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Well, are you ready kids?

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Hi Captain.

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Just kidding, it's TBR Doomsday.

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Because I have had the worst reading luck in the world.

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I don't know what's going on, but it's just two star after two star.

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It's bad.

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It's taking a toll.

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I have to keep writing these reviews and I'm just like, I'd prefer not to.

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Well, I mean, I've had better luck.

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I've had a few kind of meh ones lately, but mostly alright.

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Although it's been a hot minute since we recorded one of these, which means I'm backed up on

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book recs.

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So I'm like, we're just gonna have to give you the only the best ones really and not

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even the meh ones that you could give a try and enjoy.

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I'm trying to look at the ones that are new that I haven't reread that are recommendations.

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And even the recommendations aren't like five stars.

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They're like four, but probably like three something rounded up.

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So what even am I doing?

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I feel like my purpose in life has been diminished.

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I have one, two, three, three that aren't rereads that are above three stars.

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And that's many weeks.

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Like what?

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It's been so bad.

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Well, I'm in pain.

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I'll just briefly.

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I don't know.

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In between years, I'll just like say one that I reread.

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I won't talk about it because we've heard me talk about them before.

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But to like keep it semi interesting, I'm legit losing it, losing my mind.

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I don't know.

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I mean, the last one I read just took it too far.

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It wasn't it slapped me in the face.

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It was like here.

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Have a bad book.

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I said, I guess.

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I don't really know what to tell you.

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I don't either.

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I don't know.

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I feel like you got to read something else.

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I would.

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That's what I don't.

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I don't know.

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I like I may have to like YA thrillers or something.

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Yeah, I was gonna have to like bust out a YA thriller.

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It's rough out here.

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There are a few in the Penguin Random House thing.

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I don't know.

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Maybe someone should just get murdered.

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That's what I need in my book.

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Because these romances aren't doing it.

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I did see a TikTok that I didn't save, so I'm never going to be able to find it again.

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But it was a TikTok of somebody showing their like two sides of their bookshelf.

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And they said something along the lines of like, I have two like, I don't know, those

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like reading moods or my books are too.

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Yeah, whatever.

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But it was kissing and killing.

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The two moods kissing and killing.

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Romance and thrillers.

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I was like, oh, it's Hannah.

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I don't know those YA thrillers.

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Like I don't know why it's so comforting to me because someone's literally like the

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premise is someone has been killed, probably multiple people.

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But they just they do it for me.

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I don't know.

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Maybe it's that problem.

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I mean, you know, you're going to find out who did it.

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That is very true.

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There was one and I don't know why I gave it four stars, but it was like a cliffhanger.

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And it was like Karen and McManus or something.

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Because she writes a lot like standalone ones.

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And it was a good book.

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But then the end, like the villain still got to be there.

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It was very confusing.

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And there's no sequel or anything.

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But it was still good.

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Who's to say?

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Maybe you should just stop reading and like watch TV or something.

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I did that for a while.

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Like I've done like I've read a lot less like I've watched a lot of YouTube.

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I've watched a lot of Bob's Burgers.

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Like I've really tried to just not.

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This is unfortunate.

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It is because it like I don't even I don't even know how to remedy it besides just rereading

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because like there's the chance with every new book that I also hate it.

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And then it just keeps adding on.

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I think I need to like ask for like recommendations of people's like breaking case of emergency

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books.

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But even then, like tastes are so different.

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I don't know.

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I don't know what to do.

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I really don't because I don't have like any like well, I have like some Lisa Claypuss

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like in the wings.

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But even then, I don't have the audiobooks because Rosalind Landor, my enemy.

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So I have to physically read them.

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I mean, I've heard you with a view is really good.

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And I have that on NetGalley.

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And then I have Diana Quincy's on NetGalley, which I'm really excited for.

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And if that one lets me down, then I mean, I'm just retiring.

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I'm going to go live in a yurt.

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Some goats.

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I don't know what to tell you here.

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I don't either.

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I did take a brief pause to start watching Queen Charlotte.

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So I have muted every single word I could think of on Twitter about that show.

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It makes me sad.

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I don't like and it's still not working.

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I still see shit about it.

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I've seen like discourse about it that just kind of made me angry on the behalf of people.

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Like it's just.

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I don't know.

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I mean, I'm I try to avoid Twitter as much as I possibly can for that reason.

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So I've mostly seen good feedback with the exception of like a few things.

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Oh, which I do generally agree with.

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And it is a bummer.

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However, I will say this.

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There is something to be said about looking at just the most beautiful people.

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Yeah.

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Wearing beautiful clothes.

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Yeah.

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Banging it out in beautiful rooms.

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That is true.

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And also, I think their names are India and Corey, the leads.

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Mad chemistry.

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Yeah.

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Also that man, Bridgerton Men, it's all downhill from here.

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You mean like.

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Like they can never find somebody more handsome.

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Yeah.

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Well, and it sucks to suck for the guy who plays fucking Colin.

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Yeah.

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Because no offense, I'm just not attracted to him.

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No.

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No.

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But there's you can't follow this dude.

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This man is very George.

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That is the most attract.

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There's a scene.

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There is a scene the first time they go to consummate the marriage, which is like in

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the second episode because there's a lot of drama.

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And she's wearing this like very beautiful nightgown and a robe.

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And he she looks breathtaking because of course she does.

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And I think he says that.

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And she says something about like, oh, there's like a thousand tiny buttons.

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Like I'm beginning to wonder if I, you know, maybe made a mistake or made the wrong choice

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or whatever.

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And he takes a beat and then just goes, I'm very good with buttons.

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And for some reason that like a woken, awake, some what is the word?

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Woke.

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Awaken.

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It awoke something.

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Awoken to awakened.

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I don't know words.

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This is what he jumbles my brain.

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I said, oh, there's another seat.

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They agree.

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They like hate each other for whatever reason, but they have decided because they need an

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air.

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They're going to have sex, but only on even days.

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And it's very clearly like an excuse.

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They pull up and are like, well, it's an even day and then just have like super hot hate

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sex, which necessary.

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But there's a part where she like pulls up in his bedroom while he's in the bath and

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just goes, it's an even day.

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And there's one is, I don't know if he's a steward or like the servant that follows him

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around, whatever his name is Reynolds.

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So there's a beat where she just starts undressing in front of him while he's in the bath and

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he doesn't even break eye contact.

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He just goes, Reynolds, get out.

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And then she's like struggling to get it off and he goes, just get in.

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And I sure did lose my mind.

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Batman could do frankly nefarious depraved things to me.

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That's all.

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Is the show sad?

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I'm only three episodes in, but already the answer is yes, because you know where it's

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going.

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But like, yeah, that man.

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I have just like, it.

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Yeah, I didn't think I was going to watch it.

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Yeah, because sad.

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But then I'm just not.

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Yeah, that's why I just blocked it all.

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And it's been great.

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Well, it's not been great because I still see it.

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I'm like, please, for the love of God, do I have to add another like exclamation point

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in there to like block it all?

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It's trying times out here.

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Because I know if I like see more of it, I'm going to want to watch it and it's not going

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to end well.

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Like, I know that for me.

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So like, oh, yeah, I foresee a lot of crying in the next.

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Yeah, it's for me.

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And like life in general is just like.

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Not great.

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I'm just like, no, like I refuse now to watch any movie that's like up in the air.

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Like I just can't do it.

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Like if there's an old person, they better not die.

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If there's an animal, God, no.

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Even I know you just you just posted about the Secretariat.

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I'm like, that movie's even sad.

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And the horse was alive at the end of it.

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And then he died in life.

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When was the movie sad?

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Because that's the thing.

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Like I get sad about like the real horse dying, which was not.

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I was going to say that's like one of the.

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It's a great movie.

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It's an amazing movie.

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Yes, I love that one.

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I was supposed to love Secretariat the horse because that's who I am as a person.

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You're just Secretariat.

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No, I'm just like somebody like the type of person who would like be a huge fan of a

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fucking racehorse.

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Carol would be the first person to run a triple crown.

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I was not the first triple crown winner.

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No, but what was his accomplishment?

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Why was it so?

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He still holds the record for all three of those races.

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For being the fastest one.

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So you'd be the first human to just run it on legs.

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That's me.

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I could beat Secretariat's.

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Ghost.

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Freakness Belmont and Kentucky Derby records.

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Yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm not in the business of like making predictions and gambling, but

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I'd make a wager on that.

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Oh my God.

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Speaking of wagering.

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So I watched all of the Kentucky Derby stuff, which also featured a story that would make

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you weep.

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So that was a time I found my new idol in life, which is a man named Mattress Matt.

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He's not named that, but he's called Mattress Matt.

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And he apparently places enormous bets at events like that to stir up interest for his

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furniture store, hence the name Mattress Matt.

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So the guy who does like all the betting and odds and stuff was like you can see in real

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time as he places a bet on like there were a couple of horses that were like tied kind

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of for the favorites.

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And you could see the odds change in real time because he placed a like one point two

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million dollar bet on this horse to stir up interest.

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Importantly, the horse didn't win, by the way, to stir up interest for his furniture

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store.

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And I was like, OK, so I want to be Mattress Matt.

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I want to have the kind of income that I can be like publicity stunt one point two million

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dollar bet.

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So really stirring up interest for his mattress store is worth one point two million dollars.

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Like how many people are buying mattresses?

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I don't know, but he was an old man in a cowboy hat.

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And a lot checks out.

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I was like, OK, I've seen Secretariat.

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I know there are old men in cowboy hats.

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I've seen Secretariat.

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I think I know what goes on.

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Yeehaw.

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Hmm.

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Oh, anyway.

255
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Yeah.

256
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So that's been my few days.

257
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Queen Charlotte and the Kentucky Derby.

258
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Nice.

259
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Both of which made me cry.

260
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Nice.

261
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That's.

262
00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,760
Yeah.

263
00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,120
We don't even need to talk about books.

264
00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,760
We can just end it there.

265
00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:49,760
Just kidding.

266
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I will speed read.

267
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Yeah.

268
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OK.

269
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Well, you kick us off because Lord knows I don't have enough.

270
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Yeah, we'll speed through them.

271
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I don't really remember where we left off last time, but I think I did not talk about

272
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Artfully Yours.

273
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No, you did not.

274
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All right.

275
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Well, bet.

276
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That's my Artfully Yours.

277
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That's my favorite of those books by Joanna Lovell.

278
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That's so fascinating.

279
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I also think it's funny how much you hated the audiobooks.

280
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I loved it.

281
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Oh, my God.

282
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They were so different.

283
00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,480
But you like Rosalind Landau.

284
00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,440
I mean, I don't love Rosalind Landau.

285
00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:29,440
I just don't mind her.

286
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I was into Mary Jane Wells.

287
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I thought the voice was good.

288
00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:36,720
I mean, I love that for you.

289
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I'm kind of like, drawing.

290
00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:44,160
That's great, but it physically made me ill.

291
00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:49,320
It did something so unsettling to me.

292
00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,520
I mean, it fit his character like good for her.

293
00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:52,520
I mean, she did it.

294
00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:53,520
She did it good.

295
00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:58,120
She put her whole Mary Jane Wells-essie in it, but...

296
00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,920
Not the Wells-essie.

297
00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:10,080
It made an appearance.

298
00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,120
The MJ Wussy, if you will.

299
00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,480
See, I liked it.

300
00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,160
I thought it was fun.

301
00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,600
So I need a great...

302
00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:26,880
I don't know if I would have liked the book more if I would have liked it.

303
00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,800
I don't know if it's worth it for me to reread it physically or to just write it off.

304
00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:32,800
I don't know.

305
00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:33,800
I had a great time.

306
00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:38,360
I'm very into art and art history, so that all tracks.

307
00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,280
I liked that aspect of it.

308
00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:46,520
I respect that it did that thing where it kind of builds up one particular thing that

309
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you think is going to be the third act climax, and then it subverts it and he finds out very

310
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early on.

311
00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:57,240
Or not very early, but earlier than you would think and kind of switches directions.

312
00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,240
I had a great time.

313
00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,240
I agree.

314
00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:05,440
I liked...because they each had a brother, and the brothers weren't great at the beginning.

315
00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:11,280
And normally annoying, bad siblings really grind my gears.

316
00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:12,280
We know.

317
00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:13,280
We know.

318
00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,880
But she redeemed them in a very normal way, I think.

319
00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,120
They weren't fully redeemed, but I think they each kind of...

320
00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,440
By the end, I wasn't like, I hate your guts.

321
00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:30,040
Well, and also in the case of his brother, he was still kind of awful, but there were

322
00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:36,440
certain elements that as you learn more, you're like, oh no, our perception was skewed.

323
00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,440
I appreciated how she handled that.

324
00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:39,440
Yeah.

325
00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,640
I also thought that was really interesting.

326
00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,920
And also not...his whole childhood illness thing, not something I have ever read.

327
00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,120
No, I thought that was very interesting.

328
00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:55,400
I read...one at the end of this episode, I'm assuming, because I recently read it, has

329
00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,280
another really fascinating condition.

330
00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:04,000
It's different completely, but I had never read it in a book before.

331
00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,240
But yeah, I don't know if that's a spoiler for the one we're talking about.

332
00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,760
I don't think so.

333
00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:16,720
Yeah, because it was Munchausen's by Proxy, right?

334
00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,040
What?

335
00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,320
The one that you...it was Munchausen's by Proxy?

336
00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:26,800
I truly do not know what that means.

337
00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:27,800
What was his illness?

338
00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:29,680
He says it's asthma.

339
00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,040
He says, I was misdiagnosed.

340
00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:36,800
I wasn't tubercular, but asthmatic, and I brought the asthma under control by swimming.

341
00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,080
Maybe it's like they were able to die, or maybe it's in the author's note or something.

342
00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,040
Yeah, because I think what it is is that she kept treating him like he had consumption

343
00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:52,880
because she wanted the...Munchausen's by Proxy is where someone keeps you, gives you shit

344
00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:53,880
you don't need and stuff.

345
00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,480
I sure did not know what that was.

346
00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:04,720
Yeah, so Munchausen's by Proxy is when he's kept sick or given surgeries that aren't...

347
00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,400
I thought that was the name of an illness that you were saying.

348
00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:08,400
Oh.

349
00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:09,400
I was like, I don't think so.

350
00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:10,400
It's just asthma.

351
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,400
I was like, I don't know.

352
00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,320
Okay, we got it.

353
00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:16,320
Got it.

354
00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:17,320
Understood.

355
00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,080
So he had asthma, but his mother was saying it was all these different things because

356
00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,960
it was like the...There was a movie with Joey King.

357
00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,400
I was real confused there.

358
00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:26,400
We got there.

359
00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:27,400
So was I.

360
00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:28,520
We figured it out.

361
00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,400
I had not heard that term, so helpful.

362
00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,280
Learn something new every day.

363
00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,400
But it was...I don't know.

364
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,640
I mean, it was heavy, but so were the others.

365
00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,800
I don't think it was as heavy as...

366
00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,800
The Duke Undone.

367
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:42,800
Book one.

368
00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,480
It just had a couple of dark backstory moments.

369
00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,520
Her other brother, I thought, was interesting too.

370
00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:51,520
Her other brother.

371
00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:52,520
The other brother.

372
00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:53,520
Her brother.

373
00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:54,520
Yeah.

374
00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:59,360
Well, because he was the one that I was really unsure of just because that's a specific trope

375
00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:04,000
that...not even just a terrible person, but...

376
00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,240
I don't know.

377
00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:07,920
But I liked him, I think, by the end of it.

378
00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,120
I wasn't anti him.

379
00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:11,400
I wasn't his biggest fan.

380
00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,400
Yeah.

381
00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,400
He wasn't just a villain.

382
00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:19,720
He wasn't just an abusive brother, but he also didn't...he was still not a good guy

383
00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,400
wholly.

384
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,160
So I thought it was really well written.

385
00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,200
I really liked Joanna Lowell.

386
00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:33,280
Which is funny because you gave the Runaway Duchess three stars, and that's the one that

387
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:34,280
I loved.

388
00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,280
Yeah, I didn't love that one.

389
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:41,720
I mean, that makes sense, I think, why you didn't and why I did.

390
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,880
It seems like a very me book.

391
00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:45,880
And I can see why.

392
00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,200
There were a lot of elements that I feel like I should have liked.

