The Author Changed the Characters’ NAMES Mid-Series?! | DNF Diaries 🔥

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It was the least thrilling thriller ever.
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I sadly finished this horrible, torturous book.
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As I couldn't bring myself to DNF it, I understood absolute jack shit and therefore DNF'd it right after 12 pages, which I read in half an hour, which was utterly slow and painful.
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I hated almost every second of this book and can't understand how and why so many people love it.
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See, this is encouraging.
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This is very honestly, what actually gets me is the book names.
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Have you been here since season one?
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Thank you.
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Seriously.
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We started this little podcast with a love of books, a lot of opinions, and absolutely no idea where it was going to take us.
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And somehow here we are heading into season two.
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Who would have thought?
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Who would have thought?
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And let us tell you, we have been busy.
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Busy.
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Season two is bringing you more books, more hot takes, more chaos, and of course, plenty of tea to spill.
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But we've also got some really exciting things happening behind the scenes.
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Merch is coming, memberships are coming.
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And we're officially getting out into the real world, which is not what I want to do.
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Outside of Susie's house.
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We have book fairs, conventions, events, uh, a ball coming up, which I'm really excited about.
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And so much more planned for the upcoming months.
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We're also bringing you everything that you loved from season one while still switching things up and trying some new things along the way.
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Because if there's one thing you should know about Plot Twist, please, you never quite know where the conversation is gonna go.
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So buckle up, grab your Kindle or your current read, pour yourself a drink, and get comfortable.
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Season two starts now.
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Also, just a little FYI.
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We did actually pre-record today's DNF episode before we realized that it was the season two premiere.
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Oops.
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Yes.
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Our bad.
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But what better way to start season two as a tribute to you?
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Yeah.
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That is very true.
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Yeah.
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And also one of our most popular episodes.
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Exactly.
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So enjoy.
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Sadly, you won't hear us actually acknowledge season two through the episode because of that.
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But let's get into all of the books you guys desperately wanted to love but simply could not finish.
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Let's go! Cheers! Are you guys ready now?
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Do I need to reclap?
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No.
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Okay.
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Welcome back to Plot Twist Please, where we sip, flip, and spill the tea.
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I'm Beth.
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I'm Susanna.
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And I'm Cass.
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And today is one of our favorite episodes to film every month.
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That's right, today we are filming our DNF Diaries Listeners Edition.
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And yeah.
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We've had many, many ones entered, so keep them coming.
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That's what I was gonna say.
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Yeah.
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I know.
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We've had many submissions coming.
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So if you don't hear yours on this episode, fear not, because we will get to them on future episodes.
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So keep sending them in to us at hello at plot twistpleas.com or as Susie likes to call it, plot twistplease.com.
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I want to talk about it.
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Okay.
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Also, if you're new to our channel, this is a segment we do every month, like Cass said.
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Just a little disclaimer before we get into any of the submissions today.
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We do not research or even read these emails prior to having them on the pod or even reacting to them on the pod.
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We've had some comments in the past where people don't like the opinions that we apparently have.
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Meanwhile, they're just our listeners' submissions.
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That's their opinions on the book, and opinions and readings are subjective.
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So we're not here to police anyone's opinions.
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They're not our own, so please don't come at us for that.
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Please.
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Yes.
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Please.
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With that being said, we're drinking.
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Yeah, our drink today, we're having the oh goodie rose.
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Vino.
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Yeah.
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It's a nice uh I feel like it's a little blasphemous for you to announce the drink without having some drink in your hand.
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Thank you.
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What was her name?
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Oh, Vina.
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Vanina White?
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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I know I love how you knew who I was talking about, too.
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I watched a lot, a lot of that with my grandma.
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Yeah.
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What was that?
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Jeopardy.
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Jeopardy.
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That's the one.
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Well, that's Wheel of Fortune.
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But Jeopardy was always on right after.
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Oh, fair.
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I'm lost.
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Susie's too young.
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Yeah.
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You couldn't even call my grandparents at a certain time.
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That was the TV.
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Her shows were on.
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Yeah, so that's our drink of the episode.
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Um, but before we fully jump into it, we're gonna do things a little bit differently for this episode.
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And we instead of doing what we're reading, we're gonna do what has been the longest waiting book on your TBR.
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Mine is The Hating Game by Sally Thorne.
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I've watched the movie.
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I have not read the book.
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I'm not going to read the book.
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It just lives permanently on my TBR.
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I'm just trying to scroll to get to mine.
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You can sort! Mine is Reign of Shadows and Endings, Legacy Number One.
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You can sort?
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Yeah.
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Sort by Earliest Added.
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It's 750 pages.
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Wow.
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No wonder you put it off.
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There's four books.
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It's a commitment.
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Yeah.
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It's by Melissa K.
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Rorick.
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Earliest added.
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Yeah, I don't even remember this book.
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So how many books are you at now?
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It should say at the top there.
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I should want to know what is yours rated as?
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Rated as?
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Like stars?
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Yeah.
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3.8.
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Oh.
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What was yours?
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4.01.
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And what was it again?
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Uh Reign of Shadows and Endings.
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Oh, that's been on my TBR for a very long time.
