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Welcome, throbbing members, to Romance Your TBR.

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We accidentally talked for 30 minutes about not the topic,

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and so that's a bonus episode coming to you sometime.

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Who's to say when?

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Your inbox is in that email of yours.

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It's actually great though,

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because we've got the 30 minutes in energy

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that we didn't have at the beginning of that past 30 minutes.

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You got a roaring welcome, throbbing members

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that you did not get.

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You got her fumbling with her cross hook.

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No, what is it called?

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Cross stitch needle at the beginning of that one.

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That's true.

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If you want those vibes.

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I've forgotten that.

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We talked about so much in those 30 minutes.

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Yeah, if you want like doctor romances,

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kind of, some that we've read and probably also haven't read.

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TV show recs.

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Yeah, the Artful Dodger,

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and an F1 is in that episode.

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So it's not an episode, it's a moment in time.

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There was some needlework reference.

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There was some knitting.

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Yeah, the Artful, the Artful.

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Dodger?

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The Artful Bander.

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The Artful Romance Your TBR.

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So that happened.

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But now it's time.

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It is time.

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The moment you've all been waiting for.

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You're on the edge of your seat.

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Maybe you forgot that it was.

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Yeah.

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Or to quote a TikToker that came up on my feed the other day.

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I know you're all on the edge of your clit

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waiting to hear about this.

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Oh.

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I know, isn't that aggressive?

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I'm on the edge of my clit.

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Well, that's the episode.

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I don't think we can top that.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that really sums up old school school.

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I just had so many bad jokes run through my head.

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Most of them Orlando Norris related.

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So I'm not out of the F1 thing that we were on.

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That's okay.

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No, I'm gonna let you take this segue.

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Ooh.

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Bold of you to assume I have a segue.

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I'm just gonna state that we are here from Man to TBR.

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I am Hannah.

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I'm Caroline. She's Caroline.

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Teehee.

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Teehee.

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And we are going to be ranking the 16th.

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I'm sorry, I'm just so delirious right now.

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I cannot, I'm so unserious.

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Continue.

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Ooh.

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Yeah.

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Words.

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I'm just thinking back to the way you ended

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the last episode when you tried to talk about things

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happening and you just said words.

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You should go back and listen to it.

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It was great.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I listened to it a few times when I was editing.

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It's just like the way you-

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Like I was just saying words.

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Well, you were like,

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I didn't know where the sentence was gonna go.

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And it just- Oh, I do vaguely remember that.

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And it just went places that no one's traveled before.

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Do you never just like start a sentence hoping

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that you'll know where it's gonna go by the end?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, no, never.

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We're ranking.

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We are ranking.

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We're ranking.

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We read 16 old school school books officially.

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We read a few more just on our own,

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but officially there were 16.

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We've had epic highs and lows of high school football

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and old school school.

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And yeah, it was interesting revisiting these to rank them.

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Cause I was like, what happened in these ones

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that I blacked out from my memory?

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So I got to experience that again.

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There were definitely some that I like,

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I had to kind of stick in the order.

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Cause I was like, I don't remember most of this book.

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The one, it was helpful because when I get angry,

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I go on Goodreads and I like update my reading progress.

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And I was angry for like half of these books.

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So like my progress was very detailed.

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Sometimes I was like, what?

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And it didn't give me any context,

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but a lot of times I was like, oh yeah,

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I remember that feeling.

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I remember what was happening there.

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And then the ones that I liked, there's like two updates.

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She started reading and she finished reading.

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And I was like, well, that doesn't help me.

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I feel like it's very indicative for me.

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If I look at a book and I'm like,

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I actually don't remember almost anything about that.

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That to me is like a meh, like middle of the road.

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It's gonna be somewhere in the middle of the ranking.

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Cause clearly I didn't hate it enough

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to really remember why I hated it,

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but I also didn't love it.

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Yeah, that's either, it's either meh

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because I didn't hate it enough or I hated it so much

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that I made myself forget it.

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Yeah, I don't have that issue.

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Which I do think happened with the bottom of these for me.

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Oh my.

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Which is thankful.

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I was hoping for that.

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So round of applause for me.

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Wow.

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I manifested that destiny.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, I mean.

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So we have, we're gonna rank them in order.

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Do we go, you wanna go top to bottom, bottom to top?

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Bottom to top, bottom to top.

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Okay, and on a high.

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And then we've got a few superlatives.

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Not a ton, but just a few,

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just to give a little shout out.

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The smorgasbord.

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Yeah, just for funsies.

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So let me pull up my list

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because right now I'm looking at a cross stitch pattern.

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All right, number 16.

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Least favorite.

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Oh, and this is literally just based on our personal vibes.

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Oh yeah, no, this is no.

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Least favorite to favorite.

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Nothing intellectual happened in my brain.

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Yeah, no, 16, I'm going Texas destiny.

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Oh, that's intriguing.

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Yeah, there were some rearranging

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as I went through this list.

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This is the one that ultimately

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just like still ticks me off the most.

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Number one, cause of the politic.

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Like why am I reading Confederate romance right now?

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Number one.

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That's the main, like I couldn't enjoy myself the entire time

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because the whole time I was like,

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these are fucking Confederates.

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I did forget about that.

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Like her family owned slaves

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and at no point did she feel bad about that.

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She was just like, boo hoo,

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we had to sleep in the formerly slave quarters at one point.

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And then also she married his fucking brother,

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which pisses me off on a craft level, Lorraine.

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You let them get married?

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And then the hero, you let her get married to your brother?

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You don't deserve her.

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Nah, nah, I'm out.

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That's number 16 for me.

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Nice.

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I respect that.

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That's funny.

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That's intriguing.

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I mean, the Confederate definitely, that's valid.

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Anyway, you think that.

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Mine was the flame and the flower

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because to quote myself,

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I will never read a book that was worse than that.

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And that brings me great peace.

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I don't remember a lot about the flame and the flower.

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Yeah, no, because I hated it so much

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that I was doing as much as I could to get through it.

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But also I was reading my updates on it

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and I was so angry,

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but I have a beautiful memory,

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whereas I don't remember anything.

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So it's great for the things that I don't wanna remember,

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like that book.

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Let me see how many updates I made,

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because there were plenty.

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It was a plentiful, it was a bountiful reading time.

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I feel like I literally remember nothing

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except for the first time they had sex.

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Well, that's the end.

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Like the worst part about these ones

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is their summaries give you nothing.

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So like, you can't, like, I'm like, what happens?

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Yeah.

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Like my review is-

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Truly not a goddamn clue.

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Yeah, my review is not gonna lie.

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This had me wishing the British won the Revolutionary War.

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Like that was my review.

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Like what?

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So he was American is what I'm gathering from that.

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And I hate it.

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Yeah, I remember that,

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because it's part of like a plantation series.

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Lusty Adventure, Married to the Sea,

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Captain Brandon Birmingham.

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Is this the one where he like,

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thinks she's like a prostitute or something,

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and then like has sex with her?

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Yeah, he thinks she's a prostitute,

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he has sex with her,

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and then she ends up getting forced,

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or like he's forced to marry her, so he hates her, right?

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I don't know.

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I feel, I remember a scene where like her family,

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or maybe not her fam,

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cause doesn't she,

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is this the one where she has a terrible guardian?

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Yeah, yeah.

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And so I think it's like the man is a very nice old man,

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and they like force him to marry her

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because she's pregnant, right?

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You're asking me a lot of things.

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I don't know.

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I mean, you're coming up with a good recollection

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compared to...

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But I only remember the beginning.

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I think she's pregnant,

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and that's why they force him to marry her,

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and he's mad about it,

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because I think he wanted to like track her down anyway,

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but he doesn't like it

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because he's being told to, hashtag relatable.

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He was trying to marry someone else,

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it looks, from what?

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And then he takes her back with him,

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and he's like, I'm gonna make your life hell,

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like you're not gonna be my wife,

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you're gonna be like basically a servant in my house.

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But then I don't remember anything past that.

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This was our monologuing one, I think.

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He does monologue naked in a mirror.

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That's that lesson.

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He monologued so much.

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But that's the extent of the plot that I remember.

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And then he paid off her aunt.

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So yeah, cause she had that like bad, did you,

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I don't know.

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What in the world?

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Oh my gosh, looking at my reading history of this.

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Blackmail, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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Somehow it gets worse.

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I'd rather deep throw the cactus and finish this book.

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Wow, all right.

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Well, that's aggressive.

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There was a serial killer.

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Sure don't remember that.

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Was that like the end?

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I get this one in Sky O'Malley confused.

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I remember a lot more of Sky O'Malley than this one.

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Yeah, things happened in this one

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and I didn't like it when it was happening to me.

272
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So there's that.

273
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Number 15.

274
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Sky O'Malley.

275
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Mine is Sky O'Malley too.

276
00:11:05,220 --> 00:11:06,660
To no one's surprise.

277
00:11:06,660 --> 00:11:11,660
That book, to quote myself again, I need an exorcism.

278
00:11:15,260 --> 00:11:16,100
Yeah, that didn't number.

279
00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:17,020
Actually, you know what?

280
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I take it back.

281
00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:20,060
I'm flipping my 14 and 15.

282
00:11:21,060 --> 00:11:21,980
It's not Sky O'Malley.

283
00:11:21,980 --> 00:11:23,740
My 15 is the flame and the flower.

284
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I can't help but support.

285
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I had it a little bit higher

286
00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:31,940
cause I literally didn't remember anything from it,

287
00:11:31,940 --> 00:11:35,020
but now I'm like, so we're flipping them.

288
00:11:35,020 --> 00:11:38,860
Yeah, Sky O'Malley at least had a plot

289
00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:44,540
cause the flame and the flower, nothing.

290
00:11:44,540 --> 00:11:45,540
I think that's why I'm struggling to remember

291
00:11:45,540 --> 00:11:47,140
cause nothing, it was just, she was just like,

292
00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:49,300
was at that place and then it just,

293
00:11:50,980 --> 00:11:52,180
I didn't like him.

294
00:11:52,180 --> 00:11:53,180
He was horrible.

295
00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:56,020
So that was a thing.

296
00:12:00,060 --> 00:12:02,780
Sky O'Malley was the incest one, right?

297
00:12:02,780 --> 00:12:03,700
Yeah.

298
00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:05,420
Yeah, that stuck with me.

299
00:12:06,780 --> 00:12:07,620
No.

300
00:12:08,380 --> 00:12:09,860
So many things happened.

301
00:12:09,860 --> 00:12:13,340
I thought I saw somewhere that's becoming a TV show.

302
00:12:13,340 --> 00:12:14,180
Well, that I don't know.

303
00:12:14,180 --> 00:12:15,700
Or something, I don't know.

304
00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:17,900
I mean, it was like an epic saga.

305
00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:19,220
That's why it was a little bit high.

306
00:12:19,220 --> 00:12:21,020
Like I bumped it up to 14.

307
00:12:22,860 --> 00:12:25,340
There were elements of it I really enjoyed.

308
00:12:25,340 --> 00:12:27,300
Like I thought it was very interesting.

309
00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:29,420
And I know you don't read the same way I do in that sense

310
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where like, if you don't like it, you don't like it.

311
00:12:30,940 --> 00:12:32,620
But I did correct.

312
00:12:32,620 --> 00:12:35,780
I did find it an interesting book.

313
00:12:35,780 --> 00:12:37,620
I thought it was an interesting read.

314
00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:42,700
There were just so many wild plot point

315
00:12:42,700 --> 00:12:44,300
where I was like, wow.

316
00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:46,300
Like, and now we have amnesia

317
00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:50,940
and we're in like the Middle East question mark.

318
00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:54,460
And she's being like trained as a courtesan.

319
00:12:57,580 --> 00:13:02,180
And I just did not, I didn't care for him at any point.

320
00:13:02,180 --> 00:13:04,500
So like, I didn't really care about her getting back to him.

321
00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:06,740
Like the romance in like that sense,

322
00:13:06,740 --> 00:13:10,340
like the grand sweeping role, it just was not sweeping.

323
00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:13,540
I was unswept.

324
00:13:14,380 --> 00:13:17,060
And I love the cover though.

325
00:13:17,060 --> 00:13:19,020
I was like, that's insane of you.

326
00:13:19,020 --> 00:13:19,860
It was.

327
00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:20,980
I did it in the sense that I was like,

328
00:13:20,980 --> 00:13:25,380
wow, you really committed to giving us all of that.

329
00:13:25,380 --> 00:13:26,580
So much.

330
00:13:28,220 --> 00:13:29,300
Yeah.

331
00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,500
Bonus points for the cover though.

332
00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:33,500
Yeah.

333
00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:34,340
Number 14.

334
00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:38,820
Yeah.

335
00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:41,700
So that's, and yours was?

336
00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:42,540
That was 15.

337
00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:43,860
15, I did the flame and the flower.

338
00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:45,140
Flame and the flower, okay.

339
00:13:45,140 --> 00:13:45,980
Yeah.

340
00:13:45,980 --> 00:13:47,900
And then my 14 was Sky O'Malley.

341
00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:49,460
Okay, cool.

342
00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:50,460
So then 14 was yours.

343
00:13:50,460 --> 00:13:51,300
Okay.

344
00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:52,860
So 14, mine was an unwilling bride.

345
00:13:52,860 --> 00:13:57,860
I just hated that man so much.

346
00:13:59,460 --> 00:14:03,260
Nothing much to say more than that.

347
00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:06,300
I was unwilling to.

348
00:14:07,220 --> 00:14:09,940
And I think this one did hurt a little bit more

349
00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:13,380
because I was enjoying like the first little bit of it.

350
00:14:13,380 --> 00:14:15,980
And then I just wasn't because he kept talking

351
00:14:17,060 --> 00:14:19,700
and I didn't enjoy that when it happened.

352
00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:23,700
He was with men, he just kept talking.

353
00:14:24,820 --> 00:14:26,380
Yeah.

354
00:14:26,380 --> 00:14:29,260
Yeah, you read that one a little bit more academically.

355
00:14:29,260 --> 00:14:30,980
I did, I did.

356
00:14:30,980 --> 00:14:31,900
And you enjoyed that one.

357
00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:36,100
I unfortunately would rather not.

358
00:14:39,460 --> 00:14:40,300
Okay.

359
00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:42,300
Number 13.

360
00:14:45,540 --> 00:14:48,180
13, I went prisoner of my desire.

361
00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:50,020
Yeah, okay.

362
00:14:50,020 --> 00:14:55,020
I considered putting it higher, I did.

363
00:14:57,580 --> 00:15:00,220
I think ultimately what ranked it so low for me

364
00:15:00,220 --> 00:15:02,700
was that I have no desire to reread it.

365
00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:04,900
Honestly, I think I could reread it.

366
00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,140
I think I just like still have a very visceral,

367
00:15:08,140 --> 00:15:10,020
and we talked about this during the episode,

368
00:15:10,020 --> 00:15:13,620
but the thing that did it for me was not even the like rape

369
00:15:13,620 --> 00:15:16,540
of either character for each, because they switch.

370
00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:20,060
Yeah, it was the like utter humiliation

371
00:15:20,060 --> 00:15:24,420
that he puts her through during and after the rape.

372
00:15:24,420 --> 00:15:26,740
But like it's almost worse after for me,

373
00:15:26,740 --> 00:15:28,820
where like I just get like a sick feeling

374
00:15:28,820 --> 00:15:29,900
in my stomach reading it.

375
00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:32,620
So like, and this was a weird one, we talked about this.

376
00:15:32,620 --> 00:15:34,060
Like I could not put it down.

377
00:15:34,060 --> 00:15:35,100
Yeah, yeah.

378
00:15:36,220 --> 00:15:39,460
But like I get like a little bit sick just thinking

379
00:15:39,460 --> 00:15:41,540
about the things that he did to her in that book.

380
00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:44,580
And again, it wasn't even the rape that really did it.

381
00:15:44,580 --> 00:15:49,580
So like, I just don't want to experience that again.

382
00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:50,740
I'll be intrigued.

383
00:15:50,740 --> 00:15:52,540
And so it's ranking lower for me.

384
00:15:52,540 --> 00:15:53,380
No, that makes sense.

385
00:15:53,380 --> 00:15:55,980
Cause that's not like a personal like,

386
00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:59,540
it could like thing of mine, like the humiliation.

387
00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:01,180
I don't think I have a humiliation kink,

388
00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:03,020
cause that I don't think that exists for me.

389
00:16:03,020 --> 00:16:04,380
The problem is I do.

390
00:16:04,380 --> 00:16:07,140
That's why it's so weird, but it wasn't in like a hot way.

391
00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:10,660
It was in like, it has to be hot for the kink to work.

392
00:16:10,660 --> 00:16:14,140
And it has to come from a place of I actually respect you.

393
00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:16,980
And it didn't, he like actually didn't respect her.

394
00:16:16,980 --> 00:16:20,340
Boy am I excited for you to read Kiss of a Demon King.

395
00:16:20,340 --> 00:16:23,300
I'm just so excited for that to happen for you.

396
00:16:24,620 --> 00:16:26,700
I just think for a humiliation kink to work

397
00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,940
in the same way that like any kind of degradation

398
00:16:28,940 --> 00:16:30,900
or like Dom sub, anything to work,

399
00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:33,340
you have to know that it comes from a place

400
00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:35,660
of respect and trust.

401
00:16:35,660 --> 00:16:36,500
Yeah.

402
00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:39,420
Like if you want somebody to call you a dirty little slut,

403
00:16:39,420 --> 00:16:41,940
you don't want them to actually think

404
00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:43,540
that you're a dirty little slut.

405
00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:46,980
Like, yeah, you don't want them to like actually

406
00:16:46,980 --> 00:16:48,980
actively disrespect you.

407
00:16:48,980 --> 00:16:51,500
It's like a role playing exercise.

408
00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:53,060
And he was not role playing.

409
00:16:53,060 --> 00:16:57,180
He was actively making her do horrible things.

410
00:16:57,180 --> 00:16:59,660
And I couldn't, I couldn't.

411
00:16:59,660 --> 00:17:01,980
And then he never even groveled.

412
00:17:01,980 --> 00:17:04,860
There was no resolution there.

413
00:17:04,860 --> 00:17:06,860
It just was like, ah, it's okay.

414
00:17:06,860 --> 00:17:08,500
Now I'm pissed about it all over again.

415
00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:09,860
Anyway.

416
00:17:09,860 --> 00:17:10,700
So this was 13, right?

417
00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:11,540
That's why.

418
00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:13,340
Yes.

419
00:17:13,340 --> 00:17:14,700
Yeah.

420
00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:17,540
Mine was Texas Destiny.

421
00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:20,180
So still at the bottom.

422
00:17:21,340 --> 00:17:24,140
That one hurt really bad because I really,

423
00:17:24,140 --> 00:17:25,580
I really wasn't enjoying the beginning.

424
00:17:25,580 --> 00:17:27,540
Like I loved the vibes.

425
00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:30,580
And then it just went so wrong.

426
00:17:30,580 --> 00:17:31,420
Yep.

427
00:17:31,420 --> 00:17:36,420
And it, like all the points that Caroline said earlier,

428
00:17:38,020 --> 00:17:39,100
they all still stand.

429
00:17:41,620 --> 00:17:43,060
It just, it could have been,

430
00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:45,060
and then I read the series, the whole series,

431
00:17:45,060 --> 00:17:48,340
cause for some reason I thought it wouldn't get worse.

432
00:17:49,220 --> 00:17:51,540
That was the best book in the series.

433
00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:55,300
So yeah, I gave, I think book three, one star.

434
00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:56,540
It was rough.

435
00:17:56,540 --> 00:17:58,500
That whole, it was a rough time.

436
00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,580
She has another Western series that I have hopes for,

437
00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:02,420
but who knows.

438
00:18:02,420 --> 00:18:05,980
I've heard good things about that one.

439
00:18:05,980 --> 00:18:06,940
But yeah.

440
00:18:06,940 --> 00:18:09,100
But also I heard good things about Texas Destiny

441
00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:10,620
and look where it got us.

442
00:18:10,620 --> 00:18:12,780
Her marrying his brother.

443
00:18:12,780 --> 00:18:14,580
I just didn't think she'd do it.

444
00:18:14,580 --> 00:18:18,020
So I mean, respect in that point, but like, no.

445
00:18:19,020 --> 00:18:19,860
No.

446
00:18:21,580 --> 00:18:22,620
Number 12.

447
00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:26,860
12.

448
00:18:26,860 --> 00:18:29,820
I did, this was an unwilling bride for me.

449
00:18:32,060 --> 00:18:33,860
I remember almost none of them.

450
00:18:33,860 --> 00:18:35,500
I remember him slapping her.

