Cheryl Drury

And on the other hand, I like Leon Moriarty a lot.

And What Alice Forgot is still one of my favorite books because the premise is so fun and I think she executed it really well.

So a lot of popular fiction is frustrating to me.

And this is the other thing that I noticed about myself this year is that I have a great regard for a person as an individual.

And I don't like things to be reduced to stereotypes at all.

And I didn't realize I felt that strongly about it until this project where I was reading about individuals and reading across time, especially reading before about the 1700s, realized how deeply I love that view of a person as an individual and not as part of a group.

And so I really don't want to read things that have agendas.

And it feels like sometimes it's easy to fall into that.

And I'm sure people have reasons for writing it.

It's just that I don't want to read that.

No, I'm not trying to, it's not for me.

I didn't, you know, and I like how you said that about, I'm not, I don't want to be a snob.

I just,

I want to read the best.

And, you know, life is short.

You only get so much time to read so many books.

And so I want to read the really good ones.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that that's true.

And that's been true for a long time, though.