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Tumblereads 22: Whatchu Reading?
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Holly didn't have a plan, so she asked Erin and Ingrid what they were reading and they excitedly yelled about books for the entire time. As we do.
Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast
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Introduction with Holly and Friends
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Hi, welcome to the Smut Report podcast. This is Holly and I will be emceeing our Tumble Reads episode today. Woohoo! Yay!
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I am going by my friends. Yes. Whose names are? Ingrid, not emcee. And Erin! Also not emcee. Also not emcee.
Voting Infrastructure Challenges
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um Okay, so guys, I admit that am a little loopy today because um I worked at a polling location yesterday a primary election.
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And i I was there for 16 hours. And honestly, anybody who wants to scream about voter fraud or too many people voting or wants to restrict voting... um can bleepity, bleepity, bleepity, bleepity.
00:00:56
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So eloquent, Holly. Slash they should go, they should work as a poll worker. Like if you have thoughts about people voting, you should work as a poll worker and then you'll see what it's like.
00:01:08
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i think it's so great that you did that. Yeah. And i that's the truth. It's kind of like when I, when I was PTAing a lot and and I didn't have this, but a lot of people who were on the PTA had this knee-jerk reaction that was like, oh yeah, you have a suggestion for how we could do this better? Then you volunteer. do you know what I mean?
00:01:27
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But there's some truth to that. You should try it. If you haven't tried it, you should you should, if you have a lot of critical feedback, maybe you should try. Try participating in your electoral process. Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. We had a really long line still at closing.
00:01:42
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Wow. That's exciting, though. No, it's not exciting. It's not exciting. I mean, I'm glad we were voting. We were discussing this by earlier. It means that our location did not have enough infrastructure to handle the number of voters that we were expecting.
00:01:59
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Okay, that is a more reasoned and logical answer. I was just thinking rainbows and butterflies. but Rainbows and butterflies. We need more voting machines. Yeah. We need more voting machines at this location. like Well, I mean, that actually makes a lot of sense to me. One, i could see there being, um like you said...
Texas Voting Flexibility
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perhaps a lack of infrastructure was at play but on the other hand um you know texas has had a lot of people moving to the area and so maybe they're not staying up on you know when areas are shifting oh i was uh so where i live in texas you there are actually open polling locations so you can go to any ah polling location in the county in which you are registered to vote See, now I yeah would think that would be a great idea. it is. It's awesome. Because, well, so the downside is there are fewer polling locations because you don't need one for every single precinct. hu
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um But the plus side is is, you can go to the one by your house. You can go to the one by your job. You can go to the one by your kid's karate class. Like, whatever. That is nice. Yeah.
00:03:06
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which is great much more convenient it makes voting you might end up with congestion spots but then you end up with congestion spots right is this the first year they did that no it's been like that for a while oh okay i was like maybe it's just growing pains no i am optimistic today you are optimistic you are optimistic i'm like but maybe good after the week we've had right i think the other thing to consider is just like I would love to know what the numbers end up being, like final numbers, but early voting numbers for the first day of early voting were like close to 200% of turnout for the last election, right? So they were like 168%. People are participating. For the first
Civic Engagement Encouragement
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day. Yeah. So yeah that means that more people were going to the polls, which causes... Anyway, this is not that... we're ok no We are not a political podcast. Go vote! The point is, we do we encourage you to vote.
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yeah Be a responsible citizen. i Be a responsible citizen.
Erin's Reading Journey
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or Vote. um Go to your... local polling location at 10 a.m. m if you can swing it. If you can s swing it ah um Or early vote if you have that option. um Slash sign up to be a poll worker because I know the polls were also understaffed for the primary. Yeah.
00:04:28
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they always need poll workersers They always need poll workers. poll workers. Anyway, but I'm loopy and also didn't prepare. So I just want to hear what about what people are reading. Oh my gosh, you guys. See, and I i can see that Erin has something to share. Erin has something to share. I'm down a rabbit hole again. Oh, no. i love rabbit holes. Tell us about your rabbit hole.
