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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John DeLin, co-host, I should say, because I have with me the ever-witty and insightful Heather Olson-Beele. Hey, Heather, how are you?

I'm good, thanks.

And this is, I don't know, is this edition three of Mormon Stories Book Club?

Yep, I think so.

Yeah, we've done, we've done, we've read Joanna Brooks and we've read the Brigham Young biography and now it's time to review

following in love with Joseph Smith, my search for the real prophet by Jane Barnes and before we introduce Jane and our other co-panelists, let me just talk briefly about Mormon Stories Book Club and then I'll turn it over to Heather.

For those of you who haven't caught on yet, what we're doing is we're having a monthly book club. If you go up to MormonStories.org and click on book club, you'll see

a list of books that we've got in the pipeline. What you do is you purchase the book, however you want to purchase it.

We have a link to help you purchase the book through Mormon Stories. We'll get a small, you know, little contribution for this or any other Amazon purchase you want to make.

If you click on the link and purchase this or other things through us, that's not what this is really about. It's just about helping to promote great literature and discussions about great literature.

So what you do is you get the book, you read it, you can listen to the podcast interview that we have with the author.

And then we're encouraging people to hold book clubs in their cities with friends, ward members, other Mormon Stories listeners, encourage lots of people to buy the book and talk about it.

And in the past, we've actually brought on authors. Authors have been willing to actually Skype into some book clubs and actually participate in local question and answer sessions.

And we'll find out from Jane in a bit whether that's something she might or might not be able to do. We also have a Facebook group called Mormon Stories Book Club.

Facebook where you can actually go up, interact with other book club listeners and interact with with the authors. And so that's kind of how the book club goes.

The next book that we have on schedule is called a short stay in hell by Stephen Peck.

But today we're focusing on falling in love with Joseph Smith by Jane Barnes. So Heather, is there anything I left out?

No, it sounds good.

All right. Well, Heather, you're joining us from Huntsville, Texas, which is where I first met you and your wonderful family back in the day.

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