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Voting is open for the 2025 Good Reads Choice Awards.
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And we need to talk about the elephant
in the room because the books we
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are voting for are not the same as
the books that will actually win.
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So today we are sharing our honest
votes in every category, but we're
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also predicting the books that
we think will win in the end.
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And listen, spoiler alert, we have some
hot takes on the awards in general, but
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we're also gonna get into this week's
new releases and what we're reading and
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watching after we talk about the awards.
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So let's jump into it.
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'cause again, we have a lot to talk about.
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So as it relates to voting in the
fiction category, these are all votes.
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Francesca and I, I went for Curse
Daughters and Francesca decided
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to go for the summer storm.
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So let's get into what
actually made it on the list.
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So here we have, right, these other
opening round books, which one do you
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actually think will win Francesca?
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Speaker 2: Well, so one that I have
seen a lot of people, obviously we
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have the, the big name authors, right?
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We have the George Mos, we
have the Frederick Bachman.
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Possible that one of those wins,
but I actually think that it
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might, I don't know, maybe it's
just me going on vibes, but, um,
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actually at the top, the Lily King.
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Speaker: Mm,
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Speaker 2: I've seen that a lot.
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Speaker: Okay.
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Speaker 2: A lot.
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So I dunno.
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Speaker: I mean, I love Lily
King personally, but I'm actually
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gonna say Friedrich Butman.
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I just think Friedrich has the
name recognition and I think
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that's kind of where it's gonna go.
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Okay.
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Let's jump down to historical fiction.
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So this is what we actually voted
for, for historical fiction.
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I loved Amity because I think Amity
is a one of a kind historical.
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Fran decided to go with Chanel Clayton,
but let's switch it up and see what is
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happening with all the other nominees and
who we think might be winning this one.
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I mean, this one is kind of really
difficult because I kind of feel Chanel
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Clayton, maybe a Taylor Jenkins read.
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Mm-hmm.
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I don't know.
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Um, Kristen Hamel is also super popular.
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Um, where, where's your head at?
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Speaker 2: Um, I'm actually thinking
same, like you, like the super popular,
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so I, I do think Chanel Clayton
is popular, but I didn't really
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see anyone talk about this book.
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So I don't know.
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I would actually go with either Taylor
Jenkins Readed, or, um, also another one
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that I saw a lot of promotion for online
and maybe can be, it's the Amalfi Curse.
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I saw a lot of promo for that.
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Um, but I'm, I'm going for
the big name recognition.
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I mean, I don't know if that's
just me being jaded, but.
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Taylor Jenkins.
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Reed has lots of potential here,
I think, and Kristen Harel too.
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So,
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Speaker: yeah, I think I'm gonna go.
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Kristen Harel, I'm, I'm
okay with being jaded.
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This is what It's okay.
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But for mysteries and thrillers,
this is how you voted.
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Okay.
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We actually have a book in common.
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This is very rare, okay?
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We don't normally have things in
common, but we do this time around.
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But let's look and see where the
categories the other nominees are.
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Listen, I'm gonna tell you all right
now, it's gonna be Freedom McFadden.
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Yeah, free McFadden is gonna win.
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It doesn't matter.
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Personally, I was tied between
the Richard Osmond because I am a
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fan of the Thursday Murder Club.
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I think this is the best
book since book one.
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So, personally, I love that.
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I like that Karen Slaughter
has a new series, okay?
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Mm-hmm.
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The book was good, but you
know what, I'm gonna back.
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Vera Wong.
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Does Vera Wong belong on this list
with all these other contenders?
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No, but you know what?
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I love her.
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But I'm gonna say, I think Fredda
McFadden and Fredda McFadden has the
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tenant and the crash and intruder.
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Which one are you picking?
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Speaker 2: Listen, first of all, let
me just get out my grievances here.
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Why do we have three
Freedom McFadden books?
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There are, you know, there are
other authors that write in
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the mystery thriller genre.
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It's like all of a sudden
we can't find the books.
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Speaker: Mm.
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Speaker 2: Um, I don't know which one,
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Speaker: but we
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Speaker 2: know it's,
I'm leaning, I'm leaning.
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I, I mean, for sure, I think it's Rita.
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I'm leaning to the crash,
but I don't, I don't know.
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That's just, that's just
winging it on vibes, but
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Speaker: winging it on vibes, you
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Speaker 2: know?
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Also, also that Reese Witherspoon book.
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Speaker: Listen, we are gonna
have some hot takes at the end.
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Okay.
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I'm gonna just say that Reese with
the spoon is there right next to
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Speaker 2: a soul reading that book.
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How is it there?
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Okay, let's,
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Speaker: she had a big book tour.
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She had a big book tour.
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But look, I essay Cosby, um,
right beside it, so I'm just
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gonna shout him out for a bit.
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Yes,
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Speaker 2: for sure.
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Speaker: But if you are just joining
us live, we are going through the
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Good Reads Choice Reader Awards.
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Let us know what you are into
so far in case you missed it.
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This is what we are
voting for, for fiction.
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This, these are historical
fiction votes and we just got
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to mysteries and thrillers.
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And Fran and I actually have
a tie, but let us know some of
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your thoughts in the comments.
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Okay, I see Diane.
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Hey, girly is here.
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Super excited.
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Um, Diane also says, I hear a
lot about First Witch of Boston.
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Speaker 2: Me too.
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I have heard about that a lot.
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Speaker: Um, also saying Go Amalfi,
because I haven't read it yet.
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Um, Lola, you know what the
isola, that one, I can see two.
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And, um, um, Diana's also
saying, I'm so behind on my TBR.
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I haven't read Vera Wang either.
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Vera Wang was fun, but
here, here's a good one.
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The tenant.
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The tenant was fun.
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See, I haven't read the Frida books.
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Let me get a
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Speaker 2: second.
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I don't read.
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See, here's the thing with me, I, when,
when an author is super, super popular,
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it turns me off and nothing to do
with the author, it just turns me off.
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So I don't read her.
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I'll read anybody that writes in the
same style, but I probably avoid,
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Speaker: well, I am, I'm backing, um,
Lola Ru who said the tenant is fun.
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I'm gonna go with your paper for that.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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Speaker: I'm going with you.
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Um, Diane says, which I agree.
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It's insane.
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An author should only
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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I have another, I have another bone
to pick with romance and romantic
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about that, but we'll get there.
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Speaker: Okay.
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Um, Chrissy, um, Chrissy,
whoa, wait, sorry, people.
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Chrissy says, broken
country also got a big push.
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So which
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Speaker 2: one was that?
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Speaker: So that I'm
putting it back up, girl.
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Hold on, hold on.
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Who is broken country?
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Speaker 2: God.
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I need to get better glasses.
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The age is getting to me.
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Speaker: Old age people.
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Old age.
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Maybe it's not this category.
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Maybe it's another one.
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Um, but Lola Ru says, okay, Lola ru.
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Wait, I'm not switching.
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Listen people, this is a live show.
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Okay?
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Be patient with the tech.
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I think Francesca, um.
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Got kicked off here.
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I'll try and find her back.
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Here she is.
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Lovely.
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Okay, let me go back to the chat.
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Lola Roof says, Frida
got me back into reading.
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I adore her.
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I've read about 12 of her books.
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Um, listen, Frida got a
lot of people back into it.
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Are you loving that?
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Listen, cozy season sweaters.
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Speaker 2: Listen, Bo, both of these
sweaters were made by my mother.
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She made me bracelets too.
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Speaker: Yes.
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I love this.
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We're, we're ready for cozy
season, but let's jump, let's
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jump back into the good reads.
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'cause I'm telling you all,
we have what, 15 categories?
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We just went through the first three.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker: Now we have romance.
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Let's get into the romance.
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We wanna hear your thoughts.
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The, this is what we voted for.
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This is what we voted for.
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I went for Carly Fortune.
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Francesca decided to go for Bryn Weaver.
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Let me tell you something right
now, the romance category, I'm
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queing it up for us on the back end.
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I was not happy with any of the books.
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I didn't want to vote for any of
these, but this is what we have.
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This is what we are looking at again,
we have Ali Hazelwood is the next
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author with multiple books up on here.
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Kennedy Ryan made it.
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I will say this, I love Sarah
Adams, beg, borrow, or steel.
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It's part of her, um, Kentucky thing.
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I enjoy that.
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I loved Ali Hazelwood's
problematic Summer romance.
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A first time caller, BK Boris was good.
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This great, big, beautiful life
by Emily Henry is the worst.
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Emily Henry, I have read personally
and I love Emily Henry, but you
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know what, I just, I wasn't feeling,
I wasn't feeling any of these.
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Spiral by Bal cbra was fun, but you
know, as, as it relates to who's
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gonna win, it's gonna be an Ali book.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker: What do you think, Fran?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I also think it's
gonna be an Ali book, only because I
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would've said Emily Henry normally,
but because I did see a lot of people
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didn't like the, the book this year.
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Speaker: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: So I definitely.
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Um, and I'm definitely leaning to
deep end 'cause I did see a lot of
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discourse of people, you know, that
did, didn't love problematic summer.
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So I'm probably leaning
on deep end winning.
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Speaker: Mm-hmm.
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I also forgot to mention
that Abby Jimenez Yeah.
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Um, and a lot of people, I'm actually
happy to Kennedy Ryan on Kennedy.
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Ryan has been missing the list for years.
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I don't know why maybe her books come out,
but at least she's on the list this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I do think B covers also a
diverse author, if I'm not mistaken.
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But I, I will say it is a very
disappointing list because in my
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opinion, what they've done is make a
list of who are the popular authors
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and like, sorry, popular traditionally
published authors because there's
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also very little in terms of like
the super, super popular indie books.
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Hardly anything there.
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Pretty much just sie silver.
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Speaker: Ooh.
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So, so Chrissy has a good point.
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We usually have a queer book,
but this year have none.
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Chrisy facts.
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Um, Diane is also saying, is
Kennedy the Ryan the only diverse
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We could have more because like Chrissy's
saying, where are the queer, um, books?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker: I, I support Lola Roo.
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Lola.
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Are we the same?
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I think they should add a short story.
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Collections.
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I had a lot of fun with those.
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I love short story collections.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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This category was a whole mess.
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oh God, I forgot the name.
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Put back the, the titles.
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Speaker: Hold on.
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Trying, trying.
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Speaker 2: There's the one
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Can we talk about the
favorites by Lane Fogger?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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The Favorites.
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Speaker: I actually read that book.
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Let me just tell you.
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All right now I actually read that book.
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It should not be,
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Speaker 2: I mean, say like Abby Jimenez,
really, it's more women's fiction, really.
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Speaker 2: Agreed.
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I mean, this whole category would need to
like be, start from scratch pretty much.
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And like rework this.
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I mean, Lori Gilmore is on here
and um, the books are cute.
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I mean, it's not like they're
not cute, but they're, are
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they like top of the list?
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Good reach choice awards?
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realized there's also two Bri weavers.
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So the one I voted for, which is the
latest one that just came out a couple
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month and a half ago or something, and
the one that came out earlier in the year.
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the authors only get one book
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at at the minimum per category.
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I still would feel that it's better
if it's, you only get one book in the
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Goodrich Choice Awards, but I know that
that could be a little mean, so I get it.
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Yeah, like I wouldn't mind if
it's like one in romance and
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one in audiobooks, for example.
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'cause like it's not necessarily
a specific category over there.
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Now we're also talking about
narrators and stuff, but yeah.
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Speaker: Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: I think this needs
to just be started over.
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Yeah.
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Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh, oh, Erin, she said she dunno what?
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Thank you.
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Okay, Erin.
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Got it, got it, got it.
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I don't know.
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Listen, technology, if you
believe Mercury retrograde.
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That's all I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: say.
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We're in the thick of it right now.
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We're in the thick of it.
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And there are only technological
problems since last week.
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I mean, last week's life was
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Speaker: true.
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That was a mess.
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Speaker 2: It's a mess.
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Speaker: It was a mess.
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But we're jumping into
romantic real quick.
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Romance was the most disappointing for me.
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Romantic was also as well.
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I decided to go with any
Davenport with, um, Orvis Oats.
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Francesca decided to go
with, um, Rachel Gillig.
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So let me get this up on the
back end so we can browse this
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Speaker 2: also while
you get that up there.
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Um, I'm gonna try to find the
GoFundMe for ne Davenport 'cause
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she recently lost her husband.
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Mm-hmm.
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And there is a GoFundMe going around
to help support her through this time.
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So I'm gonna try and find that and put
it in the, um, description after that.
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But.
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It was a very sudden thing
that she lost her husband.
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I think it was last week or week
and a half ago or something.
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So it's very recent.
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Speaker: Oh my gosh.
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I had no idea sending.
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Okay.
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Yeah, con lenses.
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Love positive energies,
prayers if you take 'em.
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Um, I love the book.
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Um, so I'm really excited.
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Speaker 2: Go by the books.
