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62: Books Wrapped
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Long time no see!!!!
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Reunion and Reflections
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favorite book this year. Hey guys, long time no see. Isn't that crazy? Wow. How long has it been? Forgive it. Doesn't matter. It's like three since Raven got married. That's crazy. It doesn't matter. We're talking about books. The only thing we we can all come together on. Guys, the year is ending. It is the 21st now and the 20
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second when y'all hear this so we gotta we gotta wrap things up you know we should you know brush that that we skipped our second anniversary just like we skipped the first one we skipped our second anniversary yeah this is year two
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wow guys it doesn't really count give us a couple months and then we'll hit year two we took a little sabbatical yeah sorry to our sponsors you know it's okay they don't want anything
Top Books of the Year
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So we're doing, we're doing our top five books of the year. Um, yeah. Should we go like five? We all say our fifth and then go like up. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to start at five. Okay. I don't know what my fifth one is. Okay. I'll go first. Okay. Okay.
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Okay, so it's a tie between the inmate and to love Jason Thorne. The inmate was absolutely insane. I listened to it and then I texted Raven and I was like, I did not think that was going to happen. Casey, have you read it? Uh-uh. Dang. I'm not going to read it. What did you say?
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No, I said I think you're on a high right now because you just finished it. I just think it's the most insane ending. And as someone who, I think I said I don't read the prologue, but I read the epilogue. And that is still insane. Yeah, that is insane. The epilogue was psychotic. This poor little boy, that's all I'm going to say. I mean, it was a good ending.
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It really was. KT, you should really read it. Okay. I'll add it on there. There's a second book to it, but it wasn't like, you know, worth being number, like, it wasn't even in my top 10. It was worse. But it's like, you know, super cute, very smutty, you know, anime to lovers. How do you be doing that at work?
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doing that at work. I be embarrassed trying to listen to it in my car. I have to turn it down in case people can't hear through my windows. No, nobody asked me that I was reading and I told them and then she googled it and she's like, you read this at work? Well, I just like, oh my God. If somebody played our cameras back, all you would see is
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Like I read on my Kindle like at the movies when I'm at work and people were trying to clock me. I'm like, I only read normal stuff if I'm like at work. I was like reading Hunger Games and people kept on, what you reading? What's your reading? What's that say? If y'all don't get out of my Kindle. Okay. That was all. It was a time between us two.
Series and Adaptations
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Mm, okay, this is hard. Wait. Is it really that hard though? Okay, my number five is, I guess if I can do two, I can do two. It's tied between the housemate and why, what's that face for? I just feel like that's a very low rating. Oh, the housemate didn't even hit my top five.
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And icebreaker. Wait, I can't decide between icebreaker and wildfire. They should not be that bottom, that low to the bottom. Those should not be so low at the bottom. They are. Okay, I'm gonna say it's, I think I like wildfire more than icebreaker. Okay, wildfire, that's my number five. For real, that's my number five.
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Okay, actually this is a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be I thought it was just gonna be kind of able to jump in and do my do my thing do my thing but For some reason I think of like top fives as like five has to be like the worst book I read all year But that's not it's not in the top five. It's the worst book. I read all year. It can't um Okay, so
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I'm going to say my fifth book is. Can I make a series my fifth book since I read them all back to back? I'm making a series on mine. If the words fourth wing come out of your mouth as number five, you're on crack as number five.
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That's crazy. Oh, you're gonna say Percy Jackson. No, my fifth book is The Mead Mishaps by Kimberly Liming.
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This girl got me out of my fourth, after my fourth wing reading depression. Mead mishaps. So all of her titles are so we have, they all start with that time I got drunk. So we have that time I got drunk and saved a demon. That time I got drunk and yeeted a love potion out of werewolf. And that time I got drunk and saved a human.
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And so they're all like monster romances. So the first one, he's a dragon shifter. The second one, he's a werewolf. And the third one is another dragon shifter. And fun fact about the third one, she had to change the name because originally the name was that time I got drunk and drugged a dragon. But they were like, hey, babe, you can't say that you're drugging people.