451
00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:36,740
And I remember,

452
00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:40,220
he treated his mistress better than he treated her

453
00:18:40,220 --> 00:18:41,060
for a lot of the book.

454
00:18:41,060 --> 00:18:45,540
I was like, mister, I don't like you.

455
00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:48,300
Oh, now I'm not sure which book I'm thinking of

456
00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:49,300
where there's like the,

457
00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:51,500
is that the one where they go to the mistress

458
00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:52,940
and there's like the bad guy shows up

459
00:18:52,940 --> 00:18:54,500
and is like trying to shoot?

460
00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:56,140
No, what book am I thinking of?

461
00:18:56,140 --> 00:18:56,980
I don't know.

462
00:18:56,980 --> 00:18:58,820
There's that like heist almost.

463
00:18:58,820 --> 00:19:00,380
Is that Moonstrike Madness?

464
00:19:00,380 --> 00:19:02,260
I think that may be unwilling and un-mourning.

465
00:19:02,260 --> 00:19:04,460
I think it might be an un-mourning bride.

466
00:19:04,460 --> 00:19:05,980
Yeah.

467
00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:08,060
I remember almost none of this,

468
00:19:08,060 --> 00:19:11,220
except that I didn't hate it.

469
00:19:11,220 --> 00:19:15,260
And that I at least was able to have like some

470
00:19:15,260 --> 00:19:16,100
think exercises.

471
00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:16,980
You gave it four stars.

472
00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:17,940
I did?

473
00:19:17,940 --> 00:19:18,780
Yeah.

474
00:19:18,780 --> 00:19:19,980
I feel like the longer I thought about it,

475
00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:20,820
the less I liked it.

476
00:19:20,820 --> 00:19:21,660
It's a big controversial one.

477
00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:22,860
Oh.

478
00:19:22,860 --> 00:19:24,660
Well, maybe I need to revisit that one then,

479
00:19:24,660 --> 00:19:28,580
because the longer I've sat with it, the less I have.

480
00:19:28,580 --> 00:19:29,660
Like, yeah.

481
00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:31,100
Well, I think that's kind of,

482
00:19:32,060 --> 00:19:33,580
that's like,

483
00:19:33,580 --> 00:19:35,420
actually I don't necessarily have an example of this one.

484
00:19:35,420 --> 00:19:36,780
I did give it four stars.

485
00:19:36,780 --> 00:19:38,060
I'm dropping it to three.

486
00:19:39,740 --> 00:19:41,100
That's a win for me, guys.

487
00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:44,540
I've won the small battle against-

488
00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:45,580
But mainly because I,

489
00:19:45,580 --> 00:19:47,580
like it literally didn't, nothing stuck.

490
00:19:47,580 --> 00:19:48,780
Yeah. Yeah.

491
00:19:48,780 --> 00:19:49,900
Like there was- I feel that way.

492
00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:51,980
I give sometimes a lot of like,

493
00:19:51,980 --> 00:19:53,300
if I give a five star and then like,

494
00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:55,100
I'll go back and like read it again,

495
00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:55,940
and maybe it's a four star,

496
00:19:55,940 --> 00:19:57,180
or like I don't remember anything about it.

497
00:19:57,180 --> 00:19:59,260
I'm like, that does not,

498
00:19:59,260 --> 00:20:00,100
we're gonna drop that.

499
00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:02,180
Yeah. For it to be like a higher rating,

500
00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:04,060
I have to remember it at least a bit,

501
00:20:04,060 --> 00:20:06,020
or like at least remember the feeling that I had

502
00:20:06,020 --> 00:20:08,300
while reading it, if not like the plot itself.

503
00:20:08,300 --> 00:20:09,460
And this one, I felt very,

504
00:20:09,460 --> 00:20:11,860
the main thing I remember about it was going and looking,

505
00:20:11,860 --> 00:20:15,180
like reading reviews and articles and things about like,

506
00:20:16,060 --> 00:20:18,620
what Joe Beverly was doing with the hero,

507
00:20:18,620 --> 00:20:20,980
and like the kind of academic, more analytical side.

508
00:20:20,980 --> 00:20:22,540
Like I remember a lot of that,

509
00:20:23,380 --> 00:20:25,540
but I don't remember anything about the plot.

510
00:20:25,540 --> 00:20:29,140
And clearly I didn't really have feelings about the romance.

511
00:20:29,140 --> 00:20:29,980
So- I just remember

512
00:20:29,980 --> 00:20:32,380
I was sitting in a Best Buy parking lot.

513
00:20:32,380 --> 00:20:34,060
I remember you being mad.

514
00:20:34,060 --> 00:20:37,980
And I remember me being like, but wait,

515
00:20:37,980 --> 00:20:39,500
there are things to discuss.

516
00:20:40,380 --> 00:20:42,940
And you did not want to discuss.

517
00:20:42,940 --> 00:20:43,780
No.

518
00:20:43,780 --> 00:20:44,740
Cause you were mad.

519
00:20:44,740 --> 00:20:45,740
I was mad.

520
00:20:45,740 --> 00:20:47,060
And it is what it is.

521
00:20:47,060 --> 00:20:47,900
It is.

522
00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:49,460
So that was my, what was that, 12?

523
00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:50,300
That was 12.

524
00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:53,700
So my 12 was Moonstruck Madness.

525
00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:57,500
That's the one I remember nothing of this book.

526
00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:58,340
How interesting.

527
00:20:59,420 --> 00:21:03,860
I only, after revisiting my reading journey of it,

528
00:21:03,860 --> 00:21:07,220
I remembered that he loved her when she had amnesia

529
00:21:07,220 --> 00:21:10,180
because like he could tolerate her suddenly

530
00:21:10,180 --> 00:21:11,740
because she wasn't actually who she was.

531
00:21:11,740 --> 00:21:14,380
And then I got really angry all over again

532
00:21:14,380 --> 00:21:16,580
because I was like, oh my God, that did happen.

533
00:21:16,580 --> 00:21:18,340
And I have so many issues with him.

534
00:21:20,380 --> 00:21:24,060
I was like, I had a note when I got to 50%,

535
00:21:24,060 --> 00:21:26,980
it was like, this isn't bad, but like, it's just not for me.

536
00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:29,620
And then immediately after that, it all went down.

537
00:21:29,620 --> 00:21:32,180
And then I was like, oh wait, actually, no, I hate it.

538
00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:33,340
And it happened in real time.

539
00:21:33,340 --> 00:21:35,340
Cause I was like, oh, like I was like, this is fine.

540
00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:37,100
Like I'm listening to it.

541
00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:38,300
I have no opinions.

542
00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:39,500
And then I had opinions.

543
00:21:41,940 --> 00:21:43,700
So yeah, that happened.

544
00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:46,020
But we got through it and I'll never read it again.

545
00:21:46,020 --> 00:21:48,420
I do like the cover though, unfortunately for me.

546
00:21:50,020 --> 00:21:50,860
Well, there you go.

547
00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:51,700
Mm-hmm.

548
00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:55,620
And then number 11,

549
00:21:57,300 --> 00:22:00,300
which this is controversial for me

550
00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:02,340
because I rated this one lower

551
00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:03,940
than I rated Moonstruck Madness.

552
00:22:03,940 --> 00:22:06,100
I could probably revisit that rating.

553
00:22:06,100 --> 00:22:07,220
I don't quite know.

554
00:22:07,220 --> 00:22:08,540
Flowers from the Storm.

555
00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:13,420
Because like, I didn't enjoy the book,

556
00:22:13,420 --> 00:22:16,020
but I understand why people enjoy the book.

557
00:22:16,020 --> 00:22:18,500
And like, there were things I liked about it.

558
00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,220
It just was like personally like written

559
00:22:21,220 --> 00:22:23,260
for everything that I dislike.

560
00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,420
Like it was like my,

561
00:22:26,420 --> 00:22:30,380
my, like if I was a Greek God,

562
00:22:30,380 --> 00:22:33,100
that would be created as my like mythical

563
00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:35,780
like counterpart to take me down.

564
00:22:38,060 --> 00:22:42,460
But like, I respect it because it has part of me in it.

565
00:22:46,140 --> 00:22:50,700
It's like the Titans having those like weird giants.

566
00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,620
This is all coming from Percy Jackson, by the way,

567
00:22:53,620 --> 00:22:56,380
that were like the giant form of like the God

568
00:22:56,380 --> 00:22:59,620
or something like the bad Poseidon, the bad.

569
00:22:59,620 --> 00:23:01,020
Yeah.

570
00:23:01,020 --> 00:23:02,740
It's in like the Heroes of Olympus series.

571
00:23:02,740 --> 00:23:03,740
Okay.

572
00:23:03,740 --> 00:23:05,700
I didn't remember them being in Percy Jackson.

573
00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:06,540
That's where you lost.

574
00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:07,380
Oh yeah, yeah, no.

575
00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:09,220
The Heroes of Olympus is all about that.

576
00:23:09,220 --> 00:23:10,580
It's been a hot minute since I've read those.

577
00:23:10,580 --> 00:23:11,420
Mm-hmm.

578
00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:16,940
So that's my giant of a book.

579
00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:19,580
Like I know that he loved her

580
00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:21,660
and that's something that's crucial.

581
00:23:21,660 --> 00:23:22,540
And like she loved him.

582
00:23:22,540 --> 00:23:24,100
Like in a lot of these books that I rated low,

583
00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:26,100
like I just don't feel that way.

584
00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:29,300
Like I'm just like, how did we get there?

585
00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:30,580
At least in Flowers from the Storm,

586
00:23:30,580 --> 00:23:32,420
like I see how that happens.

587
00:23:32,420 --> 00:23:37,020
And I still think about his description to her blind father.

588
00:23:37,940 --> 00:23:38,780
Yeah.

589
00:23:38,780 --> 00:23:41,900
And he said something about someone being cold,

590
00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:43,740
the little girl or something.

591
00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:45,540
She would be cold, the baby.

592
00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:48,060
He was gonna send her away, but then he couldn't do it.

593
00:23:48,060 --> 00:23:50,820
Because what if she was cold and they wouldn't?

594
00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:52,940
Yeah, so I didn't, like I did not hate him.

595
00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:55,460
Like at no point did I hate that man.

596
00:23:55,460 --> 00:23:56,780
And that is not something I can say

597
00:23:56,780 --> 00:23:59,580
about a lot of those books below it.

598
00:23:59,580 --> 00:24:03,780
So at the moment of Passion, I did give it one star.

599
00:24:05,020 --> 00:24:07,780
But it could probably be raised to two

600
00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:10,580
because I did rate it above Moonstrike Madness,

601
00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:12,220
which I gave two stars.

602
00:24:12,220 --> 00:24:13,060
And I think I gave it two stars

603
00:24:13,060 --> 00:24:15,180
because I probably didn't remember it when I finished it.

604
00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:18,860
Which is honestly probably what happened knowing me.

605
00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:23,020
So that's one that I think I could potentially reread

606
00:24:23,020 --> 00:24:26,620
if I just maybe skip the part in the asylum

607
00:24:26,620 --> 00:24:28,220
because I just can't handle that.

608
00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:30,540
Because I know what's coming now.

609
00:24:30,540 --> 00:24:34,380
And I'd want to reread the ending, I think.

610
00:24:34,380 --> 00:24:36,700
Because it was like 18 hours and I was just like done

611
00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:38,220
with everything at that point.

612
00:24:41,260 --> 00:24:43,420
But yeah, so that's 11.

613
00:24:45,340 --> 00:24:49,580
My 11 was Whitney, My Love, which is lower

614
00:24:49,580 --> 00:24:51,420
than I thought I was gonna end up putting it

615
00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:53,940
because I did enjoy the majority of that book.

616
00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:57,860
And I also really liked our episode on it.

617
00:25:00,780 --> 00:25:03,460
I think I just still feel betrayed by the ending.

618
00:25:04,740 --> 00:25:06,940
And because I feel betrayed.

619
00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:08,980
And it's like you said about Texas Destiny

620
00:25:08,980 --> 00:25:12,340
where because it was so good initially,

621
00:25:12,340 --> 00:25:17,220
it hurt more than Clayton became a professional

622
00:25:17,220 --> 00:25:19,620
conclusion jumpist, an Olympic level

623
00:25:19,620 --> 00:25:21,820
conclusion jumpist even.

624
00:25:21,820 --> 00:25:23,180
Yes he did.

625
00:25:23,180 --> 00:25:24,940
It just hurt so bad.

626
00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:27,220
And I was like, after all of this,

627
00:25:27,220 --> 00:25:30,580
after all the things we've been through, Judith,

628
00:25:30,580 --> 00:25:32,900
to quote you, I was Judith McStraught.

629
00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:35,340
Like, or Judith Distraught,

630
00:25:35,340 --> 00:25:37,740
that McStraught didn't make sense.

631
00:25:37,740 --> 00:25:39,660
Ba-da-ba-ba-ba.

632
00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:40,900
I was not loving it.

633
00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:45,580
It simply, it just, like it was so good.

634
00:25:45,580 --> 00:25:46,420
Yeah.

635
00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:47,660
And the discussions that came out of it,

636
00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:49,980
I thought were really good.

637
00:25:49,980 --> 00:25:52,260
And then just ruined everything.

638
00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:54,460
Like a man does.

639
00:25:54,460 --> 00:25:55,900
Like a man, he was a man.

640
00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:57,100
That's how I felt about Until You,

641
00:25:57,100 --> 00:25:58,980
which is the next one, that's Steven's book.

642
00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:01,140
Because like it was a fantastic book.

643
00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:04,420
Like it was so good, except for him.

644
00:26:04,420 --> 00:26:07,540
And he was a poop nugget.

645
00:26:07,540 --> 00:26:12,140
I hated him so much, but I also loved him

646
00:26:12,140 --> 00:26:14,260
because I knew who he could be.

647
00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:19,260
And like any person who's me, you think you can fix him.

648
00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:24,500
But you couldn't because it just, it hurt so bad.

649
00:26:26,500 --> 00:26:27,700
Because it was so good.

650
00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:30,580
Like the book, like the heroine, she was fantastic.

651
00:26:30,580 --> 00:26:35,220
And then, but Steven, like he just, I hate him so much.

652
00:26:35,220 --> 00:26:37,180
I mean, I just like, you really gave me this book

653
00:26:37,180 --> 00:26:40,020
and you had him like spank her with a writing crop

654
00:26:40,020 --> 00:26:41,060
and not in a hot way.

655
00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:42,700
And I was on board.

656
00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:43,540
Yeah.

657
00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:45,780
Yeah, in the context, I get it.

658
00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:47,820
I'm with you.

659
00:26:47,820 --> 00:26:48,940
I did not, yeah, I didn't.

660
00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:51,140
And then you ruined everything.

661
00:26:51,140 --> 00:26:53,220
And for that, you get a number 11.

662
00:26:57,380 --> 00:26:59,140
Did you start with 11?

663
00:26:59,140 --> 00:26:59,980
Yeah, I think so.

664
00:26:59,980 --> 00:27:03,860
Yeah, so then my 11, I believe is a no.

665
00:27:05,180 --> 00:27:06,420
No, you're right.

666
00:27:06,420 --> 00:27:07,380
What was your 11?

667
00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:09,300
Did I?

668
00:27:10,180 --> 00:27:11,020
I think I.

669
00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:11,860
What was it?

670
00:27:11,860 --> 00:27:13,100
Flowers from the Storm?

671
00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:15,860
Yeah, so this is number 10.

672
00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:19,540
Okay, then you started.

673
00:27:19,540 --> 00:27:21,540
My 10 is Moonstruck Madness.

674
00:27:23,340 --> 00:27:30,340
Because it's, you know, it's fairly middle of the road.

675
00:27:30,340 --> 00:27:32,460
I really liked a lot about it.

676
00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:35,180
I really liked Laurie McVean's style.

677
00:27:35,180 --> 00:27:38,740
So like I was having a good time,

678
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:42,900
even when I wasn't having a great time, you know what I mean?

679
00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:45,500
Yeah, that's how I felt in Wooden You Might Love.

680
00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,900
When I wasn't having a good time, I was still having a time.

681
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,220
Yeah, because like great writer, I really enjoyed the style.

682
00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:55,340
But kind of meh.

683
00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:59,380
And then didn't love the whole like borderline

684
00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:02,460
incestuous twins, Team Rocket vibes.

685
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:07,300
Didn't love the implications of like beauty

686
00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,980
and like ugliness as punishment vibes.

687
00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:12,860
Didn't love that she was a female highwayman,

688
00:28:12,860 --> 00:28:15,380
but we barely got any highwayman hijinks.

689
00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:19,140
It's all coming back.

690
00:28:19,140 --> 00:28:21,420
Yeah, I don't remember a ton of the plot.

691
00:28:21,420 --> 00:28:23,860
I had forgotten about the amnesia bit until you brought it up,

692
00:28:23,860 --> 00:28:25,180
but I didn't love that either.

693
00:28:25,180 --> 00:28:28,100
So like I forgot she was a highwayman.

694
00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:30,780
Yeah, and that's never a thing you should be able to forget

695
00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:32,580
if a character is a highwayman.

696
00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:34,620
I really did not come up in my memory.

697
00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:37,740
So, yeah, I really liked the style.

698
00:28:37,740 --> 00:28:40,020
I fell short of my expectations, though.

699
00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:41,660
I wanted a lot more from that.

700
00:28:41,660 --> 00:28:43,540
Yeah, it could have been.

701
00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:45,620
Yeah, it could have been a lot better.

702
00:28:45,620 --> 00:28:47,300
That's me with Dreaming of You.

703
00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:51,900
Lisa Gleipas can write.

704
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:53,060
That's a fact.

705
00:28:53,060 --> 00:28:54,100
I enjoyed the writing.

706
00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:57,180
I enjoyed a good amount, a fair amount of this book,

707
00:28:58,380 --> 00:29:03,300
but it just was not really my thing.

708
00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:05,780
I think in our episode, we were like, if we would have read this

709
00:29:05,780 --> 00:29:09,460
like back when it was published, that would be like a different story

710
00:29:09,460 --> 00:29:12,860
because it would we went to read what we've read now.

711
00:29:14,820 --> 00:29:17,220
But Derek, he's not.

712
00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:21,180
My review was just like girls who don't get it, don't get it.

713
00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:24,460
And that's me. Like, I just don't get the appeal really of him.

714
00:29:24,860 --> 00:29:27,420
I did love him in pain.

715
00:29:27,420 --> 00:29:28,740
I wanted him more in pain.

716
00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:31,900
I wanted him to suffer more, I think.

717
00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,180
I really enjoyed when they got to the ball, like the masquerade.

718
00:29:35,180 --> 00:29:39,020
Like, I remember us talking about that, like we really like when she was there.

719
00:29:39,020 --> 00:29:41,340
And then it kind of like they separated.

720
00:29:41,340 --> 00:29:44,460
And then like my the tension kind of dissipated for me a little bit.

721
00:29:44,460 --> 00:29:47,900
And like my steam reading it, I lost interest when that happened.

722
00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:50,340
And like we talked about how it had to happen.

723
00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:53,740
But the structure of it. Yeah. Yeah.

724
00:29:54,980 --> 00:29:57,940
So again, like it was not a bad book.

725
00:29:57,940 --> 00:30:00,580
I don't know that there is a bad Lisa Clevis.

726
00:30:00,580 --> 00:30:02,420
Exactly. Like it.

727
00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:04,180
It's Lisa.

728
00:30:04,180 --> 00:30:08,220
But I don't think I would need to reread it.

729
00:30:09,940 --> 00:30:11,060
But I mean, I could.

730
00:30:11,060 --> 00:30:14,620
Like, again, like it's not like if I was doing, I guess, like a full Lisa,

731
00:30:14,860 --> 00:30:16,060
I wouldn't skip it.

732
00:30:16,060 --> 00:30:19,100
Oh, Lisa, Lisa.

733
00:30:19,820 --> 00:30:21,900
In theaters everywhere.

734
00:30:22,860 --> 00:30:25,740
But yeah, I guess I was just like,

735
00:30:25,740 --> 00:30:29,140
yeah, I guess I was just a little bit let down

736
00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:31,620
just because like that was everyone.

737
00:30:31,620 --> 00:30:33,980
Like everyone talks about Derek Raven.

738
00:30:33,980 --> 00:30:36,620
And I had seen him because I had read Then Came You before that.

739
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,420
And but like years ago.

740
00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:45,020
And so like I knew who Derek was, like from that book, but.

741
00:30:46,540 --> 00:30:49,740
Knowing him from like what people say about him, that they love him,

742
00:30:49,740 --> 00:30:52,940
I was just like, I don't quite get it.

