I invited you here

you here I thought I made myself perfectly clear

when you're a guest in my home

you gotta come to me empty and do.

I said no gifts your presence is presence enough

and I already had too much stuff.

So how do you dare to disobey me? Welcome to I said no gifts. I'm Bridget Weiniger. We are in the backyard. Maybe that's not even a novelty for you

anymore listener, but it continues to be a novelty for me. Well you couldn't have

caught me at a worse time. I just finished a book yesterday and had no book planned to read after and I'm now just in total free fall as far as reading is concerned and that's essentially all I'm thinking

about at all times what will I read next there's no end in sight so I'm in a

mood but we're fortunately we a wonderful, wonderful guest and hopefully she can help

alleviate some of this and we can just stop thinking about my situation for 10

seconds.

Let's welcome on Darcy Carden.

Darcy, welcome to I said no gifts.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so sorry about this horrible predicament you're in. It's terrible. Are you a reader?

Oops I just outed myself. That noise always says something. I come from a reading family.

Oh, like a reading family. I come from a family of one, two, three, four librarians.

You're kidding me.

My grandma, two uncles, and an aunt.

Oh, that's lovely.

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