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though here we are yeah to be slightly sillier

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than it would have read we're read little and delirious

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because we recorded now this episode

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twice there

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is an author and him make him getting and

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i read her book i was or

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but like what was on my topics of the year

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couple years ago twenty three as twenty honey

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and and as using a book called the

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women could fly which is

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some good and a couple boxes

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to the clashes guy which is the

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sky kind of like eyes government

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dystopia dystopia government control

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dystopia basically it takes

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place in a world in which which is

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exist for the government haven't quite figured out

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what to do about them and it's kind of that

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concerned about them there sure

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exactly how much power they had was

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a kind of like because it feels a bit nebulous

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like what

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do it always is when there's a new thing and the government

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doesn't exactly know how to regulate it off it should

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be regulating at and but the problem

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is at this point it's winning an ai

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they were hung on the government doesn't like women once

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and they have powers and the basically

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that time you turned thirty you're

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constantly under

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scrutiny even before

2:05

the people in there and you're complaining have

2:07

an answer questions like do you own a cat have

2:09

you ever accidentally levitated i

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think along those lines and people

2:13

can accuse you at any point of either having

2:15

which tendencies they they

2:18

they will say like oh that with that woman looked

2:20

at me wrong now have a rash you must must be which

2:22

and then they'll take you away and question you and

2:24

possibly end up burning you at the steaks but

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it takes place in our modern world and by

2:28

the time you turned thirty you have to make a decision

2:31

you have to either be living with a man who is your husband

2:34

for you if you register with the government say

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like i'm not going to be living with a man as my husband

2:38

and then they're gonna take away all of your autonomy

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basically and this is about a woman

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named josephine she's living in this world and

2:45

her mother disappeared when she was younger

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and it was even like a a twenty twenty

2:50

or unsolved mysteries about her mother because people think

2:52

she was probably a wedge their she's under two

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things under extreme

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scrutiny

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the book make waves she gets a

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letter from her mother's lawyer that says

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in her mother's will a her mother said if she

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goes to this island with this doll

3:05

on this one date she'll get like

3:07

money from her mother's estate so

3:10

she had decided she going to go do that them

3:12

says a spot relationship with her mother disappearance

3:15

you have a never know when she went and she's

3:17

decide him do that and she's twenty eight twenty

3:19

nine so she's about to have to the garage is gonna get married

3:22

susan dating this guy she refers

3:24

to as party city because he's a good time but

3:26

you never really know if you are you have

3:28

regret being there or something that's like

3:30

a joke arguing you know you got in part shop at

3:32

a party city bible to set your life why

3:34

did i buy all that is

3:37

so cheap but it guy got what it what it my money's

3:39

worth out exactly as he feels about this man is

3:41

is using to i spend the rest my life with this man i'm

3:43

not even sure but it is like this the timing

3:45

of it says the serbian but

3:47

it has i think meghan getting writing

3:49

is very interesting a little stream of consciousness

3:52

but very like character based writings all

3:54

about this character in her inner monologue ah

3:57

and i think she's great great writing when

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you're emailing so i've already read my

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favorite book of twenty twenty three i

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can pack it up pack it in folks i know we're still

4:05

now is actually getting old twenty twenty

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three oh yeah i know i know we're all

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here into a family , in another

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are heavily under the views are both this is

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a bum to i have read i got the

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blurb a book that you really

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should preorder we would like to do me unfavorably

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preorder this book and when you i

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tell you what it is you will know i was a book that was made

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specifically for me greedy hendrix

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wrote a haunted house book and i

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might milligan with that will that cartoon wolf

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leto in his eye logo yeah yeah

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this is a a has an email him

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i am box that is like oh my god why i'm

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smelling like your high in party and heart you

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know yeah to get satellite that the get satellite it's like carrying

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you have to ask later that led me directly to my

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my computer screen yes so

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it's out on january seventeenth

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twenty twenty three and it's called how to sell a haunted

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house by greedy hendrix friend of the show favorite

4:54

of the glass years and of both of us and it's

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about this woman who

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has a sort of strained relationship with her family

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they live in north carolina and she has he lives in

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san francisco with her daughter and

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she is really wanted to get away from

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the house in the family but and

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this is not a spoiler she gets a call when day from

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her estranged brother that both

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of their parents have died and a car accident and

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purple younger brother is the mess of the family and

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she realizes oh shit i gotta fly back home for

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the funeral and you know to get that their

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house in order and you know my brother's a mess so

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i'm going to be the one who has to deal with it and that she plans

5:27

to be there for a week but she gets there is like

5:29

or this is gonna be much more complicated than i thought because her

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and her brother immediately become contentious over who's

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going to control the house was gonna get what money

5:36

and they have to kind of band together

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to to sell the house and

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the caught it as north of not as

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i mean it's in the title so it's not but

5:46

this one of their cousins who is a real here comes

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a look at how to sell haunted house or

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okay laughs as yeah litter loop upset

5:53

when of that one of their cousins is a real at her and she

5:55

comes to the house and she looks and she's like this is great you're gonna

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get gonna lot of my for this for this us his neighborhood

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is really hot right but it hot in as eager to hear

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it affects that before you sell

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and they're both like come again in a brother

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thinks it's his parents so he doesn't want to get the goes

6:08

out and she doesn't believe in ghosts are all so

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do things about this book one it is an incredibly

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masterful job of writing

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a story about are the things that families don't

6:17

talk about and how those things as and on

6:19

had conversations or destroy your family

6:22

is also is the series buying

6:24

i've ever read in my life i

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screamed at this book the

6:29

smoke was so scary i share it

6:31

with a guy read only one sitting it was at ten o'clock

6:33

at night and jeremy my boy from was like i really want to go to bed

6:35

and i wouldn't let him i made him

6:38

to sleep upstairs and next

6:40

to me while i was reading this book

6:43

so i could die did not have to be alone editor

6:45

five chile or

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bug it is so scary it

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is so beautiful it will

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emotionally destroy you but also

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to annihilate you with terror it

6:56

is maybe when am i here buffett ever

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read in my life wow i love

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it so much and please again please

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preorder it comes out in january will not

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be disappointed if you love greedy

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hendrix if you never read greedy hendrix before

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of you're looking for a theory bug if you're looking for a great

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book about complicated families

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and and family drama it's just

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it's i'm it's a masterpiece so that's how to

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sell haunted house by greedy hendrix mine

