From Relay, this is Upgrade episode 597 for January 5, 26.

Happy New Year from us.

This episode is brought to you by Century FitBod Squarespace. In fact, my name is Mike Hurley. I'm joined by Jason Snell. Happy New Year, Jason. Happy New Year, Mike Hurley. Good to be back. Back on the swing of things. I think everybody, you could, you could justify a bleak all last week and the week before weird weeks because there were holidays in them, but it's over now. This is just a a week just a we're back in it an old boy we're back in it today today's episode is like

what if we just do all of the stuff that happens that that's where we are but i have a snow talk

question for you that comes from jim and jim wants to know jason how do you feel the list of books

that you want to read and how do you decide what you want to read next?

Oh, man.

That's a good question, listener, Jim.

So one way we do it, people who listen to The Incomparable know this.

We have a book club where we read all of the nominated, like, shortlisted books on the

Hugo and Nebula Award list. So that's Fantasy and Science Fiction, best novels of the year.

And so when those come out, that's my reading done for a while. And I actually, I read all the

shorter fiction, too, the novellas and the, and the short stories. And so that will generate a long list with lots of podcast homework. And we end up doing like a bunch of episodes, each of which contains three books, two or three books. Like, it's a lot. It's the highest homework to podcast ratio of the year, too, because you have to read three books in order to do one podcast

but that's what we do.

I've been doing that for years.

It means that I'm very well read

in the genre and I know like

all of the ones that people are talking about

and that's great.

When that's not happening,

I sort of, part of me feels adrift

because I don't have somebody assigned

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