743
00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:55,100
So, yeah. Number 10.

744
00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:58,540
Yeah, that was I'm going to steal the first one because

745
00:30:59,180 --> 00:31:00,740
it was my number nine was dreaming.

746
00:31:00,740 --> 00:31:01,540
And.

747
00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:08,140
For pretty much all of those same, like I just again,

748
00:31:08,140 --> 00:31:11,780
maybe if this had been like my first Lisa Clevis. Exactly.

749
00:31:12,540 --> 00:31:15,740
Like, I can see why it would be a formative book for somebody if this

750
00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:19,340
they were reading it when it came out or it was an early one for them.

751
00:31:20,620 --> 00:31:21,900
But it did not.

752
00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:23,180
I mean, again, it was Lisa.

753
00:31:23,180 --> 00:31:25,620
So there were like a lot of things that I remember we loved.

754
00:31:25,620 --> 00:31:27,500
And honestly, I should probably go back and look at my notes

755
00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:29,940
because I know I took notes for it.

756
00:31:29,940 --> 00:31:32,700
He was a grave robber, right?

757
00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:34,300
That was part of our lesson.

758
00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:35,460
I'm looking at my notes.

759
00:31:35,460 --> 00:31:36,620
There's not a ton of them.

760
00:31:36,620 --> 00:31:39,060
And they are as follows, quote,

761
00:31:39,260 --> 00:31:42,100
he's only rude to people he likes. Relatable King.

762
00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:46,540
I guess a self-made man who has everything but feels nothing.

763
00:31:48,380 --> 00:31:50,060
Not her pretending to be Matilda.

764
00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:52,620
I don't know who Matilda was

765
00:31:52,620 --> 00:31:56,540
calling Tabitha Sarah when he may or may not have had sex with the prostitute.

766
00:31:56,540 --> 00:31:57,980
No, that's Tabitha.

767
00:31:57,980 --> 00:31:59,740
I know, because I have a note in all caps.

768
00:31:59,740 --> 00:32:01,380
This is calling Tabitha Sarah.

769
00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:02,180
Oh.

770
00:32:04,660 --> 00:32:06,860
Who the fuck was Matilda?

771
00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:10,340
Who did she pretend to be?

772
00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:13,620
Was there like a crime thing at the end?

773
00:32:14,340 --> 00:32:16,220
They have to like.

774
00:32:17,980 --> 00:32:21,220
Did was this did she come to the masquerade pretending?

775
00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:23,340
Oh, oh, oh, it's the character.

776
00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:25,140
It's the character she wrote.

777
00:32:25,140 --> 00:32:26,700
That was fun. See the masquerade.

778
00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:28,100
That was a good time.

779
00:32:28,820 --> 00:32:31,500
Well, because everybody's like, oh, what is Matilda up to?

780
00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:33,220
Like, what is she doing the whole time?

781
00:32:33,220 --> 00:32:35,940
And she keeps trying to explain that Matilda is a fictional character.

782
00:32:35,940 --> 00:32:38,660
And so she ends up just pretending to be her at the masquerade.

783
00:32:39,260 --> 00:32:43,020
So then there's the prostitute, which is the whole thing or whatever.

784
00:32:44,980 --> 00:32:46,100
Perry, it's on site.

785
00:32:46,100 --> 00:32:48,260
I do remember that it was on site.

786
00:32:48,580 --> 00:32:49,620
Let's go, Perry.

787
00:32:49,620 --> 00:32:52,260
Perry, can you fight his mother and his mother?

788
00:32:53,940 --> 00:32:56,940
Nothing hits like a man who entirely loses his shit because of a woman.

789
00:32:56,980 --> 00:32:58,820
True. And I stand by that.

790
00:32:58,820 --> 00:33:00,700
However, I needed him to lose it more.

791
00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:04,860
I like that this note is just I honestly feel bad for Joyce.

792
00:33:04,860 --> 00:33:06,780
Who is Joyce? Joyce is the other woman.

793
00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:08,180
Never mind. I remember Joyce.

794
00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:09,340
There was that whole thing.

795
00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:11,380
She kept trying to like get with him.

796
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:14,060
And he was like, get the fuck out of here. Remember?

797
00:33:15,180 --> 00:33:17,780
No, she kidnaps her at the end.

798
00:33:17,780 --> 00:33:20,660
Oh, Joyce. Joyce.

799
00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:24,060
Because she was sleeping with him, but then she was trying to get her clutches in him.

800
00:33:24,060 --> 00:33:26,140
It was a whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. You're right.

801
00:33:26,140 --> 00:33:29,460
You're right. You knew it was going to happen because she was like she hadn't been dealt.

802
00:33:29,460 --> 00:33:31,100
Yeah. So that I also didn't like that.

803
00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:33,300
I was not a huge fan of that.

804
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:35,380
So like by the end, I was kind of like, I just want to be done.

805
00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:37,940
You're right. Joyce.

806
00:33:38,980 --> 00:33:41,500
The quote, my beautiful, meddlesome little bully.

807
00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:42,460
I said me and who?

808
00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:44,940
True. And I stand by it.

809
00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:48,380
Lisa loves giving us enough time in the final quarter to see them happily married.

810
00:33:48,380 --> 00:33:50,660
Also true. And I respect Lisa for it.

811
00:33:51,540 --> 00:33:56,580
The quote six, 25, no nightgowns, which I have to assume was them ordering clothes

812
00:33:56,580 --> 00:34:00,300
and Sarah saying she needed six of something and him saying, no, you need 25.

813
00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:01,980
And also there will be no nightgowns.

814
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:05,100
Which I have to say, King.

815
00:34:05,860 --> 00:34:07,500
Like, I respect it.

816
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:08,980
And my final note is.

817
00:34:10,340 --> 00:34:11,340
Breastfeeding.

818
00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:13,860
I forgot that was in that book.

819
00:34:13,860 --> 00:34:21,500
And for that, I feel like bees except breast.

820
00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:22,500
Be cups.

821
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:26,300
I feel like I should move it up because of that, but I won't.

822
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:32,060
I'm going to leave it as the best of the rest, I would say, is dreaming of you.

823
00:34:32,060 --> 00:34:33,500
Because you know what?

824
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:34,940
Those notes made me giggle.

825
00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:36,820
But I agree with you on the pacing.

826
00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:40,700
Yeah. Like it had the elements.

827
00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:44,580
Like you can see where she did what she did in her other like her later books

828
00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:45,780
because of that book.

829
00:34:45,780 --> 00:34:48,220
And I respect her for doing that.

830
00:34:48,220 --> 00:34:51,420
And like, I'm happy this book exists because I got like Harry

831
00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:52,860
Rolage and Thomas Everett.

832
00:34:52,860 --> 00:34:55,420
So true. My babies.

833
00:34:55,540 --> 00:34:58,420
And I respect because I mean, we know that this was essentially like

834
00:34:58,940 --> 00:35:02,740
the first really self-made hero in historical romance.

835
00:35:02,740 --> 00:35:04,980
And so you got to respect the roots.

836
00:35:05,860 --> 00:35:08,060
I respect the roots, but it's not a favorite.

837
00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:10,900
It is number nine for me. Best of the rest.

838
00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:13,820
For me, that's Prisoner of My Desire.

839
00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:17,740
So not like I did not hate that book.

840
00:35:17,740 --> 00:35:21,420
I like you said, like flew through it, could not stop reading it.

841
00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:24,900
I was surprised at every corner.

842
00:35:25,060 --> 00:35:28,740
Yeah. I was just like, huh?

843
00:35:28,740 --> 00:35:33,180
It did it. It it women lost.

844
00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:37,260
But like, I didn't hate it.

845
00:35:38,060 --> 00:35:39,060
That's so fair.

846
00:35:39,060 --> 00:35:43,100
Like, did I enjoy when he thought his daughter that he didn't know was his

847
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:44,740
daughter was hot? No.

848
00:35:44,740 --> 00:35:45,740
Did I enjoy?

849
00:35:45,740 --> 00:35:48,060
I won't. It made me laugh.

850
00:35:48,540 --> 00:35:54,140
Did I enjoy when that young lad got skewered?

851
00:35:54,460 --> 00:35:55,460
No.

852
00:35:55,460 --> 00:35:59,500
Skewered? No. Oh, damn.

853
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:01,460
Like at the beginning. Yeah, he got skewered.

854
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:02,460
Shishkebobby.

855
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:08,100
I also was a little bit like.

856
00:36:09,340 --> 00:36:12,540
I'm sorry, women, that I'm happy that this like when she's getting

857
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:15,260
thrown out of the castle and like has to marry this horrible person

858
00:36:15,260 --> 00:36:19,300
because she was rude to the heroine, but like she deserved it.

859
00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:22,020
And I was like, yes, get her, get her again.

860
00:36:22,020 --> 00:36:25,940
But like, but like, yeah, but like.

861
00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:30,620
That punishment was worse than the actual villain got,

862
00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:32,340
which I am now remembering the villain.

863
00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:40,940
So like, that is the one flaw, because honestly, like, I would reread

864
00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:46,100
90 percent of that book with the caveat that the villain got like beheaded.

865
00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:48,380
Because I hated him.

866
00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:50,580
That's true. I probably always hated him.

867
00:36:50,580 --> 00:36:54,540
That's true. I probably would like it a lot more if he actually.

868
00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:58,860
Yeah, because it just like it was so rude because I was all ready

869
00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:04,900
for like gore and just brutal punishment.

870
00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:08,100
And he just had to bend a knee.

871
00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:10,660
And I just think heads could have rolled.

872
00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:13,380
And they didn't.

873
00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:15,180
Mm hmm. So true.

874
00:37:15,340 --> 00:37:17,660
Not a favorite of mine,

875
00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:20,740
but I do like her writing and I was compelled.

876
00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:23,380
Compells me, though.

877
00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:25,380
I sent you a sense.

878
00:37:25,380 --> 00:37:27,380
It is relevant to this.

879
00:37:27,380 --> 00:37:28,380
I have it on Do Not Disturb.

880
00:37:28,380 --> 00:37:29,380
So good thing you told me.

881
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:35,500
Yes, I fucking loved everyone, because do you have anything

882
00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:40,100
you want to say to women for having own this offensive opinion?

883
00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:42,500
I'm sorry, women. I made this into my own meme.

884
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:43,500
Yeah, I got it.

885
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:48,660
So I got it for magazine. I think about this a lot

886
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:53,540
because so many of these men should just say I'm sorry, women.

887
00:37:54,540 --> 00:37:59,060
I think I've linked it in a few reviews because like Susan Heffley.

888
00:38:00,220 --> 00:38:02,060
She's a girl's girl. She gets it.

889
00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:05,900
If anyone does know, I fucking love those books.

890
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:07,820
They make me laugh.

891
00:38:07,820 --> 00:38:10,580
Aboriously. I love them.

892
00:38:10,580 --> 00:38:12,980
We just watched the like the new animated movies.

893
00:38:12,980 --> 00:38:15,580
I love the movies like I am a stan.

894
00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:20,060
Greg Heffley is the worst, but honestly, I would be too.

895
00:38:20,420 --> 00:38:25,260
So he's he I love him and those books.

896
00:38:26,740 --> 00:38:29,820
So, yeah, that was Prisoner number nine.

897
00:38:30,140 --> 00:38:32,780
Number eight for me.

898
00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:35,020
Was Whitney, my love,

899
00:38:36,740 --> 00:38:39,660
because I enjoyed this book a lot.

900
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,820
But again, like you said, the ending,

901
00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:46,420
I just was so like I was so surprised that I was liking it

902
00:38:46,420 --> 00:38:48,620
because I was just so scared of the book because everyone talks about it.

903
00:38:48,620 --> 00:38:50,300
Like spanking. Yeah.

904
00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:52,340
And then when I got there, I was like, oh,

905
00:38:52,340 --> 00:38:56,140
and then when I kept reading, I was like, oh, like, I really enjoy this.

906
00:38:56,180 --> 00:38:59,900
Like we got so much backstory and like of her

907
00:39:00,460 --> 00:39:02,900
like growing up and I was like, why am I enjoying this?

908
00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:06,340
I got just so many words, but I like them.

909
00:39:08,220 --> 00:39:11,660
And then you get over like the mini conclusion jump,

910
00:39:11,660 --> 00:39:15,780
but like conclusion jumpings, and then he just takes a fricking leap of unfaith

911
00:39:16,420 --> 00:39:20,180
and just really rips my heart out.

912
00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:21,260
He does.

913
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:24,780
Judith McNaught. Yeah.

914
00:39:24,780 --> 00:39:28,900
Is. The foil, if you will,

915
00:39:30,260 --> 00:39:33,380
to Courtney Milan. Oh.

916
00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:37,060
And I say that literally only in reference to the book of hers

917
00:39:37,060 --> 00:39:40,260
that I just read where it doesn't do the same thing as she does in The Duke,

918
00:39:40,260 --> 00:39:42,500
who didn't where she just like sidesteps.

919
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:45,340
But she at every opportunity

920
00:39:45,340 --> 00:39:49,620
where there could be a miscommunication or there starts to be a miscommunication

921
00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:53,260
and one that doesn't it's not like, oh, yeah, like this feels like

922
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:56,580
a necessary plot point, but one that you're like, oh, this is going to be

923
00:39:56,580 --> 00:40:00,260
an annoying, like, yes, don't talk about something or someone's going to jump to.

924
00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:01,260
They don't.

925
00:40:01,260 --> 00:40:03,740
Something else happens and a character doesn't respond

926
00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:06,380
the way that you think they're going to respond.

927
00:40:06,380 --> 00:40:08,620
Or like there was one where she started to get upset

928
00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:13,180
and then like logic her way out of it and was like, I should wait to hear an explanation.

929
00:40:14,540 --> 00:40:15,420
It was magical.

930
00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:18,100
And that comes from somebody who doesn't get annoyed by miscommunication

931
00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:23,620
and romance frequently unless it's done the way that Clayton Clayton did it.

932
00:40:23,620 --> 00:40:25,820
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

933
00:40:25,820 --> 00:40:29,220
I think of the Stay, Stay, Stay by Taylor Swift, if I will,

934
00:40:29,220 --> 00:40:32,100
and start to Taylor Swift song ism. You will.

935
00:40:32,660 --> 00:40:35,100
I will. Just about.

936
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:39,980
Like just staying through the fights and like thinking over and stuff like that.

937
00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:41,540
You're right about Coriolan doing that.

938
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:45,060
I just love when you can find that in a book because like.

939
00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:49,460
No third act breakup has to be done a specific way to still like keep attention

940
00:40:49,460 --> 00:40:51,460
and like keep me engaged.

941
00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:57,100
And it's so good whenever Coriolan does that

942
00:40:57,580 --> 00:41:00,500
and some other ones that like I've liked that don't have breakups.

943
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:04,500
Oh, so good. So that was that was eight.

944
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:05,340
What was your eight?

945
00:41:06,860 --> 00:41:09,260
My eight was the rake.

946
00:41:09,980 --> 00:41:11,540
The rake. Gotcha.

947
00:41:11,540 --> 00:41:14,500
This one, it started out way lower.

948
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,020
Yeah. Oh, really?

949
00:41:16,020 --> 00:41:20,180
Well, just because I didn't remember most of it.

950
00:41:20,180 --> 00:41:21,660
So I was like, I don't know the rake.

951
00:41:21,660 --> 00:41:26,300
And then the more I plugged in other ones, the more it kind of got bumped up.

952
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:28,060
And then the more I was like, oh, I don't know.

953
00:41:28,060 --> 00:41:32,940
And then the more I was thinking back to I went back to like look at what

954
00:41:32,940 --> 00:41:36,180
the lesson was about him being a creditable sheep washer.

955
00:41:36,180 --> 00:41:38,500
And I was like, oh, I do remember that bit.

956
00:41:38,540 --> 00:41:41,500
It's the West Ravenel like expansion pack.

957
00:41:41,980 --> 00:41:44,780
It's a West Ravenel expansion pack.

958
00:41:45,820 --> 00:41:48,220
You got his whole journey.

959
00:41:48,220 --> 00:41:51,180
Yeah. Where like it's still.

960
00:41:51,780 --> 00:41:53,700
I don't have a ton of notes for this one either.

961
00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:57,660
Except I do want to say that one of the quotes was she was acting like a rabbit hedgehog.

962
00:41:57,660 --> 00:42:03,100
Well, now I'm just looking back through these notes and I'm like, wow, this was actually a really fun book.

963
00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:05,780
Yeah, I read it. I did read it higher because I.

964
00:42:07,740 --> 00:42:09,940
I think I stand by where I read it.

965
00:42:09,940 --> 00:42:12,380
I know I do like the ones that I like higher.

966
00:42:12,380 --> 00:42:15,460
I've been called many things in life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

967
00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:18,180
But I do think this is one that I'd like to go back and reread.

968
00:42:18,180 --> 00:42:21,260
Yeah, because I remember really enjoying it.

969
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:26,300
And having the West Ravenel vibes and the like dealing with alcoholism.

970
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:31,980
There was also like a part of it in my side, like looked back at my Goodreads journey.

971
00:42:31,980 --> 00:42:34,300
And I again did not have many notes for it.

972
00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:36,700
But I was like, what did I say?

973
00:42:36,700 --> 00:42:40,980
Because I did the thing where I didn't reveal a spoiler because it was Goodreads.

974
00:42:40,980 --> 00:42:46,420
But like now I want I want to be spoiled because I read the book and I don't remember what I was talking about.

975
00:42:46,420 --> 00:42:51,420
Which happens quite frequently, like I there's this one review.

976
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:57,140
I don't even. Oh, yeah, it was I think like some like thriller mystery book or something.

977
00:42:57,140 --> 00:43:02,180
And I was like, if anyone wants me to tell you the spoiler, like I will just like let me know.

978
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:05,100
A year later, someone came back and was like, hey, can you tell me?

979
00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:10,540
I was like, no, I can't because I don't remember it is now a plot twist to me.

980
00:43:10,540 --> 00:43:13,220
I felt so bad. I was like, I.

981
00:43:13,220 --> 00:43:19,100
I felt so bad. I was like, I know.

982
00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:23,220
So no to self. Don't be me.

983
00:43:23,220 --> 00:43:29,220
But if you have to go back and look at your Goodreads experience,

984
00:43:29,220 --> 00:43:31,940
I had it's giving Wes Ravenel this is taking a turn.

985
00:43:31,940 --> 00:43:34,660
We all start coming. But also, question mark, question mark, question mark.

986
00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:36,620
That's the point where I was like, what happened?

987
00:43:36,620 --> 00:43:39,060
What was the turn we all saw coming?

988
00:43:39,060 --> 00:43:42,380
It was. Oh, was it her back story?

989
00:43:42,380 --> 00:43:45,180
The reason that she was like off being an estate manager, wasn't it?

990
00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:46,980
Because like some guy called her ugly.

991
00:43:46,980 --> 00:43:50,540
But actually, that wasn't even what happened.

992
00:43:50,540 --> 00:43:54,540
Was it? I know. I think that's the one that slaps a little kid or something.

993
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:57,580
Oh, I have no memory of that dog. He like kicks a dog.

994
00:43:57,580 --> 00:44:00,620
Oh, well, he's drunk. He kicks the dog that he has adopted.

995
00:44:00,620 --> 00:44:01,780
Yeah, that was really sad.

996
00:44:01,780 --> 00:44:04,940
That it did hurt the dog, too.

997
00:44:05,260 --> 00:44:08,820
Yeah. And then I was thinking if it's a plot twist, because remember,

998
00:44:08,820 --> 00:44:12,260
she's like pretending to be a man, essentially, like not.

999
00:44:12,260 --> 00:44:15,340
Dressing, acting like, but like pretending for the letters.

1000
00:44:16,980 --> 00:44:21,820
And she's off being an estate manager and like not get and she hasn't spoken

1001
00:44:21,820 --> 00:44:24,900
to her father in years and she like ran away from an engagement.

1002
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:27,580
She's like the the long lost daughter of somebody.

1003
00:44:27,620 --> 00:44:30,340
Yeah, I don't think that's like right after it.

1004
00:44:30,340 --> 00:44:34,100
Like one percentage later, I was like, this book is so this is me trying coded.

1005
00:44:34,420 --> 00:44:36,380
So I think it has something to do with him.

1006
00:44:36,380 --> 00:44:37,980
I just can't remember what he did.

1007
00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:41,460
I remember the see, that's just that's where my brain goes,

1008
00:44:41,460 --> 00:44:43,780
because I remember being like, this was a dumb reason.

1009
00:44:44,820 --> 00:44:47,780
You're right. Because like she just didn't.

1010
00:44:48,020 --> 00:44:49,780
Yeah, it was.