393
00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,840
I liked it a lot better on my reread.

394
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,600
I didn't pay it much attention on my first read.

395
00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,680
I still gave it, I think, four stars, rounded up, but I didn't think anything of it.

396
00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,120
And then I reread it, and then I really loved it.

397
00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:01,120
So it felt pretty good.

398
00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,120
Yeah.

399
00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:05,840
I think I was just annoyed because the whole premise was that she has to pretend to be

400
00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:11,160
this botanist or whatever, and she was so truly terrible at it.

401
00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,480
It felt like she wasn't even trying.

402
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,840
But I was like, girl, make an effort.

403
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:21,240
She acted surprised when she would be all prissy and talking about the London season,

404
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:22,440
and he was like, what?

405
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,320
And she was like, oh no, I forgot.

406
00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,800
How do you forget?

407
00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:31,800
Make an effort.

408
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,800
Okay.

409
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:33,800
Yeah.

410
00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:34,800
This is not what this is about.

411
00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:35,800
It's fine.

412
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:36,800
Yeah, I could see that.

413
00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:37,800
That was mine.

414
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,840
I just really liked Artfully Yours.

415
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:45,880
I liked the monkey also.

416
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,520
I love a wild, random pet in a historical romance.

417
00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,000
I really do.

418
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,280
Not quite to the hedgehog level, but we're getting there.

419
00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:56,280
But I respect it.

420
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,280
With a monkey.

421
00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,280
She was like, that's my marmoset.

422
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,920
And I was like, hell yeah.

423
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,920
That's my marmoset.

424
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:05,920
Okay.

425
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:11,720
Well, let's dig out the old canals of what I read.

426
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,960
Well, we all know this one.

427
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,480
A Daring Pursuit by Kate Bateman.

428
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,040
I really did reread that one.

429
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,680
And that was a great time.

430
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaking of fun pet.

431
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,680
A bear in a hole is worth two in a cage.

432
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,600
Yeah, I needed to feel something and I sure felt it.

433
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,880
And so did they when there was a bear in the hole right next to them.

434
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,120
So bear in a hole sounds like a euphemism.

435
00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:43,600
It sounds so bad.

436
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,300
But it was okay.

437
00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:47,860
It's not even hyperbole or anything.

438
00:20:47,860 --> 00:20:49,600
It's just a bear in a hole.

439
00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,800
Literally a bear in a hole in the ground.

440
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:51,800
Just rawr-ing.

441
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:52,800
Rawr.

442
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:53,800
Growl.

443
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:58,640
I don't know how to growl.

444
00:20:58,640 --> 00:20:59,640
Roy Kent.

445
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:00,640
Didn't like that.

446
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,640
Did not enjoy it.

447
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,640
No.

448
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,360
But yeah, that's mine.

449
00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,360
Okay.

450
00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:12,880
I'll throw out a couple contemporaries because I don't read a ton of those.

451
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,000
But a West Side Love Story by Priscilla Olivera.

452
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,640
I thought it was really fun.

453
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,880
It's a closed door.

454
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:26,120
So not super steamy, but very entertaining.

455
00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:29,240
It's a Romeo and Juliet retelling.

456
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,260
Minus the death, obviously.

457
00:21:32,260 --> 00:21:35,640
Also of the two moods, it's kissing rather than killing.

458
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,040
It's kissing rather than killing.

459
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:47,200
They meet at a New Year's Eve party and anonymously have a really good makeout kiss at a bar and

460
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,920
then think they're never going to see each other again and then find out that they are

461
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:57,960
a member of rival families, mariachi bands, and they're competing in a battle of the mariachi

462
00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:58,960
bands.

463
00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:05,360
And they're tasked with keeping the family feud from getting too crazy.

464
00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:08,960
So they're helping each other out.

465
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,760
Also it's set in San Antonio, which is fun for me.

466
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,080
Oh yeah, is that the one you said your address or your...

467
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,240
Yeah, the hero lives in my neighborhood.

468
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,360
Your neighborhood, that's what I meant.

469
00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:24,960
Not in specific, but there's a mention of, oh, in the mansion by the country club.

470
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,720
And I live not far from the country club and I was like...

471
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,720
And there's a mention of like, oh, he gets out on this road and then takes this to get

472
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:38,000
to I-10 to go into the city, which is exactly the route that I take to go into San Antonio.

473
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,320
So I was like, jarring.

474
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,760
Never read about my own neighborhood in a book before, but it was really cute.

475
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,420
It was fun.

476
00:22:47,420 --> 00:22:48,420
And then what?

477
00:22:48,420 --> 00:22:52,200
I was just saying, I had read one by Helena Hunting, The Good Luck Charm.

478
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,200
Terrible book.

479
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,200
Don't recommend it.

480
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:58,960
It's set in Minnesota and the college in it is the college where my parents went to and

481
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,280
it's in the town where I live.

482
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:05,320
And so like my town was mentioned and in The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren.

483
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,080
Again, don't recommend it.

484
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:13,520
But my town is also mentioned, but they also gave us a hotel that we do not and have never

485
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:14,520
had.

486
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,440
And I'm like, you could have just one quick Google search.

487
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:23,400
Could have just not done that, but you know.

488
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,400
I don't know.

489
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,640
On the flip side, the Farrah Rashan's Boyfriend Project series are all set in Austin, which

490
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,120
is where I went to school.

491
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:37,120
So there are mentions of like the university and also like there's different parks and

492
00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:41,560
things that they go hiking at and they go to restaurants on like 6th Street downtown

493
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:42,560
and stuff.

494
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,080
And I mean, she lived in Austin, so like she knows what she's talking about.

495
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:51,280
But that was all those also were fun.

496
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,320
It's always really fun.

497
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,880
I live there.

498
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,600
Less fun in historical romance because none of those are taking place in my hometown.

499
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,600
No, no, no.

500
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:01,600
Oh no, you froze.

501
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,600
Oh no.

502
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,600
I'm back.

503
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:04,600
Oh, you're back.

504
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:05,600
Be here.

505
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:11,800
And then the other contemporary, I think the only other one that I've read recently, because

506
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,240
I've really been doing the historical thing, was In a Jam by Kate Canterbury, which we

507
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,240
love.

508
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,440
For my book club.

509
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,840
And it was too long.

510
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:25,720
It's one of those like indie romances that I think suffers from the too long syndrome.

511
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,600
And the we get paid by the page.

512
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,440
The writer's got to eat.

513
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,840
But I will say, I do think part of it is just that there were so many different things going

514
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,640
on, which felt very realistic to me.

515
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,060
It wasn't like overwhelming.

516
00:24:39,060 --> 00:24:44,200
It was just like he's a farm business owner with a lot of different like smaller projects

517
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:49,000
and she's recovering from getting jilted and is like dealing with this will situation

518
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,720
and this farm that she inherited and he's taking care of his niece whose mom is living

519
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,840
a serving a life sentence.

520
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,800
And so the niece is like really traumatized and having a hard time at school.

521
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,280
So there's like a lot of things.

522
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,000
But I did have a good time.

523
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,760
That man is the most wife guy.

524
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,000
Like it's a marriage of convenience.

525
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,640
And he just calls her wife all the time.

526
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,440
And also they were friends in high school and then she left and he's been pining for

527
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,160
her the entire time.

528
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,480
But he didn't think he was going to see her again.

529
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,640
But now they're living next door and then he offers to marry her so that she can inherit

530
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:21,640
her farm.

531
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:30,360
And that man is down so bad, but she doesn't know because he's really shy.

532
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:41,800
On a scale of one to me, where would you rate my like my potential of liking it?

533
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,280
You're a wild card.

534
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,280
I know.

535
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,320
I have a really hard time gauging with you.

536
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,520
I think I wouldn't recommend it to you now in the midst of this.

537
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,520
OK, damn it.

538
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,760
Because I think it's too long for you.

539
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,240
I think you get mad.

540
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,560
OK, that's valid and fair.

541
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,120
I will say the kid.

542
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:04,920
I mean, I do think she's written a little bit old for her age, but I also have like

543
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,560
a precocious like my family.

544
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,260
We tend to be very precocious and smart as kids.

545
00:26:09,260 --> 00:26:10,560
So I didn't think it was that drawing.

546
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,160
She's supposed to be six.

547
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,160
And she does.

548
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,320
She seems a little advanced for that.

549
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,960
That's one criticism that I normally don't have fault with, just because I think.

550
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,600
Well, I was going to say, you think actually you might enjoy this.

551
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:23,600
Enjoy it.

552
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,280
Really, really heavy because again, he's like her caretaker.

553
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:34,600
But she has like a potty mouth, so she swears like a sailor and he's constantly like Jenny.

554
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,560
You cannot say I'm like one of the bits is she likes to go like take care of the animals.

555
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,160
But one of her choices is she has to collect eggs from the chickens and she hates the chickens.

556
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:50,200
So you can always hear her being like, you fucking asshole, like berating the chickens.

557
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,080
I thought she was really funny.

558
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,720
So you might enjoy that.

559
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,000
And also, if you're into the wife guy thing, I am.

560
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,640
And he's like a filthy talker.

561
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,160
Like he actually is kind of horrified by the things he wants to do to her.

562
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,840
And it takes her being like, no, actually, that's always very fun.

563
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,840
That's a funny thing.

564
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,520
You fuck me up against the barn wall.

565
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:15,240
And he's like, no, I can't treat you that way.

566
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,240
And she's very into it.

567
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,600
So, OK, I have like a lot of audible credits to spend because like I just keep the subscription

568
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,520
and then never purchase anything because the library and gobo.

569
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,560
So I won't buy it now, but I'll buy it.

570
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,720
Well, maybe I should buy it now before it's like purchased by a traditional publisher

571
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,400
and they make it impossible to buy.

572
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:35,680
I don't know about the audio books.

573
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:36,680
I read the digital.

574
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:41,360
Yeah, I've been interested by that when I really love the spine on that book, the like

575
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,360
physical copy.

576
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,360
It's like the jam von Baman like thing.

577
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,320
Oh, I didn't know that.

578
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:47,320
It's super cute.

579
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,360
Well, I mean, I thought I was funny if too long.

580
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,640
That one was interesting, though.

581
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,560
My book club, half of us like enjoyed it and the other half was like, nope, didn't like

582
00:27:58,560 --> 00:27:59,560
it.

583
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,560
So which I thought was interesting.

584
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,960
Anyway, those were my contemporary wrecks, I do believe.

585
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,920
OK, and I'll add another one.

586
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,440
Jasmine and Jake rock the boat by Sonia Lali.

587
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:21,560
I had really enjoyed the Holly Jolly Diwali and that's the same author.

588
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,560
This one was really fun.

589
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,680
Again, that one, I don't even know if Holly Jolly Diwali even mentioned sex.

590
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,080
I don't even think it really did.

591
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,840
So like it wasn't jarring at all to not have it in there.

592
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,520
This one, I will say the closed door hurt a little bit more because he was just very

593
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:43,160
hot and like I just I wanted to see the skills put to the test.

594
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,160
I will say that.

595
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,260
And it like took a pretty long time, I think.

596
00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:50,840
So like I didn't know what was going to happen.

597
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,480
But yeah, it hurt a little bit.

598
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,600
But he got like pretty serious during FTSE at like dinner one time and that was really

599
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:00,600
fun.

600
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:07,200
Like it was just because they were so the premise is that her parents are going on like

601
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:12,000
a not like a retirement, but for like retirees crews.

602
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:17,720
OK, and she thinks that it's for anyone.

603
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,600
She doesn't know that it's just for octogenarians.

604
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,200
Does that mean they're 80?

605
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,200
OK, probably not just 80 people.

606
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,560
Well, it's a fun word, but.

607
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,560
I don't know.

608
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,560
Septuagenarians and septuagenarians.

609
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,760
Yeah, probably 62.

610
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:33,760
Whatever.

611
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:34,760
Old people.

612
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,520
I was trying not to say old people, but old people.

613
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,840
So she gets on this boat and everyone's old besides her.

614
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:49,560
And then she sees this guy that she babysat one time a long time ago.

615
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,000
So he's like a few years younger than her.

616
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,000
It's not like a creepy.

617
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,040
I mean, she babysat him one time and just eat it.

618
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,160
I was there.

619
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,840
And then it's kind of like not necessarily like enemies.

620
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,200
They're just they get off on the wrong foot.

621
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:05,920
She thinks he was an employee because he's wearing like the attire that would look like

622
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,680
an employee, like a white button up.

623
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:08,680
He gets real offended.

624
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:09,680
He's like, what?

625
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,240
And then they're just like stuck on this boat of them.

626
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,680
And it was just really it was fun and cute.

627
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,560
And oh, yeah, I'm like looking at my review now.

628
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,440
And the scene we were robbed of was in the shower.

629
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,200
Yeah, that it hurt.

630
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,200
But the footsie was fun.

631
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:33,040
So I just love a good boat moment.

632
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,420
And I had the cover has the Northern Lights.

633
00:30:35,420 --> 00:30:38,680
And the day I read it, I also saw the Northern Lights in Minnesota.

634
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,320
So happy little yeah, happy little coinkydink there.

635
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:43,320
Good luck.

636
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,320
So that's that's that's mine.

637
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:57,680
This episode is so unserious, I can't.

638
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:05,120
Well speaking of unserious, I did the Bride Goes Rogue and the Duke gets even.

639
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,720
Yeah, you did.

640
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,640
Both of them were about on par for me.

641
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:15,020
I will say both of them lacked just like a little bit of the emotion that I wanted.

642
00:31:15,020 --> 00:31:18,720
It was like very physical heavy and then wrapped up kind of quickly at the end.

643
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,720
And I was like, well, I think book four especially did that.

644
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:23,720
Yeah.

645
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,760
I mean, Preston, too, did kind of like a light switch flip where he was like, oh, marriage.

646
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,520
And I was like, you spent this whole book being anti marriage.

647
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:32,520
And now here, whatever.

648
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,620
I wasn't mad about it.

649
00:31:34,620 --> 00:31:36,640
They were still like four stars.

650
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:37,640
Yeah.

651
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:38,640
Yeah.

652
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,480
What did you give the Lady Gets Lucky?

653
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:41,480
Was that still for it?

654
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,920
It was also for it was a four.

655
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,920
Yeah, they were all four.

656
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,920
But like a solid.

657
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,520
I mean, I do love the four star.

658
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:57,640
I think I liked these better than that one, but they were all about on par and they sure

659
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:58,640
were sexy.

660
00:31:58,640 --> 00:31:59,640
Yeah.

661
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:06,280
I saw your update when you started the Bride Goes Rogue.

662
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,080
And I remember when the arcs were going around whenever that came out and simultaneously

663
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,040
all of us were just like, the hell?

664
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,040
My lady gets lucky.

665
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,040
Yeah, the mic.

666
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,040
Bye.

667
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,040
Like rain.

668
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,680
That's like the review where they were complaining because they're like, I don't think they

669
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,160
actually would have said fuck that much.

670
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,000
I was like, let that man say fuck.

671
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,960
He was so horny the whole time.

672
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,000
I love that.

673
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,740
Yeah, that one I didn't because I really loved the Lady Gets Lucky.

674
00:32:36,740 --> 00:32:40,280
And that was a five star one for me.

675
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,560
And so I wasn't expecting to love Preston's book as much.

676
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:50,360
But honestly, I just love the commitment to really hot sex.

677
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,680
And I just had a really fun time with the gravel.

678
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,160
There is a commitment to that.

679
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:55,160
Yeah.

680
00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,640
Like I thought the gravel really worked for me because she didn't like, I mean, it wasn't

681
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,400
like the longest thing ever.

682
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,840
But I love when the woman is like intent on like making him gravel and like also just

683
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,520
sitting with her emotions and isn't like forced to give up in like two percent.

684
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:16,440
Like that one took a good amount of the ending.

685
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:21,440
So yeah, it's true.

686
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,640
And then I was pleased that Lockwood was sexually gifted as well.

687
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,160
Oh, he was so sexually gifted.

688
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,680
I was actually I was like, wow, get it.

689
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:31,680
Yeah.

690
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,320
I mean, he may have a poor heart, but he sure can have mine.

691
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,040
Like just take it, Andrew.

692
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,040
Take it to the bank.

693
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,040
Yeah.

694
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,040
Yeah.

695
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,680
He he did something.