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Yeah, it's a it's it is a a bigger book.
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It says Spicy.
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It was released in 2023.
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Yeah.
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Five People You Follow Save This.
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Interesting.
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Mine was Sweetwater by Kara Reinhard.
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Reinhard.
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And it was rated 3.57.
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You forgot about it.
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Totally forgot.
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It was the first one I ever added to my TBR on Fable.
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Every time I go on Fable, Cass has added like five books to her TBR.
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Yeah.
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My girl just stopped.
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I'm at 576.
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What's your TBR at?
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Mine's at 246.
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I'm 337.
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Wow.
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Nothing can beat her though.
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She's that's overwhelming.
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Uh Beatrice had commented earlier saying that she just goes on to yours and that's right there in like same.
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Amazing.
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Same bro.
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It's a good, it's a good variety, you know?
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If any of you guys have read any of our books that we just listed on our TBRs that have been on there f since the beginning of time, um, let us know in the comments if they're worth the read.
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Maybe we'll actually I want to know if you loved it, let us know why we should read it.
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If you D-neffed it, we need an email.
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Yes.
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Of why we should not read it.
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Great idea.
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Thank you.
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Love that.
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Sounds good to me.
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All right.
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As always, full spoiler warning ahead.
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These are books that our listeners have read and hated so much that they could not even bear to finish.
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So, that being said, if any of these books are on your TBR and you are interested in reading them, then maybe skip this episode, come back, and watch afterwards.
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These two idiots.
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All episod or all books live.
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You guys sidetracked me.
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As always, books that we talk about in today's episode will be listed in the show notes.
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So take a look at that before you continue with this episode.
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And yeah.
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All right, let's get started.
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That was painful.
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Yes, it was.
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All right, our first DNF is from Brandy, not the OG from our book club that we usually talk about in here.
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A different one.
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Another brand, Brandy.
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Brandy, you've got competition.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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Been replaced.
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Hi ladies.
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Your podcast has been on my to be watched list for a while.
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I guess it's kind of fitting after what we just talked about.
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Right?
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And now I'm making my way through all of the episodes currently.
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Started as a subscriber of Susie's YouTube channel.
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Thanks.
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And I've been obsessed with books since I learned to read, so I'm glad to be in y'all's company.
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I've only recently gotten back into reading after many years, as I have two young children, and I've only recently felt I finally have the time and brain capacity again.
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Haha.
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Oh no.
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I sadly finished this horrible, torturous book as I couldn't bring myself to DNF it.
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Beth.
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Though I definitely should have.
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There's a lot of Beths in our emails.
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Now I want to rant to it about you all.
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Wait, what?
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And now I want to rant about it to y'all.
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There we go.
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There we go.
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That's not making fun of me.
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The blood of Hercules sounded so intriguing with a twist on Greek mythology I'd never heard of before.
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That's on my TBR downstairs.
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I bought a special edition of it at Homestead.
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Ooh, I also feel like I've seen this book mentioned today in our Fable Book Club by some members.
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Did you see it too?
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Yeah.
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It was in like one of the recs.
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Um, it sounds so intriguing with a twist on Greek mythology I'd never heard of before.
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The concept, good.
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The writing, awful.
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Oh no.
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It felt like a 13-year-old girl going through a troubled phase wrote it, and an editor never even touched it.
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Needlessly violent, even with the main theme involving gladiator style fighting and training.
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The main character felt so flat and ignorant to the point of annoying.
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And all of the supporting characters had absolutely zero character development, except towards the very end of the book, when several of them suddenly decide on a change of heart that makes zero sense.
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The ending is sloppy, chaotic, not in a good way.
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And there's even some random graphic sex thrown in that, thrown in that was so disturbing and ill-fitted to the rest of the book.
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Almost in the trash it goes.
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And the middle of the book was so slow, I literally had to force myself to finish chapter by chapter because I kept telling myself it would pick up the pace eventually.
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Nope, not until about four separate plot twists are chucked at you at the end and you're literally trying to remember who is tied to who.
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Hands down, one of the worst books I have ever read, and I regret finishing it because I hated like 85% of the book.
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The ending was such trash.
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I had zero motivation to even try to read the second book.
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Negative 15 out of 10 rating.
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I do not recommend.
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Love the podcast though, especially DNF Diaries, because we have to save each other from wasted time.
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They're so ready.
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This is so sad.
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Although I will find, I will say, like, based on some of the myth Greek mythology books I've read, like Medusa and This Immortal Heart, they are very slow paced.
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And I don't know if that's just because, like, if that's a central theme to Greek mythology fiction books.
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Yeah.
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Or if it's just a coincidence.
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So I don't know.
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I've never read any.
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So I am gonna read that book at some point.
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Well, especially if you get the special edition.
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It is pretty.
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Like the cover of it's pretty.
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If I I'll take a photo of it and like put it in here somewhere, but yeah, it's so pretty.
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I'm like, it looks so good.
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And then there was a second book that came out that people were raving about.
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I have to see for myself.
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Do you know what's funny?
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It sounds like Time Born all over again.
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The whole time she's reading, you and I are like, ooh, oh.