1011
00:44:49,780 --> 00:44:51,780
She was also a bit of a conclusion jump.

1012
00:44:51,780 --> 00:44:54,500
And then that guy was actually into her.

1013
00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:56,980
Yeah, he just was like a young guy and embarrassed

1014
00:44:56,980 --> 00:44:59,460
because she was like tall and a little bit manly.

1015
00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:01,700
And he was like, no, she's not. I'm just marrying him for the money.

1016
00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:04,660
But he actually liked her.

1017
00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:06,180
And you're like, damn.

1018
00:45:06,180 --> 00:45:09,020
And now you just haven't spoken to your father in years because of this.

1019
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:10,340
There's a lot.

1020
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:15,260
Anyway, so that was my number eight.

1021
00:45:15,820 --> 00:45:18,100
Yeah. Who knows what happened in that book?

1022
00:45:20,420 --> 00:45:22,540
He was an alcoholic, but then he wasn't.

1023
00:45:22,780 --> 00:45:26,540
Yeah, I remember like a lot, but apparently not the pivotal moments.

1024
00:45:27,860 --> 00:45:29,340
So that was a.

1025
00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:32,620
I was like, why am I talking about that book?

1026
00:45:32,620 --> 00:45:35,020
We both read the same books. We just read them differently.

1027
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:38,020
I was like, how did you have that book?

1028
00:45:38,020 --> 00:45:41,100
I see how things have happened.

1029
00:45:43,060 --> 00:45:44,940
My number seven.

1030
00:45:46,180 --> 00:45:48,580
Do I go out this guy? Yeah, just go.

1031
00:45:48,580 --> 00:45:50,580
I had Gawick on this one was hard.

1032
00:45:50,580 --> 00:45:53,540
I also had Gawick is seven.

1033
00:45:53,540 --> 00:45:57,700
I was like, like the I have four books that were like four stars.

1034
00:45:57,700 --> 00:45:58,980
This was one of them.

1035
00:46:00,380 --> 00:46:03,540
And so this enters my my green era.

1036
00:46:03,540 --> 00:46:06,180
We've gotten to the books that have green lights for me

1037
00:46:06,180 --> 00:46:07,860
because I like color coded them.

1038
00:46:07,860 --> 00:46:10,100
I did it in that like ranker thing or whatever.

1039
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:11,460
The rest of the best.

1040
00:46:11,460 --> 00:46:13,260
Yes, the rest of the best.

1041
00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:20,420
So Gawick, I a it was the only one of these books where I wanted to be Caroline.

1042
00:46:20,420 --> 00:46:25,740
I want to Caroline it and I want to like study it like academically.

1043
00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:27,940
I didn't because I'm lazy.

1044
00:46:27,940 --> 00:46:31,460
Yeah, but I could have in a past life.

1045
00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:35,900
Like I would I would love I would read paper that I would read.

1046
00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:37,980
I would read all the papers on this book.

1047
00:46:37,980 --> 00:46:39,700
I'd be very interested.

1048
00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:43,100
And I was like, I read like Vince of Vince of your guys like

1049
00:46:43,820 --> 00:46:45,100
interviews and stuff.

1050
00:46:46,620 --> 00:46:50,180
At no point did I know what was happening and that was OK

1051
00:46:50,180 --> 00:46:52,140
because we got there eventually.

1052
00:46:52,140 --> 00:46:53,140
Yep.

1053
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:56,180
The ending destroyed me.

1054
00:46:56,180 --> 00:47:00,700
I think the reason I rated it seven and not any hires because like

1055
00:47:01,100 --> 00:47:02,980
they told us he died.

1056
00:47:02,980 --> 00:47:05,540
Honestly, that hurt.

1057
00:47:06,220 --> 00:47:07,500
That hurt deep.

1058
00:47:08,580 --> 00:47:12,540
And I was just not prepared for that.

1059
00:47:12,540 --> 00:47:14,900
I was crying so badly at the end of that book.

1060
00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:16,500
I was unwell.

1061
00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:20,500
The mystery of mystery, because I did not read the science.

1062
00:47:20,860 --> 00:47:23,740
And I was like, who, what, when, where and why?

1063
00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:28,260
And boy, did I find out.

1064
00:47:29,620 --> 00:47:30,620
Boy, did you.

1065
00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:32,060
Boy, did I.

1066
00:47:32,060 --> 00:47:33,060
Didn't we all?

1067
00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:35,820
Yeah, yeah.

1068
00:47:36,660 --> 00:47:38,300
I don't have that much to add.

1069
00:47:38,300 --> 00:47:39,300
It was funny.

1070
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:45,180
I like that I remember genuinely cracking up, but also it was like very.

1071
00:47:46,180 --> 00:47:50,420
I forgot like the atmosphere was great.

1072
00:47:50,540 --> 00:47:51,740
It was so graphic.

1073
00:47:53,460 --> 00:47:55,340
I have nothing that I did.

1074
00:47:55,340 --> 00:47:58,060
That was just such an interesting read.

1075
00:47:59,100 --> 00:48:00,100
My.

1076
00:48:00,100 --> 00:48:01,100
I did.

1077
00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:06,980
Forget the quote, what a darling spicy cake.

1078
00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:12,060
That's my Twitter picture is the Kindle quote.

1079
00:48:12,060 --> 00:48:14,700
What a darling spicy cake, because what a great quote.

1080
00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:17,300
I think a lot about the everybody grab a cat.

1081
00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:23,020
I think about the scene, but specifically the quote a lot.

1082
00:48:23,020 --> 00:48:27,540
It was just I did not expect to like it that much.

1083
00:48:27,540 --> 00:48:31,180
It was so surprising.

1084
00:48:33,180 --> 00:48:34,180
Cool.

1085
00:48:34,540 --> 00:48:36,540
What was your number six?

1086
00:48:40,340 --> 00:48:43,860
It was the proposition.

1087
00:48:44,860 --> 00:48:49,460
Which we read pretty early on until it's one that I kind of forgot about.

1088
00:48:49,460 --> 00:48:51,900
And then when I was like, wait, what is this book?

1089
00:48:51,900 --> 00:48:53,980
I was like, oh, my God, the proposition.

1090
00:48:53,980 --> 00:48:55,340
We had so much fun.

1091
00:48:55,340 --> 00:48:56,860
I really liked that one.

1092
00:48:56,860 --> 00:49:02,660
Dancing on tables, all the My Fair Lady.

1093
00:49:02,660 --> 00:49:06,620
And since then, I have watched half of My Fair Lady.

1094
00:49:06,620 --> 00:49:07,860
Oh, my Lord.

1095
00:49:07,860 --> 00:49:11,420
We started watching it and I was probably like two thirds.

1096
00:49:11,420 --> 00:49:15,740
And then we just had to stop because we went to bed and then we never picked it back up

1097
00:49:15,740 --> 00:49:16,660
because it was very loud.

1098
00:49:16,660 --> 00:49:21,340
But like, yeah, so I'm a little bit more informed.

1099
00:49:21,340 --> 00:49:22,340
Okay.

1100
00:49:22,340 --> 00:49:26,540
Well, great My Fair Lady vibes, but like gender reversed.

1101
00:49:26,540 --> 00:49:30,580
I love the lower class hero.

1102
00:49:30,580 --> 00:49:32,340
He cracked me up.

1103
00:49:32,340 --> 00:49:34,940
She was so prim and proper.

1104
00:49:34,940 --> 00:49:38,380
The weasel made me cry or the ferret, whatever that thing was.

1105
00:49:38,380 --> 00:49:39,380
Yeah.

1106
00:49:39,380 --> 00:49:43,700
I just remember that book being so fun.

1107
00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:46,340
Kind of sexy, too.

1108
00:49:46,340 --> 00:49:47,340
Yeah.

1109
00:49:47,340 --> 00:49:48,340
Yeah.

1110
00:49:48,340 --> 00:49:53,940
My notes were that it was like very slow burn and that I really enjoyed how she wrote the

1111
00:49:53,940 --> 00:49:55,380
one sexy that we did get.

1112
00:49:55,380 --> 00:50:00,580
Yeah, and I wanted just like one more because I really enjoyed how she like went about it

1113
00:50:00,580 --> 00:50:02,540
and just my God yearning for the mud.

1114
00:50:02,540 --> 00:50:11,980
Yeah, I went and found my the mustache stay where it be on the lip.

1115
00:50:11,980 --> 00:50:15,980
I forgot I have like a like a shit ton of notes for this one, which is how you know

1116
00:50:15,980 --> 00:50:17,420
I was having a great time.

1117
00:50:17,420 --> 00:50:22,660
The audio and I need to I want to reread if you audio because I just did the ebook.

1118
00:50:22,660 --> 00:50:23,660
It was a ferret.

1119
00:50:23,660 --> 00:50:27,100
I have a note that says I'm fully about to weep over this little elderly ferret.

1120
00:50:27,100 --> 00:50:29,180
And we wept.

1121
00:50:29,180 --> 00:50:30,180
And we did weep.

1122
00:50:30,180 --> 00:50:31,180
Horror went out for the homie.

1123
00:50:31,180 --> 00:50:32,180
Let's go.

1124
00:50:32,180 --> 00:50:33,820
Let's go rid you of your infernal virginity.

1125
00:50:33,820 --> 00:50:34,820
I hate it.

1126
00:50:34,820 --> 00:50:35,820
I want it gone.

1127
00:50:35,820 --> 00:50:42,140
Oh, and he also puts her whole titty in his mouth because I have a note about Ali Hazel.

1128
00:50:42,140 --> 00:50:44,260
Oh, and they're related.

1129
00:50:44,260 --> 00:50:46,260
They're second cousins.

1130
00:50:46,260 --> 00:50:47,260
Yeah.

1131
00:50:47,260 --> 00:50:48,780
Oh, I did have that undermined.

1132
00:50:48,780 --> 00:50:52,460
I was like, you know, in my review, I was like, what did I say?

1133
00:50:52,460 --> 00:50:57,780
Something about having to Google our second cousins once removed.

1134
00:50:57,780 --> 00:51:01,220
Like, are you fully like is that incest?

1135
00:51:01,220 --> 00:51:08,340
Hannah, did a witch wear a mustache?

1136
00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:13,460
You know, oh my God, also lives the thing where like he'll shave the mustache if she

1137
00:51:13,460 --> 00:51:19,300
stands on the table and lets him look at her legs for 15 minutes.

1138
00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:21,940
We went through a lot with this one.

1139
00:51:21,940 --> 00:51:22,940
I did not.

1140
00:51:22,940 --> 00:51:23,940
Wow.

1141
00:51:23,940 --> 00:51:24,980
My one I do.

1142
00:51:24,980 --> 00:51:27,260
I now remember why it was four stars instead of five.

1143
00:51:27,260 --> 00:51:31,700
My one issue was the the reveal that, oh, he's actually nobility.

1144
00:51:31,700 --> 00:51:32,700
That pissed me off.

1145
00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:33,700
I didn't mind that.

1146
00:51:33,700 --> 00:51:37,740
I was like, I just didn't like it from like a message point of view.

1147
00:51:37,740 --> 00:51:38,740
Yeah.

1148
00:51:38,740 --> 00:51:43,060
Why couldn't he just be stylish and elegant and a good person while also being lower class?

1149
00:51:43,060 --> 00:51:45,060
I appreciated the drama.

1150
00:51:45,060 --> 00:51:46,060
Mm hmm.

1151
00:51:46,060 --> 00:51:47,060
Yeah, yeah.

1152
00:51:47,060 --> 00:51:50,940
Yeah, that was why it's a little bit lower for me.

1153
00:51:50,940 --> 00:51:55,180
But still six, it's up there with the rest of the best.

1154
00:51:55,180 --> 00:51:57,380
I thought that was such a fun book.

1155
00:51:57,380 --> 00:51:59,300
Also the audible sample is the leg scene.

1156
00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:00,980
I think that's crucial.

1157
00:52:00,980 --> 00:52:03,180
Someone at audible had a good time.

1158
00:52:03,180 --> 00:52:06,180
They knew what they were doing.

1159
00:52:06,180 --> 00:52:07,180
Good.

1160
00:52:07,180 --> 00:52:10,700
Six for me was Morning Glory.

1161
00:52:10,700 --> 00:52:13,740
I again really enjoyed this book.

1162
00:52:13,740 --> 00:52:17,500
It's not what I don't know if I would reread it.

1163
00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:21,700
I remember it, which is rare.

1164
00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:22,700
I was there.

1165
00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:25,140
I remember it all too well.

1166
00:52:25,140 --> 00:52:26,220
So much happened.

1167
00:52:26,220 --> 00:52:27,700
It was so cinematic.

1168
00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:29,180
It was very good.

1169
00:52:29,180 --> 00:52:31,060
The third act happened how it needed to happen.

1170
00:52:31,060 --> 00:52:32,060
It wasn't my favorite.

1171
00:52:32,060 --> 00:52:33,060
Yeah.

1172
00:52:33,060 --> 00:52:37,060
But like, I know why it happened that way and like I respect it.

1173
00:52:37,060 --> 00:52:43,220
I just think they'd been through so much that I wanted them to just like have a little nap

1174
00:52:43,220 --> 00:52:44,220
and be happy.

1175
00:52:44,220 --> 00:52:45,260
They got there eventually.

1176
00:52:45,260 --> 00:52:51,660
The last like two paragraphs made me weep uncontrollably and I listened to it like 10

1177
00:52:51,660 --> 00:52:52,660
times.

1178
00:52:52,660 --> 00:52:53,660
Yeah.

1179
00:52:53,660 --> 00:53:00,100
I, the first like 13 chapters or so I think would have made the perfect novella.

1180
00:53:00,100 --> 00:53:04,020
They hadn't even slept together at that point, but like where they started and like how they

1181
00:53:04,020 --> 00:53:08,340
ended just like at like from chapter 13, like it was just so perfect.

1182
00:53:08,340 --> 00:53:11,620
Like they just, she did so much and then to know we had like so much left and that she

1183
00:53:11,620 --> 00:53:15,900
still like made a compelling book and changed so much.

1184
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:17,380
It was a very good book.

1185
00:53:17,380 --> 00:53:21,340
I only ranked it this like at number six just because I was like, I don't know if I would

1186
00:53:21,340 --> 00:53:24,340
reread it.

1187
00:53:24,340 --> 00:53:29,820
But I was like looking at this from like a rereadability because I do love to reread.

1188
00:53:29,820 --> 00:53:30,820
Yeah.

1189
00:53:30,820 --> 00:53:34,260
And it was long, but again, it was a good audio book.

1190
00:53:34,260 --> 00:53:42,820
I didn't particularly like the framing of the woman crazy, sex-addled, willa.

1191
00:53:42,820 --> 00:53:46,500
We talked about that.

1192
00:53:46,500 --> 00:53:48,980
We encounter a lot of that stuff.

1193
00:53:48,980 --> 00:53:49,980
Yeah.

1194
00:53:49,980 --> 00:53:51,460
In, but old school school.

1195
00:53:51,460 --> 00:53:52,460
I love it.

1196
00:53:52,460 --> 00:53:55,780
Because you, because especially when it's like introduced at the beginning and you know

1197
00:53:55,780 --> 00:53:59,620
what it's going to be like, I just don't like when things that happened with dreaming of

1198
00:53:59,620 --> 00:54:02,860
you when like, you know, it's going to be an issue and it's just kind of like hanging

1199
00:54:02,860 --> 00:54:04,100
over your head.

1200
00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:07,580
So it's like, maybe if I would reread it, I know what's going to happen.

1201
00:54:07,580 --> 00:54:10,900
So then it's like less like worrying.

1202
00:54:10,900 --> 00:54:15,700
Not that it ends up great for her, but I at least know what happens.

1203
00:54:15,700 --> 00:54:17,740
But yeah, I really solid book.

1204
00:54:17,740 --> 00:54:20,300
I didn't expect it like that one really either.

1205
00:54:20,300 --> 00:54:24,380
The time period wasn't really one that I was like eager to read about.

1206
00:54:24,380 --> 00:54:30,740
Brought me back to American girl days, victory gardens.

1207
00:54:30,740 --> 00:54:32,700
So wins a win.

1208
00:54:32,700 --> 00:54:34,300
Yes.

1209
00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:36,140
So that was six.

1210
00:54:36,140 --> 00:54:40,060
My number five was the rate.

1211
00:54:40,060 --> 00:54:45,180
I was like trying to remember like how I was feeling when I was reading it and I was like

1212
00:54:45,180 --> 00:54:47,780
having a good time and also sad.

1213
00:54:47,780 --> 00:54:50,580
Like it was definitely like I wrote, I think big sad.

1214
00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:53,600
Just I was sad and like this is sad.

1215
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,180
This is me trying just like hurt me.

1216
00:54:56,180 --> 00:55:00,060
So if I want to like feel emotional, I think I would have read this book again.

1217
00:55:00,060 --> 00:55:03,580
Like just seeing his transformation.

1218
00:55:03,580 --> 00:55:07,020
Like I love seeing transformations like that.

1219
00:55:07,020 --> 00:55:15,900
Like I love like a reformed, not so like bad guy or like villain, but like I do love maybe

1220
00:55:15,900 --> 00:55:20,700
a redeemed because sometimes you don't want to reform.

1221
00:55:20,700 --> 00:55:25,260
Like the Joanna Lowell, the mean girl in like book one, it was like the heroine of book

1222
00:55:25,260 --> 00:55:29,540
two and I just love that dynamic.

1223
00:55:29,540 --> 00:55:35,260
And yeah, I just, the sheep, the sheep, the West Raven, all of it all.

1224
00:55:35,260 --> 00:55:36,260
The dog.

1225
00:55:36,260 --> 00:55:37,260
I did it.

1226
00:55:37,260 --> 00:55:38,260
Yeah.

1227
00:55:38,260 --> 00:55:39,260
Sacrificial penguin.

1228
00:55:39,260 --> 00:55:45,580
I think I could listen to it again and like take new stuff away from me because I was

1229
00:55:45,580 --> 00:55:48,300
just like experiencing it in the moment when I was reading it.

1230
00:55:48,300 --> 00:55:51,020
But yeah, it surprised me.

1231
00:55:51,020 --> 00:55:52,500
I was, I don't think I read the back.

1232
00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:53,500
I was like, I don't know.

1233
00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:54,500
The cover doesn't really do much.

1234
00:55:54,500 --> 00:55:56,500
There's like a quill on it.

1235
00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:57,500
So yeah.

1236
00:55:57,500 --> 00:56:01,900
So I think I used like an older version of the cover.

1237
00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:04,300
Oh, was there one, an older one?

1238
00:56:04,300 --> 00:56:08,700
Yeah, it was because this is the one that it was originally called the rake and the

1239
00:56:08,700 --> 00:56:09,700
reformer.

1240
00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:12,300
There are like old, old covers.

1241
00:56:12,300 --> 00:56:14,500
That's funny that I said reform.

1242
00:56:14,500 --> 00:56:15,500
Yeah.

1243
00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:17,700
Well, because she, she's the reformer.

1244
00:56:17,700 --> 00:56:18,700
Yeah.

1245
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:19,700
Yeah.

1246
00:56:19,700 --> 00:56:20,700
Because isn't she also like a social reformer?

1247
00:56:20,700 --> 00:56:24,300
I don't remember if she's the reformer in the sense that she reforms him or if it's

1248
00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:25,300
because.

1249
00:56:25,300 --> 00:56:26,300
Yeah.

1250
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:27,620
She's like reformer.

1251
00:56:27,620 --> 00:56:29,340
I think.

1252
00:56:29,340 --> 00:56:30,980
I think she also is like.

1253
00:56:30,980 --> 00:56:31,980
Helps us.

1254
00:56:31,980 --> 00:56:37,380
Oh, oh, she's got the whole like pottery situation in the town that she's like running for those

1255
00:56:37,380 --> 00:56:41,260
wards and she's got all the things to like help the townspeople.

1256
00:56:41,260 --> 00:56:43,080
So I used a, it's not an older cover.

1257
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,060
It's just a different cover with a couple on it.

1258
00:56:45,060 --> 00:56:47,260
Oh, better than this quill.

1259
00:56:47,260 --> 00:56:49,940
I actually own the quill copy somewhere.

1260
00:56:49,940 --> 00:56:54,420
So yeah, that one solid book.

1261
00:56:54,420 --> 00:57:00,700
What do we read if I wanted to weep and listen to this is me trying on repeat.

1262
00:57:00,700 --> 00:57:05,180
Five, five I want the bride.

1263
00:57:05,180 --> 00:57:08,740
Yeah.

1264
00:57:08,740 --> 00:57:10,580
Not a ton to say we just did the episode on it.

