1 00:00:01,328 --> 00:00:04,768 Welcome to Plans Are Booked, a podcast for every reader. 2 00:00:04,768 --> 00:00:06,078 I'm Molly Geller. 3 00:00:06,605 --> 00:00:08,305 Stephanie Blackburn. 4 00:00:08,334 --> 00:00:09,874 And I'm Caitlin Madison. 5 00:00:09,874 --> 00:00:13,134 Welcome to chapter 33. 6 00:00:13,134 --> 00:00:16,814 Episode 33 is about to be in the books. 7 00:00:17,354 --> 00:00:18,714 I can't believe it. 8 00:00:18,714 --> 00:00:23,574 I know we're saying this like every episode now, but like 33, like I was at my 9 00:00:23,574 --> 00:00:26,694 friend Elise's this weekend and she's like, so how many she's like, I'm not 10 00:00:26,694 --> 00:00:27,094 caught up. 11 00:00:27,094 --> 00:00:29,134 Like how many episodes are there of plans or books? 12 00:00:29,134 --> 00:00:32,374 And I was like 32 and she like choked on her drink. 13 00:00:32,374 --> 00:00:34,234 She was like, is it every other week? 14 00:00:34,234 --> 00:00:35,514 I was like, it's every week. 15 00:00:35,514 --> 00:00:36,579 And she was like, 16 00:00:36,579 --> 00:00:37,118 no one? 17 00:00:37,118 --> 00:00:37,578 behind. 18 00:00:37,578 --> 00:00:40,898 And I was like, yeah, dude, also I'm like out of bookmarks again. 19 00:00:40,898 --> 00:00:42,998 I was giving everybody in Portsmouth. 20 00:00:43,898 --> 00:00:46,318 Hopefully we got some new listeners. 21 00:00:46,318 --> 00:00:50,138 I just had them in my purse and there's all these like cute shop owners. 22 00:00:50,138 --> 00:00:56,178 And I was like buying book themed things for the people at this table and they were 23 00:00:56,178 --> 00:00:57,538 like, are you like a reader? 24 00:00:57,538 --> 00:00:58,098 Like blah, blah. 25 00:00:58,098 --> 00:00:59,578 I'm like, well, pardon me. 26 00:00:59,578 --> 00:01:01,568 Let me just take these bookmarks out of my purse. 27 00:01:01,568 --> 00:01:03,821 Like a kind of a freak show, but. 28 00:01:03,821 --> 00:01:05,341 but I'm out. 29 00:01:05,341 --> 00:01:06,201 So I'm out. 30 00:01:06,201 --> 00:01:07,241 I'm out of the way. 31 00:01:07,241 --> 00:01:08,224 I'm beating everyone. 32 00:01:08,224 --> 00:01:12,164 and I'm pretty sure we're handing out the works because I want to have a shooting 33 00:01:12,164 --> 00:01:12,590 that. 34 00:01:12,590 --> 00:01:13,542 so far. 35 00:01:13,709 --> 00:01:15,269 I don't know. 36 00:01:15,269 --> 00:01:16,292 I... 37 00:01:16,292 --> 00:01:20,672 bunch in my purse during the big two week vacation and like every family member I 38 00:01:20,672 --> 00:01:23,752 saw, every friend I saw, I was like, my gosh, I brought this for you. 39 00:01:23,752 --> 00:01:26,142 And they were like, you brought this across the ocean? 40 00:01:26,142 --> 00:01:29,773 Like, yes, it's that important to me that you rep the podcast. 41 00:01:29,773 --> 00:01:35,293 And meanwhile, I brought an envelope full of them to Chicago that time, a couple of 42 00:01:35,293 --> 00:01:35,853 weekends ago. 43 00:01:35,853 --> 00:01:39,893 And then as I walked through each bookstore, I started to have guilt about 44 00:01:39,893 --> 00:01:42,713 like, are they going to catch me on camera and they're going to think that I'm doing 45 00:01:42,713 --> 00:01:43,353 something bad? 46 00:01:43,353 --> 00:01:45,780 So then I just didn't stick a bookmark. 47 00:01:45,780 --> 00:01:49,579 I think of myself as the biggest goody goody of this group, but that is maybe the 48 00:01:49,579 --> 00:01:52,080 most goody goody thing you've ever said. 49 00:01:53,166 --> 00:01:56,436 Yeah, no, I have no, I don't care. 50 00:01:56,436 --> 00:01:58,086 I'm like, what's the worst thing they're gonna do? 51 00:01:58,086 --> 00:01:58,796 Recycle it? 52 00:01:58,796 --> 00:02:00,906 Like, I don't care, it's fine. 53 00:02:00,906 --> 00:02:01,520 What I... 54 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:02,860 tuck them into the books. 55 00:02:02,860 --> 00:02:04,537 I don't let them stick out. 56 00:02:04,537 --> 00:02:08,237 I wasn't going to, but I just figured I would still be on camera doing something 57 00:02:08,237 --> 00:02:13,297 shady and then I would get in trouble with airport security. 58 00:02:13,297 --> 00:02:14,738 It just seemed... 59 00:02:14,738 --> 00:02:15,458 fine. 60 00:02:15,458 --> 00:02:16,324 That's fine. 61 00:02:16,324 --> 00:02:19,758 stop providing utility to people by adding bookmarks to the books. 62 00:02:19,758 --> 00:02:21,278 It's totally fine. 63 00:02:21,278 --> 00:02:27,178 I think what I'm going to do is so to get into the catch up this coming Friday, I 64 00:02:27,178 --> 00:02:28,578 will be done teaching. 65 00:02:28,578 --> 00:02:33,038 And I think that we should definitely bring bookmarks to my re -retirement party 66 00:02:33,038 --> 00:02:36,118 and leave them everywhere we go. 67 00:02:36,118 --> 00:02:41,158 Because the seaport is some place that's a place we have not hit up yet in terms of 68 00:02:41,158 --> 00:02:42,348 leaving things. 69 00:02:42,348 --> 00:02:47,148 can put me in charge of that and also there is a Porter Square books location in 70 00:02:47,148 --> 00:02:55,188 the seaport Correct they have a second very small location I went to a book event 71 00:02:55,188 --> 00:02:57,508 there like a few years ago 72 00:02:58,006 --> 00:02:59,076 few years ago? 73 00:02:59,076 --> 00:03:01,072 I'm just finding out about it now? 74 00:03:01,072 --> 00:03:03,782 Yes, it's near, you know where Streka is? 75 00:03:03,782 --> 00:03:07,849 So if you keep walking straight back, it's in that next block. 76 00:03:07,849 --> 00:03:08,480 my lord. 77 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,810 Okay, so one of the shop owners, it was actually Gus and Ruby's, which you guys 78 00:03:13,810 --> 00:03:15,310 know and love that place. 79 00:03:15,310 --> 00:03:19,590 Shout out to stationery stores, my second favorite kind of store below books. 80 00:03:21,150 --> 00:03:24,650 The woman, the person that was working, I don't want to say woman because I just 81 00:03:24,650 --> 00:03:27,570 gendered her and I'm not, I'm not totally sure, but. 82 00:03:27,772 --> 00:03:33,253 book, working at Best Buy, I talked to this person before the event was there, I 83 00:03:33,253 --> 00:03:34,893 think they're a teacher. 84 00:03:34,893 --> 00:03:38,443 Actually, like I heard him talking about it, I don't know if you've ever heard of 85 00:03:38,443 --> 00:03:39,473 him there? 86 00:03:39,493 --> 00:03:41,686 And they were saying, we too... 87 00:03:41,686 --> 00:03:46,786 coffee shops and basically like any place that has a bulletin board, we should just 88 00:03:46,786 --> 00:03:48,806 push pin some up. 89 00:03:49,926 --> 00:03:54,046 So like, you know how there's like piano lessons and babysitting and lawn mowing 90 00:03:54,046 --> 00:03:55,986 and like take one, you know? 91 00:03:56,729 --> 00:04:00,028 And then I'm just, there's a question, so I frankly shouldn't do that. 92 00:04:00,909 --> 00:04:06,329 So, I don't know, if you're looking for someone to do this week's stuff, find a 93 00:04:06,329 --> 00:04:08,689 small and simple word, and just chat them up. 94 00:04:08,729 --> 00:04:12,689 It will bring joy, I don't think it brings me such joy to give people the work, 95 00:04:12,689 --> 00:04:16,789 because no, it's like, no thanks, because it's like, actually useful. 96 00:04:16,789 --> 00:04:18,856 Super useful, I think, it's a little shout out to - 97 00:04:18,856 --> 00:04:21,876 our designer Jacqueline because they're gorge. 98 00:04:23,649 --> 00:04:27,689 like, I don't know. 99 00:04:27,689 --> 00:04:28,949 I'm going to the classes after this one. 100 00:04:28,949 --> 00:04:32,189 I'm going to the classes after this one. 101 00:04:32,189 --> 00:04:32,309 this one. 102 00:04:32,309 --> 00:04:32,475 I'm going to the classes this one. 103 00:04:32,475 --> 00:04:32,499 I'm after this one. 104 00:04:32,499 --> 00:04:33,175 I'm going to this one. 105 00:04:33,175 --> 00:04:33,360 I'm I'm going to 106 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,070 hopefully when you meet these people, they think you're classy. 107 00:04:36,750 --> 00:04:39,630 We are talking about. 108 00:04:39,950 --> 00:04:43,110 This summer will be different, which is Carly Fortune's third book. 109 00:04:43,110 --> 00:04:45,210 We've all read all three of her books. 110 00:04:45,210 --> 00:04:47,990 This one just came out in the last month. 111 00:04:48,250 --> 00:04:49,574 She's. 112 00:05:06,549 --> 00:05:08,089 didn't think you were going to add the summer part. 113 00:05:08,089 --> 00:05:13,849 I think she has nailed the summer beach pool whatever read. 114 00:05:30,108 --> 00:05:33,428 am fresh off of three days in Vermont. 115 00:05:33,428 --> 00:05:37,088 Two of my Wheaton College besties live up there now. 116 00:05:37,168 --> 00:05:42,548 So Scout and I got in the car and we drove up there on a Friday afternoon. 117 00:05:42,548 --> 00:05:44,058 It was actually beautiful weather. 118 00:05:44,058 --> 00:05:46,628 I love what like a sunny summer road trip. 119 00:05:46,628 --> 00:05:51,528 There's just something about like windows down, music cranking, like ice cold bev in 120 00:05:51,528 --> 00:05:51,948 your hand. 121 00:05:51,948 --> 00:05:52,238 I don't know. 122 00:05:52,238 --> 00:05:53,544 It's just like great. 123 00:05:53,742 --> 00:05:55,752 I totally had that going on this weekend as well. 124 00:05:55,752 --> 00:05:56,956 It felt really nice. 125 00:05:56,956 --> 00:05:59,756 mine was peach and apple in case anybody was wondering. 126 00:06:00,396 --> 00:06:02,496 We had such a good time. 127 00:06:02,496 --> 00:06:06,816 So it used to be in my bestie group of college girls that there are a bunch of us 128 00:06:06,816 --> 00:06:09,216 who lived in Boston and the other girls lived in New York. 129 00:06:09,216 --> 00:06:10,816 And we've now been redistributed. 130 00:06:10,816 --> 00:06:12,406 So I'm the lone wolf here in Boston. 131 00:06:12,406 --> 00:06:14,316 There's two girls in Connecticut and two in Vermont. 132 00:06:14,316 --> 00:06:18,316 So the tides have turned and I'm now doing a lot of driving these days. 133 00:06:18,316 --> 00:06:19,756 But it was great. 