1 00:00:08,234 --> 00:00:14,874 Speaker 1: You're listening to A'MM with mea podcast spillers. 2 00:00:14,994 --> 00:00:19,194 Speaker 2: Hello and Vernon and Laura Bonnie over here. We are 3 00:00:19,233 --> 00:00:21,754 Speaker 2: on a public holiday today, but we wanted to share 4 00:00:21,794 --> 00:00:24,794 Speaker 2: with you one of our favorite episodes we've ever done. 5 00:00:24,954 --> 00:00:27,674 Speaker 2: It is the Six Books Guaranteed to Get You out 6 00:00:27,714 --> 00:00:30,194 Speaker 2: of a Reading Slum, so six of our favorite books. 7 00:00:30,354 --> 00:00:31,994 Speaker 2: A lot of you know we have done a few 8 00:00:32,034 --> 00:00:34,074 Speaker 2: book episodes in the past, but. 9 00:00:34,074 --> 00:00:36,874 Speaker 1: This is our most popular one. Especially important to share 10 00:00:36,954 --> 00:00:39,394 Speaker 1: now because I know so many people have started twenty 11 00:00:39,394 --> 00:00:41,153 Speaker 1: twenty six off by saying like this is the year 12 00:00:41,153 --> 00:00:43,193 Speaker 1: I'm going to read more, and boy do we have 13 00:00:43,273 --> 00:00:45,473 Speaker 1: the books for you, Like these are ones you will 14 00:00:45,513 --> 00:00:46,473 Speaker 1: not be able to put down. 15 00:00:46,513 --> 00:00:49,314 Speaker 2: It was such a fun episode. Also, if you haven't 16 00:00:49,354 --> 00:00:51,993 Speaker 2: already listened to our brutally honest review we did on 17 00:00:52,193 --> 00:00:55,714 Speaker 2: People We Meet on Vacation, the Netflix movie. We did 18 00:00:55,714 --> 00:00:58,354 Speaker 2: that on Friday. It was really funny. 19 00:00:58,394 --> 00:01:00,554 Speaker 1: It might be the most off the rails episode we've 20 00:01:00,594 --> 00:01:01,034 Speaker 1: ever done. 21 00:01:01,114 --> 00:01:03,033 Speaker 2: We've had some really hot takes on that one. 22 00:01:02,874 --> 00:01:05,154 Speaker 1: And at one point we both leave our jobs and 23 00:01:05,194 --> 00:01:08,154 Speaker 1: then come back in. So stay tuned for the So. 24 00:01:08,154 --> 00:01:09,914 Speaker 2: Scroll up in your feed to see that one. If 25 00:01:09,954 --> 00:01:12,594 Speaker 2: you haven't already, but otherwise enjoy and we will see 26 00:01:12,594 --> 00:01:13,314 Speaker 2: you on Tuesday. 27 00:01:13,434 --> 00:01:21,394 Speaker 1: Bye bye from Mamma Mia. Welcome to The Spill your 28 00:01:21,514 --> 00:01:24,554 Speaker 1: daily pop culture Fix. I'm Laura Brodney and I'm m 29 00:01:24,594 --> 00:01:27,634 Speaker 1: Burnham and coming up on the show today. Look, you 30 00:01:27,674 --> 00:01:29,794 Speaker 1: guys have been asking it in my DMS. At least 31 00:01:29,834 --> 00:01:31,953 Speaker 1: I've been had about at least twenty in the last 32 00:01:32,074 --> 00:01:34,074 Speaker 1: oh no, that's not even a joke in the last 33 00:01:34,074 --> 00:01:36,594 Speaker 1: two months, so ten a month isn't too bad. We 34 00:01:36,634 --> 00:01:39,394 Speaker 1: are talking about not just our favorite books of all time. 35 00:01:39,394 --> 00:01:41,674 Speaker 1: That's a separate topic. Actually, we did an episode on that. 36 00:01:41,714 --> 00:01:43,794 Speaker 1: I'll link in the show notes. We are doing the 37 00:01:43,874 --> 00:01:46,394 Speaker 1: books that will get you out of a reading slump. 38 00:01:46,754 --> 00:01:49,074 Speaker 1: We've all been there, Like you're an avid reader and 39 00:01:49,114 --> 00:01:51,514 Speaker 1: then like life gets busy or now you know, we're 40 00:01:51,554 --> 00:01:53,634 Speaker 1: watching our phones, we go down a TikTok a rabbit 41 00:01:53,634 --> 00:01:55,994 Speaker 1: hole at night instead of reading, and then you try 42 00:01:56,034 --> 00:01:58,114 Speaker 1: and pick up a book. It's whatever book is trending 43 00:01:58,154 --> 00:01:59,874 Speaker 1: at the moment, and you try and read it and 44 00:01:59,914 --> 00:02:01,954 Speaker 1: you're like, this is hard and I hate it and 45 00:02:01,954 --> 00:02:04,074 Speaker 1: I don't want to do it, and then you're kind 46 00:02:04,074 --> 00:02:06,114 Speaker 1: of out of reading for a while because your mind 47 00:02:06,234 --> 00:02:09,354 Speaker 1: is not leading you there and you've had a bad experience. 48 00:02:09,434 --> 00:02:11,953 Speaker 1: And then we've all also been here where you pick 49 00:02:12,034 --> 00:02:14,954 Speaker 1: up that one book and it draws you in so intently, 50 00:02:14,994 --> 00:02:16,914 Speaker 1: and you read it all in one go. You stay 51 00:02:16,954 --> 00:02:18,914 Speaker 1: up late, you read it at work when you should 52 00:02:18,954 --> 00:02:21,074 Speaker 1: be working. I mean, I've never done that, but others might. 53 00:02:22,594 --> 00:02:23,954 Speaker 1: I mean I was looking down and I said it. 54 00:02:24,234 --> 00:02:26,314 Speaker 1: And so we're going to take you through those books today, 55 00:02:26,354 --> 00:02:28,714 Speaker 1: the books that will keep you turning the pages, the 56 00:02:28,714 --> 00:02:30,714 Speaker 1: books that you'll finish in the middle of the night, 57 00:02:30,954 --> 00:02:32,913 Speaker 1: just the books that will get you back into reading. 58 00:02:32,954 --> 00:02:34,714 Speaker 1: So as soon as you finish that, you look run 59 00:02:34,754 --> 00:02:36,554 Speaker 1: to your bookshelf and you think, what am I going 60 00:02:36,634 --> 00:02:38,834 Speaker 1: to read next? I love that? Okay? 61 00:02:38,874 --> 00:02:39,794 Speaker 2: Can I go first? 62 00:02:39,914 --> 00:02:41,594 Speaker 1: Yes? This one. 63 00:02:41,674 --> 00:02:44,514 Speaker 2: I kind of cheated because the only reason I have 64 00:02:44,594 --> 00:02:47,674 Speaker 2: this on my list was because our producer asked us, Hey, 65 00:02:47,714 --> 00:02:49,034 Speaker 2: I need a book to get me out of a 66 00:02:49,074 --> 00:02:51,514 Speaker 2: reading slump, and you recommended this book and I was like. 67 00:02:51,674 --> 00:02:53,714 Speaker 1: Oh, And I also told her i'd bring it in 68 00:02:53,914 --> 00:02:54,714 Speaker 1: like three days. 69 00:02:54,754 --> 00:02:57,474 Speaker 2: But I have a double whammy because I'm talking about it. 70 00:02:57,514 --> 00:02:59,314 Speaker 2: Plus I'm calling you out for not bringing in that 71 00:02:59,434 --> 00:03:00,034 Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. 72 00:03:00,154 --> 00:03:01,874 Speaker 1: Someone messaged me while I'm at home to put it 73 00:03:01,914 --> 00:03:03,594 Speaker 1: in my bag. Okay, well I'll put that on my 74 00:03:03,794 --> 00:03:06,274 Speaker 1: to do thank you. So I'm sorry. But now you're 75 00:03:06,274 --> 00:03:07,154 Speaker 1: just going to hear about how. 76 00:03:07,234 --> 00:03:10,234 Speaker 2: With this book is, how badly you should be reading 77 00:03:10,274 --> 00:03:12,514 Speaker 2: it if you ever get the chance to. So the 78 00:03:12,554 --> 00:03:15,474 Speaker 2: book I am talking about is romantic comedy. 