Hi, everybody. Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. And I'm Frankie.

And we have, we have a little bit of a different format today. We have our two special guests are here now and are going to be here for the whole episode.

Do you want to introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm Kate Faze.

I'm the young adult librarian from the Bloomingdale Branch.

I'm Annie Lynn.

I'm one of the children's librarians at the Mulberry Street branch.

Yay.

And so what we're going to be talking about today is books.

Because, and so we should tell, okay, we should tell the whole genesis of how this happened.

So National Cheese Lovers Day was sometime in the middle of January.

I think the 17th, is that right?

The 18th. It was there. It's a very important holiday. Cheese is very important to all of us here

at the library. And for that post, we asked our recommendations community, which is all of our

book experts, to recommend their favorite cheesy books.

And so we were, Frank and I were feeling a little sad. We were reading a lot of really serious

stuff and we really wanted a change of pace. And so we realized that we would be taping on Valentine's Day,

which is today. And we were like, hey, let's go back to the cheesy books list and read some

cheesy love stories.

And so we have read some.

We picked the book that Kate recommended and the book that Annie read recommended and each of us read one of them.

Right.

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