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This is the BookRide podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill.

And I'm Rebecca Schinsky.

Rebecca, who do we have with us today? We have Vanessa Diaz, our managing editor at Book Riot and our frequent guest now here on the Book Riot Pod.

And she is back for another journey down the literary rabbit hole. Folks might have heard her with me a month or so ago.

She took me way into the gossip about Agatha Christie.

And we don't know where she's going to take us today. We're just letting Vanessa, she's been in the

side car, but now Vanessa has the steering wheel. I couldn't have less of an idea.

I have no idea either. Vanessa has wide taste. There's a lot of books. We could go anywhere.

The odds makers, let me check here. No bets. There's nothing on the board. I've got no,

I've got no board. So Vanessa, where would we like to, what do we get to go to? All we know is that

Vanessa has picked something that you and I will be able to talk about. We have some kind of

background. But that also is a wide open,

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