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From W be easy Chicago I'm Greta Johnson and you're listening to the

nerd at book club it's just like normal book, except you don't have to leave your house,

which has become even more of a thing than it was, what, like even a month ago, right?

I am here with Heather Havrleski, writes the Ask Polly advice column for New York magazine.

Her memoir is also literally called disaster preparedness.

Hey Heather, hi Greta.

So how are your preparations? I'm so prepared. I have not been that prepared. I've been I was a little bit prepared. I was prepared. I was prepared to feel dread. You have a lot of Cheesets I hear right? I have a great surfeit of Cheesets, yes, a surplus.

And I also have some soups, canned soups,

and a great deal of ramen.

I talked to a friend of mine who had her brother-in-law

literally had a palette of ramen in mid-March. Whoa. Do you know how much that is?

That's like three by three square foot. Yeah. Tall like as big as a

same. Big as a human of Raman. Wow. I think he's probably a little bit tired of

Raman now but still it's impressive. Okay so we might continue to

talk about snacks but mostly we're here to talk about the Glass Hotel it's me

and Heather this time but guess what we're also gonna hear from a whole bunch of you.

I just finished reading The Glass Hotel

and it is, what a story.

The thing that's so interesting to me

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