696
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:50,320
So personal.

697
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,480
A horny duke who's into hair pulling.

698
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:59,120
It's actually so something that can be so personal.

699
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,040
Where's the lie?

700
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,880
The way that I would hop across the pond for that man.

701
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:05,880
Oh, I'd hop.

702
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,840
I'd hop, skip and jump.

703
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:09,840
He says jump.

704
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,000
I say how high I'd use the Empire State Building as a like a pole vault.

705
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:20,080
And I just jump right over that pond.

706
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,440
I actually just became an Olympic level swimmer.

707
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:25,440
We're just paddling.

708
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,960
Still the doggy paddle.

709
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:33,640
I'll get to your heart will never be stronger than the after.

710
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:34,640
Yeah.

711
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:35,640
Yeah.

712
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:36,640
Yeah, that's all.

713
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:43,600
I don't even I don't remember a lot of the details because those were a hot minute ago

714
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,000
and I've read a lot of books since then.

715
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:50,440
But I do remember that both of those men were so sexually gifted.

716
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,960
And I appreciated that.

717
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaking of sexually gifted men, next one reread who knew Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa

718
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:06,680
Dare, I just needed that book because it makes me feel things.

719
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Both of which are good feelings, but they're two separate feelings, sad and horny.

720
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,120
It's like a pretty heavy book.

721
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:23,960
It's the heaviest one in the series and like shit goes down, but it does something so personal

722
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,760
just because like his mother is there and like it wakes up and he's like hitting on

723
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,320
his mom because he doesn't know.

724
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,640
She like knocked, she like gave him drugs and knocked him out and drug him to Spindle

725
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:32,760
Cove.

726
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,080
And so he's in the carriage and he's like feeling up her leg because he's like, oh,

727
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,080
my one night stand.

728
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,080
Nice.

729
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,280
And then she's like, bro, I'm your mom.

730
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:43,280
And he's like, oh shit.

731
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,800
And he's like, you've drugged me.

732
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,740
And then he wakes up and she's like, you're going to get a wife.

733
00:35:48,740 --> 00:35:51,960
And that's what's happening because I want a grandchild.

734
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,960
And he's like, I don't actually want a wife right now.

735
00:35:54,960 --> 00:36:00,800
So he goes in to Spindle Cove, which is, you know, full of spinsters.

736
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,840
And she's like, pick one.

737
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:09,100
And he's like, I'm going to pick Pauline, the like barmaid or whatever.

738
00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:12,200
And so he's like, hey, want to be my duchess for a week?

739
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:17,120
You have to like be terrible at it and then you can go home and I'll pay you a lot of

740
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,960
money because she wants to have like a traveling library of like Smutty Books.

741
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,720
So honestly, she's great.

742
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:23,720
I love her so much.

743
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,720
And so she's like, sure.

744
00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:34,400
And basically, it's just his mother teaching her how to be a duchess and him being gifted

745
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,880
sexually.

746
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,640
Yeah.

747
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:43,320
And there's just I've talked about before, but there's a lovely scene towards the end.

748
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,240
That's like basically the like right before the third act.

749
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:51,280
She's like, we're like our social classes are just too different to like ever make this

750
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,280
work.

751
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:58,560
And then he like gets her over a desk and he like says all of his titles, all the courtesy

752
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,880
titles like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

753
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:05,920
And he's like, but my name is this and my title is this and I'm your slave Pauline.

754
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,840
And it's so hot.

755
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,760
Like and the narrator, she like Eva Kaminsky.

756
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:13,760
She's so good.

757
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,660
And then like during the scene, it's like this thrust, this thrust.

758
00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:19,600
It's such a good scene.

759
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:20,880
Yeah.

760
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,000
So I read it for that.

761
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:29,240
And then there's just like the mother, she was such a good character.

762
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:31,840
It's a great book.

763
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,880
And you need to read it.

764
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,840
And that that's that on that.

765
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,440
Well, I'll get there eventually.

766
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,440
You will.

767
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,800
Our book club's next read is A Night to Surrender.

768
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:45,800
So oh, really?

769
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:50,000
I need to I've only read that one once.

770
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,040
Somebody suggested she wanted to try historical romance.

771
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,640
Well, the one who suggested it had read the Raycast with us.

772
00:37:58,640 --> 00:37:59,640
Gotcha.

773
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,320
And the most recent Christina Britton.

774
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,120
So I'm slowly but surely getting her into it.

775
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,120
And she was like, I want to try one of those.

776
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:12,640
And I was like, oh, we can do a historical romance.

777
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,240
My book friends, we can do that.

778
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:20,280
And if you read A Night to Surrender, you're so close to Colin and Minerva.

779
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,880
Just one book.

780
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:29,840
Well, anyway, I read two Courtney Mullans, although different series.

781
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:37,120
So Her Every Wish is a novella that comes after the first book in the Worth saga, which

782
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:38,640
I've now read all out of order.

783
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,680
I read like the third one and then like 2.5 or something.

784
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,720
There's a novella and then there's like a prequel novella from many years earlier that

785
00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:48,120
I'd also read.

786
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,520
And then I went back and read number one and now I've read 1.5.

787
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,960
So I think the only one I'm still missing is number two.

788
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:53,960
I think.

789
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:54,960
Gotcha.

790
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:55,960
Whatever.

791
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,040
It doesn't really matter in the case of this one because it's like side characters that

792
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,920
are in this novella.

793
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,040
And it made me cry because Courtney Mullan novellas.

794
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,240
Yeah, just make me cry.

795
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:11,320
I don't know what she puts in them.

796
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:16,680
A lot of feelings and probably some drugs.

797
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:22,360
But Her Every Wish is like kind of a side character who she's very poor.

798
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,120
Well both of them are poor, but she enters this contest.

799
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,360
Like somebody leaves a lot of money and there's like this contest that they're having.

800
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:35,640
It's like a stipulation that they have a contest and whoever presents like the best business

801
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,240
idea wins the money to start their business.

802
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:43,240
And nowhere does it say that no women are allowed to apply, but she's the only woman

803
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:47,720
there and they think that she's a man until she stands up and is like, no.

804
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:53,240
And she basically gets laughed off and is not very confident.

805
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,280
Or they do like an initial proposal.

806
00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,360
The judges choose like four, I think, to go forward and then they have a week to really

807
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:01,360
prepare.

808
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:09,160
But one judge picked her, so she gets to go forward even though everybody was mean to

809
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,160
her.

810
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:17,800
And her like former love who they had a really terrible falling out offers to help her prepare

811
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,960
and be more confident.

812
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,560
He is a very interesting character.

813
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:22,560
His name is Crash.

814
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:28,800
He is racially ambiguous, like not even he really knows.

815
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,920
He was like raised on the docks.

816
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,600
I think his mother was a prostitute.

817
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,200
So there are like three different men who all claim to be his father and like would

818
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,200
come visit him.

819
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,800
I think we have some stuff, yeah.

820
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:45,040
And now he like lives with his aunts and just has a great time and all the women are attracted

821
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:46,040
to him.

822
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:50,160
But he was very, they had like a romance with her and then she said something really hurtful

823
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,720
that she didn't realize was hurtful, but he reacted badly and like lashed out at her and

824
00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:56,120
they separated.

825
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,440
And now he's back and he's selling essentially bicycles.

826
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,840
There's a lot going on here.

827
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,560
Bicycles aren't big yet and he's teaching her how to ride a bike.

828
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,560
I don't know.

829
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,180
I don't know, but I do know that I cried.

830
00:41:11,180 --> 00:41:16,120
They have this whole little romance where he's helping her out and they're like reconnecting

831
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,640
and they've grown and changed his people and I wept.

832
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,440
Anyway, the other one is the first.

833
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:21,440
No, just kidding.

834
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:27,320
It's like the fourth book in the Brothers Sinister series because why would I read Books

835
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,440
in Order when I could just read this one?

836
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,440
It's called The Suffragette Scandal.

837
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:40,640
He's like a suffragette who owns a newspaper and he is presumed dead.

838
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,120
I love that.

839
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:47,840
He like was, I think he's a duke?

840
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:54,480
But his family was really terrible and he was in, I want to say France and he like got

841
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,600
left there and during the war.

842
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:02,840
No, like they intentionally like, I think his father like shipped him off to go work

843
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:08,040
for a blacksmith because he was like, you need to learn your duty or whatever.

844
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:12,440
Thinking he would hate it, but he actually was really into it and he got a very, and

845
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:13,840
then the war happened.

846
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:18,840
He sure did get a toned body, but then the war happened and he like went to like write

847
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:23,800
to get him out and his brother told the British.

848
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,800
What's it called?

849
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,840
Oh my God.

850
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:30,840
Oh my God.

851
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:31,840
What is it called?

852
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,840
Embassy, embassy.

853
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:33,840
Okay.

854
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:39,240
Told the embassy that there was an imposter going around saying that he was like the guy.

855
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:40,240
Oh yeah.

856
00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:44,600
But when he went, they turned him away because his brother had told him that he wasn't actually

857
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:45,600
who he said he was.

858
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:50,320
So he got like trapped during this war and like tortured and all these horrible things

859
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,800
happened to him and everybody presumed him dead and his brother inherited, but now he's

860
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,480
back and he doesn't want to be the duke.

861
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:02,280
And so instead he's just like coming to take vengeance on his terrible brother and his

862
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:07,760
terrible brother is trying to take down her newspaper who employs a childhood friend of

863
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:08,760
his.

864
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:15,560
So he like helps her without telling her who he is to get back at his brother.

865
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,980
There is a lot.

866
00:43:17,980 --> 00:43:21,000
It was a good time though.

867
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,440
I was like the drama.

868
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,120
I was eating it up.

869
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,640
Eating it up.

870
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:31,680
Also the friend who works for the newspaper that was like his child or really the younger

871
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:40,440
brother of his best friend is the hero of the novella Talk Sweetly to Me in which he

872
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:46,080
writes for the newspaper and he's the one that writes the ask a man column in this woman's

873
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,080
newspaper.

874
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,080
That's fun.

875
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,960
And so it's like very snarky and funny and he always signs it like Stephen Shaughnessy,

876
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:52,960
actual man.

877
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:53,960
Oh yeah.

878
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:54,960
You talked about that.

879
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:55,960
Right.

880
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,560
And they're like, can you do the actual man thing?

881
00:43:58,560 --> 00:43:59,560
He's very fun.

882
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:00,560
I like Stephen a lot.

883
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,520
Anyway, so those were my Courtney, Courtney Malone's.

884
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:05,800
That's fun.

885
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:11,280
I who knew reread a Duchess by Midnight by Sheris Michaels.

886
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:17,320
I needed some good old fashioned bird watching fucking and I got it.

887
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,520
It's a great book.

888
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,040
Good old fashioned.

889
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,880
Good old fashioned happened in the past.

890
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:23,880
History books have told me.

891
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,520
What kind of history books are you reading?

892
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,880
Historical romance.

893
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:37,360
It's the number three in Awakened by a Kiss, her series.

894
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,800
I liked all the books in that one, but this was definitely my favorite.

895
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,240
She's like the evil step sister basically.

896
00:44:44,240 --> 00:44:48,840
So you have Cinderella in the story and she's married to the prince.

897
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:55,480
And so her name is like sin and she's got the prince and then our heroine, Drew, Drew's

898
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,360
Mina is like one of the like wicked stepsisters.

899
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,840
And she also has another one who's actually kind of like not really wicked, just not a

900
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,200
great sister.

901
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:07,040
And then you've got like the evil stepmother.

902
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:12,120
And so she like was wicked in her past of just like being a kind of shitty person.

903
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,120
And she got over that because she got her heart broken.

904
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:21,000
And then she became like friends with Cinderella and just like turned into a good person and

905
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:27,320
started to do this business where she helps debutantes get ready for society.

906
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:31,160
And so she's tasked to come to the castle.

907
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:36,720
And then there's also a Duke who has been tasked to come to the castle who is like friends

908
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:39,200
or something with the prince.

909
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:45,440
And basically he his sister showed up with two wards or like her two daughters.

910
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:50,680
So he's basically now got like two wards and they're trying to get them suitable for a

911
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:51,680
season.

912
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:52,680
They were in a cult.

913
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,460
It was a whole thing.

914
00:45:56,460 --> 00:46:01,640
It was a wild book, but it's like my favorite fairy tale retelling book.

915
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,000
It was just so much fun.

916
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,280
I loved them both.

917
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,600
Like I said, bird watching.

918
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,120
We got to be quiet because the birds.

919
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,220
It's a really good book.

920
00:46:10,220 --> 00:46:14,880
There was a wild amount of sex that I just wasn't prepared for because neither of the

921
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:20,440
other two books were like exceptionally like sexually gifted.

922
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,640
But this one, it was so much fun.

923
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,400
I don't I don't know.

924
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,680
I mean, she really put everything into that one because it's great.

925
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,220
And the cover is beautiful.

926
00:46:30,220 --> 00:46:31,680
Like it's so pretty.

927
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:32,680
That dress.

928
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,780
I want it.

929
00:46:34,780 --> 00:46:38,760
And yeah, that is a great book.

930
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,960
You could totally read it as a standalone.

931
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,520
So yeah, so you have it.

932
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,920
There you have it.

933
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaking of fairy tale retellings, I also read that Eloisa James.

934
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:49,320
Yes, you did.

935
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:50,320
I said midnight.

936
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,320
What was that for?

937
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,800
Just shitting giggles or.

938
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,320
It's for a secret project that I'm working on for Instagram.

939
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,320
Nice.

940
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,880
I was like, it was a really random one when I saw it.

941
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,480
I was like, interesting.

942
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:03,480
It was.

943
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,520
There is a purpose.

944
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:11,760
It may not be revealed for months yet because I do a thing where I'm like, we should do

945
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,440
a roundup of like historical romance for X for X thing.

946
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,440
But then I only have a few.

947
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:20,280
And then I'm like, well, I should find some like fairy tale retellings.

948
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:21,920
I should find some friends to lovers.

949
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:22,920
I should wait.

950
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,560
If you need more fairy tale, read her Beauty and the Beast one of that series.

951
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,480
Oh, I intend to read the whole series.

952
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:28,640
Don't get me wrong.

953
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,600
We'll get those two.

954
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:33,600
But it happened.

955
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:34,600
And then I got sidetracked.

956
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,240
Anyway, I don't have a lot to say.

957
00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:37,240
It was Cinderella.

958
00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:39,400
But with a twist, there was some all night edging.

959
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,920
It was so fun.

960
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:41,920
It was great.

961
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,240
It was like edging via like a health book.

962
00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:49,160
Like she got that like book and he was like, your geology was.

963
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,960
Oh, I know what you're talking about.

964
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:51,960
Yeah.

965
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,200
Like he like she had a book and he like told her that he'd come back for.

966
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,320
And then she was like, I don't want to read this because their dicks don't look like yours

967
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,580
and they're not big and it was like a steamy.

968
00:48:04,580 --> 00:48:05,580
But like one of those.

969
00:48:05,580 --> 00:48:07,560
It's like, yeah, it was like about sex.

970
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,360
Yeah, no, like, no, but it wasn't like she didn't find it steamy because she was like,

971
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,520
no, I'm saying that it was like sexual diagrams and stuff.

972
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:15,520
It was.

973
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:16,520
Yeah, exactly.

974
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:17,520
Yeah.

975
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:18,520
Like health, like that.

976
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:19,520
Yes.

977
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:20,520
Yeah.

978
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:22,520
It was I have nothing else to say.

979
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:23,520
It was just a good time.

980
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:29,520
And the side characters were fun because she was she was pretending like because she was

981
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:30,960
one of the she was Cinderella.

982
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,280
And then one of the stepsisters needed her to pretend to be her at this thing where she

983
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:37,280
was already engaged.

984
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,080
So she wasn't supposed to be like flirting with the guy, the prince.

985
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,840
And it was that was a fun one.

986
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:44,840
It was.

987
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaking of princesses.

988
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:50,600
Oh, I also read Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsell.

989
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,560
Oh, yeah.

990
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,960
Which it's all fun and games.

991
00:48:55,960 --> 00:49:02,400
It's all fun and games and helping injured baby penguins while you're stranded on a remote

992
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,400
island.

993
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:04,400
Wow.

994
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:13,360
Until until until the PTSD kicks in and we start delving into the horrors of war.

