Girrrl.. What are you reading? A few of our book recommendations.

Recorded  January 16, 2021

Questions/Topics:  Top 5 books from our book club (and when we say 5 we mean 6)

Happy Birthday Rhumel! 
(She's an Inaguration baby.)

1. Tinaca Jones by Matt Boren https://amzn.to/3nYI2Ni

2. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen https://amzn.to/3ivmHd6

3 Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King https://amzn.to/3iB1Aq8

4. My Grandma Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry. by Fredrik Backman https://amzn.to/2M8KLq5

5. Born a Crime:  Stories of a South African Childh ood by Trevor Noah https://amzn.to/3bW8yoq

6. My soul to keep. (African Immortals series) by Tananarive Due  https://amzn.to/3o37qBw

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Welcome back to our show. Welcome back everybody. This is Twanda and this is Rhumel, Hi Rhumel. Hey girl. Hey. Hey,  do you know, my daughter called me today to say it was snowing at Chapel Hill. That's crazy. I didn't know. I was like this close to, to run our mouth, you know? Did you snow? No, I did not see any snow outside right now and it is sun shiny.

Beautiful. I know it's cold. It ain't tricking me, but I know. Yeah, it wasn't. I went out today and I didn't think it was that cold enough to snow. Definitely. I didn't feel that, you know, this is North Carolina, weather y'all, I guess the five miles to like where your daughter is, is just like, you know what I mean?

Like, I don't live that far from chapel Hill, so that's kind of crazy. Yeah. She Facetimed me. I got to see snow in North Carolina today. Well, I'm okay without it. Yeah, it was, she just caught, it felt like it was insult on top of injury at UNC they're required to take a COVID test before classes began. And so they're all in this long, long line waiting to get a COVID test and on campus.

And then it starts to snow. Ah, yeah, I wouldn't be upset about that too. My daughter has to do COVID test to go back to school too, but they could get it anywhere. And then they had to upload the results somewhere. And they, then they could go and now she has to be tested every two weeks. That's what they're doing at the school too.

I believe it's every, every week or so they ha they are able to get a test. I don't know if they have to, but anyway, I just wanted to say sign O' the times, you know, this is the world pretty soon. We'll be talking about getting a vaccine and getting on the list for that. Yes. So that's kind of exciting. It is.

I'm glad that there's at least an option out there for us. Yeah. Yeah. We're moving along. Yeah. 2021. And it might be a little rosier. I know. You'd like to look at it with rose colored glasses, but I tell you what it's been challenging to do that. Right. It's been challenging. Politically, Absolutely. It's been challenging. Yeah. 2020 was like, you know, like.

Okay, so I'm out, but I got my friend 2021 ..No, 2021 is 2020 with a wig. That's what that is as all that, because it was like seven days in it's like, ha ha hold my beer.

But yeah. And then I'm really concerned about what's going to happen on your birthday. So, first of all, let's just say Rhumel's birthday is coming up, coming up probably the day after when you hear this episode. Yes, I'm an inauguration baby. So I share the birthday with an inauguration  every four years. So depending on. Who gets inaugurated. Depends on how hard I celebrate it.

Do you know this time? It's just different. It's just this real different it is. I have to say that the idea of leaving the United States. It's still okay. The top of my head, it's still in play. It's still in play. I mean, United States looking kinda SUS. Right. Absolutely. Right. I dont even know if I used that right. I think you did, but who knows if you said it right?

Cause how would I know? But I think we did. I think we did good. Okay. Oh my goodness. Today we decided to take a, to take a look back and hopefully give some. Nice recommendations for books. Cause we like books, right? Yeah. We decided to have a recommendation series episode for the podcast, and we love books.

We're part of this book club, and we haven't done a lot to tell you which books we like. So we, we really worked hard to pick five, I mean, like pulling teeth to pick, but, and I, and sometimes Rhumel, and I are so alike. I would, I was expecting that maybe we would get all the 5 same, you know most of them, and we did, we did, we chose the  three Books.

Yeah, the exact same. We actually, it was hard to come down to five books because when we sent each other, our list, each of our lists had eight on there and you're always supposed to, we were only supposed to do five, but we both went over by three. Then talk about it first, but it was so hard. I. We really like the book.

I can't wait to tell you about some of these because yeah. Some of them are really, actually most of them are, but there's one like. Kind of surprised her that surprise book that's in there. That's probably not so well-known, but we really love. Okay. Well, we are also put all the book names and links to the book and the summary or the episode notes, or you'll get a chance to.

