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Hello, and welcome to Bubbly Bib, the podcast
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about books and bubbles.
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Literature and l,
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authors and alcohol. We love books and bubbly.
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We are friends to offer. Curated book review
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section on our website and a hilarious podcast.
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We discuss books, drinks, and stories from our
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lives.
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I'm Rachel, and I am Carmen.
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After that last episode, I really can't stop
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thinking about books that have made an impression.
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On me, and that got me thinking
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about the reasons
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they made an impression.
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And it it seems a little pros
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which by the way is word that I
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learned from you've got mail with Meg ryan
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and Tom Hanks.
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To say that you love a book because
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the writing is beautiful,
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Of course, that's definitely a good reason to
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love a book, but there are a lot
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of authors out there who write beautifully.
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That is true.
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Some of my go to authors are Ag
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the Christie,
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Andy Weird, Jk k rowling,
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Taylor Jenkins read,
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and
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Neil Ga.
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I think we've talked about this before that
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we will buy,
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sorry all titles by a certain author,
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that they are our sure thing when it
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comes to a well written book.
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Yeah. And I thought it would be fun
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to take an episode to pick a few
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titles that are so different
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that we can't forget them. They are so
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unique that they deserve a special file folder
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in our memories.
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And as we think about this, and start
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to pick apart the raisins,
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why these titles stand out, When may see
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a pattern
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Well, listeners, it sounds like another episode, where
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we are gonna be adding some new titles
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to not only yours, but our Tbr list.
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Because in this episode, Carmen and I are
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gonna talk about
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unique,
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distinctive
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and innovative,
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books.
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Alright, girl. Well, I kinda made up a
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drink to tonight eat
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I am drinking a strawberry lemonade gi.
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So it's jen,
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elder flower tonic and a splash of that
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strawberry lemonade that I bought from Trader Joe's
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when we were?
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You using?
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I don't know.
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What? The British, the British 1?
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Temporary?
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Take take? Okay. Yeah.
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I am,
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I'm just going old school tonight, and I'm
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drinking a bot.
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Fran Chris White because,
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I'm too damn lazy to get in there
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and make anything. Plus, I'm having a hot
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flash restaurant.
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Sassy see you over their fanning yourself. I'm
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having a hot flash right now, and
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I I just... I can't stand the thought
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of drinking anything that makes me warm.
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So I just finished...
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Reading a dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden.
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It's a fantasy romance,
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but get this or Roman,
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love that. Oh my god. Are you kidding
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me?
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Yes. Is what they're calling it Remain.
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I Yeah. I hate that.
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Okay. Well, alright. It's a fantasy Romance.
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Anyway, it's about a younger sister Ar
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who ends up sacrificing
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herself to save her brother and her family.
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And she's captured by this most dangerous kingdom,
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you know, on the continent,
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and they are forcing her to work as
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a healer.
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And it's just really interesting and she meets.
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She meets the stranger who ends up being
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the king to So I'm given some of
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it away. So sorry about that.
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It is Kate Golden debut Fantasy,
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and it's a series.
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So
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I I just got the second book in
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it. Oh, so you'd like the... You like
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the first 1 have to go to the
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second 1.
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Yeah. Of course. I'm gotta I gotta do
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the second.
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No. You don't, but that's another episode.
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It's good though. I liked it. Okay. I
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just finished
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the change by Kirsten Miller, which was suggested
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to me by Sarah,
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and I gotta tell you right now. If
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you have not read this book, this is
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I drop everything and read this book
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because oh my gosh.
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It it is the change by Kirsten
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Miller
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And so this this book is about 3
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middle aged women who are going through the
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change.
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they...
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As their bodies
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start changing,
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so do their
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pro.
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Let's say they find powers within themselves.
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a
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an enforce.
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1 is or or like the Braun.
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1 is
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the retribution. She make sure that you pay
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for your sins.
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And the other 1 is a seer.
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And so they opt... Come together in this
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little town,
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and it is just a bad
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feminist
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book. And I absolutely
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loved it.
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Alright. That's... I'm already putting another book on
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I... Tv. Yeah? Good. He hadn't even gotten
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to the good stuff.
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My first book is gonna be easy peasy.
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Because it's the Harry Potter series by Jk
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k rowling. Mh. I know. I bring this
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title up often. But there's a reason.
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It truly does check all the boxes.
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The bixby have been widely is... Has a
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very wide appeal across all the demographics.
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The all the characters are just really compelling.
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They're relatable,
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their disc and sweet.
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The action is the perfect
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combination of nail biting, close calls,
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like big victories,
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the villains are wonderfully,
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at.
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I had.
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The villains are wonderfully sinister.
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There is a fair amount of redemption.
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For various characters that move you from loa
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to loving. Yeah.
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer of stone was
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single
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handedly
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responsible for making a new generation of readers,
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excited about opening
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a book. Yeah. And not to be gender
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Specific here, but it's very difficult in particular
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to get adolescent and boys to read.
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did turn
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adolescent boys into raiders,
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and I am so happy for that.
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All of this is definitely true, and that
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is definitely a good start. And you do
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bring it up a lot, but it's because
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it is so
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well done,
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So my first book is Ella
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Min
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by Mark Dunn.
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And the subtitle on this book is a
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novel in
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letters
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and that doesn't mean correspondence.
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It means that alphabet.
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So the story is about a town with
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a large...
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Monolith
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type object in the town square covered in
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very large tiles of the alphabet.
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The town is named after a man they
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think developed the most famous
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pan.
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is
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a sentence that uses every letter of the
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alphabet. So the most famous 1 is the
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Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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So there is 1 letter per tile on
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this monolith, and as time passes, a few
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of the tiles fall down to the ground.