995
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:14,360
This was a great book.

996
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:19,280
I will say 1989, which isn't a Taylor Swift reference.

997
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:24,360
I was going to say I was like, welcome to New York.

998
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:32,000
There's some unfortunate like pro colonialism, Orientalism stuff going on, like a really

999
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:38,200
kind of he has like an Egyptian servant essentially who follows him around, who's kind of an unfortunate

1000
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:39,340
caricature.

1001
00:49:39,340 --> 00:49:45,960
And there's some other problematic they spend some time in a Arabian type country, I think.

1002
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:47,080
Like it was.

1003
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,880
So those elements not great, unfortunately.

1004
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,280
However, I will say this.

1005
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:56,940
It was dedicated to Vietnam War veterans, and if you know that, the narrative gets very

1006
00:49:56,940 --> 00:49:59,520
layered.

1007
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:04,160
Because it very much is like a post Vietnam War book.

1008
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:05,980
Interesting.

1009
00:50:05,980 --> 00:50:13,720
So it's like a kind of an antihero scoundrel character who is a war hero.

1010
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:21,680
Yes.

1011
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,400
Yeah.

1012
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:29,720
Anyway, he's like kind of a terrible person, but everybody he's a war hero.

1013
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:35,340
But not it's like very clear that it's sometimes it's accidents where he ends up saving people's

1014
00:50:35,340 --> 00:50:37,200
lives when he was actually trying to kill them.

1015
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,280
Like it's not great.

1016
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,640
And he's kind of a terrible person.

1017
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:42,800
Yeah.

1018
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,480
But nobody really knows that.

1019
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,320
And she is a princess of like a tiny little European country, but she's been raised in

1020
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,920
the countryside in England to like, I don't know, I think they like got her out because

1021
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:54,360
her uncle is terrible.

1022
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:55,360
Whatever.

1023
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:59,400
I think her uncle like killed her dad.

1024
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:00,560
There's a lot of drama.

1025
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,180
She's been raised in the countryside reading a lot of philosophy and she wants to go back

1026
00:51:04,180 --> 00:51:09,920
to her country and lead the people in a revolution for democracy.

1027
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:14,720
And he is someone who has spent basically his entire life in naval service, which he

1028
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:21,520
didn't even want to do in the first place, experiencing really horrific.

1029
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,480
Like the terrors of war and things.

1030
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:30,280
So it starts out as just like she engages in a lot of hero worship and needs his help

1031
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:34,120
to like smuggle her out and get her back to her country.

1032
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:38,800
And he fully plans to just like betray and take advantage of her and then abandon her

1033
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,000
because he's not a good person.

1034
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:46,440
And then it very quickly becomes a narrative of like rich, idealist, privileged, sheltered

1035
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:53,560
people who don't know the realities of war versus the people who have to actually endure

1036
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,600
the war.

1037
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,760
And they go on like all these try they end up in different countries and then they end

1038
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:05,800
up on a ship in like Australia and then they get stranded on an island and then they're

1039
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,240
taken prisoner by these.

1040
00:52:07,240 --> 00:52:10,320
So there's a lot happening here.

1041
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:11,700
Really intense PTSD.

1042
00:52:11,700 --> 00:52:14,760
She also endures some things.

1043
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,120
It was like a very surprising ending.

1044
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:23,320
I mean, they end up together, obviously, it's a romance, but it really it took me by surprise.

1045
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:28,460
So quite lovely, however, do be aware of the Orientalism and all of that going in.

1046
00:52:28,460 --> 00:52:32,520
And also, again, like really heavy PTSD and like horrors.

1047
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,920
He saw and did some really awful things.

1048
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,080
And also, they experienced him like pretty awful.

1049
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,720
He gets like essentially waterboarded on page at one point.

1050
00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:46,840
They like leave her made to go get raped by this guy who took over.

1051
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:47,840
Like, it's not great.

1052
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,320
There's a lot is a lot.

1053
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:56,840
So torture, war, death of innocence, slavery, all the things, all the things.

1054
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,640
However, it was a really excellent book.

1055
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:03,080
The death of innocence.

1056
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,640
Yeah, he saw some things in that war.

1057
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:10,080
Oh, it was rough.

1058
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:13,240
You come to realize why he is the way he is.

1059
00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:20,680
Well, but but when they're stranded on an island, he helps an injured baby penguin who's

1060
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:25,080
been left behind by the flock and they raise it because they're stuck on that island for

1061
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:26,080
months.

1062
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:30,800
So they raised the baby penguin and then they have to like go help it back to the flock.

1063
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,360
And he is like really sad about it.

1064
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,960
Well, sorry to that man.

1065
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:43,200
But also, I just want you to imagine a grumpy scoundrel of a man with a tiny baby penguin

1066
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:48,280
on his boot, just like chirping up at him.

1067
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,320
And he's so embarrassed to have been caught taking care of this baby penguin.

1068
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:53,320
Hmm.

1069
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,320
This Jocko romance is so fun.

1070
00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:58,320
Yeah.

1071
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,520
We have a baby penguin.

1072
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,520
Monkeys, baby penguins.

1073
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:03,520
Dang.

1074
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:04,520
Hedgehogs.

1075
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:05,520
Hedgehogs.

1076
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,520
Gotta have them.

1077
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:08,520
Ferrets.

1078
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:09,520
What?

1079
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:10,520
Ferrets.

1080
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:11,520
Dodger.

1081
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:12,520
Oh, Dodger.

1082
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:18,040
Oh, Dodger, my Dodger.

1083
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:24,720
Or if you're Prince Harry, oh, Dodger, my Dodger.

1084
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:27,980
Side note on that frickin' Harry audiobook.

1085
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:33,200
My dad is a shameless audiobook listener in the car, no matter what audiobook he's listening

1086
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,240
to, he listens to it very loud.

1087
00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:40,960
We do a lot of curbside pickup orders and we pulled up to Sam's Club and he's on the

1088
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,240
chapter – I am in the car.

1089
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:47,140
He's on the chapter of the Prince Harry book of where he's like talking about his frost

1090
00:54:47,140 --> 00:54:53,240
bitten Dodger and just like – and you can hear it playing his day outside of our truck.

1091
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:57,080
And I'm like, father, maybe turn it down a little bit.

1092
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:02,320
These employees don't need to hear about Prince Harry's frozen off penis.

1093
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,760
And he didn't.

1094
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:06,320
So they heard it.

1095
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:07,320
And that's all.

1096
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,680
I honestly do respect the level of confidence.

1097
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,600
Yeah, it's confidence.

1098
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,960
Because I will turn down music, audio, but anything.

1099
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,840
It's going all the way down if I'm in an area where somebody could hear.

1100
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:19,920
Yeah, no.

1101
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,640
And I'm just looking at him, just like, are we serious?

1102
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,060
We're doing this right now?

1103
00:55:25,060 --> 00:55:27,160
And I already didn't want to be listening to it.

1104
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:31,080
Everything I've heard about that book is not necessarily against my will because the

1105
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:32,320
first time I was like, what?

1106
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:34,840
And I understood what it was talking about.

1107
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:35,840
I was like, oh.

1108
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:39,200
And I was like, OK, now everything else is against my will.

1109
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,120
I don't have any problem with him.

1110
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,640
But that book, the things I have listened to at this point, and I was forced to like

1111
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:46,640
listen to it in the car.

1112
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:51,480
And it was just a wild time.

1113
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:57,760
In another note for the book that I'm going to talk about, no relevance, One Fine Duke

1114
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:59,600
by Lenora Bell.

1115
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,560
It's my favorite Lenora Bell book, I think.

1116
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:05,360
It is number three in her School for Duke series.

1117
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,360
All the books are good.

1118
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:07,360
It's the one with the flowers.

1119
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,840
Yes, it's the daisies.

1120
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:16,800
And it's such just I love the dynamic of the two because he is like the stodgy older brother.

1121
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:21,300
Like he's the Duke and he's like reserved and whatever.

1122
00:56:21,300 --> 00:56:23,640
And she is the daughter of like a spymaster.

1123
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,540
No, she's the granddaughter of a spymaster.

1124
00:56:26,540 --> 00:56:31,320
And so she's like hell bent on marrying this guy's brother, Rafe, who still doesn't have

1125
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,320
a book yet.

1126
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,640
I am so excited for whenever that man gets a book because he's been up to some ruckus.

1127
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,440
You know, he's got to be hot because his name.

1128
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:42,760
Oh, he's got to be real hot because he was like running naked down the street being chased

1129
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,000
by his mistress's husband.

1130
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,200
And Andrew had to go like rescue.

1131
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,720
I don't know what it says about me that I'm like, oh, that's hot.

1132
00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:52,720
It should.

1133
00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:53,720
Yeah.

1134
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:54,720
Yeah.

1135
00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:55,720
I mean, a married woman.

1136
00:56:55,720 --> 00:57:02,640
But honestly, I mean, Drew is like my hero, like to a T like he is perfect.

1137
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:07,840
But like Rafe could also get it, you know, and he has like a demon sex chair.

1138
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:08,840
He's got a lot of shit.

1139
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,960
He has like a whole room full of like sex toys and they like discover it in his like

1140
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,080
house.

1141
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,620
And then she's like, what is this chair?

1142
00:57:15,620 --> 00:57:18,600
And Drew's like, don't don't go to that chair.

1143
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:19,600
And she's like, what?

1144
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:20,600
And she presses the button.

1145
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,520
She gets like trapped in it turned upside down.

1146
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,840
So her legs are like spreading further apart.

1147
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:29,800
So she's like like ass overhead, ankles spread.

1148
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,200
And he's like, well, I told you.

1149
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:34,800
And she's very embarrassed and it's very fun.

1150
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:35,800
And they're like dildos.

1151
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:36,800
And it's great.

1152
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,160
So, you know, Rafe gets up to it.

1153
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:43,080
But he's also like putting on like a show like he's he's also a spy.

1154
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:44,440
So she knows he's a spy.

1155
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:45,560
Drew has no clue who's a spy.

1156
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:49,960
So Drew just is like my brother, Rafe is a scoundrel.

1157
00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,000
Why do you want to marry him?

1158
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:53,000
It's great.

1159
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,960
I would cite the chair.

1160
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:57,400
Why do I want to marry your brother?

1161
00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,760
Sorry, did you not just see the sex dungeon?

1162
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,320
Exactly.

1163
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:07,560
And like also, let's not forget his name is Rafe.

1164
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:12,720
That's the name of a sexually gifted man, if ever I've heard one.

1165
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:19,720
It's not a lesson one, but lesson number three, Rafe is the name of a sexually gifted man.

1166
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,160
Like you can never name your kid Rafe.

1167
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:27,480
No, no, absolutely not.

1168
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:28,880
Yeah.

1169
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:33,680
So I just the forced proximity because she's trying to because then Rafe gets kidnapped.

1170
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:43,600
So they have to go rescue him and they've got to like do all this historical romance.

1171
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:49,040
And Drew is just like he hasn't even know that Rafe's a spy, like for half of this book.

1172
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,440
She just doesn't tell him.

1173
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,000
And so he's just very confused.

1174
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,240
And the forced proximity is great.

1175
00:58:55,240 --> 00:59:01,760
And there's a scene where he's like he wakes up and he's like, wow, I should masturbate

1176
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,480
because she's pretty.

1177
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:09,040
And so he like stands up, looks in the mirror is like preening and then like it's in front

1178
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:13,880
of the window and she's on the lawn hiding in a bush.

1179
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:21,680
So she sees it all and she's like, well, why is Drew looking real hot?

1180
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,000
And also doing that.

1181
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,360
It's just a really fucking fun book.

1182
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,640
And the cover is in the book.

1183
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,680
He like has a dream where he's like pleasuring her in a field of daisies.

1184
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:37,840
And I think it's in the epilogue where they like go off and find a field of daisies and

1185
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:38,840
have fun in it.

1186
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:39,840
It's Lenora.

1187
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,440
She's a I love her writing.

1188
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:45,800
I've never read a book of hers that I didn't like.

1189
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,440
They're all so much fun.

1190
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,600
And yeah, the audiobooks great.

1191
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:50,760
But I think it's Beverly Crick.

1192
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,480
So like you depending on that.

1193
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:58,000
But I don't think she did like a weird voice or anything for him or for her.

1194
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,560
They're both I don't know, upper class.

1195
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:04,480
So but yeah, that one's so much fun.

1196
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,440
You can tell, like I've been reading all the ones with like fun sex scenes and like all

1197
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,120
that that are like memorable.

1198
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:12,400
The demon sex chair.

1199
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:13,400
That was fun.

1200
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,800
They didn't do anything in it, but it was just a really funny scene.

1201
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,920
So well, yeah, that that's mine.

1202
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,760
Onward Chauncey.

1203
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:25,120
My last read of April, because I'm still in April at this.

1204
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:26,120
I know.

1205
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,800
I feel like I probably am too.

1206
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:29,800
Relatable.

1207
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:31,400
It's fine.

1208
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,400
It's the last one is hitch to the gunslinger.

1209
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:36,640
Oh, yeah, you like that one.

1210
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:37,680
Michelle McClain.

1211
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:38,680
I did.

1212
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:43,040
I wasn't like an absolute favorite, but I don't read a ton of Westerns.

1213
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:51,680
Again, because like old Westerns, unless it's written by like Beverly Jenkins or someone

1214
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,320
I don't I don't trust an old Western written by a white lady.

1215
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:59,880
However, it was written like a couple of years ago, so.

1216
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,120
I'm ready.

1217
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:03,280
She has some other ones.

1218
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,880
She has a lot of Westerns that I want to read.

1219
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,040
Yeah.

1220
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:09,680
But I don't know.

1221
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:10,920
There was something so fun.

1222
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,920
I was trying to find like movies with the same like but not a Western.

1223
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:15,920
Yeah.

1224
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:17,240
With like just a bunch of men shooting guns.

1225
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:21,300
I want a romance movie that's set in the Old West.

1226
01:01:21,300 --> 01:01:25,640
It's when it's in Back to the Future when they have to go back to the Old West and Doc

1227
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,640
has this cute little romance.

1228
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:28,640
I don't want to watch.

1229
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:29,640
You have to.

1230
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,880
It's not it's not even the first one.

1231
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,160
It's like two maybe.

1232
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:34,160
No, that's the future.

1233
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:35,160
I think it's the third one.

1234
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:36,160
I think it's the third one.

1235
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,160
So you have to watch Back to the Future three.

1236
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,000
Okay, I'm not going to do that.

1237
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,680
I did, however, read Hitch to the Gunslinger and I have the audiobook for the next one,

1238
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:44,680
so I will be reading that.

1239
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:48,520
Oh, that's the one that I read first and I liked that one out of the two.

1240
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:53,960
I think there's something so fun about the silly little Old West setting.

1241
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:59,720
Yeah, you got the saloon, you got all the townspeople and they're oh the sheriff left.

1242
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,160
So here you can be the sheriff.

1243
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,240
You know how to shoot a gun.

1244
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:08,640
He has the stupid horse that I almost included in the horse post round up just because I

1245
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,200
think she's so funny.

1246
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:14,720
We're like she just goes to sleep and everyone is like, yes, we know he's not going anywhere

1247
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,400
because his horse is taking a nap.

1248
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:23,840
She reminded me of my horse, frankly, the last time I rode her, which was years ago.

1249
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,920
Lucy's so bad.

1250
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,840
She's so lazy and she loves food.

1251
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:33,320
The last time I rode her, she we like walked around for a little while, you know, warming

1252
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:34,800
up and then moved into a trot, whatever.

1253
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:37,880
And I was trying to get her to canter.

1254
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:42,720
And she went to the middle of the paddock, came to a full stop.

1255
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:44,080
I did not ask her to stop.

1256
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:50,560
I was trying to get her to go faster, in fact, but she ignored me, came to a full stop, wouldn't

1257
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:51,560
move.

1258
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:55,400
I was doing the things you do to get a horse to move.

1259
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:56,400
She wasn't moving.

1260
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:57,760
I got off of her.

1261
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:58,800
She would walk then.

1262
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:00,080
So I led her back to the barn.

1263
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:04,520
I got a riding crop, got back on the horse, tried to get her to keep going.

1264
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:08,200
She once again came to the center and then came to a full stop.