Find the book and get access to, to that. I do audio books. So that's how I experienced. And most of them, I say you probably would be able to enjoy them. If you were an actual read with book in hand, like don't know you were doing it, it didn't sound judge-y. No, I'm just saying people actually still do that.

Actually I was a convert because, you know, I used to be like, Oh, I don't, I don't want to listen audible. I don't want to do it. And the first couple of books I turned down and understand that that doesn't make any sense. I literally can't do anything else. Like you have to hold a book, read it, turn a page.

You can't, you have to like read a book and that's all you can do you have time for that? There is like nothing better than snuggling up in your favorite chair and sitting down with a book that you really enjoying. There's something very, I don't know. It's very, it sounds like a luxury. That's self-care we ain't got time for that.

Get it done while you're driving the work done while you're washing the dishes and doing laundry, we got to get this reading done no time for self 2021. Right. Yeah, but we should, yeah, you should work on self care. It ain't going to be reading books. I like to listen to my books. Okay. So anytime you hear me say, I read a book, I read it.

I listened to it. That's what I mean when I say that's good. I'm happy for you. I, and I do. I listen to them now. I'm actually quite a difficult to the idea of reading of reading by listening. So I am right there with you now. I'm right there. First books that we agreed on, it was hands down one of my favorite books of all time, because it was a fun read.

It had me laughing and it was, it had some lots of unexpected things that happen or occurred. It was amazing for you. Please tell me the name of the book. So I don't. By Matt Boren. I think the real important factor for this book is the narrator is Retta and she's been on television. And I, once you hear her voice you'll know.

You've seen her before. Right. I don't know that I had, I can't remember if I had seen her, but she played this role so well, you know how you can listen to someone and say, Oh, that's a black woman speaking. You listen to her and you go. That is a black woman speaking. And not just because of the sound of her voice, but how she spoke.

So she was definitely using, you know what it is, right? Well, she was on parks and recreation. Oh yeah. And she's also on NBC's good girls. Okay. Yeah. Never, never watch that. I've watched one of each of those. Things, but she she's also been on some commercials and things like that. So in shorts and things like that.

So you, there's a good chance that you had at least heard her voice before, but she is the reason why this book is. Yeah, she, she nailed it and how she spoke. And she was a home girl from down on the block. I mean, she has this, she definitely doesn't necessarily speak correct English, but she can, maybe she did, but she just threw in a MF here.

I don't know. I mean, she knows how to speak. The thing about it is, is you have Tinicaa , who is a cashier by day, as they say, and I'm a household making by night household name in making by night. So she is a cashier, but she has all these lofty goals and she has the education behind her to back her goals.

Right, right. She doesn't sound like it. That we judge people by setting up, I judge people by how they sound and how they speak and to see her at the grocery store. And I think they, the book set me up for that. So I don't really feel bad about this, but she's the kind of woman who you hear her speak. And I think, Oh yeah, she's a cashier at a grocery store.

So she probably doesn't have a lot of education. She knows all so much about all the. Tat, whatever the tabloids are talking about. She's up on it. She's read about it. And so my, okay. Judge me, if you will. I looked at her at first and said, Oh, okay. She's, you know, she probably can't work right. In many places, you know, maybe she doesn't have the skills.

And she clearly spends all her day reading tabloids at the grocery store. And so she's, you know, this is kind of the, the best job she could do. And yeah. They walked me into it and then flipped my world when they explained who she was and what she wanted to do with all this knowledge and all of her background and how she tended out to be an extraordinarily well-rounded person who had a personality that kept me laughing.

Just nonstop. I was writing quotes left and right for our book club. Cause I just enjoyed how she said things. She she's very quick witted. Very intentional with what she says to people. She, yeah, she used a lot of references, like cultural references, whatever people are talking about in the world, you'd have, I even had to look up scenarios that happened with famous people or celebrities, just to make sure I got the reference she made in, in her speech.

And she used it really well. I was like, okay. I was so impressed with the character. By the time we get halfway through the book, I was just like, wow. I wanted her to be my best friend. So I didn't even know how to say, I want her to be my best friend. I just, I loved the way the story read. And then there was the amazing surprise that I ignored when I, we first got the book.

