Welcome back to the bookcase, another version, another week.

I'm Charlie Gibson, the father of the Kate and Charlie Pear.

And I am Kate, the daughter of the Kate and Charlie Pear.

I like the Kate and Charlie Pear.

We're also a dance duo.

We do weddings.

Bar and bat mitzvahs. Bar mit bat mitzvahs. We do the whole

thing. It's pretty awkward when we know. I'm just kidding. Anyway, we have a different show this week.

So we thought we would take this half hour really to talk about what we've learned in this podcast

with a couple of other little features,

books that we have particularly liked in the area of great literary romances. But I want to

start, Kate, with saying, I think we have learned so much. And what has impressed me, I think,

more than anything, I so admire the craft of writing books particularly, but I am so admiring of

the craft that I am amazed at all the different approaches that we have heard to writing a book.

Yeah, I feel as if, you know, we've heard from writers who write backwards, we've heard

from writers who write forwards, we've heard from writers who write backwards, we've heard from writers who

write forwards, we've heard from writers who write backwards and forwards at the same time.

We've heard from writers who say, yes, no, it's important to work on multiple books. You know,

when I'm stuck, I have something else to work on. We've heard from writers who said,

though, that's impossible. One of the most interesting dichotomy is I think

is people who say, the character just sort of pushed me out of the way and wrote the book

themselves. And we've had a writer who said, I don't understand what that means. That is so

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