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But why would you do that?

Why would you turn to your primal instincts when you have a pile of dominoes instead?

That's the other question in this book.

Robert, he does set up a project for himself as another way of dealing with this countdown to the possible loss of memory.

So what's his project?

I did actually ask the author, I said of all the projects in the world that he might have imagined for his character, why dominoes?

Now, this is how he replied.

immensely fragile, like memory, which all sounds terribly sort of symbolic and serious.

But Cassie, I actually thought that we were reading a quite fun rom-com.

So what do you reckon, Robert?

Screwball comedy rom-com?

I said it approvingly.

This is a good thing.

It's a rom-com.

Get reading.

But we'll be back next week for a regular edition of The Bookshelf.

And we're reading Sally Rooney's new novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You?

As well as Paula Hawkins' crime novel, A Slow Fire Burning.

This is an ABC podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.