In Her Good Books
New Year, Same Us: Reading Goals, Challenges and the Best and Worst of 2023
The following episode description was written by AI. Verdict? Not bad lol.
Ever found yourself chuckling over a quirky tale of octopus affection, or feeling a kinship with a certain lovable Murderbot? Welcome to our three-year anniversary bash of 'In Her Good Books', where this episode is brimming with reflections and recommendations that span the literary spectrum. Our walk down memory lane isn't just about nostalgia—it's a celebration of last year's reading escapades, the highs and lows of our literary conquests, and the setting of fresh, realistic reading aspirations for the year ahead. They say variety is the spice of life, and our bookish buffet ranges from Terry Pratchett's fantastical 'Going Postal' to the haunting queer insights in 'It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror'.
Curl up and join our candid conversation as we discuss those reads that left us spellbound and others that... well, let's just say they fell short of our book club's expectations. Whether it's expressing our strong opinions on a disappointing Nutcracker retelling or sharing our quest for 'big reading' with esteemed classics, our discussion is as diverse as our bookshelves. We tackle the art of purposeful reading and the charm of revisiting the novels we adore, reveling in the chance to explore these stories with newfound depth and appreciation.
And as we head into the new year with books stacked high and reading challenges gleaming on the horizon, we invite you to debate and discover right alongside us. From our musings on Stephen King's "Holly" to our lively critiques of 'The Spirits Up', we're dishing out all the insights you need for your next literary adventure. Don't miss out on our excursion into book club drama, our plans for a revitalizing kid-free vacation to Mexico, and the anticipation of good things yet to come. Pull up a chair, because this episode is your ticket to a community where every page turned is a celebration of the stories that bind us.
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The following episode description was written by AI. Verdict? Not bad lol.
Ever found yourself chuckling over a quirky tale of octopus affection, or feeling a kinship with a certain lovable Murderbot? Welcome to our three-year anniversary bash of 'In Her Good Books', where this episode is brimming with reflections and recommendations that span the literary spectrum. Our walk down memory lane isn't just about nostalgia—it's a celebration of last year's reading escapades, the highs and lows of our literary conquests, and the setting of fresh, realistic reading aspirations for the year ahead. They say variety is the spice of life, and our bookish buffet ranges from Terry Pratchett's fantastical 'Going Postal' to the haunting queer insights in 'It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror'.
Curl up and join our candid conversation as we discuss those reads that left us spellbound and others that... well, let's just say they fell short of our book club's expectations. Whether it's expressing our strong opinions on a disappointing Nutcracker retelling or sharing our quest for 'big reading' with esteemed classics, our discussion is as diverse as our bookshelves. We tackle the art of purposeful reading and the charm of revisiting the novels we adore, reveling in the chance to explore these stories with newfound depth and appreciation.
And as we head into the new year with books stacked high and reading challenges gleaming on the horizon, we invite you to debate and discover right alongside us. From our musings on Stephen King's "Holly" to our lively critiques of 'The Spirits Up', we're dishing out all the insights you need for your next literary adventure. Don't miss out on our excursion into book club drama, our plans for a revitalizing kid-free vacation to Mexico, and the anticipation of good things yet to come. Pull up a chair, because this episode is your ticket to a community where every page turned is a celebration of the stories that bind us.
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Hello everyone and welcome to In Her Good Books. I'm Shanna.
Speaker 1:And I'm Jen, and this is a podcast where two friends talk about Books, books.
Speaker 2:I mean notes. I did my homework, Jen. Wow, I know you reminded me today.
Speaker 1:I also reminded myself today, because we record on Wednesdays, but I definitely thought it was Monday.
Speaker 2:It's, I didn't know what day it was. I have been in a weird Monday to Wednesday drift space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's that week between Christmas and New Year's that it just really messes with the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's great, though, for me, kid-free week, nothing to do. I just really get to be my most debased self. It's so good, it's so good.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile I'm at work.
Speaker 2:It's terrible, it's terrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but.
Speaker 2:I went there to cheer you up and build Lego at you. Yes, so my post Christmas week is going well. What is this?
Speaker 1:Our New Year's episode. Yeah, so this is the first episode of 2024.
Speaker 2:Wow, we did it Three years. Oh yeah, we started on New Year's yes.
Speaker 1:Happy Hogs Watch. That's what it is right. Happy Hogs Watch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the 31st of December.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was our first episode when we did Hogfather.
Speaker 2:Was it our first one? Yeah, so great, so good. Hogfather's great book. I wanted to reread it this month, but Me too. Didn't happen, didn't happen. You are not going to love the number of books I read.
Speaker 1:This you are also not going to love the number of books I read, Luckily we have some other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2:I have never been more grateful If there was going to be a week where we had other stuff to talk about. Thank goodness it was this one. Yeah, I have read Zip.
