Cassie McCullough

Can I actually recommend, because I did this to all the listeners, that I just did a marathon.

I literally read, other than The Unconsoled, because it's too long, I read all of his books in sequence in preparation for this.

And it was just fantastic.

I loved it.

And you get such an incredible and incredibly different view of what he has achieved through this body of work and seeing the parallels and seeing the revisitations of the same questions.

And it's just a joyous experience.

And I...

I cannot recommend it highly enough.

You could draw a spreadsheet, seriously, and you could slot in characters for the types.

But what's interesting, like they're still different enough that they remain, you know, interesting and worthy in their own rights.

But there are certainly, because he's revisiting the same big question, you know, with various kind of ancillary questions on the side in each book,

It makes sense that they're different versions of the same characters, but you could absolutely peg bunches of characters together and say these are the same actor, you know, that's the same actor.

Right.

No question, except for the buried giant.

Hello, Kate.

Yes, three weeks.

I think we've been in different parts of the world, but The Bookshelf, sailing on like the sturdy ship she is.

Look, I've been well.

I've been carrying books around.

No doubt, not quite as many as you.