Exploring SOS Hotel Series
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So it all started as it usually does. When I finished a book and I'm like, now what should I do? And I scroll through what I already kind of have available. And it's it's good when I'm like already doing something like know I actually have to make dinner because otherwise I'll be like, well, now I need to sit down at my computer and pull up all my TBRs and see if I can find stuff that I haven't already saved somewhere because, you know, I have like three subscriptions and
00:05:28
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five apps to listen to books and uh so it must have been something like that where i was like well i have to make dinner and i need something in my ears and something that seems like it's going to be easy so guys i started listening to the sos hotel series by it's ariana nash but writing as adam vex and adam vex is like the narrator character And I i have i have in my head already, I started it, or maybe I didn't start it, start it.
00:05:58
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I started it and i was like, I need to rename it Sorry, we're getting in the weeds. The title of this Saturday Smutty Six that I have in my head, or maybe also slightly started on paper, is A Series of Unhinged Mayhem. And this series will be going on that list.
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It
Unhinged Mayhem Genre Discussion
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is like, what? So it's kind of a slow burn. It involves a throuple, but you're not totally sure if that's what's going to happen for the first book. That doesn't really start happening until the second book.
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um So Adam Vex is a mysterious individual who is, ah wink, wink, definitely just a regular human. And he, ah it's opens with, he's decided to open the SOS Hotel, which is a like supernatural sanctuary hotel, except for his business partner, who we like found on the street and rescued after he had been beaten by his partner, um is a super famous ah sex worker incubus. Yeah.
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So everybody thinks that it's just a sex hotel. Okay. the incubus is like ah maximum extra. Gotcha. him And he has like purple hair and gigantic sparkly wings and is actually a warrior badass. But you don't find that out until like maybe the fourth book. and But he always wears like sparkly shirts while he does it. but and yeah As one should. As one does.
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And then it also there's there's this like a mysterious, aloof, reserved, ah older vampire daddy. They call him Vampire Daddy. And he is just like a little bit mysterious and also kind of has these, oh my god, what the fuck did I get into kind of vibes. He's dry. Yeah. And meanwhile, Adam is just like, I'm just trying to hold it together, guys. ah And so, of course, every book is like they have shenanigans, but also there are like forces in this world. So it's obviously paranormal. Like we've got an incubus, we've got a vampire. There's like the whole thing is the supernaturals need a special sanctuary place because there are regular humans, too. And it was so there was like a veil. Then people started coming.
00:08:18
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Creatures started coming through and then the veil closed. So now everybody's stuck with what it is. So there's um this like dark sorcerer who's like a puppet master behind the scenes being insidious, trying to cause trouble. And there's the vampire queen who is trying to come through the veil again by way of her daughter and some kind of like, what is going on with this mysterious ritual sacrifice situation? And there's like, at one point, Adam becomes the general of all of the Incubus demons because he murdered their last general. And that's how you get promoted in Incubus military culture. ah
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Anyway, and you don't know for sure. It sounds very
Defining Romance in Literature
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romantic-y. Yeah, you don't it's just like unhinged mayhem. So actually, this is what... It's an interesting discussion. i don't think we can... Well, I guess if you want to, we can have it today. But it's something that's been kicking around in my head because I've read a number of these, like a series of unhinged mayhem books, where it's Sam Kuppel, or in this case, Thruppel, one series... um and you know like maybe it's romance-y in the first book i mean they do they do get it on a fair bit there are are sometimes fangs involved there are you know well endowed demon parts there's like you know all the things that whenever they whenever they have sex together the wards on the hotel get bigger because they're so magically powerful that like when they orgasm it's
00:09:50
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It's like... But what about your series question about... Well, yeah. So sorry. Yeah. So the question is like, at what point is it not romance anymore? Like, you know, like... Yeah. The other still has sex. Like, there's still sex on the page. There's still a couple. But like, it's just like they're off doing stuff now. So this is a fairly... so Welcome to Romanticy, Erin. This is like... Because these long series, I think what ends up happening is... So you have... With these longer Romanticy series, right? You'll have the plot of the book, the individual book, right? And then you'll have the plot of the series. And because you can't have them like...
