Hello and welcome to the Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank.

And I'm Rhonda.

You are.

How are you, hon?

I'm hanging in there, you know.

It's so close to the end of the year.

I think I'm feeling a little, a little 2020 fatigue.

So.

Why?

For what reason?

I don't know. You know, it's just, there's just so much that's happened and it's just

kind of ready to let the holidays come and just relax a little bit.

You know, I think I've had, again, these are very lucky problems got to say um like you just said

relax like that's what i've been thinking too but i had a strange thing the other day i was reading

the book i'm about to discuss and i really couldn't keep my eyes open and i thought like i had

it wasn't the book and i had plenty of sleep and. And I was just like, what is wrong with me? And then I was just sort of like, why am I so tired? And, like, really just bone fatigued. And, you know, probably for a lot of reasons we just said. But what, there was something on my mind about I'm at another branch other than my own so it's

I'm sort of in charge sort of not but just got into this thing where I wanted to do and given

permission by the manager there to sort of do uh things to brighten up the space and just you know

manifest my creativity so I got I just sort of did it.

Like I bolted out of my chair, marched over to my old library, which is under construction,

rummaged around for some material, got some broken pine branches from the neighboring garden

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