It said that the book was written by a man. I was like, how is a man going to write her? Like, how is he going to do that? And then not only was he a man, he was a white man. Yeah, writing, it just made you go, like he must have known somebody like that. Has that kind of wit and whatnot. Yeah, for real, I was like, Whoa, who is his?

Like, who does he know? And how did he grow up? And how does he know these things and who else is helping him? Right. Cause how do you be a white man and right. That like a black woman, it just. He did an excellent job. Excellent. So I it's, I still don't really believe as a white man, but so the book in and of itself had me reading nonstop at the end of my seat.

And is this delay, everybody know the, the whole basis of the book is Tinica. Her name is stolen by this woman with a really basic name Kelly Smith. And so her. This is her journey to getting her name back. And it just was fun. If you're looking for a book, that's going to be like intellectually stimulating.

This is probably not the book.  Not the one   Something that's going to be like, maybe less than stereotypical. This is probably not the one there's going to be some stereotypical kind of, you know, things. But if you just want to just sit back. Throw  your feedback and just laugh. I just found it lots and lots of fun. It was really great.

It was like the Forrest Gump for black people. I can't figure it was, it was good. It was so good. I loved that book and surprising.  I would, I think I might have to read it again now. Its short too. I think it's like three and a half or four. Four hours or something like that. That means I could get it done again this weekend.

It was good. I would, I would recommend that highly for when you have a, you need some light reading and you want to laugh a little bit, lean back and relax.

That was so what was your, what was your next one you wanted to talk about? Oh, the wife between us by Greer Hendrix and Sarah Pekkanen. Are you finding out you'll see it.

Yeah. In the notes. First of all, two people writing this book, I think I remember, but reading a little bit about who they were and that they were, maybe they were friends and they decided to write a book together and it, it was a great, it made sense that two people would write this book. I got like halfway through the book.

Found something out, started the book all over and do the same thing. Cause you said, you told me, you said something happens and I had to start all over again and then I could not go for it. This book now. No, where they unveiled something somewhere near the middle. And I was like, Nope, I'm going back. andI started over. I think I called you.

I was like, yep. I got to that exact same part. And now I gotta start all over because I obviously didn't get something, but yeah, I miss it. It was, it was one of those six sense moments where you learn something and then you go. No, I got a, watch it over again, start over with a new perspective. And that right there was what I can appreciate about, I mean, there was more than I appreciate it, but that I appreciate it a lot.

Yeah, absolutely. The I like the fact that the fact that it was two writers, it, their writing, the way they wrote was similar enough that it wasn't distracting that there were two different writers. Right, right. No, I didn't know. I think the idea of the two different writers work for this type of book, because there are multiple characters that we're tracking.

And then, so the different perspectives worked very well with two different writers, but I mean, technically in order for them to write as well and to write. About the same thing, but to write from different point of views, I thought they did a really great job. They really did. Remember. Maybe we should write a book together.

That would be interesting. We can do this. You know what, why not? Okay. We'll put it on our to do list. We'll, we'll put it on our bucket list because that, that might be, but yeah, the, the wife between us. Had me at hello. I was able to, I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much. I went halfway through it and started all over again.

I was like, I'm going to do this ride again because it was, so it was, it had a mystery. It felt a little mysterious or twisted. It was that it's, I don't want to say too much about this particular book, because like, literally it would be so easy to give it away and Basically all you really knows is there's, there's a wife between us, you know, and go from there, just li just listen to it or read it.

And literally this book is going to keep you guessing to the last page. There'll be some things that you think you figured it out and you're like, Oh yeah, everything's whatever. And then you go, Oh, Yeah, that one was, I loved it. Loved it. Loved it. That was a fun book. I think this one's a really good one for any book club would enjoy that way.

I agree. I agree. Book clubs would love it. Hey, this next one. This was your jam. Now I enjoy this book, but it was part of a series and you watch the whole, you listen to the whole thing. When they have a TV series around it. Okay. So the book that that we're talking about is called Mr. Mercedes it's by Stephen King.

Now I like Stephen King. I used to watch watch re re like page turn a lot of his books back in the day. And so this was a good riff going back to Stephen King. Yeah, I really, really enjoyed this one. This one was really about a detective  who was investigating. A murder and then the battle of the minds between him, the detective and the murderer, and trying to catch the murderer before he does more harm.