79 00:03:15,554 --> 00:03:19,074 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love this book so much. I 80 00:03:19,154 --> 00:03:20,794 Speaker 1: just got it. I literally just got a chill. If 81 00:03:20,834 --> 00:03:22,394 Speaker 1: you're saying that name no good. 82 00:03:22,434 --> 00:03:23,633 Speaker 2: Can I confess something? 83 00:03:23,794 --> 00:03:24,154 Speaker 1: Yeah? 84 00:03:24,274 --> 00:03:25,354 Speaker 2: I read it four times? 85 00:03:25,634 --> 00:03:27,474 Speaker 1: Did you really? Oh? I believe it. 86 00:03:27,554 --> 00:03:28,554 Speaker 2: You can read it in a day. 87 00:03:28,754 --> 00:03:30,994 Speaker 1: You can read it in a day. But also the chemistry, 88 00:03:31,514 --> 00:03:33,474 Speaker 1: especially towards the end of the book, like I wish 89 00:03:33,554 --> 00:03:35,714 Speaker 1: I could feel that for the first time again. 90 00:03:36,794 --> 00:03:40,114 Speaker 2: To the romance in this book. It's by Curtis Sittenfield, 91 00:03:40,154 --> 00:03:44,874 Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant, brilliant writer. So it's called romantic comedy. The 92 00:03:44,914 --> 00:03:48,594 Speaker 2: book is a romantic comedy. It's very funny. I don't 93 00:03:48,634 --> 00:03:50,794 Speaker 2: want to call it a pandemic book because I know 94 00:03:50,834 --> 00:03:52,994 Speaker 2: that turns people off. But there is a big section 95 00:03:53,114 --> 00:03:54,994 Speaker 2: that happens during the pandemic, and. 96 00:03:54,954 --> 00:03:56,874 Speaker 1: It's the first book I've read that in where I 97 00:03:56,994 --> 00:03:59,154 Speaker 1: really felt it added so much the story and it 98 00:03:59,194 --> 00:04:02,314 Speaker 1: didn't make me feel like stressed about lockdowns. Obviously that 99 00:04:02,554 --> 00:04:04,594 Speaker 1: was a stressful time. But it's written into the book 100 00:04:04,674 --> 00:04:06,754 Speaker 1: so well, and it's such an important part of the story, 101 00:04:06,794 --> 00:04:10,274 Speaker 1: and it builds the central romance that it's not going 102 00:04:10,354 --> 00:04:10,994 Speaker 1: to make you sad. 103 00:04:11,114 --> 00:04:13,434 Speaker 2: It's not going to make you sad. It's done really well. 104 00:04:13,514 --> 00:04:16,513 Speaker 2: I was like, looking up how I can explain the book, 105 00:04:16,514 --> 00:04:18,593 Speaker 2: because you know, I'm very good at explaining fluff. 106 00:04:18,873 --> 00:04:21,313 Speaker 1: I love when you explain something you've just watched or read. 107 00:04:21,354 --> 00:04:22,954 Speaker 1: Because I was like, did you watch or read it? 108 00:04:23,193 --> 00:04:23,674 Speaker 1: I did? 109 00:04:23,794 --> 00:04:25,873 Speaker 2: I promise you I read it four times. Will I 110 00:04:25,873 --> 00:04:26,553 Speaker 2: be able to explain it? 111 00:04:26,594 --> 00:04:27,034 Speaker 1: Who knows. 112 00:04:27,034 --> 00:04:28,953 Speaker 2: But I saw a blog that said that it gave 113 00:04:28,993 --> 00:04:30,714 Speaker 2: them the vibe of what it would have been like 114 00:04:30,753 --> 00:04:33,993 Speaker 2: if Mindy Kaling when she was writing for the Office. 115 00:04:34,113 --> 00:04:36,473 Speaker 2: I'm like, that's so true. That is such a Mindy 116 00:04:36,553 --> 00:04:38,953 Speaker 2: Kaling thing. Anyway, that was a sidetrack. But the book 117 00:04:39,034 --> 00:04:42,513 Speaker 2: is about a writer called Sally Milt. She works on 118 00:04:42,553 --> 00:04:46,553 Speaker 2: a Saturday night live ish show. It's called The Night, a. 119 00:04:46,753 --> 00:04:49,833 Speaker 1: Pretty much Saturday Saturday night Live like to the tea. 120 00:04:49,953 --> 00:04:52,473 Speaker 2: It's exactly like it. The layout of the book is 121 00:04:52,474 --> 00:04:56,273 Speaker 2: my absolutely favorite part because instead of big chapters, there's 122 00:04:56,354 --> 00:04:59,393 Speaker 2: three distinct parts. Yeah, like her and her work where 123 00:04:59,433 --> 00:05:03,513 Speaker 2: she meets the famous pop star Noah Brewster, and then 124 00:05:03,553 --> 00:05:06,274 Speaker 2: the pandemic where they're back and forth with the emails, 125 00:05:06,474 --> 00:05:09,634 Speaker 2: and then at the end where they reunite again. And 126 00:05:09,753 --> 00:05:12,794 Speaker 2: I love how the chapters are like according to her 127 00:05:12,834 --> 00:05:15,953 Speaker 2: work timetable because Saturday Night Live, which we have talked 128 00:05:15,953 --> 00:05:18,193 Speaker 2: about in the past, like if you're a writer for 129 00:05:18,234 --> 00:05:21,113 Speaker 2: the show, you don't sleep. Essentially, sleep is not on 130 00:05:21,154 --> 00:05:24,514 Speaker 2: the table. You're in the offices from like two am. 131 00:05:24,674 --> 00:05:28,393 Speaker 2: Sometimes you come there at five am. You're there like writing, writing, writing. 132 00:05:28,513 --> 00:05:30,993 Speaker 2: The days are crazy, so I love how it's broken 133 00:05:31,034 --> 00:05:33,633 Speaker 2: down into like two am and then they're all just 134 00:05:33,674 --> 00:05:34,193 Speaker 2: in the office. 135 00:05:34,234 --> 00:05:35,073 Speaker 1: I'm still writing. 136 00:05:35,113 --> 00:05:38,154 Speaker 2: It's so well done, it's so funny, and it's one 137 00:05:38,154 --> 00:05:41,993 Speaker 2: of those things where you see a female protagonist talk 138 00:05:42,274 --> 00:05:46,713 Speaker 2: so openly about how it's not always like the main 139 00:05:46,794 --> 00:05:49,273 Speaker 2: character is like a pretty beautiful woman. And we've talked 140 00:05:49,274 --> 00:05:51,193 Speaker 2: about this as well. When an author wants you to 141 00:05:51,234 --> 00:05:53,873 Speaker 2: know that their main character is pretty, it's always like 142 00:05:53,873 --> 00:05:56,794 Speaker 2: some weird flashback of them going Sarah always knew she 143 00:05:56,953 --> 00:05:58,634 Speaker 2: was a pretty girl, but it was only when she's 144 00:05:58,633 --> 00:06:01,034 Speaker 2: standing in this ballgwn that you really feel like she 145 00:06:01,073 --> 00:06:03,674 Speaker 2: was a woman. So it's one of those things where 146 00:06:03,834 --> 00:06:06,633 Speaker 2: we've all seen it where it's like some really funny 147 00:06:06,674 --> 00:06:10,674 Speaker 2: comedian guy always ends up with like a beautiful like 148 00:06:10,993 --> 00:06:14,873 Speaker 2: Oscar winning star. Yeah, Colin, Joe Scarlet, Johansson. 