1265
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:12,120
I was at this point whacking her with the riding crop, which I should be clear if you

1266
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:16,760
don't like if you aren't around horses, this isn't like a thing that hurts her really.

1267
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,200
She's got a thick skin.

1268
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,520
I could hit her with that as hard as I can, and she barely feels it.

1269
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:25,720
So like, just to be clear, it's not like I'm whipping the horse, but I am hitting her with

1270
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:30,040
a stick, which is supposed to be like, hey, let's go.

1271
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:31,720
She's not even flinching.

1272
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:33,120
She's not moving.

1273
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,000
There is no forward motion.

1274
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,640
Eventually I gave up and got off of her and then she would move.

1275
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:41,040
She would move if I was off of her and walking her back to the stable.

1276
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,760
I respect her grind.

1277
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:51,400
And that was the energy of Bertie, his horse.

1278
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:52,480
I just had a good time.

1279
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:53,480
That's all.

1280
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:57,040
There wasn't anything really like moving or stand out about it.

1281
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,040
It just was a good time.

1282
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:00,880
Yeah, that's how number two is.

1283
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:04,480
I predict you'll like number one more because we're opposite.

1284
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:06,960
And I had the opposite, but I liked them both.

1285
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,680
Number two is really fun.

1286
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:15,720
I had read, I think I read the arc of it and then the audiobook I reread.

1287
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:22,560
And it was just, there's something about just like the recently written like westerns that

1288
01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:26,560
just feel like very modern, but with cowboy hats.

1289
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:27,560
It's just very silly.

1290
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:28,560
It is.

1291
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:29,560
Yeah.

1292
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:33,000
I read the prospectors only prospect.

1293
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:38,640
This isn't like a recommendation per se because I do think the third act ruined it completely.

1294
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:43,720
But for the rest of the book, it was five stars and it was very fun.

1295
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:45,000
And it was like a western.

1296
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:52,400
The third act, honestly, I would commit a crime if I was feeling that rage again.

1297
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:59,880
But I'm more unhinged in that department than you are, so you may enjoy it.

1298
01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:01,320
Just putting that out there.

1299
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:03,160
I'll see when the audiobook comes out.

1300
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:04,160
Yeah.

1301
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,160
I think it comes out in May sometime.

1302
01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:07,160
So yeah.

1303
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,960
Well, the writing was really good.

1304
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,760
I did read another western, Marrying Off Morgan McBride.

1305
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,640
Ah, yes, you're blailed.

1306
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:21,000
Which I suppose I shouldn't say too much about because I assume we're going to do.

1307
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,120
Yeah.

1308
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,560
I think we're about on the same page.

1309
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:30,120
I didn't like it as much as McBride.

1310
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:33,880
I just, the kit was like forced proximity over weeks.

1311
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:39,560
And this one was like they only really knew each other for like a couple of days.

1312
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:43,720
Morgan could be whacked with a stick a little bit, I think.

1313
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,920
Yeah, I still love him.

1314
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,200
Yes, it was.

1315
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:48,920
It still had like the cozy like.

1316
01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:52,680
Morgan could be whacked with a stick.

1317
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:56,680
I could take a writing drop to Morgan and not in a hot, dumb way.

1318
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,440
Or also Lillian Bowman.

1319
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:03,720
And that's true, except that was, that was Chekhov Saddlestrap.

1320
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:04,720
Yeah, that was.

1321
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:05,720
At least in a rogue, non-specialtion.

1322
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,320
So you'd reenact it.

1323
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,320
She does actually use the saddle.

1324
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:10,320
She does.

1325
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:12,080
Oh god, that's another book.

1326
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:13,080
We'll get there.

1327
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:18,880
Yeah, I think I looked at your review and I agreed with pretty much everything you said.

1328
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,600
And I think we're about on the same page.

1329
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:24,600
But Amy Berry's writing is so funny.

1330
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,040
And there was sex.

1331
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,820
And there was sex, which was a surprise.

1332
01:06:29,820 --> 01:06:30,820
It was just really charming.

1333
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:35,520
Junebug, I think it was a little bit too much of, but I love Junebug, so I wasn't even that

1334
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:36,920
mad about it.

1335
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:40,160
It lost the plot a little bit when she went back to that.

1336
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,800
When she had to go in that town.

1337
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:43,800
Yeah.

1338
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:44,800
I agree.

1339
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:45,800
I was like, what are we doing?

1340
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:46,800
But the rest was great.

1341
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:48,800
Yeah, I would agree with that.

1342
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:53,680
So, I mean, I like the vibes.

1343
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:59,480
I like the quirky rom-com western vibes.

1344
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:04,440
I have the audiobook to reread before we do our episode, whenever that maybe.

1345
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:05,440
Yeah.

1346
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:10,720
Yeah, so the vibes killed it.

1347
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:14,240
I still like Kit McBride better as do you, but I had a good time.

1348
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:15,240
So those were my...

1349
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,280
It scratches a different itch, I think.

1350
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,120
I think they both do a little bit different things.

1351
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:20,120
It does.

1352
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:21,120
Cool.

1353
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,840
Well, I think I read this one in...

1354
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:26,280
Let me see.

1355
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:27,280
This one was still April.

1356
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:28,280
Good for me.

1357
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,320
This is my last April one.

1358
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:33,080
Ruby Ramos's Recipe for Success.

1359
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:36,560
Just a very standard, like sweet YA.

1360
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:38,520
There's like a cooking competition, which was really fun.

1361
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:44,480
I read a few other ones with cooking competitions, and I enjoyed those elements of this one a

1362
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:45,480
lot.

1363
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:50,040
And I love YA high school ones because they are so focused on getting into college, and

1364
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:51,320
I've already done college.

1365
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,360
So I can sit there and be like, ha, ha, ha.

1366
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,200
I don't have to do that.

1367
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,600
And good luck to you.

1368
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,840
Gives me some sense of inner peace.

1369
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,320
I don't know.

1370
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:07,240
I do think there's a wild thing in YA's now where every book is about getting into like

1371
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:13,440
an Ivy League school, which I'm just like, that seems like a lot of stress, more stress

1372
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:14,440
than I went through.

1373
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:19,480
And also, I feel like if you were a young adult reading these YA books, and all of these

1374
01:08:19,480 --> 01:08:26,080
kids are just going into Ivy League, I think that's like, I think if I was a YA person,

1375
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:39,640
a YA, if I was a young adult, a YA person, if I was a YA, I'd be like, the youths, I'd

1376
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,760
be like, but why not the state school?

1377
01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:45,280
There are a few exceptions to that.

1378
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:50,080
And I think this one like made up an Ivy League for the heroine, because they had like real

1379
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:51,080
ones.

1380
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:55,920
I don't think it's a real college, if it is, sorry to the people who go there.

1381
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,880
But it still was really fun.

1382
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:02,960
And the romance was like way down on the ladder of like things that were being dealt with.

1383
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:05,720
So it's not even really like a YA romance.

1384
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:09,720
The guy's on the cover, but it's like a very like pretty low angst, like sweet, he's a

1385
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:12,680
surfer and they meet and he tutors her in math.

1386
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:16,320
But like just her in general, I liked her a lot.

1387
01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,320
The narrator was great.

1388
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:22,840
And again, the cooking was just pretty soothing.

1389
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:28,960
And I definitely bought some desserts to feast on.

1390
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,680
So yeah.

1391
01:09:31,680 --> 01:09:35,960
May reads.

1392
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:37,360
It's all historical romance for me.

1393
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:42,600
I read to Swoon and to Spar by Martha Waters.

1394
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:47,520
None of the following books have reached the pinnacle that is the first book in that series.

1395
01:09:47,520 --> 01:09:49,200
They just can't quite get there for me.

1396
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:53,040
But this one, I think, got the closest of them so far.

1397
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:55,880
It has that like really.

1398
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,160
I think the later two have been a little bit too serious.

1399
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:01,760
Like they're still silly and fun, but they just aren't there like a sheer ridiculousness

1400
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:02,760
of the first one.

1401
01:10:02,760 --> 01:10:12,400
This one reached that, I think, into that level with the premise of Penvale has been

1402
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:16,920
trying to get his like they had to sell off everything that wasn't entailed or whatever.

1403
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:21,800
And so this his childhood like country estate, they had to sell off to this really awful

1404
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:22,800
uncle.

1405
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:23,800
Oh, uncle's.

1406
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,200
And he's not really in it.

1407
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,640
He's really just there because he lives there.

1408
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:32,280
And he hasn't he refuses to sell it back.

1409
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:36,640
And so Penvale's been like gambling and getting money and trying to make money to buy this

1410
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:38,560
estate back.

1411
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,360
If I was in a romance novel, I wouldn't be the heroine.

1412
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:43,680
I'd be the person who's there because she lives there.

1413
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:46,560
That would be my role.

1414
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,600
I wouldn't be made at all.

1415
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:49,600
Relatable.

1416
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:53,080
Well, he has this ward and he's again kind of a terrible person.

1417
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:54,080
He's not like evil.

1418
01:10:54,080 --> 01:10:56,720
He's just like not a very good guy.

1419
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,520
And he wants the ward off his hands.

1420
01:10:58,520 --> 01:11:03,720
So he basically is like, I will sell you the estate for this amount of money if you marry

1421
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:04,720
my ward.

1422
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:07,280
Oh, and Penvale's like, you know what?

1423
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,000
Bet I'm not going to force her to marry me.

1424
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:12,880
We have to like meet and make sure that it's OK.

1425
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:16,040
But noted, the ward, she's like very shy.

1426
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:17,120
I really like her, actually.

1427
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:20,200
She comes off as very mean to other characters.

1428
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:21,200
Is she the heroine?

1429
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:22,200
Yeah.

1430
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:23,200
What did I say?

1431
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:24,200
OK.

1432
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:25,200
Well, you said the ward.

1433
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:26,200
I didn't know it was like.

1434
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:27,200
Yes, that's the heroine.

1435
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:28,200
OK, cool.

1436
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:32,360
I mean, she's like 18, 20 something in there.

1437
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:37,160
I enjoy a shy heroine who comes off as mean because relatable.

1438
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:43,040
But she's just like very awkward and she wants to continue like living alone at this estate

1439
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,080
and not deal with it.

1440
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,440
So she agrees to marry him.

1441
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:50,400
But her plan, the reason the uncle is selling the estate in the first place is because she

1442
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:51,880
wanted to get him out of there.

1443
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:58,120
So she and the servants ganged up and haunted it and made him think there was a ghost.

1444
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:03,480
Like they put like a bloody child's christening gown in his bed and then made it vanish like

1445
01:12:03,480 --> 01:12:05,880
all these things.

1446
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,240
But she went too far and now he wants to sell it.

1447
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:13,520
So she's like, this time I'm going to marry this guy and we're going to haunt him just

1448
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:19,560
enough that he moves back to London and leaves me here to live in the house.

1449
01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:28,680
So the the premise of the book is her and the servants haunting this gothic estate to

1450
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:33,960
try to scare him out of it.

1451
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:36,080
But also they're like kind of into each other.

1452
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:37,520
And it was it was very silly.

1453
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:42,120
It wasn't as silly as the first one, but I did like the haunting aspect.

1454
01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:45,080
That sounds like a lot of fun.

1455
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:46,160
It was a good time.

1456
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:50,360
It was very silly and fun.

1457
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:51,360
That's it.

1458
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:59,280
That sounds that sounds like the dose of medicine I need.

1459
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:02,160
Another reread because I've had terrible luck.

1460
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:08,640
I'm looking at all the ones I didn't like and I'm like, wow, you're a hater.

1461
01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:12,240
The counterfeit scoundrel by Lorraine Heath.

1462
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:13,600
That one I read last year.

1463
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:15,460
Still, I think four stars.

1464
01:13:15,460 --> 01:13:18,160
Not my favorite Lorraine Heath.

1465
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:23,300
But I mean, not my favorite Lorraine Heath is still like our Lisa Kleifus scale of like

1466
01:13:23,300 --> 01:13:28,120
not the best Lisa Kleifus is still a really good book.

1467
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:29,400
Yeah.

1468
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:30,400
This one was just fun.

1469
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:34,240
He would pretend to be a scoundrel to break up marriages.

1470
01:13:34,240 --> 01:13:42,280
Basically, he had a friend back in the day who had like a I think a servant or someone

1471
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,120
who needed to get out of a marriage.

1472
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:51,720
So he pretended to like cheat with her so that the wife could get divorced.

1473
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:54,680
And then he just kept doing it because she kind of like spread that around that he was

1474
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,160
like a good guy to help.

1475
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:59,680
So then he just kept getting these women being like, hey, can you pretend to do this so that

1476
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:02,200
we can sue for divorce?

1477
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:06,200
And then he's been sued several times and all of that.

1478
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:11,440
And so he is fine with his reputation being really shitty.

1479
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:20,160
Daisy is a private eye, kind of like a private investigator basically for this guy who thinks

1480
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:22,560
that his wife is cheating on him.

1481
01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:25,880
And so she's like now in his household, the hero's household.

1482
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:33,440
And he knows pretty quickly that she doesn't really seem like a servant.

1483
01:14:33,440 --> 01:14:38,440
But then there's the whole kind of shenanigans of her being in the servant and him kind of

1484
01:14:38,440 --> 01:14:41,560
knowing something he's kind of trying to like trip her up.

1485
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:46,160
There's like a very cute side romance that would kind of get into like spoilery territory.

1486
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:47,280
So I won't really mention it.

1487
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,680
But that was fun.

1488
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:50,680
Chocolate's involved.

1489
01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,900
She like pours some chocolate on his head, which was great.

1490
01:14:53,900 --> 01:14:56,960
And then he pours chocolate on her in a sexual way.

1491
01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:01,120
Yeah, it was it was a fun book.

1492
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,000
Relatively low angst, I think.

1493
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,160
The ending maybe like I can't really remember what the third act was.

1494
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:15,160
I think it maybe was a bit like what but as a whole, very solid book.

1495
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:19,520
And the audiobook was good as well.

1496
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:21,640
I only got a couple more actually.

1497
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:22,760
Same.

1498
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:27,600
This one interesting, because I know you don't like it.

1499
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:31,040
And I know it's a controversial one that a lot of people didn't like.

1500
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:32,040
I'm trying to remember.

1501
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,480
It's not a favorite, but I did have a good time.

1502
01:15:34,480 --> 01:15:36,880
The Princess Stakes, Amelie Howard.

1503
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:38,680
Oh, I was really trying to remember.

1504
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:41,960
I was like, what book did I remember?

1505
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:42,960
I saw that.

1506
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:44,000
Yes, because we're opposite.

1507
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:45,360
So you you liked that one.

1508
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:46,360
You didn't like the blue one.

1509
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:47,360
I like the blue one.

1510
01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:49,800
Yeah, it wasn't as good as the third one.

1511
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:56,680
I didn't like love it, but I do think surrounding is a really fun character.

1512
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:58,240
I really like the heroine.

1513
01:15:58,240 --> 01:15:59,680
I love them on the boat.

1514
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,040
That was fun.

1515
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:05,280
Yeah, I honestly I have forgotten the plot already.

1516
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:06,560
I just remember the boat.

1517
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:08,240
I'm turning into you.

1518
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,680
So I can't give you a ton of information.

1519
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:12,680
This is great.

1520
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,480
I mean, terrible, but great.

1521
01:16:15,480 --> 01:16:17,720
I just liked the vibes.

1522
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,000
I had a good time.

1523
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:21,080
She was a fun heroine.

1524
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:22,840
I don't remember much about the hero.

1525
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:26,240
He was a dick initially, and that did kind of rub me the wrong way, but he like recovered

1526
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:30,880
enough that I was like fine.

1527
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,560
And that is really all I remember.

1528
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:38,360
I remember that and that she has sick knives strapped to her legs that she like would not

1529
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,240
bro sick knives.

1530
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:47,880
And also somebody was like sent a killer.

1531
01:16:47,880 --> 01:16:48,880
That's news to me.

1532
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:50,360
Yeah, I just really remember.

1533
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,680
He was fleeing and somebody came to kill her.

1534
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:54,920
Yeah, yeah.

1535
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:59,800
So she's she was like being forced to marry this really shitty guy that the overarching

1536
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:05,800
plot is what really got me down that book because she was of like royalty, right?

1537
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:06,800
Right.

