All right. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's just do a quick test in the chat room for a moment. I want to make sure everybody can see. It looks like we are here.

I see a bunch of people bouncing around. There's Karina. There's Mary Joe. There's Wayne Smallridge. There's Christa. There's there is Dandy Nancy. Does everybody see?

And here you all there. We're not going to start until we can do we get you all here. This is your first time a part of any kind of a book club. Guess what?

My first book club was the first one I hosted on this show. So I didn't know what the hell I was doing. And it turned out to be pretty damn easy because the audience is great. The co hosts are great. And here is our co host for this wonderful ride through our literary train.

I don't know what it is. This is a train ride through the world of literature. Very, very bad. Bad. Really corny. Lindsey Sharman. Welcome to the show. How are you?

I'm so good. Frank. It's so good to be here with you and your amazing audience. And I know you know how I feel. I know your audience is so grateful for everything that you do.

You're like a healing staff for the world of normalcy out there. You know the mainstream pretends it's the normal world that the real normal people are here with us right now. So I'm with you.

I'm with you. I'm with you on that one. I think that this it is it has been so therapeutic to jump into the jump into this world. These different types of worlds. And you know.

I think it'll only get better as we go through this book in particular because as you and I were talking about before I went live. This is above all one of the greatest now in a novel form.

You know it's one thing you can go pick up a book about an event or whatever and just drown yourself in facts about the world's fair.

It's another thing to pick up a novel and to read a story progress and just be inundated with amazing did you know moments.

It's like you will win so many bar trivia just by knowing this book. It's great. It really is. So how about this general thoughts.

I am for the first 85 pages. Here's what it is. I love that it opens up first of all with our main character Daniel Burnham on the Olympic on the night of the Titanic's demise.

We talk about so much about that. And he's trying to get a message to his friend Frank Millett one of the last surviving members of this team that got together to bring the 19 the 1893 world's fair together.

Which you have the setting. It's Chicago. It's Chicago, which Lindsay. I don't know if you got this kind of a feeling, but Chicago hasn't changed that much over the years.

I don't know Chicago well enough to say, but that's sad because they don't pay into very pretty picture of Chicago.

Everything that I've read. I've never been there either, but it seems it's always been a very violent bustling place. Obviously there's been 125 years worth of development there.

It's become a as a as a westernized city is anything else, but what we are we're given a backdrop of crime murder, but a growing rapidly and in search of identity.

It's always playing Chicago is always playing second and sometimes third fiddle to New York and Philadelphia.

We learned that even the name windy city is only partially a nickname that is given to it because of that sting of that westwardly current of wind that goes through there.

But because of all the little brother like whining that is done about how they have this inferiority complex when compared to New York City.

Anyway, they're in the race here and they win their bid to host the Colombian exhibition.

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