My Sister Made Me Read It

A Much Needed Sister Session

• Abby Preteroti/ Amy Preteroti • Episode 8

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On this episode of the My Sister Made Me Read It podcast, Amy and Abby have decided they are due for a slow recap of the books they’ve read this month. They get into Olive Garden and chain restaurants, jarred spaghetti sauce, and Abby’s inability to say words and phrases right… 


The girls rate the books they’ve read this month and get into the books they want to get into in February!


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squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Do you have any notes?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

No, I, all right guys. Welcome to my sister made me read it podcast. yeah. Today we're supposed to get into Big Swiss and we

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

of plans,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah, we decided to have just like a little session instead.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

session. We were both kind of like, I was trying to finish two books before I started Big Twist, and then I blinked and it was Saturday and I was like, fuck, I haven't started this book. I'm supposed to read by Sunday.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. And it's not like a short book.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. So we're just going to, we're gonna go over the, um, I mean, we're gonna talk shit for a few minutes and then we're, we're gonna kind of like go over our favorites of the month.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

What we've been reading,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

uh,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

to read.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

how is your, well, I guess, how's your week starting off?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I mean, not bad. Um, last week was just so, like, so much was going on that now I'm just, I'm just so tired this weekend. we just kind of hung around. We went to Olive Garden with his family.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Olive Garden. Ew,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

It was just so funny because we raised in a family that, like, we

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

dude.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

out,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No, we didn't, I tell people that all the time. I'm like, my family growing up, we didn't go to chain restaurants. I don't, the first time I ever went to an Olive garden, I was like an adult with a friend.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah, same.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yeah,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

we didn't, well, so we didn't go to like. Restaurants in general. Like

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

every night and

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

at like seven o'clock every night. we would go out for like people's birthday. That was like a

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

And Jose was raised in a family where they go to church on Sunday and they eat out every Sunday.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Mm-Hmm.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

And like they think, you know, Texas Roadhouse, Longhorn,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. we never did any of that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

of those. And like his dad, that's like his dad's favorite restaurants.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

so every time they wanna like have dinner with us, they're like, where do you wanna go? And I'm like, let's just go to Olive Garden.'cause that's the best one out of

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Out of all your choices, I hate that.'cause like if we were to go out to dinner, we were going like somewhere nice. Like not, not that those places are, well, they're not nice, but we were going somewhere different. Luciana. We were going like not to a franchise.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Right.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

was the other Ricos?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Rico's was one.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Ricos. We'd go to places like that. We never went to like Red Lobster, olive Garden, I mean Olive Garden. Holy shit. Dad would turn in his grave if he knew we were eating at Olive Garden.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Well, the thing was like, so when I traveled for soccer with mom all the time when I was in high school, um, they always, like when we were away on tournaments for the weekend in a hotel, they would always cater Olive

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

They cater Olive Garden at work a lot too.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

And so Olive Garden and Subway were like, ruined for me for years. And then I started dating Jose and um, we went one day with his family and I was like, okay. Kind of like it. So I'll go like every, like six months. But Yeah, it's just like we ate, like ate our dinner and we got home and Jose was like, I am miserable. Like I just feel so swollen, like just so much

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

dude. Olive Garden So my, the, um, people I work with now, my managers I work beside, they both, they before coming to the bar that, that we're all at now, they both were managers at Olive Garden for years. That's how they met each other. And the things that they tell me about fucking olive garden's food, like, they obviously like love olive garden's, food and stuff.'cause they were there for so long and they ate it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

But like

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

one of them was, well he was a manager, but he, um, his background is, he was a chef for a long time and then he became a manager. So he like had his hands in the kitchen a lot.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

when I tell you the things that they tell me about this food, like how, like what's in it and shit, like it is some of the worst food that you could ever eat, like for you

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

at Olive Garden.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and like

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It's unbelievable.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

like that, like come in frozen and they're basically

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

not even like that, Not even that way, but like the sodium, the fat, like the cream, the butter, like all like, it's it insane. Like they, they, we were like looking at the menu recently and um, like the calories and stuff and like, holy shit.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

We

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It's like two or three days worth of like fucking calories and like one fucking meal. It's insane.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

we left and I was like, for some reason this last time we went more than other times I was, I think because it was so busy, so we saw so many people, like we had to wait 45 minutes. um, I was like, I, it reminds me like this is why our country is so obese and like why we have a food epidemic in this country. Because like think that like his dad fucking loves Olive Garden.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

there's a chef back there that is making this from scratch.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that's what his dad thinks. And we were like telling him at the table like, nah, that's not how it is. like, so it was funny because his brother was telling me how. When we had his cousins over for Christmas, they were like, one of his cousins was like, um, what kind of food is Abby making? And his brother was like, oh, I, she's gonna make Italian. And he was like, oh shit. Really? Like, he didn't like Italian and he came to our house and like had Italian.'cause I didn't know he didn't like Italian. So I fed it to him and he was like, that was the best food I've ever had. And I was like, Yeah. because y'all have, y'all think