134 00:06:19,756 --> 00:06:23,312 And I've been up to Burlington now a couple of times and. 135 00:06:23,312 --> 00:06:25,232 We just had such a fun outing on Saturday. 136 00:06:25,232 --> 00:06:29,432 We went out to lunch at this awesome vegetarian place called the Daily Planet. 137 00:06:29,432 --> 00:06:33,492 They made a blueberry lavender lemonade. 138 00:06:33,492 --> 00:06:34,562 That was just insane. 139 00:06:34,562 --> 00:06:37,532 And I took two sips and I turned to my friend Helen and I was like, this needs to 140 00:06:37,532 --> 00:06:40,312 be a frozen popsicle, like immediately. 141 00:06:40,312 --> 00:06:42,692 So hopefully I can try to recreate that. 142 00:06:42,692 --> 00:06:44,772 We did a bunch of shopping. 143 00:06:44,772 --> 00:06:49,712 I'm now the proud owner of a green sweatshirt that says Vermont State of 144 00:06:49,712 --> 00:06:50,462 Mind. 145 00:06:51,344 --> 00:06:54,664 gonna replace my Lakewood and Basaki sweatshirt that is quite literally hanging 146 00:06:54,664 --> 00:06:55,963 by a thread. 147 00:06:58,766 --> 00:07:00,806 need to pause for one moment. 148 00:07:01,106 --> 00:07:08,166 I know that Steph is with me on this, but I probably have 35 sweatshirts. 149 00:07:08,166 --> 00:07:11,446 I'd say 25 of them are hoodie style. 150 00:07:11,726 --> 00:07:15,866 You're talking about just a single sweatshirt that has to be replaced right 151 00:07:15,866 --> 00:07:16,582 now? 152 00:07:17,924 --> 00:07:23,146 been clinging to the Lake Winnipesaukee sweatshirt because of its like... 153 00:07:23,146 --> 00:07:25,520 like out with the world all of a sudden? 154 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,320 I just felt like I didn't want to get rid of it because of like the emotional 155 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:31,120 attachment. 156 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:38,980 I got it with my cousins and like, I love it so much, but it's really falling apart. 157 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:39,634 And so... 158 00:07:39,634 --> 00:07:43,374 Thought you were saying like you couldn't possibly have one more sweatshirt without 159 00:07:43,374 --> 00:07:45,524 getting rid of one and I was like, whoa. 160 00:07:45,524 --> 00:07:46,274 Whoa. 161 00:07:46,274 --> 00:07:51,696 Whoa Okay, okay, okay I got confused for a second and I was like Molly 162 00:07:51,696 --> 00:07:55,236 I just was like, this is such a fun, happy memory now of like getting this Vermont 163 00:07:55,236 --> 00:07:57,956 sweatshirt and I'm like having such a wonderful time. 164 00:07:58,176 --> 00:08:01,656 I feel like now I'm ready to release the Wendell Basaki sweatshirt. 165 00:08:01,656 --> 00:08:04,136 So I'll do that sweatshirt in my closet. 166 00:08:04,136 --> 00:08:10,196 And then we just had a bunch of other delicious food outings and my first ever 167 00:08:10,196 --> 00:08:11,890 maple creamy. 168 00:08:14,478 --> 00:08:16,464 It's chef's kiss every time. 169 00:08:16,464 --> 00:08:20,744 So I first was like, I said, Helen, what is the difference between this and like 170 00:08:20,744 --> 00:08:21,754 classic soft serve? 171 00:08:21,754 --> 00:08:22,434 I just don't get it. 172 00:08:22,434 --> 00:08:24,324 Is it just that it's like maple tasting? 173 00:08:24,324 --> 00:08:29,524 No, the reason they call it a creamy is because the milk fat percentage is higher 174 00:08:29,524 --> 00:08:30,874 than traditional soft serve. 175 00:08:30,874 --> 00:08:35,044 So not only do you get the maple flavor if that's the one you choose, but you can 176 00:08:35,044 --> 00:08:39,014 also get creamy vanilla, creamy chocolate, creamy raspberry. 177 00:08:39,014 --> 00:08:42,494 Anyway, I went for the maple because that's like the quintessential thing. 178 00:08:42,928 --> 00:08:44,538 I'm such a die -hard chocolate person. 179 00:08:44,538 --> 00:08:45,818 I was like, I bet I'm not gonna like this. 180 00:08:45,818 --> 00:08:49,598 I took one lick of that ice cream cone and my eyes rolled into the back of my head. 181 00:08:49,598 --> 00:08:52,248 Like it was unbelievable. 182 00:08:52,248 --> 00:08:58,898 And then this morning I had a maple frosted donut, equally delightful. 183 00:08:58,898 --> 00:09:02,172 I just really dig the food in Vermont. 184 00:09:02,366 --> 00:09:08,006 happy for you that well and I know that I know that your friends brought these for 185 00:09:08,006 --> 00:09:12,246 you so that they they had you in mind but most of the times when I come across a 186 00:09:12,246 --> 00:09:13,108 maple donut it has 187 00:09:13,108 --> 00:09:13,888 and have them eat them. 188 00:09:13,888 --> 00:09:15,507 Like, when they can't have them. 189 00:09:15,507 --> 00:09:20,648 So I'm very glad that we were able to experience that sans bacon because, for 190 00:09:20,648 --> 00:09:24,328 instance, my favorite part of the chop is the square dumplings. 191 00:09:24,488 --> 00:09:28,248 Out of all the dumplings that I've had, that's still the favorite place that I've 192 00:09:28,248 --> 00:09:29,628 gone to. 193 00:09:30,488 --> 00:09:34,348 And although I couldn't have a favorite dumpling, that place is still the best. 194 00:09:34,348 --> 00:09:35,918 Can you say something for me? 195 00:09:35,918 --> 00:09:37,427 I like can't say a lot. 196 00:09:37,427 --> 00:09:41,827 but I think Union Square, I've only had Canes once, I think is part of the 197 00:09:41,827 --> 00:09:42,847 problem. 198 00:09:42,887 --> 00:09:49,847 So I've had like a really epic Funfetti donut from Canes that was like up there as 199 00:09:49,847 --> 00:09:54,907 a donut, but I don't know that I can like say with certainty that Canes is up there 200 00:09:54,907 --> 00:09:57,227 because I just haven't experienced enough of it. 201 00:09:57,227 --> 00:09:59,786 I've probably had Union Square donuts. 202 00:10:00,228 --> 00:10:01,548 I mean not many times. 203 00:10:01,548 --> 00:10:03,988 But I do have that in more pretty pretty ways. 204 00:10:03,988 --> 00:10:06,694 And it used to be seasonal and you could fold up the trunks. 205 00:10:06,694 --> 00:10:11,074 that now you can get it all the time, which is really nice for me when I want a 206 00:10:11,074 --> 00:10:11,994 donut. 207 00:10:12,514 --> 00:10:14,714 Blackbird Donuts doesn't do it for me. 208 00:10:14,714 --> 00:10:17,054 I hope they don't listen to this, but they don't. 209 00:10:17,054 --> 00:10:17,774 They just don't. 210 00:10:17,774 --> 00:10:19,844 And there's like more locations of them now. 211 00:10:19,844 --> 00:10:21,814 And I'm like, what, people love this. 212 00:10:21,814 --> 00:10:23,054 I don't get it. 213 00:10:23,194 --> 00:10:27,477 But I will say during Boston Calling, 214 00:10:27,477 --> 00:10:28,047 of the video, 215 00:10:28,047 --> 00:10:28,542 you. 216 00:10:28,542 --> 00:10:31,622 Somebody who brought me to the front, you should call the pregame front. 217 00:10:31,622 --> 00:10:36,282 Somebody brought donuts from Blackbird and they have a new one that is in everything 218 00:10:36,282 --> 00:10:38,062 bagel donut. 219 00:10:38,502 --> 00:10:43,772 So it is a sweet and savory situation where they cut the bait, the, I'm sorry, 220 00:10:43,772 --> 00:10:48,782 they cut the donut in half and put actual whipped cream cheese in the middle. 221 00:10:48,782 --> 00:10:54,534 And it is, I can't even totally describe it because it's like, 222 00:11:06,056 --> 00:11:09,716 would be willing to taste this because I love everything bagel as a seasoning. 223 00:11:09,716 --> 00:11:12,689 Shout out to the Trader Joe's everything bagel seasoning supreme. 224 00:11:12,689 --> 00:11:16,689 actually, why not? 225 00:11:16,689 --> 00:11:21,579 Because it's a second season, it's Christmastime, why not? 226 00:11:21,579 --> 00:11:23,409 Because it's now here at Watertown. 227 00:11:23,409 --> 00:11:25,388 And I just think... 228 00:11:25,388 --> 00:11:28,788 glazed one that was like really excellent. 229 00:11:28,808 --> 00:11:30,898 I think the thing with donuts is... 230 00:11:30,898 --> 00:11:34,878 the Vietnamese coffee one from Union Square Donuts in my personal opinion. 231 00:11:34,878 --> 00:11:37,618 I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm like pretty into donuts. 232 00:11:37,618 --> 00:11:38,638 I'm pretty into donuts. 233 00:11:38,638 --> 00:11:40,108 We might have to have a donut off. 234 00:11:40,108 --> 00:11:45,038 we might have to do an on air head to head tasting of these donuts. 235 00:11:47,568 --> 00:11:48,686 Okay, I'll represent. 236 00:11:48,686 --> 00:11:49,556 never been there. 237 00:11:49,556 --> 00:11:53,081 I've only had canes that people have brought to like something. 238 00:11:53,081 --> 00:11:57,741 used when I worked downtown, I could walk to that one, but I would drive up to Rovia 239 00:11:57,741 --> 00:11:59,523 to get some. 240 00:12:00,562 --> 00:12:02,928 sounds like a fun thing that we should probably do. 241 00:12:02,928 --> 00:12:04,488 think we should do this. 242 00:12:04,488 --> 00:12:08,268 Steph can represent Team Keynes, I'll represent Team Blackbird, and you can be 243 00:12:08,268 --> 00:12:09,485 Team Union Square. 244 00:12:09,485 --> 00:12:11,885 We each bring like a smorgasbord. 245 00:12:13,018 --> 00:12:15,098 My favorite location. 246 00:12:15,558 --> 00:12:20,038 Yeah, my favorite one, my favorite Union Square Donuts location is the one in 247 00:12:20,038 --> 00:12:23,918 Brookline because it's like small and like it's, I don't want to say no for alls, but 248 00:12:23,918 --> 00:12:25,687 like it's great in there. 249 00:12:25,687 --> 00:12:28,538 And then they also have a stall on Timeout Market now. 250 00:12:29,718 --> 00:12:30,404 Yeah. 251 00:12:30,404 --> 00:12:31,854 expanded in a great way. 252 00:12:31,854 --> 00:12:36,054 I will also say the Union Square Donuts founder, Josh, is an epic person. 253 00:12:36,054 --> 00:12:38,784 I've had the pleasure of meeting him back from my food blogging days. 254 00:12:38,784 --> 00:12:44,104 And he was a co -host of an event that Union Square did with the Boston Wine 255 00:12:44,104 --> 00:12:44,724 School. 