Now, this book has its turns, its twist it's.wEird. It's there were like some sections in there that you go like you're scratching your head. There was some like telepathy in there. I mean, like there's, there's all kinds of things, I think there was some points. I don't want it to even read it through my fingers.

It was like, Oh, it was, it was a lot going on. But if you it's not. Intensely like a horror film. It's actually, no. Yeah, cause I'm not into horror that much, but Stephen King, this book is not really about the horror there. The murders are in there. Terrifying, just like a murder mystery. It's a mystery. It is more of a murder mystery and kind of walking through the lives between the detective and the murderer and how they match, you know, Stephen King true to fashion does a great job with character development and he tells a good story.

And so, yeah. If you already like in, you know, strap in and enjoy this. Yeah. There were three books. I enjoyed all three. There was maybe one that I was less excited about, but if you. You mean in the series? Yeah. But all three of them were good. All three of them were definitely good. So I would recommend those.

So that was it, but for me, but you liked, what was it called? My grandmother asked me to tell you that. Yeah, it's, it's, it's a longs. No, that's not even the end of the title. The title is okay. My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry by Frederick Backman or Frederick Backman. He's well, he, this was a Swedish book that had to be converted to English, translated to English.

I really like this book too. I forgot. She forgot that she liked it so much. And it is a story about a relationship between an.. and I'm, it's going to sound like a spoiler, but it's not, it's a relationship between the grandmother and the granddaughter. And then the grandmother dies and then sends the granddaughter on this one last adventure.

And these two are best friends, best eats, mainly because the little girl who's seven is different and she doesn't have friends. And so her grandma is her best, best friend. And her grandmother. Has it does, does we, it she's, she's eccentric, eclectic. She does things, you know, no other grandmother does.

And then she does things that all of the grandmother do, but she, she was just kind of wild and she made a good friend for a seven year old and. One of the things, and I can't remember, it's been such a long time since we read this book, but one of the things that I do recall is that the grandmother may, you know, they had, they shared stories and adventures and storytelling together, and there was a story world called the land of almost awake.

And then there were kingdoms in the land of almost awake. They might've even had a language. I can't quite remember, but it was so amazing to listen to them, go through the adventures that were storytelling adventures, as well as what they actually did together. And then the grandmother dies and sends, the little girl on an adventure that has her delivering.

"I'm sorry", notes from the grandmother to all these different people and then the storytelling blooms into what is it that grandma sorry for and who is it that she sorry to. And they, we form relationships with everybody. She has to go and meet and deliver these notes to the author is an awesome storyteller.

Great with character development. I left there with a lot of little quotes that I enjoyed and I, it was just a really good feel, good book, even though there's death and grieving, just the way she handled that and how that relationship was beautiful. I'd love this book. I want to read this one again too, but I think this one was a, I think it was, but you know what?

I. The funny thing is while you're sitting there talking about it, I'm going like, wow. I don't remember. I don't think I remember this book though. Like, I don't, like, I don't have the same, like when you said the name of it, I was like, Oh yeah, but as you're describing it, I'm going like. Did I read that same book?

Well, this is also not a spoiler, but the last adventure, like I said, it was her grandmother had left her a note to give to a neighbor or somebody. And then when the little girl Elsa gave the note to that neighbor, she learned about that neighbor and learned more about her grandmother. And then. Something in the conversation would lead her to where the next note was hidden.

And then she'd find that next note and she'd meet somebody else. And the connections between the people that you didn't expect, or you wouldn't have known that comes out. It was a heartwarming, beautiful story. I loved it. I thought anybody would, would, would like that one actually. Okay. Don't be mad at me.

I'm calling an audible. I was just like, Oh yeah, audible. Okay. I'm no, that reminds me of the man called. Oove, I think it's the same. Okay. That makes a lot of sense because a lot of the the overarching tones of what you're talking about reminded me of that book. And I love that, but too. So I don't know why, I don't know why I don't have the memory for it that way, but we've read so many books in book clubs.

That was the hardest part. I think of picking off some of these books is that we liked them in the moment, but yeah. It's over what five, six years now. So we don't remember all the books with the same. Oh, the details. I remember the sentiment behind it. And that was a book that we all felt really good about.

We could all go on the journey. We felt sad when she experienced grief and we felt light when she had these experiences to tell her more about her grandmother, that she didn't learn while her grandmother was alive. And I think it's. Heartwarming. I mean, during this time, we've got a lot of people who are losing people during this pandemic.

