Ep 761 - On the Calculation of Volume (Book I), by Solvej Balle

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**SPEAKER_3** (1:42)
This is a HeadGum Podcast.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:46)
While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. Plus these are books you should have read by now.

**Craig** (2:20)
Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

**Andrew** (2:27)
My name is Andrew. What day is it?

**Craig** (2:29)
Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

**Andrew** (2:35)
My name's Andrew. I feel like we did this already.

**Craig** (2:38)
Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue. Oh man, Craig's traveling another time loop. My name is Craig. Welcome to podcast books meaning to read.
I feel-

**Andrew** (2:47)
And now he's broken. Now his brain's broken by the time loop. Good, great.
How am I gonna deal with this at this late date?

**Craig** (2:55)
Andrew, we're starting a new podcast called Overdue here in 2013?

**Andrew** (3:02)
If it's 2013, my dude, I got some stuff I gotta tell you about.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:05)
I got some investments to make.

**Andrew** (3:08)
You're gonna need to sit down and I'm gonna need to go invest in Nvidia or something.

**Craig** (3:15)
Welcome to our book podcast for each week and every day thereafter. One of us reads a book and tells the other person about it.

**Andrew** (3:25)
Every day after this?

**Craig** (3:27)
You could listen to the podcast just over and over and over.

**Andrew** (3:31)
Sure. Okay.
I thought you were committing us to an aggressive new release schedule.

**Craig** (3:36)
Well, I'll wake up tomorrow and see if it's a different day. Tell me about what book you read this day and this week and forever after.

**Andrew** (3:45)
I read the first book of the On the Calculation of Volume series by Solvej Balle.

**Craig** (3:52)
Are you a Solvej Baller too?
Yeah. Great.

**Andrew** (3:56)
I wish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was a baller.

**Craig** (3:59)
Solvej say.
This is an award-winning series. Many prizes in Europe and Scandinavia won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2022 Seemed to take off in the last two-ish years here in the States.

**Andrew** (4:23)
I assume it's related to Booktalk in some way.

**Craig** (4:26)
I think it's come up on Booktalk. It also like the English translation hit in 24
And then it was Barbara Havilland's English translation of the first volume, which you read, and then she would do volume book two. I don't want to say volume.

**Andrew** (4:43)
You can't say volume because it's part of the name.

**Craig** (4:46)
It's frustrating because it is a book. And so I say book two. That seems weird too.
And that first book was long listed for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.