1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, I'm Kayleie Short, and this is too much 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: to say questions out you? Okay, So this week I 3 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: want to talk about some books that I've been reading recently. 4 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: And I read a lot, and I have a lot 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: of friends who like tell me that they want to 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: read more and they wish they could and blah blah 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: bla blah blah. And specifically, my boyfriend Sam always has 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: a really hard time finishing books and he desperately wants 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: to read, like he's super smart and like loves he 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: loves reading, but he just can't make himself do it. 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: And I think I hypothesized that it's because he picks 12 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: like really hetty intellectual books like philosophy or like just 13 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: like kind of dense things, which is really fine because 14 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: I read those as well. But if you want to 15 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: get back into reading, you kind of got to read 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: something that's going to keep you hooked, like it's a 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: TV show. And so I told him to read Daisy 18 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: Jones in the Six, which I'm not even gonna bother 19 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: talking about because I think, like so many people have 20 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: read it, but just know if you haven't, you should. 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: And then yeah, there's TV show, the TV shows great, 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: but I was like, you need to read Daisy Jones 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: in the six I promise you'll be able to get 24 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: through it. And it was the first time he'd like 25 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 1: finished a book in forever, and I was so proud 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: of him, and he was like, damn, you were right. 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: So I'm sharing that advice with you guys, just because 28 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: I know how many people want to read more. I 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: personally love it because I have ADHD, so when I'm 30 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 1: watching TV, I have to be doing something else and 31 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 1: then I don't like looking at a screen, but I 32 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: wind up on my phone and I don't like e 33 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: readers like I like just like the good old fashioned book. 34 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: I think they smell amazing and they just feel good 35 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: and you can bring them anywhere. Yeah, I just I 36 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: love reading so much. I actually the weirdest flexible ever here. 37 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: But in third grade I read more books than any 38 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: kid at my local library. So I got to go 39 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: meet Barbara Bush, like George Bush and George W. Bush's 40 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: wife and mother, and she was doing some sort of 41 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: like incentive in Maine because they have a summer home there. 42 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: But it was very random, but what a sweet lady. 43 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: And I was very proud of my accomplishment. Okay, So 44 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: first book I'm going to talk about is by Holly Jackson. 45 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: It's called A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. You've probably 46 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: seen the cover. I mean it's it's everywhere, It's at 47 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: every airport ever, and it's an amazing book. It starts 48 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: off with a teenage girl who decides to do her 49 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: senior final for high school on a local murder case 50 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: that happened, and it was basically like a murder suicide, 51 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 1: but she always felt something was up and that somebody 52 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: went down and who didn't do it, And she was like, 53 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: I'm just going to re examine the case to cast 54 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: out on the original investigation. But then she ends up 55 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: finding all these crazy holes and realizing that there's like 56 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,679 Speaker 1: it goes so much deeper than she could have imagined. 57 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: So that one's really great. And then there's a sequel. 58 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: I believe there's a third one that I haven't read yet, 59 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: but that's next on my list. But the second one 60 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: is called Good Girl, Bad Blood. So she ends up 61 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: making a true crime podcast about her the case from 62 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: the last book, and it goes super viral and she 63 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: like it blows up and everyone's listening to it. It's 64 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: like crime junkie or yeah. And then somebody that she 65 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: knows goes missing and she's really like afraid of it, 66 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: and like people are like, oh, no, he's fine, and 67 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: she's like, no, he's absolutely not, and her and his 68 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: family like team up to try to find him, and 69 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: she ends up realizing that she could do a lot 70 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: of good if she would if she would like do 71 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: another season of her podcast about this, so she does 72 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: it in real time and it's really fascinating, like somebody 73 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: totally has it out for and she like almost like dies. 74 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: And I don't want to give too much away, but 75 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: those are really really good. I read them, like, I 76 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: mean so fast. So then the next one I'm going 77 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: to talk about is a movie, and we'll talk about 78 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: that more after the break, but it's called Where the 79 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: Crawdad Sing. So Where the Crawdads Sing is an amazing 80 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: story about this girl who grows up in the Marshes 81 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: of North Carolina in like a very very impoverished neighborhood. 82 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: It's in the late sixties and so like it's very 83 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: just tons of problematic people, and her mom runs away 84 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 1: from her dad because he's abusive, and then her dad 85 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: just like disappears one day and never comes back, and 86 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: slowly all of her siblings had left until it was 87 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: just her and her dad because he was so abusive. 88 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: And then she's just a little girl raising herself in 89 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: the marsh, went into town every once in a while, 90 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: made money by selling oysters at this little like bait shop. 91 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: And it's a really fascinating thing, and it sounds like 92 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: kind of out there, but I feel like the way 93 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: that the author, Delia Owens writes it, there's a like 94 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: something to back up every claim she makes. So when 95 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: like you're like, how would a little girl survive out there, 96 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: she answers the question and it's just really fascinating. But 97 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: then basically this like hometown hero winds up dead and 98 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 1: everybody suspects her and she goes to jail and gets 99 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: tried for murder and people in the town are so 100 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: mean to her and whatever. But it has like this 101 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: crazy plot twist that you would never see coming, and 102 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: I love a good plot twist, so that one is amazing. 