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is the women could fly by

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meghan giddings and i listen to a half of

7:25

it on audio book and the narrator was

7:28

angel pm and at to

7:30

the greater and sean

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is reading he doesn't want to say into the

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micro

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to i will do it for hamlet

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it's reading sorry please thank you stories

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by charles youth of the short story collection

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i'm bree , loved you

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of jealousy i love charles you and i think

7:47

the side my author on his side by side

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side by stories and i would say the

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wheelhouse involves said i

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said boy block sad when depression

7:57

depression leaning about

8:00

a little heartbreaking you like your hard to be shot

8:03

the little bit like if you're harvard made a glass

8:05

the when taste will mail and they do a local thing

8:07

think i'm like as a drizzle

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of book yeah yeah and that is charles

8:11

you to it's he tells you is

8:14

like to like break your heart thinking

8:18

and make you just a little sad

8:20

but am i loved this book about

8:27

we want to become ah but here's some listener feedback heidi

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road and to say i've only just discovered reading glasses

8:32

and i'm now going back to listen to older episodes we

8:34

love when people write us to will continuously

8:37

discovering reading that and i know i think that i was so

8:39

long ago i'm legally married mine was alive

8:41

and know now cetera and he says episode

8:43

twenty six was about book covers and i thought

8:45

i'd share a cute little thing that my kids do

8:47

i overheard them excitedly telling each

8:49

other that they had hit the cover quote

8:52

apparently it's a term that they made up that means

8:54

that they've hit the part in the bug that matches the

8:56

picture it or illustration on the cover

8:59

i'm curious of other kids use this term of

9:01

it's just my sweet sweet reader babies i love

9:03

that they have their own little reader language i

9:05

love that although i think it's a more specific

9:07

to the kids books yeah the people

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which is gonna let us know if people if they if

9:12

the kids are looking for the cover of

9:14

yeah of obviously yeah my the book

9:16

i'm reading right now it's just words like on the cover

9:18

so actually the women to fly

9:21

that i had the title

9:23

at one point which is interest said cool

9:25

i guys that that's probably spoiler

9:27

but it isn't the fucking title so i don't

9:29

feel like i bet wailing and as the final

9:31

feel bad about how to sell haunted house because

9:34

that's when and title so maybe we

9:36

as adults his the police that's

9:38

interesting read the title pair parents

9:40

right in about your your reader kids victory

9:44

road and road and i just went right in and say thank

9:46

you so much making a show like this i didn't listen

9:48

to your whole backlog backlog listeners

9:50

i learned that i love on people get into reading glasses

9:52

and they immediately be like i'm going to do all

9:55

of them are it's really nice listen to people who

9:57

are still enthusiastic about reading even of the

9:59

bookies like that aren't i would personally pick up

10:01

i really enjoy listen to someone talk about something laps

10:03

other i just realized that around episode one

10:05

seventy three i've seen breeze

10:07

will be twelve hour shifts already i think it was

10:09

really good and i related obliged to maybe when everything

10:12

kept going wrong one one thing after another

10:14

hopefully i'll because we present episodes as soon

10:16

as listening to the ones from the beginning the quarantine

10:18

is a little surreal yes i can only imagine

10:21

and yeah i like that i like that i mean i

10:23

think a filmmaker the beginning but i guess you don't i

10:25

don't say what i have some

10:28

i hope that this person

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can use the

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the job and at finds out that she's

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right she's was torn hard

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listen, you two

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can find out what i have select it

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is a you can watch a 12-hour shift on hulu

10:42

at any point in time if you live in sandlot,

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can is on shutter shutter

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two things? i have i have met instead if

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you haven't realized is what

10:51

you're hearing right now you may have already watch the things

10:53

i've directed jacquard into say really

10:55

been really enjoying getting more into reading lately

10:57

thanks to the show i've been trying to find a good

10:59

way to take notes while reading without actually

11:02

marking the pages my personal sacrilege

11:04

keeping an index card for writing out

11:07

and import page numbers on it while reading

11:09

the book has been really useful for me to

11:11

, index card conserve is the perfect bookmarks

11:14

when i'm done reading a book i can you believe the

11:16

card inside the book or put it in one of those binder

11:18

rings with a hole in the corner if you journal

11:20

you can always glued into your notebook to not

11:23

sure if anyone submitted something like this but it's been

11:25

a game changer for me and wanted to share this is

11:27

a really especially be just about episode of a reader

11:29

retention it would be really cute little

11:32

note while you're reading and stick it and idea

11:34

to the index card and that you can write

11:36

on cousin good idea for good bookmark this

11:39

a bookmark to make which is little a bookmark the you can

11:41

write little notes on yeah actually

11:43

that one of my favorite books was when i lived

11:45

in brooklyn is a community bookstore and they

11:47

are bookmarks are lined

11:49

oh see that's very smart but the i like i

11:51

mean jack is obviously to get out a way to do

11:53

that added live out here live in and twenty twenty three with

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me he added sure you and huge at both

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are and twenty we're not reading grady hendrix

11:59

ah ah ah you want to reject with

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me i am going to be doing

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my last round of in person twenty twenty two

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events i am really excited

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about it most of them are in california

12:27

but there's going to be one and connecticut

12:29

that i'm doing with miss bree a grant here are doing

12:32

story fast in september ninth and

12:34

tenth in westport connecticut it's it's

12:36

a huge thing big a big festivals really really

12:38

fine but i'm also going to be in sacramento

12:40

in september and oh hi i'm

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and in november i'm going to be

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an camera real california and

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i'm doing a virtual event as well so i have a link in the

12:49

show notes to that's if you this is going to

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be my last round after this i'm putting it off because i have

12:53

to finish the book that i'm writing so if you want

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to get your book sign come out say

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hi to me tell you what your we'll houses tell

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we're we're talking about the holy

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even better than both of those because you could the

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holy grail and the golden side of it it's

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the ideal book bag but

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what makes a book bag a perfect in

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what makes one inferior we are going

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to way am not episode about

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that

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no the world of reading is deep and wide

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yeah and we you know we've been doing this over five

16:18

and a half years we still have a lot of stuff to

16:20

cover

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maria tell me tell me about your book bag

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wow

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you know they actually

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went out your definitely a bum book

16:30

a book bag multi i said yes yes

16:32

ah you know sometimes i'm carrying my backpack

16:34

or his i'm traveling at a backpack and i'd like

16:36

to

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so now ten dollars

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the

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any tearing my adamant ditto