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I mean, that's, that's one
way you can support her.
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Speaker: That's one way you
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Speaker 2: can, and they're good.
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Speaker: But let's scan this.
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We'll include a link in the
video description after the live.
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00:14:05
So this is what's it's looking
for with romantic, of course.
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I'm just gonna go real quick and
say, I think it's gonna be a Rebecca
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Yaros in terms of who's gonna.
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Win.
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Um, I found it very interesting.
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We have the DMO book, so
we have the Julie Soto.
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There's name of you and
the Bridgette Knightly.
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That means it's super popular.
385
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00:14:23
Um, real quick, who do you
think is going to actually win?
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00:14:26
Fran,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw
my hat for alchemized.
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Okay.
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Speaker: Alchemized.
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Alchemized.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw
my, my head for that one.
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'cause I feel like
there's enough rabid fans.
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And out of all the Giovanni, uh,
fanfictions that got republished, that
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was probably the most popular also.
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I didn't see anybody really loving the
irresistible, the one by Bridget Knightly.
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00:14:51
Uh, Julie Sota definitely had people
talking about that one, but I don't even
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know how the other one made the list.
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Speaker: What about Silver Eight?
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That was big.
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I felt it
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Speaker 2: was big, but there was also a
lot of controversy and honestly, that book
402
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was not, it was, it was very mediocre.
403
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00:15:06
Speaker: Listen, I'm just going,
I'm jaded, so it's definitely
404
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00:15:10
Speaker 2: better If you want a
better dystopian romance, go to Cage.
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00:15:14
A Wild Bird by Brooke Fast.
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00:15:15
I think it was supposed to
come out and it's coming out
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now, next month or something.
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00:15:19
I read that I loved it and it's,
it's what Silver Elite want it to be.
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00:15:24
Speaker: Got
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Speaker 2: it.
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Got it.
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It's like Hunger Games, but for adults.
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00:15:26
Speaker: Okay.
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Jumping to fantasy real quick.
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This is what we voted for.
416
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00:15:32
Okay.
417
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00:15:33
Listen, y'all are gonna
come for me, but it is fine.
418
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00:15:35
I am prepared.
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00:15:37
I, I'm voting for the RF Kwong book.
420
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00:15:39
Francesca decided to go for VE Schwab.
421
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00:15:42
Both are incredibly popular authors.
422
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I will go on record and
say I read both books.
423
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00:15:48
I'm pulling up the nominees on the
back end and we're gonna switch now.
424
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00:15:52
So this is what we're
looking at for fantasy.
425
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00:15:56
Okay.
426
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Um, we have Joe Hill,
who's always super popular.
427
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00:16:00
Um, I think the sirens, a lot
of people are talking about it.
428
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00:16:03
Alex e Harrow, I'm a fan of their work.
429
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00:16:06
Who else is up here?
430
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00:16:07
A resistance of witches.
431
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00:16:10
I'm surprised it made
this list, but Hello?
432
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00:16:12
And we have Holly Black.
433
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00:16:13
I'm gonna say it's between
V Schwab or RF Kwang.
434
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00:16:19
That is my unpopular, um, hot
take on who might actually win.
435
:
00:16:23
What do you think?
436
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00:16:24
Speaker 2: I think so.
437
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00:16:25
Although there is, um, hold on.
438
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00:16:28
Scroll.
439
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00:16:28
Scroll down.
440
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00:16:29
T Can Fisher is also there.
441
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00:16:31
Ah, so.
442
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00:16:32
Possible too.
443
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00:16:33
Good one.
444
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00:16:34
So, and also the Stephanie Garber had
such a push, like I think it already
445
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00:16:40
even got a movie deal, um, about that.
446
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00:16:43
So I wonder.
447
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00:16:44
Possibility.
448
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00:16:46
You know, that's another possibility, but
449
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00:16:48
Speaker: de definitely a possibility.
450
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00:16:50
Mm-hmm.
451
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00:16:50
Let's see what's happening in
the chat of Erin said, not enough
452
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00:16:55
coffee in the world for me today.
453
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00:16:56
Listen, I, I made some
nacha before I came on here.
454
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00:17:00
You know, I had coffee earlier.
455
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00:17:02
So trust me, I get it a hundred percent.
456
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00:17:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
457
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00:17:05
Speaker: Chrissy is saying
romance can have sequels 'cause
458
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00:17:08
they're usually interconnected,
standalones with new couples.
459
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00:17:10
But romantic and fantasy
should not have sequel.
460
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00:17:13
Just my opinion.
461
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00:17:14
Listen, we love an unpopular opinion.
462
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00:17:17
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm a hundred percent
agree because like why do we have every
463
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00:17:20
year the Rebecca, I mean listen, Rebecca
Yez is very sweet and all of the things,
464
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00:17:24
but if a series already goes to that kind
of level of success, which was my harp,
465
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00:17:29
every time when there's a Sarah J Mass and
you know, Sarah J Mass is going to win.
466
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00:17:32
Mm-hmm.
467
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00:17:33
It's just the next book in a series that's
already massively popular, so nobody else
468
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00:17:37
has a chance to get in on, um, winning.
469
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00:17:40
So.
470
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00:17:41
Speaker: Yep, yep.
471
:
00:17:42
Okay.
472
:
00:17:42
Um, Erin also agrees with
Chrissy, so there you go.
473
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00:17:46
Ooh, Erin's putting in a request.
474
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00:17:48
If you have time, could you do a list
of books you wish had been nominated?
475
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00:17:52
That you could have voted for.
476
:
00:17:54
Okay.
477
:
00:17:54
Tune in next week, folks.
478
:
00:17:55
There you go.
479
:
00:17:57
We talk about next week.
480
:
00:17:58
There you go.
481
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00:17:59
We're adding it to the calendar asap.
482
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00:18:01
Ooh.
483
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00:18:02
Erin also said, I did enjoy
Red City, so lemme get
484
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00:18:06
Speaker 2: that
485
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00:18:06
Speaker: back.
486
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00:18:07
Up there.
487
:
00:18:08
So Red City for folks are not
familiar is the Marie Lou.
488
:
00:18:12
Yeah.
489
:
00:18:12
Yeah.
490
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00:18:13
Speaker 2: I did see a lot of
people that like that one too.
491
:
00:18:14
Yeah.
492
:
00:18:14
I did not read
493
:
00:18:15
Speaker: it.
494
:
00:18:15
Mm-hmm.
495
:
00:18:15
Mm-hmm.
496
:
00:18:16
Mm-hmm.
497
:
00:18:17
Um, ooh.
498
:
00:18:18
Lola is saying Lola Ru Kingfisher.
499
:
00:18:21
Yes.
500
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00:18:21
I dunno how I blanked on that.
501
:
00:18:23
I love teaching Fisher, by the way.
502
:
00:18:25
Amazing.
503
:
00:18:25
Amazing.
504
:
00:18:26
Um, and also, Erin, did
anyone read the Raven Scholar?
505
:
00:18:30
It looks good.
506
:
00:18:30
Maybe I
507
:
00:18:30
Speaker 2: have not.
508
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00:18:31
Speaker: I haven't.
509
:
00:18:32
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
510
:
00:18:32
Speaker: If anyone has read it, you know,
let, let us own the comments, you know,
511
:
00:18:35
so we can, we can all talk about it.
512
:
00:18:37
Okay.
513
:
00:18:38
Let's jump into a category I'm very
passionate about, the one I voted
514
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00:18:41
for, and that is science fiction.
515
:
00:18:43
I am incredibly passionate.
516
:
00:18:45
Okay, so I'm ready again.
517
:
00:18:47
Defend this one.
518
:
00:18:48
I want Miki aside to, to, to,
to, um, win So Bad Salt Crop is
519
:
00:18:54
one, two, I think her third book.
520
:
00:18:57
Listen, every book slaps, um,
the Start Grail was her last one.
521
:
00:19:03
I love that one.
522
:
00:19:04
Recommended it in the guide.
523
:
00:19:06
And I'm trying to remember the
name of the, the first book.
524
:
00:19:09
Alls I'm saying Yumi is
three for three for me.
525
:
00:19:12
Okay.
526
:
00:19:13
Three for three.
527
:
00:19:14
Francesca went with, um, KM Fordo.
528
:
00:19:17
I think that's how that is pronounced.
529
:
00:19:20
Let me get the science fiction
nominees up on screen for us.
530
:
00:19:25
So this is what we have.
531
:
00:19:27
Hold, let me, let me
get, so we can scroll.
532
:
00:19:30
Okay.
533
:
00:19:30
So, um, hmm.
534
:
00:19:32
Who do I think will win?
535
:
00:19:34
That's what we're focused on right now.
536
:
00:19:35
Who do we think will win?
537
:
00:19:37
First of all, I don't think, um,
Layla Lay LaMi should be here.
538
:
00:19:43
This is dystopian.
539
:
00:19:44
It's more literary dystopian,
so that should not be there.
540
:
00:19:47
And foremost, brilliant book,
but again, should not be here.
541
:
00:19:51
Um.
542
:
00:19:52
Speaker 2: Although I think that that,
that, that was gonna be my pick for
543
:
00:19:55
who I think will win because from
the little bit that I have seen of
544
:
00:19:59
people talking about who they think or
whatever, that's been a popular choice.
545
:
00:20:06
Speaker: Okay.
546
:
00:20:07
Speaker 2: And you know that
people don't care about the
547
:
00:20:08
actual definitions of genres.
548
:
00:20:10
So,
549
:
00:20:11
Speaker: okay, listen, it's
a brilliant book, okay?
550
:
00:20:14
I'm not fighting the book.
551
:
00:20:15
I recommended this book, um, early
in the end, my reading guide.
552
:
00:20:19
It is brilliant, but I'm, you know,
I'm back in Yumi right now, so
553
:
00:20:23
I'm gonna be in my delusional well
and say Yumi is going to to win.
554
:
00:20:28
All right?
555
:
00:20:28
We're speaking it into
being another category.
556
:
00:20:31
I am passionate about that.
557
:
00:20:33
Unfortunately, there are books in
there that don't belong is horror.
558
:
00:20:37
Now, when it came to the horror vote,
I struggled because this book I voted
559
:
00:20:41
for, it's not traditionally horror, it
is gothic fiction, but I still voted
560
:
00:20:46
for it because I love the author.
561
:
00:20:48
It's Sylvia Moreno Garcia.
562
:
00:20:50
I went with the Bill Witching.
563
:
00:20:51
Again, I know it's not true
horror, it's gothic horror.
564
:
00:20:54
Francesca went with, um, the Haunting
of Pain Hollow by Kelly Armstrong.
565
:
00:21:00
Let's get the, whoops, hold, let's get
the nominees up on screen for horror.
566
:
00:21:06
So this is what we have.
567
:
00:21:08
We have Isabella Kaas,
brilliant author, great books.
568
:
00:21:12
Um, we have Grady Hendricks.
569
:
00:21:14
Um, who else do we have?
570
:
00:21:15
We have Stephen King.
571
:
00:21:16
Listen, I love the Stephen King.
572
:
00:21:17
Never flinch.
573
:
00:21:18
I'll never vote for Stephen King on
principle, just because you know,
574
:
00:21:21
Stephen King doesn't need my vote.
575
:
00:21:23
I loved it, but Stephen
King doesn't need my vote.
576
:
00:21:26
Um, you weren't meant to be human was one
of the books in my full reading guide.
577
:
00:21:30
Read and loved one.
578
:
00:21:31
We always will have a Stephen Graham
Jones, you know, love that Rachel
579
:
00:21:35
Harrison writes horror for me, but
this was my least favorite book by her.
580
:
00:21:41
I've read other books that were great.
581
:
00:21:42
It is okay.
582
:
00:21:44
We don't abandon all favorite
authors, but Fran, who do you
583
:
00:21:46
think is actually gonna win?
584
:
00:21:49
Speaker 2: Stephen King.
585
:
00:21:51
I mean, doesn't that happen every time,
no matter what this man puts out, and
586
:
00:21:57
no matter who else votes, like he's
just the default that's gonna win.
587
:
00:22:01
Now, do I think it should be
somebody like, again, gives give
588
:
00:22:04
some chance to be people, but
589
:
00:22:07
Speaker: the
590
:
00:22:07
Speaker 2: reality.
591
:
00:22:08
The reality?
592
:
00:22:09
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
593
:
00:22:10
Okay.
594
:
00:22:10
Speaker 2: Who'll be Steven,
595
:
00:22:11
Speaker: we have to live in the reality.
596
:
00:22:12
You let us know in the
comments what your reality is.
597
:
00:22:16
Um, Chrissy says, hold on.
598
:
00:22:18
Sorry.
599
:
00:22:19
I saw the compound a lot.
600
:
00:22:21
Where was that again?
601
:
00:22:22
What, what genre is that?
602
:
00:22:23
I don't remember.
603
:
00:22:23
I
604
:
00:22:23
Speaker 2: think that was sci-fi.
