Hey everybody, this is Tracy and you are listening to another round. Yay! Woo! Welcome, welcome, welcome!

Today's episode is more of a quick little shot as I am taking care of myself in my life

and also working on other projects. Um, so the election is still happening.

Can you believe that it's been exactly, well, it's been more than one year since we interviewed Hillary Clinton.

And when Twitter reminded me that, uh, or when Facebook reminded me of that, I was like, I can't

believe that we're still here and this is still happening. Uh, honestly, it might have

before another couple of years. I'm not convinced. I don't know when it's going to be over. But

if you're like me and this just seems to be your life now and you want to break from this thing

that is your life, might ask Jess getting snuggly with a good book. I'm really excited about this

episode because I have just started reading again. Reading is not a thing that I've been

doing in like the past five years and I don't know why and getting back into it has been kind of

hard but also really, really fun. So I can't wait to hear this episode along with you all.

And this is a really, really exciting time to get back into reading because there are so many great

books by new authors of color out there. You can never, ever, ever have too many stories

by too many people of color. So we reached out to some of our favorite book people, writers and

just people who read a lot and people who know stuff about books because I'm not the one for

this conversation. And we reached out to them to see what books are in their bags and on the night

stands and which books that they love and would recommend to you guys because we get a lot of

requests for book recommendations. The first person we saw too was Lisa Lucas and she is really,

really, really cool and she happens to be the executive director of the National Book Foundation,

which is huge. They run the National Book Awards every November and once you get a book

award, I think you are legally allowed to retire. It doesn't matter how old you are, how much

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