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bad and michael bad currently

16:48

is a one for the signing

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the movie and it has the twins from

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the signing in and

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i was at a grocery store the other

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day

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and a a woman signs and

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i will you benefit of think he or she said american

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horror story right

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right well as i did you know whatever

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find you can keep a copy of the shine around

17:09

in your book that i you want it to her and i'm

17:11

like to change your life and yeah

17:13

that's what i'm something that's important i know

17:15

what would it even what are you carrying as a book that out

17:17

so what i what i usually use

17:19

i also have a tool bag but the toad i have

17:22

is from big by press which is a clothing

17:24

company really like and by love it i've

17:26

got a lot of room inside i could

17:28

probably fit six books and they

17:30

are if i try to say the line

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yeah i bought deceptively big

17:35

is it a larger than their your average tell

17:38

know i think but it is wider

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oh oh wait

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wait imagine i would feel like

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okay now the i know why

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after them down like a second my

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arm those them places

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that's not a bad bet to

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here for it as it as as in like

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it's more like you know blogs bags kind

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of wide yeah yeah in florida

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has nice roomy out

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of pocket sized

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irina collider of

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i do like get the doubts

18:10

i really happy with it i like it it's black

18:12

like all the other than that i owed in

18:14

my favorite part about it and really the

18:17

the zinger

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issue that the topic in zip close get

18:21

it while they did this did this amazing

18:23

part of the problem with the tobacco is that

18:26

you know you're carrying something around you put

18:28

it down on the floorboard have some and car

18:30

and next thing you know you're missing a chocolate bar

18:32

and you travel book sounds like some be versatile feel

18:34

you sounds like something that does happen to me and made me very

18:37

sad because of you're carrying a bunch of books and

18:39

it's kind of like packed in the of it's value oh

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yeah it'll about we'll leave until

18:43

bags packed not very

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not packed like are very evil it actually can

18:48

hold a lot the stuff will say and but if is packed

18:50

for your enemy losing something in there yeah

18:52

keys i don't know something couple out for me

18:54

it's a book is gonna slide out yeah again

18:57

you're on an airplane and you put your bullet tote on the floor

18:59

and then slides out yeah flies

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back a few rows be like excuse

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me sorry i'm i

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i think that this is very smart the big bad precedent because

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zip we do lives in we're not sponsored by them

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oh my god have we could be so

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much money much money on a tobacco

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smart i think they really a have improved

19:17

upon the the tote bag a

19:20

world model i'm but what about

19:22

b what about the backpack so you also

19:24

have or have been known her have

19:27

a , backpack user as

19:29

a book bag when it but what is the backpack

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rank lives matter fate of as that argue

19:34

that multiple targets even put sometimes

19:36

i put my book in until bag and put it in the backpack

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i , i love

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it and in i often call my

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backpack my book bag which

19:45

is very confusing as it is i

19:48

think the is that it would be funny if you had its notebooks

19:51

and at north another don't have books and and

19:53

i'm just like amy my bag that make my like

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computer as an accessory used to call my backpack

19:57

when i was in school but that's because i had my textbooks

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and

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the world i think i just hadn't taken

20:02

that from school and carried it and in

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don't you like all know that her book our backpacks

20:06

their book bags are you bad can be a book bag

20:08

really any rye hard yeah

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what a book it is nowadays as a book bag

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the i never used to backpack for