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And as the tiles fall off,
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the text of the book also drops those
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letters.
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A matter of fact,
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The town council
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sets an
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that the citizens can't use the letter either.
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In either writing or inc... Station. And as
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the story continues more and more letters fall
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from the tower
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and the story.
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end of the story, there hardly any letters
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left.
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I absolutely
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adored this premise. This was such a cubic.
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You've mentioned it before, and it was on
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my Tbr, so I've gotten it
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It is adorable.
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But in the interest of time, let's take
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a break, come back for our next books.
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Okay. My next book, I read last year,
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so it's kind of a recent 1, and
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it's gonna be starter villain by John.
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Sc.
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So instead of following the typical hero's
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journey,
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this novel explores a life of a villain
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offering
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a really intriguing
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perspective.
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So Sc uses a lot of humor in
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this book. So the
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protagonist
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Charlie finds himself in the role of super
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villain,
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thanks to the death of his uncle,
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and he is thrown into this extraordinary life,
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with talking cats and talking dolphins and all
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kinds of other villains that he has to
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deal with. It's it's a funny
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in now, contemporary world
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where the... But the existence of super villains
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is just accepted.
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If not just part of life.
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What's interesting is the story also kind of
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explores
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corporate
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culture versus modern capitalism, which kinda adds depth
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and relevancy to the story kinda adds a
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little bit of a theme.
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And it challenges the readers to think critically
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about morality and ethics.
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But Sc is...
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Really great at writing
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really quick wit dialogue,
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which really enhances the characters,
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interactions throughout the whole story,
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it it has a fast paced plot with
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unexpected twist. It's definitely unique and distinctive.
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I don't think I've ever heard you talk
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about this. When did you read it? Last
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year.
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so funny.
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I'm gonna have to check this 1 out.
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Is it...
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I'm gonna have to see if it's available.
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Starter villain by John Sc... Yeah. The whole
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thing sounds really cute. Yes. But, you know,
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this sounds like it would be a good
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movie, like a deadpool movie. Oh, yeah.
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but
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And yeah. We'll have to can't cast this
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1 later.
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My next book was memorable because it's the
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first 1 that I remember
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reading and feeling like I had been on
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a roller coach. Stir when I finished it.
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Like, I closed the book and thought,
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who have been on a roller coaster,
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and it's called the rook by Australian author
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Daniel O.
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And it's a crime
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mystery, supernatural
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Clan
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government
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organization
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novel. Wow.
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Okay. The main the main character wakes up
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with Em amnesia and in the box
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of another person.
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And so much happens in this book that
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I could not read it fast enough
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It's 1 of his books that you can
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never rate it in the same way again,
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and oh, I... It... It's part of a
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series.
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And I I read the other ones after
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it, but this 1
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just grabs you by the balls even though
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I don't have any,
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And
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that's why I was absolutely fixated on this
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1.
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That's good. That's gone on my Tbr list
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now I think.
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So for my next pick, you can really
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have your pick from... Sounds any of the
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world of token.
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And but I'm just gonna talk about the
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hobbit.
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Tolkien has created this rich fantasy world with
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diverse races and creatures.
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And, I mean, he developed a whole new
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genre of high fantasy
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where it has these complex worlds and epic
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quest and battles between good and evil.
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And he did this in the narratives style
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which blended this...
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Well, light lighthearted adventure
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with deep meaningful
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themes.
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He
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He always does it from the Hero's journey
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in his books,
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the...
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So in this,
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the protagonist,
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Bilbo ins, the hobbit
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is this unlikely hero,
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which valued piece and comfort
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and just, you know, second breakfast in his
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home, more than adventure.
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And you remember I mentioned that I tried
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to read this... The first time I tried
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to read this in high school. I opened
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it and they're like, there's a map. And
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I'm like, mh.
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I was like, this is not like this.
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So
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that makes it very unique and distinctive because
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he he used his own
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illustrations.
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And maps in the books to help the
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re... With the reader experience.
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And I think it's just an enduring legacy
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that Tolkien had
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started and created through the hobbit in all
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in all his books.
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Yeah. You know, in as full disclosure, Rachel.
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The hobbit is the only tolkien book I've
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ever read. Oh,
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okay. Mh.
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Yeah. And,
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I was
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really
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nicely surprised at how much I loved it.
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Yeah.
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So,
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well, I can't believe it's been
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7 years
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since I read this next book, I'm gonna
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talk about
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Lincoln in the bard by George Saunders.
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It's about 1 night
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set in a cemetery
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where Abraham Lincoln's
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11 year old son is buried.
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There are 166
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narrator
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in this story.
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Some are actual historical figures and others are
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fictional 6 but all of these people are
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in the bard,
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which is kind of a transitional place between
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death and rebirth,
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according to Buddhism.
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And it... It's a beautiful work at won
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the booker prize, and it's comics experimental
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literature, which means that it's hard to define
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the genre,
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and
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the the tag may be in a format
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different from the normal pros of other novels,
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like, sometimes this 1 is written like a
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play.
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And there may be drawings and handwritten notes
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or photographs within the text. But the 1
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thing that really got to me is this
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spirits are watching
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Lincoln.
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And the crib where tad is,
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and
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Lincoln
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opens
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the casket
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and
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he hugs
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his son.
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Okay goodness yes. And
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he just he just holds him and hugs
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him, and
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the the ghosts
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or the spirits are so moved by this
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because they've never ever seen anyone do that
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before.
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And,
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you know, Lincoln is such a a
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conflict
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man
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anyway and to add this
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even more to it through this,
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Geo Saunders just really did something here
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that
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I
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have never
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experienced before. And
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it it was just a beautiful
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beautiful book.
