Welcome to Plans Are Booked, podcast for every reader.
I'm Molly Geller.
I'm still thinking.
I know, I'm not the second.
Welcome to chapter 27, what do you mean?
27, that's like the first number, so this is gonna be a crushed episode.
Wait, what?
The first number?
Oh, like all the famous people that have died when they were 27?
Yeah, yeah.
Molly just made a face.
It's a lot of people.
It's like Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain.
Amy Winehouse.
Winehouse.
Yeah.
I made that face because many years ago I went on a graffiti tour and there was like
a whole side of a building covered in what's called the 27 club and it was all
like tributes to all the people that you guys just mentioned.
I think Bob Marley is in there as well.
People don't realize that he wasn't that old when he died.
I could be wrong about that one.
Jimi Hendrix was 27, Mama Cass was 27.
Heath might have been 27.
I'm not sure about that one, but it's like very unlucky.
Back to the bottom, I just don't know.
I really don't see that.
Same.
I don't.
to see that movie One Love
I don't, but I've read, I've read, it's because I've read a lot of books about
him.
Like, I feel like I know a lot about him already.
And so that's not a dig at the movie.
It's just like, I don't need to see it.
music.
I just want to dance to my feet.
I also want to hear the music.
And I saw that it's available right now to purchase on Prime Video.
So I'll wait until it becomes free.
What's everybody been up to?
I don't know, did you guys notice my t-shirt?
It's the barn t-shirt.
Well, not the barn t-shirt, but the therapy t-shirt.
She gave me one today because now I'm official.
wait, wait.
For those who obviously, yeah, for those who are not here with us, Stephanie is
wearing like a hunter green t-shirt and it says Clover physical therapy with a
beautiful extension to the cursive R at the end of Clover that has like the stem
and then the four leaf clover above.
Today I just discovered that the therapist and the other volunteer are book people.
So we got into it about like books, recommendations for each other.
people.
So we got into it about books, recommendations for each other, and what
kind of experiences there is possibly.
There's some kind of like, yes to that, but also there's some kind of alliteration
that needs to happen about books and barns and barns and books.
And books.
Yeah.
Because that was a good question.
new barn boots today.
So yeah.
Maybe that's a song that's sung in your book.
Oh my god, yes.
If this is the first time that you're listening, Stephanie is working on a book
draft that is set in Wyoming and cowboy boots are a pretty big part of the story.
because they're also a big part of my life.
and singing.
And so why wouldn't you have a Shania Twain style song that's called Barn Boots
and Books?
You can add our names to the credits.
names to the list.
I don't want to like toot my own horn, but that was a great idea.
Um, we also went to Steph's flip house this week.
We went to the flip house.
Molly documented it beautifully.
If people don't realize this, anything that is on our Instagram page is
completely curated by Molly and she is like unbelievably good at it.
And I just like send her memes all day.
And then she like knows how to time it and schedule it and put it out so that
everybody is seeing, you know, a steady flow of our content and.
um I just I just feel like I go hard for her all day.
but she did, she did a really good job doing like documenting Steph's house.
And then we went and ate delicious pickle pizza afterwards.
And it was just awesome to finally see, like we've seen so many Reels stuff, like
we've seen so many photos and so many Reels and we've like lived all of the like
housing dilemma projects.
this didn't come in this is dented this is all outsized that's just been really why
didn't I turn off the paint how's it we will definitely link to the house so that
if you are listening
you want to move to Harvard, Massachusetts, you can have access to it.
this house is gorgeous.
I fell in love with the kitchen.
If you've listened to any other episode of this show, you know that I don't cook, but
just aesthetically, I was in love with the kitchen.
I wanted to sit at that waterfall island and be cooked for it for the rest of my
life.
And Stephanie also has a gift for picking out light fixtures that look like they
belong in the home of millionaires, and in every single room were these like
stunning.
room where there are these stunning light fixtures, there was a room that I just
felt would be like my home office that had
so much natural light.
It's just, if that's a part of Massachusetts you want to live in, you've
got to get to this house and see it.
She picked the most exquisite exterior paint color, which looks amazing on the
listing.
