Virginia Evans

But I am doing my best.

Yes, it sounds like you and I, Beth, share a list of favorites.

It was very self-indulgent reading list.

It was purely, I mean, I wouldn't say purely.

There's maybe two or three that are in there because they suit the story moment.

But probably the other, I think there's like 50 books mentioned.

Probably the other 45 are ones that are my favorites.

the sort of easter egg in the book is that at the very end of the book there's a letter which is tucked into a book and that book that it's tucked into is my all-time favorite rebecca is it rebecca wow philip roth yes or no oh you don't have to answer answer if that tells you anything i

I thought about this.

Someone responded to me at some point about the audiobook and mentioned this idea of how reading the book, they would flip to the end of the letter to see who it was from, and then they would start reading the letter.

And I think that's what I would do as well, if I was reading it, so I would know.

I mean, I think some of the letters were obvious, but I think some of them wouldn't have been.

And so...

It's really interesting to me about this whole experience, specifically with this book about the audio.

Because by its very nature, this book is a book written to be read.

Because it's a book of letters and you read letters.

Unless you're a child and someone reads your grandma's letter to you.

So it is sort of a...

It blows my mind a little bit just to kind of think about this in this way of, is it the same experience for this story to be read aloud?

I don't know.