20:15

a really bad but i guess a i'm i'm pretty bad

20:18

pick curious the

20:20

big bad press just started selling bet like

20:22

many backpacks and now i'm like

20:24

oh shit i get that because i like my tote so

20:26

much i think it's because the meta tags gonna

20:28

be nice gonna be i mean

20:31

it's fine for small i am old

20:33

enough to i carried a mini backpack in the night he has

20:35

his eyes wide not going to be doing that but i

20:37

worry about the book size getting a book into

20:39

a minute not too many it's pretty

20:41

the

20:43

either way i'm putting some total zippers on

20:45

it in our on our ring glasses and with

20:48

but i because only the

20:51

problem with the tote especially if you're carrying

20:53

a heavy book which is why i try not

20:55

to bring hardcovers out too much is that

20:57

they get really gets really heavy to carry on one

20:59

shoulder so like if you're out depauw

21:01

i i i always to have to have a book on me

21:03

at all times like i'm german i

21:05

went to the zoo recently and

21:08

we were walking around all day and i have

21:10

my book in there and with a hardcover on it was like man

21:12

i wish there were a little backpacks i didn't like

21:15

a big way to one of my you normally distributed

21:17

yet i feel this way about a water bottle like

21:19

eyes after the water bottle everywhere i go near

21:21

and it makes things really really heavy or

21:24

it so upsides and downsides to both

21:26

backpacks and toads

21:29

we didn't mean to rank the i because

21:31

it's reading glasses we came up with a ranking

21:33

system for book bags which is similar to our bookmark

21:36

ranking system and just as ridiculous

21:38

as first quality storage capacity

21:40

right so that's that's the ability to

21:43

hold yeah that

21:45

which is the whole goal care of the bags yeah

21:47

i bet he building a hold enough books and i think

21:49

that's dependent upon the person like i need a

21:52

little less storage capacity that

21:54

now rainy a guy on carrying kendall

21:56

so we would say the like the a key it bags

21:59

yeah hi in storage haida [unk] storage

22:01

capacity not so high in some

22:03

of the other thing yeah yeah the second one is

22:05

a static right so they're low their

22:07

loan aesthetics and aesthetics again depending

22:09

on what what you need but you know what

22:11

a cute bag you don't want them to bag of last but

22:13

you don't want an ikea ikea loud

22:16

ass bag carrying around making

22:18

being bright blue what are you a

22:20

well i mean it looks like a tarp yeah

22:23

yeah yeah the tarp with a with a handle on

22:25

it yeah yeah basically who's got a pro who carries

22:27

around a tarp i was trying to think of an employee

22:29

i like and someone who enjoys someone

22:31

yeah what are you a murderer trying to hide about

22:33

the

22:38

i mean i ana i if

22:40

he filled it ninety four when it's rainy

22:42

day to cover up discover your

22:44

lawn i

22:47

do think what i do i hear bags are big enough

22:49

that you could probably but when over you as it was raining

22:52

oh yeah we know the or book under

22:54

detail remember what is it an entire

22:56

you're in a bag yeah definitely trash

22:59

bag and that would also have large store

23:01

as passover then you would look like a goblin vr

23:04

like you're going to the job

23:06

okay

23:07

one of storage capacity to the aesthetic

23:10

three is com for it cannot be annoying

23:12

to carry around again the ikea bag high

23:15

in storage capacity low income for it but

23:17

and backpack high and comfort

23:19

because again equal distribution

23:21

and love wait for non

23:23

book capability so also need space

23:25

and or pockets for keys wallet

23:28

phone other things that you carry around

23:30

right of otherwise you're carrying both a bag free

23:32

books and your purse you're

23:34

having from now now either do it all and why

23:36

i like efficiency and in the last

23:38

one is sturdiness a sick

23:41

material to protect the book no one likes a thin

23:43

book bag at yale and god gosselin

23:46

fact that you don't like a lane or like

23:48

this and i like and and see the book

23:50

bag a bit and a severely of employees

23:54

have a doily of i have a ghost

23:56

bride dress i was i'm falling

23:58

apart although now i

24:00

kind of would you do it or that yeah but not to carrier

24:02

out of that so storage capacity

24:05

a static comfort non book capabilities

24:07

and sturdiness or it's oath with all of these

24:09

things bria like you said it seems like the ideal bookish

24:11

bag is different depending on your reading

24:13

shuts yes your moreover he reader

24:16

print reader so what do you personally

24:18

need to carry in your book bag okay

24:21

i'm at this moment my life i'm to say a mask

24:24

a chocolate bar inside bar plastic bags plastic

24:26

bags doesn't get another thing

24:28

while it

24:29

around maybe karkhi and

24:32

apart which i don't

24:34

put the gate which i was it's

24:36

very very to be that you would

24:39

ever carrying case

24:40

your chocolate bar but not for your kids

24:42

that's your i'm so i'm gonna

24:44

say i need something thirty

24:46

not to thirty something that i

24:49

, i could have like the goes brides address

24:53

because i do i like to be dark

24:56

as sometimes i do mess up put chocolate and think

24:58

it sounds absurd to make sure i can't get say what

25:00

i stand , all your

25:02

clothes are not just be just don't buy brown close

25:05

at you know it is a problem their carcasses often

25:07

melted chocolate chocolate that

25:09

admit it might is no of the a zig in zig are

25:11

so yeah just i need i need you know those

25:14

are my basic things i'm putting in a bag what about

25:16

you what he what he put in he their minds

25:18

pretty similar mask

25:20

pants antis her lip balm phone keys

25:22

wallet sunglasses of you put a lid on

25:24

the other day thirty forty times a day seventy

25:28

, question is it karma how

25:31

can one i was younger they say that car max

25:33

was an addictive what and so

25:36

like and i remember you use

25:38

comics in the nineties people are gonna back me up

25:40

on the way them

25:43

like for some reason you knew that any media

25:45

we went to put it on again later in the your lips were a nice

25:47

and supple and soft at that point in

25:49

my eyes i think it was addicted

25:53

what i mean you wanted to put it on like you would you

25:55

wanted to feel it on your live it is with asa

25:57

like you put it i'd let love that that i don't

25:59

know when it because i have fought

26:01

cremate really the formula i brought

26:03

it recently need is the i do not have the same deal

26:06

remember

26:09

no idea i

26:12

usually you do you think of because i'm thinking

26:14

about him being like being wish i had some like

26:16

when i think about it right now i wish i had some so

26:18

the addiction is still their dorm lying dormant

26:21

yeah i everybody do caught is the

26:23

mk ultra as a success

26:25

of chapstick car max ultra

26:28

oh my god it's good it's think about

26:30

it would it think about it and it wanted like wanted like

26:33

know what was in it

26:35

the back

26:37

it is going petroleum jelly but it used to like

26:39

i used to be even stronger i swear to god anyway

26:42

so you putting catholic on thirty to forty

26:44

times a day do you have the dried slip through the

26:46

world what's going on over there are looking of the

26:49

car max addiction are no well so

26:51

german i live on top of a mountain oh yeah that's

26:53

about i got you are negative to address

26:55

that humanism here and as the desert that

26:58

so it's i it's wicked dry

27:00

up there and if i am not constantly slathering