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So
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my next book is gonna be...
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Long way down by Jason Reynolds.
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This book is very unique and distinctive in
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that it is
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a 1 minute story.
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The entire narrative takes place over the course
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of a single minute during an elevator ride.
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And so this compressed timeline heighten
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the
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tension and the urgency of this story making,
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I mean, because every second and every word
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is counting.
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The the book
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tackle the pressing issues of gun violence,
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And, like the cycles
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of revenge in this urban community.
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It really does provide an honest look at
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all the consequences
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of
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the actions
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prompting the reader to reflect on violence in
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the society.
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So the main character will,
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experiences,
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profound conflict and growth within the short minute
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going down. He's just
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questioning everything
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and reflecting and questioning as
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morality and and everything. It's just very powerful
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and
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relatable
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And the other thing that makes it distinct
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is the characters are ghosts.
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So every time the elevator opens up,
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the, you know, a ghost. From his life
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joins him. And the other thing is it's
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all done on this in a elevator,
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which makes it like very
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claustrophobic
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and intense because there's nowhere else This trapped
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emotional state is very symbolic. So it's very
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poetic it has lots of visuals
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that add to this storytelling.
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It's just always gonna be in my top
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10.
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Well, let me tell you.
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I
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I go back and listen to our episodes,
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and you were talking talking about this book
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in another 1 of the episodes when you
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were reading it.
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And I went to thrift dot com, and
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I bought the hard cover talking But I
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also noticed that there is a graphic fucking
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novel.
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And I bought that too.
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I know I'm really
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really
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excited to get those in because you know
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Rachel, I do not willy nilly buy a
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book.
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No.
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No. But when I saw that you were
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gonna talk about it, again, on this episode,
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I thought. Mh. I am... I'm throwing in
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the towel. Rachel has won again on my
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Tbr. Good
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well, my next book is Song of Achilles
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by Madeline Miller.
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This book
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was shocking.
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To me. And let me tell you why
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I
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I absolutely
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was 100
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percent invest did in this book. And it's
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about
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the the Greek
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Demi god achilles
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and
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his best friend. And you know, I talked
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about this book, not too many episodes ago,
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I think on booking hangover overs,
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But this book is such
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a beautiful
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love story.
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And achilles
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loved each other
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so purely.
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And
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so fiercely
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that even achilles
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got married and had a child,
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with a a woman and
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Understood completely that that's what was expected of
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him.
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But the bond between these to and spoiler
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alert. I mean, Pet,
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he
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absolutely,
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gives himself up
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on the battlefield
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so that achilles
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can live. And
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Wow. It was just Oh, it was just
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such a gorgeous
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gorgeous book that I I tell everyone if
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you want... A beautiful
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love story.
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This is the 1. And I really really
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hope
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they make a movie out of this and
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cast it prop.
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And if you're a director or casting agent
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out there, you might wanna listen to our
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butcher the movies episode with casting
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suggestions.
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Oh, I know. You had some good ones
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on that. I I really... I think I
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did too. But this 1, if if you
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have not read this book, please add it
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to your list.
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Okay. Well, my
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last book,
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is the house in the Ce sea by
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Tj j K.
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You've read this. Right? Haven't you read this?
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Mh.
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This book is just heartwarming.
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It has a very whim tone,
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but it is a rich. Story with provoking
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themes. It has inclusive characters, including
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Lgbtq plus
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representation,
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like in a real natural and heartfelt
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story,
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the,
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particularly in the relationship between lin and author,
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It also tackle issues of prejudice,
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discrimination and fear of the unknown
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using the magical children as metaphors.
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The book,
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it's a... It combines magical realism with, you
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know, the contemporary world.
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So
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It just enhances the backdrop of the story.
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K writes with
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really a lot of humor. He's very light
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hearted.
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But he balances that out with some of
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the some of his themes that are kind
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of heavy, can be heavy.
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But so don't discount the story because of
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its whim or shrug it off as a
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funny book
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because it does address, a lot of modern
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themes in a real unique way.
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We'll the other 1. Light under
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the,
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whispering door. Yeah. That... And and then puppet
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it. Our lives is not. I I have
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not read that 1 yet, but the light
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under the Whispering door,
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it... That's again. Yeah. It's a... It they're
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very
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it's a very different take on how to
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tell a story that has a lot of
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heart to it.
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He's really good about making
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unique
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stories books. I just had to pick 1.
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They're all like, this 1 is 1 of
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my favorites because it has 1 of my
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favorite characters who is Luc
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as a child, and they call them Lucy.
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Mh.
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And,
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he's 1 of my favorites. You know, you
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don't hear that name very often on school
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roles.
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So
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well, you know, we're we're nearing the end
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of this, and and I I have several.
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So I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about 2
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real quick. Once a here. My first 1
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is remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pe.
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Because I loved Marcel,
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and
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how
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the story was told
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from the perspective of an octopus
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and spoiler alert
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when Marcel marcelo passes at the end, you're
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okay with it because Marcel has prepared you
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to accept
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the fact that he only lives a certain
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number of years.
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And then you have the cleaning lady
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whose life is completely changed because of this
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octopus,
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and
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it was really the first time
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I had read a book with
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an an animal as a protagonist,
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And it was definitely
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the
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It it was it was great.
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The other 1 that I wanna talk about
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is garden spelled by Sarah Addison and Allen.
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Because of that 1 is the first magical
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realism
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book
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that I read
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followed very shortly thereafter by practical magic by
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Alice Hoffman.
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But garden spells by Sarah Addison Allen. It's
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just it is like eating
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cotton candy.
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You know, it... You can see it and
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it has substance,
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But when it goes
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inside you, it just turns
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into
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beautiful spun sugar.