256 00:12:44,724 --> 00:12:46,624 And it was pairings of wine and donuts. 257 00:12:46,624 --> 00:12:47,874 I went with my friend, Alyssa. 258 00:12:47,874 --> 00:12:51,354 It was so awesome. 259 00:12:51,354 --> 00:12:52,514 you didn't invite me. 260 00:12:52,514 --> 00:12:57,434 Do you remember me like sending you a scathing text and I was like what the hell 261 00:12:57,434 --> 00:12:58,064 Molly? 262 00:12:58,064 --> 00:13:02,274 I apologize that you did not come with me. 263 00:13:03,104 --> 00:13:04,498 that was so fun. 264 00:13:04,498 --> 00:13:06,618 it still exist, that event? 265 00:13:06,896 --> 00:13:10,826 I'm sure that they're doing other events like that, if not with Boston Wine School, 266 00:13:10,826 --> 00:13:12,356 with other partners like that. 267 00:13:12,356 --> 00:13:14,776 They're always doing creative tasting, things like that. 268 00:13:14,776 --> 00:13:18,756 So if I see it again, I will be sure that you are my first call. 269 00:13:18,756 --> 00:13:20,436 Thank you. 270 00:13:20,436 --> 00:13:24,028 Steph, what have you been up to while I was in the Green Mountain State? 271 00:13:24,477 --> 00:13:25,357 squat. 272 00:13:26,797 --> 00:13:32,657 yesterday I found out that my favorite, I mean, I love scout, but Skylar is my 273 00:13:32,657 --> 00:13:33,817 favorite dog. 274 00:13:38,354 --> 00:13:41,881 You just insulted Nemo in like an absolutely major way. 275 00:13:41,881 --> 00:13:44,681 Nemo's like mine. 276 00:13:46,721 --> 00:13:47,891 Yeah, no, sorry. 277 00:13:47,891 --> 00:13:50,361 I mean, favorite neighborhood dog. 278 00:13:50,621 --> 00:13:52,364 And I found... 279 00:13:52,364 --> 00:13:54,634 superlatives for each of the dogs. 280 00:13:55,117 --> 00:13:58,597 I found out that she was home alone and so I went over and hung out in the backyard 281 00:13:58,597 --> 00:14:01,117 with her and read for a while. 282 00:14:01,117 --> 00:14:06,517 I've just been reading, cooking, using my herbs from the front porch. 283 00:14:06,517 --> 00:14:09,267 I really, maybe I've been doing stuff. 284 00:14:09,267 --> 00:14:10,527 I honestly couldn't tell you. 285 00:14:10,527 --> 00:14:14,057 If you asked me what I did on Friday, crickets. 286 00:14:14,057 --> 00:14:16,997 I literally don't remember what I did on Friday. 287 00:14:16,997 --> 00:14:18,577 Anyway, it's not important. 288 00:14:20,362 --> 00:14:22,462 Now I'm just looking at donut websites. 289 00:14:23,542 --> 00:14:26,922 So I had to do a pivot. 290 00:14:26,922 --> 00:14:30,942 I was supposed to go to Portland for a couple of days with two of my good friends 291 00:14:30,942 --> 00:14:32,382 from college. 292 00:14:32,502 --> 00:14:35,022 And one of them, 293 00:14:35,022 --> 00:14:40,042 just has like a lot has like a puppy and a dad that hasn't been well and a renovation 294 00:14:40,042 --> 00:14:43,382 in her house and a renovation at our summer house. 295 00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:46,722 And it quickly became like Portland's not going to work. 296 00:14:46,722 --> 00:14:50,682 So one of the friends lives in Rye, New Hampshire, which is the town next to 297 00:14:50,682 --> 00:14:51,231 Portsmouth. 298 00:14:51,231 --> 00:14:58,022 And we pivoted to hanging out at her house instead, which is fabulous because I love 299 00:14:58,022 --> 00:14:58,722 Portsmouth. 300 00:14:58,722 --> 00:14:59,722 I love the shopping. 301 00:14:59,722 --> 00:15:00,732 I love the food. 302 00:15:00,732 --> 00:15:02,502 I love the vibes. 303 00:15:02,502 --> 00:15:04,774 I was telling Steph from. 304 00:15:04,774 --> 00:15:08,764 you know, staff was part of the people that entered into the house and the 305 00:15:08,764 --> 00:15:13,584 resource and at the start of the week, we had a third house in Fort Smith. 306 00:15:13,584 --> 00:15:18,794 It had like three cool houses, cool wood, it was like... 307 00:15:18,794 --> 00:15:23,014 like, and Elise was like, I always feel like such a poser when I like buy a Roxy 308 00:15:23,014 --> 00:15:23,454 sundress. 309 00:15:23,454 --> 00:15:24,544 I was like, don't. 310 00:15:24,544 --> 00:15:26,224 I was like, I love this stuff. 311 00:15:26,224 --> 00:15:28,084 I've never even touched a surfboard. 312 00:15:28,084 --> 00:15:29,434 Who cares? 313 00:15:29,861 --> 00:15:32,361 surfboard adjacent though, so it's fine. 314 00:15:34,861 --> 00:15:37,572 You're friends with the surfer. 315 00:15:37,572 --> 00:15:38,202 sure. 316 00:15:38,202 --> 00:15:38,642 Okay. 317 00:15:38,642 --> 00:15:40,842 I mean, does that even count? 318 00:15:40,842 --> 00:15:44,764 And you haven't even gone recently, or if you have, you didn't tell me. 319 00:15:44,764 --> 00:15:49,184 way that Elise said she feels like a poser about the clothes, that's how I feel when 320 00:15:49,184 --> 00:15:53,384 Steph and I get in line at the burrito place that's next to the surf shop and 321 00:15:53,384 --> 00:15:56,944 people who have been like out on their board for hours are coming into 322 00:15:56,944 --> 00:16:01,844 Kenneburrito to refuel and I'm like, I'll have the huge veggie burrito with all the 323 00:16:01,844 --> 00:16:04,384 sides from literally just driving there. 324 00:16:04,384 --> 00:16:05,960 That's like the exertion. 325 00:16:06,294 --> 00:16:10,074 So news flash, I don't know if you know this, but Cinnamon Rainbows is not in that 326 00:16:10,074 --> 00:16:10,934 location anymore. 327 00:16:10,934 --> 00:16:12,374 They moved. 328 00:16:12,634 --> 00:16:15,889 So they moved and they're not next to the burrito shop anymore. 329 00:16:15,889 --> 00:16:17,909 not even sure if secret spots still exist. 330 00:16:17,909 --> 00:16:19,203 I have no idea. 331 00:16:19,278 --> 00:16:20,898 I don't know either. 332 00:16:20,898 --> 00:16:23,018 I feel like we drove near there. 333 00:16:23,018 --> 00:16:25,638 Yeah, I don't think it is. 334 00:16:25,678 --> 00:16:30,638 But we did drive past Jenis Beach, I waved at it for you. 335 00:16:32,518 --> 00:16:38,438 And Summer Fridays are just about the most glorious thing to ever come into 336 00:16:38,438 --> 00:16:39,778 existence. 337 00:16:40,078 --> 00:16:45,028 So Elise had herself a Summer Friday, I did too, because it was field day. 338 00:16:45,028 --> 00:16:47,910 And since I'm part time, I'm not required to like... 339 00:16:48,317 --> 00:16:50,417 hosting a concert or whatever. 340 00:16:50,537 --> 00:16:55,037 So, I boogied my way up to the court today. 341 00:16:55,037 --> 00:16:58,297 After having heard about the front door, it was not accepted. 342 00:16:58,297 --> 00:17:02,327 I boogied up there and, you know, there's like no traffic. 343 00:17:02,327 --> 00:17:03,034 I was like, 344 00:17:03,034 --> 00:17:04,024 o 'clock on Friday morning. 345 00:17:04,024 --> 00:17:05,074 I got up there. 346 00:17:05,074 --> 00:17:07,644 She was like, do you want to go to the beach plum for lunch? 347 00:17:07,644 --> 00:17:09,574 I was like, yeah, I do. 348 00:17:09,574 --> 00:17:10,934 So we went to the beach plum. 349 00:17:10,934 --> 00:17:12,328 Have you guys been there? 350 00:17:12,328 --> 00:17:12,958 Sure have. 351 00:17:12,958 --> 00:17:16,028 Yes, it's where we got the milkshakes on the way out of town. 352 00:17:16,028 --> 00:17:18,344 You know it. 353 00:17:18,593 --> 00:17:21,033 and lots of options there. 354 00:17:21,253 --> 00:17:24,014 But they have everything from lobster bisque, 355 00:17:24,014 --> 00:17:29,024 to like, I had a toasted crab meat sandwich, like every kind of seafood, 356 00:17:29,024 --> 00:17:30,964 anything that you could possibly imagine. 357 00:17:30,964 --> 00:17:34,194 And then they also have like 50 flavors of ice cream. 358 00:17:34,354 --> 00:17:43,754 You usually, you usually are in line and waiting for food for a substantial amount 359 00:17:43,754 --> 00:17:44,154 of time. 360 00:17:44,154 --> 00:17:45,690 If it's the weekend. 361 00:17:46,161 --> 00:17:49,731 And also there's some aggressive work and analysis up there. 362 00:17:49,731 --> 00:17:52,001 It just gets me nuts though. 363 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:53,366 And we were... 364 00:17:53,366 --> 00:17:59,006 two of like eight people there because we went at like 145 on a Friday and there was 365 00:17:59,006 --> 00:18:01,746 like nobody there and it was glorious. 366 00:18:01,946 --> 00:18:07,846 And we just had like this, you know, I had a black raspberry frap. 367 00:18:07,846 --> 00:18:10,124 I ate my crab meat sandwich. 368 00:18:14,508 --> 00:18:18,128 remember in my case, this is how I got to be. 369 00:18:18,128 --> 00:18:20,688 She was like, this is great. 370 00:18:21,348 --> 00:18:22,166 And so. 371 00:18:22,166 --> 00:18:27,206 we, hung out on her deck and we were drinking Rose and I was like, waiting to 372 00:18:27,206 --> 00:18:29,346 find out if I bought a house, which I didn't. 373 00:18:29,346 --> 00:18:35,166 And then we went out to dinner and we went downtown to this bar that she has been 374 00:18:35,166 --> 00:18:40,256 trying to get us to go to like for years because. 375 00:18:40,256 --> 00:18:44,836 before all these years we arrived on the other side of town when we were in college 376 00:18:44,836 --> 00:18:49,696 and after college so like I know this area really well and we'll be there soon at 377 00:18:49,696 --> 00:18:54,176 least but until like three years ago she had been looking for work and then we'd 378 00:18:54,176 --> 00:18:58,696 seen so we'll find you back to like basics here like if you're gonna be like you're 379 00:18:58,696 --> 00:19:01,971 gonna be spending time in the chat or in the head and you're just going to be like 380 00:19:01,971 --> 00:19:02,686 and 381 00:19:03,013 --> 00:19:06,493 And so she comes to me and is talking about this place called the Gathlete, 382 00:19:06,493 --> 00:19:08,946 which is just a hilarious name. 383 00:19:08,946 --> 00:19:09,660 a bar. 384 00:19:09,660 --> 00:19:13,260 now because of the way the batteries are used. 385 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,160 So it's basically like three stories. 386 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:18,434 So basically, from what I've heard, it's about... 