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And you know what it makes me think of is like when you're watching a sitcom and it's just like the audience in the back.
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Yeah, and the trap laughing, the clapping, the ooh.
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I was like, that's better than I read now.
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The more I we did it, I was like, oh man.
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Okay.
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Next we have Eve.
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Hi, girls.
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Hi.
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I have to start by prefacing, not prefacing, Beth.
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Prefacing.
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That English is not my first language, so please forgive any and all mistakes in the next sentences.
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I know you girls have said that you hate reading grammar spelling mistakes, so you have to bear with me and blame it on 10-year-old me who learned the language by watching mostly American TV shows and not in a proper school.
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To be fair, Eve, we can't speak.
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Preface the English proper grammar and spelling speaking it our entire life.
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Respite.
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I think we're you're we're also more judgmental.
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People still go on about that, like multiple comments every single day.
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Because it's respite.
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No, it's it's like some are for, some are on our side.
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Yeah, it's literally there's no correct answer.
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Yeah.
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Some people are like, oh, I've heard both, but this one's the right way.
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And then some of them are like, you're wrong.
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I've never heard this one that way.
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Go to the corner.
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Think about what you've done.
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So yeah, there is no judgment here.
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We only judge in books because there's like editors are supposed to fix that.
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Yeah, there's there's people who are supposed to make these pristine.
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No judgment here.
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We can't even spell.
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Second thing I need to clarify: these are not technically DNFs, these are PFs.
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Painfully finished.
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Ah, this is the episode of my people.
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Yes.
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Because like Beth, if I already started it, I feel like I need to finish.
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Now to the books.
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Can I add mine in then if we're doing a painfully finished episode?
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We could.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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First, I'll give you The Sun by Jandy Nelson.
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This book is about twin siblings, Jude and Noah, who are barely 16, and the present time, but somehow their narrations sound more like adults.
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I personally hate when teens don't sound or act like teens.
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This is a common issue I feel people have.
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Binding 13.
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I said it.
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No, like young kids written older.
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Binding 13.
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I said it.
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Again.
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Mute.
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Muted.
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Um I personally I'm bringing the taboo button.
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Meet, meet, me.
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I love a YA as long as it's believed, and this is not the case.
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I hated almost every second of this book and can't understand how and why so many people love it.
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The FMC literally is SAID, and the fact is practically ignored, never addressed.
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We only know it by her memories.
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And also, after the fact, she keeps on getting into weird relationships with older men, even her love, if you can call it that, interests, is in college.
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Like girly pop, you don't need to get into a relationship right now.
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You need therapy.
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Your brother needs therapy, your dad needs therapy, your cow needs therapy.
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She didn't say that.
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That was me.
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Individual therapy, family therapy, a grief counselor at the very least.
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What?
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Mulan.
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We're just talking over here.
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If your positive argument for this book is the queer representation, Noah side of the story.
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Um, let me hold your hand while I say this.
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You don't need to settle for shitty books.
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You deserve both the representation and quality in the same book, all caps.
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And I know hating on a queer book during Pride Month seems like a hate crime, but I'm not a hater of the community, just a hater of the book.
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Which is valid.
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That's so fair.
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A book's book.
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Also, it's not Pride Month when I'm reading this.
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Just yeah, you're safe.
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FYI.
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My second entry for now is Beyond for now, she says.
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Is Beyond the Beach House.
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It's a series of six mini books, or how you call it, novellas, that I decided to start mainly because it was on Kindle Unlimited and sounded like a cozy mystery.
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The first book, about 60 pages, ooh, was good.
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I wanted to know more, and by the start of book two, another 60 pages, I figure this actually is one 300 to 400 page book divided in six parts.
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So I was like, okay, I can bear it.
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I can see why the author did it.
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She needs that coin.
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Get it, girl.
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I'll support your strategy.
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Smart.
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Yeah.
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Those are also my kind of a novellas.
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Yep.
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Being a girl's girl never never got me so much pain, I swear.
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It literally felt like a teenager writing her first fanfic as she goes.
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Oh.
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She literally makes a dog appear out of nowhere with an unknown owner casually deciding to go on vacation so that the FMC has to pet sitter and then prolong the vacation on and on, just to have an animal companion.
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At one point I felt like the description of the dog changed.
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Also, she changed the dog's name in the last novella.
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What?
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She gave a special nickname that only her best friend uses to the FMC, but then everybody uses that nickname, even people she just met.
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Also, she changed said nickname more than once.
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Thank goodness.
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Crazy plot twists without any sense that later are discarded.
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She changed the best friend name in the last book.
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Like why?
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So those are my entries.
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I have more, but I don't even know if you guys will get to my mail.
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Therefore, I shouldn't make this way longer than it is.
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Thank you for letting me rant about my contritions.
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Contritions?
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Contritions.
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Don't contritions.
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Sending you good vibes.
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Tomato, tomato.
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Heart.
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Next we have Fisher.
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She.
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Um, just an FYI.
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We did have to condense your email a little bit.
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So sorry.
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Please don't be offended.
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Hello, girls.
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Sorry, go ahead.
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Start it.
