Sam Coley

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The Bookshelf · Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours · 23 Oct 2020 podcast

And the whole book takes place the night before she leaves for this Antarctic residency in

while she edits her book to make it better, it's incredibly meta.

And the entire book is set within the, um, acknowledgements of the book that she's editing inside itself.

It's, it's, it's fair.

It's very meta.

It's incredibly funny.

I just, I couldn't stop thinking about it.

It's one of those books that I'd be at work and I'd just be thinking, I can't wait to finish work and read the ice shelf.

I was completely obsessed.

I was trying to explain to my partner that,

about why I love it.

And I started reading him this free association list of classics.

And he just looked at me completely blank.

And I was like, yeah, it's only funny if you're actually reading the book.

So just like, bear with me.

Um, I'm a, I'm a sucker for like a gimmick and, um, anything that plays with the conventions of a novel.

So I really felt like it was written specifically for me, really loved it.

Yep.

I just thought it was a phenomenal novel.

I love a saga as well.

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