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The optics aren't good." And she said, my bad. So she switched it so it was the Dragon's POV and the time I got drunk and saved a human. And they're all connected. So all the main characters, like all the girls, they're all Black ladies and they're all like very fun and flirty and strong gals.
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but yeah they're very cute and they're very easy listens and they are they're a little dirty so i guess alexis would have been listening to them at work but i listened to them with a volume all the way down in my car like god intended okay number four the house name
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I feel like that one, it's justifiable to be, it's justifiable to be a four, not five. It was great. It was fantastic. I read through it in two days. It was a really quick read. It was. And I really didn't enjoy it. Me too. It's definitely not my top five. It could not be. Why? I feel like I read so many like better books.
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No, Housemaid really made me laugh through to make that in. Y'all, I have too many five-star reads in here. That's because you rate everything five stars. That's not true. And you know what? I've stopped reading. Is he gonna use DNF it or is it five stars? Yeah, you do. There's really not in between. That's not true! No, that's 1000% true. And then if you really love it, you'll give it some weird review.
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I have plenty of three and four star ratings. My number five, they were all four stars. I don't remember, but that's my worst number four. You know what's sad, now that I think about it, none of the knock'em out books are in my top five.
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And if you would have asked me last year, the first one would have been in my top five. It would have been number one. Same. It would have been in my top five. So sad. Okay. Okay. So my number four is, um, excuse me while I ugly cry. Does she really like cry? Give us a synopsis. Um, it's basically about this black teenager.
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um loving her blackness or learning to love her blackness oh um well this is probably jumping ahead but there's just one book that you read she's the cover she's an afro before i let go maybe is that on is that in your top five um okay okay i want to read that book so bad but it's so backed up at the library
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yes it is um just really heavy oh just so everyone knows i based a lot of the books that i picked off of raven's goodreads i don't know why you do mine because we have similar reading tastes and if you like it then that means i'll probably love it i wouldn't even be looking at goodreads like that until i go to type something in i never know what y'all are reading oh no i like raven has iron flame right now
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Is it good? How's Iron Flame? Oh, it is good. I'm... Oh, you haven't finished it yet. I'm at the part where Violet leaves to go see if Zaden's okay because she heard that there was no time left. That's a good part. Which honestly, I think is stupid. You should know that he's okay. Why would she know that he's okay? Because she would have died.
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They don't know that for sure. They just keep on saying that. You say it enough, you believe it. And also, no, she knew she wasn't dead. She thought he was maimed. Oh. And technically, he kind of was maimed. Okay. My number four is Crazy Rich Asians.
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y'all crazy rich agents the book is so much more fully fleshed out than the movie and crazy rich Asians Astrid so I feel like the movie only follows um the main the main couple I don't know their names but
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Yeah, so the so the movie only follows the main couple in the guy Yeah constant through and Henry Henry Golding Their real names not their names in the book, but in the book Astrid is like a main character like Astrid toll arc in the movie is very not similar to the one in the book
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like in the rich one trying to hide her richness from her husband yeah from her husband because he's insecure so in the book so you know how in the movie he cheats on her she finds
Reading Habits and Challenges
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out yada yada yada did they leave in the book he didn't like her so much he faked cheating on her so that she could find out and leave him like he was just hanging out with his cousin
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having people take pictures of them like they look so they look like a couple so that she would leave him because he did not he just really did not like her but he was like you're so rich I can't leave you without being in ruin which was crazy and yeah everything is just so much more fleshed out and these people are so much more insanely rich than they can even convey in the movie
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and it is insane and these people are mad haters for oh but also also constant woos character in the book is annoying so like in the end she finds out that like her dad actually went to jail for something and she starts treating her mom horrendously because of that
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She was like, you kidnapped me from my dad? You kidnapped me and now people hate me because I don't have a dad? She goes, that man used to beat me. I don't care, you kidnapped me. And then she starts visiting him in jail. He's in jail. But okay, but yeah, that's my number four. Crazy Rich Asians. I might add just that list.
