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1-800-The Tenant of Yesteryear · 1-800-1800

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello?
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  SPEAKER_00: You've reached 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a burning question.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a burning question.
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  SPEAKER_02: So without further ado, this week's bonus episode is about the tenant of yesteryear.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is that, Madeline?
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  SPEAKER_02: You might be wondering.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm wondering.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: The story begins a while ago in 1855.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, the story begins with, we have been doing a book club with McNally Jackson, bless.
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  SPEAKER_02: And our book of the month was The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte,
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  SPEAKER_02: which was originally published in 1848.
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  SPEAKER_02: And while I was reading it,
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  SPEAKER_02: something occurred to me that it was starting to remind me of a novel that I had not
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  SPEAKER_02: yet read called Yesteryear.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so I said, Madeline, can we read Yesteryear?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I said, no.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I asked again and you said, I said,
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  SPEAKER_01: actually, yeah, it appears that my mom bought it on Audible, so I'll listen to it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then I was like, what do you think?
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  SPEAKER_02: And you were like, frankly,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you had been like, I'm thinking about it so much, like I'm dreaming about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was like,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think if I stopped where I am right now,
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  SPEAKER_01: I would forget that I like I wouldn't think to pick it back up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I got slightly more involved over the course, but I found the end moving.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I can't wait to talk about it with you.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think for me, this was a reminder about why I do not read contemporary literature.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because you seemed engaged.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's like too intense of a drug for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm like literally restless, sleepless.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's too intense, too much.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because like,
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  SPEAKER_02: for example,
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  SPEAKER_02: when I'm reading Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I'm feeling a lot.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's overwhelming.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then when I read Carol Claire Burke's Yesteryear from 2026, I'm literally...
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  SPEAKER_02: Like I'm unable to sleep.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm unable to talk.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm unable to eat.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm like rambling nightmares.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had this experience when I read, because I do read more contemporary stuff than you sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like you're good at it better than me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I remember, like, I hadn't been reading contemporary stuff for a while.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I read Normal People.
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  SPEAKER_01: I, like, started it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I had had it on my shelf,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: forever because I'm, like,
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  SPEAKER_01: such a contrarian that I won't read a book that's popular until it's way out
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  SPEAKER_01: of fashion.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I stayed up all night reading it,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I hadn't done since I was,
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  SPEAKER_01: like, seven years old with, like, the new Harry Potter.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was, like, god damn, like,
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  SPEAKER_01: what she put in this?
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  SPEAKER_02: Literally, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean...
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  SPEAKER_02: My friend Lily and I read Normal People together one weekend,
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  SPEAKER_02: like when the TV show came out on our phones,
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  SPEAKER_02: sitting next to each other at my mom's house, like unable to talk, unable to.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.