Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.

I'm Gwen.

I'm Frank.

And here we are.

Here we are. It's right. It's a cold day today.

It is, cold and rainy. And you're dressed like Mark from Rent. You have like a cute little stripy sweater on. I don't know why I always start by talking about your clothes, but I do.

Maybe you shouldn't. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe it's inappropriate. Oh, maybe it is. I apologize. It's okay. You can do whatever you want. I don't know if I can get through this today. What's wrong? I don't know. Well, I had a difficult book I read. Oh, really? Yeah, but I guess we can get to that.

You know what?

I decided you can help me.

I decided this, to be honest about I had difficulty with it in terms of understanding,

and also that you're here to talk to me and maybe help figure out some things.

I guess I feel like I should understand much more so I could present to the world all my

knowledge about what I read.

But it was a tough one.

So anyway, let's start with that.

Roll it back.

Let's turn it on its head and start with that instead of our hot topic.

And just talk about the book?

Because we have a fun hot topic, but let's do it later.

Wow.

All right.

...