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lursa men to their deaths. I'm Lauren DeYoung Schulman. I'm Erin Simpson. And I'm

at I and Girl Club. And I filled out this question that we're going to use for our question of the

week or question of the episode at the last minute, sort of knowing what all of our answers were going to be

and sort of knowing that most of our repeat listeners would know what our answers would be. But it's sort of like what all of our answers were going to be and sort of knowing that most of our

repeat listeners would know what our answers would be but it's sort of like a a gentle comforting

question that should we try to guess each other's answers sure yeah absolutely i think we should

have a like next level like if you got a second book what would it be yep oh okay that's a really

good one i didn't prepare for that one.

I'm sorry.

All right, man.

Okay.

Well, I was thinking about throwing you guys a curveball with mine. And I was like, but that's not really genuine. But I would be sad that I couldn't read it ever again if I only had this other one. All right. I have to actually ask the question first. our question is, and everybody should have an answer to this question,

is if you could have only one book to read and only one for the rest of your life, what book would it be? So I happen to know that Erin is reading like 70 books right now, but also BT.

She also restarted Wolf Hall again for, I don't know how,

the 30 million times. Maybe even the third time this year. Like, it just becomes this like weird

comfort book. But it's actually not the one, it would be my second. It's not the one that I would

pick for all time. I would pick, I would pick, I would pick Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy for all. Oh my God.

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