And I hope it goes right quick.
And
Me too.
I feel like it's going to, I don't know.
I know these are space, but.
um.
cool house.
I've been in a lot of different concepts, and I think that was one of them.
And I was really excited.
I didn't expect to ask a little more, so I'll leave you with that.
It's very nice.
It's just really good, like, white, and nice space.
Totally agree.
And also, while all of you were listening to this,
It's a very important day today.
A movie that we have been looking forward to for a long time is finally on Amazon
Prime Video.
And that is the idea of you starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galatian, which is
the adaptation of the book by the same title, which we covered early on in the
Plans Are Booked days.
We will reshare in case you're coming upon it for the first time, but we are watching
live together.
and then we're gonna record after our viewing.
So we are gonna give you a full week to watch on your own and then our episode of
our live reaction will debut next week on May 9th.
So hop to it, watch the movie, so then you can listen to our full recap.
We will spoil things, we will remind people right up top, but if you're into
the book and you're as excited about the movie as we are, that is coming your way.
to our full recap.
We will spoil things, we will remind people right up now.
But if you're into the book and you're excited about the movie as we are, that's
coming in.
Also, Steph already bought booze for it.
So, we're ready to go.
We're just ready.
We're ready, is what it amounts to.
We're just completely ready.
And
I am really looking forward to doing that.
I think it's going to be really silly.
And I think it's going to be...
Yes, I just, I feel like it's going to be hard to not have people see what we look
like when we're talking about it.
Cause I feel like we're all going to be just like blushing and like sighing and
you know, everything that Taylor says in so high school basically.
So...
I think that it's gonna be a room that we can head to.
Well, to people that are on Zoom.
tomorrow night after we are live recording this.
We're gonna go see Challengers, which if you have somehow been living under a rock
and have missed the epic fashion press tour that is Zendaya, first of all, catch
up.
And second of all, I can't wait for this love triangle.
I love tennis, so like I'm just excited that that's the premise.
I don't know if I'm gonna leave feeling like exhilarated, terrified, hot and
bothered.
I just don't know, but I really cannot wait to go.
It's coming to our movie theater now, and I'm got lost, you don't have to go very
far.
I just, I love seeing a movie in the theater.
I've always, one of the things I miss most at the start of the pandemic, I'll never
forget my first movie that came out, and it was the set story of the musical.
I just, I didn't even.
It was all, we, all of us went.
Yeah, yes, we went together.
on the big screen.
I just needed this to be the things on the big screen.
And I think this month's gonna be awesome.
I truly, truly cannot wait.
And I've been devouring all of their press interviews, individually,
Um, I got distracted because it looks like Taylor is rehearsing.
new songs for the Aris tour and that's going to be gripping me for the rest of
the evening.
Do you think, well, I'm just wondering if she's going to get rid of an arrow to add
this in.
Because I don't know if you guys know this, but she already doesn't do her debut
album that era does not exist in the airs tour.
So like, is she going to have like a close to four hour show or is she going to get
rid of an era?
What if she gets rid of lover, I will audibly gasp.
is a good lover, I will follow her down.
If I was someone like in Europe who had been looking forward to all the things
that they had seen on the internet for the past year, I would be heartbroken to not
get to see some of those numbers.
Yes.
I've seen on the internet for the past year.
I would be heartbroken not to see some of those numbers.
Yes.
And I would die.
I would.
I mean, this is like in my top two albums, I think, if not top three.
I would lose my mind.
And she sets fire to the Loverhouse in the product like in the errors tour like, I
don't know.
it.
This is how my brain works when Taylor is out without jitters.
Okay but now that you've had a little bit to listen to the Tortured Poets
Department, can you tell the people, like, what are your top tracks?
What do you think people should be listening to?
Um, okay, so she's a genius.
Stevie Nicks wrote a poem that's in the CDs and the vinyl, like an entire poem for
Taylor, which is like, who else gets that?
Nobody.
The people that are upset that there aren't any quote unquote bops need to get
it together because it's a double breakup album.
Like she's not even just singing about Joe.