00:10:26
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questioning their relationship the whole series or it would drive you absolutely bananas and you wouldn't want them to be together right because there are some that that does resolve yeah now i've seen it go two ways one it feels a little bit more fantasy than romanticity and it shifts from the romance more into the fantasy plot right the second thing is is that sometimes it'll shift from one romance change perspectives switch to another romance you know what i mean or whatever weirdly enough i feel like often it's like The first primary couple is like the first three books. And then you'll have like different couple, different couple, different couple. the next Yeah. So it's interesting that you're specifying this as a romantic thing because I know that it is. I know that one couple multiple books saga is like one of the reasons I don't tend to read romantic. But I think the first series I was initially just going to do a series review, but then I keep on reading these. I keep on finding them. I'm just like, I just want to stick with something that I know is going to be comfortable. But so... So I keep on doing it ah is the first one I think I read was the Hitman's Guide to oh what is the first book called? I'll look it up. But it's the Hitman's Guide series. And yeah, so like the first three books are about the main couple and then. you know each of the other characters eventually gets a book kind of a thing but they the ah the first couple still comes back for a few books so i think right now the series might be at eight books and probably four or five are about the primary couple yeah yeah and then the others just get like dropped in periodically but that's contemporary i mean it's like unhinged it's about an assassin but like but an assassin and a private investigator but it's like well and when you were first describing it before Ingrid brought in the secondary couples who get their one-off books while advancing the plot I also feel like it just sounds like urban fantasy from 2005 right like maybe not 2005 maybe 2015 but like older urban fantasy books would do this too or um say more or give us examples we have examples uh i just feel like this is the vibe uh like shannon mcguire's stuff um her older stuff uh i don't know i feel like it was just kind of the precursor i'm trying i'm sorry it i'm blanking on titles right now um but where it's it's more like or i'm even thinking about and this is not urban fantasy this is just kind of i don't even know what this is but like the stephanie plum books right where the story yeah yeah it's her right it's like girl detective and i but i guess urban fantasy is like girl detective except she's punching witches um right sure sure and then she has her except for except with it stephanie plum the problem is that she's in her and she's still she's in her stupid love triangle forever forever forever which is a different problem um yeah whereas this like this other i guess maybe it just depends on if the author is shifting more romance or more just like yeah
00:13:23
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Yeah, I mean, I think in this case, Janet Ivanovich just doesn't want to make up her mind. And she knows that no matter who Stephanie picks, she's gonna piss off half her readers. And so she's having to pick neither. And so she, I guess it's like, whoever she picks, she pisses off a third of her readers, but she's already pissed off a third of her readers who are like, Just pick somebody! Well, the other thing is, awfulle come on I was talking to the talking to my book club friends about this too, not too long ago. And those individuals who read much farther than I did, because I think I got like four or five books in and I was like, I cannot with this back and forth for infinity. Mm-hmm.
00:14:00
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They were like, yeah. And then there's like another guy and one of the original guys kind of like got friend zoned. I was like, what is happening right now? Like there's like because it you can't keep doing the same thing forever. Right. You can't keep just going back and forth forever, even with a subplot like that, because it gets old after a while. right um oh I looked at the book the first book in the Hitman's Guide series is titled The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love and that's by Alice Winters um but looked forward to my series of unhinged mayhem because I do enjoy finding them so Ingrid are you what series of unhinged mayhem are you reading right now because I know i feel like this is all is our vibe Erin is like describing this she's describing my natural state and I'm just like what is how is this strange to you Like as soon as you said series of Unhinged Mayhem, I was like, I got set. Let's make it a series because I've got about 20 of them for you. No problem. Do it. right. I'll put it in the folder. Yeah, right. So coincidentally, I was going to look it up because all of this, my most recent started with a series that I now cannot remember. i
00:15:09
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I think it's, I'm 99% sure it all started because I started reading Stacia Stark. Okay. So I started reading her books. And when I, I'm just going simplify. Is that how you pronounce her name? da I would have said Stacia I kept on saying Stacia in my head well that's because you have a Russian background but yeah I yeah yeah well sorry Stacia or Stacia it's probably one of the two and I'm butchering it but I'm just gonna go with Stacia because I feel like it um I'm just feeling the 90s vibe of Stacia so um anyway I started reading her stuff and obviously because I am the way I am I just pounded through her entire backlist so um what ended up happening was that
00:15:46
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you know, the series of unhinged mayhem that Aaron just described. I got through one of those and then I got through another of those. And I was like, I feel that for my own health and wellbeing, I need to not do another one like that. I i think I need to come up for air because i I was sick too. So I just kind of pounded book after book. And I was like, I'm either going to permanently compromise my vision because I'm reading way too much too hard, or I'm going to burn out completely from romanticity books altogether and we'll never be able to pick up another one. So I need to just let's variety is the spice of life. So I decided instead of that, I would start reading a bunch of books that are highly recommended online because I was like, you know, sounds dangerous. Right.