1265
00:57:10,580 --> 00:57:15,780
So I feel like I talked about it recently because I did.

1266
00:57:15,780 --> 00:57:19,140
It was a week ago to the day.

1267
00:57:19,140 --> 00:57:20,140
Many moons.

1268
00:57:20,140 --> 00:57:24,620
But yeah, it was a solid four stars.

1269
00:57:24,620 --> 00:57:31,140
There's the one thing that I just can't quite get past to give it five.

1270
00:57:31,140 --> 00:57:37,100
Would probably reread not anytime soon, but I think with eventually when I start to forget

1271
00:57:37,100 --> 00:57:40,460
it, I think I would be willing to reread it.

1272
00:57:40,460 --> 00:57:43,340
We talked about during the episode, but it's one that I think I would have liked more if

1273
00:57:43,340 --> 00:57:44,900
I had read it earlier.

1274
00:57:44,900 --> 00:57:46,140
Yeah.

1275
00:57:46,140 --> 00:57:47,740
In my romance reading journey.

1276
00:57:47,740 --> 00:57:48,740
Yeah.

1277
00:57:48,740 --> 00:57:53,460
I think I would have loved it more, but now just having read so much more, there are better

1278
00:57:53,460 --> 00:57:55,500
books or books that I prefer.

1279
00:57:55,500 --> 00:57:56,500
Yes.

1280
00:57:56,500 --> 00:57:59,900
That's the end.

1281
00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:01,540
It's my mission to read more.

1282
00:58:01,540 --> 00:58:03,580
I've heard really good things about The Secret.

1283
00:58:03,580 --> 00:58:04,780
Oh yeah.

1284
00:58:04,780 --> 00:58:07,780
Julie Garwood, I feel like it's recommended all the time.

1285
00:58:07,780 --> 00:58:10,620
There's another there's like the lion's lady, Honor Splendor.

1286
00:58:10,620 --> 00:58:14,940
There was one other someone just talked about that I want to read.

1287
00:58:14,940 --> 00:58:17,180
So look out for more Julie Garwood.

1288
00:58:17,180 --> 00:58:21,580
Same thing with Joanna Lindsay because we really enjoyed Gentle Rogue.

1289
00:58:21,580 --> 00:58:27,100
Then I listened to a Mallory Christmas book yesterday that had me in my feels and that

1290
00:58:27,100 --> 00:58:28,100
one was really good.

1291
00:58:28,100 --> 00:58:31,220
I want to just read all the Mallory.

1292
00:58:31,220 --> 00:58:35,780
I think it's Mallory and Anderson, like the families.

1293
00:58:35,780 --> 00:58:38,860
What a great book Gentle Rogue was.

1294
00:58:38,860 --> 00:58:39,860
Not expecting that.

1295
00:58:39,860 --> 00:58:44,740
It's like the same narrator, so she sounded like a little rat, but it was endearing.

1296
00:58:44,740 --> 00:58:49,420
I'm like, oh, hi.

1297
00:58:49,420 --> 00:58:52,820
The Bride is my number four.

1298
00:58:52,820 --> 00:58:56,980
I looked at it purely because it was really hard for me to really look at the four four-star

1299
00:58:56,980 --> 00:59:00,820
ones and be like, how do I put these here?

1300
00:59:00,820 --> 00:59:06,900
I did that one just because one, I had already read it, so it was a reread and I enjoyed

1301
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:11,820
rereading it, so I could reread it again and enjoy it, I believe.

1302
00:59:11,820 --> 00:59:14,860
The rereadability is the highest, I think, out of all of those.

1303
00:59:14,860 --> 00:59:19,860
One, probably because I'm going to read the series and then just read it again.

1304
00:59:19,860 --> 00:59:27,260
Two, I think whereas you were experiencing it for the first time with Annie and everything

1305
00:59:27,260 --> 00:59:31,340
for that, I didn't have the emotions behind it because I think I already experienced all

1306
00:59:31,340 --> 00:59:34,100
that when I did.

1307
00:59:34,100 --> 00:59:38,100
So it was a pretty carefree read at that point.

1308
00:59:38,100 --> 00:59:43,620
I was just kind of like, yeah, solid four-star book.

1309
00:59:43,620 --> 00:59:48,740
Like you said, if I would have read it earlier, it definitely would have stuck with me.

1310
00:59:48,740 --> 00:59:54,980
And things I think still stick with me, but I'm excited to read more of her work to really

1311
00:59:54,980 --> 00:59:57,100
imprint on one of them.

1312
00:59:57,100 --> 00:59:58,100
Yeah.

1313
00:59:58,100 --> 00:59:59,100
Yeah.

1314
00:59:59,100 --> 01:00:01,140
And was that your four?

1315
01:00:01,140 --> 01:00:03,580
You had to do a four.

1316
01:00:03,580 --> 01:00:04,940
My four was Morning Glory.

1317
01:00:04,940 --> 01:00:05,940
Morning, yeah.

1318
01:00:05,940 --> 01:00:08,500
I expected you to rate it high.

1319
01:00:08,500 --> 01:00:12,180
Yeah, I loved that book.

1320
01:00:12,180 --> 01:00:19,420
I just loved it so much.

1321
01:00:19,420 --> 01:00:23,340
I had no expectation of doing so.

1322
01:00:23,340 --> 01:00:26,860
I was like, okay, it's long.

1323
01:00:26,860 --> 01:00:27,860
Let's see.

1324
01:00:27,860 --> 01:00:28,860
I've heard good things about Leveril Spencer.

1325
01:00:28,860 --> 01:00:29,860
We'll see.

1326
01:00:29,860 --> 01:00:32,580
And then it was just so emotional.

1327
01:00:32,580 --> 01:00:39,340
Emotional onslaught, it's so tender.

1328
01:00:39,340 --> 01:00:43,780
That's the only word I can really use that I feel gets it across.

1329
01:00:43,780 --> 01:00:46,700
Just so gentle and soft.

1330
01:00:46,700 --> 01:00:49,100
It's two lonely people finding love.

1331
01:00:49,100 --> 01:00:55,060
Two lonely people making a family.

1332
01:00:55,060 --> 01:01:00,260
Because you also have the kids who feel like an integral part of the story, which is a

1333
01:01:00,260 --> 01:01:04,620
thing that is not always the case with kids in romance, but it really is the building

1334
01:01:04,620 --> 01:01:11,740
of a family and also a community because they end up being a really important part of the

1335
01:01:11,740 --> 01:01:16,140
community by the end of the book and having people show up for them in a way that neither

1336
01:01:16,140 --> 01:01:19,700
of them have ever experienced.

1337
01:01:19,700 --> 01:01:23,780
When he returns the milk or the honey and crones.

1338
01:01:23,780 --> 01:01:24,780
Oh my god.

1339
01:01:24,780 --> 01:01:30,060
And when he was like, she'll have a friend when I'm gone.

1340
01:01:30,060 --> 01:01:34,540
If you want a book to make you feel unpatriotic, it's Morning Glory because I was so angry

1341
01:01:34,540 --> 01:01:36,460
that man had to go to war.

1342
01:01:36,460 --> 01:01:44,460
I was like, how dare you take my baby boy and cut his hair and traumatize him.

1343
01:01:44,460 --> 01:01:49,540
We've been through enough books that don't make you feel unpatriotic.

1344
01:01:49,540 --> 01:01:50,540
I was real.

1345
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:55,820
I was like, oh, I forgot the time period we were in.

1346
01:01:55,820 --> 01:01:59,980
Oh, I was reading a historical fiction that's like a World War I and II where I was like,

1347
01:01:59,980 --> 01:02:02,020
wow, war.

1348
01:02:02,020 --> 01:02:03,020
Yeah.

1349
01:02:03,020 --> 01:02:05,180
I mean, it could have been way worse.

1350
01:02:05,180 --> 01:02:07,180
I feel like I was prepared.

1351
01:02:07,180 --> 01:02:09,820
It was going to be a long and it wasn't.

1352
01:02:09,820 --> 01:02:11,860
Well, because I was like, OK, I knew the time period.

1353
01:02:11,860 --> 01:02:15,140
So I was like, I think the war ended in 48.

1354
01:02:15,140 --> 01:02:18,080
It was like 45 or something like that or 42.

1355
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,940
So I was like, how is this man going to get out of here?

1356
01:02:20,940 --> 01:02:22,820
Are we going to last the entire war?

1357
01:02:22,820 --> 01:02:23,820
Yeah.

1358
01:02:23,820 --> 01:02:27,140
Or like the part when the US entered World War II or like, is he going to get injured

1359
01:02:27,140 --> 01:02:29,140
and how bad?

1360
01:02:29,140 --> 01:02:33,300
And like, yeah, it could have gone far worse.

1361
01:02:33,300 --> 01:02:34,300
Yeah.

1362
01:02:34,300 --> 01:02:35,300
Yeah, it.

1363
01:02:35,300 --> 01:02:37,620
I will.

1364
01:02:37,620 --> 01:02:42,740
I was happy with the scope of it because it did what it hurt me, but it didn't damage

1365
01:02:42,740 --> 01:02:43,740
me.

1366
01:02:43,740 --> 01:02:44,740
Yeah.

1367
01:02:44,740 --> 01:02:45,740
Yeah.

1368
01:02:45,740 --> 01:02:47,540
I was writing a thank you card.

1369
01:02:47,540 --> 01:02:53,220
I could put that because she could have done more.

1370
01:02:53,220 --> 01:02:54,220
So that was four.

1371
01:02:54,220 --> 01:02:55,220
Three.

1372
01:02:55,220 --> 01:02:59,340
I went in to go.

1373
01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:01,780
Oh, I did the proposition.

1374
01:03:01,780 --> 01:03:04,180
What books are left?

1375
01:03:04,180 --> 01:03:05,180
We'll get there.

1376
01:03:05,180 --> 01:03:06,180
We'll get there.

1377
01:03:06,180 --> 01:03:07,180
It's fine.

1378
01:03:07,180 --> 01:03:11,420
I need to go back and reread Indigo because I truly remember very little of it.

1379
01:03:11,420 --> 01:03:15,300
But I this was one that, like, even though I don't remember the plot, I remember having

1380
01:03:15,300 --> 01:03:16,300
a great time.

1381
01:03:16,300 --> 01:03:18,300
I fucking love that book.

1382
01:03:18,300 --> 01:03:23,580
I remember him deciding he was obsessed with her.

1383
01:03:23,580 --> 01:03:24,580
Yeah.

1384
01:03:24,580 --> 01:03:25,580
I know.

1385
01:03:25,580 --> 01:03:30,100
Everybody else knew that he was obsessed with her before he did, which made me laugh.

1386
01:03:30,100 --> 01:03:34,220
And like, she had a fiance, but that we don't have to worry about that.

1387
01:03:34,220 --> 01:03:35,700
But this bag handled it so well.

1388
01:03:35,700 --> 01:03:36,700
I love cuckolding.

1389
01:03:36,700 --> 01:03:39,700
I love it so much.

1390
01:03:39,700 --> 01:03:41,380
I love it.

1391
01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:43,180
And you may quote her on that.

1392
01:03:43,180 --> 01:03:44,900
I love cuckolding.

1393
01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:48,500
Today they have found out that I have a humiliation kink and that you love cuckolding.

1394
01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:54,060
So and in the in the bonus episode that we recorded, the beginning that we didn't mean

1395
01:03:54,060 --> 01:03:55,060
to.

1396
01:03:55,060 --> 01:03:57,500
We also learned that Caroline hates ovals.

1397
01:03:57,500 --> 01:04:00,500
So the racetrack.

1398
01:04:00,500 --> 01:04:02,700
What do you whatever?

1399
01:04:02,700 --> 01:04:07,100
And I quote, I hate ovals.

1400
01:04:07,100 --> 01:04:08,100
I think it was the bonus.

1401
01:04:08,100 --> 01:04:10,100
Maybe it was the beginning of the I think it was a bonus.

1402
01:04:10,100 --> 01:04:11,100
It was bonus.

1403
01:04:11,100 --> 01:04:15,220
We were talking about Formula One because of course we were because I'm here.

1404
01:04:15,220 --> 01:04:22,580
I just in Indigo, it was so like the piece that I felt knowing that this book was written

1405
01:04:22,580 --> 01:04:29,700
by Beverly Jenkins, I knew the villains were going to get absolutely dead.

1406
01:04:29,700 --> 01:04:40,420
And I knew that that bad fool of a husband, like betrothed fiance was just going to get

1407
01:04:40,420 --> 01:04:41,420
the greatest.

1408
01:04:41,420 --> 01:04:50,340
Just, I don't know, cathartic feeling like it's for my one cuckolding.

1409
01:04:50,340 --> 01:04:52,940
Like I felt so happy.

1410
01:04:52,940 --> 01:04:59,580
I was like, I can't even be mad because it was just so poetic how it happens.

1411
01:04:59,580 --> 01:05:06,420
Like I was sitting in the veterinarian parking lot waiting for my dog to get out of the appointment

1412
01:05:06,420 --> 01:05:07,740
and I was just smiling.

1413
01:05:07,740 --> 01:05:14,860
I was like, I may be angry right now, but I won't be.

1414
01:05:14,860 --> 01:05:20,100
And that's that's why I love Miss Bev because you just know everything is going to.

1415
01:05:20,100 --> 01:05:21,900
Sort itself out.

1416
01:05:21,900 --> 01:05:24,060
The trash is going to take itself out.

1417
01:05:24,060 --> 01:05:27,020
It's going to be alright.

1418
01:05:27,020 --> 01:05:31,180
Yeah I the main thing that I took away from this book was that scene where they're in

1419
01:05:31,180 --> 01:05:36,620
church and he's like, we're going to get married and she's in church so she can't.

1420
01:05:36,620 --> 01:05:42,180
It's because they were like, we think there have been impure relations and he's like,

1421
01:05:42,180 --> 01:05:43,180
can confirm.

1422
01:05:43,180 --> 01:05:50,020
Looks like we have to get married and she like has to and you're like, that's so.

1423
01:05:50,020 --> 01:05:55,500
You're like, you're the worst, but also because I liked him, I was into it.

1424
01:05:55,500 --> 01:06:02,980
And then I read through the storm recently, so then you get a little bit of him in there

1425
01:06:02,980 --> 01:06:09,460
because then you have the friend and Indigo is the heroine through the storm.

1426
01:06:09,460 --> 01:06:13,980
And boy was it just fun to watch those men be undone.

1427
01:06:13,980 --> 01:06:16,500
So true.

1428
01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:18,580
So true.

1429
01:06:18,580 --> 01:06:21,300
So that was oh yeah, three.

1430
01:06:21,300 --> 01:06:23,660
The three for me was like I said, yeah.

1431
01:06:23,660 --> 01:06:29,540
That one I just want to reread again via audio and experience it all over.

1432
01:06:29,540 --> 01:06:30,980
I really I gave it five stars.

1433
01:06:30,980 --> 01:06:33,660
I gave it four and a half, but I run it up to five.

1434
01:06:33,660 --> 01:06:40,260
It was just so good like I again had no clue really what we were getting.

1435
01:06:40,260 --> 01:06:43,300
It opened with him trying to catch a mouse.

1436
01:06:43,300 --> 01:06:46,540
I was like, what are we doing?

1437
01:06:46,540 --> 01:06:48,700
It's but like in a hot way.

1438
01:06:48,700 --> 01:06:57,580
Yeah, he like everyone is like, I let him catch me like they like a bit of.

1439
01:06:57,580 --> 01:06:58,580
Exactly.

1440
01:06:58,580 --> 01:06:59,580
Exactly.

1441
01:06:59,580 --> 01:07:01,340
A man with a stash.

1442
01:07:01,340 --> 01:07:05,340
I just I want to know what he looks like.

1443
01:07:05,340 --> 01:07:15,100
Like I want to see Judith Ivory's like like I want to know what she I just want to know.

1444
01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:19,700
Frickin this podcast and that song making it my top spot or my top Spotify song because

1445
01:07:19,700 --> 01:07:26,180
I would sing it like we would say that I want to know just because I forget things.

1446
01:07:26,180 --> 01:07:28,900
And then every time after that we'd film, I'd be like, it's stuck in my head to have

1447
01:07:28,900 --> 01:07:30,580
to go listen to it.

1448
01:07:30,580 --> 01:07:33,780
And then lo and behold, it's my top song on Spotify.

1449
01:07:33,780 --> 01:07:38,060
When I heard it start, I was like, what do you mean?

1450
01:07:38,060 --> 01:07:45,860
I listened to it 79 times in a row.

1451
01:07:45,860 --> 01:07:48,860
Phil Collins.

1452
01:07:48,860 --> 01:07:52,260
Hello.

1453
01:07:52,260 --> 01:07:53,260
He gets me.

1454
01:07:53,260 --> 01:07:54,260
Because I do want to know.

1455
01:07:54,260 --> 01:07:55,260
I can't get the needle into the right hole.

1456
01:07:55,260 --> 01:07:56,260
I'm cackling too hard.

1457
01:07:56,260 --> 01:07:57,260
Okay, that's number three.

1458
01:07:57,260 --> 01:08:15,500
Number two.

1459
01:08:15,500 --> 01:08:16,500
What is your number two?

1460
01:08:16,500 --> 01:08:19,220
I what is left?

1461
01:08:19,220 --> 01:08:20,220
Why are you smiling?

1462
01:08:20,220 --> 01:08:21,820
It's flowers from the store.

1463
01:08:21,820 --> 01:08:23,700
Oh my I forgot about that book.

1464
01:08:23,700 --> 01:08:25,380
I was like, why are you smiling?

1465
01:08:25,380 --> 01:08:27,460
I was like, did you pick a fake book?

1466
01:08:27,460 --> 01:08:30,060
I was like, what is happening?

1467
01:08:30,060 --> 01:08:37,140
We have been going one by one through the books, but somehow I've magic math into being

1468
01:08:37,140 --> 01:08:38,140
completely different.

1469
01:08:38,140 --> 01:08:40,740
No, it's flowers from the storm.

1470
01:08:40,740 --> 01:08:42,020
That is understandable.

1471
01:08:42,020 --> 01:08:43,020
I forgot.

1472
01:08:43,020 --> 01:08:49,540
Plus we had a great episode with Alexandra Bastie, which only made me like it more.

1473
01:08:49,540 --> 01:08:53,500
I actually have nothing to elaborate on except that I'm in the camp with everybody who's

1474
01:08:53,500 --> 01:08:55,860
like this is one of the best romances ever written.

1475
01:08:55,860 --> 01:08:58,060
I'm with you.

1476
01:08:58,060 --> 01:09:05,340
I am without you, but standing on the sidelines saluting you.

1477
01:09:05,340 --> 01:09:06,340
Happy to go home.

1478
01:09:06,340 --> 01:09:07,340
Well, I'm with you.

1479
01:09:07,340 --> 01:09:10,340
We write it on.

1480
01:09:10,340 --> 01:09:15,500
And I think about the actually just that whole book.

1481
01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:20,260
I was going to say like specifically how well she wrote like the stroke and how fucking

1482
01:09:20,260 --> 01:09:23,780
terrifying that was to read.

1483
01:09:23,780 --> 01:09:28,420
But actually just all of it, the whole book, the him like working with her father.

1484
01:09:28,420 --> 01:09:30,420
Yeah, that got me.

1485
01:09:30,420 --> 01:09:35,180
The kittens in the like hedge.

1486
01:09:35,180 --> 01:09:40,020
Mainly it was the stuff with her dad that really got me.

1487
01:09:40,020 --> 01:09:42,420
I really liked that that happened before.

1488
01:09:42,420 --> 01:09:44,660
So you like knew.

1489
01:09:44,660 --> 01:09:50,500
Well, so you have him in the very beginning when he's like priest bro.

1490
01:09:50,500 --> 01:09:51,500
Yeah.

1491
01:09:51,500 --> 01:09:53,660
Doing all the scrabble, which we think.

1492
01:09:53,660 --> 01:09:54,660
Yeah.

1493
01:09:54,660 --> 01:09:56,860
And I that was so important.

1494
01:09:56,860 --> 01:10:01,620
But then after the stroke and like the father being one of the only ones besides her that

1495
01:10:01,620 --> 01:10:09,660
like sees that he is not like the diagnosis that everybody like the it was just so like

1496
01:10:09,660 --> 01:10:10,660
heart wrench.

1497
01:10:10,660 --> 01:10:15,420
And then the scene where she she just like gets some of his clothes to try to like make

1498
01:10:15,420 --> 01:10:20,020
him feel better and doesn't realize that she's accidentally put him in a riding outfit.

1499
01:10:20,020 --> 01:10:22,660
And so he thinks that they're going out.

