Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi Way.

I'm Karen Swallow Pryor.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Thomas Hardy's test of the Derville's.

We have come to the end and now we can talk about all of the stuff without having to worry about revealing the stuff.

This is a fascinating ending.

We've got quite a bit of, well, we've got two sections.

We talk about face six and face seven.

And then next week we'll answer your questions on the Q&A episode.

So that will be available on the

Facebook page. And then if you also want to send in questions, you can email them to me at

David at goldberrybooks.com. And then if you want to also just leave them, you can post them as a comment

underneath this episode over on the substack page. So those are ways you can send in your questions

if you do have questions after we finish this episode. If at the end of this

episode, you don't know how to have every question about this book answered, those are the

ways to send in your questions to us. Heidi, do you want to be in charge of posting the threat

on Facebook? I really do. Thank you. I feel I'm up to the challenge. Great. Well, if you forget,

then I don't know what that says about about you. But, if you forget, then I don't know what that says about you. But, um, Karen, how are you? It's been, it's been a couple weeks since we've, we've talked. So we might as well just do a quick update on how everybody's doing. Oh, you're muted.

Other than forgetting how to unmute unmute myself, I'm great.

You're out of practice.

Yeah, exactly.

Getting into summer mode, doing a little traveling and speaking, and then ready to spend the last, well, six weeks of summer

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