00:16:28
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I'm glad that you had that gut instinct because I did not. Yeah. Clearly you've not been burned enough times. And I just keep sitting here and I'm like, but why? but was why? Wasn't most angry rant last year about a book that was highly recommended online? Yeah, that's true. Listen, i I'm going to blame COVID brain. Yeah, that I could have. But I was like, you should probably, these books, that you see them everywhere. You just give them a shot. So the first one that I did because I was like, apparently, so
00:16:59
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This is how with it I was last week. I was like, you know, this book Song of Achilles comes up everywhere. i think I'm going start it. So started it I was like, this this feels like it's going male, male. And then i Googled it and I was like, it's male, male. And then I was like, cool. This is great. I love this. this is it What it was it? Song of Achilles.
00:17:18
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Oh, So then I was like, Erin, you should really read this. And I was like, but I don't want to cry. and I was like, oh wait, what? And then thought about it and was like, oh, no. So I so i got to a a part and I was like, i don't i don't think I'm emotionally equipped to handle this right now. so I paused reading that one. So just for a clarifying question, was Song of Achilles recommended on like romantic-y lists? Yes. So I think Song of Achilles sometimes comes up as a romance recommendation because because it's
00:17:50
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Because it's capital. People don't understand. People don't understand how romance actually
Ingrid's Online Book Recommendations
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is. Like, okay. um I mean, don't get me wrong. It's a really wonderful book.
00:18:01
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It's really well done. Madeline Miller is like a beautiful writer. Beautiful, so beautiful prose. um I do not think she would call her book a genre. It's not a genre romance. It's not a genre romance. It didn't feel like one. And I did not have the brain power to handle something that was so...
00:18:21
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delicately written and so I was like pause hard pause you put it in timeout I have several things in timeout I'm like I can't right now yeah I was like I'm having difficulty remembering basic human functions right now I don't think I can do this so I said okay fine so I read the silversmith um silversmith by LJ something something well I, yeah, I started it and then I finished it, ah allegedly, but either it happened in the middle of a COVID fever dream or something. I remember nothing about that book. I couldn't even tell you basic plot stuff. In fact, I read the blurb on Goodreads. I read the blurb on Amazon. I still can't remember what the heck happens in that book. Not anything. Not any part of that book. It's, I read the whole thing. It's like can all over again and it'll be brand new. Gone.
00:19:08
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Yeah, but i I, do you want to, it? No. you So I, no I said to myself, okay, enough, enough. We're going to just pick something else. So I picked daughter of no worlds.
00:19:20
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By, I don't know, who are you by? It's fine. Carissa Broadbent. Oh, you've been reading her stuff. You've read some of her other stuff. Probably. Is that where I've heard of her before? Okay. Maybe. So I i started that one.
00:19:36
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um And I immediately was like, oh my God, I'm Erin. Because there's this part where um The hero is like literally like good she trusts. It's the only person she has that she trusts at this point. Right. And it's fairly early on in the book, but like not, you know, they've had enough under the bridge that like she should trust his judgment. Right.
00:19:55
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And he basically looks at her and is like, don't do that thing. Please don't do that thing. This thing will ruin your life. Don't do it. And it's very clear that he's speaking from experience and that he knows what he's talking about. And she just goes, I'll be good. Yeah.
00:20:10
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Deep breaths, Aaron. What do you freaking know? She immediately realizes when it's irreversible, she's locked in. There's no going back that it was a terrible decision and he was right. Bless his heart. I will give you this. The reason that I picked it up was because I've heard nothing but hard swooning about the hero in this book um that he was apparently just...
00:20:31
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And like the dreamiest of swoony dream boats and not because he's, you know, like the usual romantic swashbuckling smoke and rippling muscles hero, but because he's just there's just something about him was the idea. And I do see that he is.