She's also
singing about Maddie Haley because I didn't realize this, but it's basically
been a situation ship for a long time.
Like after she broke up with Harry, she was kind of with Maddie for a minute and
then she broke up with Joe and she was with Maddie for a minute again and tried
to make it a real thing and he ghosted her.
So if you were coming for the bops, like where have you been?
Like her life hasn't been a bop, it just hasn't been.
And so out of the 31 songs, I would say that like,
20 of her girls were like, she was kind of a ridiculous.
Um, so, really, right now...
are L-O-M-L, guilty as sin, but daddy, I love him.
I can do it with broken heart.
Oh my God, they're all so good.
Fortnite is good, but Fortnite's good in like a, like it's the first song off the
album.
So you're always gonna think of it as like, that's how it starts out.
And they're all just really, really...
Clara Bo is growing on me.
That one's really good.
She talks about like, in that one, she talks about being compared to other
people, Clara Bo, Stevie Nicks.
And then she like, the last time she does the chorus, she goes, you look like Taylor
Swift in this light.
We're loving it.
And then, and like, it's just like really interesting how that one kind of like
morphs.
come from the bops.
He doesn't look like that.
I think one of the greatest albums by a female pop singer of all time is 21 by
Adele, which is also a breakup album.
She won the most Grammys for that album.
Like you have to, I think, appreciate the storytelling and the art.
And it's not about like, can you work out to it?
Or do you want to like sing along in your car with the windows down?
Like the only song that really
Like, the only song that really made it to the radio off of that album was Rollin' to
the Deep, which also was the first track.
And it's just not about that.
So like, if you need these kinds of songs, you should go to
is.
I've the one I've been comparing it to is Joni Mitchell's Blue.
Right, like that's arguably her best album.
No bops on it.
She's completely heartbroken.
She and Graham Nash had ended a very lengthy, I mean, they were practically
married, but they weren't.
So yeah, I think that whatever, you know what though?
I'm fine with hurting the crowd, like, heard them out.
Like they can go back to their midnights and their whatever.
But when this, if she does.
a tour of this former TTP team specifically, she better not die.
Because, I mean, you just have to learn that.
Rapidation is probably meant to figure out, did I do that for?
No, I didn't.
Why didn't I?
It wasn't for me.
That tour wasn't for me.
And I watched it on Netflix, because she made it to work,
like movie out of it.
And I was like, no, I wouldn't have liked this very much.
And it was like the right choice.
So don't focus on
Should we get into our book?
You shouldn't go into it too much.
Let's do it.
I'm forced to go into this book to find out what it is called.
I
to figure out how this book is built and how to go about this.
read it.
I mean, I think this is our fastest turnover of a book.
I read it in the last month.
was pretty awesome.
So, Q&A is my first question.
This was his second book.
He's written three and he is known for gritty Los Angeles based California based
stories.
And he just really packs a punch in his writing.
Like, it's very vivid.
It's very.
concise, his books aren't that long.
And Zeebo, who gave us the nameplans are booked for our podcast, asked me if I had
read this book like a couple years ago.
And I was like, No, I haven't read it.
And he was like, It's so good.
You have to read it.
I haven't read anything like it before.
And I and Zeebo reads a ton.
And I was like, you haven't read anything like it before.
Like, that's so funny.
Like, and then my brother read it because they're friends.
a book.
And he was like,
was excellent.
Like it was so, so good.
And I was like, huh.
So then I ended up reading Everybody Knows First, which is his third book.
And that one's about a Hollywood cleanup firm.
So like a firm that like when famous people screw up, like, you know, Lindsay
Lohan's got four people blacked out with coke on their noses in her hotel room and
she needs like a cleanup.
Like you call this firm and they come and they...
do all your dirty work and then you come out smelling like roses.
That one's like a total mystery because right from the go, somebody from that firm
is found murdered.
There are other people in the firm that want to find out what's going on and kind
of right the wrongs that they are having their Jerry Maguire moment where they're
like, I can't do this anymore.
My conscience can't handle it.
it.
So that's the first part I wrote that I really liked it.
And Zeebo was like, she writes shotgun is way better.