387 00:19:18,434 --> 00:19:21,214 kind of a sketchy like pizza joint. 388 00:19:21,214 --> 00:19:26,524 The main floor is a restaurant and then the top floor is a club at night. 389 00:19:26,524 --> 00:19:30,214 And I think it's only a club Thursday through Sunday maybe. 390 00:19:30,234 --> 00:19:36,450 And they have the largest outdoor bar area like out of any Portsmouth bar downtown. 391 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,200 And they have the security and quality of your pieces, and the greatness and the 392 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,320 variety of art that they have. 393 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:44,712 And I heard... 394 00:19:45,165 --> 00:19:48,498 And it was just like, the people watching at this place is all me. 395 00:19:48,498 --> 00:19:48,918 so good. 396 00:19:48,918 --> 00:19:54,258 Can we please go to the bar and just like, I'm sorry to say, make fun of people. 397 00:19:54,618 --> 00:19:56,178 and I was like, let's do it. 398 00:19:56,178 --> 00:20:01,458 So we went and unbeknownst to us, there was a nineties cover band. 399 00:20:01,638 --> 00:20:03,649 They were so good. 400 00:20:03,649 --> 00:20:06,169 We were like, they did not look like they were gonna accept. 401 00:20:06,169 --> 00:20:10,029 It was four kids, one of them had high school and we were like, this is it. 402 00:20:10,029 --> 00:20:12,599 They were all so good. 403 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:16,549 All four of them were in rum and diet clothes, which one of us was going to be 404 00:20:16,549 --> 00:20:18,319 for something on the diet clothes. 405 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:20,009 I can't even look. 406 00:20:20,809 --> 00:20:23,269 We didn't know what to think. 407 00:20:23,269 --> 00:20:25,329 These four guys roll up. 408 00:20:25,329 --> 00:20:27,909 They ordered the diet clothes with mom. 409 00:20:28,146 --> 00:20:29,566 Three of them take their drinks. 410 00:20:29,566 --> 00:20:30,692 The fourth guy. 411 00:20:30,692 --> 00:20:35,032 troughs it and slams the plastic cup on the floor. 412 00:20:35,552 --> 00:20:39,757 They then proceed to walk me into the stage area and open the door. 413 00:20:39,757 --> 00:20:41,657 my god, this is the band. 414 00:20:41,657 --> 00:20:45,056 The guy that slammed the wrong guy was the drummer. 415 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:47,717 He was once the head of the band. 416 00:20:47,717 --> 00:20:49,867 I was rolling up the floor. 417 00:20:49,867 --> 00:20:50,937 He was vigorous. 418 00:20:50,937 --> 00:20:54,309 Then a couple of years later, he got married so fast. 419 00:20:54,374 --> 00:20:56,334 with no guests. 420 00:20:56,334 --> 00:20:57,894 It was like the bride and the groom. 421 00:20:57,894 --> 00:20:58,824 They were pretty drunk. 422 00:20:58,824 --> 00:21:00,702 It was only 930 at night. 423 00:21:03,164 --> 00:21:07,834 they got to the bar and all of a sudden this guy came up and started playing. 424 00:21:07,834 --> 00:21:08,374 wedding dress. 425 00:21:08,374 --> 00:21:10,594 And I was like, there's a chance. 426 00:21:10,594 --> 00:21:14,434 They're ordering Tom Collins's at the bar. 427 00:21:14,434 --> 00:21:15,774 Nuff said. 428 00:21:16,054 --> 00:21:17,474 They get their drinks. 429 00:21:17,474 --> 00:21:22,234 And this other couple to the right of me says, we'd like to pay for that couple's 430 00:21:22,234 --> 00:21:23,694 drinks that just got married. 431 00:21:23,694 --> 00:21:25,324 And they were like, do you know them? 432 00:21:25,324 --> 00:21:26,604 Like, can we tell them your names? 433 00:21:26,604 --> 00:21:28,074 And they were like, no, we don't know them. 434 00:21:28,074 --> 00:21:30,046 We just want to pay for their drinks. 435 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:31,700 I was like, I was swimming. 436 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:33,310 I need to drink some more tea right now. 437 00:21:33,310 --> 00:21:36,200 So I was like, I was like, they don't have any beer. 438 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:44,100 So I was like, these people really was carrying too many little gift bags around. 439 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,620 They had no friends with them. 440 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,080 So they didn't drink at the workhouse tonight. 441 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,440 And now it's like, getting all the bars and stuff and people are buying them 442 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:54,240 drinks. 443 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,373 Or more people are having a drink. 444 00:21:56,373 --> 00:21:58,553 that they were like, let's just leave? 445 00:21:58,553 --> 00:21:59,423 What do you think? 446 00:21:59,423 --> 00:22:00,393 I don't know. 447 00:22:00,393 --> 00:22:03,512 I don't know what this place is trying to cause. 448 00:22:03,512 --> 00:22:07,033 Like, I don't know what's going on at all. 449 00:22:07,033 --> 00:22:13,813 But they were there by themselves at 930 on a Friday night in June in court sitting 450 00:22:13,813 --> 00:22:15,713 in the answer at the gas station. 451 00:22:16,250 --> 00:22:20,280 So we were wildly entertained the whole time that we were there. 452 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,216 We left before it started getting messy, but like. 453 00:22:23,216 --> 00:22:27,336 saw some people that were getting tired and exhausted, and we saw some people that 454 00:22:27,336 --> 00:22:28,025 were trying to get out 455 00:22:28,025 --> 00:22:29,105 going to give this up. 456 00:22:30,785 --> 00:22:32,845 And it was just blast. 457 00:22:32,845 --> 00:22:35,005 We just had a great time. 458 00:22:35,005 --> 00:22:37,444 I truly felt that it was good. 459 00:22:37,444 --> 00:22:40,465 What do you say to that? 460 00:22:41,261 --> 00:22:44,101 A million dollar cowboy bar last July. 461 00:22:44,101 --> 00:22:45,880 I charged a cover. 462 00:22:46,241 --> 00:22:47,921 Yeah, I did. 463 00:22:53,561 --> 00:22:55,461 I feel like no one had cash. 464 00:22:55,461 --> 00:22:57,121 We must have been using a card. 465 00:22:57,121 --> 00:23:00,081 I feel like someone probably paid the cover for all of us. 466 00:23:00,081 --> 00:23:01,461 Do you think someone did that? 467 00:23:01,461 --> 00:23:02,714 Did I do that? 468 00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:07,274 Okay, well now, okay now that you say that, we need to remember to have cash. 469 00:23:07,274 --> 00:23:08,353 One of us. 470 00:23:08,353 --> 00:23:11,833 get there by a certain time, because Liv and I walked in one time and it was early 471 00:23:11,833 --> 00:23:13,053 enough that there wasn't a cover. 472 00:23:13,053 --> 00:23:15,760 It's probably like after eight o 'clock or something. 473 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,800 might be a hallucination, but I feel like they also maybe have an ATM inside. 474 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,660 We'll see. 475 00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:25,460 We'll fact check it when we get there again. 476 00:23:25,486 --> 00:23:26,086 Yeah. 477 00:23:26,086 --> 00:23:32,426 So anyways, we had a glorious time and then I went to my friends, Mike and Karen 478 00:23:32,426 --> 00:23:34,826 had a like farewell to their house party. 479 00:23:34,826 --> 00:23:39,526 I think they've lived there 11 years in Southie and they have this absolutely 480 00:23:39,526 --> 00:23:41,465 glorious roof deck. 481 00:23:41,465 --> 00:23:45,306 And since I was in New Hampshire, did I buy sparklers? 482 00:23:45,306 --> 00:23:46,266 Yes, I did. 483 00:23:46,266 --> 00:23:52,672 So I brought sparklers and we did like a little farewell toast to. 484 00:23:53,109 --> 00:23:57,629 our house in South Korea, which has a lot of good memories. 485 00:23:57,789 --> 00:23:59,190 And... 486 00:23:59,190 --> 00:24:02,210 sad about it, but they're also excited because they're like quadrupling their 487 00:24:02,210 --> 00:24:03,110 square footage. 488 00:24:03,110 --> 00:24:07,900 So it's in the end, it's great, but like they're also moving to the burbs. 489 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:09,609 It's just like a lot of change. 490 00:24:09,609 --> 00:24:14,969 also like who wants to be like 40s and 50s and Southie surrounded by like 22 year 491 00:24:14,969 --> 00:24:15,989 olds. 492 00:24:17,218 --> 00:24:24,598 so they live in a condo that has three other condos and everybody is their age or 493 00:24:24,598 --> 00:24:25,238 older. 494 00:24:25,238 --> 00:24:29,838 So I think that's been like the secret to their success for being able to stay as 495 00:24:29,838 --> 00:24:31,178 long as they did. 496 00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:33,878 But I will say like the last couple of years of St. 497 00:24:33,878 --> 00:24:38,737 Patrick's Day parades, they've just been like, I mean, you can like literally sit 498 00:24:38,857 --> 00:24:42,358 in their house and look out the window at people like peeing in their driveway. 499 00:24:42,358 --> 00:24:43,878 Like it's bad. 500 00:24:44,258 --> 00:24:44,950 So. 501 00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:45,660 it was fun. 502 00:24:45,660 --> 00:24:48,760 It was fun, but still, it was really cool. 503 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,520 Yeah, it was fun at the same time. 504 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:52,960 So I'm excited. 505 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:59,820 I will say I felt like the weather this weekend really moved me into the summer 506 00:24:59,820 --> 00:25:00,349 state of mind. 507 00:25:00,349 --> 00:25:03,560 Obviously, I was away the previous two weeks, so I didn't get to feel all the 80 508 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,160 degree days that you guys had. 509 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,790 But I just was like, yeah, summer is here. 510 00:25:07,790 --> 00:25:09,160 I'm feeling it. 511 00:25:10,016 --> 00:25:11,066 I'm feeling it too. 512 00:25:11,066 --> 00:25:13,866 And now we're going to talk about a summary book. 513 00:25:14,706 --> 00:25:17,346 Okay, so this summer will be different. 