605
:
00:22:25
Speaker: I think so too.
606
:
00:22:26
Yeah.
607
:
00:22:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
608
:
00:22:27
I can't resist Morena Garcia either.
609
:
00:22:29
Erin, listen, I'm just gonna,
you know, we know it, it probably
610
:
00:22:33
won't win the category, but I'm
just, I'm just backing it, I guess.
611
:
00:22:36
Le Ru agrees as well.
612
:
00:22:38
All right.
613
:
00:22:39
We're gonna push on to debut novels now.
614
:
00:22:42
Debut novels, you know, it's
a mishmash of everything.
615
:
00:22:46
I'm actually gonna go
with the Irish goodbye.
616
:
00:22:48
I know that was a recent read with Jenna.
617
:
00:22:50
Um, pick.
618
:
00:22:51
I did not read it in
time for my fall guide.
619
:
00:22:54
I read it after, but it is so well done.
620
:
00:22:57
So I'm gonna back that one.
621
:
00:22:59
Francesca is going with When
the tides held the moon.
622
:
00:23:03
Let me get on nominees up on screen.
623
:
00:23:07
So this is what we have for debut.
624
:
00:23:08
Again, open mind folks,
this is gonna be a mismatch.
625
:
00:23:11
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
626
:
00:23:12
Speaker: A lot of these books
I loved, I loved Woodworking.
627
:
00:23:15
That, that was great.
628
:
00:23:16
Home Seeking by Carissa Chen
was in my winter reading
629
:
00:23:18
guide at the top of the year.
630
:
00:23:21
Um, a Lynch, another great book.
631
:
00:23:23
Also read with Jenna Book Club Pick, I
think Jenna and I have a lot in common.
632
:
00:23:27
The names by Florence Snap.
633
:
00:23:29
I remember that was May.
634
:
00:23:31
Um, 'cause I had that in
my summer reading guy.
635
:
00:23:34
That book came out in May.
636
:
00:23:35
Really good.
637
:
00:23:36
The Original Daughter by Jemima Way.
638
:
00:23:38
That's another great book.
639
:
00:23:40
So there are lots of good books here,
but who do you think will win in the end?
640
:
00:23:44
Alchemized,
641
:
00:23:45
Speaker 2: alchemized Again, the thing
is that, that Ani uh, fan base is
642
:
00:23:51
going to be voting and they mobilize.
643
:
00:23:54
They, they are active, they are online,
and they're gonna be click, click, click.
644
:
00:23:58
Okay.
645
:
00:23:59
Speaker: Alright.
646
:
00:24:00
Speaker 2: I think so.
647
:
00:24:01
Speaker: Okay.
648
:
00:24:01
Well, we're jumping straight into
649
:
00:24:03
Speaker 2: which that
turns out to be true.
650
:
00:24:04
That means that Alma is gonna
win two categories as what
651
:
00:24:08
I'm predict, which is wild.
652
:
00:24:10
But anyway.
653
:
00:24:11
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
654
:
00:24:12
Speaker 2: Let's continue.
655
:
00:24:14
Speaker: Here's another category
where Francesca and I agreed,
656
:
00:24:17
and that is audio books.
657
:
00:24:18
We actually read on audio books.
658
:
00:24:20
Audiobook again is a mismatch.
659
:
00:24:22
Let me get up our nominees for
us so we can browse together.
660
:
00:24:28
By
661
:
00:24:29
Speaker 2: the way, we did our pigs
completely separate and then we just like,
662
:
00:24:33
you know, matched up our, our screenshots.
663
:
00:24:35
So we're like, oh.
664
:
00:24:37
Speaker: Yes, that's how that went.
665
:
00:24:39
Down.
666
:
00:24:39
Here are the audio book notes.
667
:
00:24:41
Again, this is a mismatch.
668
:
00:24:43
Okay.
669
:
00:24:44
We have Emily Henry, we have, uh, Tina
knows with Matriarch Tourist season,
670
:
00:24:49
the Brava sa co Speaking of Ashes.
671
:
00:24:52
We still have Harry Potter up in here,
LA years later we have Alchemized again.
672
:
00:24:56
So this is a third category.
673
:
00:24:58
Rebecca Yaros, Friedrich Buckman,
um, the Karen Slaughter book.
674
:
00:25:04
Who do you think, oh,
Taylor, Jenkins Reed.
675
:
00:25:05
Look at me skipping over that.
676
:
00:25:07
Kamala Harris's, um, what
do you call that memoir?
677
:
00:25:10
Um, sister, wife.
678
:
00:25:12
I don't know.
679
:
00:25:12
The sister wife of it all.
680
:
00:25:14
Um, awake by Jen Hatmaker.
681
:
00:25:16
I'm not familiar.
682
:
00:25:18
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's,
here's my take on this one.
683
:
00:25:20
And normally I would say Alchemize,
like I've been saying, I actually
684
:
00:25:24
think it's gonna be Annex Storm.
685
:
00:25:25
'cause that's a way bigger fan base.
686
:
00:25:29
Speaker: Oh, okay.
687
:
00:25:30
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go
and, and actually, so when
688
:
00:25:32
it comes to audio books and.
689
:
00:25:34
I haven't read this series.
690
:
00:25:36
Um, when the first book came out and I was
thinking about it, do I read it or not?
691
:
00:25:42
Everybody was telling
me, you have to read it.
692
:
00:25:44
You have to listen to the audiobook.
693
:
00:25:46
Like, don't try to read it.
694
:
00:25:47
Just listen to it.
695
:
00:25:48
So I think that the fan base is very
much behind the audiobook of the series.
696
:
00:25:54
So I'm throwing the hat for Onyx
Storm on this one as opposed to
697
:
00:25:58
Alchemized, but I could be wrong.
698
:
00:26:03
Speaker: I'm gonna be controversial.
699
:
00:26:05
I'm gonna say the books
we picked is gonna win.
700
:
00:26:08
I think the Pride and Prejudice
is gonna come through Jane
701
:
00:26:11
Austen's and 50th birthday.
702
:
00:26:14
I'm gonna go on a limb and say,
more people, not more people, but
703
:
00:26:19
a lot of people have Audible or
will get it just to listen to it.
704
:
00:26:23
Mm-hmm.
705
:
00:26:24
I think nothing beats
a Jane Austen fandom.
706
:
00:26:26
All right.
707
:
00:26:27
Nobody beats the Austin fandom.
708
:
00:26:29
Speaker 2: I mean, I am part
of that fandom, but I don't
709
:
00:26:33
know if I, I can live in that.
710
:
00:26:36
Um, Ulu.
711
:
00:26:37
Yeah.
712
:
00:26:38
Listen,
713
:
00:26:38
Speaker: lemme live
714
:
00:26:39
Speaker 2: in the, the fan base.
715
:
00:26:41
Here's three fan bases on this.
716
:
00:26:43
No, four fan bases on that list.
717
:
00:26:45
Emily, Henry, uh, Rebecca Yaros,
Taylor, Jenkins, Reed, and Alchemized.
718
:
00:26:52
Like those four fan bases are go crazy.
719
:
00:26:57
Speaker: Okay, listen.
720
:
00:26:58
Lemme live in my ulu.
721
:
00:26:59
Lemme live in my ulu.
722
:
00:27:00
Speaker 2: I mean, I appreciated
what they did with it and
723
:
00:27:04
I would like for it to win.
724
:
00:27:05
I just.
725
:
00:27:07
Speaker: Listen, audio books is
tricky, but I'm gonna go and say people
726
:
00:27:10
have been celebrating Jane all year.
727
:
00:27:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
728
:
00:27:12
Speaker: I think people
will consume the content.
729
:
00:27:15
Yeah.
730
:
00:27:16
I'm being ulu.
731
:
00:27:16
Do I think it really is gonna win?
732
:
00:27:18
Probably not, but let me live in my ulu.
733
:
00:27:20
Um, Chrissy says, audio books
is such a weird category.
734
:
00:27:23
I think they should always be full
productions and full forecast, not just
735
:
00:27:27
re regular audios with one narrator.
736
:
00:27:28
Speaker 2: I agree.
737
:
00:27:29
Speaker: Listen,
738
:
00:27:30
Speaker 2: if we're gonna give
an award for audiobook, it should
739
:
00:27:33
be on the merit of the production
value of the audiobook, so.
740
:
00:27:37
Mm-hmm.
741
:
00:27:38
Mm-hmm.
742
:
00:27:38
I mean, unless that narrator is like,
743
:
00:27:40
Speaker: yeah,
744
:
00:27:41
Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't, as
much as I like some narrators,
745
:
00:27:44
I don't think that there's any.
746
:
00:27:46
Mm-hmm.
747
:
00:27:46
Um, also, I actually started listening
to graphic audios this year, which
748
:
00:27:51
I have really enjoyed, so, oh, okay.
749
:
00:27:53
There should have been a graphic audio.
750
:
00:27:55
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
751
:
00:27:55
Mm-hmm.
752
:
00:27:56
Speaker 2: But, um, yeah.
753
:
00:27:57
Speaker: Okay, Iran is saying, why do
you think the audio book is considered
754
:
00:28:00
better than Text four Onyx Storm?
755
:
00:28:03
Speaker 2: You know, I don't
know necessarily why people
756
:
00:28:06
were leaning so heavy on that.
757
:
00:28:08
I think, again, I haven't read it,
so don't quote me, but from what
758
:
00:28:13
I have heard, it can be wordy.
759
:
00:28:16
So when you are going through it in
regular text and reading it, it might
760
:
00:28:21
lose, you might lose some interest in it.
761
:
00:28:23
So when you're listening to it.
762
:
00:28:26
You can either speed it up or
it might retain your attention
763
:
00:28:31
a little bit better, so.
764
:
00:28:32
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
765
:
00:28:32
Mm-hmm.
766
:
00:28:33
Speaker 2: Listen, that's how good
767
:
00:28:35
Speaker: Chrissy, Chrissy
says, I'm with Francesca.
768
:
00:28:37
I live in the cynical reality,
and think the popular authors
769
:
00:28:39
will win, especially Alka.
770
:
00:28:40
I listen.
771
:
00:28:41
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
772
:
00:28:42
Speaker: I agree.
773
:
00:28:43
Okay.
774
:
00:28:43
But I'm gonna go on the limb
and dream a little bit, so y'all
775
:
00:28:47
come dream with me and say, Jay.
776
:
00:28:49
Speaker 2: I mean, I would like to,
but you know what it, it happens every
777
:
00:28:52
year and we're always in this crap, so
778
:
00:28:55
Speaker: I know.
779
:
00:28:55
I know.
780
:
00:28:56
Yeah.
781
:
00:28:56
Speaker 2: Gotta live with
our feet on the ground.
782
:
00:28:59
Speaker: So we've ran
through 10 categories.
783
:
00:29:01
We have five left.
784
:
00:29:02
Let's get into them.
785
:
00:29:04
So they split young adults, so
we have young adult fantasy,
786
:
00:29:08
so that's one category.
787
:
00:29:10
I decided to go with Earthbound,
and Francesca decided to
788
:
00:29:13
go with a forgery of fate.
789
:
00:29:16
Let me get all nominees up on.
790
:
00:29:21
So these are the people
we're working with.
791
:
00:29:24
Who do you think is going to win?
792
:
00:29:26
I will go on a limb and say I
am disappointed with this list.
793
:
00:29:32
I've been in my yaa bag and
I am not happy with the picks
794
:
00:29:35
I've been getting this year.
795
:
00:29:37
I did recommend The House
SFI by Marissa Mayer.
796
:
00:29:40
That is in my fall, um, reading guide.
797
:
00:29:43
I read that.
798
:
00:29:44
I did enjoy it.
799
:
00:29:45
I'm gonna say, I think however, sunrise
on the Reaping is gonna take it.
800
:
00:29:49
I'm just saying same.
801
:
00:29:51
Speaker 2: Same.
802
:
00:29:51
Speaker: So that's where we're at.
803
:
00:29:55
Yeah.
804
:
00:29:56
Young adult fiction.
805
:
00:29:57
Um, so for young adult fiction, I voted,
um, for Sisters in the Wind and Fran went
806
:
00:30:04
with Audrey and Bash, or just friends.
807
:
00:30:06
I'm gonna be honest, I dunno how
I missed that when I was voting,
808
:
00:30:08
but yeah, it, it, it's killed.
809
:
00:30:10
It's kilt.
810
:
00:30:11
It's cute.
811
:
00:30:11
So let's see the other nominees as well.
812
:
00:30:14
'cause you know, sometimes
your girl misses things.
813
:
00:30:16
So this is what we're working with.
814
:
00:30:18
We have Lynn Painter who's a staple.
815
:
00:30:21
Um, you know, you always see
Lynn Painter, Julie Soto as well.
816
:
00:30:26
Um, who else is a big name
that I'm missing right now?
817
:
00:30:29
We, we have some books here.