Speaker 1:Literally Zip, literally Zip. Yeah, you are like looking through your book, as if a book is going to be written down there.
Speaker 2:No, I texted Carolyn earlier and I said hey, could you just remind me what I read on this week's episode? And she told me, and I was like well, that's bad news for me.
Speaker 1:This is what you're going to say. I read Holly by Stephen King.
Speaker 2:Apparently it's a trend to see if I go three in a row, I've almost completed a book. So I guess I'll talk about that. I guess you could, but until then we were going to talk about the best books of the year, the worst books of the year and our goals for the upcoming year and also how well we did on our past year's goals. Yes, so that was my last year's New Year's episode and known what my goals were going to be, Hmm, Should I text?
Speaker 1:Carolyn, you know, probably at that time it was to read any books, any book at all, because I don't think that was happening.
Speaker 2:No, I didn't start reading until yeah, like August. So nailed it. Yep, killed last year's goal, you did.
Speaker 1:So how many books did you read for 2023?
Speaker 2:For 2023, well, I still have a few days and I only have two hours left in the book I'm listening to, so I will definitely hit 35. It's not my regular 50. I like to hit 50. I don't feel complete unless I hit 50 books in a year. But you know what? It was a rough one. It was a rough year. I had other stuff to do, so the fact that I read 35 books is still well outside the average person's number, which they keep track of because it matters to them. Yes, I do. Do you get excited, like if you meet somebody who does count how many books they read in a year? It's like finding a kindred spirit.
Speaker 1:Well, I feel like most people we know do it's like a test question yeah, how many books you read this year?
Speaker 2:Seven, six, yeah, good job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the number doesn't matter, but you should know what it is.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, that is that's it. What were?
Speaker 1:your goals last year. Well, for some sick reason, I put it at 100. You're disgusting, I know. You disgust me, which I think I also did last year. Actually, I'm trying to remember if this was this year, okay, last year I'd put it at something ridiculous like 20 or something. Oh, because it just had FEDA and I was like well, I don't want to be too crazy, I just want to be realistic. And then I got that by like March. Okay, I guess, yeah.
Speaker 2:I undershot I can up it.
Speaker 1:So I up to 200. And then I didn't make it.
Speaker 2:I just had a dream shift.
Speaker 1:I didn't make it last year either, but this year I also didn't make it. I only got to 95. Which is incredible. It's so many. I think it's too many. It might be too many, like, I don't know if I really like it.
Speaker 2:I read was it 98 one year? Yeah, and it was like almost heartbreaking to not hit the 100. Yeah, but also Christ.
Speaker 1:That list is long, right, I'm looking at all the books and I'm like did I read these? Do I remember them?
Speaker 2:It's too many. I was looking at my list and when I was trying to figure out what the best books I read this year were, I read a lot of good books. I just kept writing all the titles. I was like, well, this isn't how this is supposed to work. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:But yeah, when you read 95 books, how do you pick best and the worst? So I had to really do the really the best and really the worst. Yeah, I think this year I know I'm going to have to put a 100 book a goal. Yeah, I will. Even if I say I'm going to put a different number, I will change it. So you may as well start there.
Speaker 2:No, no, I don't want you.
Speaker 1:No, I'm taking it back.
Speaker 2:Okay, 50. It's a nice. 50 is good. It's attainable. 75. 75. 52.
Speaker 1:One book a week, well that seems normal, Like how did I read more than?
Speaker 2:that. How does I read five books in a week? It's weird, it is weird, we're weird.
Speaker 1:But what I want to do this year is how would you always say that you, how you read, oh, with intention.
Speaker 2:Yes, I want to read with intention.
Speaker 1:And not just like kind of speed through. Yes, I kind of feel like I'm always on a race and it's kind of a little bit the podcast's fault. I think I take it too far. I don't have to show up with five books read.
Speaker 2:No, I could show up with two, and that's okay. What if we thought about those books?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and what if I remembered what happened and I could actually say it properly and then have actual thoughts about them? You're getting crazy, I know.
Speaker 2:You're getting wild.
Speaker 1:Imagine if I didn't just say and it was fine.
Speaker 2:So this is our 2022. Wow, what year is it 2024? Goal yeah To read with intention. Yes, oh, I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, we'll see it's hard. I feel like it's harder with audiobooks, though.
Speaker 2:Well, it depends on what you're also doing. When they're bad, they're so easy to just keep going. Then you accidentally get one. Yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe you know I've been better at DNFing books that aren't doing it for me.
Speaker 2:So you were at 95 and you DNF'd a bunch. I DNF'd a couple. Yeah, that counts as a book.
Speaker 1:All your DNFs count as a book. I did count a couple depending on where I got to. That's fair. There's one that I don't know if I'll talk about today or not, because I don't know if I'm going to DNF it or not, but I'm 50%, I'm like, I feel like I'm like 55%, which I feel like counts enough to count. Yeah, halfway how long is the book?