514 00:25:17,346 --> 00:25:20,926 Carly Fortune's third book, she is a Canadian author. 515 00:25:20,926 --> 00:25:24,186 We've talked about her before because we do love her books. 516 00:25:24,186 --> 00:25:28,706 And when we started the podcast in November, she was one of the few authors 517 00:25:28,706 --> 00:25:31,306 that all three of us had already read both of her books. 518 00:25:31,306 --> 00:25:35,764 So we were like, she's a front runner for an early episode because 519 00:25:35,905 --> 00:25:38,162 you know, the comments are not very good at all. 520 00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:40,502 to have read the book for us to be able to talk about it. 521 00:25:40,502 --> 00:25:43,961 So she was one of our earlier episodes. 522 00:25:43,961 --> 00:25:47,273 And when this book was coming out, 523 00:25:47,273 --> 00:25:50,797 think it was the book boyfriend episode wasn't it? 524 00:25:51,454 --> 00:25:52,074 sure. 525 00:25:52,074 --> 00:25:52,741 I don't know. 526 00:25:52,741 --> 00:25:57,531 you had every summer after as a book, am I making this up? 527 00:25:57,531 --> 00:25:58,961 Am I misremembering? 528 00:25:58,961 --> 00:26:00,716 Isn't that how we mentioned her? 529 00:26:00,716 --> 00:26:06,536 not misremembering, you're combining, I think, we spoke about Every Summer After 530 00:26:06,536 --> 00:26:10,476 and Love in Other Words in the same episode. 531 00:26:11,156 --> 00:26:15,636 And Caitlin did talk about Love in Other Words as one of her favorite book 532 00:26:15,636 --> 00:26:17,258 boyfriend characters. 533 00:26:18,029 --> 00:26:19,598 I'm remembering now, continue. 534 00:26:19,598 --> 00:26:24,358 Yeah, because what's his name with the crazy Greek last name in the dentist? 535 00:26:24,358 --> 00:26:27,118 Dad is like the one of the best book boyfriends of all time. 536 00:26:27,118 --> 00:26:27,938 What's his name? 537 00:26:27,938 --> 00:26:31,038 His last name, something like Stephanopoulos, basically. 538 00:26:31,598 --> 00:26:35,018 Yeah, close enough, close enough. 539 00:26:35,018 --> 00:26:43,218 OK, anywho, so we're back at Carly Fortune again because we love her and every summer 540 00:26:43,218 --> 00:26:47,858 after was her first book, which we adored. 541 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,600 And that's it, actually. 542 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,426 We've played many all three on that. 543 00:26:52,426 --> 00:26:55,581 that her, her debut book is like the one to beat. 544 00:26:55,581 --> 00:26:56,941 I'm sorry, it's a drug. 545 00:26:56,941 --> 00:26:59,721 One of the drugs is an allergen control. 546 00:26:59,721 --> 00:27:01,211 I was gonna say E .Y. 547 00:27:01,211 --> 00:27:02,111 So I was right. 548 00:27:02,111 --> 00:27:02,558 Yeah. 549 00:27:02,558 --> 00:27:03,478 right. 550 00:27:04,078 --> 00:27:06,958 It's my book boyfriend and stuff knows his name. 551 00:27:07,697 --> 00:27:11,258 So this summer will be different. 552 00:27:12,018 --> 00:27:15,958 All of her books take place in Canada, but this is the first one that takes place in 553 00:27:15,958 --> 00:27:17,258 Prince Edward Island. 554 00:27:17,258 --> 00:27:22,878 And this is like, it's sort of a second chance romance. 555 00:27:22,878 --> 00:27:29,438 And I say sort of because the way that this book rolls out. 556 00:27:29,870 --> 00:27:41,254 we've got two female puppies, Lucy and Bridget, and they... 557 00:27:41,454 --> 00:27:46,554 super close, like in their early 20s, and then they become roommates. 558 00:27:47,254 --> 00:27:52,582 And Bridget is from Prince Edward Island originally, so she's like... 559 00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:56,250 You know, one of those kids that like would have a bumper sticker that's like 560 00:27:56,250 --> 00:27:58,370 your vacation is my hometown or what? 561 00:27:58,370 --> 00:27:58,910 You know what I mean? 562 00:27:58,910 --> 00:28:01,019 She's like one of those and she has a lot of pride about it. 563 00:28:01,019 --> 00:28:04,710 And she comes from like a great family and they've got a cool, funky house. 564 00:28:04,710 --> 00:28:10,390 And she has this brother that everybody calls Wolf, but his real name is Felix. 565 00:28:10,390 --> 00:28:14,926 And she takes Lucy home to Prince Edward Island. 566 00:28:15,668 --> 00:28:20,668 the first five pages of the book, and there's all the love for example, they're 567 00:28:20,668 --> 00:28:24,148 talking about Whiskers, Monster Box, they're talking about seafood, and the 568 00:28:24,148 --> 00:28:30,368 peach, and just like the culture there, people, and it sounds like a more old 569 00:28:30,368 --> 00:28:33,248 -fashioned approach to God pretty much. 570 00:28:33,248 --> 00:28:36,988 And I didn't really know what to talk about for the second half, but I just said 571 00:28:36,988 --> 00:28:37,294 it. 572 00:28:37,294 --> 00:28:37,714 before. 573 00:28:37,714 --> 00:28:42,134 And so this was like a fun book to like immerse yourself in, like when you're 574 00:28:42,134 --> 00:28:43,686 reading it and it's like. 575 00:28:43,886 --> 00:28:47,886 You know, it's always fun when you're like, I'm jealous of this best friendship 576 00:28:47,886 --> 00:28:49,446 and whatnot, what have you. 577 00:28:49,446 --> 00:28:55,226 And basically within the first five pages, Lucy finds herself an oyster shucking, you 578 00:28:55,226 --> 00:29:01,166 know, book boyfriend, basically, who she like has a one night stand with. 579 00:29:01,366 --> 00:29:06,506 And, you know, within a day finds out that this is her best friend's brother and that 580 00:29:06,506 --> 00:29:09,106 she's really like goofed up. 581 00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:13,786 because her best friend Bridget has made a rule about. 582 00:29:13,786 --> 00:29:16,826 you're not to talk with my brother. 583 00:29:16,826 --> 00:29:21,706 And I don't think this has given anything away, but Bridget has established this 584 00:29:21,706 --> 00:29:24,126 rule because of something that's already happened. 585 00:29:24,126 --> 00:29:34,406 And so she was like, yeah, we're great brothers, but, like, stay away from him. 586 00:29:34,886 --> 00:29:35,918 And so... 587 00:29:35,918 --> 00:29:40,098 that's kind of the seed that gets planted at the beginning of the book. 588 00:29:40,098 --> 00:29:42,158 And the reason that I say 589 00:29:42,158 --> 00:29:47,038 I hesitate to call it a second chance romance is because it's like, they never 590 00:29:47,038 --> 00:29:47,638 date. 591 00:29:47,638 --> 00:29:52,158 They have this one night stand that really sparked something and then they're both 592 00:29:52,158 --> 00:29:58,718 hands off from each other for years because they both care so much about 593 00:29:58,718 --> 00:30:01,528 Bridget that they're like, we're not going to chance this. 594 00:30:01,528 --> 00:30:07,238 This could really goof a lot of things up and it's just not worth it. 595 00:30:07,238 --> 00:30:11,008 Then slowly we get the like, well, is it maybe worth it? 596 00:30:11,008 --> 00:30:11,563 I don't know. 597 00:30:11,563 --> 00:30:11,963 no. 598 00:30:11,963 --> 00:30:14,353 So that's kind of like third and second chance. 599 00:30:14,353 --> 00:30:18,303 But it's hard to call it a second chance because they don't actually make it. 600 00:30:18,303 --> 00:30:19,723 It's not like the best would work out. 601 00:30:19,723 --> 00:30:24,283 It's like, in every trip I make, I wouldn't have if you had known what it was 602 00:30:24,283 --> 00:30:25,583 from the go. 603 00:30:26,663 --> 00:30:28,823 So that's my thought for this. 604 00:30:30,349 --> 00:30:34,349 One of my ways of dealing with stress is that I plan vacations that I'm not 605 00:30:34,349 --> 00:30:35,409 necessarily going to take. 606 00:30:35,409 --> 00:30:37,709 It's just like a mental escape. 607 00:30:37,709 --> 00:30:44,889 And I went online and immediately looked at flights to PEI because Nova Scotia and 608 00:30:44,889 --> 00:30:51,569 PEI is where my relatives emigrated to from Scotland. 609 00:30:51,689 --> 00:30:54,309 My great great grandmother did. 610 00:30:54,329 --> 00:30:55,405 And so. 611 00:30:55,405 --> 00:30:59,424 My grandmother used to go up there all the time for vacations and I have heard about 612 00:30:59,424 --> 00:31:05,305 it as a sort of like magical place for so long and it's not a far place from Boston 613 00:31:05,305 --> 00:31:07,425 and yet I've never been. 614 00:31:07,885 --> 00:31:12,945 So maybe I need to add this to the list because it just sounded so lovely and 615 00:31:12,945 --> 00:31:13,305 magical. 616 00:31:13,305 --> 00:31:18,025 Also, I've never heard of vino verde but apparently I need to start drinking that. 617 00:31:18,625 --> 00:31:20,105 Have I? 618 00:31:20,205 --> 00:31:21,965 Green wine? 619 00:31:22,785 --> 00:31:24,831 Have I had it? 620 00:31:26,592 --> 00:31:30,172 I'm sure that we've had it in restaurants. 621 00:31:30,172 --> 00:31:31,312 I 622 00:31:31,312 --> 00:31:33,532 discovered it when I was studying abroad in Spain. 623 00:31:33,532 --> 00:31:36,612 It's very popular Spain and Portugal for sure. 624 00:31:36,612 --> 00:31:38,534 For sure you've had it before. 625 00:31:39,113 --> 00:31:43,593 well I've definitely never had it with oysters and also do I also need to start 626 00:31:43,593 --> 00:31:48,333 drinking ryan peanuts which sounds horrible to me except in the interview 627 00:31:48,333 --> 00:31:53,989 that Carly did god why can't I think of what podcast what podcast was she on? 628 00:31:54,090 --> 00:31:56,270 I want to sign it. 629 00:31:56,270 --> 00:31:59,090 Okay, maybe it was. 630 00:31:59,090 --> 00:32:04,310 It sounds like you need to experience this. 631 00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:07,510 So I crumbly peed on it. 632 00:32:07,510 --> 00:32:08,870 I was just like, I don't know. 633 00:32:08,870 --> 00:32:10,210 I was on a plane ticket. 