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Okay, it's a super long listen though. It's like 20 hours. Oh, that's not bad. Okay. That's like a two day listen. Yeah, she is a she's a government employee. Okay, first of all, I don't listen at like normal speed. I speed it up because they take too long. I don't have to make go get her. I just want you know, like, actually, I'm not a government employee, I'm a state employee.
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whatever the state government local government um number three you're probably gonna like throw a book at the screen it's fourth wing i mean that's a valid you didn't even like it the first time you read it i really didn't slip it into a top three when you rated it three stars the first time you read it sing solid reading it is terrible the book is so damn long you don't understand what the words are half the time
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And then, I feel like if I would have read it, I would have been pronouncing everybody's name incorrectly. You know, like, Ryle versus Riley, but it's really Ryle and we just all pretend the case is correct. That is a dumb name and calling her to be ashamed of herself. It's Ryle, it's definitely not Riley. Did I read that this year? Was that last year? Last year. Wait, when did it, it starts with us come out.
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If so, I need to... That was last year! That's crazy. Okay, okay. Really? This is all my this year stuff. The movie is supposed to come out... No, it came out in September, so yeah. Um, the movie is supposed to come out next year, but I don't know. I have a feeling, um, it won't be very good. Also, while I'm thinking about it because I just thought, I tried to start The Silent Patient, but I ran out of minutes on my Spotify.
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Oh, what did I rate the silent patient? Three stars, haters. It's slow. It's slow and it's you can clock it. First of all, maybe it's because like what I want as a career, I clocked that this man was bad at his job.
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The whole time I was listening to this book, I was like, he's bad at his job. Why? They need to fire him. Oh, also, I stopped, I stopped reading memoirs because you made me feel bad. About reading Jeanette McCurdy's memoir and throwing stuff out of pie. That was so crazy. You can rate them on your Goodreads, but putting them on your Instagram and going,
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Oh no, it was Josh pegs, but I stopped doing it because now I feel bad. You were basically just writing their life three stars. I know. Jeanette McCurdy. My mom was abusive. Didn't tell a good story. No, I actually gave that one five out of five. It was happy people were annoying. Oh, okay.
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Yeah, I thought I was about to write Britney Spears' memoir. And then I was like, Oh, I can't. Y'all Miranda Miranda Cosgrove was on Josh pegs podcast. Yes,
Deep Dives into Series
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I know. I'm a good guy. And she's so cute. She was talking about like, she's like, Yeah, I've like never been drunk before. And she was like, Yeah, now anytime I go out in public, people ask me, what's your favorite cuss word?
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Probably has something to do with the foot fetish guy Dan Schneider has a very vividly recorded foot fetish. Don't you remember? Oh the reboot Cuz you remember in the original it stopped right before you met her mom
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No, it was not when she went to Paris with her dad. Oh. Okay, anyways. The fourth one was great. Cannot attend. How about a five? Or did I make it a four? No, I gave it a five. I gave the second one a four. It was long for no reason. It's long. But it's good. For no reason. And it, no, it's supposed to build the world out.
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Yeah. In the first one. No, the first book is an introduction to the world. The second book you flesh out the world. The third book we get into the real story.
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What's the real story? Because I feel like I'm in it. Her brother's a lot of... Let me shut up. Raven knows that. I know she knows it, but I don't want to ruin it. Oh my God, my cousin's wife was reading it and I was talking to my mom about the second book and she goes, wait, wait, wait, Kasey, stop. Are you talking about? I was like, yeah, she goes, stop talking. She goes, you started saying stuff that sounded familiar. And then I know I'm not done with it yet. I was like, okay, my bad, my bad, my bad.
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Okay my number three was Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan. It's just a it's a good sad story. If you just want to cry you just read read you just read that. Okay so I can't let it work. I mean I cry very easily when I'm reading books. It just depends on how you are.
