Hey there. I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Sean Johnson. I just wanted to mix mine up a little bit.

You're listening to Close Reads. You're listening to Close Reeds. Can we do it over again?

Hey, I'm David Kern. There you go. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Sean Johnson. And you're listening to Closer.

It's a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which.

We are mixing up things in general, just all around.

Yeah.

Our next book is going to be...

What is it, Heidi?

What is our next book going to be?

Our next book is, indeed, Oscar Wilds, the picture of Dorian Gray. A very big shift from everything

sad is untrue. Right. And I believe Tim's coming back for that. And the schedule worked out such

that we're going to drop the first episode of that one week from today. But in the meantime, we wanted to do an episode that I've been circling for a while.

I've kind of been thinking we should do it and we talked about it.

It's just seemed like the right time to drop it in.

It's summertime.

It's the dog days of summer.

It's time to do something fun, something a little different, kind of mix it up,

something that doesn't involve.

You are a listener having to do homework, i.e. read.

So we are doing on this episode the Close Reads movie adaptation draft.

What's going to happen here is the three of us are going to draft movie adaptations. Now, we had the bracket that we did back in March and April for our annual literary bracket. And that kind of inspired

the notion of this draft. So we're going to use that, you know, and some of the same conversations

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