634 00:32:10,210 --> 00:32:12,429 Maybe you're just sitting there. 635 00:32:12,429 --> 00:32:19,249 in your like sweater and shorts on the beach in PEI, that's like part of the 636 00:32:19,249 --> 00:32:20,526 whole scene. 637 00:32:20,526 --> 00:32:22,466 not interested at all. 638 00:32:22,866 --> 00:32:26,206 Okay, when he was producing the fish, there was a lot of this stuff. 639 00:32:26,206 --> 00:32:27,346 This house was so good. 640 00:32:27,346 --> 00:32:29,746 And I mean that in a different way. 641 00:32:29,746 --> 00:32:34,766 The way he just went into the snow or was really into the cute little trucks at the 642 00:32:34,766 --> 00:32:35,446 house. 643 00:32:35,446 --> 00:32:38,452 They take out all these complaints, but it's really bad. 644 00:32:38,452 --> 00:32:41,952 beach But it's a bit too chilly the description of drinking rye and eating 645 00:32:41,952 --> 00:32:47,432 peanuts There's so many descriptions of this oyster shocking contest which for me 646 00:32:47,432 --> 00:32:48,812 as someone who doesn't eat oysters. 647 00:32:48,812 --> 00:32:53,364 I was like, okay, I get it but her 648 00:32:53,405 --> 00:32:56,505 her specificity, one makes it so. 649 00:32:57,074 --> 00:33:00,584 like, who we are, and I don't know. 650 00:33:00,584 --> 00:33:07,644 bit biased because we know the Cape so well and we know that idea of the summer 651 00:33:07,644 --> 00:33:11,844 ritual and the getaway place and the joy of being back at the beach. 652 00:33:11,844 --> 00:33:16,734 It does feel so reminiscent of the New England summer. 653 00:33:16,734 --> 00:33:19,944 And even when they talk about going in the off season for Thanksgiving or the dead of 654 00:33:19,944 --> 00:33:23,320 winter, I was like, I can picture, even though I've never been. 655 00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,676 to Prince Edward Island, I can picture it. 656 00:33:25,676 --> 00:33:30,316 And I put a little sticky in this book on something that she says in the 657 00:33:30,316 --> 00:33:30,896 acknowledgement. 658 00:33:30,896 --> 00:33:37,856 So it's just, there's a big debate about whether or not it should be on PEI or in 659 00:33:37,856 --> 00:33:42,576 PEI, which is like, people say down the Cape, on the Cape. 660 00:33:42,816 --> 00:33:44,916 I don't say in the Cape. 661 00:33:45,816 --> 00:33:46,216 Right. 662 00:33:46,216 --> 00:33:51,345 So I was like, this also feels highly relatable because that is just an ongoing. 663 00:33:51,345 --> 00:33:54,845 debate about the students, so that's the correct way to say it. 664 00:33:54,845 --> 00:34:01,425 I also have to say to me, of all the students, this was actually the most, 665 00:34:01,425 --> 00:34:08,365 like, this, canvassing, was bloody, but it's spicier. 666 00:34:08,365 --> 00:34:11,040 I'm not sure how you would say it. 667 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:11,914 far and away. 668 00:34:11,914 --> 00:34:13,654 I mean, you're not in it. 669 00:34:13,654 --> 00:34:15,494 How long? 670 00:34:15,494 --> 00:34:18,944 I mean, most of you really thought that was the most gross. 671 00:34:18,944 --> 00:34:21,600 So it's like, I've arrived. 672 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:22,000 Felix. 673 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,150 Like I get it now because these gals asked me last week when I had just started this, 674 00:34:27,150 --> 00:34:28,560 if I had fallen in love with Felix yet. 675 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,320 And I was on page like 48 and I was like, no. 676 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:36,234 And then I got to that bathroom scene and I was like, I'm here for it. 677 00:34:36,234 --> 00:34:39,754 yeah, he yeah, he's a he's a good one. 678 00:34:39,894 --> 00:34:46,654 And I just feel like she did some really good character building with Felix. 679 00:34:47,094 --> 00:34:51,082 Well, with all the characters, but I felt like 680 00:34:51,941 --> 00:34:56,401 he was passionate about Yuna and what he was about Yuna. 681 00:34:56,681 --> 00:34:58,901 That he was like for real. 682 00:34:58,901 --> 00:35:02,341 There wasn't going to be a moment where he like flaked. 683 00:35:02,341 --> 00:35:05,614 Like it was, and like if she had done that, everything would 684 00:35:05,614 --> 00:35:06,114 really? 685 00:35:06,114 --> 00:35:07,114 Like, are you kidding me? 686 00:35:07,114 --> 00:35:10,874 You had to ruin him with this like whatever twist that you had to do. 687 00:35:10,874 --> 00:35:15,974 And that just did not happen, which I was really glad about. 688 00:35:16,584 --> 00:35:18,004 I saw. 689 00:35:19,597 --> 00:35:25,337 on Instagram, but I don't know like, under what circumstances, but Carly Fortune and 690 00:35:25,337 --> 00:35:29,829 her best friend went on a trip to Prince Edward Island when the book came out. 691 00:35:29,829 --> 00:35:34,649 She talks about it in the podcast with Kate Kennedy which also maybe that's when 692 00:35:34,649 --> 00:35:38,349 I was first before having read this I was like do I need to add this to my list of 693 00:35:38,349 --> 00:35:39,760 places to go? 694 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,940 two other things I wanted to call out about the story. 695 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:49,020 The first one is at some point, Lucy and Felix start corresponding by mail. 696 00:35:49,020 --> 00:35:51,180 I'm not going to say anything more than that because I don't want to ruin 697 00:35:51,180 --> 00:35:51,960 anything. 698 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,490 Snail mail is my love language. 699 00:35:53,490 --> 00:35:57,540 And I was like, I would fall apart if somebody did this to me, like in a good 700 00:35:57,540 --> 00:35:57,920 way. 701 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:02,440 I would be so moved to be like receiving this kind of 702 00:36:02,977 --> 00:36:09,717 I also want to say that even if there's not enough attention, that tends to give 703 00:36:09,717 --> 00:36:10,977 away attention to everything else. 704 00:36:10,977 --> 00:36:16,097 In this story, there is a big tension between the person and the person. 705 00:36:16,577 --> 00:36:22,297 And for real, after 80 % of the plot, you do not know what it is. 706 00:36:23,152 --> 00:36:23,532 Okay. 707 00:36:23,532 --> 00:36:26,692 Stephanie's about to say she knew what it was going to be, but. 708 00:36:28,286 --> 00:36:29,993 I never figured it out. 709 00:36:29,993 --> 00:36:31,312 were context clues. 710 00:36:31,312 --> 00:36:33,854 Okay, but I - 711 00:36:33,854 --> 00:36:39,574 think with this kind of book, I'm not as close of a reader as I am with like books 712 00:36:39,574 --> 00:36:46,094 that are like literary fiction as opposed to like romcoms or romances or whatever 713 00:36:46,094 --> 00:36:47,344 you want to call this genre. 714 00:36:47,344 --> 00:36:50,554 Even though Carly Fortune is in the literary fiction section of bookstores 715 00:36:50,554 --> 00:36:51,534 usually. 716 00:36:52,074 --> 00:36:53,760 I kind of like 717 00:36:54,990 --> 00:36:57,550 I kind of like drift a little bit. 718 00:36:57,550 --> 00:37:01,330 Yeah, because I don't want it to I'm it's not the kind of book where I'm trying to 719 00:37:01,330 --> 00:37:01,950 figure it out. 720 00:37:01,950 --> 00:37:06,070 Whereas if like I know a book's a mystery, I'm like, okay, I am looking for clues. 721 00:37:06,432 --> 00:37:13,012 just felt like it kept you all the way in because at least for me Steph apparently 722 00:37:13,012 --> 00:37:18,192 knew what it was but I was like what is it that she is refusing to tell her? 723 00:37:18,192 --> 00:37:23,912 Why is she sort of dancing around this and unwilling to say what it is that's 724 00:37:23,912 --> 00:37:25,072 bothering her and 725 00:37:25,072 --> 00:37:28,812 It's driving the wedge between them even more than it needs to be because she just 726 00:37:28,812 --> 00:37:31,592 keeps almost telling her and then not telling her. 727 00:37:31,612 --> 00:37:34,812 And I wasn't even sure if we would get a resolution. 728 00:37:34,812 --> 00:37:37,522 I just didn't kind of know where it was going. 729 00:37:37,522 --> 00:37:41,732 And I will say there's a point in the romance between Lucy and Felix where it 730 00:37:41,732 --> 00:37:44,602 seems like everything's going to tie up with the bow. 731 00:37:44,602 --> 00:37:45,992 And I am no dumb dumb. 732 00:37:45,992 --> 00:37:48,772 There were still like 65 pages left in this book. 733 00:37:48,772 --> 00:37:50,920 And I was like, something bad is going 734 00:37:51,677 --> 00:37:56,157 I say though that having figured it out, it didn't ruin it for me because I was 735 00:37:56,157 --> 00:38:00,447 still like along the ride of like, they're both keeping secrets. 736 00:38:00,447 --> 00:38:05,597 Both of them eventually have to tell and even if I knew what it was, it didn't 737 00:38:05,597 --> 00:38:06,577 deter. 738 00:38:07,262 --> 00:38:11,742 the buildup of tension, I also just remembered, I didn't know. 739 00:38:11,742 --> 00:38:16,097 I don't wanna give stuff away about the relationship between the heart and the 740 00:38:16,097 --> 00:38:16,112 soul. 741 00:38:16,112 --> 00:38:18,482 I don't know, there's so many things about it. 742 00:38:18,825 --> 00:38:24,745 relationships that are not with your actual parents, but it feels as close as a 743 00:38:24,745 --> 00:38:31,429 parent that just gets me more somehow than an actual parent. 744 00:38:31,522 --> 00:38:35,502 either of you think that Lucy's parents were dead at the beginning of the book 745 00:38:35,502 --> 00:38:39,122 because of the way she talked about her relationship with her aunt? 746 00:38:39,402 --> 00:38:41,844 I thought I forget at what point. 747 00:38:41,844 --> 00:38:45,404 I think Bridget at some point says something like, yeah, we were parents, we 748 00:38:45,404 --> 00:38:46,584 had to care about it. 749 00:38:46,584 --> 00:38:46,944 We did. 750 00:38:46,944 --> 00:38:47,854 I was really shocked. 