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, is Italian.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Like I always get like Alfredo because that's the only thing that I can like stomach there.'cause like the red sauce is like not

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

not sauce. I know I know. that's like That's like, my friends and like people that I've dated, like in the past, like I don't eat jarred sauce. I don't eat sauce out of a jar

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

jar sauce.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

don't eat sauce out of a jar. So whenever I like cook, and the only, you know, I ha I don't like to cook at all. If I'm cooking, I like make my food for the week. I make my chicken, I make my rice.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I make a potato, sometimes I make some beef and I eat it throughout the week, like my meal prep type food. I don't like to fucking cook. But if I am cooking, I'm making pasta. So if, but I don't buy sauce, so I always have like tomato paste. I always have like shit like that on hand to like make your own sauce. And like my friends and people that I've dated are like. What are you do? Like, don't just get a jar. sauce. And I'm like, no, that's gross. You could literally make it so much better.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I'm not doing it. One time this guy dated made me pasta and it was sauce out of a jar and I was like, Ugh, why? And I just had to like suck it up and eat it. And it was fine. And it was very sweet. I didn't say anything,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. It's just two different types of people, like,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

but I had to explain. Yeah. And I told when, uh, I taught Megan how to make pasta sauce recently because she knows I'm like that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

And she was like, well, I wanna learn how to make it.'cause she's like, never had it like, like that. Like she just, you know, people just eat jarred sauce.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. People

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

now that she's in her own apartment, she's like wanting to learn how to cook some more and like, she's like, wants to learn. I should actually, you should talk to her because she wants to learn how to make like a, a pot roast and like do shit like that. She made, um, she made dinner the other night for us and made steak and mashed potatoes, and she like, totally fucked up the potatoes. She cooked the potatoes for like, she like boiled the potatoes for like 12 minutes and was like wondering why they wouldn't smush. I was like,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

You didn't do'em enough. Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I know she's learning, but I taught her how to make sauce from scratch. So now she does it like that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I mean, I'm not a hor, I'm a decent cook. I'm not like the best cook ever, but

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

You, you're a great cook

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

his family thinks I'm like Chef Gordon Ramsey

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I do too.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

like they're always like, her

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

so good. And I'm like, it's just because I don't, like, his mom only knows how to cook Mexican food.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Mm-Hmm.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

so like he, Jose, we joke around'cause Jose always says how he hated eggs his whole life.'cause his mom would overcook eggs and

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

to this day won't eat a rotisserie chicken because his mom didn't think they were cooked. So she would put'em back in the oven

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That's real as fuck.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

he still won't eat'em.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

He's like, this is jerky.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

poor guy.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I mean they also were poor growing up. And he said one time mom made him lunch, which was rare. They always got school lunch and it was a egg and bean torte like

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Ew.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

He was like, I go home. I was like, what the fuck is that

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What the fuck was that? Does he eat eggs now?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, because I cook eggs. Right.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

you and you and Amanda taught me how to cook eggs. I think you more than Amanda did when y'all learned, um, from that teacher in

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Mm-Hmm?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. So I cook him that way and then like he likes'em like sunny side up and stuff too, but it's so funny. Just, So, um,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

went to Olive Garden and had that, and don't know why I brought that up.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I asked you what you did this week. Oh.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

There was a 45 minute wait, which is like

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I hate that shit. I hate waiting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it was next door to a Barnes and Noble and I was like,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Well, four to five minutes is not enough.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I was like, do you mind if we go walk around Barnes and Noble? And he was like, yeah, sure. So his parents stayed at the restaurant and me, Jose and his brother went to Barnes and Noble

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Well, what? Olive Garden? Where you at?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

The one in Athens, the one on

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, okay. Okay.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Atlanta Highway. I got this. I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

knew you got that. I saw it in your text message and I was like, I was, I showed it to Melanie and I was like, it looks like powerless behind, behind that book.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it. I've been wanting to read

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I've been wanting to read it too.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

buy a book. And I saw it and I was like, fucking buy it.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Melanie bought me a book the other day. Look at Melanie got me because I said it was so pretty.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Oh, cute. I haven't seen that one.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, it's a, um, and like the spine is purple. It's a Dark Romance book.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah, that reminds me. Mom sent me, actually, mom sends me, I don't know about you. Fucking 20 Instagram things a day.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It's my favorite part of my day. I love when she sends me stuff.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

to find when she sent me, I'm having to scroll through 30 of these.'cause I didn't screenshot it. She sent me, apparently there's this new book that came out

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, about Taylor Swift.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

she sent it to me, too.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

about

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

no.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. So for people, do you remember the name?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

no.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

It was

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

with an A. maybe.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it started with an A. I'll find it while I talk about it, but basically this book that's rumored to have been written by Taylor Swift and she's using a pen name, but the weird part about it is like it's, it just got published or like released and it's like, or it's about to, and then it already has like a movie coming out in two months.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. My God. Sorry.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Amy's trying not to sneeze. You

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

so bad.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Jennifer Coolidge.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

