Welcome to Reading with Joy. This summer, we're reading Pyrinaezi 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.

My last yourself a cup of tea, sit down, and let's begin.

My last thought before I fell asleep was, he is dead, my only friend, my only enemy.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Reading with Joy, where we are reading Pyrenezi by Susanna Clark, and this is our penultimate episode. We are to the second to last chapter, The Wave, and it's been such a joy and

such a journey to go through this book with you all and to read your comments on Twitter and

Instagram and Facebook. I've loved seeing the elaborate conspiracy

theories, your beautiful commentary on the themes of the book, and most of all, your concern

for Pyranesi. So I'm so excited to dive into this week's chapter with two co-conspirators

over at Plow. We are all writers, contributors,

editors together. So I'm so excited to introduce Leah LeBrescoe Sargent and Katrin Kuyper.

Welcome to the show, both of you. Thank you. Glad to be here. Thanks for having us on.

So why don't you both begin by giving a little introduction to who you are and what you do?

And then also how you first encounter Pyrnazzi and what your kind of first impression of it was.

Oh, man. So I had preordered it from the moment there was a link because I'd read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and I loved it.

And it's a very different book in a number of ways,

but what seems the same to me is that Susanna Clark has this incredible talent

of making a huge, rich world, one that you feel like you could wander often if you got into the book unsupervised.

There's more of a possibility here for Piranesi.

And Piranesi is so much a smaller book, but it has that sense of expansiveness and lived-inness

that I loved in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

So I loved it, and then I had my husband read it, and then I got it for my brother,

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