751 00:38:47,854 --> 00:38:50,113 And I was like, I was just, hold on. 752 00:38:50,113 --> 00:38:51,613 she's not in a couple? 753 00:38:51,613 --> 00:38:54,923 Because being raised on the island is kind of a bad luck. 754 00:38:54,923 --> 00:38:56,453 And then I was like, I miss them, too. 755 00:38:56,453 --> 00:38:59,093 And it's just not revealed until then. 756 00:38:59,093 --> 00:39:00,733 She has 20 parents. 757 00:39:00,733 --> 00:39:01,613 Yeah. 758 00:39:01,613 --> 00:39:05,776 It seemed like, I would probably just. 759 00:39:05,776 --> 00:39:06,306 in her life. 760 00:39:06,306 --> 00:39:09,816 And then when the parents appeared later on, I was like, huh, okay. 761 00:39:10,356 --> 00:39:11,746 It's not that it didn't work. 762 00:39:11,746 --> 00:39:16,636 I was just like, okay, I guess this is also part of what's going on. 763 00:39:16,636 --> 00:39:19,094 And then there's a bit around. 764 00:39:19,493 --> 00:39:25,213 losing the coolness of the earth, which is obviously a bit crazy, so I'm going to go 765 00:39:25,213 --> 00:39:26,053 ahead and say hello to you. 766 00:39:26,053 --> 00:39:26,624 Okay? 767 00:39:26,624 --> 00:39:27,424 So I don't know. 768 00:39:27,424 --> 00:39:31,064 There were bits certainly that I felt like was this a bigger part of the story 769 00:39:31,064 --> 00:39:31,534 before. 770 00:39:31,534 --> 00:39:34,844 And it got trimmed in the editing process, especially as it related to Lucy's 771 00:39:34,844 --> 00:39:35,134 parents. 772 00:39:35,134 --> 00:39:39,284 But I thought the relationship between Lucy and Bridget and Lucy and Felix were 773 00:39:39,284 --> 00:39:43,254 both so strong and really just like kept me reeled in. 774 00:39:43,254 --> 00:39:48,808 And it is such a fun read during the summer just because of the setting and. 775 00:39:49,445 --> 00:39:53,725 this group, or as a whole group of people who are trying to make a difference in the 776 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:54,545 world. 777 00:39:55,469 --> 00:39:59,829 I think if anyone comes to me and asks for a summer recommendation, I think this 778 00:39:59,829 --> 00:40:02,909 would probably be my current number one. 779 00:40:03,569 --> 00:40:05,189 It's a great book. 780 00:40:05,189 --> 00:40:06,590 Yeah. 781 00:40:06,590 --> 00:40:07,090 After. 782 00:40:07,090 --> 00:40:08,430 Yeah, obviously. 783 00:40:08,430 --> 00:40:10,490 That's still our numero uno. 784 00:40:11,725 --> 00:40:13,995 Well, I mean, I would say read both of them. 785 00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:16,377 If you're going on vacation, pack both. 786 00:40:17,318 --> 00:40:18,218 true. 787 00:40:18,498 --> 00:40:23,358 can we ask people on Instagram, I'm saying this out loud to Molly, because I'll 788 00:40:23,358 --> 00:40:24,938 forget to ask her later. 789 00:40:24,938 --> 00:40:30,078 Can we put on the gram that we want suggestions of books that take place 790 00:40:30,078 --> 00:40:33,398 during the summer because we are going on vacation together. 791 00:40:33,398 --> 00:40:37,928 And I would love to have some books packed that take place during the summer. 792 00:40:37,928 --> 00:40:42,357 I mean, if they take place in Wyoming, I mean, that's like a bonus, but 793 00:40:42,357 --> 00:40:46,257 mean, I think we're probably someone's going to bring Swift and Saddled and we'll 794 00:40:46,257 --> 00:40:48,997 just pass that around because that'll be like. 795 00:40:49,917 --> 00:40:50,697 Yeah. 796 00:40:50,697 --> 00:40:52,487 So you have homework. 797 00:40:52,550 --> 00:40:54,830 story, funny story. 798 00:40:55,010 --> 00:41:01,090 I was telling Elise when we were at the gaslight about our trip to Wyoming and she 799 00:41:01,090 --> 00:41:02,580 was like, man. 800 00:41:02,580 --> 00:41:06,870 She's like, she was like, are you guys going to read some like saucy Westerns 801 00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:07,670 before you go? 802 00:41:07,670 --> 00:41:09,070 And I was like, please hold. 803 00:41:09,070 --> 00:41:15,572 And I pulled up Dun and Dusted, like the cover on my phone and she goes, wait. 804 00:41:15,572 --> 00:41:19,132 this is probably true right now because like I've been saying this like the last 805 00:41:19,132 --> 00:41:21,432 few years, there's already a second one. 806 00:41:21,432 --> 00:41:30,246 And she was like, I just want something and steal whatever I want. 807 00:41:30,246 --> 00:41:32,006 was like, no, we've advanced Elise. 808 00:41:32,006 --> 00:41:38,686 Like we're, it's more, I mean, it's still a little on the smutty side, but like we 809 00:41:38,686 --> 00:41:42,926 were, we have new things to pick from where people actually have cell phones and 810 00:41:42,926 --> 00:41:43,906 stuff. 811 00:41:49,276 --> 00:41:49,766 So good. 812 00:41:49,766 --> 00:41:51,816 And yes, I already own Swift and Saddles. 813 00:41:51,816 --> 00:41:55,256 I haven't read it yet because we've been passing around books that we knew we 814 00:41:55,256 --> 00:41:56,336 wanted to. 815 00:42:05,662 --> 00:42:06,062 okay. 816 00:42:06,062 --> 00:42:10,562 So like, let's put it on the gram that we need some suggestions of books that take 817 00:42:10,562 --> 00:42:11,422 place in the summer. 818 00:42:11,422 --> 00:42:18,301 I will tell you right now, there are two things that made me a summer book girlie. 819 00:42:18,622 --> 00:42:21,102 One was at a very young age. 820 00:42:21,102 --> 00:42:23,814 One was in the last 10 years. 821 00:42:24,078 --> 00:42:27,548 The first one is Summer Sisters by Judy Blume. 822 00:42:29,518 --> 00:42:31,118 Incredible. 823 00:42:31,118 --> 00:42:35,298 I think I don't, I might have been in high school when I read it. 824 00:42:35,828 --> 00:42:40,848 but I just remember being like, this is totally Cape Cod coded. 825 00:42:40,848 --> 00:42:43,378 Like this is going to be me one day. 826 00:42:43,378 --> 00:42:47,798 Like I'm going to meet these boys at a carousel and it's like going to be a whole 827 00:42:47,798 --> 00:42:48,398 thing. 828 00:42:48,398 --> 00:42:51,088 And like, you know, whatever it, that never happened to me. 829 00:42:51,088 --> 00:42:56,478 But, but just like, that book was so good. 830 00:42:56,478 --> 00:42:58,258 I should reread it. 831 00:42:59,264 --> 00:43:02,586 I'm just going to do it again. 832 00:43:02,586 --> 00:43:04,976 And then I also remember my mom reading it. 833 00:43:04,976 --> 00:43:07,006 And then and I had read it first. 834 00:43:07,006 --> 00:43:10,886 And I was still at that age where I was like, we don't talk about sex. 835 00:43:10,886 --> 00:43:11,926 Like we're not. 836 00:43:11,926 --> 00:43:14,196 This is not a topic that we like to bring up. 837 00:43:14,196 --> 00:43:17,866 And so she knew I had read it and I was like, my God, please don't ask to talk to 838 00:43:17,866 --> 00:43:18,946 me about this book. 839 00:43:18,946 --> 00:43:23,826 And I just remember her being like that Judy Blume got real saucy after fudge 840 00:43:23,826 --> 00:43:24,296 mania. 841 00:43:24,296 --> 00:43:26,106 And I was like, yep. 842 00:43:26,106 --> 00:43:28,332 And so. 843 00:43:28,688 --> 00:43:29,458 was the first one. 844 00:43:29,458 --> 00:43:31,648 And then the second one was The Summer of True Pretty. 845 00:43:31,648 --> 00:43:33,108 And even though, 846 00:43:33,329 --> 00:43:34,669 I'm sorry, I'm gonna pause. 847 00:43:34,669 --> 00:43:40,329 Even though the books are definitely not the most beautifully written books I've 848 00:43:40,329 --> 00:43:46,629 ever seen in my life, they definitely fulfill a certain, like... 849 00:43:46,629 --> 00:43:48,966 As some people have, maybe they're... 850 00:43:48,966 --> 00:43:56,678 long -term crush on a co -camp counselor, I can say that feeling of... 851 00:43:56,942 --> 00:44:02,222 summer being like when I felt alive, like, I totally understand that feeling. 852 00:44:02,222 --> 00:44:07,482 And there were definitely people in my life that I knew like, on a daily basis 853 00:44:07,482 --> 00:44:11,082 for eight weeks straight, and we would hang we would I mean, I would like blow my 854 00:44:11,082 --> 00:44:14,662 high school friends off because I'd be like, it's camp time, I have to be with my 855 00:44:14,662 --> 00:44:17,702 camp people, and I will get back to you when camp is over. 856 00:44:17,702 --> 00:44:19,742 And everyone felt that way. 857 00:44:19,742 --> 00:44:21,606 And it was just this like, 858 00:44:21,902 --> 00:44:23,382 I can't even describe it. 859 00:44:23,382 --> 00:44:25,542 I've never experienced anything like it. 860 00:44:25,542 --> 00:44:29,202 I was talking to a girl that is from my camp life. 861 00:44:29,202 --> 00:44:31,092 She is 38. 862 00:44:31,092 --> 00:44:32,462 I'm 39. 863 00:44:32,462 --> 00:44:36,202 We worked together from when we were like 18 to 28. 864 00:44:36,522 --> 00:44:41,782 And she was talking about how there are some things that she's like, I just have 865 00:44:41,782 --> 00:44:46,382 to text a summer friend friend because like nobody else will understand what it 866 00:44:46,382 --> 00:44:47,784 is that I'm talking about. 867 00:44:47,784 --> 00:44:51,484 And it's really something very easy to talk about. 868 00:44:51,484 --> 00:44:57,119 So you know, it's not something that's like only some of them. 869 00:44:57,119 --> 00:44:58,019 them are updated. 870 00:44:58,019 --> 00:45:02,619 It can be like a lot of different things, but it was just like a time and a place. 871 00:45:02,639 --> 00:45:06,754 And I just feel like every time 872 00:45:06,754 --> 00:45:10,694 Summer Sisters and The Summer I Turn Pretty, I'm just like chasing that high 873 00:45:10,694 --> 00:45:12,184 all the time with books. 874 00:45:12,184 --> 00:45:18,086 And I'm also very strict about, I won't read a summer book in the winter. 875 00:45:18,446 --> 00:45:20,846 And some people are like, I like the escape. 876 00:45:20,846 --> 00:45:23,406 And especially if I'm going on a tropical vacation or whatever. 877 00:45:23,406 --> 00:45:27,126 And I'm like, it has to be timely. 878 00:45:27,126 --> 00:45:31,806 It has to like, put me in the mood, you know, like, and I'm not going to watch the 879 00:45:31,806 --> 00:45:32,086 summer. 