149 00:06:14,953 --> 00:06:16,034 Speaker 1: Oh geez, that's a low blow. 150 00:06:16,154 --> 00:06:18,313 Speaker 2: And this does the opposite, right, Like she is the 151 00:06:18,393 --> 00:06:21,154 Speaker 2: funny comedian and she kind of describes herself as like 152 00:06:21,234 --> 00:06:23,993 Speaker 2: quote unquote average looking, and the pop star she falls 153 00:06:24,034 --> 00:06:26,794 Speaker 2: in love with is like this big Hollywood star. It's 154 00:06:26,834 --> 00:06:29,193 Speaker 2: so funny, so well done. Put on your list. If 155 00:06:29,234 --> 00:06:31,834 Speaker 2: you feel like there's nothing that's up your alley to read, 156 00:06:32,073 --> 00:06:32,873 Speaker 2: read this. 157 00:06:34,914 --> 00:06:36,873 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna cheat a little here. Actually i'm gonna 158 00:06:36,914 --> 00:06:38,753 Speaker 1: cheat twice. This is the first time because this isn't 159 00:06:38,794 --> 00:06:40,634 Speaker 1: a book, it's a book series. But once you read 160 00:06:40,674 --> 00:06:42,393 Speaker 1: the first one, you want to speed through the other 161 00:06:42,433 --> 00:06:45,234 Speaker 1: two the series as well. Yeah, and I've got two 162 00:06:45,274 --> 00:06:48,113 Speaker 1: that's fine. Well, again, nothing gets you out of a reading, right, 163 00:06:48,193 --> 00:06:49,713 Speaker 1: like when you finish a great book and there's six 164 00:06:49,753 --> 00:06:52,674 Speaker 1: more of them to read. So I'm recommending the Crazy 165 00:06:52,753 --> 00:06:56,274 Speaker 1: Rich Asian series, like Kevin Kwan one of my all 166 00:06:56,274 --> 00:07:00,313 Speaker 1: time favorites, the Ultimate page turner, the ultimate like just 167 00:07:00,594 --> 00:07:03,993 Speaker 1: indulgent read that. I've literally gone on holidays with these 168 00:07:04,034 --> 00:07:06,354 Speaker 1: books and completely ignored my family and other people because 169 00:07:06,354 --> 00:07:08,433 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, I have to finish this book. Now. 170 00:07:08,474 --> 00:07:10,314 Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you are saying, Crazy Rich 171 00:07:10,314 --> 00:07:12,914 Speaker 1: Asians is my favorite movie. Why would I read the book? 172 00:07:13,034 --> 00:07:14,994 Speaker 1: I know what happens, And to that, I would say 173 00:07:15,354 --> 00:07:20,834 Speaker 1: Crazy Rich Asians is also one of my would ignorance Yeah, exactly, 174 00:07:22,034 --> 00:07:25,434 Speaker 1: because the book is very different. They're a lot meaner 175 00:07:25,474 --> 00:07:26,954 Speaker 1: in the book, is all. I'll say. There is a 176 00:07:27,034 --> 00:07:28,194 Speaker 1: lot more tense and there's. 177 00:07:27,994 --> 00:07:29,393 Speaker 2: A lot more money in the book. 178 00:07:29,514 --> 00:07:31,714 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and just the way, like Kevin Kwan's way 179 00:07:31,714 --> 00:07:34,754 Speaker 1: of just describing what everyone's wearing, what they're whispering, what 180 00:07:34,794 --> 00:07:36,273 Speaker 1: they're saying, what they're eating, and the. 181 00:07:36,354 --> 00:07:39,474 Speaker 2: Dreach character has a storyline, whereas like in the movie, 182 00:07:39,474 --> 00:07:42,354 Speaker 2: you just see like the main character's storyline and then 183 00:07:42,393 --> 00:07:43,874 Speaker 2: everyone's kind of a side person. 184 00:07:43,994 --> 00:07:46,794 Speaker 1: Yeah. Ah, but the book is just the book is 185 00:07:46,874 --> 00:07:49,074 Speaker 1: everyone much more rich characters. So if you're not across 186 00:07:49,074 --> 00:07:50,713 Speaker 1: Crazy Rich changes at all. I don't even know how 187 00:07:50,714 --> 00:07:53,154 Speaker 1: to explain this to you. But Rachel and Nick mean 188 00:07:53,234 --> 00:07:55,953 Speaker 1: in New York. They fall in love. She thinks he's 189 00:07:56,114 --> 00:07:58,194 Speaker 1: just like a nice young guy from Singapore. They go 190 00:07:58,234 --> 00:08:01,154 Speaker 1: over to visit his family, where she discovers that he's 191 00:08:01,154 --> 00:08:05,354 Speaker 1: in baby, the ultimate NEPO baby. Then he's not just rich, 192 00:08:05,393 --> 00:08:08,154 Speaker 1: he's crazy rich. And obviously his family are very against 193 00:08:08,194 --> 00:08:11,514 Speaker 1: her marrying into their family. So that's the first book 194 00:08:11,514 --> 00:08:13,074 Speaker 1: in the series, Crazy Rich Asians. 195 00:08:13,114 --> 00:08:15,234 Speaker 2: That's also Asian. That's where the Asian comes from. 196 00:08:15,354 --> 00:08:18,674 Speaker 1: Yes, Then we have China Rich Girlfriend, which is the 197 00:08:18,754 --> 00:08:21,393 Speaker 1: second book, and then Rich People Problems a third book. 198 00:08:21,754 --> 00:08:24,994 Speaker 1: And I'd say China Rich Girlfriend is where things get crazy. 199 00:08:25,074 --> 00:08:29,874 Speaker 1: 'll just say there's a poisoning plot with Rachel. Rachel 200 00:08:29,874 --> 00:08:33,394 Speaker 1: also finds out who her father is. Massive plot twist 201 00:08:33,594 --> 00:08:36,794 Speaker 1: there something Nick's family was not expecting. And I don't know, 202 00:08:36,834 --> 00:08:39,194 Speaker 1: It's just a page turner. It keeps you going. You've 203 00:08:39,234 --> 00:08:42,234 Speaker 1: got the opulence and like the history where they are, 204 00:08:42,274 --> 00:08:44,833 Speaker 1: like Kevin Kwan does such an amazing job of describing 205 00:08:44,874 --> 00:08:47,634 Speaker 1: all the places in Singapore they're going to. But also, 206 00:08:47,834 --> 00:08:50,514 Speaker 1: as you're saying gives you more in depth backstory and 207 00:08:50,554 --> 00:08:53,194 Speaker 1: all of Nick's family members and let's just say we 208 00:08:53,394 --> 00:08:55,874 Speaker 1: see his mum in the movie played by Michelle Yo 209 00:08:56,154 --> 00:08:58,713 Speaker 1: kind of come around to it in the books, especially 210 00:08:58,874 --> 00:09:01,114 Speaker 1: in the movie the grandma is nice. Holy hell, that 211 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:04,474 Speaker 1: is a demon in the books, and then going on 212 00:09:04,474 --> 00:09:06,874 Speaker 1: to rich people problems when the grandmother's on her deathbed 213 00:09:06,874 --> 00:09:10,634 Speaker 1: and the family comes together in the mansion and just yeah, 214 00:09:10,994 --> 00:09:14,514 Speaker 1: crazy stuff happens, so crazy Rich Asians. I've read each 215 00:09:14,554 --> 00:09:16,594 Speaker 1: book multiple times, like I can just pick one of 216 00:09:16,594 --> 00:09:18,234 Speaker 1: those books up and just read it in one go. 217 00:09:18,394 --> 00:09:19,514 Speaker 2: Can I add something to that? 218 00:09:19,554 --> 00:09:19,834 Speaker 1: Please? 219 00:09:19,874 --> 00:09:22,714 Speaker 2: Do his latest book, Lies and Weddings? 220 00:09:23,234 --> 00:09:26,114 Speaker 1: Yeah, so good, My god. 221 00:09:26,394 --> 00:09:28,274 Speaker 2: I think about that book all the time. But also 222 00:09:28,354 --> 00:09:30,714 Speaker 2: with Crazy Ridge Asians. Because I went to Singapore recently. 223 00:09:31,154 --> 00:09:34,354 Speaker 2: My tour guide hated me. I was just asking them 224 00:09:34,514 --> 00:09:37,154 Speaker 2: so many questions. We went to La Pisade, which is 225 00:09:37,194 --> 00:09:38,914 Speaker 2: like where you get all the big sate and that 226 00:09:39,114 --> 00:09:41,674 Speaker 2: big thin and I was just like asking him questions. 