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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the.

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Speaker 1: Time poor parent who just once answers.

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Speaker 2: Now, I just love books, and I'm so excited today's

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Speaker 2: podcast episode Kylie. Once a month for thereabouts we do

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Speaker 2: book club. It's completely unrelated to parenting. We just talked

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Speaker 2: about the books that we've been reading because we'd love

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Speaker 2: to read and try to share some tips and hints

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Speaker 2: and ideas books that people might like.

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Speaker 1: And with Christmas around the corner.

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Speaker 2: We thought this might be a good stocking filler episode

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Speaker 2: if you're thinking about books. So this episode of the podcast,

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Speaker 2: we are going to review our favorite books of the year.

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Speaker 2: And do you have any idea how many books you've

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Speaker 2: read this year? Do you keep her close enough record

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Speaker 2: to know? I?

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Speaker 1: Look, I've been really good in the past, but this

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Speaker 1: year I will one hundred percent admit I have really

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Speaker 1: really been quite sloppy with my records. Firstly, and secondly.

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Speaker 2: Imagine not keeping a record of all the books you read.

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Speaker 2: Who does that?

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Speaker 1: But secondly, I've just you talked about this pretty openly before.

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Speaker 1: I call it a love relationship with books. But I

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Speaker 1: have to have the headspace to be able to read.

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Speaker 1: And because of the challenges that our families experienced this year.

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Speaker 1: I've really struggled to get into books, especially in the

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Speaker 1: last half of the year, so my list is very

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Speaker 1: very short this year.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was on track for forty five or so,

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Speaker 2: which is what I usually do somewhere between forty and

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Speaker 1: Which I'm sitting on about twenty four, so.

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Speaker 2: You know, approximately, Yeah, so it's still a lot of reading.

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Speaker 2: And the great thing is we've both read some books

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Speaker 2: that are definitely worth sharing. How many do you want

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to talk about three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, go for it, because I have approximately fourteen give

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Speaker 1: So I'm not suggesting that these go in any order.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to share the three favorite books of

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Speaker 1: my year. The first one was called The One Hundred

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Speaker 1: Years of Lenny and Margo.

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Speaker 2: I remember you talking about this. I think I need

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Speaker 2: this on my pile. I think it's a real tear jerker, right.

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Speaker 1: It really is. But it was such a beautiful book.

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Speaker 1: It was written by Marianne Cronin and it's a story

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Speaker 1: about a seventeen year old who's got a terminal illness

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Speaker 1: them they make up one hundred years of life. And

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Speaker 1: it's just a beautiful depiction of working through that process

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Speaker 1: But it was the most beautiful book.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful was the word I was going to use. This

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Speaker 2: sounds gorgeous. So what was it called again?

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Speaker 1: It was called The One Hundred Years of Lenny and Margo.

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Speaker 1: It's about friendship, you know. This eighty three year old

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Speaker 1: share They just they share a special bond. So loved

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Speaker 2: What's your next one?

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Speaker 1: My next one is homecoming? Complete and utter opposite ends

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Speaker 1: Thought it was. I was so I was so caught

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Speaker 1: Homecoming by Kate Morton. It definitely had a slow start.

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Speaker 2: Have we got it back? Maybe I can make that

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Speaker 2: some Christmas reading for me.

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Speaker 1: No, it's still on his bedside table. I actually had

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Speaker 1: And my last one's actually my most recent read. It's

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Speaker 1: called Better Than Happy. It's by Jodie Moore. This has

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Speaker 2: Okay, they sound really really great. Would you like to

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Speaker 2: hear mine.

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit nervous because I think I'm going to

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Speaker 2: To try and be really fast about this, Okay, So

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Speaker 2: basically I'll tell you. I'm only going to tell you

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Speaker 2: my five star reads. Okay, only my five star reads.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I've read about thirty five books this year.

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Speaker 2: I have twelve five star reads.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing twelve. We're not doing twelve. I'm just

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Speaker 1: going to say the map five that's so unfair. Have five.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if we're going to keep a

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Speaker 2: really eclectic top twelve to go through today. From the

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Speaker 2: George Elliott. George Elliott is a pseudonym, but the author

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Speaker 2: wrote this book called Silas Marna, written in eighteen sixty one,

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Speaker 2: and this was a novel I don't read many novels

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Speaker 2: It was beautiful. It's about a falsely accused weaver who

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Speaker 2: Sublimely written, utterly absorbing. I fell in love with Silas Marna.

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Speaker 2: so far removed from that that it's incredible. It's a

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Speaker 2: arguing that the sexual revolution, rather than improving life for

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Speaker 2: she doesn't deny that a lot of good has come

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Speaker 2: and intimacy and so on actually make life worse for women,

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Speaker 2: not better for women. It's a fascinating read. You won't

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Speaker 1: Well you might not be keeping tabs, but I am.

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Speaker 1: What's number three?

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Speaker 2: I can't believe you're counting my third one. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to save this one really quickly. It's called Testosterone by

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Speaker 2: going to go for another novel. Everyone in My Family

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Speaker 2: Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevens. Brilliant original, completely compelling

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Speaker 2: Really enjoyed Benjamin Stevens. Everyone in My Family Has Killed

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention The Whole brain Child by

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Speaker 2: mention Saving Our Kids by Madonna King. I have to

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Speaker 2: ever read from Madonna King vitally important content. So we've

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Speaker 2: Madonna King saving our kids. But I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: I'm also not going to mention Gene Twangy and Generations,

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Speaker 2: read on the generations and really made me rethink my

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Speaker 2: think as a load of bulldust. But I really got

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Speaker 1: Is there any other books you're not going to mention?

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Speaker 2: There's one more book that I'm not going to mention,

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Speaker 2: and then I'm going to wrap up with two instead

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Speaker 2: a blistering critique of how the elite make sure that

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Speaker 2: Hard to read, very challenging with its views. Brilliant book

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Speaker 2: me just wrap up with the two that matter.

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Speaker 1: The two that matter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, other than a whole lot of others that I

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Speaker 2: want to mention that I can't, okay, because I love guns,

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Speaker 2: that Star by Cassie Home was great. But the two

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Speaker 2: that I want to mention, just quickly. A year or

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of things in that area, and Kylie,

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Speaker 2: though it's been written for women. Absolutely absolutely brilliant. She's

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Speaker 2: that matters. Emily and the Gosky comes you are five stars.

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Speaker 2: If there is not a book for somebody who is

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Speaker 2: We will link to every single one of those books

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Speaker 2: I've also got about six textbooks.

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Speaker 1: what that's going to look like us. You open all

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Speaker 1: You know, if you have a bedside table solution for

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Speaker 2: So many books, so many books. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 2: We hope that you've enjoyed as we've indulged ourselves and

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