Hello everybody and welcome to the librarian is in.

The New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Frank.

I'm Rhonda.

Hello, Rhonda. Hello, Frank. How you doing? I'm good. Yeah, I feel good.

A little overwhelmed. I know. A little overwhelmed. But, I mean, just to drill it down just overwhelmed with um my reading schedule because i i

have book discussions and then the podcast and then you know i'm always trying to because i'm

such an anxious reader sometimes like i just need to focus focus on one book, like I've always said.

And I sort of got bollocksed up with a couple of reading commitments that are pleasures, pure pleasures.

But and then, you know, when you decide to read a book, you don't know what you're, at least I don't.

I prefer not to.

I don't know what I'm getting into per se.

Like, I don't know what it's going to require of me.

And the book I read for that I wanted to read for this podcast was a lot more challenging than I thought it would be.

Ooh.

I mean, I don't know what I thought it would be, but it required a focus that was in, as any

listener of this podcast would know, is in quite short supply in my brain sometimes.

I feel like everyone right now, though.

Yeah, well, good.

Actually, you know, usually i like to be unique and special

but now i'm glad you actually said that because it made me feel like i sort of knew that was true

like everyone's a little foggy oh yeah and um and overwhelmed and and maybe now with a sense of

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