Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

I'm Karen Swallow Pryor.

And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader.

We're here to discuss, well, the end of Jane Eyre.

Very important novel.

Turns out, pretty good one, as it also turns out.

It's okay.

Yeah, we've been reading, you know, if you haven't been reading Karen's edition,

which I'm holding up, there's like two people in the world that can see that I'm holding

this up right now and they're on the podcast with me, but I'm holding up Karen's edition.

If you haven't gotten it yet, then...

You need it.

What are you waiting for?

Because it's great.

It's wonderful. It's been a wonderful reading experience. And I just want to say that again. So Karen, thank you for putting the work in on this. It's been great reading it.

Well, thank you. It was a joy. And I'm glad to share that joy with others. It's been fun seeing people who like me are rediscovering Janeair. I mean, like, or discovering an affection for it. I respected it

before, but this reading has brought me, I'm learning to love it, I think. Um, and this, you know,

that is in part because of how lovely this reading experience is. Jealous we have been in our

yeah, that, that too. Yeah. But there's just so many questions and the writing is so good and you can Jealous we have been and our apologetic.

But there's just so many questions and the writing is so good and you see you see the craftsmanship that this brilliant writer put into it. And so thank you to you both for kind of unpacking

that and showing me what's there. As always, it's been, it's wonderful. I've heard from a lot

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