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One day gonna make Megan, come on here. And she does the best Jennifer Coolidge impression you'll ever hear. It's like she's in the room with you.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

funniest thing ever. Dude. I'm just gonna have her come on here and pretend like Jennifer Coolidge is a guest.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Did you watch White Lotus

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, I Love White Lotus.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Um, that's the one character Jose did not like on White Lotus.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Why

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

He just doesn't like her voice.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

have you, did you find the book

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I am trying, I'm telling you, I'm scrolling through all this stuff,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, let me find it then. Yeah, it's right here.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Oh yeah, I found it. Argyle,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't know what it's about. Have you looked it up,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I'll look it up. Yeah, like there's already a movie coming out in theaters February 2nd.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What's it about?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Um, do you want the, I should probably do the book synopsis first.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. dude.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

on Good Reads

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

God, it's

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Train speeding towards Moscow and A Date With Destiny, playing down in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard. Entombed in the remote mountains of Southwest Poland, A missing treasure. The eighth wonder of the world lost. For seven decades. One Russian magnet's dream of restoring a nation to

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greatness has set in motion a chain of

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Francis co Coffey, CIA's most legendary spy master, can prevent It But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argyle, A troubled agent with Tarn, with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world, only he can save

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It sounds boring.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, I don't think I, so it's written by Ellie Conway, and I think that's why people think it's Taylor Swift.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Why? What does That make? that doesn't make sense to me.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

name has a connection, some somewhere with that. I'm so confused. I'm looking at the cast for this movie.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

weird people.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Dua Lipa,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, okay. Weird.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Cavel. Do you know who that is?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Mm-Hmm.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Superman, Bryce, Dallas, Howard, the girl who was in the help and in Jurassic World or Jurassic Park,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

The redhead.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah, but it says that she,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I love her

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Conway. But that's, I thought that that was the author. And then Sam Rockwell, John Sena,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

John Cena.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Samuel L. Jackson.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Weird.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

O'Hara.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

There's a new movie coming out that Megan told me about. It's um, John Cena's in it, and Zach Efron, what the fuck is it called? Something Zelensky. It's like, it looks really fucking funny. Oh dude, I've got three days and then they're in a yard.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Mm-Hmm.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. How's packing going?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Um, I'm kind of, I'm pretty much packed, but like. I have, I've done everything I can do without having a U-Haul here to feel like I can put it all away, you know what I mean?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I make the U-Haul reservation today. I'm gonna get it on Wednesday, and then I'm gonna pack up everything on Wednesday, and then Thursday morning I get my keys. So it's pretty, it's, I mean, it's fine. I'm gonna not unpack my dresser and I think I'm just gonna tape all the drawers shut and just like put it all

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

in the U-Haul that way. Oh no, I'm going three, eight minutes down the road,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

so It should be fine. It should be fine. Yeah. But anyways, um, no, so I got this one the other day and then I,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

one?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

um, got,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, I've never heard of that one.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

it's new. It is Um, and then have you seen this one?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

No.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

So this I've seen a bunch of times at, um, Barnes and Noble. It's called Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker. I've seen it a bunch of times at Barnes and Noble, like in the front, you know when you walk in and they have like all the hard backs up front, like

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

kind of um, like featured. I see it there a lot. And um, it's a$30 book. And at uh, uh, where did we go? What's the other one? Books A Million.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Me and Mel.'cause we were at the mall and they had to books a million. So we were walking through it. It was on sale for$7. So I was like, okay, I'm just gonna get it. And same with this one.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

me.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Same with this one. Have you seen this one? The Maidens?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that one. I haven't read it.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It Was

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

the, um,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

silent patient? Mm-Hmm. So it was$7 as well. So I was like, I'm buying these'cause they're hardbacks.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

patient?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Did You like it?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, that's how I felt.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I did like it. And like people, I tell people, like when people ask me about the silent patient, I tell them, yeah, I like it. But if you, if you're like a avid reader, like we are, like, it's good if you don't read a lot of books. Does that make sense?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. That's

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

like

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

with, I think, and is still happening with divine rivals. Like I see that all the time on TikTok. People will comment and be like, this book is so good. And then people will like sub comment it and be like, you obviously don't

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Don't read a lot Yeah. Because like that's how I felt about silent patient. And I would tell people like, yeah, read it. It's good. Like you'll like reading it. But if you read like there's better ones, like there's better.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

was one of'em that caught on to like media and stuff. People ate that book up. But I mean, I've seen better, there's been better plot twists in the world, like.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. That one was written like the actual writing was good too, so, I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, so that's why I'm excited to read this one. And this one's about I, I love, like, I love like a professor, like a Twisted Professor trope. I love that. So that it has a, I think the guy's a professor. I like a school setting too. I like a school setting. Have you read Dark Vanessa?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That's a tough one to read, but it's really good. It's a professor one too.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I'm gonna read.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I'm gonna do big Swiss. Finish that one. Then I'm gonna read. Full measures. It's Rebecca Ya's Fi first book that she wrote.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

dude, did you see this? I saw this, um, uh, like I think it was a TikTok maybe. I don't remember. And this lady is like trying to tell, trying to like tell people that Fourth Wing is an AI generated book.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm. I've,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yaras isn't real or like didn't write it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I've seen the conspiracy that it is AI