True. This is like a heal. I think this is an example of someone healing through the brief, and I think it could be good for, for anybody. So this one might need a little bit of tissue, but seriously, it was a fun, fun book. I like that.

It was good that you forgot that. I forgot that I liked it, but I'm all for it. I might actually pick that one up again since we've already, once it's already in our library. Right. So might as well, but you know what? I have 280 something books in my audible. Oh, I saw that. Yeah, it was like,  a LOT, I liked to read and when I say read, I mean, listen.

Yeah, I don't have nearly as many, cause I think I basically listened to our book club book and maybe an occasional one, additionally, but I usually just get the one book in per month. But. You know, it's nice to have other learned friends. I'd just like to, I just like to look so great. I can't wait to get to the next book onour list

I'll let you introduce it. So this is Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah now. I, I will not. I love him. I do. I really love him. Now, if you're a book Turner, I get it. But this one you have to listen to because Trevor Noah actually narrates. The book and he speaks, how was it?

Six different languages or something like that, several different languages. And so and to hear him speak in the different languages in Africa that he speaks is amazing. And, and then he has the language with the cliques and he cooperates that and it's like, yeah, yeah. It's amazing to hear him speak in those different ways.

And to just to hear him walk through his life as a child in South Africa with being mixed race in South Africa and whatnot. Yeah. For him. And yeah, he was born and he and his, his. Dad, couldn't walk on the same side of the street, that kind of thing. So none of it, I don't remember thinking any of it was sad.

He just has a very smart way of delivering the his life message like his life. It was intensely funny. It was intensely interesting. It was thought provoking. It was all the things, right. I like these books because these biographies, because it tells us the steps, how do they get to be who they are right now?

And back when we read it, I didn't even know much about who Trevor Noah was like my kids, my son was like, my son. Inspires to be a comedian. My son was like, that's Trevor. I know Trevor Noah. Oh, you're reading this book. And I'm like, Oh, you know, I'm right. I mean, I didn't. And after this book I was always watching his show.

Like I still record this show all the time and that's just like to watch, I it's like to watch him. He's extraordinarily smart. Man. And then by listening to his story and figuring out how he got from one place to another, he has a huge hustle game. Like he knows how to hustle to get something done. And him telling me stories about South Africa, I've heard stories, but then to hear stories by someone who lived there and lived it, it's just different than what I can get on television and what definitely don't learn enough in school.

So I, it was, it was an amazing. Read. And then I just found it very, I've not been to Africa in country, in Africa yet. So just to have somebody telling me what it was like, And then what it was like during that time, it thoroughly fascinating of a wonderful speaker and storyteller. And he's funny. And yeah, I only knew of Trevor Noah before.

And so like I knew who he was like, I could pick them up. Out of a pit, you know, set of pictures or whatever, but I didn't know anything about his story. I didn't know that, you know, he was mixed. You know, I didn't know that we all know he's mixed. Have you seen the man look at the man? You knew he was a light-skinned black man.

No, my dad is lighter than he is my dad. Is this stuff that you don't know about your dad?

Okay. So one day we are going to do a DNA test and we called it the truth. Yeah, there's another story. That's another episode for another time, but yes, I can look at him. Okay. Nevermind. Okay. Okay. Anyway, so, but no, it was a, it was a fabulous, it was fabulous. Listening to him tell the story and. I would recommend it.

This was, this was hard because we had a number of non-fiction books that we struggled with trying to figure out which one is it going to be? Which one is it going to be? But I think that this one, was it just because you it's something completely different. Yeah. And it, it was a, it was, it was fascinating.

It's a fun, it's a fun read because he's, he's Comedian. So he definitely makes it funny and he's very smart. I really appreciate intelligence. And so he can put things to get, he, he knows his history and he, he knows background and he follows politics. So he's, he's just a really good person to listen to say anything.

I think just, it was really good. Go backwards for a second, though. Sure. We were talking about how good it is to listen to this one because he speaks and that's so much part of the story, how he's throwing in the different languages. That's part of the story. Well, in the very first book we talked about Tinica Jones.

I just wanted to throw in. I hate, we didn't say that listening to this book, wasn't just about her wonderful attitude and personality and delivering the lines that she read. You actually get to hear. Part everything that was going on. So if they were in a room and somebody put a coffee cup down on the table, you actually got to hear the coffee cups and down the table, it was more of a production for the team, with the Jones books I wanted to throw in.