Speaker 2:Halfway. Normal 11? Yeah, probably, I don't know. I feel like you've got to get to 70.
Speaker 1:So bad though so bad.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean you could hit 97. I'm just saying Times, so fine.
Speaker 1:See, I make these goals, but then every year I just try to get to 100 as fast as I can.
Speaker 2:Yeah. See when this is your last chance do this last first, so that on the first, which has already happened now, sorry guys, I'm living in the past. Yeah, you know what? Do whatever you want. You don't have to listen to me, I'm not the boss of you. Why are?
Speaker 1:you bossing me around.
Speaker 2:Read the book, jen. Oh, you're so lazy. 70% are buzzed. Well, I'm glad that you read so much. La-di-da good feel.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you. I'm glad that you also read so much Thank you.
Speaker 2:I feel like one of us was more genuine.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know which one.
Speaker 2:What was your favorite book of the year?
Speaker 1:So my best books of the year are Behind Our Eyes by Sarah Pinborough. Wayward by Amelia Hart. The Soul of an Octopus by Simon Gumry, and it Came from the Closet Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Valisi.
Speaker 2:Those are all, not mine. No, not at all. Well, why Tell me? Why Explain your books? Oh well, explain yourself, justify yourself.
Speaker 1:I guess we better, since we have nothing else to talk about today.
Speaker 2:Yes, we can really fill it out. Tell me why.
Speaker 1:Well Behind Our Eyes was a really, really good psychological thriller. I loved it. So good, I just need to read that one and Wayward, by Amelia Hart was so good and witchy and there was bugs and there was dirt and there was plants and there was revenge, the birds, Birds.
Speaker 2:So good, I still have a red Wayward, that was fair.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:It was 0 out of 2, but I definitely want to read yeah, so good, I know. Because I want it? Because it's gorgeous. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's got a bird yeah, it's green. I love both those things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the book that made me want to have a little spider.
Speaker 2:Familiar. Yes, how was that going oh?
Speaker 1:so bad, so so bad, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 2:We're going up to it 2024 familiar, yeah, or maybe you'll get something a lot friendlier and easier to train, maybe.
Speaker 1:Because, yeah, if I could start bending the spiders to my wheel, then maybe I could make it sit on my shoulder without attacking me.
Speaker 2:That's all I want. So you want is a spider on you. Yeah, on my shoulder. It's attacking you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just like hanging out, not going on my face. My number one rule for my spider face is off limits, but they don't listen. I want to be a tarantula. No, that's too far Too big. No, way too big. You want a tiny little spider I want one of those little like jumping ones? No, yeah, those cute little ones that people have as pets. Oh, oh, with the big eyes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, they're cute, they're cute.
Speaker 1:Tarantula no, no, no, they're cool. No, I think there's one on me right now. There's this movie. Oh my God, what is it called? It has Home Alone no.
Speaker 1:What's that guy's name, the guy from Shawshank Redemption, whatever, it doesn't matter, it's a comedy. He's driving along and the other guy's like dude, there's a spider on your head. And he's like yeah, whatever, you're just saying some street lingo, like I'm not listening to you, you hoodlum or something. And he's like no man, like there is a spider on your head. He's like yeah, yeah, whatever. And then it just like down over his face oh, oh well, I think they're cool.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's up with all you. If there was a tarantula here right now, I would not think it was cool. No, you would not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can act cool you want.
Speaker 2:As long as there's not a tarantula here, I'm chill yeah.
Speaker 1:So the next, the Soul of an Octopus by Simon Gumry, is a book that made me Well, it's not the book that made me love octopuses Really, it was remarkably bright creatures, but I didn't love that book, I only loved the octopus in it. So then the soul of an octopus made me obsessed with octopuses. Now I love them and I also would like one on my other shoulder.
Speaker 2:Oh, like a sloppy spider.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You hate being wet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I really don't like that many legs. I don't know why I picked so many legs to be on me, but I would smooch one.
Speaker 2:I believe it I truly do.
Speaker 1:It was a nonfiction about a lady that started studying octopuses and became in love with a whole bunch of them, and so so good. So I always tell people to read that one, and yet I never do. And then, yeah, you still listen to me and I'm always right.
Speaker 2:I know I'm almost always. All three of these are probably absolute bangers.
Speaker 1:You're over there reading oh, whatever you're reading, boring.
Speaker 2:Oh, you don't even know.
Speaker 1:Then my last one it came from the closet by Jo Valici, was the 20 essays written about different horror movies from the queer perspective. That was also really good, because I love queer stuff, I love horror movies, didn't know, I love essays but did yeah, yeah. So that was also really really good, but it's pretty niche. I think I haven't really been able to recommend it to anybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not an easy sell for you, but loved it.