818
:
00:30:31
I'm kind of disappointed
with this crop, but
819
:
00:30:33
Speaker 2: mm-hmm.
820
:
00:30:34
Speaker: Who do I think is going to win?
821
:
00:30:35
Wasn't
822
:
00:30:36
Speaker 2: there an E Lockhart?
823
:
00:30:37
Yes.
824
:
00:30:38
The E
825
:
00:30:38
Speaker: Yes.
826
:
00:30:38
Speaker 2: Here it's maybe
827
:
00:30:40
Speaker: mm-hmm.
828
:
00:30:42
I was thinking Julie Soto.
829
:
00:30:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be my second,
830
:
00:30:47
Speaker: second page
831
:
00:30:47
Speaker 2: choice.
832
:
00:30:48
Yeah.
833
:
00:30:48
Yeah,
834
:
00:30:48
Speaker: yeah.
835
:
00:30:48
Yeah.
836
:
00:30:49
Alright.
837
:
00:30:50
Speaker 2: But I'm surprised
fully with this list.
838
:
00:30:53
Okay.
839
:
00:30:54
Speaker: Okay.
840
:
00:30:54
Yeah.
841
:
00:30:56
I'm not, I'm not pleased.
842
:
00:30:58
Um, jumping into nonfiction.
843
:
00:31:01
Okay.
844
:
00:31:02
I felt, I love this book.
845
:
00:31:04
I actually am recommending books
I read and loved, I love Myland.
846
:
00:31:08
It was really good.
847
:
00:31:09
Um, it really gets into the
serial killers of it all.
848
:
00:31:12
I think I recommended this
in my summer reading guide.
849
:
00:31:14
Francesca went with everything is osis.
850
:
00:31:17
Let's get the rest of the nominees up on
our screen share and we're switching out.
851
:
00:31:25
So these are the nominees.
852
:
00:31:27
Okay.
853
:
00:31:28
Um, Mel Robbins is here.
854
:
00:31:30
I think this is like the second
category for Mel Robbins.
855
:
00:31:32
James Patterson is there.
856
:
00:31:34
Everybody has that name.
857
:
00:31:35
Ooh, Imani Perry's book is
actually, um, it's actually good.
858
:
00:31:40
I also enjoyed the Book of Alchemy,
but we're looking at, I'm gonna
859
:
00:31:45
go on a limb and maybe predict
a Mel Robbins win for Nonfic.
860
:
00:31:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
861
:
00:31:53
I dunno.
862
:
00:31:53
I I mean, again, name
recognition is what I would say.
863
:
00:31:56
So either the Mel Robbins James,
um, had, or, or John Green, even
864
:
00:32:03
if people didn't, even if people,
'cause that's the, everything is
865
:
00:32:07
tuberculosis is a John Green book.
866
:
00:32:09
Speaker: True.
867
:
00:32:10
Speaker 2: So that's probably
what I would um, say.
868
:
00:32:14
Speaker: That makes sense.
869
:
00:32:15
Speaker 2: Which is a
fascinating read by the way.
870
:
00:32:17
Speaker: That makes sense.
871
:
00:32:18
That's makes sense.
872
:
00:32:19
Okay.
873
:
00:32:19
Jumping to memoir, I
actually went with Ms.
874
:
00:32:23
Tina and I think Ms.
875
:
00:32:25
Tina has the biggest
name recognition there.
876
:
00:32:27
Mm-hmm.
877
:
00:32:27
Francesca went with careless people.
878
:
00:32:31
I am currently switching to, where is it?
879
:
00:32:34
Memoir?
880
:
00:32:35
Here we go.
881
:
00:32:36
So our nominees for memoir are many.
882
:
00:32:40
We have the Elizabeth Gilbert
listen, I think who read this?
883
:
00:32:43
Oprah, Oprah Club.
884
:
00:32:44
Read the Elizabeth Gilbert.
885
:
00:32:47
Listen, wasn't
886
:
00:32:47
Speaker 2: there something
controversial about that book though?
887
:
00:32:50
Speaker: Yes, but just,
888
:
00:32:51
Speaker 2: I, I can't
remember now, but I, it's, I,
889
:
00:32:55
Speaker: I know
890
:
00:32:55
Speaker 2: recognition again.
891
:
00:32:57
Yeah.
892
:
00:32:57
Very strong possibility there.
893
:
00:32:59
Speaker: We also have Amy Griffin
with the Tell, uh, Malala.
894
:
00:33:04
I haven't read this Malala book.
895
:
00:33:06
Everyone.
896
:
00:33:06
I, I didn't, um, who else
has name recognition?
897
:
00:33:09
We have Cher up here.
898
:
00:33:12
Um, who else?
899
:
00:33:13
Kamala Harris has name recognition.
900
:
00:33:15
Tina Knowles.
901
:
00:33:17
Listen, I love you.
902
:
00:33:18
Y Lee.
903
:
00:33:19
The last book down here, I read
this, this is great, but YY Lee
904
:
00:33:23
is known to us literary girlies.
905
:
00:33:25
Okay.
906
:
00:33:26
I'll think she has the general name
recommendation, uh, recognition.
907
:
00:33:31
I'm gonna go and say, I'm going, it's
gonna be Elizabeth Gilbert or Miss
908
:
00:33:35
Tina, because I'm just, I don't know.
909
:
00:33:39
That's, that's my feeling.
910
:
00:33:41
Speaker 2: I, I think either one of
those would be my, my prediction.
911
:
00:33:45
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
912
:
00:33:46
Mm-hmm.
913
:
00:33:46
Mm-hmm.
914
:
00:33:47
Mm-hmm.
915
:
00:33:48
Um, oh, Sy uh, Chrissy said, uh, maybe
the Allison Stoner in the memoir.
916
:
00:33:55
Hmm.
917
:
00:33:56
I could see that.
918
:
00:33:58
I could see that.
919
:
00:34:00
All right, let's switch to,
um, what category am I in?
920
:
00:34:05
Why isn't this moving last category after
memoir is, or history and biography?
921
:
00:34:13
Now I actually read my, um, vote.
922
:
00:34:16
I, I voted for a marriage at
sea, a, a true story of love,
923
:
00:34:20
obsession, and shipwreck.
924
:
00:34:21
Absolutely brilliant.
925
:
00:34:23
This reads like a novel.
926
:
00:34:24
Francesca went with How to Kill a Witch.
927
:
00:34:28
So let me get our last
category up on screen.
928
:
00:34:31
We have history and biography.
929
:
00:34:34
Here we go.
930
:
00:34:36
Oh, nope.
931
:
00:34:37
Wrong one.
932
:
00:34:37
Share screen.
933
:
00:34:39
There we go, people.
934
:
00:34:41
All right.
935
:
00:34:41
So we have Jane Austin's
bookshelf, which, um.
936
:
00:34:46
I didn't get around to reading, but
I'm looking forward to, we have the
937
:
00:34:49
Zo, we have a Stephen Greenblatt for
people who love history and biography.
938
:
00:34:53
That's a very common name.
939
:
00:34:54
Rick Atkinson as well.
940
:
00:34:57
Who else is over here?
941
:
00:34:58
Um, we have the books we
voted for next to each other.
942
:
00:35:02
Um, 1929.
943
:
00:35:04
Oh yes, everyone.
944
:
00:35:05
This is about, um, the financial
crisis of that time when people
945
:
00:35:09
were legit jumping outta buildings.
946
:
00:35:11
That guy has been doing interviews
all over the place about the
947
:
00:35:13
book Mark Twain by Ron Chernow.
948
:
00:35:17
I read that book and love that book.
949
:
00:35:18
It is great.
950
:
00:35:19
We also have a James Baldwin,
um, book up here as well.
951
:
00:35:23
Who do I think is gonna window?
952
:
00:35:24
Hmm, who is,
953
:
00:35:26
Speaker 2: I'm torn between.
954
:
00:35:28
Um, again, I'm trying to like predict name
recognition and who people would vote for.
955
:
00:35:34
I'm either thinking that they'll go with
the Jane Austen because going again on
956
:
00:35:38
your assumption that Jane Austen is fresh
in the minds of people, or James Baldwin.
957
:
00:35:45
Speaker: Oh, interesting take.
958
:
00:35:47
Speaker 2: That would be my prediction.
959
:
00:35:51
Speaker: Okay.
960
:
00:35:51
Alright, well let us know your
predictions in the comments.
961
:
00:35:55
Okay.
962
:
00:35:55
Replay crew.
963
:
00:35:56
We'd love to hear from you as well.
964
:
00:35:57
We have our live chat crew chiming in.
965
:
00:36:00
Let me see, what have I missed?
966
:
00:36:02
What are comments that I have, um, missed?
967
:
00:36:05
Okay, let's go back here.
968
:
00:36:07
So, sunrise on the reaping, we agree.
969
:
00:36:09
Mm-hmm.
970
:
00:36:09
Will probably take the win.
971
:
00:36:11
Speaker 2: Yeah.
972
:
00:36:11
Speaker: Um, according to Christie,
Christie also says, YA always is
973
:
00:36:15
good with the queer books, but that
is not always reflected in adult.
974
:
00:36:17
But sci-fi this year had a handful
and horror as well was good.
975
:
00:36:21
Yes and yes.
976
:
00:36:23
Erin says, it's interesting to me
that YA does seem to lead the charge.
977
:
00:36:27
Mm-hmm.
978
:
00:36:27
Speaker 2: Always.
979
:
00:36:28
Speaker: Can I stick a
pin and just say, mm-hmm.
980
:
00:36:31
YA is always leading the charge.
981
:
00:36:32
I'm also gonna throw in children's books.
982
:
00:36:35
Speaker 2: Yeah.
983
:
00:36:35
Speaker: There's so many
children's books winning right now.
984
:
00:36:39
I mean, for from the little,
little babies mm-hmm.
985
:
00:36:41
To the middle grade.
986
:
00:36:41
Those books are winning.
987
:
00:36:43
I have a card right here with books.
988
:
00:36:45
I'm excited to recommend to
you all as gift guide picks.
989
:
00:36:48
And just to round out the, uh,
I do think there's something
990
:
00:36:52
freeing in that side of the genre.
991
:
00:36:54
Mm-hmm.
992
:
00:36:55
I, I feel passionate about that as well.
993
:
00:36:57
Um, Chrissy saying, yep.
994
:
00:36:58
John Green will probably win.
995
:
00:37:00
How did I blank on this genre?
996
:
00:37:02
Fran, Fran brought it
to the forefront though.
997
:
00:37:04
Facts.
998
:
00:37:05
Um, Erin gives me hope for
the future despite being Gen
999
:
00:37:08
X and allergic to hope so.
:
1000
00:37:09,555 --> 00:37:10,575
We can be allergic.
:
1001
00:37:10,575 --> 00:37:11,185
We need to Yes.
:
1002
00:37:12,015 --> 00:37:13,725
We need to be hopefully ulu.
:
1003
00:37:13,965 --> 00:37:13,995
Ah,
:
1004
00:37:16,065 --> 00:37:17,235
Speaker 2: I, I'm so allergic.
:
1005
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:18,165
I don't know what to tell you.
:
1006
00:37:19,545 --> 00:37:21,765
Speaker: I'm trying to be in the ulu.
:
1007
00:37:21,795 --> 00:37:22,335
Okay.
:
1008
00:37:22,935 --> 00:37:26,595
Um, oh yeah, I did mention the
Allison Stoner in the memoir.
:
1009
00:37:26,835 --> 00:37:31,185
Um, Erin says, I want James Baldwin
to win, but I suspect China will win.
:
1010
00:37:31,395 --> 00:37:32,835
See, that is interesting.
:
1011
00:37:33,255 --> 00:37:34,185
I did read that book.
:
1012
00:37:34,305 --> 00:37:37,875
Um, I, I think I probably recommended
that this summer for the Mark Twain.
:
1013
00:37:39,010 --> 00:37:39,580
Hear me out.
:
1014
00:37:39,580 --> 00:37:44,860
I think the timing of that Mark Twain
book is just, 'cause a lot of people are
:
1015
00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:49,000
talking about Huckleberry Finn because
of, you know, James and this and that.
:
1016
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,600
I think there are a lot of things
that might point to churn out.
:
1017
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,220
Plus there's that name recognition.
:
1018
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:54,460
Speaker 2: Yeah.
:
1019
00:37:54,550 --> 00:37:57,445
Speaker: Listen, I'm hoping
for anything I will take, um,
:
1020
00:37:57,445 --> 00:37:59,290
the wild cards at any moment.
:
1021
00:37:59,590 --> 00:38:03,910
But before we leave, let me just not
leave before we get off this topic.
:
1022
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,410
Um, when is the dates again for
the, we're gonna come back, I think
:
1023
00:38:08,410 --> 00:38:11,530
it's after Thanksgiving thereabouts,
or right before Thanksgiving.
:
1024
00:38:11,830 --> 00:38:13,990
We're gonna get the second round.
