You know, you'll open the first page in the first page, name drops, gaspies, and you're sort of like,

okay, I guess I'm in the 20s.

Hey readers, I'm Ann Bogle, and this is What Should I Read Next Episode 250.

Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader.

What should I read next? We don't get bossy on the show, what we will do here is give you the

information you need to choose your next read. Every week we'll talk all things books and reading

and do a little literary matchmaking with one guest.

And be the first to know all the good stuff we have planned for this fall.

Today's guest has a story that sounds like the beginning of a juicy historical fiction novel.

As a teenager, Liz McGuire came across a patch of 1920s love letters at a flea market.

This launched an obsession with collecting vintage letters and preserving people's personal

correspondence as a piece of history. And of course, this passion project has had some

surprising effects on Liz's reading life. Today, Liz is looking for books that measure up to the

detailed intimate depictions of the real stories found in her vintage letters. And I'm ready to

recommend three books that provide that same sense of texture she gets in those letters. Let's get

to it. Liz, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you. I'm very excited to be here.

Well, I'm excited to talk with you today. Now, we got your submission from our form at What Should I

Read Next Podcast.com slash guest. And the whole team at What Should I Read Next HQ loved the sound

of your flea market love letters project aside from just being super curious about what you

on earth and how it started in the history. We're readers and we know the power of the written word,

whether we read it bound in a manuscript, do buy it a bookstore or whether we are writing a

personal communication. I'm very excited to dive in and I have to have been I'm pretty excited

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