Speaker 1:What about you? What are your best ones?
Speaker 2:My best books of the year are All Sissons Read by Martha Wells. Now, it's not necessarily that that's the best one. Somebody just opened the door to Murderbot, yes, and so it gets this extra glowy sheen for opening that door and being the portal through which I travel into Murderbot. So excellent. That's the one about the sec unit who has a hacked governor module. And are they sleeping yet? For my description, that's it the most boring book in the entire world.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, I hear snoring, okay, anyways, it's really good guys. It's really funny and it's sci-fi and it's cool.
Speaker 1:Next People who listen, I'm sure, like sci-fi. Yes, actually, just because Janelle hated it To me.
Speaker 2:Now you have to be like oh, nobody likes my sci-fi, okay, that's fine, I don't need to talk about it. No, I loved it. I loved it. It's kind of in the Becky Chambers vein. I still love Becky Chambers more. Yeah, she is magic, she's magic, but it's not as cozy, for sure, as Becky Chambers. But it's still got that found family aspect and it's lovely. Next, I chose Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Nouvelle. This was the one about the big robots yes, the million robots and only certain people who control them. It was just like an apocalyptic novel and it was told in like a found footage-esque journalism style. I can't remember what the actual words are. Found footage is, like exactly wrong for books.
Speaker 1:What did it count as a pistolary? Because I think that yes At least partly.
Speaker 2:It was like World War Z, the book. It was oral history. Oh, yes, okay. So it's being told through logs and like news stations and you get all these different angles for how the story is being told. I listened to it on audio and the audio was done so well, it was fully cast and I really loved it. And then that was a trilogy, so that's great Read. The first one blew my mind, absolutely loved it. Went to the second one. It was good, it was fine. I was a little middle booky. That's okay, right, because I got a third one coming.
Speaker 2:So I got through the second one. It was good. I thought we were going on a trajectory where we were going to have a full-on space war, but instead it killed a bunch of my favorite characters. And then the third book. I made it 30% because it was so annoying. All of the characters that they left me and all of the things that were happening, all of the ones that they introduced, were terribly annoying and I was very sad about it. I tried to give it time to turn around, but at 30%, when I was still just annoyed, I said, well, they did the wrong thing, they killed the wrong people. They did, they really did so.
Speaker 2:Anyways, that maybe isn't my best recommendation. I really liked the first one, though If I had just read the first one and not kept going very good. And then, of course, going Postal, terry Pratchett. Yes, of course that's my best book, like my actual best book. The other ones were honorable mentions and even then I've got so many on my list that I'm like they're good for different reasons. Yeah, that. Anyways, going Postal, just read it. It's so, oh, it's so well done. It is just so well crafted. It's Terry Pratchett at like his Terry Pratchettist, it's marvelous. It's about Moise Von Lipwig. He is a career criminal who is being hung for his crimes. And then Vettanari, the patrician, who's like the president of the city. He saves him secretly and tells him that he can keep his life, but he has to be the postmaster. The post office has been out of commission for years and years and years and it's a whole uphill battle. Crazy cast of characters, super in-depth world building just mastercraft. Absolutely loved it. No notes.
Speaker 1:When you talk about the post office, my mind immediately goes to the Grinch post office. That's just what I picture, so that's probably not the vibe.
Speaker 2:Think more like marble and gold. Think more gringotsey. Except it's a post office in a medieval-esque city.
Speaker 1:See, that sounds better. It's so good Because to me I'm just seeing Jim Carrey going jury duty, jury duty, jury duty. That's fine, that's funny.
Speaker 2:But but no, this ugh. It's so good. He really, really creates this whole world. There's a pigeons coop up on the roof that comes into play. There are three crazy guys that help save the day. It's so good.
Speaker 1:I do believe you. It's just the physical book problem that I have. I have a physical book, I know, but I can't read physical books.
Speaker 2:It's the problem. Oh yeah, that's the problem. What about the Kindle?
Speaker 1:Kindle. But it's not even. It's just having the time to sit down and read a thing.
Speaker 2:Oh, and then the audio. The audio for Terry Pratchett is just not the way to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly. So physical books I probably read, not many Okay.
Speaker 2:I read hyperbole and a half and solutions and other problems in physical copies, but those are graphic novels, so that makes sense. And then I've actually forgotten to tell you about a book, because I've almost done it, but it was the New Patrick Rothfuss. Oh yes, the Something Row Between Desires. This seems like a lie. Oh, the Narrow Row.
Speaker 1:Between Desires 15?. This is. I read 15 books that weren't audio. I'm going to see it and you can't read the postal going postal.
