Hey listeners, just wanted to give you a heads up. There's some sensitive content in this episode when Roxanne begins to talk about events at her bookstore. If you want to skip ahead past the sensitive stuff, just skip Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. I'm Gwen. I'm Frank. And today we are so excited to welcome Roxanne Cody. Roxanne, thank you so much for joining us. Delighted to be here. And you are the host of the Just the Right

Book podcast and the owner of the independent bookstore RJ Julia in Madison, Connecticut.

That is correct. You must get a prize for that. I get a prize. She's very good. Gwen.

Gwen can pull it out when she needs to. She can be functional occasionally.

Every once in a while.

Well, we're so excited to have you here today.

Thank you for joining us.

My pleasure.

And we can't wait to talk about lots of things with you, but especially libraries and

bookstores and kind of similarities, differences, compare and contrast.

We're super curious to talk about all of that stuff.

Because I know I got my start in a bookstore. You got your start in a bookstore.

Not me. You got your start in a library? No. I did tax law for 20 years. Really? And then

opened a bookstore. A logical shift from one career to another career. How did that come about?

You know, it was one of these.

I actually loved what I did.

I mean, it might sound real.

I was a national tax director at one of the big accounting firms here in New York.

And I was turning 40, didn't have a child.

And I thought, well, okay, I've done this. This was great. I've

traveled all over the world. But now it's time to do something, you know, that I care deeply about,

which was always reading. And like, I think like a lot of readers, my earliest great memories were in a library.

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