Ginger Horton

And I think I will be for the rest of my life before I die.

That's his only, that's his only qualification there.

But what else I really love about it is listening to you talk about books.

I think you're fantastic at something around book club that we call pithy book talk.

And I think James is also so good at pithy book talk.

He is such a good judge of literature himself that you really trust his taste.

If a book sounds good, it probably is good.

I also think that just reading about books, being exposed to books, I won't get to all 1,000 of these.

And you still feel like you have had a little bit of an exposure with this book.

And so it is a little bit of a master class in reading.

What is in culture?

Something else I really like about this is not just the way he talks about books and the options for you, of course, but also that he has excellent taste that spans old, old classics and very modern and a lot in between.

So he was telling me about books that probably are out of print.

They might be on the shelf of my dad or my grandparents.

Maybe they were really popular in 1967.

And there's just maybe less of a chance that I would have come across that in

because I would have been not alive yet or quite small.

And so he has this sort of middle ground that I find really refreshing.

And they are some of the favorite books that I would have never come across.

I Think About Oranges by James McPhee has been one of my favorite reading experiences.