Speaker 2:I guess she's just making excuses, guys.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say that already, but out of 95, 15.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I read three, but that actually puts me up to 37 because I literally have 20 pages left of that book. So that was the Narrow Row Between Desires. It's a new Patrick Rothfuss book. It's not even a real book, it's a novella. It's not even a new story. It's him reworking a story he's already written. It's a bookside character named Bast, who I love and I sound like I'm bitter about it and I am just happy he gave me anything at all. But it's not the Doors of Stone. And listen, I'm starting to get agitated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, why is he wasting time on that crap when he could be writing the actual book Could be giving?
Speaker 2:me the actual book. But he's got to keep us. He knows he can, he knows he's got us, but yeah, so that's another book, 37. God, I'm good, maybe you'll hit 40. Maybe Did you have another best I did. It's another Terry Brouchette, with footnotes. Terry Brouchette oh, come on mouth. Terry Brouchette biography. And I cried and I cried, I laughed and I laughed and it was an experience of getting to just know my favorite author and having him continue to be that at the end, which is just so great, to not read all about somebody's life and then lose any respect for them. Yeah, it's impressive. I just love him so much. I call him the love of my life, so it's very rude that he died and never met me.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is very rude.
Speaker 2:But I guess it's okay, it's not.
Speaker 1:It's not, it's not, it's not, it's okay.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, so that one just emotionally affected me. It has left a lasting imprint on me. My heart grew three sizes that day. Yes, it did Mine by association as well. Yes, wow, that one you can do on audio. Yeah, easy peasy. What was your worst book?
Speaker 1:I also wrote down four. I only have two. Well, I don't even care about them. Oh, I mean, they're so bad that I'm like I hardly want to even say their names.
Speaker 2:Well, the two that I have, I have feelings behind.
Speaker 1:They're bad. Well, first I have my Summer Darlings by May Cobb, which was about this group of friends, and then this man comes to town and then they all are secretly sleeping with him until he kidnaps one of their daughters or something. It was so bad.
Speaker 2:It sounds very like check out Isle book.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then there's another one by her that was also really popular that I started reading, but it was the same. It was like this woman gets obsessed with this other woman friend and then just starts doing ridiculous things to impress her.
Speaker 2:Completely unrealistic.
Speaker 1:And I was like, oh, after a little bit of that I was like, no, I am an adult woman with a brain, get me out of here. It was so bad. And then I feel bad about this one. But I put Mother Thing by Ainsley Hogarth and I feel bad because quite a lot of people in the book club loved it and think it's the best book ever written in the world and they thought I would really like it. But they just talked about how stinky things were for too long the whole time. Yeah, stinky and yucky and farty and diarrhea, and I can't.
Speaker 2:Too stinky it was too much for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not enough gore. Yeah, I don't know, I didn't like it and I felt really bad. And then the House and the Pines by Anna Reyes was just like this terrible, terrible thriller.
Speaker 2:No thrills Right from the get go.
Speaker 1:Oh, it ended with like should I spoil it? Yeah, because it's terrible. It ended up being like the twist was that he was hypnotizing people.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, oh, yeah oh hypnotizing Stupid.
Speaker 1:That's the worst. I don't believe, maybe, in hypnotizing. I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with me, but Use it well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's come on. Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 1:And then what Wild Women Do by Karma Brown, which I just talked about on the last episode, which was just the most boring, not thrilling mystery I could possibly ever read.
Speaker 2:That's very disappointing.
Speaker 1:It's where the mystery is she died of natural causes. There was no mystery, we all just blew this way out of proportion.
Speaker 2:Well, my worst books were the Drift by CJ Tudor. I hated this book. It started out really cool. It was about. So we have these three different people who are in three different situations and they're all stuck and you know that their stories are going to come together. You just don't really know how. It's an apocalyptic book, so there is a disease of some sort. It's creating zombies, but they're not zombies. So one guy is stuck on a skiing trolley tram thing, one person is stuck in a bus crash with a bunch of people and then one person is stuck at this resort. So that was really interesting. The plot device, like the device that they used, was actually pretty interesting and well done. It was all the details after that just made me insane because they weren't good. Like there was a tattoo and the tattoo made me crazy because, like you just don't tattoo those things. I guess it was a picture of their siblings face. Yeah, no one does that. No one does that unless their sibling is dead, I guess, yeah maybe he did, but alive no.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I just really didn't like it. And then it gets really weird and shitty. At the end there's like a completely unnecessary rape scene, like a monster rape. I had it sped up to like two and a half times just like crying get me out of here please.
Speaker 2:So that was not a good time for me. No, that sounds really terrible. I really didn't love it. I can see people liking it, though, like it hasn't done badly, it just super was not for me. It could have been, it almost was. Oh, that was the other thing it kept doing was one of the main characters kept saying I could almost think of what it was, I almost knew it was just within my grasp. Like this is okay once, it is not okay the 14th time. You say it. Yeah, I don't care, figure it out or shut up, but you know otherwise still wasn't good. I don't like it.