Like you need to get on that.
So I finally found, Steph and I were at Barnes and Noble and they, I had been
looking in bookstores to get it because I didn't want to order it from Amazon.
Finally found it in Barnes and Noble.
They had, it was, they didn't even have his newer book.
That was the only book they had by him like on this display.
I read it in two days.
It is.
I love when there is an adult and a kid that are main characters.
I really like that dynamic in movies.
I really like that dynamic in books.
It's just very compelling when you have two people in two very different age
groups who aren't necessarily related to each other or don't know each other that
well, and you throw them into a situation.
That's what happens in She Rides Shotgun.
problem.
a dad who gets out of jail who is for all intents and purposes, like a pretty bad
dude.
He served time.
He got out on good behavior.
It's very complex.
I'm not going to get into all the nitty gritty details because you should read the
book, but he has really ticked off like a white supremacy group that is active
within prison and outside of prison.
they find out he has a daughter and they basically say like, basically there's a
reward on her head for like whoever gets to her first and takes her out to get back
at this guy, Nate.
And that's like the premise of the entire book.
Like that happens within five pages.
It's just like right off the bat.
And this girl doesn't know her dad because she's, she's been not in prison and he has
been.
And she basically goes on this like,
she's buying revenge for, of like, keeping her safety down to the full, the full.
tricking people, swindling people.
It's got a little bit of everything and their relationship is building throughout
the book and she is like starting to learn more about him.
And she's also starting to learn that she's a lot like him for better or worse.
I absolutely loved it.
I thought it was so, I thought it was so well done.
I thought it was the perfect length.
I found everybody so compelling.
It's like an anti-hero book where you're like rooting for people that like
shouldn't really be rooted for.
It's got all sorts of delicious things going on.
Did you guys like?
where you're like moving the people that you've been working for.
It's got all sorts of delicious things going on.
Did you guys like that?
I first want to read a little bit to the listeners, okay?
Just to give you a sense of the writing style.
This is from the beginning.
Not the very beginning, but from the beginning, so I won't give anything away.
She realizes she needed to pee, bad.
She gets what she needed to for a while, but has a too worried nose.
to for a while but had been too worried to notice.
She chewed on her thumb, found a nub of flesh close to the nail, sunk her teeth
in, tugged it loose with a red jolt of pain.
She kicked her feet against the dashboard, thud, thud.
She dug into her backpack, found her new library books.
She found one on UFOs.
Polly liked reading about outer space, which made sense.
seeing how she was from Venus.
I don't think I've read a book that is so blunt, short, and doesn't use any flowery
language whatsoever.
I think that's why I liked this book, because it was kind of refreshing to not
have like, over edited, analyzed metaphors and extra flowery language.
It felt like, here's the story, here's what's happening.
Painting a clear picture, not an extra cloth, which also makes me feel a little
bit more empowered.
Ready?
I'm Jada's mom, and I'm building a child's home.
I'm building a child's home.
There were some moments where I felt maybe she was given a little too much credit or,
I mean, I was around a nine-year-old last week.
I know she's supposed to be 11 and I...
think at the time I was really thinking, would she have said something like that?
But then there's a little bit of a tether asking how it felt, feeling, instead of
actually saying what she's feeling, so.
Which is such a trauma response.
Like.
I loved that.
has a teddy bear and she's 11 and she has it act out what she's feeling because she
can't always communicate it.
Well, I liked that like it has a sons of anarchy feel, which I loved.
So there's like this violence happening, but then there's a child who is having her
puppety bear wave and high five and you know.
make like a poo look at her, it's a nice type of feeling.
It's a question.
I mean, there's a child, but sometimes she's a little bit out of it, but it was
organic.
I loved it.
I also think that the ending worked.
I was worried about like, where is this going?
Is this going to wrap up in a way that makes me feel like this wasn't worth it
and it didn't fit?
I think it did really well.
Um, yeah.
I liked this book a lot.
This is not something I ever would have picked up myself, ever, ever in a
bookstore, or even if it was on the, sometimes I like to read the staff picks
on the shelves in the independent bookstores.