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And Sarah Addison Allen is 1 of those
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authors that I will read no matter what
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she puts out.
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So so those
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those are my,
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2 or 3 that I wanted to talk
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about quickly.
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And I I just...
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There were a lot of books here. I
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had trouble.
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Right?
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There was a lot. I think we did
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a really good job.
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And the sound of our cheering fans means
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it's time for listener comments.
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We've noticed a problem in the production of
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the last few episodes, and I hope we
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have fixed all these things now. I had
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my microphone,
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on a setting that I don't normally have.
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I don't know why it changed on me.
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Thank you to Sarah for letting us know
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that it wasn't up to our normal standards.
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On
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And also, thanks to Sarah for suggesting some
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really good topics for future episodes. You will
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hear 1 of her suggestions very soon. But
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could have added a lot more
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on this list. I mean, we could've have
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probably talked about this for another hour. Did
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you have to... Call many to stay within
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this time frame, Carmen?
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You know, I really did, which is why
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I crammed 2 or 3 into that last...
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That section. I'm gonna encourage you to look
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at 4321
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by Paul Os
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Life after life by Kate Atkinson
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and the classic, the illustrated man by Ray
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Brad.
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Because every 1 of those is unlike any
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book you've ever read. So please
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write all 3 of those down, Paul ought,
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Stuart Kate Atkinson Ray Brad,
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and and let us know if you decide
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to rate any of those.
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Let us know which books you would consider
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unique, distinctive or innovative.
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Good rates has a list. Out there called
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weird and wonderful stories. And I'm gonna have
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to check out these books.
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There, when I looked at it a few
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days ago, there were a hundred and 6
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5 titles on the list and many of
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them were brand new titles to me. Another
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good thing to add to avoid if you
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don't wanna expand your Tbr list.
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I love searching as read List.
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There are some great lists out there and
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I like most of them are open, so
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anyone could add to it. And remember to
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check us out on all of our social
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media and continue to like, comment and add
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and
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don't forget to share our episodes. It's very,
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And remember you want to stand out like
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a sunflower be unique and
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Hello, and welcome to Bubbly Bib, the podcast
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about books and bubbles.
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Literature and l,
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authors and alcohol. We love books and bubbly.
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We are friends to offer. Curated book review
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section on our website and a hilarious podcast.
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We discuss books, drinks, and stories from our
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lives.
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I'm Rachel, and I am Carmen.
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After that last episode, I really can't stop
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thinking about books that have made an impression.
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On me, and that got me thinking
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about the reasons
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they made an impression.
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And it it seems a little pros
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which by the way is word that I
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learned from you've got mail with Meg ryan
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and Tom Hanks.
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To say that you love a book because
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the writing is beautiful,
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Of course, that's definitely a good reason to
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love a book, but there are a lot
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of authors out there who write beautifully.
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That is true.
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Some of my go to authors are Ag
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the Christie,
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Andy Weird, Jk k rowling,
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Taylor Jenkins read,
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and
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Neil Ga.
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I think we've talked about this before that
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we will buy,
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sorry all titles by a certain author,
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that they are our sure thing when it
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comes to a well written book.
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Yeah. And I thought it would be fun
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to take an episode to pick a few
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titles that are so different
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that we can't forget them. They are so
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unique that they deserve a special file folder
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in our memories.
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And as we think about this, and start
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to pick apart the raisins,
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why these titles stand out, When may see
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a pattern
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Well, listeners, it sounds like another episode, where
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we are gonna be adding some new titles
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to not only yours, but our Tbr list.
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Because in this episode, Carmen and I are
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gonna talk about
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unique,
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distinctive
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and innovative,
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books.
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Alright, girl. Well, I kinda made up a
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drink to tonight eat
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I am drinking a strawberry lemonade gi.
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So it's jen,
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elder flower tonic and a splash of that
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strawberry lemonade that I bought from Trader Joe's
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when we were?
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You using?
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I don't know.
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What? The British, the British 1?
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Temporary?
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Take take? Okay. Yeah.
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I am,
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I'm just going old school tonight, and I'm
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drinking a bot.
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Fran Chris White because,
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I'm too damn lazy to get in there
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and make anything. Plus, I'm having a hot
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flash restaurant.
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Sassy see you over their fanning yourself. I'm
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having a hot flash right now, and
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I I just... I can't stand the thought
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of drinking anything that makes me warm.
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So I just finished...
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Reading a dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden.
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It's a fantasy romance,
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but get this or Roman,
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love that. Oh my god. Are you kidding
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me?
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Yes. Is what they're calling it Remain.
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I Yeah. I hate that.
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Okay. Well, alright. It's a fantasy Romance.
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Anyway, it's about a younger sister Ar
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who ends up sacrificing
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herself to save her brother and her family.
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And she's captured by this most dangerous kingdom,
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you know, on the continent,
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and they are forcing her to work as
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a healer.
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And it's just really interesting and she meets.
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She meets the stranger who ends up being
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the king to So I'm given some of
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it away. So sorry about that.
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It is Kate Golden debut Fantasy,
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and it's a series.
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So
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I I just got the second book in
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it. Oh, so you'd like the... You like
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the first 1 have to go to the
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second 1.
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Yeah. Of course. I'm gotta I gotta do
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the second.
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No. You don't, but that's another episode.
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It's good though. I liked it. Okay. I
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just finished
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the change by Kirsten Miller, which was suggested
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to me by Sarah,
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and I gotta tell you right now. If
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you have not read this book, this is
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I drop everything and read this book
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because oh my gosh.
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It it is the change by Kirsten
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Miller
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And so this this book is about 3
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middle aged women who are going through the
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change.