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We did appreciate the thought put into said email, but just for the for the pod.
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Yeah.
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Hello girls.
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This is my first ever email to you, but there's another one on the way.
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Winky Face.
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Moreover, I am sorry that it got so long.
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I don't really know what happened there.
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Just a little information up front.
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English is not my first language, so please excuse any weird formulations or errors.
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I tried my best.
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A little ramble up front.
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I found you because YouTube put Susanna's de-influencing and overconsumption videos on my feed, which I love, but don't really stop me from buying anything yet.
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Another from buying yet another motorcycle.
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Oh, now motorcycle over consumption coming up to you.
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And told me email her and told me about your podcast, which I also love.
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It's the only podcast I listen to because it's the first and only one till now that I deeply enjoy.
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Your dynamic is just so sweet and funny.
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Listening to you brightens my workday and helps me get through boring household tasks.
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That's so nice.
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I feel like I'm gonna cry, but I don't know if it's the wine.
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I think it's the wine.
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It's probably the wine.
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Uh my digestive system.
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End the day.
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Now to the DNFs.
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I can only remember three books I've actually DNF'd, although one could argue that the last one isn't really a DNF, at least not in the common sense.
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The first.
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The first book I DNF' pains me.
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Oh, Aragon Inheritance by Christopher Paulini.
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I was in the gymnasium academic high school, still in my reading era.
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A friend of mine told me I should read it because she liked it.
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So I went to her school library and checked out what I thought was the first book in the series.
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That was four books long at the time.
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Inheritance.
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I also I always had to page between the story and the glossary in the back because it understood shit.
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Therefore, my pace was slow and the time frame I had to read this book ran out and I had to return it to the library.
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Because of the hard time I had with the book, I didn't check it out again for a while.
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But while I was still in the same school, I somehow figured out that it didn't start with the first book, but the fucking fourth.
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So I went back to the school library and checked out Aragon, the actual first book, and holy shit, is this series awesome?
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I love it so fucking deeply that I have since reread it like three times and bought the new books as soon as they came out.
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So my first ever DNF nearly led to me not getting to know the series that ignited my love for fantasy.
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So maybe my unwillingness to DNF a book stems from my first DNF.
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Found it.
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I feel the DSD.
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The fear of missing out.
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The FOMO.
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My second DNF was the Smarillion by J.R.
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Tolkien.
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My husband would hate you.
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Aragon he has downstairs on the bookshelf.
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He loves J.R.
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Tolkien.
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That doesn't mean he's exempt from having uh terrible work.
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That's true.
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But I'm just saying, my husband, he did some.
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I just feel like he is for a very specific person.
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It is very high fantasy dance.
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Yeah.
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There's a lot of going on.
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And so many pages.
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Always so many pages.
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Yeah.
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I haven't read The Hobbit.
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So good.
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Neither at that moment in time nor now.
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Mostly because there are just so many other books I want to read that I think I will enjoy more.
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And also because the unbelief and sputtering of other people.
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Also, I liked The Hobbit more than The Lord of the Rings.
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I've can um okay.
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I've tried to read The Hobbit like five times, and I just cannot get into it.
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I love the movie.
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Yeah, the movie's great, but I cannot get into the books.
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I don't know why.
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I'm gonna try again.
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Did you do Lord of the Rings?
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No.
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I did.
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I think I read two or three of the Lord of the Rings specifically.
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I like I will say it's a lot.
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It is a Hobbit movie better than the Lord of the Rings movie.
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Frodo, okay.
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Sorry, I have to go off a segue here.
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Side quest.
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Side quest.
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Frodo gives me the ick.
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It's just his face.
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And Nate and I are like going back in seasons of Love is Blind, so we're in season seven.
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What?
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I said poor Elijah.
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Wood.
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The ick.
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It's his face.
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I don't know.
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Sorry.
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It's weird.
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Sorry, Elijah.
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He's not watching.
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Anyway, so he's like Daniel Radcliffe's brighter blue-eyed cousin.
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Maybe it's just how bright his blue eyes are.
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I don't know.
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It looks unnatural.
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However, Nate and I are watching this season seven of Love is Blind because we've watched the latest, but we're like going back because we love those shows.
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We've watched Perfect Match.
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We're caught up in that.
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Anyway, so Steven season seven, we're watching this couple, Monica and Steven.
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And Steven, Tool, by the way, he gives me the ick so much.
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His personality gives me the ick, but his face looks like Frodo.
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And I think that's what turned me off.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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Side quest done.
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All right.
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Side quest complete.
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No comments.
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Back on track.
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I just don't agree.
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I love Elijah Wood.
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Okay.
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I mean, I prefer him in Flipper, but fair.
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Fair.
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Angsty teen.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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This was just as I was picking up my favorite hobby again.
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A friend of mine wanted to open a little book club.
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Really little because it was just us two.
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As no one else in our class thought reading was enjoyable, and the first book was this monster.
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I understood absolute jack shit and therefore DNF'd it right after 12 pages, which I read in half an hour, which was utterly slow and painful.
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It also, circling back, deterred me from picking up the hobbit.
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You know what?
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I mean, that's fair.
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12 pages.
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That's like me with um just friends.