1500
01:10:22,660 --> 01:10:24,580
I was just like, I'm tapping out.

1501
01:10:24,580 --> 01:10:26,300
I don't have the emotional bandwidth.

1502
01:10:26,300 --> 01:10:28,140
Oh, it hurts.

1503
01:10:28,140 --> 01:10:33,580
Like it's like gutting to remember it and like how hurt he was like.

1504
01:10:33,580 --> 01:10:38,660
And then him thinking that she had done it on purpose, like to make fun of him.

1505
01:10:38,660 --> 01:10:42,220
And oh, but you had her head.

1506
01:10:42,220 --> 01:10:43,220
You had her.

1507
01:10:43,220 --> 01:10:46,820
But it that was a different level hurt.

1508
01:10:46,820 --> 01:10:51,340
Like there's something about the masteries of like the scene where she goes into like

1509
01:10:51,340 --> 01:10:53,540
the punitive, like the silent room or whatever.

1510
01:10:53,540 --> 01:10:57,820
That's basically a punishment room where they can isolation room and she goes there to pray

1511
01:10:57,820 --> 01:11:02,060
because she's a Quaker and is like pray, asking for God's guidance or whatever.

1512
01:11:02,060 --> 01:11:08,220
And then she like suddenly has like the spark realization that he's not insane or like has

1513
01:11:08,220 --> 01:11:09,820
the intelligence of a three year old.

1514
01:11:09,820 --> 01:11:11,280
He's just trapped.

1515
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:15,380
And the way that like this room means solace for her, but it would not mean that for him.

1516
01:11:15,380 --> 01:11:24,340
Like Laura Kinzale, the things that you do to me in every book of yours that I read.

1517
01:11:24,340 --> 01:11:29,180
But I want to read your celibate night one.

1518
01:11:29,180 --> 01:11:31,180
Oh, or my lady's heart.

1519
01:11:31,180 --> 01:11:33,740
That's going to be my litmus test.

1520
01:11:33,740 --> 01:11:35,300
If I don't like that book, then I'm not.

1521
01:11:35,300 --> 01:11:36,300
It's not meant to be.

1522
01:11:36,300 --> 01:11:37,300
But if I like that book.

1523
01:11:37,300 --> 01:11:38,300
I don't like that book.

1524
01:11:38,300 --> 01:11:39,900
I actually don't know what I'm going to do with you.

1525
01:11:39,900 --> 01:11:41,680
Yeah, like it sounds very good.

1526
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:42,680
So I do want to read that.

1527
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:44,340
I mean, it's a saga.

1528
01:11:44,340 --> 01:11:50,540
It's not one and Shadowheart are both traveling quest type, like over a period of time.

1529
01:11:50,540 --> 01:11:55,160
But what is the oh, I have to go look at my highlights for this book now.

1530
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:56,460
This isn't even one that we read.

1531
01:11:56,460 --> 01:11:58,820
It's just one that I need you to read.

1532
01:11:58,820 --> 01:12:01,820
I know I listen to this shit.

1533
01:12:01,820 --> 01:12:02,940
This is at 19 percent.

1534
01:12:02,940 --> 01:12:04,700
Jesus Christ.

1535
01:12:04,700 --> 01:12:09,380
He stared at her, his imperious liege lady, beautiful and plain with her jeweled gauntlets

1536
01:12:09,380 --> 01:12:13,700
and her hair astray and a great black smudge of ash on her cheek, her own cloak he wore

1537
01:12:13,700 --> 01:12:16,900
about his shoulders and the duck she had hunted lay before him.

1538
01:12:16,900 --> 01:12:19,940
Her I don't know how to say this, ger falcon, ger falcon.

1539
01:12:19,940 --> 01:12:20,940
It's a falcon.

1540
01:12:20,940 --> 01:12:24,980
Her falcon held the soul of a dead lover and her eyes, her eyes, they saw through him like

1541
01:12:24,980 --> 01:12:27,700
a lance and crinkled at the corners when she laughed.

1542
01:12:27,700 --> 01:12:35,180
Get the fuck off my head, like what is going on?

1543
01:12:35,180 --> 01:12:36,180
I don't.

1544
01:12:36,180 --> 01:12:41,140
She just keeps throwing these lines in where you're like, like, why did you just write

1545
01:12:41,140 --> 01:12:45,020
the most beautiful thing?

1546
01:12:45,020 --> 01:12:49,500
My confessor has chastised me oft and bade me study on my sins at length.

1547
01:12:49,500 --> 01:12:54,420
And so my lady, he kissed her the hunger in it sinking down through her like a comet falling.

1548
01:12:54,420 --> 01:12:58,060
I have studied.

1549
01:12:58,060 --> 01:13:02,460
This is him explaining why he's good at going down on her even though he's chaste.

1550
01:13:02,460 --> 01:13:05,580
And he's like, yeah, it's because I had to confess all of my lustful thoughts.

1551
01:13:05,580 --> 01:13:09,340
And then they questioned me about them in great detail.

1552
01:13:09,340 --> 01:13:10,340
Good morning.

1553
01:13:10,340 --> 01:13:12,140
Oh, he wakes her up and her response is good morning.

1554
01:13:12,140 --> 01:13:14,320
And I hope that does break into boils and die.

1555
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,380
That was the quote I was looking for.

1556
01:13:16,380 --> 01:13:20,020
Oh, no, no, no.

1557
01:13:20,020 --> 01:13:26,300
He wakes her up because he's leaving and she chucks a pillow at his head.

1558
01:13:26,300 --> 01:13:28,980
And then he's like, as one does, aren't you going to tell me good morning?

1559
01:13:28,980 --> 01:13:29,980
And she says good morning.

1560
01:13:29,980 --> 01:13:32,920
And I hope that break into boils and die.

1561
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:34,860
That's very Hocus Pocus of her.

1562
01:13:34,860 --> 01:13:35,860
It is rock.

1563
01:13:35,860 --> 01:13:36,860
Just oh, rock.

1564
01:13:36,860 --> 01:13:37,860
What a name.

1565
01:13:37,860 --> 01:13:38,860
Rock.

1566
01:13:38,860 --> 01:13:42,500
He just and he's like the green knight.

1567
01:13:42,500 --> 01:13:43,500
And he's so dedicated.

1568
01:13:43,500 --> 01:13:45,020
There's something about that courtly love thing.

1569
01:13:45,020 --> 01:13:49,420
Like he's so dedicated to this lady, even though he doesn't even know her.

1570
01:13:49,420 --> 01:13:51,180
I'm unwell.

1571
01:13:51,180 --> 01:13:54,820
Anyway, my number two is Flowers from the Storm and Laura Kinsale.

1572
01:13:54,820 --> 01:13:59,140
There's only one book of hers I have read so far that I haven't absolutely loved.

1573
01:13:59,140 --> 01:14:01,340
So yeah, my number two.

1574
01:14:01,340 --> 01:14:09,140
This was hard because like I knew in my heart of hearts that number one is number one.

1575
01:14:09,140 --> 01:14:10,140
Yeah.

1576
01:14:10,140 --> 01:14:12,460
But Indigo, same number one.

1577
01:14:12,460 --> 01:14:13,460
Yes.

1578
01:14:13,460 --> 01:14:15,500
And we're going to keep you on your toes, guys.

1579
01:14:15,500 --> 01:14:18,260
If you don't know, you don't know.

1580
01:14:18,260 --> 01:14:20,460
You'll never guess.

1581
01:14:20,460 --> 01:14:21,460
Would never.

1582
01:14:21,460 --> 01:14:27,260
But see, I have a little bit of a controversy with that because the first time I read our

1583
01:14:27,260 --> 01:14:29,740
number one book, I gave it four point five stars.

1584
01:14:29,740 --> 01:14:31,980
Yeah, because I was not really paying attention.

1585
01:14:31,980 --> 01:14:32,980
Yeah.

1586
01:14:32,980 --> 01:14:37,060
So if I could go back and reread a book for the first time, it would be that one.

1587
01:14:37,060 --> 01:14:40,060
I had to restart it a few times because I was like in the middle of a puzzle.

1588
01:14:40,060 --> 01:14:42,180
I mean, I would not.

1589
01:14:42,180 --> 01:14:43,180
I do be puzzling.

1590
01:14:43,180 --> 01:14:44,180
My brain just was not connecting.

1591
01:14:44,180 --> 01:14:49,060
And by the time I like finally like got to caring about it or not caring, but like understanding

1592
01:14:49,060 --> 01:14:52,940
everything and like focusing on it, I just think I missed a little bit.

1593
01:14:52,940 --> 01:14:58,220
So then when I reread it like 10 other times, I was like, oh, here we are.

1594
01:14:58,220 --> 01:15:04,500
So while that has like progressed to being a favorite just forever, Indigo's like I just

1595
01:15:04,500 --> 01:15:05,580
flat out was five.

1596
01:15:05,580 --> 01:15:10,220
Like there was no like I was in it to win it because I knew we had to do an episode

1597
01:15:10,220 --> 01:15:11,220
on it.

1598
01:15:11,220 --> 01:15:13,740
So like I want to focus and like know everything.

1599
01:15:13,740 --> 01:15:18,740
So it was like two different reading experiences, but like Indigo was so good and it was perfect.

1600
01:15:18,740 --> 01:15:21,060
And like it just was everything I wanted to be.

1601
01:15:21,060 --> 01:15:22,980
And it was like both so soft.

1602
01:15:22,980 --> 01:15:27,500
But then like he wasn't really soft, but he was soft for her.

1603
01:15:27,500 --> 01:15:29,980
But like it was just so good.

1604
01:15:29,980 --> 01:15:40,680
I love him buying her things and like just like I said it before, just cuckolding.

1605
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:43,540
It was joyful for me.

1606
01:15:43,540 --> 01:15:45,340
It was in the nuance of the cuckold.

1607
01:15:45,340 --> 01:15:46,740
It brought me joy.

1608
01:15:46,740 --> 01:15:49,260
It brought me joy.

1609
01:15:49,260 --> 01:15:50,260
And the villains.

1610
01:15:50,260 --> 01:15:52,260
Brightness and gratitude.

1611
01:15:52,260 --> 01:15:53,260
Exactly.

1612
01:15:53,260 --> 01:15:56,140
The villains, they got dead.

1613
01:15:56,140 --> 01:15:57,140
It's true.

1614
01:15:57,140 --> 01:15:58,140
They did.

1615
01:15:58,140 --> 01:16:05,140
And it just was such a like I don't even know like how to describe it, but I want to reread

1616
01:16:05,140 --> 01:16:06,140
it immediately.

1617
01:16:06,140 --> 01:16:07,140
Well, immediately.

1618
01:16:07,140 --> 01:16:10,020
I mean, I read it months ago.

1619
01:16:10,020 --> 01:16:14,020
I want to reread it post haste.

1620
01:16:14,020 --> 01:16:15,020
With haste.

1621
01:16:15,020 --> 01:16:16,020
Something hastily.

1622
01:16:16,020 --> 01:16:17,020
I don't know.

1623
01:16:17,020 --> 01:16:18,020
Post haste is right.

1624
01:16:18,020 --> 01:16:19,020
Right?

1625
01:16:19,020 --> 01:16:20,020
I don't know.

1626
01:16:20,020 --> 01:16:23,620
I say it, but I don't know if I'm saying it correctly.

1627
01:16:23,620 --> 01:16:25,020
As I want to do.

1628
01:16:25,020 --> 01:16:27,540
Yeah, that cover.

1629
01:16:27,540 --> 01:16:28,540
Amazing.

1630
01:16:28,540 --> 01:16:29,540
True.

1631
01:16:29,540 --> 01:16:30,540
Beautiful.

1632
01:16:30,540 --> 01:16:34,420
I believe there was like a bath scene or something.

1633
01:16:34,420 --> 01:16:38,300
Like there's just a lot of pampering and things happening.

1634
01:16:38,300 --> 01:16:40,220
And I was so on board.

1635
01:16:40,220 --> 01:16:43,460
And like you said, like he didn't really want to be in love, but he just was.

1636
01:16:43,460 --> 01:16:45,340
And then he was like, oh, I'm obsessed with you now.

1637
01:16:45,340 --> 01:16:47,260
And I'm just going to like make it happen.

1638
01:16:47,260 --> 01:16:49,700
I got to also give it to that book for being the reason.

1639
01:16:49,700 --> 01:16:52,980
I don't do it all the time, but occasionally if I want my coffee a little bit sweeter,

1640
01:16:52,980 --> 01:16:53,980
I do.

1641
01:16:53,980 --> 01:16:54,980
I don't put sugar.

1642
01:16:54,980 --> 01:16:55,980
I always use maple syrup.

1643
01:16:55,980 --> 01:16:56,980
I need to try that.

1644
01:16:56,980 --> 01:16:57,980
It's good.

1645
01:16:57,980 --> 01:17:04,180
I mean, it's just like a sweetener, but there's something a little bit nicer.

1646
01:17:04,180 --> 01:17:12,300
That was drumming.

1647
01:17:12,300 --> 01:17:16,340
Number one, the moment we've been all waiting for.

1648
01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:19,900
Number one, I feel like we don't have to talk a lot about because it's Lord of Scoundrels.

1649
01:17:19,900 --> 01:17:21,620
And of course it was number one.

1650
01:17:21,620 --> 01:17:24,380
And it was a reread, but nothing topped it.

1651
01:17:24,380 --> 01:17:25,540
And I don't think anything ever will.

1652
01:17:25,540 --> 01:17:27,140
Because with every read it gets better.

1653
01:17:27,140 --> 01:17:28,140
Yeah.

1654
01:17:28,140 --> 01:17:29,140
It actually only improves.

1655
01:17:29,140 --> 01:17:30,140
I just.

1656
01:17:30,140 --> 01:17:37,220
But also the perfect audiobook.

1657
01:17:37,220 --> 01:17:40,940
Kate Redding put all of her Kate Redding OC into it.

1658
01:17:40,940 --> 01:17:46,780
She did what no Kate Redding had done before, which was read that book to us.

1659
01:17:46,780 --> 01:17:51,060
She Kate Redding.

1660
01:17:51,060 --> 01:17:54,420
The horrible part was the way she accepted it.

1661
01:17:54,420 --> 01:17:56,180
Oh God, I love her.

1662
01:17:56,180 --> 01:18:04,300
I just read another Loretta Chase, Kate Redding also loved their dynamic of Kate Redding reading

1663
01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:05,300
Loretta Chase.

1664
01:18:05,300 --> 01:18:06,300
She reads a lot of them.

1665
01:18:06,300 --> 01:18:07,300
Oh God.

1666
01:18:07,300 --> 01:18:09,460
I need to read more of her books.

1667
01:18:09,460 --> 01:18:16,180
I can't get started talking about this one without talking for another hour.

1668
01:18:16,180 --> 01:18:20,060
So I actually just recommend listening to the episode, especially because we had Sanch on

1669
01:18:20,060 --> 01:18:24,340
that episode and it was fantastic, even though we had to record it twice because it didn't

1670
01:18:24,340 --> 01:18:25,340
work the first time.

1671
01:18:25,340 --> 01:18:26,340
That was fun.

1672
01:18:26,340 --> 01:18:27,340
Go technology.

1673
01:18:27,340 --> 01:18:35,540
I will leave you with the Tumblr quote that I found and inspired an entire series of posts

1674
01:18:35,540 --> 01:18:38,380
where I match historical romances with Tumblr quotes.

1675
01:18:38,380 --> 01:18:43,940
And it was all because I saw this one and I was like, that is the most highly specific

1676
01:18:43,940 --> 01:18:47,100
Jessica Dayne coded thing I've ever seen.

1677
01:18:47,100 --> 01:18:51,940
And it's the phrase, his horish tendencies and huge nose have captivated me.

1678
01:18:51,940 --> 01:18:53,900
I think it was written by Jessica Dayne.

1679
01:18:53,900 --> 01:18:54,900
I mean, Jessica Dayne.

1680
01:18:54,900 --> 01:18:57,660
I just get what the fuck is her trend?

1681
01:18:57,660 --> 01:18:58,660
Loretta Chase.

1682
01:18:58,660 --> 01:18:59,660
Loretta Chase.

1683
01:18:59,660 --> 01:19:00,820
Dayne is the man.

1684
01:19:00,820 --> 01:19:03,620
Her name is Jessica Trent.

1685
01:19:03,620 --> 01:19:08,340
His horish tendencies and huge nose have captivated me.

1686
01:19:08,340 --> 01:19:14,060
That is the definition of what happens at the beginning of that book.

1687
01:19:14,060 --> 01:19:15,060
That's so true.

1688
01:19:15,060 --> 01:19:19,620
She spends so much time talking about how hot his giant nose is.

1689
01:19:19,620 --> 01:19:22,140
Baffling.

1690
01:19:22,140 --> 01:19:25,540
There's actually no better book than that one in existence.

1691
01:19:25,540 --> 01:19:28,820
One of our superlatives should have been Biggest Nose.

1692
01:19:28,820 --> 01:19:29,820
Dayne.

1693
01:19:29,820 --> 01:19:30,820
It's just Dayne.

1694
01:19:30,820 --> 01:19:31,820
Gave a little smooch.

1695
01:19:31,820 --> 01:19:38,740
Yeah, I mean that book just and he's so baffled by it.

1696
01:19:38,740 --> 01:19:41,380
I love nose kisses or forehead kisses.

1697
01:19:41,380 --> 01:19:42,380
Adorable.

1698
01:19:42,380 --> 01:19:45,660
The adorable part is.

1699
01:19:45,660 --> 01:19:47,620
Thank you.

1700
01:19:47,620 --> 01:19:51,260
Yeah, that one just withstands the test of time.

1701
01:19:51,260 --> 01:19:53,060
It kind of like.

1702
01:19:53,060 --> 01:19:58,660
It was good of us to do that episode first, but also so sorry to like start out so strong.

1703
01:19:58,660 --> 01:19:59,660
Yeah, yeah.

1704
01:19:59,660 --> 01:20:02,940
Because like, God dang.

1705
01:20:02,940 --> 01:20:06,340
How do you follow it up besides just rereading it?

1706
01:20:06,340 --> 01:20:07,340
You don't.

1707
01:20:07,340 --> 01:20:08,340
You suffer.

1708
01:20:08,340 --> 01:20:09,340
Yeah, you do.

1709
01:20:09,340 --> 01:20:11,340
So yeah, that's our ranking.

1710
01:20:11,340 --> 01:20:15,380
I think we should speed run the little superlatives.

1711
01:20:15,380 --> 01:20:17,220
Yeah, they don't.

1712
01:20:17,220 --> 01:20:18,460
We know what these books are about.

1713
01:20:18,460 --> 01:20:19,460
Yeah.

1714
01:20:19,460 --> 01:20:27,140
So we've just got a few to close us out to wrap up old school school 2023 graduating

1715
01:20:27,140 --> 01:20:28,140
class.

1716
01:20:28,140 --> 01:20:29,140
Well, not graduating.

1717
01:20:29,140 --> 01:20:30,140
We'll be back next year.

1718
01:20:30,140 --> 01:20:31,140
We will.

1719
01:20:31,140 --> 01:20:35,220
With potentially a little twist, which we're still going to we're going to work out logistics.

1720
01:20:35,220 --> 01:20:36,220
Yeah, we have.

1721
01:20:36,220 --> 01:20:40,940
There was another idea that I had tossed about to you, then we haven't done it yet.

1722
01:20:40,940 --> 01:20:41,940
Time.

1723
01:20:41,940 --> 01:20:42,940
Yeah.

1724
01:20:42,940 --> 01:20:51,300
It's a really crazy book, like anyone that like maybe wouldn't make me like want to go

1725
01:20:51,300 --> 01:20:56,300
on a murderous rampage, but like very good for like one that crazy.

1726
01:20:56,300 --> 01:21:01,780
I would love if the plot level was at the level of Sky O'Malley, not necessarily content,

1727
01:21:01,780 --> 01:21:02,780
but like the.

1728
01:21:02,780 --> 01:21:05,020
Yeah, things always happening.

1729
01:21:05,020 --> 01:21:06,580
Absolutely absurd plot twist.

1730
01:21:06,580 --> 01:21:07,820
That would be an excellent.

1731
01:21:07,820 --> 01:21:10,220
I know exactly the idea you're talking about.

1732
01:21:10,220 --> 01:21:11,460
Yeah, that'd be great.

1733
01:21:11,460 --> 01:21:14,660
The plot needs to be firing on all cylinders, like at all times.

1734
01:21:14,660 --> 01:21:15,660
Yeah.

1735
01:21:15,660 --> 01:21:18,140
And there's like a fun thing we want to do with it.