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they...
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start changing,
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so do their
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1 is or or like the Braun.
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the retribution. She make sure that you pay
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for your sins.
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And the other 1 is a seer.
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And so they opt... Come together in this
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little town,
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and it is just a bad
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feminist
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book. And I absolutely
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loved it.
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Alright. That's... I'm already putting another book on
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I... Tv. Yeah? Good. He hadn't even gotten
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to the good stuff.
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My first book is gonna be easy peasy.
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Because it's the Harry Potter series by Jk
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k rowling. Mh. I know. I bring this
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title up often. But there's a reason.
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It truly does check all the boxes.
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The bixby have been widely is... Has a
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very wide appeal across all the demographics.
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The all the characters are just really compelling.
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They're relatable,
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their disc and sweet.
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The action is the perfect
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combination of nail biting, close calls,
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like big victories,
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the villains are wonderfully,
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at.
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I had.
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The villains are wonderfully sinister.
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There is a fair amount of redemption.
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For various characters that move you from loa
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to loving. Yeah.
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Harry Potter and the sorcerer of stone was
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single
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responsible for making a new generation of readers,
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excited about opening
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a book. Yeah. And not to be gender
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Specific here, but it's very difficult in particular
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to get adolescent and boys to read.
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did turn
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adolescent boys into raiders,
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and I am so happy for that.
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All of this is definitely true, and that
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is definitely a good start. And you do
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bring it up a lot, but it's because
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it is so
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well done,
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by Mark Dunn.
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novel in
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and that doesn't mean correspondence.
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type object in the town square covered in
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very large tiles of the alphabet.
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The town is named after a man they
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think developed the most famous
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a sentence that uses every letter of the
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alphabet. So the most famous 1 is the
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Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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this monolith, and as time passes, a few
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of the tiles fall down to the ground.
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the text of the book also drops those
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the story continues more and more letters fall
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from the tower
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and the story.
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end of the story, there hardly any letters
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adored this premise. This was such a cubic.
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my Tbr, so I've gotten it
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a break, come back for our next books.
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it's gonna be starter villain by John.
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this novel explores a life of a villain
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a really intriguing
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perspective.
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this book. So the
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protagonist
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villain,
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thanks to the death of his uncle,
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and he is thrown into this extraordinary life,
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with talking cats and talking dolphins and all
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kinds of other villains that he has to
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deal with. It's it's a funny
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in now, contemporary world
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where the... But the existence of super villains
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is just accepted.
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If not just part of life.
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What's interesting is the story also kind of
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explores
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corporate
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culture versus modern capitalism, which kinda adds depth
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and relevancy to the story kinda adds a
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little bit of a theme.
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about morality and ethics.
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really quick wit dialogue,
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which really enhances the characters,
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interactions throughout the whole story,
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it it has a fast paced plot with
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unexpected twist. It's definitely unique and distinctive.
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I don't think I've ever heard you talk
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about this. When did you read it? Last
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year.
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so funny.
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I'm gonna have to check this 1 out.
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I'm gonna have to see if it's available.
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Starter villain by John Sc... Yeah. The whole
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thing sounds really cute. Yes. But, you know,
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this sounds like it would be a good
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movie, like a deadpool movie. Oh, yeah.
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My next book was memorable because it's the
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first 1 that I remember
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reading and feeling like I had been on
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a roller coach. Stir when I finished it.
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Like, I closed the book and thought,
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who have been on a roller coaster,
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and it's called the rook by Australian author
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Daniel O.
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mystery, supernatural
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organization
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novel. Wow.
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with Em amnesia and in the box
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of another person.
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I could not read it fast enough
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It's 1 of his books that you can
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never rate it in the same way again,
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and oh, I... It... It's part of a
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series.
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And I I read the other ones after
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it, but this 1
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just grabs you by the balls even though
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I don't have any,
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that's why I was absolutely fixated on this
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That's good. That's gone on my Tbr list
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now I think.
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So for my next pick, you can really
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have your pick from... Sounds any of the
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world of token.
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And but I'm just gonna talk about the
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hobbit.
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Tolkien has created this rich fantasy world with
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diverse races and creatures.
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And, I mean, he developed a whole new
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genre of high fantasy
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where it has these complex worlds and epic
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quest and battles between good and evil.
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And he did this in the narratives style
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which blended this...
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Well, light lighthearted adventure
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with deep meaningful
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themes.
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He always does it from the Hero's journey
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in his books,
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the...
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the protagonist,
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Bilbo ins, the hobbit
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is this unlikely hero,
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which valued piece and comfort
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and just, you know, second breakfast in his
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home, more than adventure.
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And you remember I mentioned that I tried
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to read this... The first time I tried
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to read this in high school. I opened
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it and they're like, there's a map. And
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I'm like, mh.
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I was like, this is not like this.
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that makes it very unique and distinctive because
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he he used his own
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illustrations.
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And maps in the books to help the
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re... With the reader experience.
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And I think it's just an enduring legacy
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that Tolkien had
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started and created through the hobbit in all
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in all his books.
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Yeah. You know, in as full disclosure, Rachel.
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The hobbit is the only tolkien book I've
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ever read. Oh,
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okay. Mh.
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Yeah. And,
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I was
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really
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nicely surprised at how much I loved it.
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well, I can't believe it's been
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7 years
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since I read this next book, I'm gonna
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talk about
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Lincoln in the bard by George Saunders.
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It's about 1 night
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set in a cemetery
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where Abraham Lincoln's
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11 year old son is buried.
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narrator
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in this story.
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Some are actual historical figures and others are
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fictional 6 but all of these people are
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in the bard,
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which is kind of a transitional place between
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death and rebirth,
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according to Buddhism.