227 00:09:41,714 --> 00:09:43,194 Speaker 2: I was like, and this is a sate that they 228 00:09:43,354 --> 00:09:44,914 Speaker 2: ate in Crazy Ridge Asians And he was like, can 229 00:09:44,994 --> 00:09:45,874 Speaker 2: you just eat your food? 230 00:09:45,994 --> 00:09:47,714 Speaker 1: Like You're like, no, it's my favorite book. 231 00:09:47,714 --> 00:09:49,234 Speaker 2: I was like, no, no, I know this place. I 232 00:09:49,234 --> 00:09:51,714 Speaker 2: know this place of my soul. He's like yeah, yeah, yeah, 233 00:09:51,754 --> 00:09:53,114 Speaker 2: like you and every other tourist that comes to. 234 00:09:53,314 --> 00:09:56,953 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So highly recommend. If look, if these books 235 00:09:56,954 --> 00:09:58,994 Speaker 1: don't get you out of a reading rut, then nothing will, 236 00:09:59,194 --> 00:10:00,754 Speaker 1: is all. I'll say that. Okay. 237 00:10:00,794 --> 00:10:03,994 Speaker 2: My next one was one that helped me out recently 238 00:10:04,034 --> 00:10:06,314 Speaker 2: because I was in a bit of a reading rut. 239 00:10:06,354 --> 00:10:10,594 Speaker 2: This is a series. I read the first book and 240 00:10:10,674 --> 00:10:16,114 Speaker 2: I became completely obsessed that I started reading the second book. 241 00:10:16,114 --> 00:10:17,713 Speaker 2: And I remember I started reading the second book on 242 00:10:17,754 --> 00:10:19,234 Speaker 2: a Friday, and I was talking to all the girls 243 00:10:19,274 --> 00:10:22,074 Speaker 2: in the office who loved the series, and I was like, oh, yeah, 244 00:10:22,074 --> 00:10:24,354 Speaker 2: I'm up to like the first chapter in the second book. 245 00:10:24,394 --> 00:10:26,394 Speaker 2: All this is happening, and they're like, oh cool, cool, cool. 246 00:10:26,914 --> 00:10:28,954 Speaker 2: And then I came back to work on the Monday, 247 00:10:28,994 --> 00:10:31,234 Speaker 2: so we had Saturday Sunday. Came back to work on 248 00:10:31,234 --> 00:10:33,674 Speaker 2: the Monday, and they were like, how's the book going? 249 00:10:33,714 --> 00:10:35,594 Speaker 2: And I was like, I finished it, and then I 250 00:10:35,634 --> 00:10:38,314 Speaker 2: finished the third and then I finished the Fall and. 251 00:10:38,354 --> 00:10:41,314 Speaker 1: They were like, holy hell, and you were like rocking 252 00:10:41,354 --> 00:10:42,674 Speaker 1: back and forth with my eyes. 253 00:10:42,754 --> 00:10:44,994 Speaker 2: I came because we had to record an episode. So 254 00:10:45,074 --> 00:10:48,354 Speaker 2: I had bloodshot eyes. This I like, my right eye 255 00:10:48,474 --> 00:10:49,074 Speaker 2: was twitching. 256 00:10:49,154 --> 00:10:50,354 Speaker 1: It's so kind of crazy. 257 00:10:50,434 --> 00:10:52,354 Speaker 2: It's still a bit like that's I think that's just 258 00:10:52,354 --> 00:10:56,953 Speaker 2: stress in general. I was like so sleepy. But even 259 00:10:56,994 --> 00:10:59,554 Speaker 2: then at work, all I could think about was this stupid, 260 00:10:59,594 --> 00:11:01,554 Speaker 2: bloody fifth book I had to read. And I had 261 00:11:01,594 --> 00:11:03,154 Speaker 2: to wait the whole week because I knew if I 262 00:11:03,194 --> 00:11:04,714 Speaker 2: picked it up during the week, I wouldn't be able 263 00:11:04,754 --> 00:11:07,074 Speaker 2: to think about anything else. This whole anticipation for the 264 00:11:07,274 --> 00:11:11,594 Speaker 2: one book I am talking about the Akatar series by 265 00:11:11,714 --> 00:11:12,274 Speaker 2: Sarah J. 266 00:11:12,594 --> 00:11:16,634 Speaker 1: No. How does that? Oh yes, it's literally all anyone 267 00:11:16,634 --> 00:11:18,714 Speaker 1: in the about forced you to read it. 268 00:11:18,954 --> 00:11:21,514 Speaker 2: LB's like reading them now because I told her that 269 00:11:21,554 --> 00:11:22,314 Speaker 2: we need to do. 270 00:11:22,314 --> 00:11:24,714 Speaker 1: A full episode, and we will. We will. 271 00:11:25,194 --> 00:11:28,234 Speaker 2: But the first book is really not everyone's favorite book 272 00:11:28,234 --> 00:11:29,394 Speaker 2: in the whole series, but it's the one that you 273 00:11:29,434 --> 00:11:31,594 Speaker 2: obviously have to read first or it gets everyone into 274 00:11:31,634 --> 00:11:35,914 Speaker 2: the series. It's a Roman to see, so I'm elevated now. 275 00:11:35,954 --> 00:11:38,074 Speaker 2: I stop calling it very smart, because I know that's 276 00:11:38,074 --> 00:11:40,434 Speaker 2: a bit offensive to people who love this genre. I 277 00:11:40,514 --> 00:11:42,594 Speaker 2: have been calling it a romanticy, which is what I've 278 00:11:42,594 --> 00:11:45,394 Speaker 2: been told to call it, and by romanticy. I mean, 279 00:11:45,434 --> 00:11:50,674 Speaker 2: it's just fairies having crazy sex. It's really good. And 280 00:11:50,714 --> 00:11:52,994 Speaker 2: it's not just about the sex, okay, because like I 281 00:11:53,074 --> 00:11:55,314 Speaker 2: came in thinking like I'm gonna get straight up porn. 282 00:11:55,394 --> 00:11:58,954 Speaker 2: It's not that there's an actual storyline. Are the characters 283 00:11:58,994 --> 00:11:59,594 Speaker 2: a bit weird? 284 00:12:00,074 --> 00:12:00,394 Speaker 1: Yes? 285 00:12:00,714 --> 00:12:03,034 Speaker 2: Are some of the female characters a bit odd that 286 00:12:03,074 --> 00:12:03,914 Speaker 2: I don't really like? 287 00:12:04,394 --> 00:12:04,634 Speaker 1: Yes? 288 00:12:04,994 --> 00:12:06,754 Speaker 2: But is that because they are odd? Or is that 289 00:12:06,754 --> 00:12:09,554 Speaker 2: just because I have some internalized misogyny going on? I 290 00:12:09,594 --> 00:12:12,554 Speaker 2: think it's that Raisin, because the men in these books, 291 00:12:12,594 --> 00:12:15,434 Speaker 2: like the male fairies, no man ever compares, Like I 292 00:12:15,434 --> 00:12:16,994 Speaker 2: don't think I can date anymore, Like. 293 00:12:16,954 --> 00:12:19,194 Speaker 1: You got to watch out for those male fairies. 294 00:12:19,514 --> 00:12:21,833 Speaker 2: To date anymore. If I go on a date with 295 00:12:21,874 --> 00:12:24,754 Speaker 2: a man, I'm gonna be like, but where are your wings? 296 00:12:26,114 --> 00:12:27,634 Speaker 1: Can I please be in the room next time you 297 00:12:27,634 --> 00:12:30,634 Speaker 1: ask a man that are your wings? 298 00:12:31,074 --> 00:12:33,194 Speaker 2: And like why aren't you flying me up to like 299 00:12:33,274 --> 00:12:36,234 Speaker 2: your big castle that like lavitates be on the ground, 300 00:12:36,354 --> 00:12:37,194 Speaker 2: Like where like. 301 00:12:37,674 --> 00:12:39,314 Speaker 1: Say a questions to ask a partner? 