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

My name is Frank.

And I'm Rhonda.

And here we are to discuss a title that is on the New York Public Library's 125 books we love list,

a list celebrating 125 years of the New York Public Library.

It's not a best books list. It's a books we love list.

Right?

Called from lots of meetings with librarians and from around the system who fought it out and this list was derived.

And Rhonda and I decided to read a romance called An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole.

But first, how are you, darling?

I am pretty good.

You know, I'm hanging in there as New York, you know, slowly starts to

open back up and open their doors to things. You know, we're slowly starting to go back into the library.

So it's a nice, it's a nice little change of pace, although we still have to say, you know, safe,

but it's nice to kind of get out a little bit.

Are you going down any rabbit holes of fascination or anything, like with you being home

alone and wandering around?

And like my obsession with various videos that we've discussed and like all these distractions.

Well, I guess they're not even distractions these days.

They're just attractions.

I don't know.

I've mentioned in the past my newfound obsession with stamps, but something really cool that just actually came out is, you know,

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