27:03

myself like a marinated stake than

27:05

will be friendly dry so i can the bomb on

27:07

all the time but then i also keep water

27:09

bottle

27:10

new book and pen i keep my

27:13

eye it's either two books because everyone

27:15

knows the worst thing that can happen as when you're almost

27:17

done with the book and you have to go somewhere in your life i

27:19

don't want to just bring that book as i might finish

27:21

it and then i'll be book lists sure you carry

27:24

to in the back up book for

27:26

you either do that or i bring a book in my kobo

27:29

which i love and i always have stocked with

27:31

either library books or arcs are both and

27:34

so my book goes in my book bow a

27:36

case in the my cobos is another book bouquets

27:39

i'm an so anything but anything more than than

27:41

it is too heavy anything more than two books

27:44

or a book and akobo is too much for me gary

27:46

get your book will have the person either

27:49

one of them does one of the them doesn't they added

27:51

the zipper yeah them early book was it not

27:53

new book though does yes it is fantastic

27:56

enough i'm so what with

27:58

all these things that we need when

28:00

that we need to carry around what features are you

28:02

looking for in a book bag what's the ranking system

28:04

you want with teachers you think make a book bag

28:06

superior

28:07

i read start with or inferior it's

28:10

placement in my house

28:11

i value redefine the

28:13

say that about the bookmark i know that euro

28:15

is it and where is it

28:17

i found it this is the superior back

28:19

that it's how i feel a

28:22

lot cheaper lot of kurt purses they are not

28:24

superior because they don't have the rooms

28:26

i will say it's capacity is important

28:28

to me important i'm source about

28:30

the is important to me aesthetics is

28:33

important to me the the bags that i

28:35

keep around that are easy and also easy

28:37

to find are usually

28:39

good storage good aesthetic and

28:42

i can make it in the wash so i think

28:44

that that durability important for were unlikely

28:46

that ability to throw it in the guy brought in alaska

28:48

you never know what's gonna happen in on the floor

28:50

and and restaurant gotta yeah yeah you gotta yes

28:52

that was that piper had the oh

28:56

yeah yeah rimmer up me i would always see those on the

28:58

infomercials they were like cool person

29:01

our you bring your own her thought yeah yes

29:03

i do remember that yeah that's like a made for tv and

29:05

the thing him what are

29:07

the most important thing is the minions

29:09

is it sitting by the door so i have

29:11

my see any six the earth

29:14

quality assessment is that is how

29:16

close is it to you right now where as you're

29:18

trying to get out the door which isn't as hardest thing

29:20

i ever do all the as get his leave my house i

29:23

would about you what is what makes one superior

29:25

or inferior ah i mean i like a month

29:27

and all these i like as sturdiness i love

29:29

a thick candidacy material i hate

29:32

i hate the thought of like a thin

29:34

but tote bag where i have to like put the book down

29:36

and it's gonna get you know damaged

29:39

in some way i'm i'm

29:41

me any medium i guess nine

29:43

book capability i don't like hearing around too much other

29:45

stuff comfort ,

29:48

is nice aesthetic is nice but it's easy to make they'll

29:50

i like bob like everything storage

29:52

capacity storage want with

29:55

to big is i'm one of those people that will i will

29:57

expand to fit my container and if

29:59

i have a bad that is too big on

30:01

going to put books and and like all doesn't like

30:03

a new yeah water earning gas which one extensive

30:05

it's content and gas gas yeah i'm

30:07

going to be like a little more like it's like when you have a when you go

30:09

to a cookout you would they have really big plates and

30:12

your life doesn't look like in a food it's barely silly

30:14

have any of the played i get more on this time

30:16

with packing like it out like whatever baggage

30:18

shoes i will fill it up when i'm going somewhere yes

30:20

so that's why i don't want to have a bag with two

30:22

big if i had an ikea bag i would

30:24

be truly in trouble but you know what i really

30:27

look for it's imagine you walking around

30:29

with my does have a blue

30:31

bragging about nine or the a yellow line

30:34

you know wrinkly one at that frankly up

30:36

dragging it behind me as i have an entire

30:38

attire libraries were the books ah the

30:40

thing that i think makes a book bags superior

30:43

the flat bottom

30:44

hi to

30:47

make a real fast be face

30:49

because without a flat

30:51

bottom a bag is usually not wide

30:53

enough at the bottom and it makes it more

30:55

difficult to get bit books in and out maybe that's

30:58

a seventh assessment is like how easy it

31:00

is to get a book in and out of it i

31:02

actually i bought a really cute book bags

31:04

from bags company i won't name and it was

31:06

like was little shoulder bag that was like begin leather

31:08

and it looked like academic it was

31:11

cute but it was not zipper it was buckle

31:14

it was such a pain in the ass do

31:16

with it i have to do and undo the buckles

31:18

that a it was hi martha everything

31:20

else that i was like i stopped using

31:23

it because i was like i

31:25

don't feel like i'm doing the buckles or

31:27

i would not feel like doing them and would be flapping

31:29

alabama but towpath

31:32

zip up till bag with bag flat bottom which

31:34

bottom which flat bottom bags slap on a better

31:36

world around her to hook up with the

31:38

that that's the deal of his observe it was wider

31:40

on the bottom it's you get so much more space

31:43

i think that's why my bag and hold more

31:45

books that i think that it looks like it can as good as

31:47

flat on the bottom and it really

31:50

it's like that girl it's

31:52

the

31:54

the referees like move that book bags

31:56

she that girl i don't know today as

31:58

a new phrase what is the new friends with

32:00

a big really great it's like all with that girl she's that

32:02

girl it's that girl ah over

32:04

the place is that girl is that girl

32:07

yeah so who is it

32:08

wrap it up

32:11

no idea that reads like who that girl

32:14

you know

32:17

oh

32:18

i've tried every go away as always

32:20

afraid

32:21

the ball young people are you the young people are you

32:23

they're saying is that girl

32:25

he added a flat bottom bag illiberal

32:28

is not who is she now or that you

32:30

have been the interchangeable you see is what i now

32:33

the i see if the of about bottom baggage realize

32:35

who is see again but it's

32:37

that girl is also the cia

32:39

it really i mean that so i i would recommend

32:42

and i actually think the of for a

32:44

quick blood boats on that some of the tote bags

32:46

sold in the reading glasses void merged or

32:48

have flat bottom is that's gonna give

32:50

you it's gonna give you more storage

32:53

that

32:58

i'm not a bag the idea of

33:00

walking without what is a better carla

33:03

rockin book scope i don't are going

33:05

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33:06

you're ready to walk into

33:08

the seer

33:09

it now provide

33:12

bought it gives you more storage capacity more comfort

33:14

more nombre capability and more sturdiness

33:17

i think it's professor bother you

33:19

or his film

33:23

the way

33:23

the

33:26

who's

33:28

that girl again in conclusion

33:31

that is what i think make the bush superior

33:35

that in the zip top you need a zip top flat

33:37

bottom that's that's the perfect

33:39

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at kelly thank you so much for joining us