Speaker 1:I always like when people are stuck on chairlifts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a gun in there, there was a dead body, there were a bunch of people not trusting each other. Like it wasn't bad, that part was good. Like up until halfway I feel like it was doing okay, but it took a steep dive after that, never tell you might stuck on a mountain chairlift story. What no?
Speaker 1:Oh my god. Okay, it wasn't a chairlift, because I'm from Quinnell and our ski hold does not have chairlifts, it has little T-bars. But I was up there for school. So I was in elementary school, me and my friend were going up on the T-bar and then it stopped. We were like, well, probably turned back on after a while. Yeah, didn't. And then we're like it's kind of starting to get tired. Yeah, we're like, oh my god, what if it's time to go? What if we're going to miss the bus back to school? Yeah, but we're like halfway up the mountain and we're like in between runs, so it's not like we can just like get off. We could kind of, I guess, get off, but we're little kids, yeah, and you can't just ski down the not ski hill part.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we had to like get off the T-bar and then take our skis and then try to throw them up to like the next run and then climb up and then we made it and then we had to ski down as fast as we could Like. Hopefully they didn't leave without us. It was very stressful.
Speaker 2:That is for a child, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Those T-bars they would also. We'd go to ski off with them and they would hook onto our jackets and then we'd fall down and just be being drugged off the hill. Oh, that's terrible. That should not be okay. It was the past. I could not imagine that being okay.
Speaker 2:Now I absolutely can see Vada just like being dragged off the hill.
Speaker 1:We're like, oh great, now we're getting to the top, now we're at the hardest run, yeah, and we're about to go around the end of a drug back town.
Speaker 2:At least it's getting dark.
Speaker 1:Anyways, carry on. What was your next bad book?
Speaker 2:Lost Bookshop oh yes, I once again, not probably technically a bad book, Definitely not a bad book to lots of people. It was a bad book to me. I didn't like it. I didn't like the way that everything didn't make any sense at the end. I like it when at the end of my book, everything comes together. It's all tied up in their nice little bows and actually I even like an open ending. You know me, I like some ambiguous weirdness, yeah. But when it's telling me the end, there's your perfectly packaged story and I'm looking at it like no, this is nothing but holes. You have put no bows. The wrapping paper is wrinkled. Like it's not good. It was a bad rap job and I was. People are telling me it's good.
Speaker 2:Don't gaslight me.
Speaker 1:You know the truth, I know the truth. So that's how I felt about that one, that one was so funny at Book Club, when everyone shows up and they're like yeah, it was pretty good. And then we're like what about this and what about that? And they're like oh, maybe it was bad.
Speaker 2:So you guys weren't screaming the whole time you were reading this book, no, just after. Well, I'm glad I could provide some much needed perspective. It's like an illusion where you're looking at it and you're like, no, that's good. Then you tilt it a little bit and it's just completely fucked. Yep, that's that book, but I'm not mad that I read it. Yeah, it was still fun. Still fun If more people read the CJ Tudor book although you know I could look online. There's probably some of the degrees with me. Oh, most definitely.
Speaker 2:I don't think I read any reviews this year. It might be fun to like go around and read what everyone else thought about the books. Yeah, when I was making videos and stuff I usually like, and even with the podcast, I do like to try and have my own opinion and I'm always scared I'll be influenced. But like that, I never went back for a little into these. That's weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like to go and be like ha ha see, yeah, I was right. This one person also said one star.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, 2024, new new year, new me.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, I'm sorry I had to say something.
Speaker 2:It will be a new me I can read more than 37 books. Maybe Don't like that enthusiasm.
Speaker 1:I believe you can, for sure, but I also think 37 is pretty good. He is pretty good.
Speaker 2:Now I have other goals. Oh, so you were talking about reading with intention. I have guilt books and then there's a little arrow and this is big reading. Yes, so this is what I mean, in that there are a whole bunch of books Wuthering Heights, skedaddle, paddle, what the hell is that? I can't remember ever. Skim a Merink, slammerkin, slammerkin, slammerkin is one that I've been told a bunch of times is really good, just like all of these big books that people love, that we know, that are close to us, that when I read them they're gonna say, ahhhh, so yeah, big reading in that, like I'll have good books, just good, meaningful reading, none of this. Oh, my god, jen, have you read the new book club book Speaking of utter and complete horse shit?
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, I have started it, yeah, and wow, I want to like it. Sometimes, like the idea and like the framework is kind of cool. The writing, though, is so bad. It's so bad, and sometimes I'm just like why would you do this? Yeah, why did you just say that?
Speaker 2:So in our book club we're reading a book called A Court of Sugar and Spice. It is a nutcracker retelling, a spicy nutcracker retelling, and oh my goodness, it is just pure garbage.