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And it... It's a beautiful work at won
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the booker prize, and it's comics experimental
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literature, which means that it's hard to define
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the genre,
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and
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the the tag may be in a format
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different from the normal pros of other novels,
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like, sometimes this 1 is written like a
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play.
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or photographs within the text. But the 1
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thing that really got to me is this
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spirits are watching
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Lincoln.
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And the crib where tad is,
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and
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Lincoln
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opens
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the casket
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and
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he hugs
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his son.
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Okay goodness yes. And
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he just he just holds him and hugs
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him, and
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the the ghosts
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or the spirits are so moved by this
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because they've never ever seen anyone do that
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before.
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And,
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you know, Lincoln is such a a
420
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conflict
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man
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anyway and to add this
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even more to it through this,
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Geo Saunders just really did something here
425
00:16:43,565 --> 00:16:44,065
that
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I
427
00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:46,465
have never
428
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experienced before. And
429
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it it was just a beautiful
430
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beautiful book.
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So
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my next book is gonna be...
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Long way down by Jason Reynolds.
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This book is very unique and distinctive in
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that it is
436
00:17:05,509 --> 00:17:06,861
a 1 minute story.
437
00:17:07,975 --> 00:17:11,158
The entire narrative takes place over the course
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of a single minute during an elevator ride.
439
00:17:14,833 --> 00:17:17,797
And so this compressed timeline heighten
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the
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tension and the urgency of this story making,
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I mean, because every second and every word
443
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is counting.
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The the book
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tackle the pressing issues of gun violence,
446
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And, like the cycles
447
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of revenge in this urban community.
448
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It really does provide an honest look at
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all the consequences
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of
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the actions
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prompting the reader to reflect on violence in
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the society.
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So the main character will,
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experiences,
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profound conflict and growth within the short minute
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going down. He's just
458
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questioning everything
459
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and reflecting and questioning as
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morality and and everything. It's just very powerful
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and
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relatable
463
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And the other thing that makes it distinct
464
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is the characters are ghosts.
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So every time the elevator opens up,
466
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the, you know, a ghost. From his life
467
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joins him. And the other thing is it's
468
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all done on this in a elevator,
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which makes it like very
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claustrophobic
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and intense because there's nowhere else This trapped
472
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emotional state is very symbolic. So it's very
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poetic it has lots of visuals
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that add to this storytelling.
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It's just always gonna be in my top
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10.
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Well, let me tell you.
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I
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I go back and listen to our episodes,
480
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and you were talking talking about this book
481
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in another 1 of the episodes when you
482
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were reading it.
483
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And I went to thrift dot com, and
484
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I bought the hard cover talking But I
485
00:19:00,632 --> 00:19:03,985
also noticed that there is a graphic fucking
486
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novel.
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And I bought that too.
488
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I know I'm really
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really
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excited to get those in because you know
491
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Rachel, I do not willy nilly buy a
492
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book.
493
00:19:18,922 --> 00:19:19,422
No.
494
00:19:20,674 --> 00:19:23,143
No. But when I saw that you were
495
00:19:23,143 --> 00:19:25,931
gonna talk about it, again, on this episode,
496
00:19:26,170 --> 00:19:28,975
I thought. Mh. I am... I'm throwing in
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00:19:28,975 --> 00:19:31,847
the towel. Rachel has won again on my
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Tbr. Good
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well, my next book is Song of Achilles
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by Madeline Miller.
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This book
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00:19:41,775 --> 00:19:42,994
was shocking.
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00:19:43,469 --> 00:19:45,486
To me. And let me tell you why
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I
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I absolutely
506
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was 100
507
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percent invest did in this book. And it's
508
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about
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the the Greek
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Demi god achilles
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and
512
00:20:01,766 --> 00:20:04,318
his best friend. And you know, I talked
513
00:20:04,318 --> 00:20:06,551
about this book, not too many episodes ago,
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00:20:06,791 --> 00:20:08,067
I think on booking hangover overs,
515
00:20:08,785 --> 00:20:11,134
But this book is such
516
00:20:11,991 --> 00:20:12,890
a beautiful
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00:20:13,666 --> 00:20:14,623
love story.
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00:20:18,230 --> 00:20:19,529
And achilles
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loved each other
520
00:20:22,230 --> 00:20:23,289
so purely.
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00:20:24,389 --> 00:20:24,889
And
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00:20:26,162 --> 00:20:27,299
so fiercely
523
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that even achilles
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00:20:29,986 --> 00:20:32,238
got married and had a child,
525
00:20:32,869 --> 00:20:34,385
with a a woman and
526
00:20:35,583 --> 00:20:38,136
Understood completely that that's what was expected of
527
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him.
528
00:20:39,174 --> 00:20:42,783
But the bond between these to and spoiler
529
00:20:42,783 --> 00:20:44,162
alert. I mean, Pet,
530
00:20:45,979 --> 00:20:46,479
he
531
00:20:48,217 --> 00:20:48,717
absolutely,
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00:20:50,867 --> 00:20:52,402
gives himself up
533
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on the battlefield
534
00:20:54,606 --> 00:20:55,743
so that achilles
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can live. And
536
00:20:57,947 --> 00:21:00,748
Wow. It was just Oh, it was just
537
00:21:00,748 --> 00:21:02,602
such a gorgeous
538
00:21:03,297 --> 00:21:07,359
gorgeous book that I I tell everyone if
539
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,228
you want... A beautiful
540
00:21:10,164 --> 00:21:10,961
love story.
541
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,072
This is the 1. And I really really
542
00:21:14,072 --> 00:21:14,572
hope
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00:21:14,950 --> 00:21:17,342
they make a movie out of this and
544
00:21:17,342 --> 00:21:18,275
cast it prop.