103 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: I also really really love the movie. The movie was 104 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: so beautiful and all the characters were just so likable, 105 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of heartbreaking parts in it, but 106 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like it has a 107 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: good ending, and that's I love a good ending. You know, 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: there's so much depressing shit in the world, like I 109 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 1: just want to read something positive. Okay, so this one. Basically, 110 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: any Lisa Jewel book you read is going to be incredible. 111 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: I've read so many of her books, like I'm talking 112 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: like probably like fifteen, and I'm obsessed with them. She's 113 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: a British mystery thriller author, but her books are really 114 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:50,679 Speaker 1: focused on like psychological dynamics within families and society and 115 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: ostracization how that leads to like crime. And it's not 116 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: just like I don't like mystery books and murder books 117 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: that are just about like violence against women. Like sometimes 118 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: it's just like I don't know, I just I don't 119 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: want to just read about brutality, but I do love 120 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: a good murder. Miss dream and hers are amazing. But 121 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: this book specifically is about this family and there's like 122 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: their mom's name is Laura Lime, and she's like just 123 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: total manic pixie dream girl and everybody loves her and 124 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: she's very sociable, but she's also very childlike and she 125 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: starts to just hoard things and then all of a sudden, 126 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: like her and her there's something happens when the kids 127 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: are young and somebody in the family dies and it's 128 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: just really tragic, and so she goes from being like 129 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: a hoarder of things to like a full blown hoarder. 130 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: And then she passes away. So her kids have to 131 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: come back home and like sort through the house and 132 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: they find out all these crazy things that they didn't 133 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: know about, like why that person died and what was 134 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: going on with their mom. And it's like the mom 135 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: is so frustrating but also so lovable, And to be 136 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: completely honest, I like sobbed my way through this book 137 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: because she reminds me of my mom a lot. And 138 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: I mean I just was like having a whole moment 139 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: about being like the child of a hoarder and all 140 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: of that stuff. And yeah, just absolutely beautiful book. Okay, last, 141 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: but not least, this is one that I didn't read recently, 142 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: but it is the first book that got me back 143 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: into reading like a book in a day, Like I 144 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: finished this one in twenty four hours, and I wish 145 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: that it was longer because I loved it so much. 146 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: It's not super long at all. It's two hundred and 147 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: fifty five pages, including the acknowledgments. But basically it's got 148 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: a little bit of supernatural stuff to it, which like 149 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: I typically like my books to be grounded in reality, 150 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: but this one uses it as a really interesting device 151 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: where it just like they don't explain it at all, 152 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 1: like how it could possibly happen with the laws of 153 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: physics and nature, but it just basically this girl is 154 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: like really really organized and has her whole life planned out. 155 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: Her best friend is like man who picks your dream 156 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: girl energy, and the narrator's name is Danny. Her best 157 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: friend's name is Bella. She goes to this incredible job interview, 158 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: gets the job, and accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal all 159 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: at once, and then falls asleep totally content. When she awakens, 160 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: she's in a different apartment with a different guy, different 161 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: ring on her finger, and has a totally different job, 162 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: And she spends one hour there five years in the 163 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: future before she wakes up in her own home on 164 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: the rate at midnight, and it's one hour that she 165 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: can not shake, and so she just has to live 166 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: like those five years, like knowing that's going to happen, 167 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: and so she's like with this guy that she just 168 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: said yes to marry marrying and she's like, wait, I 169 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: don't end up with you? Like how weird would that 170 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: be if you're with someone you were so confident about 171 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: it and then you like flash forward and you were like, oh, 172 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: I don't actually end up with him? What the fuck? 173 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: Like crazy, And it's like there's a total plot twist 174 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: about who the guy that she sees in the future 175 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: is and it's just amazing. And I'm reading her other book, 176 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: The Dinner List now, and I just I really like. 177 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: Her name is Rebecca Searle, and I really hope that 178 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: this becomes like a movie or something because it's so 179 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 1: beautiful and well written and I just loved it. But 180 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: that was the front of the novel says, as clever 181 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: as it is moving, the rare read in one sitting 182 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: novel you won't forget. And I was like, hmm, I'd 183 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: really like to read something in one sitting. And boy, 184 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: oh boy did I I read it on a flight, 185 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: like one single flight, and it was so good. So 186 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: those are some ones that I recommend to people who 187 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: are wanting to get back into reading. And then also, 188 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: I mean Daisy Jones and The Six and the Seven 189 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins read. Cannot recommend 190 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: those enough, um, but you should check these out. Let 191 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: me know what you think, and good luck on your 192 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: reading adventures. My name is Kaylie Shore and this is 193 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: too much to say asking questions. Now turn it out 194 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: you