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but I'm an easy crier. Like I've cried probably like two times the past couple of days listening to Iron Flame. How? There'd be some sad parts. It was the part where she like was telling Ree about, what's his name's death? Liam. Yeah, Liam's death. And I was like, it was just so real.
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I know. Every time I think about Liam, I tear up a little bit. Liam Lowry. Is this the movie? I'm sure it will be. I think it's going to be a TV show. Oh, yes, it is. Yes, it is. Because Amazon is making it. Also, I keep wanting to call this to all the boys I love before. But living with the Walter boys? No. Things we have from you. What's the first one? Things you have from me?
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Things we never got over. Yeah, that's gonna be a show. Yeah. And someone on TikTok was talking about how the main character should be a Sophia Bush and I'm here for it. I know you sent it to me. I'm a thousand percent agree. The number one guy that she posted in Sophia Bush. Yes. Because you need somebody who's rugged that could throw her up against a wall. And then you need somebody who is like, you know, strong, but also.
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Yeah. So, i.e. Brooke Davis. Like, Brooke Davis was the end. Yeah, when she thought, what's his name? Done? Yes. That scene? Yeah. We need Brooke Davis. Yeah, that scene of Q dying, getting up on my 4U page. I remind me to be sad. Oh, time to rewatch One Tree Hill. It really is. Okay, Raven, go.
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Robin just went. My number three is Thunderhead by Neil Shutterman. Really? Yeah. I cannot finish that book. Man, that book eats. That book eats. That book had me, I just
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Oh my god that but the oh my god the oh my god the twists the ending I just need to get past like the halfway mark it does get a little slow like when they okay what part are you at and I can tell you 30 percent like what's the last thing that you remember happening um what's his name what's his name that like he got me characters names
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He got like labeled as a, what's the word? What's the term? Not an outsider, but like, what does he call him? Oh, he got his role, you? Because he saved the people? Because the vendor had told him to? Okay, okay. He was going to his like weekly check-in or whatever, but the guy is no longer there, who he was working at. Oh.
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yeah okay okay that is such a good little side story because it introduces so many unhinged things in the community like has he gone to any of those bars yet i think he went the first time okay oh my god that book that that is like a good kind of part it's kind of like a good side story but oh my god the ending of this book because wait what has what's his name done yet
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Because what's his name? Okay, no, you know what the main male character did at the end of the first book? Yeah. With all the cuh. Yeah. And then he starts wearing the, you know, that comes, it comes back to kind of bite him. Oh. Cause you know how he was, everybody, everybody didn't. Have you like got, yeah, have you gotten to that? Have you seen like what happens to his best friend? I don't think so.
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Oh my gosh, it's so good. I thought his best friend was the guy who was like going out to all the parties. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I think I got to it, but something happens to him. Yeah, no, it's like not a part of the party thing, like something happens to him. Okay, I don't think anything's happened to him yet.
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Oh my gosh, you need to get to there because the Nats is such a good part. And then oh my it gets so good. Like the ending. The ending is so crazy. The ending is out of their mind insane. Like I and I haven't read the third book because it's so chunky. It's so chunky. And I have like the physical copy. But yes, Thunder hit is my number three. That book had me squealing. Okay, maybe I need to finish it.
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Okay, number two. I think I'm pretty positive I read this at the beginning of the year, November 9. That was the book. That's a book that would make me cry. Mm hmm. It was a very full circle moment. Also, someone calling him. Like we could have gotten I feel like a lot of people have like consistent have that idea.
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What, wanted to watch your other things? Which one? Truly all of them, Verity, November 9. Her casting for the movie of it ends with us. I just think she needs, she wanted a celebrity in it. She had just about done it. We just wanted it different. No, I think she needs like a celebrity that people really ride for. Lily. Okay, I was about to call her Rachel.