:
1025
00:38:13,990 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
:
1026
00:38:14,740 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker: So, um, we're gonna
go live for that for sure.
:
1027
00:38:18,310 --> 00:38:19,720
I don't have the date up in here.
:
1028
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:23,710
See, this is how I'm not prepared
folks, but, um, stay tuned.
:
1029
00:38:23,710 --> 00:38:24,550
Stay tuned.
:
1030
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,840
And I think we're gonna take up
Erin, on the, the books we wish.
:
1031
00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
:
1032
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,340
Speaker: Were on the list.
:
1033
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:31,000
Okay.
:
1034
00:38:31,060 --> 00:38:32,590
Um, and then we'll go from there.
:
1035
00:38:32,590 --> 00:38:33,430
But yes, so.
:
1036
00:38:34,335 --> 00:38:34,875
Stay tuned.
:
1037
00:38:34,875 --> 00:38:35,595
Stay tuned folks.
:
1038
00:38:35,595 --> 00:38:36,825
But we have APAC show.
:
1039
00:38:36,825 --> 00:38:37,815
We have a lot to go through.
:
1040
00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:41,174
Can you believe we were just
talking all about good reads.
:
1041
00:38:41,174 --> 00:38:43,515
We still have to get into
this week's new releases.
:
1042
00:38:43,634 --> 00:38:44,565
Speaker 2: We'll go quick through that.
:
1043
00:38:44,569 --> 00:38:44,790
We'll
:
1044
00:38:44,790 --> 00:38:45,150
Speaker: go quick
:
1045
00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:45,390
Speaker 2: through that.
:
1046
00:38:45,390 --> 00:38:45,400
Yes,
:
1047
00:38:45,670 --> 00:38:49,755
Speaker: what we're reading and
we're watching listen a lot today.
:
1048
00:38:50,295 --> 00:38:55,484
However, comma, let me just readjust
things here on my back end to jump
:
1049
00:38:55,484 --> 00:38:56,835
into this week's new releases.
:
1050
00:38:56,835 --> 00:39:01,424
So we will be sharing six books
each, a piece on new books that have
:
1051
00:39:01,424 --> 00:39:06,765
come out this week, November 9th
through to November 15th this year.
:
1052
00:39:06,884 --> 00:39:10,035
So first on my list is an academic affair.
:
1053
00:39:10,035 --> 00:39:11,535
I read this one, I enjoyed it.
:
1054
00:39:11,535 --> 00:39:15,825
We have two rival English professors
who fake a marriage to secure.
:
1055
00:39:15,855 --> 00:39:16,935
Um, uh, you know this.
:
1056
00:39:17,315 --> 00:39:20,465
Uh, position in their work, but of
course they discover pretending to
:
1057
00:39:20,465 --> 00:39:24,065
love each other is just, you know, a
fast, they actually like each other.
:
1058
00:39:24,065 --> 00:39:24,694
It's a romance.
:
1059
00:39:24,725 --> 00:39:25,115
Okay.
:
1060
00:39:25,625 --> 00:39:32,225
Then we have the Amber Glow
Candy Store by Hi Yoko, csu.
:
1061
00:39:32,315 --> 00:39:33,725
Odds are I butchered that name.
:
1062
00:39:33,725 --> 00:39:36,185
But listen, this is delightfully.
:
1063
00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:39,380
Cozy escapist, borderline magical realism.
:
1064
00:39:39,380 --> 00:39:44,750
We have a mysterious fox spirit that
runs this moonlight candy shop, and
:
1065
00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:48,800
every customer, every time they come
in a suite forces them to confront
:
1066
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,920
their lives and truths and things
they've been avoiding in their lives.
:
1067
00:39:52,370 --> 00:39:57,680
We also have New this week, um,
not You Again by Erin LaRosa.
:
1068
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,500
I personally haven't read this
one, but it says there's um, two
:
1069
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:02,540
people in a chaotic time loop.
:
1070
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,530
This is on my TBR this week,
but this is out and new.
:
1071
00:40:06,980 --> 00:40:11,270
Also out this week is a
Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex.
:
1072
00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:13,940
This one I read and listen, it is a ride.
:
1073
00:40:14,270 --> 00:40:18,320
It's a thriller, but it's more
literary vibes, and we have a woman
:
1074
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,300
who is haunting her sister's killer.
:
1075
00:40:20,910 --> 00:40:25,140
She ends up in this, you know, cat and
mouse chase with this man who had some
:
1076
00:40:25,140 --> 00:40:26,580
dealings with her family in the past.
:
1077
00:40:26,580 --> 00:40:28,140
And she has secrets.
:
1078
00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:29,130
And she has secrets.
:
1079
00:40:29,130 --> 00:40:30,900
It's a whole mess, but it's so good.
:
1080
00:40:31,319 --> 00:40:37,140
Next up, we have, um, next time
will be our turn by Jesse Custo.
:
1081
00:40:37,140 --> 00:40:40,799
I personally haven't read this one, but
it's about a grandmother sharing with
:
1082
00:40:40,799 --> 00:40:45,029
her granddaughter, you know, her life
story and her love story and everything
:
1083
00:40:45,029 --> 00:40:48,480
to help her granddaughter now understand,
you know, her life and her future.
:
1084
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:53,250
So that's on my TBR and also
out this week is revenge.
:
1085
00:40:53,655 --> 00:40:57,075
Served Royal by s Celeste Nelly.
:
1086
00:40:57,525 --> 00:40:59,355
Um, this is supposed to be a cozy mystery.
:
1087
00:40:59,355 --> 00:41:00,255
I haven't read it.
:
1088
00:41:00,285 --> 00:41:01,695
This is book three in a series.
:
1089
00:41:01,695 --> 00:41:04,815
I haven't read this series, but
it looks cute 'cause I'm just
:
1090
00:41:04,815 --> 00:41:06,405
discovering it now at book three.
:
1091
00:41:06,405 --> 00:41:10,545
But it's like Agatha Christie
meets like the royal family,
:
1092
00:41:10,575 --> 00:41:12,465
um, kind of cozy mystery vibe.
:
1093
00:41:12,465 --> 00:41:18,105
So, um, those are my six books on my
list, but I know Francesca has, um,
:
1094
00:41:18,105 --> 00:41:20,055
some book recommendations as well.
:
1095
00:41:20,055 --> 00:41:23,415
So I'm excited to hear about
the books that are on your list.
:
1096
00:41:23,415 --> 00:41:23,895
Fran.
:
1097
00:41:24,335 --> 00:41:24,545
Speaker 2: Yeah.
:
1098
00:41:24,545 --> 00:41:28,235
So the first one is the Seventh
Champion by Sylvia Mercedes.
:
1099
00:41:28,235 --> 00:41:33,995
So this is romantic, but more like
slow burn a little bit ya in vibe.
:
1100
00:41:34,265 --> 00:41:38,705
And it's basically our heroin is
a dragon princess and there is a.
:
1101
00:41:39,384 --> 00:41:42,774
There's some trials to
basically marry her off.
:
1102
00:41:42,774 --> 00:41:45,234
That's what her family is doing.
:
1103
00:41:45,294 --> 00:41:48,984
And she ends up meeting with this one guy.
:
1104
00:41:48,984 --> 00:41:50,544
She thought it was a bodyguard.
:
1105
00:41:50,815 --> 00:41:53,785
Um, but it turns out it was actually
this guy that's an assassin.
:
1106
00:41:53,785 --> 00:41:55,194
He went there to kill her.
:
1107
00:41:55,225 --> 00:41:57,714
Things didn't work out in the
moment where she found him.
:
1108
00:41:57,714 --> 00:41:59,754
So he unveils his identity.
:
1109
00:41:59,754 --> 00:42:03,565
He is actually a prince and
he joins the competition now.
:
1110
00:42:03,565 --> 00:42:06,205
She didn't want to do any of
that, so she wants to escape.
:
1111
00:42:06,205 --> 00:42:11,335
And it's, it's kind of a cute,
um, story where she's very strong
:
1112
00:42:11,335 --> 00:42:13,674
and, you know, trying to like
do her own thing and go away.
:
1113
00:42:13,674 --> 00:42:16,194
So she's a healer, he's an assassin.
:
1114
00:42:16,194 --> 00:42:17,935
It's, it's got a nice dynamic.
:
1115
00:42:18,145 --> 00:42:22,645
And also, um, Selia Mercedes was
on the blog this week recommending
:
1116
00:42:22,645 --> 00:42:27,475
some slow burn, romantic her
top five, which was really fun.
:
1117
00:42:27,475 --> 00:42:29,335
There's one in there
that I absolutely love.
:
1118
00:42:29,335 --> 00:42:33,355
So I have a link in the show's description
if you wanna check out her favorites.
:
1119
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:37,589
Then the next one that I am actually
in the middle of reading already is
:
1120
00:42:37,589 --> 00:42:39,690
Your Knife, my Heart by KM Anova.
:
1121
00:42:40,770 --> 00:42:45,359
So this one we have a killer, so it's
kind of like military dark romance.
:
1122
00:42:45,359 --> 00:42:48,480
The guy is part of this
elite organization.
:
1123
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,160
He is like the super, super killer, like,
you know, no feelings and everything.
:
1124
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,839
And the heroin gets assigned.
:
1125
00:42:54,839 --> 00:42:55,710
It's the new recruit.
:
1126
00:42:55,710 --> 00:43:02,370
She gets assigned to the unit and she
has to kind of like guide her in and
:
1127
00:43:02,370 --> 00:43:04,109
you know, things ensue from there.
:
1128
00:43:04,109 --> 00:43:05,100
A little bit of chaos.
:
1129
00:43:05,925 --> 00:43:07,125
Questionable morals.
:
1130
00:43:07,425 --> 00:43:11,895
The next one is another
Mafia Dark Romance.
:
1131
00:43:11,895 --> 00:43:13,695
It's indulged by Luna Mason.
:
1132
00:43:13,695 --> 00:43:19,575
Now this one is about a mafia arranged
marriage or marriage of convenience, but
:
1133
00:43:19,575 --> 00:43:24,620
the heroine is engaged to this one guy
and it ends up where she's kind of having
:
1134
00:43:25,005 --> 00:43:28,245
a relationship with his twin as well.
:
1135
00:43:28,965 --> 00:43:31,935
So I don't know, but I saw
the, the promo for this before,
:
1136
00:43:31,965 --> 00:43:33,345
like a couple of months ago.
:
1137
00:43:33,810 --> 00:43:36,240
And I immediately marked it on
my TBR 'cause I'm like, that
:
1138
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:37,650
sounds like a whole ass mess.
:
1139
00:43:38,130 --> 00:43:39,510
So I need to read that.
:
1140
00:43:39,810 --> 00:43:41,880
Um, and I think that comes
out either today or tomorrow.
:
1141
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,500
The next is Genive Adamovich.
:
1142
00:43:43,530 --> 00:43:47,850
I mean, I have, I used to love every
Genive Adamovich book that comes
:
1143
00:43:47,850 --> 00:43:50,610
out, and I went off for a little
bit, but this one sounds good.
:
1144
00:43:50,610 --> 00:43:56,910
It's a artifact heist caper, um,
and it's basically the heroin with
:
1145
00:43:56,910 --> 00:43:59,310
her ex-husband going along with it.
:
1146
00:43:59,310 --> 00:44:03,270
So that sounds really good,
especially as in, you know, we're
:
1147
00:44:03,450 --> 00:44:05,790
dealing with the Louvre heist.
:
1148
00:44:06,090 --> 00:44:09,990
So I think that it's very opportune
timing and it's kind of like Oceans 11.
:
1149
00:44:10,230 --> 00:44:11,340
So I'm excited for that.
:
1150
00:44:11,340 --> 00:44:14,310
Then there's a matter
of murder by Tza price.
:
1151
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,590
So this is Lizzie Bennett and Mr.
:
1152
00:44:16,590 --> 00:44:18,360
Darcy solving murders together.
:
1153
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:18,960
So it's a.
:
1154
00:44:19,245 --> 00:44:23,174
Cozy murder mystery with
them, um, you know, solving
:
1155
00:44:23,174 --> 00:44:24,524
cases and it's a whole series.
:
1156
00:44:24,524 --> 00:44:26,504
So there's other books
already in that series.
:
1157
00:44:26,835 --> 00:44:30,435
And the last, it's, so my ex-boyfriend
is a serial killer by Kylie Scott.
:
1158
00:44:30,705 --> 00:44:34,515
Now this one I read months ago 'cause
it originally released as an audiobook.
:
1159
00:44:34,515 --> 00:44:36,375
So this is just the ebook release of it.
:
1160
00:44:36,705 --> 00:44:42,045
And the heroin, her ex-boyfriend ended
up getting caught as a serial killer.
:
1161
00:44:42,045 --> 00:44:45,345
He's in jail, but everybody in
the town, she thinks that she
:
1162
00:44:45,345 --> 00:44:46,515
had something to do with it.