880 00:45:32,086 --> 00:45:33,346 I turned pretty in January. 881 00:45:33,346 --> 00:45:35,306 Like, I'm just not going to do that's torture. 882 00:45:35,306 --> 00:45:36,946 Why would I do that to myself? 883 00:45:36,946 --> 00:45:38,406 That is straight up torture. 884 00:45:38,406 --> 00:45:44,166 That is me pining for something that is not possible at that point in the year. 885 00:45:45,206 --> 00:45:48,368 so that's one, that's my summer. 886 00:45:52,333 --> 00:45:54,813 can't think of them when I'm put on the spot. 887 00:45:55,153 --> 00:45:56,933 I'll think of it later. 888 00:45:56,944 --> 00:45:59,564 Yeah, we'll put up the question box and we'll see what folks say. 889 00:45:59,564 --> 00:46:06,304 And then I'm sure that that'll spark more of our past fans and we can share with 890 00:46:06,304 --> 00:46:10,504 everybody what gets submitted and then both the stuff that we resurfaced that we 891 00:46:10,504 --> 00:46:11,384 loved. 892 00:46:12,750 --> 00:46:16,960 terms of what we're reading now, I just put a bookmark in the seven -year slip. 893 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:22,750 I have not started it yet, but some seven -year slip is my next read that I will be 894 00:46:22,750 --> 00:46:23,670 doing. 895 00:46:30,381 --> 00:46:31,781 all on me. 896 00:46:32,241 --> 00:46:34,341 All right. 897 00:46:34,341 --> 00:46:40,881 So I recently reunited with a family that I babysat for in my late 20s, early 30s, 898 00:46:40,881 --> 00:46:41,837 and they were like in... 899 00:46:41,837 --> 00:46:43,777 intricate part of my life. 900 00:46:45,796 --> 00:46:50,187 Lucia, I think she was five or six months old when I started babysitting. 901 00:46:50,187 --> 00:46:55,097 She's now finishing her freshman year of high school and she lives a mile from me, 902 00:46:55,097 --> 00:46:56,417 we discovered. 903 00:46:57,137 --> 00:47:01,257 So yeah, way to make me feel old. 904 00:47:01,657 --> 00:47:04,577 I met up for coffee and a walk with her mom. 905 00:47:04,577 --> 00:47:06,237 that's what I did on Friday. 906 00:47:06,257 --> 00:47:08,437 It's all coming back. 907 00:47:08,497 --> 00:47:10,678 And we were talking at the end about books. 908 00:47:10,678 --> 00:47:10,998 one. 909 00:47:10,998 --> 00:47:12,389 What Lucy did for lunch. 910 00:47:12,389 --> 00:47:15,149 into cozy mysteries or whatever, because she was obviously at school while this was 911 00:47:15,149 --> 00:47:15,889 happening. 912 00:47:15,889 --> 00:47:21,969 And her mom said that she had loved the smile series by Raina Telgemeier. 913 00:47:21,969 --> 00:47:24,529 Apologies if that is not how to pronounce it. 914 00:47:24,529 --> 00:47:29,419 So I went to Belmont Books first thing Saturday morning. 915 00:47:29,419 --> 00:47:32,929 Also shout out to the barista who told me I looked really cute in my overalls. 916 00:47:32,929 --> 00:47:34,469 Thank you. 917 00:47:35,189 --> 00:47:36,649 So this is a graphic novel. 918 00:47:36,649 --> 00:47:37,669 I only bought the book. 919 00:47:39,693 --> 00:47:41,753 I didn't have any on my person. 920 00:47:43,013 --> 00:47:43,646 Sorry. 921 00:47:43,646 --> 00:47:45,446 hear my eye roll. 922 00:47:46,189 --> 00:47:49,629 I feel like we should just drop some off for the employees because they've been 923 00:47:49,629 --> 00:47:51,369 wonderful to us. 924 00:47:51,489 --> 00:48:00,249 Anyway, so this is a middle grade YA graphic novel based on the true story of 925 00:48:00,249 --> 00:48:09,349 Reyna's important years where it starts off, she is coming home from Girl Scouts, 926 00:48:09,349 --> 00:48:15,105 racing to her front door, trips and falls, and loses a front tooth. 927 00:48:28,008 --> 00:48:30,942 don't think you actually ever have talked about that on the pod. 928 00:48:30,942 --> 00:48:31,802 okay. 929 00:48:33,457 --> 00:48:37,137 Yeah, I mean, granted I knocked myself unconscious. 930 00:48:37,137 --> 00:48:41,307 So I mean, like part of the memory is just all the after stuff. 931 00:48:41,307 --> 00:48:46,557 So I mean, this book, it takes place over the course of years where she is, she's 932 00:48:46,557 --> 00:48:50,037 dealing with a flipper, which was like the bane of my existence. 933 00:48:50,037 --> 00:48:55,477 Some people may or may not know that I lost it once, excuse me, twice on a dance 934 00:48:55,477 --> 00:48:56,937 floor in a club downtown. 935 00:48:56,937 --> 00:49:00,013 And one of my girlfriends dove into... 936 00:49:00,013 --> 00:49:04,993 the sea of people dancing to pick it up because flippers are not cheap. 937 00:49:04,993 --> 00:49:10,183 And then since I was in the middle of the dance floor, I just dunked it. 938 00:49:10,183 --> 00:49:11,773 This is so inappropriate. 939 00:49:11,813 --> 00:49:16,353 Dunked it in my booze because doesn't alcohol get rid of germs? 940 00:49:16,353 --> 00:49:20,093 Anyways, I don't know why I'm telling you. 941 00:49:21,806 --> 00:49:25,286 want to puke in my mouth thinking about this story and I've already heard it 942 00:49:25,286 --> 00:49:30,246 before and I was not there and if I had been there I would have left immediately. 943 00:49:31,396 --> 00:49:36,116 just felt like my story. 944 00:49:36,216 --> 00:49:42,176 But if it happened in the form of it, then I would cry myself to the ground. 945 00:49:42,176 --> 00:49:49,396 And she's like, first we try to hold so that... 946 00:49:49,816 --> 00:49:51,836 If I can't do it right, I'm not going to try to do it right. 947 00:49:51,836 --> 00:49:54,376 So, I can't do it right. 948 00:49:54,376 --> 00:49:55,102 So, I can't do it right. 949 00:49:55,102 --> 00:49:55,502 So, I it right. 950 00:49:55,502 --> 00:49:55,928 So, I it right. 951 00:49:55,928 --> 00:49:56,088 So, it right. 952 00:49:56,088 --> 00:49:56,273 So, So, I can 953 00:49:56,273 --> 00:49:59,248 the beginning, the orthodontist decides to 954 00:49:59,248 --> 00:50:04,948 try to hold out the truth that the audience will hear from and instead of her 955 00:50:04,948 --> 00:50:09,848 introducing a car leak out here, she went to the doctor, who had an earring, and 956 00:50:09,848 --> 00:50:12,318 broke it and tied it up in her flippers. 957 00:50:12,318 --> 00:50:17,148 And it's a difficult to process just for her to get the spine back in her 958 00:50:17,148 --> 00:50:19,138 confidence, but it's more than that. 959 00:50:19,138 --> 00:50:26,008 It's about confidence and being brave and not just really afraid and finding new 960 00:50:26,008 --> 00:50:28,424 friends, and passion, and being able to... 961 00:50:28,781 --> 00:50:31,761 Also, it takes place in our childhood years. 962 00:50:31,761 --> 00:50:36,121 So there's no cell phones or none of social media or any of that stuff. 963 00:50:36,121 --> 00:50:37,331 I loved it. 964 00:50:37,331 --> 00:50:38,741 I read it in like two hours. 965 00:50:38,741 --> 00:50:40,161 I'm going to give it to Caitlin. 966 00:50:40,161 --> 00:50:44,881 You can either stick it in your library or have it at the dental office. 967 00:50:44,881 --> 00:50:46,241 I don't know. 968 00:50:46,241 --> 00:50:49,381 It was a lovely story. 969 00:50:49,381 --> 00:50:52,761 I don't know that I need to read the next one, although I don't know what the next 970 00:50:52,761 --> 00:50:53,371 one is about. 971 00:50:53,371 --> 00:50:56,461 It could just be a different part of her life. 972 00:50:57,141 --> 00:50:59,085 But yeah, it was a good read. 973 00:51:02,024 --> 00:51:04,142 kind of love the idea of it at the dental office. 974 00:51:04,142 --> 00:51:05,085 And that's it. 975 00:51:05,085 --> 00:51:06,425 all the illustrations herself. 976 00:51:06,425 --> 00:51:08,165 The whole thing is her. 977 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,134 God. 978 00:51:14,134 --> 00:51:19,814 If she's like this dentist tortured me and like, it was a horrible experience. 979 00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:21,014 Yeah. 980 00:51:21,014 --> 00:51:21,454 Okay. 981 00:51:21,454 --> 00:51:22,635 That's fair. 982 00:51:22,635 --> 00:51:26,635 there's like an endodontist, an orthodontist, a dent, multiple dentists. 983 00:51:26,635 --> 00:51:29,905 It's like, you know, the whole process. 984 00:51:29,905 --> 00:51:34,785 If anyone ever wants to talk about dental work and what it's like to lose teeth 985 00:51:34,785 --> 00:51:37,413 dramatically, I'm here to talk about it. 986 00:51:38,030 --> 00:51:42,510 And I'm noticing now that I'm looking at it and won the Will Eisner Award, which 987 00:51:42,510 --> 00:51:43,537 is. 988 00:51:43,537 --> 00:51:45,337 you should read the Goodreads reviews. 989 00:51:45,337 --> 00:51:48,578 Like the top one was like, I've read this book 10 times and love it. 990 00:51:48,578 --> 00:51:50,768 know that there was a Will Eisner award. 991 00:51:50,768 --> 00:51:54,258 And if people don't know Will Eisner, he was like the head honcho at Disney for 992 00:51:54,258 --> 00:51:55,938 eight million years. 993 00:51:55,938 --> 00:52:03,078 And I now want to look up what other books have won that award. 994 00:52:03,378 --> 00:52:04,528 I'm fascinated. 995 00:52:04,528 --> 00:52:06,498 Maybe it has to do with visuals. 996 00:52:06,498 --> 00:52:08,118 Maybe it has to be a graphic novel. 997 00:52:08,118 --> 00:52:08,648 I don't know. 998 00:52:08,648 --> 00:52:09,868 I don't know the criteria for it. 999 00:52:09,868 --> 00:52:11,662 I've never heard of the award before. 1000 00:52:13,288 --> 00:52:17,108 if you want to follow along with everything that we're reading and 1001 00:52:17,108 --> 00:52:20,287 considering reading, and if you want to shout out some of the summer books that 1002 00:52:20,287 --> 00:52:22,758 you've absolutely loved, please follow us on Instagram. 1003 00:52:22,758 --> 00:52:24,668 We are at Plans Are Booked. 1004 00:52:24,668 --> 00:52:28,128 If you have suggestions for books you'd like us to cover in the future, we always 1005 00:52:28,128 --> 00:52:28,838 want to hear from you. 1006 00:52:28,838 --> 00:52:31,816 You can write to us at plansarebooked at gmail .com. 1007 00:52:32,718 --> 00:52:36,106 And until next time, our plans are booked.