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There you go.
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I got it.
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First page Wuthering Heights.
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First sentence.
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Nope.
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Oh, actually, someone did mention that there is a Wuthering Heights that is rewritten in like a modern.
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I did see that comment.
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Yeah.
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The second one.
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Yeah.
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So that you can read it and understand.
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And today's English.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Just FY.
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Just like the Bible.
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Yeah.
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The third.
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The third one probably isn't really a DNF in the common sense, as it is a technical book.
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Programming Rust.
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Fast Safe Systems Development by Jim Blandy.
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Oh, Jason Orendorf and Lenora F.
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S.
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Tyndall.
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Tries to teach the reader the programming language Rust and is 736 pages long.
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Although it was interesting and taught me a lot, I just dropped it slowly because my responsibilities at work shifted back to the front end, another programming language.
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And I have learned that only coding really teaches you a language.
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I learned that because when I was still a wee little junior, writing her first CLI command line interface, which in this case means you don't have a normal app, but rather just text in the console.
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Girl, you're s calculator.
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I did read Java by Michael Coughler, a book teaching the reader the programming language Java.
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That's actually really interesting.
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My dad would be super interested in this.
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I was thinking of your dad as soon as she started talking about this.
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Front to back.
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My dad taught uh computer programming and electronics as like a high school teacher.
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Wow.
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And he helped run a robotics.
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And I went to a robotics.
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We went to a robot robot competition where they fight.
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Well, they don't really fight.
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They do like I don't know what they do.
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It's like um for robots.
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Without the mud and for robots.
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It was a time.
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That's cool.
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It was a time.
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Which didn't bring me further with this specific schoolwork of mine.
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However, it did teach me stuff that got useful later on and helped me understand Java and programming as a whole better.
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But it was only 448 pages and I had barely any previous knowledge that would help me just code and learn from there.
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So in conclusion, to start programming teaching book, start a programming teaching book is somewhat something great.
00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:17.839
Wow.
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And also to look up something specific when the internet fails you, but not maybe not the best.
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If you can already code in one language and want to learn another one, some may disagree with me on that, but I stand by my opinion that only trying to implement something and having to deal with all the errors that inevitably follow truly teaches you.
00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.720
I was just spitting, sputtering through that.
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So we're going to very much condense this next part.
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She did send us a list of books she should have DNF'd.
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The first one being Girl for Everything by Charlotte Roche.
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The second, The Assistant by Alexandra Andrews.
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The third was The Nordic Triangle by Nicole Henser and Inca Lorene Minden.
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That's it.
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16 pages long.
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It's a little smut story, apparently.
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Yeah.
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Apparently.
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Well, it says that the book has 54 pages.
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Oh, oh I see.
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To sum it up, I was rather lucky till now, but I have the feeling that as soon as I have worked through the TBR, I have cultivated before joining Book Talk and start with new releases hyped up by this community.
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More DNFs will follow.
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Oh.
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Love Fisher.
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Thank you so much for sending that in.
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So sorry we had to condense it.
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My camera has a timer on it and it will shut off if the battery gets too hot.
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So that's why.
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Because that's why I couldn't I couldn't speak the spoke anymore.
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That stopped speaking the spoking.
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There's just so many big words.
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I'm not smart.
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It's not even that I couldn't say them, but it was just like there's all together.
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You have a smooth brain.
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No ridges or bumps, no valleys or lumps.
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All ideas slide right off.
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What was that from?
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I don't know.
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My brother says it to Arwen all the time.
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My dog.
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You have a very big brain with large lots of lumps and ridges.
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It just says words wrong.
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That's all.
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There's just a little, there's a hole.
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That's where the the wrong pronunciations go.
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I don't know.
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Zach still thinks that it's like a mixture of my mom and my grandma, they've just taught me English wrong.
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Fair.
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All right.
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All right.
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Moving on.
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Next we have Anna.
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Hello, ladies.
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My name is Anna, and I've been loving your podcast and book recommendations.
00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:10.079
Thank you for what you do.
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Oh, thank you.
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You're welcome.
00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:12.480
Thanks.
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I rarely DNF books, but one was the most painful to finish.
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This is really your people.
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Yeah, the most painful to finish.
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No, my people.
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I've been an active reader for the last two years, but I but when I only started adjusting to reading in English, my progress was not fast.
00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.599
I would probably read one book a year.
00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:36.079
I was getting better, and about three to four years ago, at one secret Santa party, I was lucky to get a book.
00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:39.119
It was Clara and the Sun by Kazio Ishigoro.
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As I didn't have much experience in choosing books, I would enjoy, I was trying anything, any new author.
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I thought at the beginning it's hard for me to read it because of the language, or I am just not smart enough to get the idea and what the author wants us to understand.
00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:56.640
But as I can now read a book in four days if I really like it, I still get sleepy every time I pick this book and open a page.
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I just don't care about what's going on.
00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:04.720
The main character's voice is basically an AI point of view, which describes everything happening without emotional connections.
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Just facts without understanding of what's going on and why.
00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:11.759
It's more of like the showing or the telling, not exactly showing.
