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Hi, Catherine.

Hi, Chelsea. How are you? I'm good, I'm good. I just read that book, James, by Percival Prescott. Percival Prescott. Is that his name? That has been everywhere. Everett. Percival Everett. Percival Everett. Yeah, James. It was very, should be required reading. It's an amazing book. You have to read it. And it really shook me up for a few days. I think I absorb, sometimes I absorb things so much. Like, I can't stop thinking about them. You know? Yeah. It is personal ever. I just double checked. And it's like a retelling of the Huck Finn story, right? From his perspective, from the slave's perspective. Yeah. So they have like a guy, yeah. So it's great. It takes you through like right before the war broke out and on the Mississippi River. And then kind of he's trying to escape for his family. And he's trying to get back. It's just, it's a saga. It's a whole saga with Huck Finn involved in it.

And it's a nice retelling. It's beautiful, but heartbreaking. And you do love a retelling of a

classic too. Like I know you love SIRS and those other ones. Like, yeah. Yeah. And then I read

those women that have that podcast, I've had it, those two funny women.

I think they have a great podcast called I've Had It Podcast, which is there's these two women from Oklahoma.

And they have a new book called Life is Just a Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches.

That's a pretty funny book that I also just read.

I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book all the way to the river. and I'm almost done with that. That is a beautiful book. I started reading Demon Copperhead, but I haven't finished that. I heard that's kind of a hard read. It is. I brought that to Whistler, and I left it there, because I was halfway through, and I'm like, okay, I don't want to not read this book, but I'm not finishing this right now. And I had other books to read for our podcast. So, but everyone talks about that book. And it's been on the list for years and years and years. And then what about you? I started out this year reading a bunch of books that I did not like. I didn't like, like the first five books I read this year. And I realized it was because they were all from book talk and all recommendations from book talk.

So I stopped doing that. What's wrong with book talk? You know, I think it's just like people read a book and they feel like they need to recommend it because it's a thing that they read.

But I will say some books that I have really, really loved this year. One is called the Reformatory, and this is

absolutely a horror novel. But it's written by Tananah Reeve-Doo, and it's all about, like,

Jim Crow South and a boy's reformatory, which, of course, like all kinds of terrible things happen.

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