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00:21:19,740 --> 00:21:22,196
And if you're a director or casting agent
546
00:21:22,196 --> 00:21:24,360
out there, you might wanna listen to our
547
00:21:25,128 --> 00:21:27,951
butcher the movies episode with casting
548
00:21:28,486 --> 00:21:28,964
suggestions.
549
00:21:29,521 --> 00:21:31,114
Oh, I know. You had some good ones
550
00:21:31,114 --> 00:21:32,946
on that. I I really... I think I
551
00:21:32,946 --> 00:21:35,111
did too. But this 1, if if you
552
00:21:35,111 --> 00:21:37,739
have not read this book, please add it
553
00:21:37,739 --> 00:21:38,376
to your list.
554
00:21:40,447 --> 00:21:41,504
Okay. Well, my
555
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:42,836
last book,
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00:21:43,328 --> 00:21:46,420
is the house in the Ce sea by
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Tj j K.
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You've read this. Right? Haven't you read this?
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00:21:50,385 --> 00:21:50,782
Mh.
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00:21:52,304 --> 00:21:54,390
This book is just heartwarming.
561
00:21:55,239 --> 00:21:57,381
It has a very whim tone,
562
00:21:58,015 --> 00:22:00,594
but it is a rich. Story with provoking
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00:22:00,729 --> 00:22:04,065
themes. It has inclusive characters, including
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00:22:05,097 --> 00:22:06,153
Lgbtq plus
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00:22:06,845 --> 00:22:07,083
representation,
566
00:22:07,734 --> 00:22:10,067
like in a real natural and heartfelt
567
00:22:10,524 --> 00:22:10,922
story,
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00:22:11,719 --> 00:22:11,959
the,
569
00:22:12,995 --> 00:22:15,625
particularly in the relationship between lin and author,
570
00:22:15,959 --> 00:22:18,424
It also tackle issues of prejudice,
571
00:22:19,855 --> 00:22:21,707
discrimination and fear of the unknown
572
00:22:22,082 --> 00:22:25,342
using the magical children as metaphors.
573
00:22:26,471 --> 00:22:27,109
The book,
574
00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:31,011
it's a... It combines magical realism with, you
575
00:22:31,011 --> 00:22:32,524
know, the contemporary world.
576
00:22:33,162 --> 00:22:33,662
So
577
00:22:35,008 --> 00:22:37,709
It just enhances the backdrop of the story.
578
00:22:38,503 --> 00:22:39,798
K writes with
579
00:22:40,172 --> 00:22:42,556
really a lot of humor. He's very light
580
00:22:42,556 --> 00:22:43,056
hearted.
581
00:22:43,684 --> 00:22:45,759
But he balances that out with some of
582
00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:48,632
the some of his themes that are kind
583
00:22:48,632 --> 00:22:50,707
of heavy, can be heavy.
584
00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:54,549
But so don't discount the story because of
585
00:22:54,549 --> 00:22:56,779
its whim or shrug it off as a
586
00:22:56,779 --> 00:22:57,518
funny book
587
00:22:57,895 --> 00:23:00,400
because it does address, a lot of modern
588
00:23:00,773 --> 00:23:02,918
themes in a real unique way.
589
00:23:08,019 --> 00:23:10,440
We'll the other 1. Light under
590
00:23:11,140 --> 00:23:11,619
the,
591
00:23:13,539 --> 00:23:16,500
whispering door. Yeah. That... And and then puppet
592
00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,902
it. Our lives is not. I I have
593
00:23:18,902 --> 00:23:20,651
not read that 1 yet, but the light
594
00:23:20,651 --> 00:23:21,924
under the Whispering door,
595
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,059
it... That's again. Yeah. It's a... It they're
596
00:23:26,059 --> 00:23:26,559
very
597
00:23:26,948 --> 00:23:29,335
it's a very different take on how to
598
00:23:29,335 --> 00:23:32,278
tell a story that has a lot of
599
00:23:32,278 --> 00:23:32,914
heart to it.
600
00:23:34,438 --> 00:23:36,761
He's really good about making
601
00:23:37,371 --> 00:23:37,871
unique
602
00:23:38,242 --> 00:23:40,699
stories books. I just had to pick 1.
603
00:23:41,428 --> 00:23:43,654
They're all like, this 1 is 1 of
604
00:23:43,654 --> 00:23:45,164
my favorites because it has 1 of my
605
00:23:45,164 --> 00:23:47,016
favorite characters who is Luc
606
00:23:47,390 --> 00:23:49,219
as a child, and they call them Lucy.
607
00:23:49,457 --> 00:23:49,775
Mh.
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00:23:50,984 --> 00:23:51,224
And,
609
00:23:52,024 --> 00:23:53,464
he's 1 of my favorites. You know, you
610
00:23:53,464 --> 00:23:55,625
don't hear that name very often on school
611
00:23:55,625 --> 00:23:55,944
roles.
612
00:23:58,755 --> 00:23:59,255
So
613
00:23:59,867 --> 00:24:02,012
well, you know, we're we're nearing the end
614
00:24:02,012 --> 00:24:04,315
of this, and and I I have several.
615
00:24:04,474 --> 00:24:05,984
So I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about 2
616
00:24:05,984 --> 00:24:08,311
real quick. Once a here. My first 1
617
00:24:08,311 --> 00:24:11,345
is remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pe.