302 00:12:39,394 --> 00:12:40,674 Speaker 2: You want me to split the bill? 303 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,674 Speaker 1: You haven't even flown me up to a cart set. 304 00:12:43,714 --> 00:12:46,114 Speaker 2: And I know you're meant to have like a trove 305 00:12:46,194 --> 00:12:48,754 Speaker 2: of like treasures in your house, like what's going on? 306 00:12:48,954 --> 00:12:50,074 Speaker 1: And modern dating is a letdown. 307 00:12:50,274 --> 00:12:52,634 Speaker 2: It's a letdown. But also the only issue I take 308 00:12:52,674 --> 00:12:54,474 Speaker 2: with these books if you try to be one of 309 00:12:54,474 --> 00:12:56,554 Speaker 2: those people who trying to insert yourself in the book, 310 00:12:56,594 --> 00:12:58,434 Speaker 2: which I pretend to do, like I'm always a man. 311 00:12:58,634 --> 00:13:01,954 Speaker 1: Everyone, No, whole books have been written around characters that 312 00:13:01,994 --> 00:13:04,674 Speaker 1: are made for you to insert yourself into them, the 313 00:13:04,714 --> 00:13:08,314 Speaker 1: most famous being Bella Swan, Like that's a yeah. 314 00:13:08,394 --> 00:13:10,074 Speaker 2: And this is why it piss me off from people 315 00:13:10,074 --> 00:13:11,594 Speaker 2: are like where is Emily so obsessed. 316 00:13:11,314 --> 00:13:11,994 Speaker 1: With Mindy Kaling? 317 00:13:12,194 --> 00:13:15,234 Speaker 2: There's nothing worse than you pretending you're the main character 318 00:13:15,234 --> 00:13:17,994 Speaker 2: of a book. And then she says something dumb like 319 00:13:18,274 --> 00:13:20,794 Speaker 2: and then I pushed my blonde hair over my shoulder, 320 00:13:20,874 --> 00:13:23,354 Speaker 2: like you're not meant to be blonde, I'm meant to 321 00:13:23,394 --> 00:13:26,034 Speaker 2: be Youndy Tayling is gonna love how many shout outs 322 00:13:26,034 --> 00:13:27,754 Speaker 2: she's getting in this episode. It says, so, this is 323 00:13:27,794 --> 00:13:31,834 Speaker 2: a call out for all authors, no description on your characters. 324 00:13:31,914 --> 00:13:34,114 Speaker 2: I'll do that in my head, thank you very much. 325 00:13:34,394 --> 00:13:35,754 Speaker 1: So how many books series? 326 00:13:37,354 --> 00:13:40,834 Speaker 2: Back to me, back to Akata? 327 00:13:40,994 --> 00:13:42,394 Speaker 1: This is a personal shout. 328 00:13:43,274 --> 00:13:46,154 Speaker 2: Five books in this series, So far rumors that there's 329 00:13:46,194 --> 00:13:49,594 Speaker 2: going to be a six book dropping this year. Sarah 330 00:13:49,674 --> 00:13:52,594 Speaker 2: jay Mash she started writing Romanticy when she was like 331 00:13:52,634 --> 00:13:56,554 Speaker 2: sixteen years old, so that's a prime age just writing, 332 00:13:57,114 --> 00:13:59,994 Speaker 2: Like I should have just stuck with my fan fiction tumblr. 333 00:14:00,234 --> 00:14:03,194 Speaker 2: If this is what it could have been me brilliant writer. 334 00:14:03,554 --> 00:14:06,634 Speaker 2: It's such good storytelling and world building, like you actually 335 00:14:06,754 --> 00:14:10,114 Speaker 2: escape into these books. It's so well done in such 336 00:14:10,274 --> 00:14:12,794 Speaker 2: easy reads, Like you'll just fly through them like I did. 337 00:14:13,074 --> 00:14:13,834 Speaker 2: I would just drink a. 338 00:14:13,794 --> 00:14:14,874 Speaker 1: Lot of you flew through them? 339 00:14:14,914 --> 00:14:17,474 Speaker 2: Did you really flew through them with my own wings 340 00:14:18,034 --> 00:14:22,034 Speaker 2: like a girl boss? 341 00:14:22,154 --> 00:14:26,554 Speaker 1: Put that on a T shirt. Okay, I'm Laura, just 342 00:14:26,714 --> 00:14:29,514 Speaker 1: raise you talking about you? Do you want to lie 343 00:14:29,514 --> 00:14:32,314 Speaker 1: down for the best? Stressed out? So when the Akatar 344 00:14:32,434 --> 00:14:34,554 Speaker 1: series began popping off, so many people in the office 345 00:14:34,594 --> 00:14:36,634 Speaker 1: to be like, Laura, are you getting into Romanticy? Are 346 00:14:36,674 --> 00:14:38,634 Speaker 1: you going to read them? And to that, I slapped 347 00:14:38,674 --> 00:14:40,914 Speaker 1: them across the face and I said, how dare you? 348 00:14:41,194 --> 00:14:44,994 Speaker 1: I was raised by Romanticy. It's all, according. 349 00:14:44,594 --> 00:14:48,154 Speaker 2: Mindy Kaling, We've done enough. 350 00:14:48,714 --> 00:14:52,034 Speaker 1: Because Romanticy is pretty much all I read through my 351 00:14:52,114 --> 00:14:54,514 Speaker 1: teens through my twenties, and to be honest into my 352 00:14:54,554 --> 00:14:55,354 Speaker 1: early thirties. 353 00:14:55,434 --> 00:14:59,394 Speaker 2: So if you were romantic from like the eighteen hundreds, yeah, 354 00:15:00,474 --> 00:15:01,594 Speaker 2: reading like the Bible. 355 00:15:02,554 --> 00:15:05,674 Speaker 1: What. No, there's so many romanticy This isn't the first 356 00:15:05,714 --> 00:15:08,954 Speaker 1: romanticy series. It's one of the is genres in the world. 357 00:15:08,994 --> 00:15:11,194 Speaker 1: Because romance books are one of the highest selling things 358 00:15:11,234 --> 00:15:12,434 Speaker 1: in the world that just don't get a lot of 359 00:15:12,474 --> 00:15:14,874 Speaker 1: attention until now when they're starting to kind of heat 360 00:15:14,954 --> 00:15:18,074 Speaker 1: up because it's mostly women buying them. But romanticy has 361 00:15:18,114 --> 00:15:21,874 Speaker 1: been having a huge moment in the spotlight for decades, 362 00:15:21,954 --> 00:15:24,034 Speaker 1: particularly i'd say in the early two thousands that was 363 00:15:24,034 --> 00:15:26,714 Speaker 1: one of the big booms. So one of my favorite 364 00:15:26,794 --> 00:15:29,594 Speaker 1: romantic series that I feel like if you're loving Akatar 365 00:15:29,714 --> 00:15:31,554 Speaker 1: and you just want something on the same veins. I mean, 366 00:15:31,594 --> 00:15:33,994 Speaker 1: there's so many book series like that out there, but 367 00:15:34,154 --> 00:15:36,834 Speaker 1: one of my absolute favorite is the Fever series by 368 00:15:36,914 --> 00:15:37,834 Speaker 1: Karen Marie Moning. 369 00:15:38,074 --> 00:15:39,474 Speaker 2: The Fever Series. 370 00:15:39,874 --> 00:15:42,114 Speaker 1: Yes, so the first book came out in two thousands. 