I do like mystery thriller books, but this isn't one I would have picked up.
So I was glad that we decided to read it as a group, because I wouldn't have
otherwise.
I...
and then trying to do it otherwise.
I have said many times on this podcast that I'm not doing that, but I feel like
I'm just
This is an excellent plane book.
And the reason that I feel that way is that every single chapter ends on kind of
like an oh shit moment and you want to know what's going to happen next.
I also like that it alternates perspectives, not just between Nate the
dad and Polly the daughter.
More people get introduced as the book goes on.
So let's say they show up at somebody's doorstep and you're like, oh, who is this?
All of a sudden the next chapter is from the perspective of the person on the other
side of the door.
Or like they encounter, let's say a police officer or a detective.
And then all of a sudden that person's perspective comes in and I just wasn't
expecting that.
I thought it was maybe gonna go.
just back and forth between Nate and Polly, but I was pleasantly surprised
every time another person's point of view came in.
I actually think that's really hard to do and do successfully, but I think he did a
great job.
I agree about Polly and the teddy bear.
I was like, this is so specific.
And if it wasn't this detailed and so constant throughout the story, it might
just seem like a strange.
detail or something that he maybe meant to flesh out more and didn't quite know how,
but it becomes like a central part of the story.
I wish I could know where he came up with that and why he decided to include that.
I also have to say that I couldn't not notice that anytime they talked about a
television, like a TV in a hotel room, or it was spelled T-E-E-V-E-E, one word.
I have never seen that in a book.
I don't know if that was a stylistic choice or something an editor suggested,
but I was like, wow, this is like...
I just can't not notice it because it like my eye kind of like tripped up on it every
time.
Not a pro or a con, just a thing that I noticed.
I think the book moves super quickly.
Like if you had like a rainy Saturday or Sunday afternoon to sit with this thing,
you could do it in a day.
It's 257 pages.
It flies like easily a day, a day and a half.
And it did make me want to read more of his writing.
And I agree with Steph.
rating.
just like brevity was actually really like moving in a way, even though he was
describing things with the less words, it made it feel more intentional.
And I also found in the beginning, it took me a little bit to get into the rhythm.
Like I was having to reread certain bits and then finally I got into the cadence of
his writing and I was like, okay, I'm in, I get it, I'm good.
I get it.
He, I don't know what his background is that he's able to
write California and like, criminal soap.
I know I'm the only person who's written one of those other books, but there, I'm
able to say, is on the interleaders, it's like, unborniness and like, the
no-bullshit awareness of how the people that...
kind of lack of conscience or have kind of lived as an outlaw their whole lives or
just an alternative lifestyle or like
crooked people, like he just really knows how to fight them, and I don't know if he
knows somebody in his personal life that he's like either an immigrant, or some
kind of professional criminal, or like he's friends with cops, or like, if I
found out that his best friend was someone that went under cover, that would be full
of sense to me, like somebody that kind of like,
straddles both sides of the law.
I could totally see that he just seems like he's in the know.
It feels like he really knows what the heck's going on.
I don't know how you are able to fake that unless you are involved with it somehow.
I would love for this to be a movie.
I think this could be a really good movie.
I didn't really have anybody in mind.
right now tonight.
was thinking about it being a movie, but I just feel like there's so much action, the
characters are so interesting.
It seems really like possible, even though like it's kind of crazy, like based on
like documentaries and other shows that I've watched about prison, it really
doesn't seem that outlandish.
Like it's all about like honor and loyalty and owing people things and making deals
and all sorts of stuff.
And
I just, I feel like that it would be really good in a movie.
I also want to say that Nate could have...
I was waiting when it started for him.
He hasn't seen her in five years and she's a tiny child.
Jordan Harper could have made it almost like syrupy and had him...
you know, be very like gentle and fatherly with her and that doesn't happen.
And that makes more sense.
If it had gone that way, I don't think I would have liked it.
Instead, he's teaching her how to take a punch and, you know, not sugar coating
anything.
And I just am really appreciative of him keeping it real.
I hate saying that, but like, he didn't try to do something.
to make the story a certain way.