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

generated.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. And like people put up a good fight about it. I'm like, oh, I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

know. And like when you're reading like the Throne of Glass series and stuff, apparently it's like a lot of like similar, a lot of similar things in the Throne of Glass. Like she took like a lot of stuff from that. I don't know. With fantasy, it's weird.'cause, and we've talked about this before, like some wor like they overlap. Like how many fantasy worlds can you have? You know what I mean? Like they can't all be that different Well,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

creatures? Like

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and you're gonna have dragons in different worlds. Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh fuck.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Octavia Butler. Octavia Butler is my favorite author like ever. I read her in college a lot. I took a class on her in college actually. And she wrote, um, Xeno Genesis. Do you remember that book that you had you helped Jose get for me? So I think it was my first birthday we were celebrating together. It might've been our first anniversary, like dating. um, he got me the first edition of that book. He

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What is it called again? I do remember that

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

like X-E-N-O-G-E-N-I, whatever.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. That's one of my favorite books. But she writes a lot of other stuff. She's really well known for. Kindred and Hulu just did a show on that. But they didn't get signed for another season'cause the show wasn't that great. Her, that's not her best book. But people like, again, that's just one of the books that people have latched onto.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Dude. My brain.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

slavery.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I honestly must have Covid because I can't think of anything. Like I can't remember anything like I do remember that, but in Kindred. That sounds so familiar.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I can't think of anything I

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

read Kindred probably five times.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

And last night. so change the subjects. Me and um, Megan is, has me watching Game of Thrones. You know, I've never seen it before.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I love Game of Thrones.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

So I told her,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I told her when I, when she moved into her apartment, that I would watch it'cause she wants to like watch it with me. So I was like, okay, I'll start it. So I've been like going to her house and watching it. And then last night she was here. We watched three episodes

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

and I watched like a few without her and she was like, did you see this part? And I was like, I literally can't remember anything. I don't know. I don't know. Like my brain's not working.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

A lot happens in that show though.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It's so good. We're on. So, um, we're still on season one, so we stopped last night. We watched season eight'cause she wants to watch nine. She won't let me watch. Episode nine and 10. Season eight. Amy, episode eight. Sorry. Um.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

made like a list of episodes that she wants to watch with me and not by myself. And Season one, nine and 10 are, are on that list. So we watched 6, 7, 8 last night. And then, um, on Thursday she's helping me move. And then Thursday, when we're done moving, we're gonna be at my house and watch nine and 10

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

together. I love it

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and I started that when we lived downtown Atlanta a couple years ago and we've rewatched it before and I like want to rewatch it again.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I just have such a hard time like focusing on tv. Like I just, unless it's Housewives, I can't focus on it and I just get bored. So like, I don't watch TV unless it's fucking royal Hall's wives. So,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Game

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

but like her watching it with me helps.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

haven't been introduced to Brianne of tar, right?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No, I don't know anything.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I was actually gonna ask you that today because the actress is, um, I almost said Chris Christie, but that's the governor of New York. Um, oh shit. What's her name? I, now, I, just forgot. Anyways, this woman who was just in the Mason Mariel or something like that fashion show, and she like fucking killed it. I'll just show you a video.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't know.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Game of Thrones

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't know.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

cast.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

it's like so fun.'cause I'm like watching it all for the first time. And she's read all the books and watched all the shows and she's like, obsessed with the Game of Thrones.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Gwendolyn Christie is her name.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No, I don't know who that is, but like I'll be watching it and she, I just like stare at the corner of mine and she's like, like, staring at me and she's like so happy that I love it. And I'm like, Megan, of course I love like, this is the type of shit that I like read. Like I love reading this type of shit.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I don't know if you can see this. This was her in the fashion show.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Ew.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. Oh, did you hear that?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. It was like, um, I don't know what the theme was. Marta was the thing was the actual, like,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't like that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it was really like creepy and like, I really liked it. I'll just send you some videos. And the makeup, they did like glass face type makeup, so it has like a sheen to it and it looks like glass.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't like it

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

ass dolls that like old people would have in their house.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

But

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

like that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I didn't know if you saw it or not.'cause it was really cool and they had like these corsets on that like made their like waist probably like 10 inches around.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Was there a guy who kicked that show off?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I think I saw that

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that was

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

waist was tiny.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I liked that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

at it and I was like, you can see where his ribs end and it's, that must be so painful. I,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Hey, you know.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and they go through the, like, the runway, like slowly.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

like walk through it like normal.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No, they were like doing like abstract shit.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't have a TBR for next month because I'm all over the place with the books that I wanna read.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Um, but do you wanna talk about the books we read this month?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. wrote down all, I think the, I didn't write down what was the last book we read?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

all, the, little Raindrops.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Raindrops. Yeah. I didn't write that when we reviewed that, but, um, I wrote down the ratings we gave for each book we've read so far.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, you did? You're still on top of everything. I just, I just show up. Okay. Um. I mean, I included what?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

give a review, a rating for icebreaker.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, to 500.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Okay.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay. I, um, don't even have these, I mean, I included books that I read outside of us.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Do you wanna go first?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I can go first. I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

because I haven't read like much more outside of everything.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