:
1163
00:44:46,665 --> 00:44:50,234
And this is the romance between her
and her next door neighbor as she's
:
1164
00:44:50,234 --> 00:44:54,585
dealing with, you know, maybe some other
bodies coming up now and people thinking
:
1165
00:44:54,585 --> 00:44:56,205
that it was actually her all along.
:
1166
00:44:56,205 --> 00:45:00,435
So those are my six books, six
new releases for this week.
:
1167
00:45:01,095 --> 00:45:01,845
Speaker: Yes.
:
1168
00:45:01,904 --> 00:45:03,315
Exciting new releases.
:
1169
00:45:03,315 --> 00:45:03,325
Exciting.
:
1170
00:45:04,095 --> 00:45:04,785
Yes.
:
1171
00:45:04,845 --> 00:45:07,845
Lots of great books we're
putting up on screen.
:
1172
00:45:07,905 --> 00:45:08,265
Okay.
:
1173
00:45:08,295 --> 00:45:12,435
Or a little chart of new
releases, so they're all numbered.
:
1174
00:45:12,465 --> 00:45:14,775
So let us know in the chat.
:
1175
00:45:14,805 --> 00:45:15,045
Okay?
:
1176
00:45:15,045 --> 00:45:17,235
If you're watching live, let
us know in the live chat.
:
1177
00:45:17,565 --> 00:45:18,825
If you're watching the replay.
:
1178
00:45:18,855 --> 00:45:21,045
Replay crew, we wanna
hear from you as well.
:
1179
00:45:21,285 --> 00:45:25,635
Let us know the new releases that
have caught your eye that you're like,
:
1180
00:45:25,635 --> 00:45:27,765
yes, I'm gonna add this to my TBR.
:
1181
00:45:27,765 --> 00:45:28,695
So for me.
:
1182
00:45:29,305 --> 00:45:31,944
On my TBR would be number four.
:
1183
00:45:31,944 --> 00:45:35,605
That, um, that Erin LaRosa,
that sounds interesting.
:
1184
00:45:36,024 --> 00:45:39,640
Um, the Julie Soto, uh,
Jesse Satanto, sorry book.
:
1185
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:39,920
Mm-hmm.
:
1186
00:45:40,004 --> 00:45:42,535
Sounds super interesting as well.
:
1187
00:45:42,774 --> 00:45:46,375
I would pick five, but it would mean I
wanna go read the other two books first.
:
1188
00:45:46,375 --> 00:45:50,964
So from my list, I'm definitely gonna
say four and six, but from, from
:
1189
00:45:50,964 --> 00:45:53,855
Francesca's, list number 11 is on my list.
:
1190
00:45:54,410 --> 00:45:57,170
Number 11 is on my TBR 10.
:
1191
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,020
Sounds super interesting, but
how many books are in that one?
:
1192
00:46:00,770 --> 00:46:04,370
Speaker 2: I think there's
gonna be at least three before.
:
1193
00:46:04,460 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker: Three before.
:
1194
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:05,540
Speaker 2: Okay.
:
1195
00:46:05,540 --> 00:46:06,530
If I remember correctly.
:
1196
00:46:06,530 --> 00:46:07,550
Yeah, maybe more.
:
1197
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,010
It's been going on for several years.
:
1198
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:11,660
Speaker: Oh, I'm just hearing about it.
:
1199
00:46:11,660 --> 00:46:14,150
But what books, um, are on your TBR?
:
1200
00:46:14,150 --> 00:46:15,080
What sounds interesting?
:
1201
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,710
Speaker 2: So for sure, I already
had the number four on my TBR
:
1202
00:46:19,010 --> 00:46:21,140
because it sounds really cute.
:
1203
00:46:21,140 --> 00:46:24,200
And I did read her books
last year, I think.
:
1204
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,740
So definitely that sounds,
um, that sounds good.
:
1205
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:32,600
I definitely will add number
eight from my list to my TBR.
:
1206
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:38,390
Like I said, Janet Ivanovich and
I have a love hate relationship
:
1207
00:46:38,390 --> 00:46:40,580
lately, so we'll give her a try.
:
1208
00:46:41,180 --> 00:46:45,620
But I definitely think number six is
also a high contender for the TBR 'cause
:
1209
00:46:45,620 --> 00:46:49,970
I love Jessica Ceto and that sounds
like a hard warming story for sure.
:
1210
00:46:49,975 --> 00:46:50,355
Speaker: Mm-hmm.
:
1211
00:46:50,595 --> 00:46:50,955
Mm-hmm.
:
1212
00:46:51,185 --> 00:46:51,675
Speaker 2: Comfort.
:
1213
00:46:51,785 --> 00:46:52,275
Comfort.
:
1214
00:46:52,415 --> 00:46:52,955
We need comfort.
:
1215
00:46:54,130 --> 00:46:55,210
Speaker: Yeah, we need comfort.
:
1216
00:46:55,240 --> 00:47:00,250
Erin is going with 11, 12 and two.
:
1217
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:02,170
Two is fun.
:
1218
00:47:02,225 --> 00:47:03,100
I, I read too.
:
1219
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:03,880
It's nice.
:
1220
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,900
It's, it's escapist, you know, um,
a little magical realism in the mix.
:
1221
00:47:08,350 --> 00:47:12,910
Um, Chrissy, Chrissy is saying six and 11.
:
1222
00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:13,690
Sounds great.
:
1223
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:15,250
I love these combinations.
:
1224
00:47:15,250 --> 00:47:15,340
Speaker 2: Yes,
:
1225
00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker: yes.
:
1226
00:47:17,110 --> 00:47:18,640
Um, yeah, definitely.
:
1227
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:19,150
I love it.
:
1228
00:47:19,150 --> 00:47:20,230
And they're opposites too.
:
1229
00:47:20,290 --> 00:47:24,069
So those are on my TBR as well, so, yeah.
:
1230
00:47:24,069 --> 00:47:26,710
So that's it for this week's new releases.
:
1231
00:47:26,710 --> 00:47:29,020
Again, if you're watching
the replay, replay crew, we'd
:
1232
00:47:29,020 --> 00:47:30,580
love to hear from you as well.
:
1233
00:47:30,850 --> 00:47:33,310
And we also wanna shout
out Brown girl Reading.
:
1234
00:47:33,310 --> 00:47:34,000
Hey Deedee.
:
1235
00:47:34,045 --> 00:47:34,585
Hi Deedee.
:
1236
00:47:35,140 --> 00:47:37,180
Hope you're doing good over there, girl.
:
1237
00:47:37,180 --> 00:47:40,750
And as we are wrapping new
releases, we're gonna jump into.
:
1238
00:47:41,490 --> 00:47:45,930
The what we're reading segment, and I
don't have much to report to you all.
:
1239
00:47:45,930 --> 00:47:49,380
I'm really stewing on my winter
reading guide, the books I've
:
1240
00:47:49,380 --> 00:47:54,150
been reading for that, however,
coincidentally, and it is not timed.
:
1241
00:47:54,210 --> 00:47:54,780
All right.
:
1242
00:47:54,780 --> 00:48:01,200
But I was listening to the,
okay, I'm not making this up.
:
1243
00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:03,150
So it was fresh in my mind.
:
1244
00:48:03,210 --> 00:48:07,830
Um, when Good Reads, um, awards
just kind of came out this week,
:
1245
00:48:07,830 --> 00:48:09,060
I was like, oh, perfect timing.
:
1246
00:48:09,060 --> 00:48:09,930
Well, let me tell you something.
:
1247
00:48:10,380 --> 00:48:14,760
I'm loving this cast, so I am
here to endorse this version.
:
1248
00:48:14,940 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 2: Nice.
:
1249
00:48:15,330 --> 00:48:20,100
Speaker: Um, of Jane and you know,
again, just in time for Jane two 50.
:
1250
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:20,610
Mm-hmm.
:
1251
00:48:20,616 --> 00:48:22,620
But what is on your reading list?
:
1252
00:48:22,620 --> 00:48:23,550
What have you been reading?
:
1253
00:48:23,550 --> 00:48:24,930
What have you been lobbying?
:
1254
00:48:25,350 --> 00:48:29,070
Speaker 2: So the first thing is I
finished over the weekend cold wire by
:
1255
00:48:29,070 --> 00:48:31,200
Chloe Gong, which came out last week.
:
1256
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,260
I talked about it in the new releases,
and I picked up the audiobook
:
1257
00:48:34,260 --> 00:48:36,990
immediately while I was doing my
planning, playing with my planner.
:
1258
00:48:38,130 --> 00:48:39,360
Love this book.
:
1259
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:44,640
So it's very, um, it's, it's
kind of like virtual reality.
:
1260
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:50,310
So our heroine technically not gonna
spoil it, but there's like, um, the,
:
1261
00:48:50,310 --> 00:48:53,580
the real world and then they get
plugged in a little bit matrix style,
:
1262
00:48:53,580 --> 00:48:58,170
and then they go into the virtual
reality and she has to work for an
:
1263
00:48:58,170 --> 00:49:00,750
organization that it's very much like the.
:
1264
00:49:01,140 --> 00:49:05,009
Kind of like the corporation that oversees
everything and the surveillance and all
:
1265
00:49:05,009 --> 00:49:06,810
of this stuff, of all the civilians.
:
1266
00:49:07,140 --> 00:49:13,470
And so she works for them and they are
trying to go and capture this rebel that
:
1267
00:49:13,470 --> 00:49:15,990
is trying to, you know, start some stuff.
:
1268
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:21,630
So it's basically her working with her
organization and then that rebel captures
:
1269
00:49:21,630 --> 00:49:24,390
her and forces her to be a spy for them.
:
1270
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,490
So like he sets her up in this thing.
:
1271
00:49:26,820 --> 00:49:31,799
When I tell you that this was so much fun,
if you like, like all the virtual reality,
:
1272
00:49:31,799 --> 00:49:36,840
but also the little bit more dystopian
elements, like this needs to be a movie.
:
1273
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,070
It was just so good.
:
1274
00:49:38,370 --> 00:49:40,049
There's a cliffhanger at the end.
:
1275
00:49:40,049 --> 00:49:41,580
I cannot wait for book two.
:
1276
00:49:41,820 --> 00:49:42,420
So.
:
1277
00:49:42,670 --> 00:49:44,170
I'm really excited for this one.
:
1278
00:49:44,470 --> 00:49:48,790
And then the one that I am currently
reading, I picked it up because of Vibes.
:
1279
00:49:48,790 --> 00:49:52,840
It comes out next week and this
week we had like the, oh, we
:
1280
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,310
might see the Northern Lights.
:
1281
00:49:54,310 --> 00:49:59,200
So I was like, I saw a book that's
coming out that has the Northern Lights.
:
1282
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,850
Let me pick that up.
:
1283
00:50:00,910 --> 00:50:03,580
'cause you know, in Florida we
don't really get to see them.
:
1284
00:50:03,970 --> 00:50:07,630
So, um, it's Secret Nights
and Northern Lights, which is
:
1285
00:50:07,630 --> 00:50:09,370
basically a second chance Romance.
:
1286
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:14,890
The heroine goes on this assignment, kind
of like a travel journalist writer, and
:
1287
00:50:14,890 --> 00:50:16,450
she's been trying to get her big break.
:
1288
00:50:16,450 --> 00:50:22,000
She gets an assignment to go for
someone else to Iceland, and this
:
1289
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,670
photographer goes with her, is assigned
to go with her, and it happens to
:
1290
00:50:24,670 --> 00:50:29,500
be her ex who was also, it's an ex
that nobody knows they were together
:
1291
00:50:29,500 --> 00:50:31,270
because it's her brother's best friend.
:
1292
00:50:31,710 --> 00:50:35,520
So off they go to Iceland and it's just
them reconnecting and you know, the
:
1293
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,650
beautiful scenery and all of the things.
:
1294
00:50:37,650 --> 00:50:41,400
So it's probably great for
like the winter season.
:
1295
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,080
You know, it's cozy so far.
:
1296
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,509
So I'll report back on
how I end up liking it.
:
1297
00:50:46,140 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker: I'm gonna spoil it.
:
1298
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:48,240
I loved it first.
:
1299
00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:48,360
Oh good.
:
1300
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:49,825
I love it.
:
1301
00:50:50,085 --> 00:50:52,840
So like, like it, I don't care.
:
1302
00:50:53,130 --> 00:50:53,790
I loved it.
:
1303
00:50:56,310 --> 00:50:58,410
But that's it for what
we're currently reading.
:
1304
00:50:58,410 --> 00:51:02,250
You let us know in the comments
what you are reading as well.
:
1305
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,610
Um, Chrissy says, A Northern
Lights one has piqued my interest.
:
1306
00:51:05,819 --> 00:51:06,810
Listen, I loved it.
:
1307
00:51:06,810 --> 00:51:07,890
It it was fun.