He made it seem, he did basically what would happen in real life, you know?
Cause someone coming out of prison wouldn't be like, you know, buck up kiddo,
like we're gonna go on an adventure.
Instead it's like, this is how it is, it's gonna be hard,
he's not a good guy.
And you just have to be all in on that he's not a good guy and accept that means
like he's not a great dad and he's exposing her to all kinds of like messed
up stuff.
And you just have to accept that that's the nature of their relationship.
If you're going to follow along on the story.
And there is a, this isn't giving anything away, but there's a line when he first
gets released from prison.
way because there's a line, first you have to reach from prison, you know, it's a
close and so on.
minutes of exiting the prison, he breaks into a car, steals it and drives away.
And it's like, yep, he broke the law on the way out.
Like, I think Jordan Harper sets it up right away to be like, this dude's not
messing around.
Like he's a rough and tumble person and like, it's going to be like this all the
way through.
So just buckle up.
gonna be like
humble person and it's going to be like this all the way through.
So just talk a lot.
I also, when I was reading it, was thinking about the show and video game The
Last of Us because Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey have that dad-daughter relationship
even though they're not dad and daughter.
And they're both in the book and the show.
They're both in survival.
So both of the dads are looking for themselves and they're distracted.
But usually, they're not in style.
And I'm looking for the mirror.
And it's that kind of blinded, one-mission attitude that is just, I think, really
refreshing and makes it more exciting because I'm like, these people don't
think.
these people just do.
And this is a book that it's all about the bottom two.
And it doesn't stop.
I know that a lot of people don't think they're not supposed to know about this,
but the ability to do this on their own grief
and the last line is so remarkable, I would say.
So his acknowledgements are seven sentences.
He does not thank a lot of specific people at all.
And his last line references Polly's...
Teddy Bear for outspoken.
So the last one that he did not just say, thanks to the bear, it isn't real, but is
true.
So I just know between me and my you know, probably in his life and as he may say,
more.
I was like, oh damn, like part of this is about him, something that he experienced
or something that he wanted to communicate with people or maybe it's someone he
knows, like you were saying before,
If you thought the bear thing was weird and you weren't sure what was happening,
it actually really matters to me.
To only have a fourth of a page as your acknowledgments and have that be the
ending, it does.
It feels like an Easter egg in some weird way.
um, everyone should read this book and message us about it because clearly we all
really liked it, which is really nice because we just came off of an episode
where we all hated the book.
So I feel like this was a real win.
I feel victorious.
We will be reading more Jordan Harper.
You all should be reading all of the Jordan Harper.
We're big Jordan Harper fans now.
Um, Jordan Harper, if you're listening to this, we would like you to come on our
podcast and talk about the bear.
Please.
And thank you.
Um,
that you've done?
Um.
Oh my god, why did you just make that sound?
You just rolled your own eyes at yourself.
Okay.
Let me go back.
Last summer I started the Akatar series.
I read for people who maybe haven't read the series, well I haven't read the whole
series, I read the first four books I want to say in like two weeks.
I had Zozo at the time, I was fostering a little Chihuahua, she had attachment
issues.
We sat on the couch every day and I just read all day long.
So that's how I got through.
four books where I think three of them are over 500 pages.
The first book, A Court of Thorns and Roses, is basically a retelling of Beauty
and the Beast.
Would I recommend it?
I don't know.
If you're into fairies and you're into sauce, yes.
I mean...
Okay,
so hard.
Continue.
I'm going to go get some water.
it's Beauty and the Beast and Fairies and like a love romance situation between a
beast and a beauty.
And I read five pages.
I lasted five pages, Molly.
because I did enjoy them at the time.
They're not for everyone.
But anyways, the sauce was good and some of the storytelling was fantastic.
So I went to Barnes & Noble.
She has two other series.
I feel like right now I want to dive into a world and not come up for a number of
books.
I want to love the characters enough that I'm like, yes, I'll read another thousand
pages about these characters.
You could go back to Shatter Me then.
Cause you liked that one, I thought.
No, okay, nevermind.
Nevermind!