How many books did you ha, have you read this month

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

One, two,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Wow. She is prepared.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I think.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh shit.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Are we talking about? We're talking about January, right?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. January.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I didn't read a lot.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, I read six. I was gonna finish. I wanted to finish ritual. That would've been my seventh, but I just have been sleeping. I'm fucking

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

because

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

dying.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Icebreaker, the just like home rain raindrops. I'm reading Big Swiss and then I read Redesigned by Lauren, Asher

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What's That one about?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That one

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Well, actually, don't tell me. Don't tell me. We're gonna do it this way. I have an idea.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Okay.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay. In your head, put together. What was your like, like rank them.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Icebreaker was number one.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Well, don't tell me we're gonna go. We're gonna go one for one. Let's go one for one. Okay. I'm writing mines down. Hold on one second.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

So you just want me to rank'em?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Okay.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Uh, um, um, um, um, okay. I got mine four,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Gimme a second.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

and six. Okay, perfect. Damn. I wish I would've finished the ritual because I'm almost done with that and I could totally include it and it would be up there with top one and two.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. I am not gonna include, um,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay. I'm gonna throw her in here anyways.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I'm almost done. I'm not done yet. I mean, I,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I'm gonna do an honorable mention. I

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I feel like I'm forgetting one. I don't know.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

do you not have your phone? Do you not track them?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I track it on my computer, but my computer, my other computer's over there.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay. Okay. Number one, what's your number one from this month?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Ice breaker.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Icebreaker.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, that was a good one.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I almost bought, I almost picked up Wildfire Fire at,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, I know. I wanna read it. I wanna read Wildfire. My number 1st of January is a chord of Miston Fury. Which is the second,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

those.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yeah. Which is the second guitar book. Amazing, amazing, amazing. I'm not gonna say talk about it'cause I know you're gonna read them. That was my number one. It's so hard when you read those books and other books because like they're in their own category, like it almost feels unfair.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It really almost feels unfair. So that one was my number one. Number two was a chord of Wings and Ruin. Which is the third, which is the third guitar book. I finished it yesterday. So good. They're so good.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

my number two was Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What is that one about?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That one is about. It's like a childhood best friend slash enemies to lovers. And she comes home, she's like a big interior designer in San Francisco. She comes home her, her best friend had like developed this real estate app. So he's like a billionaire and he lives at home with his mom or like lives in the town so he can be close to his mom.'cause both their dads have passed away. And um, the mom asked him like, Hey, she's like broken up with this guy, like to make her happy, like do a job with her, like you build a house and she'll decorate it. And so they end up working together and then they like

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, cute.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. It was an easy read. That's why I liked

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh, that was your two. Okay.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

what your three.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

My three if, oh gosh. My three, if I would've finished it would've been the ritual.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Really,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Abby, I love it so much, but like

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

things about

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

warning, like trigger, trigger, trigger. Like it is rough.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

What's the triggers for?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Um, it's very, very, it's like, uh, it's so basically like the premise of it is, um, they're in college and it's kind of like a cult that they have like the, they call'em like the Lords, it's almost like a frat,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

but more like a cult.'cause they like do crazy shit

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

and they're called the Lords and they're like initiated in and it's like a generational thing. And when you're a Lord, you are sworn in and you serve as like a Lord for like four years. And then once you're a senior in college, you get a chosen one. So you pick off of like a list of girls who, like some, I, it's kind of confusing if they like consent to being a chosen one, but like a lot of them, like, it's like a dream for some girls to be like a chosen one of the Lord. So these guys choose a chosen one and then they initiate their chosen one in, but it's like rough as fuck. It's like, it's very like, um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Like aggressive.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

consent, non-consent type sex. Like, and sometimes non-consent. Like, it's like rapey.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

But it's so good. It's really, really good. I was like telling, so I'm like reading it. Me and Chloe, I made Chloe read it. So me and Chloe were reading it at the same time the other day and we're just like, I was like, I was like probably like a chapter ahead of her, but we were reading it like in tandem and I was like, oh my God. Like screaming. And she's like, stop it, stop it. Stop it. And like, we would like read it and then we'd have to walk away from each other and like, it's just crazy.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

And then the other day she was like 10 pages ahead of me and I'm like, get the fuck away from me. Go away from me. like because

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that TikTok, when it's like a couples reading iron flame

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. and she's like, freaks out and he's like, shut the fuck up. You're scaring me.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

he's like, now I know that it's a, we're mad at a guy. Like, thank you.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

that was me and Chloe the other day. We were like screaming at each other and I was like, get away from me. You're 10 pages ahead,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Jose and I can't read the same books because I just like, instantly wanna talk about, like, talk to him about'em. Like when I went read Fourth Wing, I was like, I don't know if you read this, but, and he was like, well, that kind of sounds nice. Maybe I should read

