Anne Bogel

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Readers, today's guest recently completed a classics reading project, and now she really wants to keep up that momentum while also bringing more non-classics back into her reading life.

This sounded so fun, so intriguing, and I couldn't help but notice that both Cheryl Drury's tastes and her recent focus on the classics make me think of my friend and teammate, Ginger Horton.

As we mentioned above, Ginger is our Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club community manager.

And while she and I do have a nice wide space in our overlapping Venn diagram, Ginger has recently been immersed in the classics due to her current enrollment in a Great Books graduate study program.

So for Ginger, it's not all classics all the time, just mostly classics most of the time these days.

That's why Ginger seemed like exactly the right reader to bring along for this conversation with Cheryl.

Cheryl hails from Charleston, South Carolina.

And while she's always been a reader, she told us that she'd never really dabbled much in classics or great books until 18 months ago, when she embarked on a challenge to read through a year-long list of more than 100 influential books, starting with Plato and finishing with David Foster Wallace.

The project energized Cheryl's reading life, but now she's not quite sure where to go in her approach to reading.

Cheryl shares many reading similarities with Ginger, and I cannot wait to hear Ginger's ideas and offer my own for Cheryl's reading quest today.

We will talk about how Cheryl may retain some of the structure from her classics project because that served her well, but also where she can have more flexibility to follow where her reading whimsy takes her.

Plus, we'll offer some title ideas that hopefully will feel like just the right bridge between what Cheryl's been reading lately and what she'd love more of in the months ahead.

Let's get to it.

Ginger and Cheryl, welcome to the show.

Well, you may notice our super secret spreadsheet available to our patrons.

It has a lot of slashes in it where there's three books in the spot on the spreadsheet where one book was designed to go.

And then there's three of those columns for recommendations for each episode.

It's a lot.

And I still get nervous every time because what if I can't think of the books?