Speaker 1:I didn't think it was going to be a meaningful literary novel or anything. We picked it because it was going to be fun and people will laugh, I'm sure, but it's supposed to be, I'm assuming, set in the olden days of ladies having to be lady-like.
Speaker 2:No way Don't they say some crazy stuff Like.
Speaker 1:I can't even say it out loud. Yeah, they say some crazy stuff. Yeah, and it's not even like you know. I've read spicy books before and I haven't gotten to a spicy part in the book. But they're saying things and I'm like what are you saying?
Speaker 2:Yeah, are you listening to the audio? Yeah, how's that? Oh, it's okay, it's not that bad actually. No, that's a lie, that's a complete and total lie, I got used to the woman's voice Really.
Speaker 1:How old is she? Well, you know, 80?. Maybe like 60.
Speaker 2:85? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just kind of generic.
Speaker 2:English woman. She sounds like a teenager who teaches third grade and has for the last 30 years.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's very bizarre. And the nutcracker's voice at first is like hello, mortal, you have awoken me. It's like what, oh, and also, it's the same woman. It's not a new voice. Yeah, that was a little bit like generous as to how different the voice is. It was just like this really weird, like a lil ting robot voice.
Speaker 2:I'm like. So unfortunately, due to the fact that I haven't finished that one, it didn't make my worst of the year, but just know it would have.
Speaker 1:Sorry, everybody In book club, it's okay.
Speaker 2:End of year on a low note. Get some real good. Let's get some hefty heifers in there next year. Let's make everyone earn their keep reading eyes.
Speaker 1:Start thinking of what we want to do for January.
Speaker 2:A little life.
Speaker 1:Everyone would quit. That'd be it.
Speaker 2:I want to read more Japanese books. I want to read more like Mirakami and like. I just love that vibe. It's my jam. So more of those. Like convenience store woman. I love going in that weird space. It's really just me hanging out in there, Nobody else comes to my weird little. Japanese stories about nothing, but it's a great time for me.
Speaker 1:Sometimes we come in and we're like this is all right.
Speaker 2:But, I'm done now. Don't you guys like how it's really gray in here? It's like watercolor. It's how you guys think.
Speaker 1:No, it's black in my brain.
Speaker 2:No, I would love to reread 1Q84, but it's so long. But that's where I want to go. It's the mood of like this week, this in between space week, so, anyway, I want more of that in my life this year. That sounds like a good plan. How do you feel about doing a challenge this year? Oh, that'd be fun, maybe. Right, that's what I was thinking too. I don't know which one, but you know what really just gets me revved up? It is reading, different reading challenges. That is a good time for me.
Speaker 1:But we have found some good books by finding ones to fit into challenges.
Speaker 2:And I remember the years that we did it with the book club. It was always fun because people would bring their lists and we'd kind of talk about what filled each one. So I was thinking about finding one and then not like committing myself to it, but also secretly committing myself to it, or maybe I should commit all the way.
Speaker 1:So I was thinking we should find one and then be like hello book club. This is your reading challenge.
Speaker 2:This is your reading challenge for the year. We could do it like saw.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll come writing a tricycle, yeah, I'll bring the killing, the helmet that slaps people's jaws off their heads.
Speaker 2:Yes, just have it all on the table. Black garbage bags everywhere.
Speaker 1:Yes, I don't think anyone will sign up.
Speaker 2:No, we could probably come up with a lighter approach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just make them cute little papers.
Speaker 2:And make them like 25 books. There's something like super attainable, yeah, or 50. 12. 12? Yeah, oh, what a month. Oh, that's right, not everyone reads like us. Yeah, maybe we should make a challenge. Maybe we should make a challenge. I'll be like one Terry Pratchett book.
Speaker 1:Like. This is the challenge to be our friend.
Speaker 2:You want to read like us, you want to read with us? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Well, man, I just made myself homework, guys. Okay, what's the challenge? Will we steal it? Will we make it? Who?
Speaker 1:knows.
Speaker 2:I don't know. We'll update you in two weeks, definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, two weeks. I made a really big show to like not do that at therapy last time. Oh yeah, we're like, let's see, see you sometime, I don't know when I think it may have been weird.
Speaker 2:Therapist has a whole like side booklet for you.
Speaker 1:That's when she's making her notes.
Speaker 2:I've got one more thing on my list. I want to read more Discworld. Yes, you should. I love Discworld. I've got 20 books left, or just under. It's sad, but you know what, when I read the biography, I learned about a whole bunch more of his writing outside of the Discworld. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that'll be nice to experience. He did lots of children's writing, so there's going to be lots to do with my kids so I can have them fully. Terry Pratchett brainwashed by the time they're Discworld age. Perfect it's perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did a lot of well, not a lot, but I did quite a bit of rereading this year. What For me? Why I think I like it and I think it makes me happy. I think it was only I think only four books that I reread. But I reread Tiny Beautiful Things and Wild by Cheryl Strait, I reread Most of Wuthering Heights and I reread the Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendricks, and all of those books made me so happy to read again I was actually thinking about doing some rereads too.
