Very insightful.

Yeah.

I, I feel like m- my reading has been so weird this year.

I mean, the, on a personal note, my dad passed away, and that seriously impacted how I'm reading and what I'm reading.

Now that my summer reading guide is out, I'm, like, getting back into some of the new releases that I'd kind of put aside for those other reasons.

And it's interesting that, that you say, Cree, that you're feeling, like, a lot of darkness [laughs] in the world and in books because my, the most recent new release I finished was, um, The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout, who I feel like she's an author that a lot of people turn to for kind of warmth and, like, the goodness of humanity.

And even though hard things happen, like, our connections with each other are, are, are beautiful, and this was, like, her darkest book-

Ooh