I think I wanted more intrigue or action right now.
So the so right now I'm reading Sarah J.
Mass's throne of glass, which when I went up to the register, the helpful cashier
was like, just want to give you a heads up.
It's written like a 15 year old wrote it.
And I was like, Okay, cool.
Like I just kind of didn't really care.
She had already brought up trigger warnings in the book.
So she started with, do you know the trigger warnings?
Which I also had a book that had trigger warnings in that I'm pretty sure she said
that and she's like, and as an aside, it's not written well because it's supposed to
be a teenage girl.
it's supposed to be a school girl.
Here's the thing.
I couldn't really tell you what this is about, because to me, it feels I'm.
You're so good.
It's not a good sign.
No, I can.
I'm 160 pages in.
It just, I can't tell you.
It's about a fictional world where this girl has been living in a prison camp
working in mines.
for the past year because she was raised as an assassin and she was like the number
one assassin in the land, but she's a teenage girl.
And she has now been picked to be a competitor in this competition that we
don't really know why it's happening, but it's basically all criminals and thieves
who are competing to basically be the champion of the king.
Yes.
But nothing is really happening.
You know, if you just think about it, two or three competitions are just going to be
able to die.
It doesn't feel...
I don't know if I'm being a little bit of a
am exhausted and stressed, but it doesn't feel like anything.
Hmm.
Well, yeah.
And also if it's a whole series, why would you read the next one if there's like
nothing happening?
Is there a romance happening?
not yet, but I know that it's like world building.
Like I'm having to like understand all the different players and yeah.
are plenty of books that world build and get a lot done in 160 pages.
Divergent is like that.
Hunger Games is like that.
Fourth Wing is like that.
Harry Potter is like that.
Yeah.
Well, maybe this wasn't the one.
I don't know.
I'm going to go, I'm going to go back and say what I've been saying for like six
months, you should read ninth house because the second one's already out and I
have it and that is of the world that's built there is fascinating.
is fascinating.
Okay.
More?
finished, she read Shotgun at like midnight last night.
So I had that fun moment where I was like, oh, I get to pick something new from the
TBR.
I didn't yet start this book, but I am excited to.
It is called BFF, a memoir of friendship lost and found.
I saw this book when I was at the Beacon Hill bookstore a couple of weeks ago.
Truly just like an impulse thing.
I saw it on a table and I was like, oh.
What's that?
It's written by Christy Tate.
Her previous book, which is called group, was a Reese's book club book.
So I was like, oh, a vote of confidence.
Um, that book is fiction.
This book is not, but I do love a memoir.
So I'm hopeful I'm going to start it tonight and I'll report back.
with her and
to talk to her.
I was so excited to have this whole new state of awareness because I had to do
this with my sister, and it didn't quite come in.
He had a brother come on the deck with him and he was like, he would because he has
famous parents.
Which I was like, I'm probably gonna have to talk to him because he...
they're going to be seen together and there's going to be photographs and her
parents are probably going to freak out.
These are all my predictions.
So that's been a nice layer.
And then after that...
I'm going to start spraying.
because that's going to be, I think, our next episode.
And that one's by Jessica Knoll.
I didn't like her other book, so I'm hoping that this one is better because
Steph says it is.
I'm telling you, you're going to love it because it redeems.
And it sounds like it's got like that TNT of the country, tailoring something like
the eight-five, where it seems like based on a spiritual, but kind of fictionalized.
it does feel similar and that it is like based off of events.
We all know and can recall quite easily, but it's definitely way darker than
anything Taylor Jenkins read.
This was my first Jessica Nobok will talk about it more, but, um, I, after the first
chapter, I was like, Oh, I'll be addicted to this.
I would love to, I mean, it's indie bookstore weekend coming up and I just, I
want to be in, I want to be in the throes of it.
I've got the next Jordan Harper coming.
I'm sorry, Jordan Harper, but it's coming from Amazon.
I've got the next, I can't find it anywhere.
I've looked at five regular bookstores.
The second dot shows up, I'm probably going to drop everything and stay up all
night and read it because that's who he is.
Hope he's working on his fourth one.
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