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

dude. We're freaking out. It's so funny. And then we'll just like giggle and giggle and giggle'cause we're reading like the same shit. And like, um, our coworker was like. You guys good? Do you guys need a moment? And I'm like, I literally am in love with this person. Like, oh my God. And he does like, I mean, you'll pro, you might read it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

like this one scene where he like gets like aggressive with her mom. Like, it's not Like, spoiling anything, but he like fucking, like chokes out her mom because sh the mom like offends her.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

And it is the funniest shit. And like when me and Chloe read it, we were like, what the fuck? Like, he just like put her mom in a choke hold.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It was so funny. It's so good. It just makes you like, I, I just wanna like giggle and kick my feet as I read it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That reminds me of, and these are a lot less darker. The Twisted series, the Twisted like Love series, twisted Hate, twisted

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't think I'll ever read that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, it's probably a little too lovey-dovey for

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. I hear like weird things about that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

What do you mean? Weird things?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I hear like, like conflicting things about it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. I feel like I think you either love it or hate it

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. Um, but that was, if I finished the ritual, it would be number three. But number three is definitely icebreaker. I loved Icebreaker.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That was a good

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay. What's your number three? Did you already say?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

All the little raindrops. Yeah, Then my last one would be just like home, but I feel like Big Swiss is gonna be my number two.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, you already like, it

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

It's just written really well, so I've like, enjoyed reading it and it's funny.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

My number four is Bloom, which I forget the author.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I forgot you read that this

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yeah. I forget the author's name. It's Delilah Dawson, maybe. I think,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I have it saved. I'll

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

talk.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

that was a really interesting book. I did. I really enjoy it. It was like very cottage core. Um, I, I liked it. It was very like cottage core. Um, it's about two girls, so it's like a lesbian love story, which we love. Um, and it's kind of like gives like you vibes at first, like that's kind of what you think it's gonna be, but then it kind of is like twisted at the end. Like you get a little plot twist. Um, so basically, uh, this girl, the main character breaks up with her boyfriend and she sees this other girl, um, ash at this like farmer's market and is just like enamored with her, like upon seeing her like, um. Okay. And becomes like kind of obsessed with her. She keeps like visiting the farmer's market just to like get a glimpse of ash. Um, and then they kind of develop a friendship, which then turned into a relationship. And then things get weird and like things start getting weird. And the main character Rosemary Rowe, like is, starts kind of, um, like looking at things like, this is really strange, but then she like blames like the behavior on herself. It's like, it's really interesting'cause like as a, as a reader reading it, you're like, bitch run. Like, these are red fucking flags.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

you put yourself in like the character's shoes, like how many red flags have like you overlooked because you want to be with somebody.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

it's like, it's, it's kind of like interesting like reading it, you're like screaming at her like, girl, like this is fucking weird. That is not okay. You need to run. And she, the other character Ash, like. Kinda like Gaslights are, and then things kind of blow up in the end. But it's really good. I liked Bloom,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That is by Delilah, uh,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Delilah, Dawson. Okay, cool. She, um, write, she wrote some other books. One of my friends just read it, it's called The Violence. And then she also writes like a lot of sci-fi books, which was really interesting. But after like reading Bloom, you could kind of tell like, her writing is really nice.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

And it's an aesthetic book. It's a beautiful book and it's tiny. it it's not more than 250 pages, I think.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I was looking, Delilah Dawson writes a lot of middle grade,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What does that mean?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

middle school level.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That's probably why I like it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Um,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

My reading level.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah. And she wrote with another author, I think. But, um.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

A lot of like Star Wars type books too,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. Yeah. Didn't I say that?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

stories. Uh, maybe I just didn't hear you say that.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh man. So that was my fourth and then five, all the little raindrops and then last to come in last for me. This month was just like home, unfortunately.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

we just wanted more out of that

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I just wanted more out of her. I really, really did. But that's okay. That is okay. Um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't wanna say the books that we have picked out for February,'cause I wanted to kind of show them every week.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, that's fine. Um,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I'm still deciding on my books to read for February, to be honest.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah, aside from the books in February here, lemme grab one. I wanna read Powerless,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yeah,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

by Lauren Roberts, but I bought these two books when I was in Charleston and they're little ones. This one is by Veronica and it's called Arch Conspirator.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

pages, I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh yeah, she's tiny.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

pages, but, um, yeah, it's like, I guess it would be considered a short story or like a novella, but she was the one who wrote, um, Hey, what is. Why did the name just go out of my head?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I have no idea. What is that one about?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Veronica Roth? one is, um, yeah, the divergent series. Yeah. She wrote that.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Interesting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I can say the synopsis. the last city on earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the genes of the fallen, humanity will end anti anti gun's. Parents, OPU and Jasta are dead. Passing into the archive should be caused for celebration. But with her mil Uncle Creon rising to claim her father's vacant throne, gon fields is rage. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, gon sees. Sees it for what it really is, a gilded cage where she is captive as well as a guest. But her uncle will sue learn that no cage is unbreakable and neither is he. I thought it was interesting that she wrote a short story and then this one is called Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan I was like standing in this small bookstore reading the synopsis and reading the author bio and the girl who worked there came up to me and was like, I just have to tell you, that's my favorite book of all time.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Let me see it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