1538
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:10,360
And the her father was killed because of her.

1539
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:11,760
Her cousin killed her father.

1540
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:12,760
Yeah.

1541
01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:16,760
And so then she was being made to marry this like old crusty asshole.

1542
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:18,880
That was pre her mother's death, though.

1543
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:19,880
Yep.

1544
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,320
And so then she thought that she could just escape.

1545
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,400
So she gets on the ship, I think.

1546
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:30,200
And then he's the he was all they so they had like a child like they were in love once,

1547
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:31,200
right?

1548
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:32,200
Yeah.

1549
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:36,960
It was like a little fling and yeah, but then it didn't people told them each thing.

1550
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:40,800
So then they had to go separate ways, which I wasn't a huge fan of, and then she's on

1551
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:42,920
his boat and then he's pissed off at her.

1552
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:45,080
So then he makes her like wash the boat and do all this.

1553
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:46,080
And then she has like blistered hands.

1554
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,760
He's like, oh, my gosh, his blistered hands, all that.

1555
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:50,800
And that's that's all I remember.

1556
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,160
That's like the majority of it.

1557
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:59,000
They get to they agree to a fake engagement when they get to England so that originally

1558
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:02,040
he wants to marry her and she won't do it.

1559
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:05,720
So he's like, fine, we can just pretend to be engaged because it'll get his mom off

1560
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:08,920
his back and also protect her.

1561
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,680
So they go through with this like fake engagement thing.

1562
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:18,000
And then the ex the other fiance and somebody who's somebody else.

1563
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:22,460
There was like politics that I didn't fully follow and I just didn't care enough.

1564
01:18:22,460 --> 01:18:26,920
And it honestly did not impact my reading experience because I was really just there

1565
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:28,040
for the vibes.

1566
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:33,400
So controversially, I thought the vibes were a good time.

1567
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,440
And that's that's all I have to say.

1568
01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:37,440
Cool.

1569
01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:39,520
Looking at my next one.

1570
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:42,520
Hey, hey, hey, loathe entirely.

1571
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:46,560
All right, Grinch.

1572
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,160
I am the Grinch.

1573
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:50,720
I'm great G inch or whatever.

1574
01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:52,480
We are in our inch.

1575
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:54,680
I wouldn't I wouldn't say that.

1576
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:55,680
I wouldn't.

1577
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,680
I probably don't need to be.

1578
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:04,880
You know, if you're looking for a wild time listeners.

1579
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,160
That it's actually my memoir.

1580
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:13,040
So I said to say we talked about it in our Lord of Scoundrels episode.

1581
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:14,040
Yeah.

1582
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:16,600
And then I sent it to her afterward.

1583
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:21,720
Grinch and Guile, the second person erotic Grinch because it's my memoir.

1584
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:28,920
So I if it's your memoir, are you the narrator?

1585
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:31,920
I'm both.

1586
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:32,920
Yeah.

1587
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:36,840
So again, another reread.

1588
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:41,040
Four weeks of scandal by Megan Frampton.

1589
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:48,920
If you've ever seen the movie Funny Farm with Chevy Chase, basically in that movie, they

1590
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:50,840
are like a newly married couple.

1591
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:52,520
They're very cute and very happy.

1592
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:53,520
They move to a small town.

1593
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,600
They get a nice deal on a very cute house.

1594
01:19:56,600 --> 01:19:59,080
And then immediately it turns into like a money pit.

1595
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:00,400
The mailman is terrible.

1596
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:02,000
The townspeople are weird.

1597
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Everyone hates them.

1598
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:04,360
There's like a dead body in the yard.

1599
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:08,160
It's like a terrible house to own.

1600
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,440
They were duped.

1601
01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:16,560
But so the like halfway through the movie, they basically are getting like going to get

1602
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:17,560
divorced.

1603
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:23,160
They are in dire straits because they're so unhappy and they're trying to sell this house

1604
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:24,160
now.

1605
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:25,960
And they're like, how do we sell this house?

1606
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:31,040
It's terrible with a dead body in the yard and with like terrible neighbors and a terrible

1607
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:33,560
town and a terrible mailman.

1608
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:41,720
And so they pay everyone in the town to like be good.

1609
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:50,400
So they can like sell this fake like Christmas idyllic town.

1610
01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:51,520
It's a cute movie.

1611
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:52,520
It's fun.

1612
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:54,440
It's like 80s, I think.

1613
01:20:54,440 --> 01:20:59,480
So similar vibes, not similar plot.

1614
01:20:59,480 --> 01:21:04,720
Basically these two, their fathers were big into gambling.

1615
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:06,480
They gambled with each other all the time.

1616
01:21:06,480 --> 01:21:08,720
It was like a rivalry.

1617
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:13,960
And in the past, her father had like gambled her off to his father because he wanted her

1618
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:15,720
to marry him.

1619
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:20,760
Like the heroine to marry his younger son, the hero.

1620
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:24,560
In the first book of the series, that's the older sister, I think.

1621
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:28,560
And then she like wins the sister back in a game of cards.

1622
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:30,480
The hero in that book was a duke.

1623
01:21:30,480 --> 01:21:36,160
He loses his title, goes to work at her bar that she owns and it's a whole thing.

1624
01:21:36,160 --> 01:21:40,480
In this book, the younger sister striking out, they inherit this house from her father

1625
01:21:40,480 --> 01:21:42,960
who has recently died.

1626
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:48,380
And she gets there and there is a very naked man in her pond, which is not a euphemism.

1627
01:21:48,380 --> 01:21:50,040
It is the truth.

1628
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:54,200
And she has a dog, a big dog, I believe named Mouse.

1629
01:21:54,200 --> 01:21:57,000
No, Mouse is the Christina Britton.

1630
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,000
It's just a big dog.

1631
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:04,120
And then he has a little dog and he like is out of the pond now and he's naked.

1632
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:05,520
And she's like, whoa, you're pretty.

1633
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:06,840
But also, why are you here?

1634
01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:07,840
And he's like, this is my house.

1635
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,240
And she's like, no, this is my house.

1636
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:15,840
And then it's like they have to find they have to search this old house and find the

1637
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:20,600
deed to see like who actually owns it because their fathers were like so known to pass the

1638
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,160
house between them.

1639
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:33,640
And in the like process, they have to pretend to be engaged because the people like they

1640
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:34,640
are going to be living together.

1641
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:36,440
They have nowhere else to go.

1642
01:22:36,440 --> 01:22:38,720
And so they have to like make it look like it's kind of acceptable.

1643
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:42,520
And then they have the hair like a maid and the hair cook and the cook's really bad.

1644
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,160
And the maid is like what?

1645
01:22:44,160 --> 01:22:48,400
And it's just like the dynamics was like an old Joe, I think, who just like moves in because

1646
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:49,960
he's old and his name is Joe.

1647
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:53,640
And he's I would die for old Joe.

1648
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:55,400
It was just a really fun book.

1649
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:56,400
It was funny.

1650
01:22:56,400 --> 01:23:06,640
Old Joe because he's old and his name is Joe.

1651
01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:07,640
Old Joe made me weep.

1652
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:08,640
He was such a cute.

1653
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:11,760
He is such a cute old man.

1654
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:16,120
And so like they just keep like inheriting like townspeople who live in their house.

1655
01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:20,460
And then it's just very low angst, not much like happened.

1656
01:23:20,460 --> 01:23:22,760
It's just a really fun book.

1657
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:31,680
And I actually get this, I listened to the audiobook knowing that it was just in air

1658
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:37,120
narrating and I had actually because I had started reading the physical book back when

1659
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:38,120
I first read it.

1660
01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:39,120
And then I needed the audiobook.

1661
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,000
And then I was like, oh, my God, it's just in air.

1662
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:42,000
And it was fine.

1663
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:43,160
Like I felt already was liking the book.

1664
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:47,920
Like she's honestly she's grown on me because Rosalind Landau has like really taken that

1665
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:50,080
crown.

1666
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:54,480
And so I thought the audiobook was really fun, too, and would recommend that as well.

1667
01:23:54,480 --> 01:23:56,880
So and also just watch Funny Farm.

1668
01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:58,920
It's a great movie.

1669
01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:03,440
There's some like taxidermied animals that get stories made out of them.

1670
01:24:03,440 --> 01:24:05,480
It's good.

1671
01:24:05,480 --> 01:24:08,140
Weird but good.

1672
01:24:08,140 --> 01:24:09,140
Or Money Pit with Tom Hanks.

1673
01:24:09,140 --> 01:24:12,320
I mean, that's another good one.

1674
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:13,320
I don't know.

1675
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:16,800
So I will take your word for it.

1676
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:17,800
Last one.

1677
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,160
Wild card.

1678
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:23,920
It was a wild card for me as well, because I didn't know what to expect.

1679
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:27,680
No, it was a wild card because I did not.

1680
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:28,680
It came out.

1681
01:24:28,680 --> 01:24:32,280
It would have been five, but there were a couple of things that just didn't quite work.

1682
01:24:32,280 --> 01:24:33,280
And so I ended up being four.

1683
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:41,380
But it was one of those were like the vibes were five stars, you know, shocked.

1684
01:24:41,380 --> 01:24:42,800
It's called a London season.

1685
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,000
It's by Joan Wolf.

1686
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,240
It's from.

1687
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:48,240
Hold on.

1688
01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:54,320
I'll find the year because it's an old school one that I fully I was looking for like childhood

1689
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:55,480
friends to lovers.

1690
01:24:55,480 --> 01:25:00,200
And it also coincidentally worked into my horse girl post from 1981.

1691
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:03,360
Oh, wow.

1692
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:08,040
I don't know how to explain like the vibes were so good.

1693
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:12,280
It was unlike I feel like any other historical.

1694
01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:13,280
Okay.

1695
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:16,160
So it's a childhood friends to lovers situation.

1696
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:17,920
They're both horse mad.

1697
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:20,600
She that's just important.

1698
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,000
It's important to the plot.

1699
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:27,680
She at age six is basically obsessed with riding her pony and nothing else.

1700
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:28,880
Her parents die.

1701
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,600
This doesn't really affect her because it was one of those situations where like they

1702
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:37,320
she like saw them once a day and they didn't really bother like raise her much.

1703
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:42,840
So when they die and she's six, she's basically just like, do I get to know living here?

1704
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:43,840
They died.

1705
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:44,840
Yeah, she's fully.

1706
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:50,280
Also, it's a she's like a really interesting like kind of pre possessed like young person

1707
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:54,400
like every interaction that adults have with her.

1708
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:58,600
I thought you meant like pre possessed by a demon.

1709
01:25:58,600 --> 01:25:59,600
That's just possessed.

1710
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:03,880
It's like, well, yeah, I was like, she's getting ready to be possessed.

1711
01:26:03,880 --> 01:26:06,400
No, she's just like very I don't know how to describe.

1712
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:08,320
She's like very precocious and independent.

1713
01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:09,320
I am.

1714
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:10,320
Yeah.

1715
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:15,480
So like every adult that interacts with her is like charmed, but also so like finds it

1716
01:26:15,480 --> 01:26:19,560
so jarring because they're like, who is this little person who is completely indifferent

1717
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:20,560
to me?

1718
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:22,760
Anyway, she basically is like, do I just like do I get to keep living here?

1719
01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:27,400
I think they're in Ireland because I think she's Irish.

1720
01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:29,080
She's like, do I get to keep living here?

1721
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,720
No, the air is moving in.

1722
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:31,720
No.

1723
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:38,440
So they send her and her nanny or wherever, whatever she is to go live with her uncle

1724
01:26:38,440 --> 01:26:43,920
who is now her guardian.

1725
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:46,440
Who is like a young he's like 20 something.

1726
01:26:46,440 --> 01:26:47,880
He's a fun character.

1727
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:52,820
He just like inherits this six year old girl and is like, she's really into horses.

1728
01:26:52,820 --> 01:26:54,520
She seems cool.

1729
01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,240
He also is really into horses.

1730
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:58,800
He's got all the stable and all these horses and stuff.

1731
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:01,240
So he's into that.

1732
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:04,000
And he kind of just let her do whatever she wants.

1733
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:10,720
Also obsessed with horses is seven year old to her six, David, who is like a local kid

1734
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:13,200
who like comes and works in the stables and stuff.

1735
01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:18,540
And they get Jane two ponies and they said, well, he can like ride with her and like show

1736
01:27:18,540 --> 01:27:19,540
her around.

1737
01:27:19,540 --> 01:27:23,820
And so then from that point over that forward, that's basically David's pony.

1738
01:27:23,820 --> 01:27:28,080
And they ride together all the time and they hang out and they like literally spend all

1739
01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:30,980
their time together and their best friends.

1740
01:27:30,980 --> 01:27:35,880
And the interesting thing about this book is that it's like childhood friends to lovers.

1741
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,800
But it's not you don't get like a prologue where their kids and then the rest of the

1742
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:42,520
book is their adults or like they just get flashback.

1743
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:43,520
Huh?

1744
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:46,240
It's are they like you don't get a prologue where their kids.

1745
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,140
So like no, you get.

1746
01:27:49,140 --> 01:27:51,040
It literally follows them from childhood.

1747
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:52,040
Kids a lot.

1748
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:53,040
Oh, yeah.

1749
01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,360
But I mean, it doesn't it's like they're not like six and seven the whole time.

1750
01:27:56,360 --> 01:27:59,640
Yeah, it spends time with them and like every stage of their life.

1751
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:04,080
Oh, yeah, because they're only they're like 17 and 18 at the end of the book when they

1752
01:28:04,080 --> 01:28:05,520
really end up together.

1753
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:06,520
Yeah.

1754
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:11,040
So they you like really follow them through their lives and going through like David like

1755
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:14,080
has an affair with an older woman and Jane is an affair.

1756
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:15,080
They're not together at that point.

1757
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:16,080
Yeah.

1758
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:17,180
But like so he's doing that.

1759
01:28:17,180 --> 01:28:21,720
He becomes he's like very gifted with horses and he becomes the trainer at a super young

1760
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:26,600
age and it's like wild because this kid is a trainer, but he's like super gifted with

1761
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:27,600
horses.

1762
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:29,440
Jane is also obsessed with horses.

1763
01:28:29,440 --> 01:28:32,080
They and the plot is them taking her to London.

1764
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:35,280
Her uncle ends up getting married and so the wife is involved and they they're trying to

1765
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:38,320
like get her to marry.

1766
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:42,120
But she's like literally not concerned with marriage at all and just as obsessed with

1767
01:28:42,120 --> 01:28:46,520
David and David is in love with her, obviously.

1768
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:49,880
And there's like a very charming, handsome man who like everyone is in love with.

1769
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:54,260
They're confused why she's putting off saying yes to his proposal and then somebody starts

1770
01:28:54,260 --> 01:28:55,840
trying to kill David.

1771
01:28:55,840 --> 01:28:58,960
Also that's in there.

1772
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:00,460
I don't know how to explain.

1773
01:29:00,460 --> 01:29:05,560
It's just like so funny and charming, especially when they're kids.

1774
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:06,840
It was just so much fun.

1775
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:08,920
The audiobook was pretty good, too.

1776
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:10,440
So there's an audio book.

1777
01:29:10,440 --> 01:29:11,440
Yeah.

1778
01:29:11,440 --> 01:29:15,240
I listened on scribbed horses, horses, horses, horses.

1779
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:17,280
It was a lot about horses.

1780
01:29:17,280 --> 01:29:18,280
It wasn't crazy, though.

1781
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:20,080
It was mostly them loving horses.

1782
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:21,360
It wasn't.

1783
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:22,360
I don't know.

1784
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:23,360
It was just such a good time.

1785
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:27,720
I was so shocked because I was like, OK, this is a random book from 1981 that I'm going

1786
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,720
to read because I was looking for.

1787
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:30,720
Where did you find it?

1788
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:31,720
Like why?

1789
01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:35,000
I quite literally Googled childhood friends to lovers historical romance and found like

1790
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:36,440
a Goodreads list.

1791
01:29:36,440 --> 01:29:41,120
And it was on there and it had a really short description that was just like nobody can

1792
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:48,100
figure out why Lady Jane Fitzmorris is like not marrying this hot, handsome guy and instead

1793
01:29:48,100 --> 01:29:52,600
just wants to hang out with the horse trainer.

1794
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,040
And I was like, a horse trainer?