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Yeah, it's fantastic. I think that's one of like the five books that I give five stars. Oh, I must be handing out five stars way too, way too liberally. You do. Oh, I wouldn't say that it's like number two. It happened one summer. It's a very, very not work appropriate. In any way, shape or form.
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Oh, is that
Favorites and Anticipations
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the blue book by Tessa Bailey? Yes. If you want to start reading smut, that is the book that you read. Oh, I did read that one. I gave it five stars. Maybe I'll read it. The fish remain. Yeah. I remember it now. That was a good book. That was a good listen.
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Very spicy. Okay, my number two is The Natural Series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Well, I'm only on the third book right now, but the first three is literally like criminal minds, but like high schoolers. Oh my God.
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I've heard of that book and I said why the heck would I want to read of criminal minds by high schoolers? That seems so unappealing because why would I want these babies to be finding serial killers? They're like 18. I can't turn high school. But it's not like so the first book is they work on cold cases.
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for the most part. But the main character's mother died or supposedly got killed, but they didn't find a body. And so she's really wants to just like investigate her mother's murder. If she was murdered. Well, they found blood in the room, but they don't like they never found a body. Oh, yeah.
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So there is enough fun for her to be presumed dead, but like also no confirmation of that. But it's good. I love it. I'm on the third book and I'm still like cruising through. I haven't got bored yet. So that's saying a lot for you. Did you read multiple books at one time? Yeah, I'm reading one, two, three right now. I'm reading two.
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Oh, my number two book. My number two book is Wildfire, baby. The whole series or just that book alone? I can put I can put the series in there. Okay, the Maple Hill series. Icebreaker and Wildfire. Guys, I don't know what it is about me. I always pick and choose. So like,
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I feel like Stasi is my, so far is my favorite female main character, but Russ is my favorite male main character. But oh wait, should that be my number two? I feel like it would be so mean to not have Act Your Age Eve Brown in my top five. You read up this year?
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Yeah, I read it at the beginning of the year. I read it in March. I would put that in my top five, maybe like number six. Eve Brown is a really good one. But Eve Brown is me. I am Eve Brown. I was reading that book and saying, was Talia, was Talia taking notes? Was she stalking you? Yeah, but OK, no, I got to go with Maple Hill. I feel like I liked Maple Hill more.
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So yeah, so I'm going to say the Maple Hill series is my number two. Love it. Love the hockey romance. I'm so excited for the third book with Henry. Me too. And I can't wait. And it looks, it's going to be the prettiest book. That purple is so gorgeous. I'm definitely getting the hard copy. I mean, I get the hard copy in a lot of books,
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physical well I don't I don't have I don't have a ton of room for books I'm running out of book room me too okay are you ready for number one yeah oh after this we're going over our urine books on good read so go find that what is that go to my books okay should I think about 2023 year books oh mine didn't count all my books though
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Well, for the most part, we'll still do it. Um, okay. Um, my number one book is One of Us is Lying. I don't know why it's your number one. It's so good. And you know, here, here is why it's my favorite book and why it will just never be enough for you. Because it's literally pretty little liars, but with other people. And you know,
00:31:29
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Pretty Little Liars is like one of my favorite shoes. Therefore, why wouldn't this be my favorite book? That's it. That's literally it. I love a good teen mystery. Um, I will say the second one, we didn't need, I didn't need it. We could have X'd it out. There's a third one. I know I'm waiting for the list, the audio book to be available at the library.
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But it was fantastic. It's everything I could
Critiques and Reflections
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have wanted. I will always be a hashtag Bronwyn and Nate Stan. Hashtag. Fantastic. In the show, the way he got casted is not what I thought he would look like. He's blonde in the show. And I really thought this man would be like, dark hair, brown eyes.
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That's my problem with people who put actual people on the cover and then get their stuff turned into a show or a movie, because then it's not the same people. No, it's not. Bronwyn, she kind of looked like how I thought she would. Addie, no, she looks like, I'm not gonna say that. She looks like a train wreck. And then I, there's no way you could have told me that Cooper was gonna be black. I thought this man was white.
