Hello, welcome to strong sense of place.

This is our second of two many episodes that we're doing between season one and two.

This episode, we are going to answer the questions that you pose to us as part of the

survey. I'm very excited about this. Are you excited about this? I'm excited about this. All right.

First question. This is from Alameda, California. Hello, California. Do you really love every

book on your website? Or is there a spectrum? Some you love more than others.

That's legit question. It's totally legit. I mean, the short answer is yes. We're not putting any books on our website that we wouldn't recommend.

Hardly recommend. Yes. Like I would shove those books into pretty much anyone's what?

Except for restaurant success by the numbers.

I'm not giving anybody that book.

That's a great book.

I agree with you that you enjoyed that book.

That is not a book I would shove into most people's hands.

But it is an excellent example of what we mean when we say we love a book, I would shove into most people's hands. But it is an excellent example of what we mean

when we say we love a book. Yeah. So we should unpack that a little bit. Yeah. So let's do that.

There are a lot of different ways to love a book. Let's just start there. Here's a few. You can love

an author and the way they put language together. You can love an author and the way they present an

idea. You can love the characters that that author has created for you. It can feel like you're

spending time with a friend. Some books are like museum pieces that you get to carry around with you.

You open them up and they present you with pictures and

images that you could hang on a wall, but it's in a nice portable format.

I think, from my observations of you for almost 30 years, that you also have a lot of affection

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