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I really tried to understand and finish it because the author is a Nobel Prize winner, Nobel Prize winner, but I only was able to make it through one third of the book in three years.
00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.000
I at that point, just yeah, DF for sure.
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:23.359
That's a long time.
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:24.799
Hefty effort.
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That's so heavy weight to carry on your shoulders there.
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:29.920
That is.
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.200
That wow, how do you carry that around for three years?
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:33.839
That's a lot.
00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:36.559
I had a hard time carrying like a book around for three months.
00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.119
Yeah.
00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:39.759
Two weeks ago, the book went to donation.
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Oh, thank God.
00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:42.400
And I'm so happy to be finally free from it.
00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:43.359
Thank you for listening.
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An amazing day for all of you.
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I don't blame you.
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I got rid of it.
00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:48.079
Three years?
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Would have taken me three seconds.
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:51.440
Just the way you left it off.
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Say ya.
00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:54.160
I don't know if I would have gone for three years.
00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:57.279
The longest that you took with a book was what was it?
00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:58.319
The cocktail diaries?
00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:58.559
No.
00:26:58.799 --> 00:26:58.880
No.
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:00.400
No, uh, Clan Lands.
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:01.119
That's the one.
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:02.079
Clan lands.
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I knew it was.
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:03.440
Alright.
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:04.640
Next we have Alicia.
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:07.119
I love watching your podcast while I'm nursing my son at night.
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:08.880
You have made many nights easier to get through.
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:10.240
Aww.
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.000
I've recently stopped painfully finishing and started DNFing.
00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:14.240
See.
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:16.240
Yeah, she's come from my people and she's going to be.
00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:17.519
She's coming to my to your people.
00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:18.480
My people's.
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.480
So here are the ones I've DNF'd so far.
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I DNF'd Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson because it was just boring.
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:31.039
The characters were like wet paper except for one, and I didn't understand why the FMC and NM and MMC liked each other.
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:36.480
The plot was not very interesting or unique, which was a shame because the premise and setting were, but none of it was fleshed out.
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:39.039
Another one was The Divorce by Frida McFadden.
00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:40.640
Have you read that one, Susie?
00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.039
No.
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:41.359
Nope.
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.839
I DNF'd really late into the book.
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:46.240
I stopped because it was the last thrilling thriller ever.
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:47.119
The least.
00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:47.920
The least.
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:48.640
The least.
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The last thrilling thriller.
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We are just not we're not well.
00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:52.799
No.
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:53.519
We're unwell.
00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:54.559
It's the wine.
00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:55.519
It is the wine.
00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.039
Definitely the wine is strong.
00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:58.799
It's got Susie crying.
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:01.599
It's got you and I fumbling over here, words.
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:03.039
Me repeating memes.
00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:06.000
You said that meme so nicely though.
00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:06.480
Thank you.
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:08.960
I was like butchering ahead before I said it.
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:10.400
She didn't even like stumble.
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:11.200
Yeah, right?
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:12.319
I'm so proud.
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:16.160
It was the least thrilling thriller ever.
00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:22.079
I barely even cared what was happening because there wasn't enough suspense being built for the first entire half of the book.
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:24.319
It almost just felt like contemporary fiction.
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:26.960
Then all of a sudden, bam! We're kidnapping someone.
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:29.119
Question mark.
00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:34.640
And then the story veered into territory that was just making me feel really sad as a mother, imagining that happening to me and my baby.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:34.799
Oh.
00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:37.039
And I wasn't just bored, but also depressed.
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:40.720
The primary emotion I felt was sad while reading what was supposed to be a thriller.
00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:43.359
All caps and a face.
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:44.240
Yeah.
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:45.920
That's so disappointing.
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:49.599
Books like that after you've had a kid, especially when you're like still fresh in it.
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:49.920
Yeah.
00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:50.799
It is rough.
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:53.359
You're already, your emotions are already.
00:28:53.759 --> 00:29:02.880
But I will say, like now, like any story, um, anything come on like Facebook, Instagram, things like that, I immediately put whoever's child it is as my child.
00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:04.160
And then I'm crying.
00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:06.079
That's the worst.
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:07.440
Especially with a thriller though.
00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:10.240
Like for a thriller, you're just expecting like a fun ride.
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:10.559
Yeah.
00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:10.880
Yeah.
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:11.599
Not to cry.
00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:14.240
She's still crying to read a romance novel.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:15.440
She's still nursing.
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:17.519
She's still in the beginning stages of.
00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:21.519
I know I know, but I'm just saying, like, when you're expecting a thriller and then you end up crying.
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:23.680
Yeah, and instead it's depressing.
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:24.079
Yeah.
00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:24.720
Okay for you.
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:25.039
Yeah.
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:25.359
Yeah.
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:27.200
So last but not least, we have Katie.
00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:28.079
Hello, ladies.
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:28.880
Love your podcast.
00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:31.279
Found it through Susie's overconsumption videos.
00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:32.160
Love those too.
00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:32.720
Thank you.
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:33.119
Thank you.
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:35.839
I don't know if you're doing more listener-submitted DNF stories.
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:36.400
Please do.
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:36.960
Always.
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:38.079
But I wanted to share mine.
