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I'm Juliet Littman. I'm Amanda Dobbins. It's Book Report Week. We're going to talk about books.

It's summer reading. It's technically summer now, right?

Yes, I believe it just happened. We've passed the summer equinox, whatever it might be called,

and we're headed towards the shortest day of the year. We've passed the longest.

Man do I love the late sunsets? That's so depressing.

You're one of those people who reaches the end of the longest day of the year

and doesn't miss it.

There's a Gatsby line about that right? Isn't Daisy like at some point like

don't you always wait for the longest day of the year and miss it or whatever and then you're one of those

people who's like now things are getting shorter and life's over. I just feel like it should be in July. It's in June. It just happened,

but I just feel like it should be a day in July. In my head the longest day of the year should be in July, but that's just me.

Okay, I mean, many of the longest days of the year are in July,

if you want to think about it that way.

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