00:20:47
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He is. He's way more. um He's very real. He seems like a real person. And. Like and I'm trying to articulate that's attractive as opposed to not. Somehow. Like sometimes you get too real in romance and you're like. Well, so it's real enough that when there's battle scenes, he's supposed to be this like amazing warrior. And I'm like, but in my head, I'm picturing like a book nerd. I'm like, what are you doing waving that sword around you, you crazy boy? You know I mean? Like, I don't get it. But it doesn't really matter. He's very witty. So, like, she'll say stuff and he'll have, like, little, like, sarcastic, witty rejoiners that are so good. And he's very, like, self-deprecating, but not in, like, an overdone way. His character is not overdone. It is not playing up to, you know...
00:21:34
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extremes he just seems very accessible and you know there's one point where they're kissing after a morning together he's been very sick and he wakes up and she's just so glad that he didn't die and like she kisses him and she's like your breath is very bad and so he blows in her face and then they cuddle and take a nap together whatever Why didn't that gross me out though? Why? Gross. It should have. it's It is gross, but it's also a playful thing that you would do with your long-term partner, right? Yes. Well, maybe you wouldn't, Holly. but like Grouse for divorce. I would i i would do that.
00:22:06
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Excuse me. I would do that possibly. Well, maybe not. I don't know why it works. Other things that have happened similar to that that have been playful back and forth with my husband. Yeah. That somebody else would be like, you Yeah. did say ew. Well, if you think about it, you're like, it is ew. But the character. It's very relatable. Yeah. The heroine doesn't feel like it's that way. And they have that vibe the whole time where they kind of it's.
00:22:31
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I think so commonly in romance, it's like this sweeping hypersexual connection. And this is one of the, I am really chewing on this one because it doesn't, it feels very much like a friendship type connection. Like a lot of mutual respect, teasing, loyalty. It feels like if I had a friend couple and I was like, they're marriage. I just really love that for them. This would be that kind of that vibe. And I think fresh, like I was just kind of,
00:22:58
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you know That's something that I think is challenging. Yes, because it desexualizes things.
00:23:11
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being able to laugh during sex or you know having this playfulness in the relationship but it's really difficult to show yeah But when you actually are experiencing that in your ah life, it's like, this is what makes it fun to be in this relationship with you. You know what i mean? And I just like there's like is a little disconnect between. Yes, there is but yeah romance there. Right. And I feel like when I read Banter. Like or you know and the author and the narrator will be like oh witty banter. like ooh. It's never that witty. I don't like that. There's some. Yes. Right. But you have it's like there's a very fine line of yes this shows me that you guys are like really connected and in tune to each other versus you are too much and what is happening and this back and forth does not work for me.
00:24:05
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Yeah. Like you have to. There's like it's a a certain banter you really have to nail. yeah And probably really personal. Sorry. Yeah. yeah The heroine is also so there in the beginning, there's a fairly significant language difference. So she comes from a different country. So she has an accent and he's training her. And so um like there's this part where um he is showing her some of his skills.
00:24:28
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In this garden. And I guess there's some smoke or something that he's generating. I don't remember exactly the details, but I guess she she makes a joke and she's like, oh, oh, in my country, we would consider doing such a thing in company.
00:24:43
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Very rude. Like she's cracking a joke, but there's a language barrier and she's clearly trying to joke that he farted. But like it's his very impressive, scary, intimidating smoke. And it takes him a minute. But it's like this kind of thing where it's these jokes and they're I don't even know. It's so she has all these moments where she there's like a language barrier and he's trying to figure out what she is saying. And so there's this that kind of banter where they're poking fun at each other. But it's so.
00:25:07
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gently and so he worships her so it's one of those things where I'm having such a difficult time right now and I wasn't prepared for this because I don't like a huge part I'm uncomfortable with a huge part of the plot a huge part of the plot but their relationship is making me like I can't stop wondering what the deal is with their relationship because it's so different from what I'm used to that I'm kind of hooked on it.
Realness vs. Romanticized Portrayals in Books
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So anyway.