00:32:51
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And it's nothing against the gay baseball player. There's nothing against him in the show, but that is not what I thought he would look like, let alone being a very chocolate brown man. Oh, I thought he was like a light skin, like a mix. I thought he was mixed. No, he is chocolate, like dark skin. And then Chris with the K is also chocolate.
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It just it doesn't fit what I thought these people looked in my mind. Yeah, you know what something fun we should do after this is say our worst book zero like worst book of 20 of 2023 lowest rated. I won't even add the books that I didn't finish because some of them I didn't finish because of time constraints. Did y'all have a reading challenge? No, yeah. Have
00:33:49
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eight more books to go i finished mine yesterday but i'm off for the next two days until next wednesday so or until next thursday goodnight i get off at 30 tomorrow that's really cutting into my my book listening skills because i don't listen if i'm not there like there's no reason for me to be listening to book at home i work all day
00:34:16
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Okay, first off, should I get a veggie bowl or a barbacoa bowl at Chipotle? Barbacoa. Barbacoa? Well, do you want to pay for guac or do you not want to pay for guacamole? I'm getting guacamole either way. Oh, then barbacoa. Okay. Were you getting it delivered? No, I'm going to go pick it up. Wait, should I get it delivered? How much is that going to be? That makes my life easier. What Chipotle are you going to go to?
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No one in Arlington? Oh. No one on the little road? Yeah. It's traffic. No, no, it's like, why are you leaving the house so late? Because I was going to eat before this with the nonsense. You know what? I really want to enjoy my food and like put on a little Christmas movie and eat all like I'm watching it. So I'm going to do it after. So I'm like all relaxed and like showered and comfy. Okay. So my number one is fourth wing.
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wow i liked it more than i thought i would honestly and i don't think it's just a high i think i actually really enjoyed it more than none of us so you would read all five of them i think that's what case you said there's gonna be five yes i thought it was just three like hungry games
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Should I get my healthy barbacoa or my like, non-healthy? Non-healthy. Okay, well my number one is the, I guess it's called the Efirion series and not, you know, but Fourth Wing and Iron Flame are my number ones because, you know, they're so good.
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They're so good. But y'all, I had the most embarrassing dream. Like weeks after I finished Iron Flame, I had a fourth wing-esque dream. And I was so mad about it, because it was so embarrassing. I was like at my house, and it was like, and I was a writer. And for some reason, my brother had turned into a Vinin.
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And so it was right before he was like gonna start draining the ground. I like could see the signs and it was all in slow motion. And it was like, there was some man there and like my mom was there and like someone else was there, but like Taryn wasn't there. Also Taryn was my dragon because main character moment. And so I see my brother about to start draining the ground and I go, we gotta run. So we take off running.
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and he chases us outside and he says, he's like, you think you can get away? And then he starts draining the ground and all of my neighbors are like getting drained. And then I'm like, Taryn, you need to get here. Taryn, where are you? And he's like, I'm one minute out, keep on running. So we're running. And I, and I, and because I'm not violent and I think I'm capable, I get on Taryn the appropriate way.
00:37:36
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And I run up his leg and I get on and I'm like, and I help my friend on, I'm like, Tara, please take her. And so then we take off and I'm like, where's my mom? And I look over and my mom is on the other dragon. And I vividly remember the other dragon that my mom was on was a brown club tail. And I, you know, I'm on Taren and we're flying and I go, no, I can't believe he turned into this.
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It was a very embarrassing dream. Something I probably should have taken to the grave, but I'm dedicated to the craft of podcasting. That's what I do. You never finished that when you were doing the video. It cut off and you never continued this dream. Oh, I did? Because I feel like I remember sending it to y'all. Yeah, you sent it in Snapchat. But yeah.
