Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

I'm Ian Andrews.

This is Close Reads a podcast for The Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Amortol's

novel, A Gentleman in Moscow.

We are discussing Part 2.

Basically all of, you know, like all of Part 2.

It goes to about page, what, 167 or so

if you're reading. But if, yeah, you're following in the audiobook, as many of you do, it's just

all of part two. So when you get to the end, stop listening at that point. I mean, unless you're

psychopath. We've got lots to talk about. There is a tragic wine sequence in this book in this section,

which we're going to have to,

I think we'll probably have to spend 45 minutes of our hour on that.

First, though, aside from having to have endured that reading,

that great tragedy, How are you each?

How is it going?

Have you had any good wine since last we spoke?

I felt like I needed to last night after I did my reading.

You had to redeem it.

Yeah.

So I like pulled out a good bottle of wine, which we had with Taco Bowls on Monday night.

So, well, no, Tuesday night, because today's Wednesday.

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