40:42

thank you i am so

40:45

thrilled to be talking with you i

40:47

think we met at what was it does

40:50

i think was partly are if ,

40:52

doesn't allow areas conference

40:54

that i don't even think exists anymore

40:56

somewhere in northwest arkansas and you

40:59

are so fine to me

41:01

and ah yeah so i'm

41:04

thrilled to be

41:04

your why i'm so happy to have you on

41:06

reading glasses your books are amazing but

41:08

before we talk about your bug they have to ask what

41:11

are you reading well right now i'm i'm one of

41:13

those people who read the live in different

41:15

places and optical up for the

41:17

so it's my be all over the place but

41:19

i'm currently

41:20

reading siren queen by need

41:22

oh my god or he might bring just

41:25

read that recently and she loves it

41:27

i mean that hover alone how can i

41:29

didn't even look to see what it

41:31

was about his son licenses i'm taking

41:34

this up on so yeah

41:36

yeah node chinese american woman coming

41:38

of age prieto hollywood soul

41:41

yeah i don't need to know anything

41:43

at the apply to i

41:45

got and

41:45

i love covers if it's it's a

41:47

great cover it's it's for me

41:49

hide his thugs truly on

41:51

three months

41:52

i'm trying to read a bunch of books

41:54

to the anthony nominated

41:57

books because i'm heading off

41:58

the bouncer con

41:59

early september right now

42:02

i just started ah clark and division

42:04

by naomi her ahora or

42:06

of you've heard of that

42:08

i hadn't heard of it and i was like how

42:11

did i not know about this so and i'm

42:13

happy for but it's about a young woman she's

42:15

searching for the truth about her sister's

42:17

death but it said against

42:19

the mass incarceration a japanese

42:21

americans during world war two so

42:24

fascinating on historical

42:27

fiction but also a mystery and

42:29

i really love that kind of literary

42:31

fly

42:32

crush on her book get

42:34

me every time

42:36

yeah super sounds wicked where he good

42:38

speaker

42:39

we could make a good which i know because you are

42:41

has lived party your life in boston as i can

42:43

say with a good the office qaeda

42:46

forgot

42:47

the around there you tell us about

42:49

your new book real bad things yeah so

42:52

real that things is about is about

42:54

who confessed to reset father's

42:56

murder twenty five years ago

42:59

busy was never charged on

43:01

so she returns home to do

43:03

her time once his body is dragged

43:05

from the lock and damn two

43:08

and then flooding and so on

43:10

but it's not that simple the industry

43:13

the other secrets

43:15

the surface that threatened to

43:17

expose some people she loves so

43:20

it's a little bit grit live a little bit

43:22

rural war and a whole lot of queer

43:25

crime

43:27

oh yeah it is neither

43:29

because i love romance suffer well

43:32

so freaking out so so they have a a lot

43:34

of our listeners love his quote unhinged

43:37

gay shit and it sounds like

43:38

the book fits the bill for that i hope

43:41

so i would i would like

43:43

to change my author brand to unhinged

43:45

queer shed

43:47

i'm like did i that

43:49

dot the stuff that so fun to write

43:51

so my books definitely fit

43:54

the bill because they're not characters

43:56

that do the right thing

43:58

hardly ever and

43:59

especially when queer vixen

44:02

we've had so many of those

44:04

books where you get a happy and days

44:06

a happily ever after the coming

44:08

of age a lot of the trauma and those

44:10

books are so important but

44:13

a lot of them are also young adult as

44:15

well and i've always

44:17

has been interested in honestly

44:19

just desire and crime and

44:22

that's an intoxicating mix

44:24

for me as an author and i want to

44:26

write these characters who are just not

44:29

great people all the time because i

44:31

think that's more true to life and

44:33

they're just fun to write in

44:36

those the the characters i'd like to read

44:38

and love to read

44:39

the unhinged people are ,

44:42

i absolutely do not trust them

44:44

my there's something stepford going on

44:46

with you is not your officer

44:48

he officer won't

44:49

necessarily read the happy

44:51

bugs as often i like dark seer

44:54

i like psychological

44:56

insight into characters that really

44:59

delve into what makes

45:01

people tick and kind of what

45:03

they're turning points worry and are

45:05

lies that made them the people

45:07

they are and then put a woman to

45:09

just some bat shit crazy arkansas

45:12

is great

45:13

yeah so it's it's honestly something

45:15

that we get asked for a lot on the show is

45:17

that people who are looking for queer fiction

45:19

or like please give me where fiction that isn't

45:21

way yeah it's hard

45:24

it's hard enough you why utter know he's heard

45:26

it before a repeated bad ass one

45:28

some unhinged gay said that so good

45:31

is on bathhouse by pj

45:33

burning i have not read that

45:35

i'm a writer email down around

45:37

his house so go from

45:39

there it's incredible

45:42

i'm so yeah i'm sure i'll

45:44

think of more me they'll send you a list after

45:46

be

45:47

little bit harder to find the adult

45:49

we are fiction that's not necessarily

45:52

you know basis

45:53

the trauma yeah like with you

45:55

that trauma the more we

45:57

put our characters metaphorically

45:59

up three and throw rocks at them to

46:03

get same thing is so it's not necessarily

46:06

oh here's this

46:08

terrible gay bashing which is of course

46:10

terrible but kind of moving

46:12

beyond the traditional

46:14

narratives that have been told about

46:16

clear people and if you want to learn we're is to

46:18

do the bashing you

46:19

hi jonah did some

46:21

passing you know in

46:24

on paper

46:25

or alarm coors league i know my

46:27

nicely only i don't do that

46:29

and hookers a stroller firefights

46:33

after tax and liberal

46:36

how long it has go tax no less

46:38

well speaks oaks as being of a

46:41

little rock's he said in the past interview that you

46:43

channel your feelings about the south

46:45

best through fiction what

46:47

, and ideas were you tapping into

46:49

for this new one real bad things you

46:51

know and parting about unhinged case

46:54

it i feel a southern crime

46:56

is totally unhinged on

46:58

is often emily's not even

47:01

about so much southern

47:03

but just these small towns a small

47:05

communities right serves but

47:07

southern crime in particular basically

47:10

the only joke i ever remember

47:12

is on the one about you

47:15

know what's the difference between and northern fairytale

47:17

versus the southern very tell and

47:19

is you know northern syria

47:21

tells began once upon a time

47:24

blah blah but sutherland's

47:26

start yeah i can't believe this shit

47:29

suffer wow

47:31

the guy

47:33

for the you know it's like that typical

47:36

southern you know game

47:38

yeah saying by there's something

47:40

about it that's really on

47:42

give her in funny and i think that

47:44

you know i grew up basically hearing

47:47

all these stories around a fire from

47:49

my dad and my uncle

47:51

and grandma and grandpa

47:54

and now i'm so used to taking

47:56

and really odd stories

47:59

like my dad will made a weird

48:01

is things over attacks so honestly

48:03

you know real bad faith comes

48:05

out as is some of that and i didn't even realize

48:08

this until after it's

48:10

hard to my dad at some point and

