Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the In Cureola Reader, on which we are going to be discussing, well, answering your questions about JL cars a month in the country.

As usual, you delivered with plenty of great questions for us to discuss as we

conclude our conversation on this book. And we will get to that in just a minute. First of all,

though, I want to remind you that your next book on this show here is one of Heidi's favorites.

It's called Loris, and we will have a schedule out for that here pretty soon. And then after that,

we're going to do a gentleman in Moscow.

And then we're going to do, my name is Asher Lev.

And that will take us to the end of the year, which also means that you are clamoring.

You are driving for us to let you know what books we're going to discuss next year.

So I just want to let you know that that is going to be coming soon. We're going to have a live recording on which we whittle down the long list to the actual list, the final list,

so you can plan accordingly once you hear that. So that'll be coming soon. We also, of course,

have our East of Eden conversations over on Close Reads HQ on Substack. That's closewreeds.substack.com

where Heidi, Sean Johnson and I are discussing Steinbeck's wonderful novel, East of Eden,

the next episode of that just went up on Friday. And so those conversations have been wonderful.

And we are all back from the conference. The last week we were off. So we're glad to be back with you.

But let's do a quick conference review. Heidi, how was the conference for you and how many scarves?

How many neckerchiefs did you see Tim did? Yeah. I was disappointed in the low amount of neckerchiefs.

I didn't see a single one. And I had my jokes, my jabs already.

So I don't know what was up with that, Tim.

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