1795
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:57,040
Childhood friends to lovers?

1796
01:29:57,040 --> 01:29:59,120
Intriguing.

1797
01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:00,720
I don't know.

1798
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:03,720
It was just such a good time.

1799
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:08,160
I love that for you.

1800
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:09,160
Yeah.

1801
01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:14,560
It was so, so, so random.

1802
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:15,560
That's it.

1803
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:16,560
That's my last one.

1804
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:17,940
I just that book came out of nowhere.

1805
01:30:17,940 --> 01:30:20,360
And now I'm like, why is this one of my new favorite books?

1806
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:23,520
That might be a stretch, but it was a good time.

1807
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:26,280
Let me backtrack.

1808
01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,160
It was only four stars.

1809
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:29,160
I don't know.

1810
01:30:29,160 --> 01:30:31,160
I feel like it's going to stick with me.

1811
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:33,760
Maybe you'll reread it and then it'll be five stars.

1812
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:34,760
And you'll actually be me then.

1813
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:40,160
There were a couple of things that I don't think we're going to change.

1814
01:30:40,160 --> 01:30:41,160
That's okay.

1815
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:42,160
Another one bites the dust.

1816
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:43,160
That's fine.

1817
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:44,160
I still had a great time.

1818
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:45,160
Cool.

1819
01:30:45,160 --> 01:30:49,680
Well, on to my last one.

1820
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:52,760
If Goodreads decides to load, which it's not going to.

1821
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:54,080
Oh yeah, it did.

1822
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:58,760
I read book three in the Byronic Book Club series by Amy Rose Bennett.

1823
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:02,520
I've read all of the books in that series and I've loved them all.

1824
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:05,160
Well, this one is my least favorite.

1825
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:09,160
So like loved maybe is a stretch, but like I really liked it.

1826
01:31:09,160 --> 01:31:11,200
I enjoyed it.

1827
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:13,520
And it's called Tall Duke and Scandalous.

1828
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:14,520
It's the green one.

1829
01:31:14,520 --> 01:31:18,560
There have been a lot of green ones and I've read them all.

1830
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:20,960
The Megan Frampton, the Lorraine Heath and this one.

1831
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:23,320
And this is the only one I'm talking about in this episode.

1832
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,720
So do with that what you will.

1833
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:28,360
And I just really love her writing.

1834
01:31:28,360 --> 01:31:29,560
I think it's really fun.

1835
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:33,960
The first one really stuck with me.

1836
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:37,800
The humor in it really was just like my kind.

1837
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:45,680
And so this one basically, she is just a girl on a mission and that's to get money because

1838
01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:47,680
she's being blackmailed.

1839
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:50,000
Yeah, she's being blackmailed.

1840
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:51,240
Her mother's a gambler.

1841
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:57,320
Yeah, her mother has like put up the family bookshop as collateral for this loan or this

1842
01:31:57,320 --> 01:31:58,320
gambling debt.

1843
01:31:58,320 --> 01:31:59,320
The family bookshop.

1844
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:02,920
I know the family bookshop with a really cute old like grandfather.

1845
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:03,920
He's adorable.

1846
01:32:03,920 --> 01:32:10,240
Yeah, so the mother sucks, but grandfather's great.

1847
01:32:10,240 --> 01:32:16,400
And so she really just needs money and she gets left behind at this ball because her

1848
01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:21,400
step sister and her mother leave because the mother has a headache and the step sister's

1849
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:22,400
not bad.

1850
01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:26,360
It's not like a wicked thing, but she's like having her coming out season and Jane is like

1851
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:33,440
on the shelf because she was in a carriage or a dog cart, whatever that is, a dog cart.

1852
01:32:33,440 --> 01:32:34,440
Wow.

1853
01:32:34,440 --> 01:32:40,260
Dog cart accident in her past with the man that she was going to marry.

1854
01:32:40,260 --> 01:32:41,680
He crashed the dog cart.

1855
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:43,640
She got a wicked scar on her face.

1856
01:32:43,640 --> 01:32:46,560
He jilted her because he was an asshole.

1857
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:49,160
Wicked scar, bro.

1858
01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:53,680
You just did that symbol for a long time before you said anything.

1859
01:32:53,680 --> 01:32:57,160
I think I want to interrupt you in the middle of a...

1860
01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:02,880
I thought you were just going to keep doing that.

1861
01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:07,240
Oh, nice.

1862
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:11,120
And so she's just like she has no illusions of love.

1863
01:33:11,120 --> 01:33:17,640
Like she knows men suck and people look at her scar and so she's used to just kind of

1864
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:19,800
being left on the shelf.

1865
01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:25,520
So she's having to walk home and she's hoping she can like find a like hail hackney cab.

1866
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:30,880
And then she stumbles upon the Duke of Roxbury's house and she can tell there are a lot of

1867
01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:32,560
people going in and out.

1868
01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:39,620
So she goes inside and just basically orgies are happening.

1869
01:33:39,620 --> 01:33:41,360
You're going to variety of orgies.

1870
01:33:41,360 --> 01:33:48,560
When you said that, you said just basically orgies and I thought you were using it as

1871
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:49,680
a verb.

1872
01:33:49,680 --> 01:33:51,560
Like she goes in under orgies.

1873
01:33:51,560 --> 01:34:00,560
And I was like, I've never heard that used as a verb.

1874
01:34:00,560 --> 01:34:04,680
Is she just orgies all over?

1875
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:09,040
No.

1876
01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:11,880
There are just orgies going on.

1877
01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:15,880
There's like tapas piano and tapas dance.

1878
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:17,760
There's a lot of shit happening.

1879
01:34:17,760 --> 01:34:23,840
And so she steals away into the library because she's like, wow, that's not my scene.

1880
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:32,240
She finds like rare and first edition books and she's like, wow, what if I stole this

1881
01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:36,400
and sold it because I know the value of books because my grandfather owns a bookstore and

1882
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:40,240
paid off my mother's debts and hopefully pay off my blackmailer.

1883
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:45,160
And she's in the process of tying it to her leg when obviously because you know he's going

1884
01:34:45,160 --> 01:34:46,360
to be there.

1885
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:51,880
Christopher Marsden, the Duke of Roxbury is like, hi, nice leg.

1886
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:53,100
Give me back my book.

1887
01:34:53,100 --> 01:34:54,100
You're fascinating.

1888
01:34:54,100 --> 01:34:59,440
He's been a great sport about this.

1889
01:34:59,440 --> 01:35:02,160
He's being robbed, but he's also into it.

1890
01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:04,120
Hi, nice leg.

1891
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:06,800
Give me back my book.

1892
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:08,920
You're fascinating.

1893
01:35:08,920 --> 01:35:14,560
Honestly the vibes like he's just like really into her.

1894
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:15,560
He's like staring at her.

1895
01:35:15,560 --> 01:35:16,720
She's like, why is he staring at me?

1896
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:17,720
Is it my scar?

1897
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:18,720
That's kind of rude.

1898
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:20,680
But he's just like really studying her face.

1899
01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:28,000
He's like just very like captured by her spell.

1900
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:32,440
And so he's like, how about you come back tomorrow and we'll settle this because you're

1901
01:35:32,440 --> 01:35:34,880
a dirty little thief, but also I'm fascinated.

1902
01:35:34,880 --> 01:35:38,200
And so she's like, fine, just please don't like send me to jail.

1903
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:40,760
Dirty little thief.

1904
01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:43,800
So she comes back the next day.

1905
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:47,600
I love that song.

1906
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:48,600
Okay.

1907
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:57,240
As opposed to Elton John's Dirty Little Girl, which is wildly different vibes.

1908
01:35:57,240 --> 01:35:58,880
Not in a hot way either.

1909
01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:04,600
He's like somebody give you a bath.

1910
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:05,600
You should look it up.

1911
01:36:05,600 --> 01:36:06,600
I can't explain it.

1912
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:12,720
Everybody, if you're listening, pause, go listen to Dirty Little Girl by Elton John.

1913
01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:13,720
Experience that.

1914
01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:17,640
Be like, these are weird vibes and then come back.

1915
01:36:17,640 --> 01:36:18,640
Okay.

1916
01:36:18,640 --> 01:36:19,640
Are you back?

1917
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:21,000
Have you listened to the song?

1918
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:22,000
What did you think?

1919
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:27,580
Did you think from the title it would be about one thing and then you got something else?

1920
01:36:27,580 --> 01:36:29,680
Which is vaguely violent against women.

1921
01:36:29,680 --> 01:36:30,680
Yeah.

1922
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:31,760
Oh my God.

1923
01:36:31,760 --> 01:36:37,280
I mean, I love Elton John, but that song didn't give me what I wanted when I saw the title.

1924
01:36:37,280 --> 01:36:39,880
This is a saga.

1925
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:46,520
He's like someone grabbed that bitch by the ear and you're like, whoa, what did she do?

1926
01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:49,320
She's a dirty little girl.

1927
01:36:49,320 --> 01:36:51,120
Anyway.

1928
01:36:51,120 --> 01:36:58,200
Our dirty little thief enters the chat again and comes to his establishment, which is his

1929
01:36:58,200 --> 01:36:59,200
home.

1930
01:36:59,200 --> 01:37:00,200
I don't know why I said establishment.

1931
01:37:00,200 --> 01:37:10,880
And he's like, so here's the situation.

1932
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:13,320
I am assuming you need money.

1933
01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:14,320
Here's the sitch.

1934
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:15,320
I'm Kim Possible.

1935
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:20,160
I'm assuming you need money and I need you.

1936
01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:22,520
And so how about we get married?

1937
01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:28,800
And the reason he needs her is because murder attempts have been happening against him,

1938
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:30,160
of course.

1939
01:37:30,160 --> 01:37:32,680
And one of them unseated him from his horse.

1940
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:35,100
The bullet grazed his head.

1941
01:37:35,100 --> 01:37:39,920
And ever since then, he's had facial blindness, which I've heard of before, but this is the

1942
01:37:39,920 --> 01:37:42,920
first time I've read about it.

1943
01:37:42,920 --> 01:37:44,920
So he doesn't recognize his own face.

1944
01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:46,440
He doesn't recognize anyone's faces.

1945
01:37:46,440 --> 01:37:51,880
So he will see their face and then immediately when he turns away, they could be a stranger.

1946
01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:54,800
So no one in his house, he doesn't recognize anyone.

1947
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:59,480
He knows the gate or whatever, different clues for people.

1948
01:37:59,480 --> 01:38:03,920
So he knows his valet and stuff.

1949
01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:08,360
And the valet knows, but he's one of the only ones, maybe a lawyer or something.

1950
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:13,760
Because if anyone finds out, he could be removed from his seat and his title because people

1951
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:17,320
would just throw him in an asylum.

1952
01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:19,280
And so he doesn't want anyone to know.

1953
01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:20,880
And so social functions are really hard.

1954
01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:24,200
So he's made himself look like this rake and this libertine because he can just be very

1955
01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:27,480
cool and aloof and pretend he doesn't care about people when he just doesn't recognize

1956
01:38:27,480 --> 01:38:28,860
them.

1957
01:38:28,860 --> 01:38:34,440
So he needs a wife because she could help him in social settings, but also she could

1958
01:38:34,440 --> 01:38:39,200
be on the lookout for the people who are trying to murder him because he knows that the same

1959
01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:43,400
type of man is coming after him, but he can't point him out in a crowd because he doesn't

1960
01:38:43,400 --> 01:38:46,040
know what he looks like, which is very fascinating.

1961
01:38:46,040 --> 01:38:50,360
I was like, oh my God, it was just a very, this is what I was alluding to when we were

1962
01:38:50,360 --> 01:38:53,640
talking about the artfully yours.

1963
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:56,400
Yeah, that's what it's called.

1964
01:38:56,400 --> 01:38:59,080
And so it was just a very interesting premise.

1965
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:03,560
And I respected Jane so much for being like, yeah, I'm going to secure the bag and this

1966
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:05,280
incredibly hot Duke.

1967
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:10,120
And again, Christopher Marsden is like a hot name, the Duke of Roxbury.

1968
01:39:10,120 --> 01:39:12,200
Honestly, all the stars.

1969
01:39:12,200 --> 01:39:16,600
It's not an art, like it's not Rydstrom, it's not Reese, it's not Rafe.

1970
01:39:16,600 --> 01:39:20,880
Like he made do.

1971
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:22,160
It was a fun book.

1972
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:26,680
Again, not my favorite in the series, but like her writing is really fun.

1973
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:31,320
And it pulled me a little bit out of the slump.

1974
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:37,680
I wasn't fully on the shore, but I wasn't like underwater at that point.

1975
01:39:37,680 --> 01:39:44,680
So and that one comes out in August 8th.

1976
01:39:44,680 --> 01:39:45,680
Wow.

1977
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:49,440
I forgot that's an arc.

1978
01:39:49,440 --> 01:39:54,100
So yeah, it gave me a very detailed summary of that arc.

1979
01:39:54,100 --> 01:39:58,560
So sorry, but it happened because I have nothing else to give you.

1980
01:39:58,560 --> 01:40:03,760
That is like one of the only new books that I've read that I have enjoyed.

1981
01:40:03,760 --> 01:40:05,920
Yeah, it was read now in NetGalley.

1982
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:09,720
I don't know if it still is, but go request it if you're curious.

1983
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:14,680
And with that, our TBR doomsday comes to an end.

1984
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:18,560
I mean, we still managed to talk for like two hours.

1985
01:40:18,560 --> 01:40:19,560
Yeah.

1986
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:20,560
So go us.

1987
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:27,400
Is that something to applaud?

1988
01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:32,520
Endlessly fascinated on our abilities of speaking.

1989
01:40:32,520 --> 01:40:34,840
Our abilities of speaking are ceaseless.

1990
01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:38,080
That probably makes more sense than ceaseless.

1991
01:40:38,080 --> 01:40:39,080
What are words?

1992
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:40,840
Didn't make sense in that context.

1993
01:40:40,840 --> 01:40:41,840
It's fine.

1994
01:40:41,840 --> 01:40:45,080
I mean, neither did speech with speech.

1995
01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:46,080
That's true.

1996
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:47,880
So that's a valid point.

1997
01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:49,880
I led you astray.

1998
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:54,120
Yeah, like the Pied Piper.

1999
01:40:54,120 --> 01:40:56,720
Just piping away.

2000
01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:59,160
All I think of is Shrek.

2001
01:40:59,160 --> 01:41:00,800
Is it like Shrek 4?

2002
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:02,440
The Pied Piper, I think.

2003
01:41:02,440 --> 01:41:03,440
And Rumpled Still Skin.

2004
01:41:03,440 --> 01:41:05,520
I don't know, I haven't seen that one.

2005
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:12,320
And then the Pied Piper is just like, and then everyone's like, yeah, that's a weird

2006
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:13,320
movie.

2007
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:20,200
I saw a TikTok, another one earlier today, of a guy reviewing Target's Gay Pride line

2008
01:41:20,200 --> 01:41:26,040
is out, which of course is a mixed bag.

2009
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:33,000
To say the least, he was reviewing it and one of the shirts, I must remember it bad.

2010
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:34,880
But admittedly funny.

2011
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:37,920
One of them says better out than in.

2012
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:45,080
And he was like, is that a quote from Gay Icon Shrek?

2013
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:47,360
Better out than in, I always say.

2014
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:53,600
I just lived our gay icon Shrek.

2015
01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:55,600
Oh.

2016
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:58,560
Oh, nice.

2017
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:01,080
That's it.

2018
01:42:01,080 --> 01:42:02,080
That's all I got.

2019
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:03,080
Yeah.

2020
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:07,800
Well, well, there you have it.

2021
01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,360
I actually have nothing to add on to that.

2022
01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:11,360
Yeah.

2023
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:15,200
And now I'm going to go listen to the soundtrack of Shrek the musical.

2024
01:42:15,200 --> 01:42:16,200
Oh, God.

2025
01:42:16,200 --> 01:42:18,880
Lowkey, there's some bangers.

2026
01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:20,120
I've never watched it.

2027
01:42:20,120 --> 01:42:22,120
The costume scared me too much.

2028
01:42:22,120 --> 01:42:23,600
That's valid.

2029
01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:25,840
That's so fair.

2030
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:32,920
I don't love it as a whole, but some of the songs, they do be banging.