371 00:15:42,154 --> 00:15:44,794 Speaker 1: Are you writing that down? Yes, okay, I'll send you 372 00:15:44,874 --> 00:15:49,074 Speaker 1: these notes just to write it down. I'm stressed, very cute. 373 00:15:49,314 --> 00:15:52,034 Speaker 1: So there's eleven books in the series, and you might 374 00:15:52,114 --> 00:15:54,274 Speaker 1: that's a commitment you might feel like that's a lot, 375 00:15:54,314 --> 00:15:55,834 Speaker 1: but once you get into the first one, you'd be like, 376 00:15:55,874 --> 00:15:58,074 Speaker 1: holy hell, hook this to my veins. I'm going to 377 00:15:58,154 --> 00:16:00,354 Speaker 1: read these all through the night. So Dark Fever is 378 00:16:00,394 --> 00:16:02,674 Speaker 1: the first novel. These aren't like underground books. These were 379 00:16:02,674 --> 00:16:05,394 Speaker 1: New York Times best selling books, okay, and continue to 380 00:16:05,434 --> 00:16:08,434 Speaker 1: sell millions of copies. So the story starts off with 381 00:16:08,474 --> 00:16:11,714 Speaker 1: a young girl who's working. She's like graduated, she's still 382 00:16:11,714 --> 00:16:13,754 Speaker 1: living with her parents. She's a bit of a party girl. 383 00:16:13,834 --> 00:16:17,274 Speaker 1: She works as a bartender in Georgia. Her name's Mikayla Lane. 384 00:16:17,314 --> 00:16:20,954 Speaker 1: Everyone calls her Mac, and her sister is over studying 385 00:16:20,994 --> 00:16:23,434 Speaker 1: in Dublin in Ireland, and her sister's the much more 386 00:16:23,514 --> 00:16:26,634 Speaker 1: kind of studious one. And then and her family find 387 00:16:26,634 --> 00:16:29,274 Speaker 1: out that her sister has been killed and the police 388 00:16:29,314 --> 00:16:31,274 Speaker 1: are just you know, not looking into it. They've kind 389 00:16:31,274 --> 00:16:33,314 Speaker 1: of written it off. So Mac, who was very close 390 00:16:33,354 --> 00:16:35,594 Speaker 1: to her sister and just thinks everything about her death 391 00:16:35,634 --> 00:16:38,074 Speaker 1: sounds so suspicious, but she doesn't know anyone in Ireland 392 00:16:38,074 --> 00:16:40,354 Speaker 1: to ask about it, so she jumps on a plane 393 00:16:40,394 --> 00:16:42,554 Speaker 1: to fly to Dublin and try and figure out what 394 00:16:42,634 --> 00:16:46,594 Speaker 1: happened to her sister, only to discover that Dublin is 395 00:16:46,754 --> 00:16:50,074 Speaker 1: crawling with the fay people, which are very very sexy 396 00:16:50,114 --> 00:16:55,394 Speaker 1: but dangerous kill you through sex. Fairies kills you th set. Yeah, 397 00:16:55,594 --> 00:16:57,514 Speaker 1: some of them do. Oh, a lot of them do. Yeah. 398 00:16:57,514 --> 00:16:59,554 Speaker 2: They had this whole choice or does it just happen? 399 00:16:59,714 --> 00:17:03,474 Speaker 1: No, they can just do it to you. Yeah, there's layers, layers. 400 00:17:03,674 --> 00:17:06,033 Speaker 1: So Mac also finds out that she and her sister 401 00:17:06,114 --> 00:17:08,273 Speaker 1: both have this ability. They can see through like the 402 00:17:08,273 --> 00:17:10,553 Speaker 1: glamours that the fairies in London put up, so she 403 00:17:10,634 --> 00:17:13,514 Speaker 1: can see the fairies and the monsters and the demons 404 00:17:13,514 --> 00:17:13,954 Speaker 1: and all. 405 00:17:13,834 --> 00:17:15,674 Speaker 2: This time so they look like regular people. 406 00:17:15,714 --> 00:17:17,874 Speaker 1: They can look like regular people, and then she can 407 00:17:17,914 --> 00:17:20,234 Speaker 1: see through them to their fairy cells. And there's this 408 00:17:20,274 --> 00:17:24,273 Speaker 1: whole underground world happening in Dublin of these fairy people. 409 00:17:24,594 --> 00:17:27,314 Speaker 1: And Mac soon learns that her sister had discovered it 410 00:17:27,314 --> 00:17:29,594 Speaker 1: because she has the same ability and what has led 411 00:17:29,594 --> 00:17:32,593 Speaker 1: to her death as this big evil mastermind that's running Dublin. 412 00:17:33,074 --> 00:17:35,434 Speaker 1: Then she gets a job at this bookshop because it's 413 00:17:35,474 --> 00:17:38,474 Speaker 1: run by this man called Jericho. She can't figure out 414 00:17:38,514 --> 00:17:40,434 Speaker 1: what he is. What he is comes out over the 415 00:17:40,434 --> 00:17:43,434 Speaker 1: next couple of books. He's just a very hot mysterious 416 00:17:43,514 --> 00:17:47,154 Speaker 1: man who also helps her start to uncover this fairy 417 00:17:47,234 --> 00:17:49,634 Speaker 1: world and like all the demons and everything within it. 418 00:17:49,634 --> 00:17:52,634 Speaker 1: It's just so well written, like the world building and 419 00:17:52,674 --> 00:17:55,714 Speaker 1: the history and of this like young girl, she is blonde. 420 00:17:55,754 --> 00:18:00,754 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Iross that she does change her hair 421 00:18:00,754 --> 00:18:02,474 Speaker 1: at one stage, if that makes you feel any better. 422 00:18:02,674 --> 00:18:04,594 Speaker 1: And each book kind of takes you further into the 423 00:18:04,634 --> 00:18:06,474 Speaker 1: mystery of like what happened to her sister, the different 424 00:18:06,474 --> 00:18:08,834 Speaker 1: things she uncovered. She starts to sort of make friends 425 00:18:08,834 --> 00:18:11,354 Speaker 1: and enemies with different people within like the fairies and 426 00:18:11,394 --> 00:18:14,634 Speaker 1: demons and everything. That's so good, and it is wildly sexy, 427 00:18:14,714 --> 00:18:16,994 Speaker 1: not just between Mac and Jericho, but between like all 428 00:18:16,994 --> 00:18:19,794 Speaker 1: the other fairy situations. But yeah, it does get pretty 429 00:18:19,834 --> 00:18:23,074 Speaker 1: rapey towards the end, which is with death by sex fairies, 430 00:18:23,114 --> 00:18:26,474 Speaker 1: which is something a lot of humans want. But yeah, 431 00:18:26,474 --> 00:18:29,394 Speaker 1: it's so good. There's eleven books. There were all best sellers, 432 00:18:29,674 --> 00:18:32,634 Speaker 1: So the Fever series, like FEVA, you start this on 433 00:18:32,674 --> 00:18:34,874 Speaker 1: a Friday night, You're gonna call me on Saturday morning 434 00:18:34,874 --> 00:18:37,554 Speaker 1: and be like, I finished it. I finished its. Look, 435 00:18:37,554 --> 00:18:39,553 Speaker 1: I'm in love with Jericho. I'm in love with Christian Chelter. 436 00:18:39,634 --> 00:18:41,313 Speaker 1: I also want to be mac. Oh my god. When 437 00:18:41,314 --> 00:18:43,114 Speaker 1: I went to Dublin, I'd just walk the first time. 438 00:18:43,114 --> 00:18:44,914 Speaker 1: I'd walk around at night, just picturing me being in 439 00:18:44,914 --> 00:18:47,594 Speaker 1: that world. So we Me and Singapore's you in Dublin 440 00:18:48,034 --> 00:18:49,634 Speaker 1: looking for the Death Bysex Fairies. 441 00:18:51,914 --> 00:18:54,314 Speaker 2: Okay, this one I chose because it's got me out 442 00:18:54,314 --> 00:18:56,434 Speaker 2: of a reading slump when I was quite young, during 443 00:18:56,434 --> 00:18:58,874 Speaker 2: that period of when you have to read all these 444 00:18:58,874 --> 00:19:01,914 Speaker 2: big novels for school, and then you graduate school and 445 00:19:01,914 --> 00:19:04,114 Speaker 2: you're like, I'm never reading again. I hate books. 446 00:19:04,274 --> 00:19:05,513 Speaker 1: Okay I never said. 447 00:19:05,394 --> 00:19:07,874 Speaker 2: Oh my god, that was me. I hated school, like 448 00:19:07,874 --> 00:19:09,754 Speaker 2: I loved it, but I hated it. I hate being 449 00:19:09,754 --> 00:19:13,793 Speaker 2: told what to read. But then I found this author. 450 00:19:14,034 --> 00:19:16,313 Speaker 2: You might know her. Her name is Jillian Flynn. 