Welcome to Reading with Joy.

This summer, we're reading Pyrinaezy by Susanna Clark, a book about a man who lives in a house that loves him.

So get yourself a cup of tea. Sit down and let's begin.

Okay. yourself a cup of tea, sit down and let's begin. I was in a house with many rooms. The sea sweeps through the house.

Sometimes it swept over me, but always I was saved.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the final week of Reading with Joy, where we are thinking

about the final chapter of Susanna Clark's mysterious and beautiful novel, Pyreneasy.

Rather fittingly, I am recording this podcast, not in the UK.

I am out and abroad, so if you hear some noises in the background,

that is because there are some exciting things happening outside the apartment I'm staying in.

But I thought it was rather fitting that I'd be recording this podcast far away from my own

house, so to speak, because this is a chapter about Pyrnazzi exiting, maybe being exiled,

but really leaving the house. And we finally get to see how he will experience the world

and how he will come to some reconciliation or fullness through this kind of bittersweet movement away from the house.

Now, before we dive in, I just want to say how much I've enjoyed reading this book with you all

this year, how much I've loved getting to have the wonderful guests who have joined me from

Malcolm Geite and Joel and Matthew Rothes Moser and Haley Stewart and all of my guests were just

such a pleasure to have on the show. And as happens every year when I host these book clubs,

I feel that my own reading of this book was enriched and deepened and I made many connections

and noticed things I wouldn't have noticed without my

guests, but also in the beautiful comments and thoughts that you all posted on Twitter and

Instagram, I was so enriched and it's really been a pleasure and a blessing to explore this

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