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Because I loved Marcel,
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00:24:16,950 --> 00:24:17,450
and
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00:24:17,829 --> 00:24:18,329
how
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00:24:19,029 --> 00:24:20,809
the story was told
622
00:24:21,109 --> 00:24:24,045
from the perspective of an octopus
623
00:24:24,482 --> 00:24:26,257
and spoiler alert
624
00:24:26,872 --> 00:24:29,819
when Marcel marcelo passes at the end, you're
625
00:24:29,819 --> 00:24:32,788
okay with it because Marcel has prepared you
626
00:24:33,259 --> 00:24:34,318
to accept
627
00:24:35,336 --> 00:24:37,014
the fact that he only lives a certain
628
00:24:37,014 --> 00:24:37,733
number of years.
629
00:24:38,293 --> 00:24:40,550
And then you have the cleaning lady
630
00:24:40,864 --> 00:24:44,140
whose life is completely changed because of this
631
00:24:44,196 --> 00:24:44,434
octopus,
632
00:24:45,068 --> 00:24:45,568
and
633
00:24:45,941 --> 00:24:48,504
it was really the first time
634
00:24:49,528 --> 00:24:51,703
I had read a book with
635
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,893
an an animal as a protagonist,
636
00:24:56,148 --> 00:24:57,445
And it was definitely
637
00:24:58,142 --> 00:24:58,642
the
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00:24:59,034 --> 00:25:00,303
It it was it was great.
639
00:25:01,890 --> 00:25:03,398
The other 1 that I wanna talk about
640
00:25:03,398 --> 00:25:05,937
is garden spelled by Sarah Addison and Allen.
641
00:25:06,907 --> 00:25:09,877
Because of that 1 is the first magical
642
00:25:10,014 --> 00:25:10,514
realism
643
00:25:10,890 --> 00:25:11,390
book
644
00:25:12,086 --> 00:25:13,143
that I read
645
00:25:13,773 --> 00:25:17,268
followed very shortly thereafter by practical magic by
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00:25:17,427 --> 00:25:18,063
Alice Hoffman.
647
00:25:18,619 --> 00:25:22,089
But garden spells by Sarah Addison Allen. It's
648
00:25:22,208 --> 00:25:24,135
just it is like eating
649
00:25:24,507 --> 00:25:25,561
cotton candy.
650
00:25:26,250 --> 00:25:28,232
You know, it... You can see it and
651
00:25:28,232 --> 00:25:29,128
it has substance,
652
00:25:29,832 --> 00:25:30,887
But when it goes
653
00:25:31,418 --> 00:25:33,741
inside you, it just turns
654
00:25:34,351 --> 00:25:34,851
into
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00:25:35,302 --> 00:25:36,650
beautiful spun sugar.
656
00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:41,079
And Sarah Addison Allen is 1 of those
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00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:44,180
authors that I will read no matter what
658
00:25:44,180 --> 00:25:44,820
she puts out.
659
00:25:45,394 --> 00:25:46,615
So so those
660
00:25:48,194 --> 00:25:49,234
those are my,
661
00:25:50,035 --> 00:25:51,954
2 or 3 that I wanted to talk
662
00:25:51,954 --> 00:25:52,934
about quickly.
663
00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:55,722
And I I just...
664
00:25:57,791 --> 00:25:59,463
There were a lot of books here. I
665
00:25:59,463 --> 00:26:00,020
had trouble.
666
00:26:01,294 --> 00:26:01,692
Right?
667
00:26:02,741 --> 00:26:04,910
There was a lot. I think we did
668
00:26:05,444 --> 00:26:06,557
a really good job.
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And the sound of our cheering fans means
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it's time for listener comments.
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00:26:21,763 --> 00:26:23,513
We've noticed a problem in the production of
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the last few episodes, and I hope we
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00:26:25,342 --> 00:26:27,252
have fixed all these things now. I had
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00:26:27,252 --> 00:26:27,990
my microphone,
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00:26:28,619 --> 00:26:30,212
on a setting that I don't normally have.
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00:26:30,372 --> 00:26:32,124
I don't know why it changed on me.
677
00:26:33,399 --> 00:26:35,310
Thank you to Sarah for letting us know
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that it wasn't up to our normal standards.
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00:26:37,860 --> 00:26:37,914
On
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And also, thanks to Sarah for suggesting some
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really good topics for future episodes. You will
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00:26:44,575 --> 00:26:47,866
hear 1 of her suggestions very soon. But
683
00:26:48,099 --> 00:26:49,798
could have added a lot more
684
00:26:50,416 --> 00:26:52,653
on this list. I mean, we could've have
685
00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:54,730
probably talked about this for another hour. Did
686
00:26:54,730 --> 00:26:56,973
you have to... Call many to stay within
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this time frame, Carmen?
688
00:26:58,961 --> 00:27:00,710
You know, I really did, which is why
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00:27:00,789 --> 00:27:02,856
I crammed 2 or 3 into that last...
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00:27:04,704 --> 00:27:07,893
That section. I'm gonna encourage you to look
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00:27:07,893 --> 00:27:09,908
at 4321
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00:27:10,365 --> 00:27:11,502
by Paul Os
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Life after life by Kate Atkinson
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and the classic, the illustrated man by Ray
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Brad.
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Because every 1 of those is unlike any
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book you've ever read. So please
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write all 3 of those down, Paul ought,
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Stuart Kate Atkinson Ray Brad,
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and and let us know if you decide
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to rate any of those.
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Let us know which books you would consider
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unique, distinctive or innovative.
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Good rates has a list. Out there called
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weird and wonderful stories. And I'm gonna have
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to check out these books.
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There, when I looked at it a few
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days ago, there were a hundred and 6
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5 titles on the list and many of
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them were brand new titles to me. Another
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good thing to add to avoid if you
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don't wanna expand your Tbr list.
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There are some great lists out there and
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