Cheryl Drury

And one of the most fun parts of that is that, you know, unexpectedly, so many of my friends are also reading that.

And it's been really fun to be part of a communal experience.

And I did enjoy a lot of the book.

And so that part's been so fun to share in that enjoyment with my friends without even planning it.

It wasn't like we were reading it for a book club.

We were just reading it.

You know, I hadn't been a part of anything like that for at least a year because I'd been doing my own thing over here.

And so that was really, really fun.

And then one of the other last books I've just finished is Gabriel Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitude.

It was another one that we had to read like a couple of chapters for in the project.

And I love magical realism.

I love it.

And apparently, I didn't know this, this book kind of was one of the early ones in the 20th century that was magical realism.

And so the project introduced me to it.

And I had tried to read this book maybe 15 years ago or so, and I couldn't do it.

And I think it was that patience problem that I had with not letting an author tell me his story.

And now I had developed patience.

And this book is so dreamlike and a little wacky.

And I was willing to let it be those things this time instead of being like, well, this doesn't make sense.

That's crazy.