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This is episode 110 and we are recording on December 12th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hey-oh. Hello. Welcome to our Jane Austen-Reed-a-like show. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember what made us decide to do this. I think it was her birthday. I was going to say it's her birthday. Right. Not today. No. Right. Like I think it was actually two days

ago. It was the 10th. I don't remember. Anyway, we were looking at like upcoming, you know, beloved author birthdays and days of death and things. And we were like, Jane Austen show. So that is what we were doing. Yes. So before we get into it, let's talk about what we're reading. What are you reading, Jim?

So I am, I can't tell how far in I am because digital books are hard to tell.

But I'm reading The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson, which I, okay, right now I have mixed feelings about it because the plot is really good, but the structure is driving

me a little crazy. So there's like short chapters and they alternate every single chapter.

It alternates between a present storyline and a past storyline. So like just when I'm starting

to like get in to one of them, it switches to the other one and the back and forth

and back and forth and back and forth and I normally don't mind that but I think I've realized

like usually it's a little bit longer between switches and so but like the plot is the plots are good

I just am having trouble keeping up with that um It's about robots, kind of.

It's about, like, clockwork automata that are, like, sentient.

So kind of artificial intelligence, but it's, like, a little more magical than that.

And then the present-day storyline is about an anthropologist who, like, basically studies dolls and has been looking for clockwork, you know, things as part of her research.

And she like discovers that there's this sort of, you know, cabal of sentient automata and they're in the middle of a war and she gets sucked into it.

So yeah. So it's like very, it's very plotty.

And the characters, everybody is a robot except for one person.

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