Anne Bogle

Let me think.

I feel like we could start with what will be an exceptional pick for you or really, really terrible, and we are going to find out.

Okay.

I'm thinking of the nonfiction book that is not a biography, Wedding Toast I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun.

Do you know her?

Do you know this?

I think I might have read this at the recommendation, or at least I definitely talked about it with our team member, Ginger Horton.

I know we both read this and enjoyed it.

This is Ada Calhoun's nonfiction personal essay collection about, I mean, it's Wedding Toast I'll Never Give.

What she means by that is

Hey, I've got some real frank thoughts about relationships that I would never stand up and say at the beginning of someone's marriage.

But like, do I think them and believe them with my whole heart?

Yes.

So not appropriate to say there.

I'm going to put them in this book instead.

And this book actually came into being because of a modern love column she wrote for the New York Times that went viral.

I do not know which essay in this collection that was.

I'm sure I looked it up after reading, but I have no idea now.

But, Leigh, I know that you have been married a long time, I believe.

Okay.