451 00:19:16,394 --> 00:19:18,994 Speaker 1: She's quite famous. I think I've heard that name once 452 00:19:19,074 --> 00:19:19,554 Speaker 1: or twice. 453 00:19:19,594 --> 00:19:23,354 Speaker 2: And her book Sharp Objects got me right back into 454 00:19:23,394 --> 00:19:27,034 Speaker 2: reading and the love for reading. So Jillian Finn, she's 455 00:19:27,114 --> 00:19:31,674 Speaker 2: like a psychological thriller author. Thriller books are my favorite 456 00:19:31,714 --> 00:19:33,994 Speaker 2: because I find thriller movies too scary. 457 00:19:34,114 --> 00:19:35,394 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yeah, time we go to a 458 00:19:35,434 --> 00:19:37,434 Speaker 1: thriller movie, I look over and you're on the ground, 459 00:19:37,634 --> 00:19:38,194 Speaker 1: too scary. 460 00:19:38,194 --> 00:19:41,434 Speaker 2: Whereas I can actually like appreciate it in book form 461 00:19:41,434 --> 00:19:43,714 Speaker 2: because there's no like jump scares, you know what I mean. Yeah, 462 00:19:43,794 --> 00:19:45,234 Speaker 2: I had a jump scare. That's my thing. I had 463 00:19:45,274 --> 00:19:47,754 Speaker 2: a jump scare. But that's why I love thriller books, 464 00:19:47,754 --> 00:19:50,434 Speaker 2: because I love like mystery, and I love like those 465 00:19:50,474 --> 00:19:55,074 Speaker 2: investigative novels and the kind of like the description and 466 00:19:55,154 --> 00:19:57,634 Speaker 2: the like who did it. I've been reading The Housemaid, 467 00:19:57,714 --> 00:20:00,354 Speaker 2: which is like a new thriller series. If anyone else 468 00:20:00,394 --> 00:20:02,354 Speaker 2: is reading that, come talk to me, sign into my 469 00:20:02,434 --> 00:20:05,274 Speaker 2: DM so it's really good. But Sharp Objects is about 470 00:20:05,594 --> 00:20:08,754 Speaker 2: Camille Prika, who's a sh cargo journalist and she returns 471 00:20:08,794 --> 00:20:12,634 Speaker 2: to her small hometown of Windgat, Missouri, and she moves 472 00:20:12,674 --> 00:20:15,834 Speaker 2: back in with her mom, who's a bit weird, and 473 00:20:15,914 --> 00:20:18,594 Speaker 2: her stepsister, Emma, who she has like a bit of 474 00:20:18,634 --> 00:20:22,194 Speaker 2: an interesting relationship with. You also find out like this 475 00:20:22,274 --> 00:20:25,514 Speaker 2: family dynamic is quite weird because like her mum really 476 00:20:25,554 --> 00:20:28,834 Speaker 2: babies her stepsister, even though her stepsister is like close 477 00:20:28,874 --> 00:20:31,354 Speaker 2: to being a grown woman. And you find out exactly 478 00:20:31,434 --> 00:20:34,634 Speaker 2: why there's been some murders in the small town, which 479 00:20:34,714 --> 00:20:36,954 Speaker 2: is why she's there, just a few, and they're all 480 00:20:36,994 --> 00:20:40,514 Speaker 2: really weird, with like their teeth pulled out. Yeah, very gross, 481 00:20:40,554 --> 00:20:43,834 Speaker 2: but it's not gruesome gross. It's just very like ooh gross. 482 00:20:44,314 --> 00:20:46,594 Speaker 2: And she with like the police who she kind of 483 00:20:46,594 --> 00:20:48,394 Speaker 2: has like a bit of a fling with, try to 484 00:20:48,474 --> 00:20:52,394 Speaker 2: investigate these murders together. It is done so well. And 485 00:20:52,394 --> 00:20:55,274 Speaker 2: then from reading this book, I started reading Gone Girl 486 00:20:55,434 --> 00:20:59,194 Speaker 2: and then Dark Places, which are also massive Gillian Flynn novels, 487 00:20:59,234 --> 00:21:02,114 Speaker 2: also very thriller and mystery. But if you're looking for 488 00:21:02,234 --> 00:21:05,354 Speaker 2: like a quick thriller fix this is really good to 489 00:21:05,394 --> 00:21:06,914 Speaker 2: get you into like reading. 490 00:21:06,714 --> 00:21:08,714 Speaker 1: And good plot twist at the end, very chilling. 491 00:21:08,794 --> 00:21:10,994 Speaker 2: Ah she goes bar twist. Oh my god. 492 00:21:11,354 --> 00:21:14,074 Speaker 1: Well, going from a thriller to the ultimate comfort read, 493 00:21:14,114 --> 00:21:16,514 Speaker 1: I thought I just put one really good comfort read 494 00:21:16,594 --> 00:21:19,234 Speaker 1: in there. It just feels like a warm hug. This 495 00:21:19,394 --> 00:21:22,154 Speaker 1: is one of my absolute favorite books of all time. 496 00:21:22,194 --> 00:21:24,874 Speaker 1: I don't say that lightly because I've read thousands of books, 497 00:21:25,434 --> 00:21:28,513 Speaker 1: but it is The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher. I 498 00:21:28,634 --> 00:21:31,354 Speaker 1: never read it well. Came out in the eighties, obviously, 499 00:21:31,434 --> 00:21:32,594 Speaker 1: that was before I was born. 500 00:21:32,594 --> 00:21:34,394 Speaker 2: Why do you like reading books before you were born? 501 00:21:34,594 --> 00:21:37,034 Speaker 1: Because you don't just read books from when you were born. 502 00:21:37,714 --> 00:21:39,834 Speaker 1: My mom gave me this book when I was a teenager, 503 00:21:39,914 --> 00:21:42,914 Speaker 1: and she loved it, and I loved it. I've read 504 00:21:42,914 --> 00:21:45,234 Speaker 1: this book. I'm gonna cry. I read this book so 505 00:21:45,234 --> 00:21:47,794 Speaker 1: many times. The pages fell apart in my hands one 506 00:21:47,874 --> 00:21:50,434 Speaker 1: day and I had to go buy a new copy. 507 00:21:50,754 --> 00:21:52,594 Speaker 1: And then I still have the pages from the old 508 00:21:52,594 --> 00:21:54,553 Speaker 1: book because I don't want to throw them away. 509 00:21:55,034 --> 00:21:55,714 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 510 00:21:56,794 --> 00:21:58,834 Speaker 1: So it's a really beautiful book. It's set in two 511 00:21:58,874 --> 00:22:02,194 Speaker 1: different time periods. Some of it is set in London. 512 00:22:02,234 --> 00:22:04,514 Speaker 1: It tells the story Penelope Keeling. When you first meet 513 00:22:04,554 --> 00:22:06,154 Speaker 1: her in the book, she's a woman in her fifties. 