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This is the Bookerite podcast.

I am Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.

We just came off a fun and raucous recap and future-looking fantasy league draft, Rebecca.

About as much fun as we can have podcasting, I think, doing that stuff at this point.

I think so.

Sharifa and our friend Laura McGrath are like great hangs, great taste, and always see some things that we've seen, but also pick out some books that maybe neither of us had our eyes on. We learn about some new stuff. It was a good time. And that'll be in the Patreon feed in the next couple weeks. Yeah. if nothing else, if that's my regular life and is an ongoing lesson,

humility, that one certainly. It's for multiple reasons if you want to find out about.

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