Okay, we're here to talk about Jack, the fourth book and the, well, now, we're calling it the

Gilead series, Marilyn Robinson's Gilead series, is that what we're calling us? We need a name I guess. I think so, yes. I'm, I think that I will be referring to it as the Gilead books. Yeah, series. I think at some point we still, there's a lot of complications that come out of this one. I think it does

Change my understanding of what the series is about a little bit. I don't think it's radically resensored it in some degrees but I'm thinking

about new things I have to admit I didn't reread all four did you read all four I did

yeah you're better than I did gilliad and I thumb through Lila because I

don't remember it much at all and then I read Jack so there's where I am.

Yeah, you know I actually I discovered in my reading of home the second one that I don't think I actually read that one back in the day so I reread yeah and I don't know how that happened but I reread Gilead for probably like the fifth time and I read home for the first time,

and this was my first time going back to Lila

since it was published a few years ago.

Yeah.

How did you find that?

How did you find?

We're not gonna spend too much time on Gilead except with other books except that may inform some of the stuff about Jack.

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