514 00:22:06,434 --> 00:22:08,593 Speaker 1: She lives in this beautiful big house in the country, 515 00:22:08,634 --> 00:22:10,754 Speaker 1: and her father was a famous painter and she has 516 00:22:10,794 --> 00:22:13,394 Speaker 1: one of his paintings in her home. She has three 517 00:22:13,434 --> 00:22:18,594 Speaker 1: adult children, Olivia who's a magazine editor, her oldest daughter Nancy, 518 00:22:18,714 --> 00:22:21,474 Speaker 1: who's like, you know, very you know, unsatisfying marriage, and 519 00:22:21,514 --> 00:22:24,834 Speaker 1: then Noel, who's like her wild son. And then it 520 00:22:24,954 --> 00:22:27,874 Speaker 1: also goes back in time to Penelope's life as like 521 00:22:28,234 --> 00:22:30,434 Speaker 1: a young girl with her mother and father in World 522 00:22:30,434 --> 00:22:32,714 Speaker 1: War two, And it kind of goes back and forth 523 00:22:32,714 --> 00:22:35,354 Speaker 1: in time following all the different members of this family 524 00:22:35,394 --> 00:22:37,874 Speaker 1: as they kind of fight over this money, but it's 525 00:22:37,914 --> 00:22:41,554 Speaker 1: just so incredible. Olivia's story in particular, she's like this workaholic, 526 00:22:41,794 --> 00:22:45,674 Speaker 1: fabulous magazine editor. Then she goes to Ibitha on this 527 00:22:45,754 --> 00:22:48,394 Speaker 1: like one week holiday, falls madly in love with this 528 00:22:48,474 --> 00:22:50,994 Speaker 1: older man called Cosmo, and like stays there with him, 529 00:22:51,034 --> 00:22:53,513 Speaker 1: and then like his daughter comes into the later story, 530 00:22:53,994 --> 00:22:55,754 Speaker 1: and it's just one of those books where like the 531 00:22:55,834 --> 00:22:59,034 Speaker 1: descriptions of like the world they're in the countryside, I'm 532 00:22:59,074 --> 00:23:01,353 Speaker 1: very pretty, and yeah, it's all very pretty, but just 533 00:23:01,394 --> 00:23:04,874 Speaker 1: like the depth of emotion in all these different family members, 534 00:23:04,914 --> 00:23:06,554 Speaker 1: Like even though like Nola and Nancy are kind of 535 00:23:06,554 --> 00:23:08,754 Speaker 1: the bad si, you see so much into their world 536 00:23:08,834 --> 00:23:10,714 Speaker 1: and to their family and to how they feel that 537 00:23:11,154 --> 00:23:13,434 Speaker 1: they become these very rich characters. And then when you're 538 00:23:13,474 --> 00:23:16,954 Speaker 1: going back to Penelope's life as a child, as like 539 00:23:17,314 --> 00:23:19,354 Speaker 1: with her big love story and then why she marries 540 00:23:19,394 --> 00:23:21,073 Speaker 1: a man she's not in love with later on and 541 00:23:21,114 --> 00:23:23,234 Speaker 1: having her children and how it all culminates in this 542 00:23:23,314 --> 00:23:26,514 Speaker 1: beautiful story of like family and money and true love 543 00:23:26,594 --> 00:23:29,034 Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. Odd's so good. I 544 00:23:29,034 --> 00:23:30,634 Speaker 1: don't want to go into the specifics of all the 545 00:23:30,674 --> 00:23:32,793 Speaker 1: characters because it is one of those just like incredible 546 00:23:32,794 --> 00:23:35,874 Speaker 1: like human stories. There are some kind of like twists 547 00:23:35,874 --> 00:23:39,033 Speaker 1: and unexpected moments with you know, people who die, and 548 00:23:39,074 --> 00:23:41,313 Speaker 1: mysteries are uncovered in lies that were told in the 549 00:23:41,394 --> 00:23:43,194 Speaker 1: family and all that sort of stuff. So like there 550 00:23:43,274 --> 00:23:45,874 Speaker 1: is that kind of like all these family secrets come 551 00:23:45,954 --> 00:23:48,553 Speaker 1: to the surface. But mostly it's just this like lovely 552 00:23:48,634 --> 00:23:52,234 Speaker 1: interesting story about all these different people, and it's just 553 00:23:52,354 --> 00:23:56,474 Speaker 1: so beautifully feeling. It is. It'll be sad, like I 554 00:23:56,834 --> 00:24:00,994 Speaker 1: always cry multiple times in it now there's some sad moments, 555 00:24:00,994 --> 00:24:04,674 Speaker 1: and there's some really beautiful moments as well. It's just 556 00:24:04,714 --> 00:24:06,313 Speaker 1: so good. I kind of just go how good it is. 557 00:24:06,314 --> 00:24:08,874 Speaker 1: Like it's just those books where I wish he'd go 558 00:24:08,874 --> 00:24:10,273 Speaker 1: back and read it for the first time. But I'm 559 00:24:10,314 --> 00:24:12,074 Speaker 1: also glad I didn't read it now in my thirties. 560 00:24:12,074 --> 00:24:13,594 Speaker 1: I'm glad I wrote as a teenage and I've had 561 00:24:13,594 --> 00:24:14,553 Speaker 1: it for my whole life. 562 00:24:14,874 --> 00:24:18,034 Speaker 2: Yeah that's yeah, that's so nice of you to say. 563 00:24:18,194 --> 00:24:20,754 Speaker 1: And I went to Ibitha on that cruise I went 564 00:24:20,794 --> 00:24:22,793 Speaker 1: on last year, and everyone's like, let's go party, and 565 00:24:22,834 --> 00:24:24,514 Speaker 1: I was like, walking around, let's. 566 00:24:24,354 --> 00:24:25,394 Speaker 2: Go to this little cottage. 567 00:24:25,714 --> 00:24:27,474 Speaker 1: No I did. I walked around to her, I thought 568 00:24:27,474 --> 00:24:29,513 Speaker 1: Cosmo's house would have been like where they pitch it 569 00:24:29,554 --> 00:24:31,634 Speaker 1: and just go to some random So I was standing 570 00:24:31,634 --> 00:24:33,634 Speaker 1: there being like, they're not real people, but I was like, 571 00:24:33,634 --> 00:24:36,194 Speaker 1: this is where she was imagining when she wrote those scenes. 572 00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:39,314 Speaker 1: So yeah, The shell Seekers by Rosmin Pelcher. There are 573 00:24:39,354 --> 00:24:41,914 Speaker 1: movies and TV shows they're not great. Don't watch that, Okay, 574 00:24:42,034 --> 00:24:43,714 Speaker 1: don't be like, oh Laura said the book was good, 575 00:24:43,714 --> 00:24:46,234 Speaker 1: the movie must be good. No, no, no, no, just the book, 576 00:24:46,354 --> 00:24:46,874 Speaker 1: just the book. 577 00:24:47,154 --> 00:24:49,914 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to the spill today. 578 00:24:49,954 --> 00:24:52,474 Speaker 2: If you love this episode, we did have a lot 579 00:24:52,514 --> 00:24:55,354 Speaker 2: of recommendations in it. So I'm just gonna list off 580 00:24:55,394 --> 00:24:57,154 Speaker 2: all the books we talked about. So get a pen 581 00:24:57,234 --> 00:24:58,194 Speaker 2: and paper ready. 582 00:24:58,034 --> 00:25:00,874 Speaker 1: Yeah, pause it here. If you have to get yourself ready, 583 00:25:00,914 --> 00:25:02,674 Speaker 1: send this to yourself as a voice, not whatever. 584 00:25:02,474 --> 00:25:06,714 Speaker 2: You have to do elevated music. Okay, surely you have 585 00:25:06,754 --> 00:25:09,793 Speaker 2: a pen and by now. These are the books in 586 00:25:09,954 --> 00:25:12,514 Speaker 2: order that you heard them in, not order of our preference. 587 00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:16,434 Speaker 2: That will be a fire to that will, Romantic comedy, 588 00:25:17,074 --> 00:25:22,474 Speaker 2: Crazy Rich Asians, the Fever series, Akatar, shell Seekers, and 589 00:25:22,594 --> 00:25:27,074 Speaker 2: Sharp Objects. These are your books. They really good. If 590 00:25:27,074 --> 00:25:29,274 Speaker 2: you want to get out of a reading rite, get 591 00:25:29,274 --> 00:25:30,114 Speaker 2: them on your list. 592 00:25:39,314 --> 00:25:42,314 Speaker 1: Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of the land. We 593 00:25:42,394 --> 00:25:46,034 Speaker 1: have recorded this podcast on the Gatigol people of the orination. 594 00:25:46,674 --> 00:25:49,273 Speaker 1: We pay our respects to their elders past and present, 595 00:25:49,554 --> 00:25:52,234 Speaker 1: and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait 596 00:25:52,274 --> 00:25:53,154 Speaker 1: Islander cultures