1736
01:21:18,140 --> 01:21:20,020
We just don't have the book yet.

1737
01:21:20,020 --> 01:21:21,020
Yeah.

1738
01:21:21,020 --> 01:21:22,020
So there's that.

1739
01:21:22,020 --> 01:21:23,020
So for the superlatives.

1740
01:21:23,020 --> 01:21:26,340
Yeah, we'll just do a little speed round.

1741
01:21:26,340 --> 01:21:27,340
Speed round.

1742
01:21:27,340 --> 01:21:28,340
Best surprise.

1743
01:21:28,340 --> 01:21:29,340
I said morning glory.

1744
01:21:29,340 --> 01:21:30,340
I said gateway gateway.

1745
01:21:30,340 --> 01:21:31,340
I put gateway first and switched it.

1746
01:21:31,340 --> 01:21:32,340
So yeah, that was definitely.

1747
01:21:32,340 --> 01:21:33,340
That was just so I mean, morning glory is also definitely cosigned like.

1748
01:21:33,340 --> 01:21:46,460
Yeah, I just did not anticipate slightly more in like I at least knew it was going to be

1749
01:21:46,460 --> 01:21:49,540
like the queer Gothic romance vibes.

1750
01:21:49,540 --> 01:21:53,260
Morning Glory I just genuinely did not know anything except like that.

1751
01:21:53,260 --> 01:21:56,500
I just did not expect to like I was terrified of Gawick.

1752
01:21:56,500 --> 01:21:57,500
Fair.

1753
01:21:57,500 --> 01:22:04,180
Like the old school Gothic just like inspire something so scared and childlike in me.

1754
01:22:04,180 --> 01:22:07,660
I was just like, am I bold enough for this?

1755
01:22:07,660 --> 01:22:09,580
Yeah, it was great.

1756
01:22:09,580 --> 01:22:10,860
And the same thing with morning glory.

1757
01:22:10,860 --> 01:22:11,860
I was like 1940s.

1758
01:22:11,860 --> 01:22:12,860
Yeah.

1759
01:22:12,860 --> 01:22:15,540
What do you have to offer?

1760
01:22:15,540 --> 01:22:17,420
Yeah, definitely both of those.

1761
01:22:17,420 --> 01:22:18,940
Worst surprise.

1762
01:22:18,940 --> 01:22:29,980
Well, that wild incest in Sky Home Alley, I have to take a minute to just kind of wash

1763
01:22:29,980 --> 01:22:35,060
my brain out because it's just on a highlight reel in there.

1764
01:22:35,060 --> 01:22:37,220
What happened?

1765
01:22:37,220 --> 01:22:40,340
Like there was a lot the dirtiest.

1766
01:22:40,340 --> 01:22:45,140
There was a lot of sex and then they just like rape her in the middle of it.

1767
01:22:45,140 --> 01:22:46,140
They do.

1768
01:22:46,140 --> 01:22:47,140
And I.

1769
01:22:47,140 --> 01:22:50,940
And then you follow it up with violence.

1770
01:22:50,940 --> 01:22:53,780
So much like.

1771
01:22:53,780 --> 01:22:58,380
It was just like the incest was.

1772
01:22:58,380 --> 01:23:02,340
Strong it was so strong.

1773
01:23:02,340 --> 01:23:03,340
It was a surprise.

1774
01:23:03,340 --> 01:23:05,940
Well, it was it was a kind of surprise.

1775
01:23:05,940 --> 01:23:08,580
It's a bad surprise because you know what's happening.

1776
01:23:08,580 --> 01:23:10,460
You know, like you knew.

1777
01:23:10,460 --> 01:23:14,100
Yeah, like a little bit before you like, oh, God, no, please don't.

1778
01:23:14,100 --> 01:23:17,140
But like, let's say you don't like surprise parties and you know someone's throwing you

1779
01:23:17,140 --> 01:23:18,780
one trying to be coy about it.

1780
01:23:18,780 --> 01:23:20,860
You're walking through the door and you're like, please, God, don't let this happen.

1781
01:23:20,860 --> 01:23:22,500
Like I just want normal night.

1782
01:23:22,500 --> 01:23:30,180
And then it's just a brother and sister just fucking running.

1783
01:23:30,180 --> 01:23:35,780
Real a lot of liquids and it's just really nasty.

1784
01:23:35,780 --> 01:23:37,900
And they're really into it.

1785
01:23:37,900 --> 01:23:41,420
And they're like degrading each other.

1786
01:23:41,420 --> 01:23:44,500
And they kind of hate each other, but like sexually.

1787
01:23:44,500 --> 01:23:45,500
Yeah.

1788
01:23:45,500 --> 01:23:50,300
Yeah, that's what I that's the best I can describe that.

1789
01:23:50,300 --> 01:23:56,100
My worst surprise was when she married her brother or his brother.

1790
01:23:56,100 --> 01:23:57,100
Sorry, not her brother.

1791
01:23:57,100 --> 01:23:58,740
Well, that's on par.

1792
01:23:58,740 --> 01:23:59,740
Yeah.

1793
01:23:59,740 --> 01:24:03,980
No, when she married his brother in Texas, destiny, I was so shocked that we took the

1794
01:24:03,980 --> 01:24:06,900
plot that far and not in a good way.

1795
01:24:06,900 --> 01:24:08,780
Like how?

1796
01:24:08,780 --> 01:24:11,940
How could you do that to us?

1797
01:24:11,940 --> 01:24:13,540
I felt betrayed to him.

1798
01:24:13,540 --> 01:24:15,540
Yeah, to all of us, really.

1799
01:24:15,540 --> 01:24:19,700
There were just multiple characters who at any point could have made different decisions

1800
01:24:19,700 --> 01:24:20,700
to not do that.

1801
01:24:20,700 --> 01:24:23,740
We could have had a great like interrupted wedding scene.

1802
01:24:23,740 --> 01:24:27,740
I saw that this issue that got to the altar, but like, yeah.

1803
01:24:27,740 --> 01:24:28,740
But then they just got married.

1804
01:24:28,740 --> 01:24:30,860
I was like, what do you mean?

1805
01:24:30,860 --> 01:24:33,900
So yeah.

1806
01:24:33,900 --> 01:24:38,460
Best for new to old school readers.

1807
01:24:38,460 --> 01:24:40,060
I went Lord of Scoundrels.

1808
01:24:40,060 --> 01:24:44,420
Yeah, I assume I picked Indigo just as.

1809
01:24:44,420 --> 01:24:53,020
Yeah, like I feel like Indigo and Lord of Scoundrels are both very unique to themselves.

1810
01:24:53,020 --> 01:24:57,300
Like there's just really nothing like them, which is, I guess, maybe not great to start

1811
01:24:57,300 --> 01:25:00,900
out because then you're kind of just like, what else do I read?

1812
01:25:00,900 --> 01:25:01,900
But they're not.

1813
01:25:01,900 --> 01:25:02,900
They're not scary.

1814
01:25:02,900 --> 01:25:06,020
They're just so good.

1815
01:25:06,020 --> 01:25:11,620
I think they both translate well into modern time.

1816
01:25:11,620 --> 01:25:18,860
Like fastest of them, you can see them in romances you read right now.

1817
01:25:18,860 --> 01:25:22,020
But no one's doing it as good as those two.

1818
01:25:22,020 --> 01:25:27,060
Like Indigo and Lord, like they're just so good.

1819
01:25:27,060 --> 01:25:32,580
I think those are both good for like not even old school, but like new to historical generally.

1820
01:25:32,580 --> 01:25:38,980
Because they're like they're not tame, but they're just like warm.

1821
01:25:38,980 --> 01:25:43,020
Like a warm hug, a little slap on the ass.

1822
01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:47,100
And neither of them are like bodice rippers, which I think is off putting for a lot of

1823
01:25:47,100 --> 01:25:48,100
people.

1824
01:25:48,100 --> 01:25:51,380
And we could like toss the bride in there, like we said in our episode, like that's like

1825
01:25:51,380 --> 01:25:56,020
a good Scottish one to start with.

1826
01:25:56,020 --> 01:26:00,500
I just think like if Lord of Scoundrels had been my first historical romance ever, like

1827
01:26:00,500 --> 01:26:04,420
number one, I would be chasing that high forever, unfortunately.

1828
01:26:04,420 --> 01:26:08,780
But I would have been like, well, I'm never reading a contemporary romance again.

1829
01:26:08,780 --> 01:26:09,780
Yeah.

1830
01:26:09,780 --> 01:26:13,100
Like how do you top that?

1831
01:26:13,100 --> 01:26:15,300
Yeah.

1832
01:26:15,300 --> 01:26:16,980
Most bonkers.

1833
01:26:16,980 --> 01:26:21,820
I chose one that I enjoyed for the most part because there were more bonkers.

1834
01:26:21,820 --> 01:26:25,100
Like, so I mean, How's Wild Incest Not Bonkers?

1835
01:26:25,100 --> 01:26:32,020
But I chose Prince of My Desire because I just did not expect it to do what it did at

1836
01:26:32,020 --> 01:26:33,020
like any point.

1837
01:26:33,020 --> 01:26:37,260
I was just like, oh, we're going there.

1838
01:26:37,260 --> 01:26:38,700
And then it just kept happening.

1839
01:26:38,700 --> 01:26:41,420
Like it just it just kept.

1840
01:26:41,420 --> 01:26:43,500
It was confusing how compelled I was.

1841
01:26:43,500 --> 01:26:44,500
So that's fair.

1842
01:26:44,500 --> 01:26:46,380
Bonkers in that sense, too.

1843
01:26:46,380 --> 01:26:47,740
Yeah, I went Sky O'Malley.

1844
01:26:47,740 --> 01:26:54,220
I don't think I've ever read a plot that did what that plot did.

1845
01:26:54,220 --> 01:26:57,020
And I'm just going to leave it at that.

1846
01:26:57,020 --> 01:26:58,980
I don't think we need to elaborate.

1847
01:26:58,980 --> 01:27:00,300
Most educational.

1848
01:27:00,300 --> 01:27:03,060
And I said, take that as you will.

1849
01:27:03,060 --> 01:27:06,140
What educational means to you.

1850
01:27:06,140 --> 01:27:09,660
I said Indigo.

1851
01:27:09,660 --> 01:27:16,340
I personally took my own educational note as like informative about the genre.

1852
01:27:16,340 --> 01:27:23,500
And I think it's very informative about early historicals, but also like the genesis of

1853
01:27:23,500 --> 01:27:28,120
black romance because it's Beverly Jenkins, the one and only.

1854
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:29,700
So that was my interpretation.

1855
01:27:29,700 --> 01:27:32,420
Look at you being all smart.

1856
01:27:32,420 --> 01:27:37,580
And then I went.

1857
01:27:37,580 --> 01:27:39,740
I did How Not to Get the Girl.

1858
01:27:39,740 --> 01:27:41,620
And that's Whitney, my love.

1859
01:27:41,620 --> 01:27:49,420
And you like if you want to learn a lesson on how not to get fucking accuse her of sleeping

1860
01:27:49,420 --> 01:27:56,940
with everyone, sleeping with your brother, sleeping with Moe, Cliff, with the gimpy

1861
01:27:56,940 --> 01:27:57,940
leg.

1862
01:27:57,940 --> 01:27:58,940
Cliff, I didn't know.

1863
01:27:58,940 --> 01:27:59,940
She's a lie.

1864
01:27:59,940 --> 01:28:00,940
I love you.

1865
01:28:00,940 --> 01:28:05,940
I fucking love that movie.

1866
01:28:05,940 --> 01:28:16,060
Yeah, like Whitney, my love, both on how to write a compelling book and to do such deep

1867
01:28:16,060 --> 01:28:20,700
character work for her that we got and to make it still interesting and then to have

1868
01:28:20,700 --> 01:28:21,700
everything that happened.

1869
01:28:21,700 --> 01:28:25,660
But then also like just are also how to fuck up a book.

1870
01:28:25,660 --> 01:28:27,660
Yeah, have him do that.

1871
01:28:27,660 --> 01:28:33,300
Like just a lot of how to run there because like they had a many like there was miscommunications

1872
01:28:33,300 --> 01:28:35,140
and there were things conclusions to be jumped.

1873
01:28:35,140 --> 01:28:39,980
And then he just took one that you were just like, absolutely not my guy.

1874
01:28:39,980 --> 01:28:41,220
Like we've been here before.

1875
01:28:41,220 --> 01:28:42,220
Yeah.

1876
01:28:42,220 --> 01:28:44,660
But I still found him hot.

1877
01:28:44,660 --> 01:28:47,220
So there is that for me.

1878
01:28:47,220 --> 01:28:48,220
Too real.

1879
01:28:48,220 --> 01:28:50,620
Yeah, too real.

1880
01:28:50,620 --> 01:28:53,700
And finishing us out most memorable.

1881
01:28:53,700 --> 01:29:02,500
Well, we know I have a bad memory, but I will never forget Jessica Trent shooting Dane just

1882
01:29:02,500 --> 01:29:07,780
so skillfully on purpose and then turning herself in and then being angry that she can't

1883
01:29:07,780 --> 01:29:10,260
be resting.

1884
01:29:10,260 --> 01:29:15,620
I just love that, like imprinted on me.

1885
01:29:15,620 --> 01:29:17,660
My renaissance.

1886
01:29:17,660 --> 01:29:20,100
I was going to go Lord of Scoundrels.

1887
01:29:20,100 --> 01:29:26,220
It probably is the correct answer, but I did not number one because I chose it for another

1888
01:29:26,220 --> 01:29:34,440
one because it felt a little bit unfair considering I've re read that one and all of the others

1889
01:29:34,440 --> 01:29:35,700
were first time reads.

1890
01:29:35,700 --> 01:29:38,580
So just know the answer is actually Lord of Scoundrels.

1891
01:29:38,580 --> 01:29:45,260
However, I did exclude it because of its unfair advantage and I want flowers from the storm.

1892
01:29:45,260 --> 01:29:48,620
I was just thinking, I was like, I do remember the parts that I liked.

1893
01:29:48,620 --> 01:29:50,100
I remember those viscerally.

1894
01:29:50,100 --> 01:29:55,780
Yeah, there was the parts that I liked and also the painful parts just like really locked

1895
01:29:55,780 --> 01:29:59,700
themselves into my brain.

1896
01:29:59,700 --> 01:30:03,100
So I think that one's going to stick with me.

1897
01:30:03,100 --> 01:30:04,100
I agree.

1898
01:30:04,100 --> 01:30:10,860
I mean, also the incest was very memorable, unfortunately.

1899
01:30:10,860 --> 01:30:12,940
It scarred me on a different like memorable.

1900
01:30:12,940 --> 01:30:15,260
I know I can tell.

1901
01:30:15,260 --> 01:30:19,080
I just was not like, because you knew you were walking into that party and yeah, we

1902
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:23,380
all knew what was coming and it wasn't great.

1903
01:30:23,380 --> 01:30:27,100
But it was everyone when they were siblings.

1904
01:30:27,100 --> 01:30:36,540
But yeah, that that really does it for old school school.

1905
01:30:36,540 --> 01:30:40,420
Grade one grade one.

1906
01:30:40,420 --> 01:30:41,900
Old school school 101.

1907
01:30:41,900 --> 01:30:42,900
101.

1908
01:30:42,900 --> 01:30:45,420
Are we moving on to what is it?

1909
01:30:45,420 --> 01:30:46,420
201?

1910
01:30:46,420 --> 01:30:47,420
201.

1911
01:30:47,420 --> 01:30:49,420
I never remember how the numbering goes.

1912
01:30:49,420 --> 01:30:51,420
201 next year.

1913
01:30:51,420 --> 01:30:57,660
102 would be like the second half of like the same core, which I guess it could be.

1914
01:30:57,660 --> 01:30:59,460
I guess that's true.

1915
01:30:59,460 --> 01:31:00,460
Nothing matters.

1916
01:31:00,460 --> 01:31:01,460
We make the rules.

1917
01:31:01,460 --> 01:31:02,460
This is our house.

1918
01:31:02,460 --> 01:31:05,460
We keep the lights up till January.

1919
01:31:05,460 --> 01:31:06,460
Yeah.

1920
01:31:06,460 --> 01:31:13,580
So yeah, I we have experienced so much.

1921
01:31:13,580 --> 01:31:14,580
We have.

1922
01:31:14,580 --> 01:31:15,580
We read so much.

1923
01:31:15,580 --> 01:31:16,580
That's true.

1924
01:31:16,580 --> 01:31:17,580
Yeah.

1925
01:31:17,580 --> 01:31:24,940
We have plans for kind of ideas.

1926
01:31:24,940 --> 01:31:25,940
Loose plans.

1927
01:31:25,940 --> 01:31:29,140
Dreams, loose plans.

1928
01:31:29,140 --> 01:31:30,940
For season three.

1929
01:31:30,940 --> 01:31:32,220
Yep.

1930
01:31:32,220 --> 01:31:40,380
You will get one more of our just like best books of the year, like superlatives situations

1931
01:31:40,380 --> 01:31:41,380
next week.

1932
01:31:41,380 --> 01:31:43,380
And that's our last episode of the season.

1933
01:31:43,380 --> 01:31:44,380
Look out for.

1934
01:31:44,380 --> 01:31:46,140
We've got that Christmas thing coming.

1935
01:31:46,140 --> 01:31:47,900
And whatever we talked about.

1936
01:31:47,900 --> 01:31:50,300
So it's just yeah.

1937
01:31:50,300 --> 01:31:54,020
Maybe we'll save the one and drop it in the middle of the winter break just to be like

1938
01:31:54,020 --> 01:31:55,020
surprised.

1939
01:31:55,020 --> 01:31:56,020
We'll do that.

1940
01:31:56,020 --> 01:31:59,020
Where are the gifts that keeps on giving?

1941
01:31:59,020 --> 01:32:00,020
That's us.

1942
01:32:00,020 --> 01:32:04,820
I'm like, look how God made me.

1943
01:32:04,820 --> 01:32:08,980
I have so much fun with that.

1944
01:32:08,980 --> 01:32:09,980
Yeah.

1945
01:32:09,980 --> 01:32:13,980
So one more just to wrap up the whole season.

1946
01:32:13,980 --> 01:32:21,060
And then more to come on next season and the school school season to come.

1947
01:32:21,060 --> 01:32:22,060
Yeah.

1948
01:32:22,060 --> 01:32:23,060
I have.

1949
01:32:23,060 --> 01:32:25,380
This was very fun.

1950
01:32:25,380 --> 01:32:30,220
I am happy we did it because again, like a lot of these didn't have audiobooks.

1951
01:32:30,220 --> 01:32:38,300
So like I'm probably not going to pick them up if I don't have a reason to just for time.

1952
01:32:38,300 --> 01:32:44,700
But yeah, I'm just happy to know to experience some of the foundational things for other

1953
01:32:44,700 --> 01:32:45,700
people.

1954
01:32:45,700 --> 01:32:46,700
Yep.

1955
01:32:46,700 --> 01:32:47,700
Very intriguing.

1956
01:32:47,700 --> 01:32:48,700
Yes.

1957
01:32:48,700 --> 01:32:54,700
And just like the anticipation of it potentially being like a favorite.

1958
01:32:54,700 --> 01:32:57,180
Like it's just so fun when you start.

1959
01:32:57,180 --> 01:32:58,500
Sometimes it doesn't get fun.

1960
01:32:58,500 --> 01:33:01,940
Sometimes you get angry, but it all starts fun.

1961
01:33:01,940 --> 01:33:04,100
It goes from there.

1962
01:33:04,100 --> 01:33:05,100
Blank slate.

1963
01:33:05,100 --> 01:33:06,100
Yeah.

1964
01:33:06,100 --> 01:33:08,980
Do keep an eye on Instagram stories.

1965
01:33:08,980 --> 01:33:12,860
We'll probably be collecting superlatives from you and the superlatives you would like

1966
01:33:12,860 --> 01:33:13,860
to see.

1967
01:33:13,860 --> 01:33:19,940
I feel like it's a different like we haven't because we haven't done a lot of TBRs.

1968
01:33:19,940 --> 01:33:25,460
So it's going to be like very interesting to remember what we read.

1969
01:33:25,460 --> 01:33:26,740
What did I even read this year?

1970
01:33:26,740 --> 01:33:27,740
I don't know.

1971
01:33:27,740 --> 01:33:28,740
I know.

1972
01:33:28,740 --> 01:33:30,340
I've read 400 books and I couldn't tell you.

1973
01:33:30,340 --> 01:33:32,100
I've read less than that.

1974
01:33:32,100 --> 01:33:35,100
It's over 200 though.