00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.359
I started reading a dead and stormy night series by Stephanie Holmes.
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:46.240
It's labeled A Cozy Fantasy with Spice, but it should be classified as straight up porn.
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:53.440
The first book, Dead and Stormy Night, I could skim past the extra spicy bits in the second book of Mice and Murder.
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:54.319
I may have to look at these.
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:56.640
I was gonna say, I'm kind of anxious to see the names.
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:59.519
There was a great mystery, and again I skipped over the spice.
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.160
The third book, Pride and Premitation.
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:03.839
Thank you.
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:07.279
There was more sex than plot, and I could not finish it off.
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:08.319
These two would like it.
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.920
See, this is encouraging.
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:13.279
This is very honestly, what actually gets me is the book names.
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:13.759
I know.
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:17.440
The book names are like the uh Juliet Cross ones that I liked.
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.119
She had some great little little names.
00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:21.200
I will not be the hex one.
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.240
I support your DNA.
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:24.559
There was a great mystery, and again, I skipped over the spice.
00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:25.039
The third book.
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:26.240
Oh sorry, I already did that part.
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:34.640
All I can say is if you ever wanted to have sex with public domain characters, Moriarty, Heathclift, or a Raven from Pose poem, this is or the Raven from Pose poem.
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:36.000
This is your fantasy.
00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:36.880
Cool.
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:37.440
Yes.
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:39.039
Please keep it the fun podcast.
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:44.160
I have some catching up to do, but I love listening to you ladies, even if I do read excruciatingly slow.
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:46.079
I love hearing about new books to read.
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:46.559
Aww.
00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:50.400
Thank you for giving them more books to add to Cass's TBR specifically.
00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:54.000
She'll go from my TBR and add it to her TBR.
00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:55.200
I'm the only reading.
00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:58.400
That's it for our DNF Diaries episode.
00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:02.240
If you have any DNFs, please send them into hello at blottoispleze.com.
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.680
Not plottoispleze.com.
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:05.920
Emphasis on the hello at.
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:13.440
Hello! Also, if you've read any of these books and disagree with any of these DNFs, let us know in the comment section.
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:14.720
We're also read that.
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:16.000
We love reading the comment section.
00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:18.559
Did you want to hear about my painfully finished?
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:19.200
Okay, yeah.
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:19.440
Yeah.
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:19.920
Okay.
00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:22.559
So I painfully finished the Liv Xanders.
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:23.039
Right.
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:23.759
Oh, right.
00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:25.680
Was it a duet or a duet?
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:26.000
Okay.
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:36.400
If you guys have been around here the last few weeks, Susie and I posted a very cringeworthy video of us crying to another duology by this author.
00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:40.000
Oh, and that one was just uh I actually I'm gonna reread it.
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:40.559
It was so good.
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:41.119
So good.
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.720
Yeah, you're gonna read like soon?
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.880
I don't know if I'm ready to cry like that again soon.
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:46.799
I need to cry, I need to cry.
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:47.759
That's the wine.
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:48.319
I feel like that's the one.
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.079
Yeah, it was the so this, yeah, Liv Xander, Crammy Dead, and Crammy Yours.
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:54.559
I gave them four and a half and five stars for those.
00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.359
Are the good ones?
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:56.480
For the good on clarified.
00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:56.720
Yes.
00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:58.079
These are the good ones.
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.480
These are the ones that emotionally destroyed us at the end.
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.160
I found the books really easy to read.
00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:03.039
The story was enjoyable.
00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:06.319
It was so usefully written and immersive.
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:06.799
Ugh.
00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:08.319
And what was the other one that she had that we read?
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:08.559
Okay.
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:09.359
I'm trying to think of the other.
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:10.880
Usually I love her stuff.
00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.279
We did the Feathers So Vicious duology.
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.440
There's the Feathers So Vicious and Shadow So Cruel.
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:16.079
I liked those ones.
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:17.359
Yeah, we liked those ones.
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:21.680
So these ones I painfully finished was King of Flesh and Bone.
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.960
This is the Pale Court duology, and Queen of Rotten Pain.
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:26.240
Do not recommend.
00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:29.920
I mean, the the titles alone are a little deterring.
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.079
I gave them both two and a half points.
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:32.960
Points.
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:33.680
Stars.
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.160
So for the first one, my review of it was this book was good enough.
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.920
I didn't DNF, but cannot recommend to anyone to actually read it.
00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:45.119
I don't even know where to start with what I didn't like about the book.
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:48.160
So I guess what I did like was that it wasn't very long.
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:54.640
It was fairly interesting, and the pale court was a great setting.
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:55.359
No vibes.
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:56.799
We didn't keep it optimistic.
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:57.119
Yeah.
00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:07.200
And then for the second one, The Queen of Rotten Pain, I said the beginning with the miscommunication trope where he just wants to punish her for something she didn't do was a big no for me in this story.
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And then they go on a killing spree to enrage his brother so to give her life again.
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The ending was the best part.
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That is it.
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That's it.
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Wow.
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Also, zero vibes.
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Yeah, the the vibes were.
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Did you see what I commented under your review of that B Airbnb one or the bed and breakfast one?