48:12

i was like oh this book is about this

48:14

and he's like yeah told

48:15

that my own faith

48:17

in america variability acknowledgements resistance

48:20

oh trust me he is you know it's

48:23

know it's much my dad is very

48:25

that's a person i go to his for weird

48:27

ways to die in arkansas

48:29

are you he's

48:31

lived a very full life and

48:33

he he's known so many people

48:36

and i mean i think you truly

48:38

cannot make this shit up for a lot

48:40

of the things you hear about an

48:43

there's so many criminals

48:45

and my own histories and

48:47

the only a couple of them actually went to

48:49

jail the other ones

48:51

and flights oh yeah they never

48:53

found the body say okay

48:56

cool but

48:58

, has landed kelly so it's okay

49:01

slow or that that is interesting of i

49:03

feel like the only area

49:06

like the only directional area compass

49:08

area that i feel associated specifically

49:10

with crime fiction as the south you know he

49:13

don't really hear about like will lose eastern

49:15

scrambling for northern crime fiction and southern

49:17

crime fiction as such as distinct thing distinct distinct

49:20

thing wise because it's just so off the off

49:22

the wrinkles part of it but it is

49:24

also due to in

49:26

own geography the civil war

49:29

the time from people who inhabit

49:31

dot an area

49:33

and a lot of the generational trauma

49:36

that comes from you know

49:38

the an ancestor of such

49:40

trauma yeah so i think

49:42

that's what makes it a little bit different there's

49:44

there's that darkness and dot the k

49:47

that i think a lot of people associate

49:49

with southern gothic where it's

49:51

all about deterioration and decay

49:54

and i think that really speaks to the southern

49:56

experience i mean are you have to do as lucky

49:58

you know the currents

49:59

medical climate and how

50:02

you know that conservative and cristo

50:05

fathers' sorry get i'm going

50:07

there are kind of you can

50:09

they're on the shelf over on

50:12

a region and because

50:13

the thing fly

50:15

redistricting and you know

50:17

voting problems

50:20

it seems like it's this one lot

50:22

regions of white conservative

50:24

ass holes and it's nine there a lot of

50:26

people there lot of fear people there there are a

50:28

lot of people

50:29

color there and so on

50:31

i think people are so right off the so

50:33

on fighting in some ways

50:35

me writing queer

50:37

ha inquiries southern section is

50:39

kind of fighting against that almost

50:41

like the glass ceiling of it and saying hey

50:44

you know i personally am not

50:46

still there but i was someone

50:48

who was there i had to get out and

50:50

there are people still there on we

50:53

exist i mean that as i

50:55

can think of a better reason to write a

50:57

novel like real bad things that that's

50:59

amazing and elliot

51:00

we're here we get a murder is

51:04

embarrassed you in the river

51:07

hi i'm , bit bizarre

51:09

for decision so you said

51:11

earlier that you love picking books with

51:13

by covered you have covered

51:15

you is in your reader wheelhouse besides a good cover

51:18

their any subjects tropes themes

51:20

that will always get you to pick up a book on

51:22

i got older hollywood now he that by

51:24

take that the sirens wainwright so

51:27

anything old hollywood eight ounces

51:30

the our that he reminds

51:32

me of a lot of just lying

51:34

on my grandma says bed in the middle

51:36

of just bryce filled hurry

51:38

i'm visiting her on the weekend

51:41

or whatever and she collected these old

51:43

hollywood true crime that she had

51:45

she already had it and then a lot of cosmopolitan

51:48

so it was a nice mix

51:50

of glamour and crime and

51:52

of dot i just ate it up and so

51:54

anytime i see that like

51:57

i loved the seven husband's of

51:59

evelyn here

51:59

oh yeah big real

52:01

pam my god

52:04

it's so good on yeah

52:06

so

52:07

it gets me every time fantastic

52:09

so where can listeners find

52:12

you on line and real bad things comes

52:14

out this week with the episode that that

52:16

yeah fuck with that my about it and this episode dropped his

52:18

come out it's been out for two days where

52:21

, people get it are you doing any events i'm

52:23

not doing a ton of events events

52:26

this you know still working through the pandemic

52:29

obviously like one of evil but i

52:31

do have one in person then

52:33

ah it's a good at

52:35

harvard bookstore in cambridge

52:37

they've been my favorite

52:40

nd forever and i've spent a lot

52:42

of money they're better than hosting the

52:44

again some really grateful for that

52:47

and then i'm of the about circle on in

52:49

minneapolis the mystery convention

52:51

and i'm reading a light and

52:53

warrant bar but other than that

52:55

mainly just podcast insides

52:58

as you probably do more things per se

53:00

but you're working on a line through working

53:02

on a new one so we'll see

53:05

we'll see we'll the oh and i do have

53:07

do have have wine event

53:09

in fort smith arkansas at bookish

53:13

in fort smith is my home town and

53:15

they did not have an indie bookstore

53:18

where my day

53:19

he not so i'm so relieved

53:21

to the reading their november

53:24

with another arkansas author who's

53:26

that is

53:26

don't know tough by eli cranor

53:29

saga is super dark it football

53:32

it's pure arkansas

53:35

i'm reading with hand the other ways both

53:37

can find me at twitter

53:39

instagram and kelly j forward and

53:41

some variation in there and i'm

53:43

my books are available through book

53:46

saw a local store if you

53:48

requested

53:50

the for am a bot of course a nd

53:52

bound awesome kelly this is

53:54

an awesome an interview thank you so much

53:59

trying to solve a bookish

54:02

problem from one of our listeners amanda right then

54:04

i moved to a new state in august twenty twenty

54:06

while i was able to get a temporary card from my

54:08

local library i could not get an official one

54:10

until summer twenty twenty one i

54:12

didn't notice this until earlier this year

54:14

but it turns out my library card expires

54:17

in the year twenty one twenty i don't

54:19

know of this was an accident or on purpose but it

54:21

seems weird have a library card that expires

54:23

and ninety eight years my reading

54:25

problem is this due to life circumstances

54:27

i moving to another state later this year to

54:29

i call my current library to follow up on this

54:32

and possibly risk losing my lifetime

54:34

library or just go with the flow

54:36

and continue to check out digital book from this

54:38

library for the rest of my life if

54:40

the latter will i be committing a book fan

54:42

in an older episode you told the listener that

54:44

since they were at one point part of that community

54:47

it wasn't a book thin but it is it still considered

54:49

lying to a library help

54:51

bring you want to read amanda's wheelhouse check

54:54

poetry specifically i kill british

54:56

narrators zombie apocalypse from any animals

54:58

perspective the make respective

55:00

fairytale retelling

55:02

the

55:03

categories fancy vampires

55:05

and children's books that i wish were around when i was

55:07

growing up thank you for all that you do and i enjoy

55:10

the show what do you think amanda to do

55:12

with this elicit labour headquarters as

55:15

soon to be heard the ah i don't

55:17

know if you can lie to in

55:19