And um,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Small thing's like, yeah.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

like, it made me cry. She was like, it was that good, but like, look at the pages, like, they're like, it's like big writing,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah. Dude,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

so it's like not so it's like a little short story.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

wait,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and then I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and I saw she had other ones too.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

what's it called again? I

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Small things like these, I can read the synopsis too.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

real quick, run through it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, bill Furlong, a Cole Witch and family man faces into his busiest season one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent. Bill makes a discovery, which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Interesting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it's an international bestseller

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, I'm looking at It on here. Um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

interesting. Interesting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

so I'm gonna try to get those done in February, which I think we will. could do,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I want to get, I mean, there's so many I wanna fucking read. I think me and Melanie are gonna choose a book to read this month. I think we're, we might read, um, a book called Winterset Hollow.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That sounds familiar. Who wrote that?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Winterset Hollow, let me find it. Jonathan Edward Durham. It's a horror book. It's like, basically, I think it's about like woodland creatures, like coming to life.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It says everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real. If only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters if only for a day. But be careful in that wish dot. Yeah,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Let me know that. That sounds nice.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That sounds nice. But me and Melanie are gonna read, are gonna read this together. Have you read The Red Rising series?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

No.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I wanna read that series too. I'm like looking on my, my good thing.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, I have a few other books, um, that I wanna read, but I haven't really put'em on my list. Like my goal has been, just because I've been so busy with work has been hard to read. so, like, my goal has been five to six books a month, but I wanna get into the routine of reading two books a week. And so getting to like eight books a month,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Can you read, you could read more than one at a time.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I can, but I don't like to.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I do. I like to

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah. I like to just have my moment with a book and then move on.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I have my at home book and then my on the Go book usually, and right now my on the go book is Ritual and'cause it's on my Kindle. And then my at home book was um, wings and Ruin, but I just finished that. So I'm gonna pick up Big Swiss obviously next and be my at home book. And then I'm, I have to get the fourth Act guitar book.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I am going back to Gwendolyn Christie. But Gwen and Christie reminds me of, I don't know if she's the main character or not. character's name is FEW. Y'all know who that means, what that means, but who I imagine for that character.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

When Gwendolyn Christie,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Christy Christie, That's why she's just on my my mind. Yeah, you'll love her.'cause she's in Game of Thrones. I forget what season she comes in. Probably like season three, but

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

let me see.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

she stays the whole time.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

gw. Ellen. Christie. Okay. I don't rec,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Megan about it. She'll know Brianne of tar.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I don't recognize her.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Yeah, she was in a lot of things. You didn't watch Wednesday, the show. Wednesday, she was in Wednesday.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

she's in Hunger Games too.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

in? Yeah, she like, she's been in a lot of stuff that you probably ha wouldn't recognize that she was in, Game of Thrones was one of the first I think that people like recognized her and like started really liking her'cause of her character.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Wednesday. Star Wars. Game of Thrones. Hunger Games. Interesting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I found this TikTok I was gonna play you, let me pull it up. You probably, you might have seen it. It's somebody doing the voice of Taryn.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh really?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

this?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No. Abby, is that a sexual audio?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

who and what you are. Viole if he arms you ich the

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I have not seen that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it. That was diabolical. I'm down, my throat is gone. him actually talking.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I love him. Send that to me right now. That's exactly what he sounds like. Oh my God. I need a hero for onna. Oh, here we go.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I didn't really look at his, um, account. That's his name's Michael. Um, yoke. M-I-C-H-A-E-L-E-O-K.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

exactly who and what you're

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that came up on my TikTok the other

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Violet comes you

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

does

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I'll scorch the ground. He stands,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

tell me this

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

that's it He said that was diabolical.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Tell me this doesn't just throw you back.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Two. No, y'all. Let's do it again. Again. I'm tired. Let's as good as the game. Get information. Gimme a, gimme a, gimme a Why? I'm petty all the time. Pink.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I have no idea what the fuck That is.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

That song. Petty. Petty wins.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No idea.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

the time. What?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What the fuck is that?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I would've sworn you knew

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No, no idea.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

this one? The tell me This isn't me as a kid, first of all, I have so much jewelry. I got more jewelry. And it's not even about the

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That's you as an adult

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

with jewelry, you know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day is you did a great job from your circumstance. What's the word, circum? Circumstance? Circumstances.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

circumstance.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Circum. circumstance. Circumstance. Circum. Circum. Now, some words, I can't say