:
1308
00:51:07,895 --> 00:51:10,230
I, I, I, I had a good time with it.
:
1309
00:51:10,965 --> 00:51:12,495
It's perfectly timed because mm-hmm.
:
1310
00:51:12,735 --> 00:51:15,645
Everyone's sharing pictures right now,
but I think it's a great winter read.
:
1311
00:51:15,675 --> 00:51:15,795
Speaker 2: Yeah,
:
1312
00:51:16,425 --> 00:51:19,245
Speaker: I would definitely add
it to a winter reading list.
:
1313
00:51:19,275 --> 00:51:19,545
Speaker 2: Yeah.
:
1314
00:51:19,545 --> 00:51:23,325
And plus also different settings, like
aren't we tired of always reading about
:
1315
00:51:23,325 --> 00:51:24,975
the same settings and the same thing?
:
1316
00:51:24,975 --> 00:51:28,545
So it was, so far it's been
refreshing to see other things.
:
1317
00:51:29,025 --> 00:51:30,225
Speaker: Yeah, I had fun with it.
:
1318
00:51:30,225 --> 00:51:31,785
It was incredibly delightful.
:
1319
00:51:32,145 --> 00:51:35,985
Um, but let us know in the comments
what you are reading as well.
:
1320
00:51:35,985 --> 00:51:36,555
Replay crew.
:
1321
00:51:36,555 --> 00:51:37,905
We wanna hear from you as well.
:
1322
00:51:37,965 --> 00:51:40,965
Um, Erin is saying Same re
Northern Lights, so we, we
:
1323
00:51:40,965 --> 00:51:41,865
need something different.
:
1324
00:51:42,135 --> 00:51:42,405
Yes.
:
1325
00:51:42,405 --> 00:51:43,995
We need something different for sure.
:
1326
00:51:44,685 --> 00:51:49,540
Alright, so wrapping things up, we are
jumping into the, what we're watching bit.
:
1327
00:51:49,540 --> 00:51:49,820
Mm-hmm.
:
1328
00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:53,055
You know, because this, and we read,
but we also watch things on telly
:
1329
00:51:53,085 --> 00:51:55,095
and you know what, it's storytelling.
:
1330
00:51:55,125 --> 00:51:56,655
It's all storytelling in the end.
:
1331
00:51:56,895 --> 00:52:02,115
So I've been reporting to you all week in,
week out on the Great British Baking Show.
:
1332
00:52:02,609 --> 00:52:06,660
Because this has been my appointment
television Friday evening, I'm on
:
1333
00:52:06,660 --> 00:52:08,279
the couch and I'm just watching it.
:
1334
00:52:08,279 --> 00:52:09,120
And I love it.
:
1335
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,250
It's a great way for me to unwind.
:
1336
00:52:11,310 --> 00:52:13,290
And unfortunately, we
have come to the end.
:
1337
00:52:13,770 --> 00:52:14,940
We have come to the end.
:
1338
00:52:15,149 --> 00:52:18,359
So of course we start with how many
bakers do we always start with?
:
1339
00:52:18,359 --> 00:52:19,319
Like a dozen of them.
:
1340
00:52:19,379 --> 00:52:20,129
I don't remember.
:
1341
00:52:20,190 --> 00:52:21,420
You can count them on screen.
:
1342
00:52:21,420 --> 00:52:22,410
That's this year's crop.
:
1343
00:52:23,009 --> 00:52:26,009
Um, but you know, you start with
a whole bunch of, uh, bakers and
:
1344
00:52:26,009 --> 00:52:30,149
I think the thing I love about
this show is don't come for me.
:
1345
00:52:30,149 --> 00:52:35,279
But unlike American, you know, competition
shows this is like competition.
:
1346
00:52:35,279 --> 00:52:35,970
Yeah.
:
1347
00:52:36,270 --> 00:52:38,759
But these are people helping
each other, you know what I mean?
:
1348
00:52:38,759 --> 00:52:41,730
Like if someone needs, um, you
know, extra this or that, or does
:
1349
00:52:41,730 --> 00:52:45,149
anyone have, you know, a knife or a
measurement spoon, it doesn't matter.
:
1350
00:52:45,149 --> 00:52:47,670
Like they're sharing and
they're helping and I love it.
:
1351
00:52:47,670 --> 00:52:50,700
So it's like, it's a competition,
but you can tell they make
:
1352
00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:51,960
lifelong friendships here.
:
1353
00:52:52,410 --> 00:52:56,725
Um, last week I did say, um,
we were down to the final.
:
1354
00:52:57,615 --> 00:52:59,385
These were our final three.
:
1355
00:52:59,685 --> 00:53:03,435
That gal in the middle was in
medical school doing her medical
:
1356
00:53:03,435 --> 00:53:06,555
school exams while doing Bake Off.
:
1357
00:53:06,615 --> 00:53:08,115
Again, that blew my mind.
:
1358
00:53:08,595 --> 00:53:10,725
Um, the guy to for her.
:
1359
00:53:11,625 --> 00:53:12,165
Yeah, I know.
:
1360
00:53:12,165 --> 00:53:12,675
It's insane.
:
1361
00:53:13,005 --> 00:53:16,875
The guy to the left on your
screen, he is the one who I
:
1362
00:53:16,875 --> 00:53:21,915
thought should have left like two
competitions ago if y'all were here.
:
1363
00:53:21,915 --> 00:53:23,505
And I was saying, or Short King.
:
1364
00:53:23,655 --> 00:53:24,525
Okay.
:
1365
00:53:24,525 --> 00:53:27,675
'cause we call it as Lucy on
British Television, the short
:
1366
00:53:27,675 --> 00:53:29,655
king left and I was gotted.
:
1367
00:53:29,685 --> 00:53:32,895
I felt, um, he should have
left instead of Short King.
:
1368
00:53:33,285 --> 00:53:37,965
Um, and then we had Toby who left after
that and I felt, no, he should have left.
:
1369
00:53:38,175 --> 00:53:40,125
Well listen, he redeemed
himself in the final.
:
1370
00:53:40,125 --> 00:53:41,835
I was very impressed with his piece.
:
1371
00:53:42,225 --> 00:53:47,835
And then the guy to, all right,
listen, he is a great baker.
:
1372
00:53:47,865 --> 00:53:51,525
I dunno how he ended up in the final,
but I was so happy for him because low
:
1373
00:53:51,525 --> 00:53:54,315
key, you know, I was sharing for him,
and I'm not gonna tell you all the
:
1374
00:53:54,315 --> 00:53:55,880
window just in case you wanna watch, but.
:
1375
00:53:56,700 --> 00:53:57,930
In the final three.
:
1376
00:53:57,930 --> 00:54:01,590
The person who won was the person we knew
was always gonna win in the beginning.
:
1377
00:54:01,590 --> 00:54:03,540
But I love Bakeoff.
:
1378
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,920
I, I just, I I do, there's just
something about it that provides
:
1379
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,870
comfort when the world is in chaos.
:
1380
00:54:09,930 --> 00:54:10,020
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
:
1381
00:54:10,770 --> 00:54:14,730
Speaker: Um, so, you know, that's, that's
kind of where I am with what I'm watching.
:
1382
00:54:15,420 --> 00:54:16,140
And, um,
:
1383
00:54:16,230 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 2: also totally missed opportunity
'cause I counted and they had 12
:
1384
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,600
contestants and it's a baking show.
:
1385
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,570
It should have been a baker's
dozen and it should have been 13.
:
1386
00:54:25,890 --> 00:54:27,295
Speaker: Oh, that's a good catch there.
:
1387
00:54:27,755 --> 00:54:27,975
Yes.
:
1388
00:54:28,355 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 2: Why are there 12?
:
1389
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:30,510
Speaker: Lemme tell you.
:
1390
00:54:30,510 --> 00:54:34,920
It's 10 weeks in the tent that has
been standard since the beginning.
:
1391
00:54:35,250 --> 00:54:37,740
So the last one you're gonna have three.
:
1392
00:54:37,745 --> 00:54:38,015
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
:
1393
00:54:38,235 --> 00:54:40,410
Speaker: So that means each
week you have to eliminate.
:
1394
00:54:40,410 --> 00:54:41,670
So that would be nine.
:
1395
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 2: They could have,
they could just add one week.
:
1396
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:45,870
Speaker: So 9, 10, 11, 12.
:
1397
00:54:46,260 --> 00:54:47,880
You know what they could have given us?
:
1398
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:48,120
Yeah.
:
1399
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:48,990
They could add a week I'm, or
:
1400
00:54:50,055 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 2: the first week to go home.
:
1401
00:54:52,110 --> 00:54:52,860
Something.
:
1402
00:54:53,475 --> 00:54:56,415
Speaker: Ooh or no, let two go near
:
1403
00:54:56,415 --> 00:54:59,805
Speaker 2: the, I think, I think
Project Runway used to do that.
:
1404
00:54:59,805 --> 00:55:03,315
Like the first week sometimes it was
like, oh, I think two people go home.
:
1405
00:55:03,315 --> 00:55:06,645
Like there were always once in a while
people like, oh two go home this week.
:
1406
00:55:07,305 --> 00:55:08,595
Speaker: Yes, I think
:
1407
00:55:08,595 --> 00:55:08,685
Speaker 2: so.
:
1408
00:55:08,685 --> 00:55:09,915
Missed opportunity to
:
1409
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:11,100
Speaker: missed opportunity.
:
1410
00:55:11,670 --> 00:55:13,245
Missed opportunity for sure.
:
1411
00:55:13,695 --> 00:55:16,665
Um, let me just hop to
the comments real quick.
:
1412
00:55:16,695 --> 00:55:19,875
Uh, technology will let me,
okay, so Didi was saying she was
:
1413
00:55:19,875 --> 00:55:24,285
reading Bleak House, the Romantic
and narrative of Sona of Truth.
:
1414
00:55:24,285 --> 00:55:25,725
So that's what DEI is reading.
:
1415
00:55:25,725 --> 00:55:28,125
So you'll need to share with us
what you are reading as well.
:
1416
00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:31,515
Um, also, Eric, oops,
here we go with the chat.
:
1417
00:55:31,515 --> 00:55:34,845
Erin is saying, I've been trying to
finish series and rereading Wayward
:
1418
00:55:34,845 --> 00:55:38,295
Children for coziness work is
being a pain, so my brain is tied.
:
1419
00:55:38,295 --> 00:55:38,895
I get that.
:
1420
00:55:38,955 --> 00:55:40,185
I get that a hundred percent.
:
1421
00:55:40,755 --> 00:55:42,345
Um, great British Baking Show.
:
1422
00:55:42,375 --> 00:55:43,065
Yes.
:
1423
00:55:43,065 --> 00:55:43,545
Can we can?
:
1424
00:55:43,634 --> 00:55:44,115
Yes.
:
1425
00:55:44,115 --> 00:55:47,055
Snaps, snaps for Great
British Baking Show.
:
1426
00:55:47,384 --> 00:55:50,445
Um, Erin says it is so much less drama.
:
1427
00:55:51,450 --> 00:55:52,830
Um, where did that comment go?
:
1428
00:55:53,069 --> 00:55:53,640
Oh, here we go.
:
1429
00:55:54,060 --> 00:55:55,410
It's so much less drama.
:
1430
00:55:55,410 --> 00:55:56,640
I love that about this one.
:
1431
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,520
American shows seem to on highlight,
which is, let me tell you.
:
1432
00:55:59,665 --> 00:55:59,884
Speaker 2: Yes.
:
1433
00:56:00,180 --> 00:56:00,870
Speaker: Yes.
:
1434
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,720
And that is coming from a Housewives fan.
:
1435
00:56:03,779 --> 00:56:04,319
Okay.
:
1436
00:56:04,665 --> 00:56:04,884
Oh.
:
1437
00:56:05,275 --> 00:56:07,140
Says I do Miss Ian.
:
1438
00:56:07,140 --> 00:56:08,730
It's the Short King people.
:
1439
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:13,020
I keep calling him the
Short King, but that Ian.
:
1440
00:56:13,020 --> 00:56:13,470
Okay.
:
1441
00:56:13,470 --> 00:56:15,240
We love more Short King.
:
1442
00:56:15,299 --> 00:56:15,960
Yes.
:
1443
00:56:16,350 --> 00:56:17,130
Ian was great.
:
1444
00:56:17,130 --> 00:56:18,720
I, I, listen, I loved Ian.
:
1445
00:56:19,259 --> 00:56:23,069
Um, Deedee says they still
aren't showing it on Netflix.
:
1446
00:56:23,069 --> 00:56:23,250
France.
:
1447
00:56:23,250 --> 00:56:24,210
Say how
:
1448
00:56:24,509 --> 00:56:26,339
Speaker 2: it's been gone for a while.
:
1449
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:27,569
Speaker: It's over now.
:
1450
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,790
Well, they were dripping
it to us week by week.
:
1451
00:56:29,835 --> 00:56:31,410
Week now the series is complete.