00:38:28
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that was just yeah the dream just cut off when we were in the sky i was like that is so embarrassing because it was like a weird time after i finished the book it was like two three weeks after i finished the book and i was like no longer actively thinking about it and it just snuck into my dream what was that the most disappointing one of all
00:38:58
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Things we had from the light. I think mine's the same. Yeah, either things we
Closing Thoughts and Future Plans
00:39:08
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had from, well, things we left behind wasn't like as bad, but it wasn't like anything right home without. My lowest rated book. Oh, what was yours? I was gonna say, The One Who Loves You. It came in my little book subscription box.
00:39:28
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And it was literally like all smut. No plot. No plot. And I hated it. That's it. That's probably my lowest. And then it's things we have to know. Mine is the pretty little wife.
00:39:46
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And the reviewer I left for it said, this book took a great episode of Criminal Minds season 2 episode 21 and fleshed it out to be the most boring. Oh and fleshed it out in the most boring way possible. Like I have never been less thrilled reading a thriller. Lila is a bland and I know she's meant to be cunning but it just comes off as boring. It took 80% of this book to be good. That's crazy. The best part is that I finished it.
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And the episode that it's talking about is the episode where they kidnap people and hunt them in the woods because it turns out that's like what her husband did I think and was like raised to do and her husband was like a serial killer or something crazy. I don't remember, book sucked so it has nothing to do with me no more.
00:40:43
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And it goes to prove I don't only rate books five stars, and I don't only DNF books. Sometimes I finish books I don't like. Well, that's a wrap from 2023. Wow. Great, great job, guys. Really dedicated to podcasting. And I love that about us. I do have one question, though.
00:41:12
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Kasey, when you got your Spotify wrapped back, where was Lil' Boot thing on it? So high. Same. And I would just like to say, I'm concerned that me and Kasey will always get Song of the Summer corrected. So I wait, we were kinda on it for Song of the Summer. We were kinda, I had my finger on the poles. Like, no. Yeah, no. Lil' Boot thing.
00:41:42
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And like Paul Russell, Paul Russell only has three songs that I listened to. Why was he in my top artists? I saw that and I was like, oh, why are you in this? But one thing I can say, Drake will never touch my top artists. Drake? He'll never touch it. Aubrey Graham, he'll never be there. Why? Because I'm not embarrassing. What did you do? Even though Drake has influenced me and I kind of want to try and undecive it. OK.
00:42:12
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okay y'all don't y'all don't be using the internet like i do so there's this drink called anda and drink and drake mixes anda with fresh passion fruit and he calls it a anda civic you mean anda the alcoholic beverage yeah you know that shane mitchell's brand yeah so he mixes anda with fresh passion fruit and he calls it a anda civic okay
00:42:39
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We're long overdue for a good margarita. A good margarita? I don't even like margaritas. I would take a Tito's cherry limeade. Yeah, Tito's cherry limeade. Or a blackberry mule. We're long overdue for a Chooey's situation. We literally have not. Guys, we haven't seen each other in person. In a month.
00:43:05
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In a month? It feels longer. I just saw like this last week. What? What the heck? Oh yeah, I didn't go to that. I met all three of us at the same time. My birthday is coming up. Oh, I'm off at 26. I am too. Me too. The doctor and the morning.
00:43:35
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So I don't know when they would call. Brunch or dinner? Brunch is probably safer, right? Because I'll probably call in the evening. Are you leaving her there? Yeah. Oh. They're running more tests. Oh, then probably. Okay, big two five.
00:44:03
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Wow, I can't wait to know how it feels to have my frontal lobe developed. Because mine is fighting for its life right now. And honestly, I am making decidedly bad choices in my personal life. Oh, yeah, you are. Yes, you are. And by the way, one of those choices that you were deciding to make in 2024. Jared said no. I can't say it on here.
00:44:33
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but he said no i'll say it once we um stop recording oh well guys i don't really know if i'm making that choice in 2024 it'll probably be a 2025 choice we are crossing our fingers and crossing our legs but you don't oh no that's gonna be a 2024 okay well on that note we're ending this podcast we can talk about it goodbye