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happy thursday welcome to the bookcase. How are you? It is. I live in Minnesota. It is above 15 degrees. That means spring is in the air, so I'm feeling good. My co-host, hello.

Only Minnesotans. Kate can get excited about temperatures at 15 degrees and slightly below. I know you had a below

15 degrees, below zero recently, and I suffered through that with you since it's about all you talked

about for two or three days. And I don't blame you in the least. We do welcome you to the bouquets

with Kate and Charlie. That's the Kate part.

I'm the Charlie part. And this show today is really Kate's baby. A couple of weeks ago, we did

our first show on a classic. We talked to two Dickensians about a Christmas Carol. And a number of people

told us, that's interesting. We'd like you to do more classics. And so we talked about that. And Kate said, I want to do the Great Gatsby, because for her,

that is the classic. She loves that book almost more than any she's ever read. And before you

throw me under the bus, Kate, I had never read it. I had never read it.

And so I did.

And we found two wonderful, wonderful F. Scott Fitzgerald Scholars.

And as I say, this is your show, baby.

Take it away.

I don't have a great solo after that.

I feel like I should tap dance or something. You know, I don't know.

First of all, the way he set me up is absolutely true. My father is so smart. He's so, he's crazy

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