The Incomparable, number 70049, January 2025.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

Our Book Club has rejoined you.

We read a book.

That's how book clubs work.

And we talk about it.

That's also how book clubs work.

I brought a beverage.

Everybody would have to bring their own beverage, though, because that's not how real life book clubs work.

They give you beverages. But I'm on a Skype book club or a Zoom book club, whatever it is.

Anyway, I digress. We watch, we watch words on a page or heard words in the air. It's the mercy of gods by James S.A. Corey, the author's authors, because it's a student

in a minute's two guys, of the expanse series of books.

And they have a first book in a trilogy called the trilogy is called The Captives War, soon to be a tv series because that's how these guys

roll uh first first book is called the mercy of gods and we read it and now we're going to talk

about it again book club joining me are these fine people uh aline sims has been on many book club episodes and is probably wondering why I explain what a book club is every time.

Hi, Aline.

Hi, I'm here with my water and my cat who I couldn't take to a regular book club.

So it's good.

That would be a very specific book.

A B-Y-O-C book club would be.

Yep.

Interesting.

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