1975
01:33:35,100 --> 01:33:39,860
I'm reading a lot of novellas right now for the holiday season just because that's all

1976
01:33:39,860 --> 01:33:40,860
I can muster.

1977
01:33:40,860 --> 01:33:43,580
Yeah, I'm not doing any holiday reading.

1978
01:33:43,580 --> 01:33:46,580
I've read 263.

1979
01:33:46,580 --> 01:33:48,180
Good Lord.

1980
01:33:48,180 --> 01:33:50,060
For me, that's a lot.

1981
01:33:50,060 --> 01:33:52,100
You read a lot.

1982
01:33:52,100 --> 01:33:53,100
Yeah.

1983
01:33:53,100 --> 01:33:54,100
Last year.

1984
01:33:54,100 --> 01:33:56,220
I remember like last year compared to this year.

1985
01:33:56,220 --> 01:33:57,220
Yeah.

1986
01:33:57,220 --> 01:33:59,660
Last year I read 218.

1987
01:33:59,660 --> 01:34:02,060
It cracks me up to look at 2018 was 35.

1988
01:34:02,060 --> 01:34:03,700
2019 was only 10.

1989
01:34:03,700 --> 01:34:05,900
I was in college.

1990
01:34:05,900 --> 01:34:10,300
2020 was 64 or sorry, 66.

1991
01:34:10,300 --> 01:34:19,500
And then it goes 66 in 2020, 142 in 2021, 218 in 22.

1992
01:34:19,500 --> 01:34:22,100
And now this year I've read 263 so far.

1993
01:34:22,100 --> 01:34:27,740
So just the exponential curve that that.

1994
01:34:27,740 --> 01:34:28,740
Mine.

1995
01:34:28,740 --> 01:34:31,020
2015 was the first one.

1996
01:34:31,020 --> 01:34:32,020
One out of 50.

1997
01:34:32,020 --> 01:34:33,020
Nice.

1998
01:34:33,020 --> 01:34:34,540
I think it's Troy High by Shana Norris.

1999
01:34:34,540 --> 01:34:35,540
Great book.

2000
01:34:35,540 --> 01:34:36,540
Still recommend it.

2001
01:34:36,540 --> 01:34:37,540
Love that.

2002
01:34:37,540 --> 01:34:40,140
2016 was two out of 50.

2003
01:34:40,140 --> 01:34:41,140
Climbing.

2004
01:34:41,140 --> 01:34:42,140
Climbing.

2005
01:34:42,140 --> 01:34:48,300
And then I skipped to 2020 because apparently grad school hit me like a train.

2006
01:34:48,300 --> 01:34:52,460
And I did not partake.

2007
01:34:52,460 --> 01:34:54,620
And then the first half of 2020 I was still in grad school.

2008
01:34:54,620 --> 01:34:59,100
So I started reading and that was 100.

2009
01:34:59,100 --> 01:35:02,620
Wait, how did I read 119 of 120?

2010
01:35:02,620 --> 01:35:06,060
Oh, I think I deleted one for myself.

2011
01:35:06,060 --> 01:35:14,260
So I read 120 books that year, but now it's uncompleted and that's going to haunt me.

2012
01:35:14,260 --> 01:35:21,020
And then in 2021, it was like the author had a scandal and then it just made me angry knowing

2013
01:35:21,020 --> 01:35:23,860
that the author like did what they did, like attacked a reviewer.

2014
01:35:23,860 --> 01:35:25,740
So I like deleted the book from my.

2015
01:35:25,740 --> 01:35:26,740
Nice.

2016
01:35:26,740 --> 01:35:28,740
Yeah, it was a little fit of.

2017
01:35:28,740 --> 01:35:30,740
Stick it to the man.

2018
01:35:30,740 --> 01:35:32,740
2021 was 245.

2019
01:35:32,740 --> 01:35:38,340
So I jumped a lot there.

2020
01:35:38,340 --> 01:35:40,820
That was like crazy.

2021
01:35:40,820 --> 01:35:42,940
I read the entire room with the kid.

2022
01:35:42,940 --> 01:35:45,540
See, stick it to my roots.

2023
01:35:45,540 --> 01:35:49,100
2022 I had 430.

2024
01:35:49,100 --> 01:35:50,100
That was a lot.

2025
01:35:50,100 --> 01:35:51,100
Yeah.

2026
01:35:51,100 --> 01:35:58,060
And I have no ambition to break that this year because I can't do that.

2027
01:35:58,060 --> 01:36:02,100
I read so many Christmas books at the end or like holiday books, and I just am also

2028
01:36:02,100 --> 01:36:03,100
not doing that.

2029
01:36:03,100 --> 01:36:06,540
I'm going to I'm finishing up on more actually, which is fantastic.

2030
01:36:06,540 --> 01:36:08,100
And that's my book.

2031
01:36:08,100 --> 01:36:12,780
Yeah, we are my my in-person book club decided I wasn't at the last meeting, but they told

2032
01:36:12,780 --> 01:36:17,460
me they decided everybody's going to like pick one or two stories from it.

2033
01:36:17,460 --> 01:36:18,460
I can't I'd have to read it.

2034
01:36:18,460 --> 01:36:20,900
I'm going to read the whole thing anyway, because I have the audio book.

2035
01:36:20,900 --> 01:36:23,660
So I figure I'll just the narrators.

2036
01:36:23,660 --> 01:36:26,220
Yeah, that's really exciting.

2037
01:36:26,220 --> 01:36:29,940
I had started I picked it up last year, too.

2038
01:36:29,940 --> 01:36:30,940
And it was just so long.

2039
01:36:30,940 --> 01:36:31,940
I couldn't.

2040
01:36:31,940 --> 01:36:32,940
Yeah, it was a lot of pages.

2041
01:36:32,940 --> 01:36:36,940
But so I was really excited to see they were doing audio.

2042
01:36:36,940 --> 01:36:41,700
It's I didn't really like I knew obviously it's like a play on love.

2043
01:36:41,700 --> 01:36:45,900
Actually, I didn't realize that each story is kind of like a retelling of like each kind

2044
01:36:45,900 --> 01:36:47,980
of relationship in the movie.

2045
01:36:47,980 --> 01:36:50,100
I think I don't really watch that movie a lot.

2046
01:36:50,100 --> 01:36:51,220
It's not a favorite.

2047
01:36:51,220 --> 01:36:54,300
This I would just reread every year rather than watching the movie because it's doing

2048
01:36:54,300 --> 01:36:55,300
it for me.

2049
01:36:55,300 --> 01:36:57,620
I watched the movie once and never felt me.

2050
01:36:57,620 --> 01:36:58,620
That was really good.

2051
01:36:58,620 --> 01:37:03,780
And I'm going to read the Chloe Lee's one that is that did it for me.

2052
01:37:03,780 --> 01:37:04,780
Like hotcakes.

2053
01:37:04,780 --> 01:37:08,580
Yeah, I don't know why I said hotcakes, but it was so good last year.

2054
01:37:08,580 --> 01:37:10,100
I'm very excited to reread it.

2055
01:37:10,100 --> 01:37:12,140
That was a good one.

2056
01:37:12,140 --> 01:37:13,140
Yeah.

2057
01:37:13,140 --> 01:37:14,900
And probably just some other novellas that I like.

2058
01:37:14,900 --> 01:37:19,140
I got rid of or I read the arcs that I had and needed to read.

2059
01:37:19,140 --> 01:37:22,540
And now I'm kind of like home free.

2060
01:37:22,540 --> 01:37:27,740
I have some other fun arcs that I don't know if I'm like in the mood to really.

2061
01:37:27,740 --> 01:37:31,580
Yeah, I've got a shit ton of forever books I need to read.

2062
01:37:31,580 --> 01:37:35,060
Mostly books that I'm working on, but then also books that other people are working on

2063
01:37:35,060 --> 01:37:36,060
that are fun.

2064
01:37:36,060 --> 01:37:39,580
I got Dana sent me books today and I got the next Amanda Collins.

2065
01:37:39,580 --> 01:37:40,580
Oh yeah.

2066
01:37:40,580 --> 01:37:45,700
And the way that number one, I just love Amanda Collins.

2067
01:37:45,700 --> 01:37:51,140
But number two, Dana's told me that it's like Clue, if Clue were in his romance, like it's

2068
01:37:51,140 --> 01:37:52,900
a house party and somebody gets murdered.

2069
01:37:52,900 --> 01:37:53,900
Stop it.

2070
01:37:53,900 --> 01:37:57,780
It's a house party and somebody gets murdered and they have to figure out who it is.

2071
01:37:57,780 --> 01:38:05,460
The two wolves inside of me need to read that book now because I have access to the arc,

2072
01:38:05,460 --> 01:38:11,380
but also I've listened to everyone with Mary Jane Wells and I'm just like, how do I choose?

2073
01:38:11,380 --> 01:38:14,580
Because my brain narration can't compete, but I want to know.

2074
01:38:14,580 --> 01:38:15,580
And now that's the answer.

2075
01:38:15,580 --> 01:38:16,840
I have it for you.

2076
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:21,820
It's that you read it and then it's going to be a long time.

2077
01:38:21,820 --> 01:38:25,620
And with your memory, for all we know, you could forget the murderer and it could be

2078
01:38:25,620 --> 01:38:30,060
like experiencing the mystery all over again when the audiobook comes out.

2079
01:38:30,060 --> 01:38:32,740
I'm the antithesis of forever.

2080
01:38:32,740 --> 01:38:36,140
I never remember anything.

2081
01:38:36,140 --> 01:38:37,220
It's just gone.

2082
01:38:37,220 --> 01:38:39,060
It's also pretty short.

2083
01:38:39,060 --> 01:38:45,540
I mean, it's like not a thick one and the galley is only 277 pages.

2084
01:38:45,540 --> 01:38:47,020
Oh really?

2085
01:38:47,020 --> 01:38:48,020
Yeah.

2086
01:38:48,020 --> 01:38:49,020
Oh, I could breeze through that.

2087
01:38:49,020 --> 01:38:50,020
Yeah.

2088
01:38:50,020 --> 01:38:51,020
It's really not a long one.

2089
01:38:51,020 --> 01:38:52,020
That's so sexy.

2090
01:38:52,020 --> 01:38:55,420
Do I need to add a disclaimer that this is a book that I work for the publisher?

2091
01:38:55,420 --> 01:38:57,980
Just in case you didn't figure that out from context.

2092
01:38:57,980 --> 01:38:58,980
Yeah.

2093
01:38:58,980 --> 01:39:05,900
Talked for a long time.

2094
01:39:05,900 --> 01:39:06,900
You know what?

2095
01:39:06,900 --> 01:39:09,340
You get what you get when you listen to us.

2096
01:39:09,340 --> 01:39:15,340
And we love our throbbing members for sticking around through thick and girthy.

2097
01:39:15,340 --> 01:39:16,340
We love you so much.

2098
01:39:16,340 --> 01:39:19,460
I was going to say thick and thin, but nobody wants thin.

2099
01:39:19,460 --> 01:39:20,460
Let's be honest.

2100
01:39:20,460 --> 01:39:22,860
Although we know it's not about the size.

2101
01:39:22,860 --> 01:39:24,740
It's about what you do with it.

2102
01:39:24,740 --> 01:39:26,540
It's through thick and girthy.

2103
01:39:26,540 --> 01:39:27,540
Okay.

2104
01:39:27,540 --> 01:39:29,780
Well, this was yay.

2105
01:39:29,780 --> 01:39:32,140
A wrap on...

2106
01:39:32,140 --> 01:39:34,820
This was yay.

2107
01:39:34,820 --> 01:39:35,820
And it was slay.

2108
01:39:35,820 --> 01:39:36,820
Ho ho ho.

2109
01:39:36,820 --> 01:39:37,820
You filthy animals.

2110
01:39:37,820 --> 01:39:38,820
You throbbing members.

2111
01:39:38,820 --> 01:39:39,820
We stand with throbbing members.

2112
01:39:39,820 --> 01:39:40,820
We do.

2113
01:39:40,820 --> 01:39:41,820
Guys, who wants number one?

2114
01:39:41,820 --> 01:39:45,580
We stand with throbbing members.

2115
01:39:45,580 --> 01:39:46,580
Guys, who wants to make merch for us?

2116
01:39:46,580 --> 01:39:47,580
Because neither of us are...

2117
01:39:47,580 --> 01:39:48,580
No.

2118
01:39:48,580 --> 01:39:50,180
I feel like neither of us can do that.

2119
01:39:50,180 --> 01:39:53,620
But if anybody wants to make merch for us, I would love that.

2120
01:39:53,620 --> 01:39:54,620
We are open to stickers.

2121
01:39:54,620 --> 01:39:55,620
We would give you hugs.

2122
01:39:55,620 --> 01:39:56,620
Stickers.

2123
01:39:56,620 --> 01:39:58,180
Yeah, we don't really have money.

2124
01:39:58,180 --> 01:40:01,140
I've got extra copies of books I could give you.

2125
01:40:01,140 --> 01:40:02,620
I have so many books.

2126
01:40:02,620 --> 01:40:04,620
That's so true.

2127
01:40:04,620 --> 01:40:09,020
Couldn't pay you a ton, but I would offer at least a little.

2128
01:40:09,020 --> 01:40:10,020
Yes.

2129
01:40:10,020 --> 01:40:14,660
You have an eye for design.

2130
01:40:14,660 --> 01:40:15,660
It doesn't even have to be fancy.

2131
01:40:15,660 --> 01:40:16,660
I just want some stickers.

2132
01:40:16,660 --> 01:40:19,420
No, I just want some ones.

2133
01:40:19,420 --> 01:40:23,220
Let's move on to the tits.

2134
01:40:23,220 --> 01:40:25,460
Because I think about that all the time.

2135
01:40:25,460 --> 01:40:32,620
Elizabeth Everett will always be famous.

2136
01:40:32,620 --> 01:40:35,020
Let's move on to the tits.

2137
01:40:35,020 --> 01:40:36,500
We heart throbbing members.

2138
01:40:36,500 --> 01:40:41,100
I think it should be we heart our throbbing members.

2139
01:40:41,100 --> 01:40:44,180
My comment was I heart our throbbing members.

2140
01:40:44,180 --> 01:40:47,700
But then I was just thinking generally without the hour, it would be a funny shirt.

2141
01:40:47,700 --> 01:40:50,140
I was going to say we could do two.

2142
01:40:50,140 --> 01:40:53,540
One for the host, which is us.

2143
01:40:53,540 --> 01:40:57,060
And then one for...

2144
01:40:57,060 --> 01:41:00,660
I am a throbbing member.

2145
01:41:00,660 --> 01:41:03,980
Throbbing members only club.

2146
01:41:03,980 --> 01:41:05,980
Pulsating just doesn't count.

2147
01:41:05,980 --> 01:41:08,940
I don't like that one.

2148
01:41:08,940 --> 01:41:09,940
I still want...

2149
01:41:09,940 --> 01:41:19,260
Whoever left the two star review, by the way, is a flaccid member.

2150
01:41:19,260 --> 01:41:22,100
I hope to God if you left the two star, you aren't still listening to us.

2151
01:41:22,100 --> 01:41:24,820
Yeah, I hope you aren't continuing to hate listen.

2152
01:41:24,820 --> 01:41:25,820
Please don't do that.

2153
01:41:25,820 --> 01:41:28,820
But if so, you're flaccid.

2154
01:41:28,820 --> 01:41:31,020
Sorry.

2155
01:41:31,020 --> 01:41:33,020
I don't make the laws.

2156
01:41:33,020 --> 01:41:39,980
Just so you know, though, just a little info by yourself.

2157
01:41:39,980 --> 01:41:41,860
You're flaccid.

2158
01:41:41,860 --> 01:41:43,860
What an insult.

2159
01:41:43,860 --> 01:41:47,140
I know you wanted a shirt that said double double toil in something.

2160
01:41:47,140 --> 01:41:49,340
Yeah, double double toil in trouble.

2161
01:41:49,340 --> 01:41:50,940
You've been cursed, motherfucker.

2162
01:41:50,940 --> 01:41:56,300
I want one that says that's my evil bitch and then one that says evil bitch.

2163
01:41:56,300 --> 01:41:57,900
I can make friendship bracelets for that.

2164
01:41:57,900 --> 01:41:58,900
That's easy enough.

2165
01:41:58,900 --> 01:41:59,900
That's so true.

2166
01:41:59,900 --> 01:42:02,060
It's gonna be passing out evil bitch friendship bracelets.

2167
01:42:02,060 --> 01:42:04,180
That's iconic.

2168
01:42:04,180 --> 01:42:09,660
Maybe the answer is that we just make a little Etsy shop for really cheap friendship bracelets.

2169
01:42:09,660 --> 01:42:13,100
I have so many beads and bracelets.

2170
01:42:13,100 --> 01:42:19,980
I blacked out at the craft store both today and yesterday.

2171
01:42:19,980 --> 01:42:25,340
Like insane amount of beads do I have.

2172
01:42:25,340 --> 01:42:28,420
And I will be bringing some to Stimulet because...

2173
01:42:28,420 --> 01:42:29,420
I've had a thought.

2174
01:42:29,420 --> 01:42:30,420
Oh, she's had a thought.

2175
01:42:30,420 --> 01:42:34,100
I've had a thought about a potential.

2176
01:42:34,100 --> 01:42:36,620
We should not be recording when I tell you about it.

2177
01:42:36,620 --> 01:42:38,660
Okay, she has a thought.

2178
01:42:38,660 --> 01:42:39,660
There's a thought.

2179
01:42:39,660 --> 01:42:40,660
Something may be coming.

2180
01:42:40,660 --> 01:42:43,220
If you hear nothing, that's because we ruled it out.

2181
01:42:43,220 --> 01:42:47,340
I think the thought of...

2182
01:42:47,340 --> 01:42:55,020
Stimulet, somebody please make us throbbing members only club.

2183
01:42:55,020 --> 01:42:58,660
We heart throbbing our throbbing members shirts.

2184
01:42:58,660 --> 01:43:04,620
Yeah, for real though, that'd be fun for the bracelets.

2185
01:43:04,620 --> 01:43:07,860
Yeah, it would be cute.

2186
01:43:07,860 --> 01:43:09,380
We wouldn't charge you.

2187
01:43:09,380 --> 01:43:15,380
We would basically just probably ask for shipping because it's not like they're gonna be the

2188
01:43:15,380 --> 01:43:20,860
highest quality friendship bracelets you've ever seen.

2189
01:43:20,860 --> 01:43:21,860
This is...

2190
01:43:21,860 --> 01:43:22,860
Listen, it's all coming together.

2191
01:43:22,860 --> 01:43:23,860
It is.

2192
01:43:23,860 --> 01:43:25,860
Full circle, not oval.

2193
01:43:25,860 --> 01:43:26,860
Thank you.

2194
01:43:26,860 --> 01:43:33,820
I don't have feelings about ovals except in racetrack contexts, but okay.

2195
01:43:33,820 --> 01:43:41,060
Subscribe, follow, leave us a review if you would like, and let us know.

2196
01:43:41,060 --> 01:43:42,060
Give us money.

2197
01:43:42,060 --> 01:43:43,060
Just kidding.

2198
01:43:43,060 --> 01:43:44,680
You cannot tell people to give us money.

2199
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:48,260
Let us know if you have superlative thoughts for our season wrap up.

2200
01:43:48,260 --> 01:43:51,220
And what was my other thing?

2201
01:43:51,220 --> 01:43:52,220
I had a thought.

2202
01:43:52,220 --> 01:43:54,220
Well, if you have any books you want us to read.

2203
01:43:54,220 --> 01:43:57,660
Like a really bonkers, really crazy book.

2204
01:43:57,660 --> 01:43:58,660
Historical romance.

2205
01:43:58,660 --> 01:43:59,660
Yeah.

2206
01:43:59,660 --> 01:44:02,340
Would love that recommendation.

2207
01:44:02,340 --> 01:44:06,300
And then if there were just like any other books that you want us to cover or things

2208
01:44:06,300 --> 01:44:07,580
for us to embark on.

2209
01:44:07,580 --> 01:44:11,860
We can't guarantee it, but we can definitely look into it.

2210
01:44:11,860 --> 01:44:12,860
It's good to know.

2211
01:44:12,860 --> 01:44:13,860
Okay.

2212
01:44:13,860 --> 01:44:18,780
This was a lot.

2213
01:44:18,780 --> 01:44:19,780
Class dismissed.

2214
01:44:19,780 --> 01:44:20,780
Bring, bring, bring.

2215
01:44:20,780 --> 01:44:21,780
Bring, bring, bring.

2216
01:44:21,780 --> 01:44:35,420
Bring, bring, bring.