From Providence Red Island, welcome to the Mary's Book Club inaugural episode, Tackling

Bridgerton's The Duke and I. So grab your copy, make sure you got your latest audible

download. And let's dive in. Hello, hello, everybody. I am so excited and we bit nervous.

I would be completely lying if I was like, oh, I'm totally cool doing this. This is my

first book club episode for our friends and members at JoinTheNerdClan.com. My husband

Blake, he's been doing a book club for quite some time now. He's tackling the Outlander

series and he's, you know, going through Voyager. He's on a journey through Voyager right

now. And I've never done a podcast kind of version of a book club. I have participated

in book clubs in real life before. I have talked about books with friends and family and

loved ones, but I've never done a podcast version of a book club by myself. This is all

new. This is a whole new world. I've only been podcasting, you know, with my husband Blake,

we're tackling, of course, the Potter series, the Harry Potter series. So that's kind

of like a book club, but this is just different. And I'm really, really excited because one

of the things that I told my husband Blake, when we decided to get this going as a

perk for our friends at JoinTheNerdClan.com, who make everything we do possible. So thank

you all so much. As I said, I want to have my friends voices be heard. You know, I want

to make sure that you are part of this. You are taking the time to read it. You're taking

the time to listen to my thoughts and I'll be it. I don't know. I'm going to shed much

light on this book. But I think that the fact that we can be doing this together, especially

in the hero now with all the stuff going on in the world and just the distance that

we have physically away from each other, you know, but like we can't physically get together

right now for many of us for a book club. So to be able to still have this kind of virtually

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