Episode · Pod Save America · 2022-02-01
Books mentioned on Let’s Check In On Donald Trump (Spoiler: he still sucks) | Pod Save America Podcast
Jon Lovett discussed The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss and others, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen, and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is a controversial historical novel that tells the tragic story of the Holocaust through the naive perspective of a young German boy living near a concentration camp.
Discussed“so instead of mouse kids read john boyne's the boy in the striped pajamas a safer version from the point of view of a german boy rather than a jewish boy who sees the horror first hand because inevitably if you remove something that teaches history in a way that's difficult you're left with something that is uh uh less”
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A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss and Marlon Bundo is a satirical children's picture book created through John Oliver's television program that quickly became a runaway publishing bestseller.
Discussed“two boy rabbits fall in love despite protests and plan to go on a bunny moon after getting married is that the bible i'm gonna say that's uh mouse yep it's from uh jill twisted a day in the life of marlon bundo and we must keep it from the children”
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The Magic Fish
Discussed“john a young vietnamese boy who loves fairy tales uses one to tell his immigrant parents that he's gay not the bible it's not the bible it's from the magic fish strongly in and i don't know how to say something that's from the magic fish uh not the bible”
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a totalitarian society where women's rights are stripped away and a select few are forced into reproductive servitude.
Discussed“a woman is forced to become a handmaiden to bear children for her mistress's husband oh definitely the bible oh is that the bible yes handmaid's still you're both right yeah that's right”
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