i guess you can lie to an institution i

55:22

like that then she's concerned about a

55:24

lying to the library as like

55:26

you're going up to a building and being way

55:28

well it gets going to be like uma and oh yeah

55:31

matter of yeah

55:32

the lies of you don't like fantasist

55:35

as i say

55:38

my readers on the chef

55:40

shocking leave a lot of readers on the chef who ever

55:42

i listened wish i were multiple library

55:44

cards and reserve and multiple library

55:46

some of that might be in this room and yes and personally

55:49

think this is fine

55:50

i'm gonna give you a past

55:52

year i'm going absolve you of your since i don't think

55:54

you're lying to the library i think you

55:57

are you are want the part

55:59

of this community you may end up back

56:01

in that city so i think that that is like

56:03

don't you don't worry about the library not sitting

56:05

there going like that person thing i have

56:07

tracker on little yeah they they don't know where

56:09

you're living you may come back to that city and need you

56:12

get a book or something yeah like i

56:14

keep i'm i was he may subway cars wherever

56:16

i go somewhere in get one because you never know when you're gonna be

56:18

back and you need it exactly exactly the might

56:20

need it and i as i don't think you should call

56:22

them and let them know you're moving us else

56:24

i don't think they care that you're moving i think they really going

56:26

to be like a gradually since i'm on delete them least

56:28

of their concerns they are they probably would tell you to keep

56:31

the card i would assume i'm

56:33

i don't know that for sure libraries maybe it's premium

56:35

your i know and and i also think

56:38

we found another show that mean new i think

56:40

you are still a part of that community that library

56:43

community in some way he deftly pumps

56:45

up there circulation numbers part comes of

56:47

the circulation numbers if you're concerned that

56:49

you're getting books or four people actually need

56:51

down in that community maybe that and library

56:54

doesn't have you know

56:56

many

56:57

the

56:58

you're getting those books earlier than

57:00

the white library you're living in me my

57:02

picks take that into consideration but if you

57:05

i know occasionally you you are you max out

57:07

at your library and you're like i also want to

57:09

the kim stanley robinson book that

57:12

takes place and now twenty three twenty

57:14

when my library card runs runs out i

57:17

i don't know anyway there's a book where i like manhattan's

57:19

like underwater and which is about when

57:21

your library card one that i've

57:25

been i mean i look

57:27

this is not bother me know the bothering

57:29

you to that this i mean i think people here

57:32

are multiple library cards and lot of our listeners

57:34

do anything

57:36

i mean how you about amanda

57:38

i'm going to you that library card know feel too

57:41

guilty of the riding into the show about it

57:43

but i think that die you know

57:46

i absolve you of the scalp i don't think you need to

57:48

worry about returning this card i think you

57:50

don't need to let them know where you're located you

57:52

don't let your local local library know where you located

57:54

and i think you can also if you're checking

57:57

am sitting new book from that library

58:00

don't worry about i think me you know go with

58:02

guide you would do whatever is easiest

58:04

and that what they say after the priests absolve

58:06

you of thing

58:07

the closest i've ever come to that is watching

58:10

flea bag and i feel like it's probably not the best

58:12

first by you that you have sex with increase the

58:14

number she doesn't really like know she'd for oh

58:16

yes he does oh wow spoilers roughly back so

58:18

that i take that out there

58:20

anyway

58:24

when using this isn't you deny a further i think

58:26

it probably wasn't a mistake allow libraries

58:28

give out library cards for life yeah like

58:30

some like ours the los angeles public

58:32

library have you renew them every few years

58:34

i just renewed mine i'm but others

58:36

are a one and done sort of deal like i

58:38

mean everyone's going to die so they

58:40

may be give it to everyone a library card that

58:43

last one hundred years and you know if you last

58:45

longer than that then you can or anywhere

58:48

but thank that i live feather they have you won

58:50

this year for life but then they like

58:52

henry mine and they like

58:54

it's only for next five years and i'm like why is that and they're like

58:56

we know something you don't know somebody

58:58

write that book i'm i agree with

59:00

bria i would you not think i may need to

59:02

go the library a we've

59:05

talked about the filming the show before but if you're feeling guilty you

59:07

can make a donation to that library remember

59:09

again you're pumping up those are circulation numbers

59:11

also i [unk]

59:13

man under the know how the library in the new

59:15

places gonna be may be amanda

59:17

gets a new library card and this new library

59:20

is better has more books

59:22

that men who wants to check out you don't eat

59:25

it might be just as good anything like

59:27

anything mean look i don't vote

59:29

in the city that city don't live in but their cities that

59:31

cities feel very like very like portland in austin

59:33

i feel very like close to those cities

59:36

and like as you like i'm a part of those communities

59:38

in some way because i have family there

59:40

i like lived there for like a big part

59:42

of my life insulate i think the idea

59:44

of like being a part of this local community added

59:47

the internet because of the way our lives are so

59:49

what changed so often and we move from place

59:51

to place i as you think they knew that

59:54

the idea of you being a part of the library

59:57

community can change depending

59:59

on how involved

59:59

our with that like it i'm going to look at this one

1:00:02

library's website every day and

1:00:04

following what the library and the reading but i don't live

1:00:06

in that community i think i'm a part of that community if

1:00:08

that makes

1:00:09

i buy i totally understand that feeling

1:00:12

so amanda we absolve you of your books

1:00:14

in that you have i love it i'm into hasn't

1:00:16

even committed a books and now

1:00:19

but his preemptively isn't that like

1:00:21

a thing that can you do that

1:00:23

can you like preemptively

1:00:26

no bible word as get an

1:00:29

ad solution from a sin

1:00:31

but you have a committee

1:00:32

the we have evolved of a sudden you have a committed yet

1:00:35

the i had sex ross from odessa gary

1:00:37

ross roster care

1:00:38

now you can be like i'm about to go

1:00:40

commit to said adding you now i don't i feel

1:00:42

like i saw a movie where i was gonna go like murder

1:00:45

someone and he will head to go to the church

1:00:47

first and be like hey can you clear this for me

1:00:49

the way you like that gonna get getting i

1:00:52

like a credit and so you're not online

1:00:54

really didn't some god books yeah

1:00:56

yeah yeah

1:00:57

god credit

1:00:58

something now or

1:01:01

i've never heard of it i'm gonna i should i should

1:01:03

they should we should as our bras are carry

1:01:05

from oh north of here they would now

1:01:07

yeah

1:01:10

sure

1:01:11

try saying it sound like a boston the mob

1:01:14

thing and i might be the case maybe it was a boss

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