 Have you ever looked at your life and thought, today feels really important. I have to remember it. If you've never thought that, you're just like the rest of us. Keep watching to find out what book we're talking about today. Dananya and you're watching Kyla's Reading Day. Today we're talking about the book, The Swimmers. The author of the book, Julie Oksuka. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is literature. So literature is a really interesting category to me. This is just an aside. Literature means a lack of denomination, a lack of a category. So it doesn't mean young and old. It doesn't mean African American fiction. It doesn't mean. So The Swimmers is a cute little read. It's a little diminutive book. Deep, deep, deep, deep book. One of my favorite quotes in the book is when someone asked, do you ever have the nagging feeling that you just wasted your entire life? Wasted. Wasted. It's really important because the book is all about these swimmers. They love to do the backstroke. Some of them love to do the breaststroke. They show up at the pool. This is their whole life. They can't wait. Oh my God, I got to get to the pool. Well, the pool closes. But the reason why it closes is so fascinating. I mean, you get into the lives of the people who showed up to the pool. Why the pool is so relevant to them. So you're watching these people who cannot wait to get to the pool. They're craving to get back to the pool. They're craving to get back to the stuff that they do, the routine of it, the habit of like, did you just waste your whole life? Did I waste my life? Do you have that question? Do you have that question when you're at a certain age? Do you have that question when you leave a job? Do you have that question before you get to the pool? Is this what you're thinking about while you're swimming? The book is giving the notebook movie. You're reading. Oh, wow. Flashback, flashback, flashback. And you're just like, I want to talk to them now. I don't want to. I mean, it's cool. The swimmers literally is what the book's called. I think I wanted to stay where they were. And there were just so many flashbacks. I was like, man, I wish it could have been called how to become a swimmer or I'm going to be a swimmer. Anything, anything else. No excuses needed. But it was very fascinating to see because these people show up and you see them in that moment. You have no idea what is going on. So it was amazing to see how swimming met so much to them, how swimming made her think about how she was allowed to be a part of this community because she wasn't allowed based on a lot of things that she went through in her history, you know, different kind of Japanese incarceration camps, all these different things. And it's like, I had no idea. I thought we were just showing up to swim. So when I reread this book, no, I would not reread it for that for that reason. But it was very fascinating to see because these people show up and you see them in that moment. You have no idea what else is going on. And come to find out the pool was really a refuge for a lot of them. So when someone asks, do you ever have the feeling that you're wasting your entire life? It's just like, what was your entire life about? So thank you for hanging out with me. And I will see you next time on Kyla's Reading Day. Bye.