Random House

Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part I (Chapters 1 Thru 23)

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Our reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments has commenced!

This week, we’re talking about chapters 1 through 23. So … spoilers abound.

Join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky and Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins as they contemplate the motives of Aunt Lydia, wonder what’s in that darn safe and talk smack about the mean girls of Gilead.

To follow along with us, read The Testaments through chapter 46 (pages 124-282) before next Friday, September 27.

And hey, we want to hear from you too! Share your thoughts with us by recording your voice with your smartyphone. (Please be succinct!) Then email the audio file to nerdettepodcast@gmail.com, preferably by Tuesday evening. You may hear yourself in an episode!

And when you need to tweet or Instagram something really important about the club, just use #NerdetteBookClub on the internets, and so will we.