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yep.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

circumstance.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

circumstan him.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

circumstances. Yeah. Yeah. You authentic. Because I only deal with pure authenticity. Am I saying that word? Authentic. Authenticity. Is it authentic? What is it? Authenticity. There it is.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That is so you, you can't say things. And then Abby would always get like all these sayings mixed up and it was so fucking funny. We, she would always try to be like the voice of reason, like if people were fighting and she'd be like, guys stop and say something fucking out of pocket. And then we'd all look at and be like, Abby, shut up. Like what?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

to say it's hot as and slow as Hades,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

you just, your brain. like, just,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

it the other night at dinner. I was like, oh, you're pulling my leg or you're pulling my arm. I said, you're pulling my arm. And I kind of, I looked at Jose and I was like, is it pulling or twisting? And he was like, I think it's twisting.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I think it's pretty sure it's still a stink.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Uh, I was

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

my god.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

other night.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What the fuck?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

TikTok is just pure genius.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It's really funny. It really is. Oh my God. But yeah, anything else?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I don't think so. I don't have like,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I am after last week of fucking like insane. This, I am going into this week with a different mindset. Even though I feel a hundred times worse,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I like feel a hundred times sicker, but I'm gonna try to go into this week with a different mindset. I'm a little stressed out about the move, but it's gonna go smoothly.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah. I'll

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Everything's gonna be fine. Um, yeah, I'm working today and tomorrow, and then I have Wednesday, Thursday off to move,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Mm-Hmm.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

it should go good.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

February.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Why?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Because I feel like January has just been

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Well long. Your anniversary's in February. You're gonna come visit me in February.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Literally, Jose's whole family. Their birthday is in February.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Interesting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

his mom, and his dad. It's like the first weekend of February is my wedding anniversary. The second weekend of February is his brother's birthday. The third weekend's his mom's birthday, and then that Monday's his dad's birthday.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

That's a lot.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

It's always a lot.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

You gonna go to Olive Garden?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

no, I hope not.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Hi mama. You, Camille. You say hi, Camille? No.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Hi, sunny.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

sunshine girl. Hi mama. You are so pretty. She loves when I say she's pretty you. She does.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

do.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

She loves it. Sheila gets on her belly or on her back. Oh, sunshine RaY.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

have you been, you've haven't been, you've just been watching Game of Thrones, you haven't been watching anything else?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No. What else is there to watch?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Nothing. I, well, we watched, um, we watched the last season of Lupine, but that's been out for a

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What the fuck is that. No, I don't watch TV like that.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and then we, we've been rewatching suits,

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No, I haven't watched that either.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

but

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

that's about it.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

that's about it. Alright, what are you doing today?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Fuck working. And then I gotta go to Costco

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Hi. Nice to meet you, SETI. She's shaking my hands.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

and then we're

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yes,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

to Trader Joe's.'cause

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yes,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Trader Joe's

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yes.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

there.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Oh,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Hmm. Just talking to myself.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I haven't gone grocery shopping right here. I haven't gone grocery shopping because I'm about to move. So I don't have anything in the house really. So I'm not doing anything like that. But I am probably gonna walk these, these, um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Hooligans.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

I've domesticated. Um,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

wanna get back in bed and go to

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

well, don't do that. It's a beautiful day.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

It's a pretty day. It's been like rainy and muggy, which is

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

It has been so rainy here. And today's beautiful. So I'm gonna take them both on a walk. I think maybe it'll help me feel better, get some fresh air.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

All right. Well, is a shorter episode, but I think we all just needed to

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Yeah, just chitchat. just take a beat and what'd you just say? You see what I mean? She doesn't know how to talk just shit.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Just shit. I don't know why I said

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Just shit, you know

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

say chat.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Just shit. And, um, yeah. Happy chitting.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I'll be kidding. You know what?

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

You know what? Um, yeah, that's it.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

but we are gonna do big Swiss next week.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

yeah, I guess I'll start. It. It is my pi my pick. After all. I should read it. Huh?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Read what? Oh, the book.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Are you okay?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

I

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

What?

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

you looked down. So I thought you were gonna like pull the synopsis off. And I was about to be like, we never have done that before.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

No.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Okay. We need to do this.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

we're gonna do a big Swiss next week. Tune into that for next Wednesday. Uh, thank you for listening to this

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Sunshine. Do you wanna say bye? Oh, she's scared of the microphone. Oh, sorry mama. I thought we were gonna have a cute little like snoop moment. I saw you. She's scared of literally everything, but,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

but squirrels apparently.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

follow us on Instagram. Uh, my sister made me read a podcast. Amy is Amy Preti. I am Abby Perotti on Instagram. All of that info is down below in our show notes.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Okay. Please,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

please rate us on your platform you're listening to.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

please go back to sleep.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Um, I was, yeah. Put maybe suggestions down, uh, in the comments of what you want us to read. think we're gonna do some love books around Valentine's Day, since that is fitting, but we have to reevaluate

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Some love books.

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

yeah, that's about it.

squadcaster-hd2e_1_01-29-2024_112912:

Alright,

abby_1_01-29-2024_112914:

Alright. Alright. Alright. All. Okay. Bye guys.

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