:
1452
00:56:31,410 --> 00:56:32,759
You should get this.
:
1453
00:56:32,910 --> 00:56:33,299
Speaker 2: Yeah.
:
1454
00:56:33,305 --> 00:56:33,485
Speaker: Hello?
:
1455
00:56:33,795 --> 00:56:34,085
Speaker 2: Yeah.
:
1456
00:56:34,290 --> 00:56:34,620
Speaker: Hello.
:
1457
00:56:34,860 --> 00:56:35,790
And Deida said, yeah.
:
1458
00:56:35,790 --> 00:56:37,740
Short Kings can get Oh yes.
:
1459
00:56:37,740 --> 00:56:39,150
Married to a short King.
:
1460
00:56:39,150 --> 00:56:39,630
Yes.
:
1461
00:56:39,660 --> 00:56:41,285
Let, I gotta put Ian
back up on the screen.
:
1462
00:56:42,005 --> 00:56:45,360
Ian is number 1, 2, 3 in the front row.
:
1463
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:46,140
He's seated.
:
1464
00:56:46,170 --> 00:56:47,520
He's a gentleman seated from.
:
1465
00:56:48,225 --> 00:56:48,735
To write.
:
1466
00:56:48,735 --> 00:56:52,785
Listen, we love a short king
and Ian was great on the show.
:
1467
00:56:52,785 --> 00:56:57,345
He will be missed and um,
I've been savoring, Chrissy
:
1468
00:56:57,345 --> 00:56:58,605
says, I've been savoring.
:
1469
00:56:58,605 --> 00:57:01,305
Nobody wants this, this last week.
:
1470
00:57:02,445 --> 00:57:02,505
Okay.
:
1471
00:57:02,505 --> 00:57:03,045
Alright.
:
1472
00:57:03,585 --> 00:57:07,305
Yes, we love the recommendations
and on the notes of, you know, um,
:
1473
00:57:07,365 --> 00:57:10,965
American TV being chaotic, I have
been watching Real Housewives of
:
1474
00:57:10,965 --> 00:57:12,525
Salt Lake City, which is chaos.
:
1475
00:57:12,525 --> 00:57:14,025
I ain't getting into that this week.
:
1476
00:57:14,415 --> 00:57:17,685
And I'm also watching Real Housewives
of Potomac, which is also chaos.
:
1477
00:57:17,685 --> 00:57:20,595
What I'm telling you, salt
Lake is the ultimate chaos.
:
1478
00:57:22,165 --> 00:57:22,485
Ultimate.
:
1479
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,285
But Fran, what are you, um, watching?
:
1480
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 2: I am bringing
all the mess this week.
:
1481
00:57:28,450 --> 00:57:29,350
All the mess.
:
1482
00:57:29,620 --> 00:57:33,280
So, because I actually started
watching, so last week I finished the
:
1483
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:34,660
interview with the Vampire series.
:
1484
00:57:34,660 --> 00:57:37,270
I did start watching the May
for Witches, but I took a break.
:
1485
00:57:37,420 --> 00:57:38,410
I am finishing it now.
:
1486
00:57:38,410 --> 00:57:39,610
We'll talk about that next week.
:
1487
00:57:39,940 --> 00:57:42,730
But I ended up randomly
picking up some stuff.
:
1488
00:57:42,730 --> 00:57:45,280
'cause you know, I like to watch
shows that are from other countries.
:
1489
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,320
So my Netflix is like, what about this?
:
1490
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:53,230
Um, so I picked up the
Rules of Fortune series.
:
1491
00:57:54,105 --> 00:57:57,045
Which it rulers, sorry,
rulers a fortune series.
:
1492
00:57:57,045 --> 00:58:00,225
Now I think this is a
brand new release,:
2025
:
1493
00:58:00,585 --> 00:58:06,705
And it is kind of like crime
organization, not necessarily cartel,
:
1494
00:58:06,705 --> 00:58:09,195
but like crime organization in Brazil.
:
1495
00:58:09,405 --> 00:58:12,795
Now the guy there in the middle, he
is just an up and coming, you know,
:
1496
00:58:12,795 --> 00:58:17,055
he is not part of the main houses
that are like in the, in the club.
:
1497
00:58:17,475 --> 00:58:23,025
Um, but he wants to be, you know,
so he is working his way in and he's
:
1498
00:58:23,025 --> 00:58:25,065
doing what he has to do to get there.
:
1499
00:58:25,065 --> 00:58:29,175
And of course there's the, the whole
thing, like as you're going through
:
1500
00:58:29,175 --> 00:58:33,015
the series, you know, that the
big secret is that he is actually
:
1501
00:58:33,015 --> 00:58:39,045
the son of one of the wives from
the, you know, the, the main guys.
:
1502
00:58:39,315 --> 00:58:44,655
So she's been helping him, but like on a,
oh, I need your help, but not necessarily
:
1503
00:58:44,655 --> 00:58:48,195
like she's telling him that you're my
son, so I want to help you get in there.
:
1504
00:58:48,705 --> 00:58:49,845
It's messy.
:
1505
00:58:50,270 --> 00:58:53,150
It's ridiculous, but it was a good time.
:
1506
00:58:53,630 --> 00:58:54,799
It was a messy good time.
:
1507
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,850
Um, and it is, you know, set in Brazil
and you're seeing all the locations,
:
1508
00:58:58,850 --> 00:59:01,160
which that was, uh, nice and entertaining.
:
1509
00:59:01,430 --> 00:59:04,460
And the second book that I did,
uh, sorry, book show that I did
:
1510
00:59:04,460 --> 00:59:06,500
enjoy more is Amsterdam Empire.
:
1511
00:59:06,799 --> 00:59:09,049
Now, this one is about this guy.
:
1512
00:59:09,650 --> 00:59:14,270
He has a coffee shop chain, so he's
like one of the main guys in Amsterdam
:
1513
00:59:14,270 --> 00:59:16,040
with a coffee shop selling pot.
:
1514
00:59:16,549 --> 00:59:23,660
And the, the wife, so he's been cheating
on his wife, and the wife finds out and he
:
1515
00:59:23,660 --> 00:59:27,410
decides that, you know, he's in love with
the mistress, so he's going to leave her.
:
1516
00:59:28,130 --> 00:59:32,840
And the wife is like, oh, but I've
been here for like 30 years and
:
1517
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,790
I've helped you build all this shit.
:
1518
00:59:34,940 --> 00:59:37,790
And so he's trying to like buy
her out of the divorce for like
:
1519
00:59:37,790 --> 00:59:39,665
$20 million and she's like, no.
:
1520
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,240
I want, I want the whole thing.
:
1521
00:59:42,779 --> 00:59:47,730
And she goes on a revenge rampage doing
all these crazy things to him, and I
:
1522
00:59:47,730 --> 00:59:49,730
was the whole time cheering for him.
:
1523
00:59:49,730 --> 00:59:51,779
Like, yes, yes, girl.
:
1524
00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:57,180
Get him like she's reporting where he
is, got the, the grow farm and like the
:
1525
00:59:57,180 --> 00:59:59,460
police are coming to like, it got messy.
:
1526
00:59:59,819 --> 01:00:01,500
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
:
1527
01:00:04,380 --> 01:00:07,320
Obviously it is set in
Amsterdam, so like, it was fun.
:
1528
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:12,330
The whole family's messy, but like I was
cheering for this woman, um, to get her
:
1529
01:00:12,330 --> 01:00:16,770
thing in the end so that I did enjoy that.
:
1530
01:00:16,830 --> 01:00:17,400
It was fun.
:
1531
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker: It sounds so messy, but so good.
:
1532
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,540
Listen, if you think you're
gonna leave and I'm just gonna
:
1533
01:00:24,540 --> 01:00:25,980
take whatever you're giving me.
:
1534
01:00:26,070 --> 01:00:26,290
No sir.
:
1535
01:00:26,315 --> 01:00:26,535
She
:
1536
01:00:26,535 --> 01:00:27,535
Speaker 2: was like, no,
:
1537
01:00:28,515 --> 01:00:28,735
Speaker: no.
:
1538
01:00:29,235 --> 01:00:29,655
Mm-hmm.
:
1539
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:31,590
I'm here for that.
:
1540
01:00:31,590 --> 01:00:32,310
I'm here for that.
:
1541
01:00:32,310 --> 01:00:32,730
Miss.
:
1542
01:00:33,060 --> 01:00:33,570
There you go.
:
1543
01:00:33,570 --> 01:00:34,290
Netflix.
:
1544
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:34,710
Speaker 2: Oh,
:
1545
01:00:34,710 --> 01:00:35,190
Speaker: God, yes.
:
1546
01:00:35,190 --> 01:00:36,270
Giving us all the miss.
:
1547
01:00:36,690 --> 01:00:37,410
Oh my gosh.
:
1548
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,060
Um, Erin is fighting for deedee.
:
1549
01:00:39,060 --> 01:00:39,780
How dare.
:
1550
01:00:39,900 --> 01:00:40,320
France.
:
1551
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:42,870
We need baking show.
:
1552
01:00:42,870 --> 01:00:43,740
We need baking show.
:
1553
01:00:43,980 --> 01:00:45,300
Welcome to Derry is so good.
:
1554
01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:50,760
I had that on my list because I, I
just love the Stephen King book set.
:
1555
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,250
I, I love the, the town of Derry.
:
1556
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,890
I just haven't got around to it,
so I think I might give it a go.
:
1557
01:00:55,890 --> 01:00:58,855
Didi's asking, have you watched
Frankenstein on Netflix?
:
1558
01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 2: No, but it's on my list.
:
1559
01:01:01,910 --> 01:01:03,140
Speaker: I haven't watched it yet.
:
1560
01:01:03,230 --> 01:01:03,530
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
:
1561
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:09,380
Because also the Jane Austen ruined my
life is on my list, which is a movie.
:
1562
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,370
So that's also on my immediate watch list.
:
1563
01:01:13,370 --> 01:01:14,540
But yeah, both of those.
:
1564
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,810
Speaker: This is a Frankenstein version
that was in cinemas and now on Netflix.
:
1565
01:01:18,810 --> 01:01:18,900
Mm-hmm.
:
1566
01:01:19,140 --> 01:01:19,230
Right.
:
1567
01:01:19,230 --> 01:01:19,710
It's that new one?
:
1568
01:01:20,340 --> 01:01:20,970
Speaker 2: I think so.
:
1569
01:01:20,970 --> 01:01:21,000
I think so.
:
1570
01:01:21,300 --> 01:01:21,660
Speaker: Okay.
:
1571
01:01:21,780 --> 01:01:21,990
Okay.
:
1572
01:01:22,380 --> 01:01:23,880
We are adding it to the watch list.
:
1573
01:01:23,885 --> 01:01:24,265
Mm-hmm.
:
1574
01:01:24,345 --> 01:01:26,880
But again, you know, if you're
watching the replay, replay crew,
:
1575
01:01:26,910 --> 01:01:31,530
let us know what you have been
watching and loving in the comments.
:
1576
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:32,400
Now here's the thing.
:
1577
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,790
If you just joined us, you know, we're
at the end of the live, um, we're
:
1578
01:01:35,790 --> 01:01:40,590
wrapping things up now, but we went
through the Good Reads Choice Award.
:
1579
01:01:40,590 --> 01:01:42,510
So if you haven't already,
again, now is a great time.
:
1580
01:01:42,510 --> 01:01:44,850
Just go back to the
beginning, catch up on that.
:
1581
01:01:45,180 --> 01:01:46,620
We went through each category.
:
1582
01:01:46,650 --> 01:01:49,050
We shared all the books we voted for.
:
1583
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:49,950
'cause we voted already.
:
1584
01:01:49,950 --> 01:01:53,850
We took the screenshots, we came with
the receipts, but we also shared who
:
1585
01:01:53,850 --> 01:01:55,620
we actually think is going to win.
:
1586
01:01:55,620 --> 01:01:59,520
Because who we vote for doesn't mean,
you know, that's, um, who's gonna win.
:
1587
01:01:59,700 --> 01:02:02,640
We also got into this week's new
releases, what we're reading and
:
1588
01:02:02,700 --> 01:02:06,780
what we're watching, and we do this
every Thursday, 12 noon Eastern time.
:
1589
01:02:06,780 --> 01:02:07,785
So mark your calendars.
:
1590
01:02:07,950 --> 01:02:08,280
Okay.
:
1591
01:02:08,490 --> 01:02:10,860
If you're at work, get
the little air buds in.
:
1592
01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:13,320
If you're in the cubicle,
whatever you're doing, tune in.
:
1593
01:02:13,694 --> 01:02:19,424
Or join the replay crew 'cause again, the
replays are are there as we end the live.
:
1594
01:02:19,424 --> 01:02:22,395
So yeah, subscribe to our channels,
like the video, and we're looking
:
1595
01:02:22,395 --> 01:02:24,165
forward to seeing you all next week.