Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright here with my co-host Carrie Plit, and we are once again actually really happy to be back in the studio. It feels like we've been on the road for ages, doesn't it? It really does.

And the last time we did a straight minisode, we were catching up about our summers, which is crazy to think about. Yeah, now it gets dark at 4 p.m. Oh my God, and I haven't seen the sun in weeks. I can't really bear it. But apart from being clinically depressed because of the lack of sunshine, How are you?

I'm fine.

No.

Very happy to be here with you today.

Oh, girl.

Me too. It's so good.

Yeah, I can't believe we've rolled around to minisode eight already. So in case our listeners are new

to the show, the format for these minisodes between full shows is for the next half hour or so,

we're going to first have an informal conversation

about something book related and anything else that might come up surrounding that question.

And then we are going to recommend some other cultural things that we've enjoyed lately that are

not books. And there will be, of course, the usual musical interludes from Eddie, a phrase

I can never say. It's a lot of,

it's a lot of like similar sounds. Usual musical interludes. It's quite, it's quite nice.

Also a little announcement that our beautiful, sturdy, practical, environmentally friendly,

literary friction tote bags have arrived. And as soon as we figured out the best way to sell them to you

they will be yours and i'm sorry to say the c word but put them on your christmas lists and we

recommend filling them with excellent books before giving them to someone for some extra points

yeah if you want to slip us some cash that we could probably do that too i don't know how you

would find us and slip.

Just do a handshake and put 20 quid in it.

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