Hey, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And you were listening to Close Reeds, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which is every time I want to type in any format, always auto-corrected to Withering Heights, which we, you know,

we can discuss whether that would, you know, maybe have been an alternate title at some point.

This book is from 1847. Not sure if you knew that, guys. It's from 1847. As I said,

it was written by Emily Bronte, but was initially published

under her pen named Ellis Bell, which I think would be a great name to show up in a detective

novel at some point. So if you're ever thinking of, you know, writing a detective novel,

the name Ellis Bell is just sitting there right there for could even you could even make it take place in

the west yorkshire yorkshire moors if you wanted to just just turn it out there yeah a little

a little bit easier a little nod it could also involve the landed gentry if you wanted it to

uh unrequited love there could be some gothic i don't know i'm just throwing it out there uh there should could be some gothic. I don't know.

I'm just throwing it out there.

There should definitely be some gothic elements, yeah.

Yeah, if you ever wanted to, if you ever wanted to do this.

Before we get into the conversation, though, Heidi, how's it going?

I'm doing great.

I'm in veil.

My husband has a management retreat and veil of Colorado.

No tears here.

And guess what I did this morning?

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