Hello, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. I'm Sarah Jane Bentley. And you are listening to Close

Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader. And we are here to answer your questions about Marilyn

Robinson's novel home. We've been at these discussions for six or seven weeks now. And now we turn

to your thoughts, your opinions,

the dissonances that are in your brains and we will attempt to solve the problems that we've

caused over the last six weeks of episodes. Before we do that, though, I want to remind you that

next week we are going to dive into Walker Percy's novel, The Movie Goer, and good old Tim will be back.

I know he's very excited about chatting with us about the moviegoer.

So the reading schedule has been posted on the Facebook group where you can, of course, join.

And then also it has been posted in our email newsletter.

If you go to closereads.substack.com, you can see the link to the most recent email with that schedule.

So we will read

part one for next week. It's about 60 pages. There wasn't a good natural break earlier than that.

So it's a little longer than most of the readings that we do. So just be forewarned and plan

accordingly. Don't procrastinate if you are one of the three people who are on the podcast that have to read in order to have a conversation about it.

This is a note to myself. Okay. So we are here, as I said, to answer your questions about home.

So let's dive right into it because there are always plenty of questions and we never quite get to as many as we'd like.

So I'm going to start with, I'm going to start with this one.

It's something that we have discussed fairly often over the last several weeks.

Sarajean, I want you to answer this first, and then we'll flip it over to Heidi.

Krista asks, why does Marilynne Robinson's books cause such polarity and feelings?

It seems like you either love them or hate them and then need to vehemently defend your feelings.

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