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Hello bookcase people.

My name is Kate Gibson, and I am going to be one of your hosts for the remainder of this podcast.

And I'm her father, Charlie Gibson, as she refers to me now not as her father anymore,

but as her co-host and employee, I should say, but I do also welcome

all of you discerning, astute, insightful, perceptive, sagacious readers who join us, I hope,

every week. And we have a good book for you this week. Go as a River is the name of it. I must say I have a soft spot in my heart for people who,

after another career, just decide maybe late in life that they can write a novel that will be

a bestseller. Shelly Reed has done that with a book called Go as a River. And Kate and I both loved it. Yeah, we really did.

And I like to say that I'm only 47 and I'm on career number three. I think I'm on career number

three. So anybody who's got the courage to do this, I laud them as well. It's a real literary

piece of fiction. It's got lots of different story aspects, but a big part of what I

think it's about is the main character's intrinsic love of her family's land and their peach

farm. And it's got sort of a Walt Whitman, almost a Buddhist philosophy of a oneness with the land, that she writes, I think,

just beautifully. And that really is what caused me to fall in love with her writing and fall in

love with her. Well, it's not just a Sylvan novel, though, I would say. Yes. It certainly is that.

And her love of Colorado, of the Gunniston River, of the

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