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Connor here, me and Mike, are in the middle of yet another book we did not expect to like.

Empress Teresa by Norman Bhutan.

And with illustrations by, well, illustration to cover, right?

It's not a picture book, unfortunately.

I wish it would have been.

Oh, man.

If it had, there's a term for those encyclopedia brown illustrations that show up with a line

and dialogue underneath them.

I can't remember it. But if that had had these happening, Teresa unfurled her mane.

The swarm of sharks unleashed a torrent of blood and geysers of blood shot up as the world was doomed.

That would have been a great thing to see illustrated in the cover of Empress Teresa.

Yeah, the Sherlock Holmes, the Strand type stuff, right, when it first came out and was

serialized, and then there'd be a line drawing of a guy, he stood over the lifeless body of

smokes, you know, like something. Yes. Steve threw a coin into a trash can.

We're getting ahead of ourselves.

Let's get even beyond back to ourselves.

Didn't work the way I intended that to come out.

But this is an email from a listener named Mark about our last book, which I'm sure we'll continue to be comparing this to.

But Mark wrote in, said, I'm lucky we'll continue to be comparing this to. But Mark wrote in,

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