00:25:32
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I think you should unpack it in a review. Be like, you know, on the one hand, awesome yes On the other hand, because you know, books can contain multitudes. And I think we can read books for different reasons. Like sometimes in our listicles, I'm like, well, this book definitely applies. Like,
00:25:47
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I found all these other things about it very annoying or sometimes. Right. Usually if it's truly troubling, I won't put it on. But like I definitely put in stuff sometimes that's like some people might not appreciate this. But if it it does have this particular for each thing. Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:02
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Anyway, I just – it's very interesting. He's very – he's like – his brain is sexy. I don't know what the deal is. Anyway, that's what got. And Holly, I know we're like almost up, but – Yeah, I mean, we're basically out of
Historical Romance Reflections
00:26:14
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time. But that's okay because – That's okay. She'll be like, here's the title. That's all we have time for. Thanks, folks. That's okay because I'm reading currently – and not a romance novel so i know right um i'm reading nothing to share with the class horse by geraldine brooks which oh horace horse like horse okay horse like the animal like nay like nay yes uh which is is okay i think it like won a bunch of awards was gonna say have i heard of that
00:26:46
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probably I mean, I think it's her most, it's her it's her it's a fairly recent one from her. But ah fun story is I share my Libby account um and both Ingrid and my sister have access to it. so I'll go in and I'll be like, huh, who put this hold on? and And my sister put a horse on and it came in and I just accepted it. And she's like, I'm not ready for it. Why didn't you suspend it for me? I'm like, oh, sorry. But then I was like, oh, wait, I have a copy of it that I found in a little free library. So I'll just send it to you.
00:27:23
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And I'm like, well, maybe I'll read it first before I send it to her. but yeah the next But then the most recent book that came whole ah hold came in is Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey, which I asked my sister and she was like, no. um And then I was like, all right, Ingrid, was this you? And she's like, yes. And I'm like, maybe yeah folks just so you know, I know it's on a lot of romanticy lists.
00:27:46
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But I would not call it a romance. See? happened to these recommendations? But it is, it is, mean, people on, I've seen people on like the Blue Sky talk about this a lot because it comes up a lot in people recommending it. And she is doing something real different with this book. But I saw it on there and I'm like, I'm excited to reread it because it's been like 15 years since I read it. We can buddy read off the blog.
00:28:17
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And now I'm like, I wonder what I would think about this now. Like, yeah. How it's aged because it's old. It's like 25 years old. I would love to talk about that too, how we would react to things. I would too because I was rewatching Pride and Prejudice while I had COVID. The Colin Firth one?
00:28:36
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Yes. And I was... The real Yeah. I was hornswoggled. I don't know if that's a word. i was flabbergasted. i the thing I picked up on things that I have not picked up on in the past, and I was bewilderfied. Like...
00:28:53
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and Like in a good way or a bad way? Well, yeah, I felt like. Yeah, you said to a non yes or no question. What did I do? Say more. Say more. Don't worry about it.
00:29:04
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Say more. I think it was positive. I don't know. i have to do some self-reflecting because part of it was that before I i did not see that Lizzie's family was a hot mess and not appropriate in social settings. and i And all of a sudden I was like, well, no freaking wonder. Like I didn't get it at all. Yeah. It's like, it's like, a don but I don't know. It's like when you're young and you're like, oh yeah. And then all of a sudden you're an adult and then you read the cat in the hat to your kids and you're like, i am team fish. What happening? yeah Yeah. Well, I think the other thing about historical romance in general that maybe, I don't know if we should pause this and do it for a different one, Erin, because we I think it's good enough and it's juicy enough that we could totally do it.
00:29:50
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All right, let's pause. That's just a tantalizing dangle time. That's tantalizing preview, I guess. better write it on our list so we don't forget. add it to our list. I don't even know where we're going. But yeah, we're over time.
Next Book Club Preview
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But we will not be talking about this next week because next week is book club week.
00:30:08
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We're going to be reading Rears and Vices by Ian Caro. It's a new release. And... ah I haven't read it yet. i don't know if you guys have started it yet, but there's no magic. I need to. And i think it's not a series. So we're going to have none none of the things we talked about today. It'll be good for hard crank in a different direction. A thruple and piracy.
00:30:31
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right, let's go. It's going to be real fun. um Show notes at smutreport.com slash podcast. I will try to link to all the various books we talked about.
00:30:42
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so we can do them again. There are a lot. There a lot. And until next time, keep it smutty. Keep it smutty, folks. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Smut Report!