That was another reason why listening to that book was so amazing. Yeah, it's more of like an audio drama, different voices in there. You get to hear like a lot of times when green, if you're listening to audible you have one voice that does all the characters. And so, and sometimes you'll go, wait a minute.

Am I listening to this character or that character. Cause sometimes, you know, it's hard to make the character sound so different, but you have men and women in here with their different voices. And that really, really adds to just the drama. It's a, it's like an audio drama rather than I hate to pull us back.

I just wanted to make sure that people knew that that's why the listening of this was so important to sign up. Absolutely. Thank you for that. Then let's round it up with the last book on our list. Let me just tell you the author's name first, because I kept forgetting the name of the series already, but Tananarive Due.

She's amazing. She has written a number of books that I've read one in this series and another book that we enjoy it a lot. So I can't wait to see what else. She does. Could you tell us the name of the series? Cause I don't remember the name of the books. I don't remember the series, name of the series is African imortals.

Okay. Okay. So that kind of tells you what the story is about. I mean like the whole series is basically about these group of people, men, particularly African who have found a way to be immortal. And and so this series is really about a couple who become immortal, but they are now being chased by the other, I think they're living outside of the immortal commun community.

Yes. They're trying to, you know, it's like, no, you can't do that. You'd have to live here. You have to protect, there are special powers and a story. I think I'd like to, because first of all, these were black people with superpowers. Can we just say black people, the superpowers is fascinating to me, black people with the superpower of being immortal and the way she tells the story and the way you get to explore what that world is like.

I was, it was fascinating. So generally I might not like, I dunno. I dunno. Yeah. That's not my thing either. I think this Oh, is they say it's award-winning master of horror, AFO, Afrofuturism. Yeah. Okay. Whatever this is, I enjoyed it. And I, we,

we, as a group and I book club, you know, we often will read the first of a series and then others, if they want to read it, they can keep reading it. Because it doesn't hit everybody the same way. This one hit everybody the same way. And we were excited to read all three. We had three, we read three. This one was good.

It was good. I didn't want to tell I'm sorry. I can't say much besides I don't want to say too much, but that, that's why it's only around the. Basic fact that there are mortals and they're being chased and there they go back and forth between Miami and Africa. And it's a really, really nicely woven story.

And I love authors who can allow me to create the visual of what's going on in, you know what I mean? The movie would never do it. Justice. I'm just saying. It could, but then it would ruin all the little designs and things of like when they're in these caves and stuff and this underground world, I just, I have have it all built in my head.

I, because of the ju uh, the December 21st black people are going to get super powers. You know what, one of my superpowers that, that I said, Ooh, if I had a superpower, it would maybe it'd be it. None of them were immortal, but it was fun in the moment of reading that book to think about what it would be like to be immortal or to know someone who was a mortal.

But then I would hate them privately because I'd be getting older. And they would look the same and they wouldn't be getting older and then I would low-key hate them. So I don't know, but it would be weird, but it was, it was, it was fun to go down that journey. I was all in on that one on that whole series that the living blood and my soul to take.

I don't know if I got the order right.  My Soul to keep is the first one. Oh, really? Yes. The thing about is I always got it. Like. I always thought in my head that the living blood was the first one, but I found out that it's not. So, but it doesn't matter if you go and look up books by 10. Thank you.

Cause I always mess her name up and that she doesn't deserve that you look that up or the African immortals. Series, you will get these books. If you're into good writing and want to take a trip in your head, cause you can't go anywhere right now. This is definitely the series. This is definitely her via this series.

Literally I think is the top three. Series or books in like my repertoire, if you will, if someone asked me one of my favorite books, this is always in that list because it was so good. So okay. I feel really good about the books we provided because I, I enjoyed them all. I actually, so if you read one of these books and you don't like them as well, Well, I liked the enjoy giving.

Well, you learn a little bit more about me and what I like. I'm always interested if you've read some of these books and you enjoy them. And you can say, Ooh, if you liked that book, you'd probably like fill in the blank book. Oh, please, please comment. I would love to hear what other books. Don't you know, might not know about so well look recommendations as well.

We love the book recommendations because when it's our turn to pick the book for book club, isn't it. And I wanted to good. I want to pick out something good. We have had doozies where I picked out a book and. To this day, like, I didn't like that book

because that's the worst

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