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No, I didn't.
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I haven't been on yet.
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What like today?
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She likes, I think you gave it one star.
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It was, I listened to it.
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I told Nate, I was like, if I was reading this, it would have been DNF'd.
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One star.
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One star, zero vibes.
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I'm just trolling other people's reviews.
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I guess that one could be painfully finished.
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I didn't know.
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That one was done.
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Might as well.
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Yeah.
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So I painfully finished The Between Worlds B ⁇ B by Amy Mae Baxter.
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I listened to the audiobook of this and it had really good reviews from what I saw initially.
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But my review says, I really wanted to love this.
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However, it just feels like nothing happened.
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There was nothing substantial about the characters that made them stick out to me either.
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Cozy for sure, but just not for me.
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It's just if I I if I had to take a shot every time this author put for a moment, like did that line sentence.
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Really?
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For a moment.
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For a moment.
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It was like her favorite thing to say.
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That's exhausting.
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Yeah.
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And then like over-explaining things.
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And then, you know, you get to the the reveal of what she's working towards this whole book, and then all of a sudden it's over.
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Like, I'm like, oh, okay, whatever.
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I'm glad I'm finished.
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:32.159
You know, I must be on a good streak because I haven't painfully finished or DNF'd anything in a while.
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Yeah, you're doing good.
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I'm very proud of myself over here.
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.719
Well, on that upswing, on that note, lines we loved.
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Who's going first?
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:44.800
I'll go first because Susie loves it so much.
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Ooh, well.
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No, no, do binding 13.
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No.
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Oh, yeah.
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Do it.
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I'm gonna do binding 13.
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This is from page 358.
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Okay.
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The author is Chloe Welsh.
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He took her away from me.
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Who took her?
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Joey, the hurler.
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Well, he has your brother laugh.
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Gibbs he offered.
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He was obviously going to come back for her.
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It's coming out.
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I don't give a shite.
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I snapped, thinking about her bruised face.
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I don't want her to leave Gibbs.
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And he just took her away from me, and I'll let him.
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You do not know that you're not allowed to keep humans as pets, don't you?
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He asked in a wry tone.
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You know that's just dogs and cats, right?
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Fuck right off.
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I feel like I would love this book.
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I feel like I would thoroughly enjoy it.
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If I read the entire book in my head.
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That's so through the whole book.
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They're very Irish.
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That's what I'm saying.
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I feel like I would thoroughly enjoy that.
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:34.400
So it's probably this is how I read that is probably how I read like every single like dialogue?
00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:34.719
Yeah.
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:42.000
Well, like every single, like, I mean it's constant almost dialogue, but like through the whole book, I probably like as I go into it, I just start off English and then my Irish just gets stronger.
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Keeps coming out.
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That's funny.
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:45.360
My turn.
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I'm gonna read This Immortal Heart by Jennifer Saint, page 353.
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Do you want to do it in an accent?
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:51.199
No.
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No.
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They don't speak in accents.
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:55.280
No, Susie's terrible at accents.
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I'm so I think I'm so good.
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:58.159
And then everyone's like, that's your accent?
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I'm like, yeah, it sounds good in my head.
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There are centuries of chaos and tumult behind us, and I'm certain there are more ahead.
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Our realms are divided, and the semblance of peace established night might have crumbled by the morning.
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But what I once believed was impossible is something I can resist no longer.
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Eternity stretches out before us, the goddess of love and the god of war.
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Whatever it is that the fates have in store for us, we'll spend it the way we want together.
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:21.840
I'm running out of lines, I love so.
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:22.239
I know.
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:26.880
How do you find a line you loved in a thriller?
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:27.840
That's hard it's hard.
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:28.320
It's very hard.
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:35.360
Well, I also find too, like, I find it really hard when you're like really into a book to like to like pull yourself out and be like, that's a good line.
00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:36.480
Highlight.
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:37.440
Yeah, so true.
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:37.840
You know me?
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:41.599
Because like it'll be like, I'll be in a book being like, this is an amazing book.
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:42.480
This is the best book ever.
00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.440
And then I get to the end and I'm like, I didn't highlight anything.
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:48.239
And then you're like, I'm too lazy to go back and find something.
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:52.159
Yeah, because then like it's one thing when you're in it and you can kind of be like, oh, that was good.
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:52.559
Yeah.
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:52.960
Yeah.
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:53.519
But yeah.
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:56.239
But then you're you can't be too in it, but you can't be out of it.
00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:57.039
And it's yeah.
00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:01.679
Mine is from Yesteryear by Carol Claire Blake uh Burke.
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Sorry.
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Uh page 10.
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A space must always look lived in for someone to want to live in it.
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:12.800
This is a completely obvious notion when you take a moment to really think about it, but most people don't take a moment to really think about it, about anything.
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Most people are morons.
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Perfect.
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Love that.
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Loved it.
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Well, this concludes our DNF Diaries Listener Takeover.
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If you have any DNFs, make sure that you email those to us at hello at quatistplease.com, and then we will get to all of them at some point.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, never fear.
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Keep them.
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Keep sending them.
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Keep them coming.
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Yeah.
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