2031
01:42:32,920 --> 01:42:33,920
They do be banging.

2032
01:42:33,920 --> 01:42:34,920
They do.

2033
01:42:34,920 --> 01:42:38,440
I'm going to make that the title.

2034
01:42:38,440 --> 01:42:43,280
They do be banging.

2035
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:44,600
You know who else do be banging?

2036
01:42:44,600 --> 01:42:47,320
This isn't a book that I recommend.

2037
01:42:47,320 --> 01:42:57,160
But I did read The Taken by the Earl by Carol Mortimer.

2038
01:42:57,160 --> 01:42:58,960
It is an erotic historical novella.

2039
01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:06,920
The only reason I read it is because I read on the internet that they bang on a horse.

2040
01:43:06,920 --> 01:43:08,320
And I said, that sounds awful.

2041
01:43:08,320 --> 01:43:11,240
Let me read it.

2042
01:43:11,240 --> 01:43:13,880
It wasn't good.

2043
01:43:13,880 --> 01:43:15,560
The plot was lowkey kind of fun.

2044
01:43:15,560 --> 01:43:20,960
The premise is that she overhears two people having really awful sex, like the man is being

2045
01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:24,440
really horrible to the woman and abusing her and such.

2046
01:43:24,440 --> 01:43:28,760
But it's because he agreed to kill someone for her, and that's her payment.

2047
01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:33,880
And then she finds out that he's going to kill this Earl who just inherited at this

2048
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:35,160
very scandalous house party.

2049
01:43:35,160 --> 01:43:40,280
So she goes to said scandalous house party where she orgies.

2050
01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:41,280
And I'm just kidding.

2051
01:43:41,280 --> 01:43:43,640
She doesn't orgy, but it's scandalous.

2052
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:47,440
What a great use of that word.

2053
01:43:47,440 --> 01:43:48,880
And she waits in his bedroom.

2054
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:50,920
And he had seen her arriving and was like, oh, she's hot.

2055
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:52,640
I would like to fuck her.

2056
01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:55,680
And then surprise of surprises, she's in his bedroom.

2057
01:43:55,680 --> 01:44:00,440
And he, without letting her get a word in edgewise, first makes her come solely by sucking

2058
01:44:00,440 --> 01:44:01,440
on her tits.

2059
01:44:01,440 --> 01:44:03,040
So there's that.

2060
01:44:03,040 --> 01:44:05,360
And then she's like, wait, I'm not here to have an affair with you.

2061
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:07,280
I'm here to tell you someone's trying to kill you.

2062
01:44:07,280 --> 01:44:08,560
And he doesn't really believe her.

2063
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:11,340
But then he does later.

2064
01:44:11,340 --> 01:44:15,680
And they just like continue an affair for not really an affair, an intimate relationship

2065
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:19,620
for some reason, while also trying to figure out who is trying to kill him.

2066
01:44:19,620 --> 01:44:25,700
And she goes to stay with him in Scotland for a while.

2067
01:44:25,700 --> 01:44:29,040
So it was kind of entertaining figuring out who was trying to kill him.

2068
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:31,640
I can't say that I really enjoyed the rest of it.

2069
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:35,840
There were some like linguistic, like sex words used that I really didn't like and just

2070
01:44:35,840 --> 01:44:37,720
like linguistic sex words.

2071
01:44:37,720 --> 01:44:42,320
Well, that was more like I changed direction on the sentence in the middle of it.

2072
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:44,960
But whatever I like, I like linguistic sex words.

2073
01:44:44,960 --> 01:44:46,800
It gives it gives me what I need to know.

2074
01:44:46,800 --> 01:44:49,000
I didn't love it.

2075
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:51,560
Notably, however, the rumors are true.

2076
01:44:51,560 --> 01:44:53,200
They did bang on the horse.

2077
01:44:53,200 --> 01:44:56,720
It was kind of him trying to like punish her because he thought she wanted to leave.

2078
01:44:56,720 --> 01:44:58,960
And so he was like, you'll never forget me.

2079
01:44:58,960 --> 01:44:59,960
We're going riding.

2080
01:44:59,960 --> 01:45:00,960
No bloomers for you.

2081
01:45:00,960 --> 01:45:02,660
And she's like, that sounds uncomfortable for me.

2082
01:45:02,660 --> 01:45:06,700
And he was like, I'll be riding Dante and you'll be riding me.

2083
01:45:06,700 --> 01:45:10,840
So they quite literally like she he is inside her while they are riding the horse and she

2084
01:45:10,840 --> 01:45:12,200
comes repeatedly.

2085
01:45:12,200 --> 01:45:16,240
And then they run into his like steward and his new wife.

2086
01:45:16,240 --> 01:45:21,680
And she has to like try to have a conversation and then she passes out.

2087
01:45:21,680 --> 01:45:26,560
So why did I tell you this?

2088
01:45:26,560 --> 01:45:29,400
What was the impetus?

2089
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:30,400
They do be banging.

2090
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:34,180
They do be banging on a horse.

2091
01:45:34,180 --> 01:45:39,120
So poor one out for Dante, that poor, poor horse.

2092
01:45:39,120 --> 01:45:41,040
Wow.

2093
01:45:41,040 --> 01:45:43,360
That premise sounds so fun.

2094
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:44,960
Sad that the book didn't live up to it.

2095
01:45:44,960 --> 01:45:47,600
Yeah, I mean, it might work for some people.

2096
01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:53,280
Um, novellas, especially erotic novellas are hard for me because I'm like, yeah, you didn't

2097
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:55,240
have one conversation this entire time.

2098
01:45:55,240 --> 01:45:57,360
You just had a lot of sex.

2099
01:45:57,360 --> 01:45:59,040
And now you're in love?

2100
01:45:59,040 --> 01:46:00,720
Question mark.

2101
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:02,640
But like I said, it could work for some people.

2102
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:08,840
I wouldn't recommend it to you just solely because she is a huge fan of the word nubbin.

2103
01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:12,480
Oh, that's the linguistic sex.

2104
01:46:12,480 --> 01:46:15,480
That's one of them.

2105
01:46:15,480 --> 01:46:16,480
Nubbin.

2106
01:46:16,480 --> 01:46:17,480
Nubbin.

2107
01:46:17,480 --> 01:46:20,560
Nubbin comes up a lot.

2108
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:23,440
Yeah, that word I'll never understand.

2109
01:46:23,440 --> 01:46:25,520
I don't know what to tell you.

2110
01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:28,480
There's a fun spanking scene.

2111
01:46:28,480 --> 01:46:30,920
That's there.

2112
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:35,600
I think they they like bang it out in the stable at one point.

2113
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:37,600
You know, it's a time.

2114
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:39,800
It's a time to be alive.

2115
01:46:39,800 --> 01:46:40,800
I read it.

2116
01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:44,800
I said, well, I sure did read that.

2117
01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:47,880
And sometimes that's what happens when you read a book.

2118
01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:55,840
Sometimes you finish the book and you just go, I sure did read that.

2119
01:46:55,840 --> 01:46:56,840
Where's the lie?

2120
01:46:56,840 --> 01:46:57,840
Can't be found.

2121
01:46:57,840 --> 01:46:58,840
It's John Cena.

2122
01:46:58,840 --> 01:46:59,840
I'm looking.

2123
01:46:59,840 --> 01:47:00,840
I'm searching.

2124
01:47:00,840 --> 01:47:09,440
I'm looking on the horizon, looking for the lie and I'm not finding it.

2125
01:47:09,440 --> 01:47:11,760
Well there you have it.

2126
01:47:11,760 --> 01:47:12,920
All right.

2127
01:47:12,920 --> 01:47:14,040
We should wrap this up.

2128
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:19,200
So consider it wrapped.

2129
01:47:19,200 --> 01:47:20,760
Like safe sex.

2130
01:47:20,760 --> 01:47:21,760
Why?

2131
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:22,760
What?

2132
01:47:22,760 --> 01:47:24,960
I don't know.

2133
01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:28,320
Consider it wrapped sounds like something you would do with a condom that you have to

2134
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:29,320
tie with a string.

2135
01:47:29,320 --> 01:47:34,440
I have a vivid I hesitate to call it a core memory, but it is it is like a vivid memory

2136
01:47:34,440 --> 01:47:37,080
from my childhood that is pretty clear.

2137
01:47:37,080 --> 01:47:40,840
I mean, childhood, like sixth grade, not like childhood, childhood, but, you know, middle

2138
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:43,160
school light childhood.

2139
01:47:43,160 --> 01:47:49,920
There is a restaurant, you know, like I think it's like a chain kind of does like text mix,

2140
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:50,920
whatever.

2141
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:51,920
Not far from here.

2142
01:47:51,920 --> 01:47:57,960
It's called Willie's and we would go occasionally because they would do like school fundraiser

2143
01:47:57,960 --> 01:48:01,800
nights where like a certain amount of it would go to the school, whatever.

2144
01:48:01,800 --> 01:48:05,440
And I have a clear memory of going with a couple of my friends and we were standing

2145
01:48:05,440 --> 01:48:11,400
outside and I was like, Willie's wrap it before you tap it.

2146
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:14,800
And they were so mad at me.

2147
01:48:14,800 --> 01:48:20,480
But I think that was so funny of sixth grade me, even though our parents were like five

2148
01:48:20,480 --> 01:48:22,140
feet away.

2149
01:48:22,140 --> 01:48:25,000
The student becomes the teacher.

2150
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:29,600
Yeah, was it done?

2151
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:30,600
Yes.

2152
01:48:30,600 --> 01:48:33,360
Is it what I think of every time I pass Willie's?

2153
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:34,360
Yes.

2154
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:35,360
Wow.

2155
01:48:35,360 --> 01:48:38,280
What were they expecting?

2156
01:48:38,280 --> 01:48:46,120
Naming that restaurant that I don't I do agree there is probably some some chuckles

2157
01:48:46,120 --> 01:48:49,000
being chuckled.

2158
01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:54,840
Speaking of linguistic sex words before we go, I'm going to I think be rereading regarding

2159
01:48:54,840 --> 01:48:59,400
the Duke by Grace Calloway because that's a fricking hot book.

2160
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:01,640
Some weird ass sex words.

2161
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:05,560
I got to tell you that, to be honest.

2162
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:09,320
I think like veiny meaty stock or something like that.

2163
01:49:09,320 --> 01:49:10,780
That one got me.

2164
01:49:10,780 --> 01:49:11,780
But it's amnesia.

2165
01:49:11,780 --> 01:49:15,480
Like they get married.

2166
01:49:15,480 --> 01:49:19,560
He was like a associate of her father and they get married.

2167
01:49:19,560 --> 01:49:25,080
He's like pretty young and then they have like several kids and whatever.

2168
01:49:25,080 --> 01:49:29,680
And then he's like not like a terrible person, but he's just like his spark of life has been

2169
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:30,680
fizzling.

2170
01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:35,520
He's not really engaged with his family.

2171
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:38,160
And then he gets amnesia.

2172
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:40,840
Someone like knocks him out or something.

2173
01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:45,480
And then he like gets delivered to his family and they're like, yeah, you're my husband.

2174
01:49:45,480 --> 01:49:47,000
These are your children.

2175
01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:50,760
And then it's just like a lovely it's like very hot, but it's also just like a lovely

2176
01:49:50,760 --> 01:49:55,320
like him finding out that he was like a really shitty father for a lot of it.

2177
01:49:55,320 --> 01:49:58,040
And then like relearning how to be a good parent.

2178
01:49:58,040 --> 01:50:04,240
And like because like when he gets the shit knocked out of him, he reverts back to like

2179
01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:05,600
what a good parent would do.

2180
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:10,960
So then when he's like, why am I not doing this with his daughter and stuff?

2181
01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:11,960
And it's just really good.

2182
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:15,560
And then it's really fucking hot.

2183
01:50:15,560 --> 01:50:21,240
But yeah, they do be banging with a big meaty stock.

2184
01:50:21,240 --> 01:50:22,240
This thick meaty stock.

2185
01:50:22,240 --> 01:50:23,240
Yeah.

2186
01:50:23,240 --> 01:50:24,240
That stock.

2187
01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:25,240
Yeah.

2188
01:50:25,240 --> 01:50:29,760
Grace Calloway does not shy away from the adjectives.

2189
01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:35,080
I know it, you know, it it do be banging.

2190
01:50:35,080 --> 01:50:36,360
Oh, I'm looking at my review.

2191
01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:37,920
It says I want it to be Wednesday every day.

2192
01:50:37,920 --> 01:50:40,200
So they must have only had sex on Wednesdays.

2193
01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:42,040
I remember you telling me that.

2194
01:50:42,040 --> 01:50:43,040
Yeah.

2195
01:50:43,040 --> 01:50:45,760
I think it's like great for them.

2196
01:50:45,760 --> 01:50:49,000
Queen Charlotte to Zeneb and day energy.

2197
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:50,000
Oh, yeah, exactly.

2198
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:55,240
And then there's like a Lindsay Sands, the English bride in Scotland, I think they can

2199
01:50:55,240 --> 01:50:58,800
only have sex on I think it's Wednesdays, maybe it's Sunday.

2200
01:50:58,800 --> 01:50:59,800
I don't know.

2201
01:50:59,800 --> 01:51:00,800
It's funny.

2202
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:04,320
But yeah, that this has nothing to do with anything that I've read.

2203
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:10,600
But I do think I'm going to reread it because why the hell not at this point in my life?

2204
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:19,560
I've got nothing left to live for besides books that I've already read and loved because

2205
01:51:19,560 --> 01:51:22,000
no new books of me.

2206
01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:24,680
Maybe you got to reread Lord of Scoundrels again.

2207
01:51:24,680 --> 01:51:26,040
Again, I know.

2208
01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:28,600
Like, what do I what am I?

2209
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:29,600
What's my path forward?

2210
01:51:29,600 --> 01:51:36,200
Like, I just need like if you are listening to this, recommend me the best book I ever

2211
01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:40,040
telling you jump into the bonkers old school romances.

2212
01:51:40,040 --> 01:51:41,040
I know.

2213
01:51:41,040 --> 01:51:45,000
But I tried with the Jews ivory and I just got returned to the library and I'm not sad

2214
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:46,000
about it.

2215
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:50,400
I think it had the potential, but also just not at this moment in my lifetime.

2216
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:56,120
Yeah, I think the hard part for me is like finding the audiobooks for those ones.

2217
01:51:56,120 --> 01:51:59,560
You seem to have a great luck.

2218
01:51:59,560 --> 01:52:04,120
I just am so bad at just like library cards, scribed, audible and Kobo.

2219
01:52:04,120 --> 01:52:07,240
So I know.

2220
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:08,240
Script has come through.

2221
01:52:08,240 --> 01:52:09,240
Maybe I should do.

2222
01:52:09,240 --> 01:52:12,240
No, I want to do the windflower closer to our pirate day episode.

2223
01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:13,240
I don't know.

2224
01:52:13,240 --> 01:52:20,240
Well, I do want to read for my lady's heart, but that's again going to have to be physically.

2225
01:52:20,240 --> 01:52:22,760
So, yeah, that's my play.

2226
01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:24,760
Do be bonkers.

2227
01:52:24,760 --> 01:52:26,160
Yeah.

2228
01:52:26,160 --> 01:52:29,600
If you're listening, tell me what to read and I'll do it.

2229
01:52:29,600 --> 01:52:31,960
I'm your liege.

2230
01:52:31,960 --> 01:52:34,160
I mean, I could honestly.

2231
01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:39,000
Lisa Klaibus has been staring me in the face, telling me to reread the Ravenells and I really

2232
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:40,000
could do that.

2233
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:41,000
I really could.

2234
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:42,000
You know what?

2235
01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:43,000
Nothing left to lose at that point.

2236
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:44,000
It's a good point.

2237
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:45,000
Yeah.

2238
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:54,240
And with that.

2239
01:52:54,240 --> 01:53:01,840
Now we actually are wrapped like wheelies.

2240
01:53:01,840 --> 01:53:03,000
No more singing.

2241
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:06,120
We've sung too much.

2242
01:53:06,120 --> 01:53:11,040
I still have dirty little secrets stuck in my head.

2243
01:53:11,040 --> 01:53:14,360
Immediately after finishing this episode, you have to go listen to that song also.

2244
01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:36,520
Yeah, do it.