Speaker 2:I want to reread the Gunslinger. It's been so long. I still know a bunch of story points, but all of the meat is fading away. So I feel like I could experience it again in a way that would be fresh and pick up more, and when you already kind of know what's going to happen, maybe I like rereading too and I just didn't notice yet. And I just said I wanted to reread 1QA4.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm still experiencing these books that you love. It feels really good. I think my brain was just kind of like thinking they don't count. Yeah, that's like books that I've read, but they count even more because you get more out of them every time and they bring joy. And I think sometimes I was trying to reread books that I thought I needed to read or thought I needed to understand more, so that I start reading them again and be like, nope, still don't understand it or still don't like it or not enjoyable. But if you're just rereading the books that you really love so good.
Speaker 2:I imagine you just like trying to reread Pyreneesies every other month. I know so you get it this time.
Speaker 1:I bought a coffee and it's on my shelf. Sometimes I do look at it and like maybe no, don't torture yourself. I love it.
Speaker 2:I want to reread Pyreneesie now. Well, I've definitely got a big reading year ahead of me.
Speaker 1:And then imagine a year from now. I've been doing this for four years. Four years seems so much longer than three years. It does Like three years is also a pretty long time. It's a pretty long time. Four years, it's a lot. Yeah, we'll make it, we will. We keep trying to stop and we just keep doing it anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, you know what I feel like going into this year. What could possibly? Nothing, oh shit, Absolutely nothing. No, I think Carolyn's one. He's supposed to have a bad year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's her turn. It's her turn.
Speaker 2:So sorry, Carolyn, Sorry. Enjoy your crappy year. We're here for you. We're here for you no matter what happens. Yeah.
Speaker 1:She pulled the tarot card that said you're going to have a bad year, just for everyone who wasn't at that party.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyways, like I just had one hell of a year and I did it, I'm done. So now I've got all this reading time. Probably that works. Yeah, you got any other stuff, got any other goals? Nope, got any reading regrets. That's what you're supposed to do for the new year you look back on the year and think of what your regrets? No.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's some of these books that I wish I had just thrown the garbage.
Speaker 2:but it's more DNF-ing this year.
Speaker 1:Yes, but I'm already having a hard time with that, yeah but it's not the end of the year.
Speaker 2:I know I still can't see. It's the last year. You're a new person now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, new me I'm going to have banks for the rest of my life. It's just a fact that I've had to accept.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're synonymous with you as a person, so I guess you have no books to talk about, zero. Oh yeah, I forgot about books.
Speaker 1:Well, what did I even write down? Oh yes, so I read Holly by Stephen.
Speaker 2:King, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, I wanted so badly to say it earlier when we were saying it, but it's like nah, it's too early for that. Well, what do you think it was good? So Shanna talked about this a few episodes ago.
Speaker 2:I was talking about it for the last two episodes. Yeah, sure, I thought that was the joke.
Speaker 1:It was the joke. So it's the newest Stephen King. It's about two old people who pretend that they're stuck in their electric wheelchair and then instead they lure people to their basement to kill them and eat them and eat them. Yep, so the title is Holly, because the main character's name is Holly Gibney. She is a character from some of the other books, mostly the Mr Mercedes series, which I did read the first one, but it was many, many years ago and I don't remember her from that series. But I did meet her in the Outsider.
Speaker 1:Oh, I had to read that one yeah so that one's good, but there is like a really sad little boy body scene, so I think I told you not to read it.
Speaker 2:I can imagine that you would. I was wondering, though, because I knew that she was from Mr Mercedes, but then I saw her listed as like the Holly Gibney books and I thought, well, isn't that just the Mr Mercedes books? Yeah, she's sent a few other ones. Oh interesting, mr King, you've done it again. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And yeah, she's a good character, but I couldn't really understand why the book was called Holly, like I feel like she was pretty mean, yeah, but there's always a main character in a book. That's true Harry Potter, I guess, but the Hobbit, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:She was a main character, but Mr Mercedes, I guess he wasn't the main character.
Speaker 1:She just wasn't like what the book was about, really Like the story wasn't really about her. I don't think the title really matched the book.
Speaker 2:Well, I thought the book was about a haunted Christmas house, yeah, so exactly that's what it makes you think the book is about Holly. Holly the.
Speaker 1:Shub Holly. She's a private investigator who is investigating the disappearance of a woman who has been taken by these old people, and then she kind of starts uncovering that there's more than one missing person.
Speaker 2:Oh, one of them was a child.
Speaker 1:I know, that was not good Super happy.
Speaker 2:Why is there?
Speaker 1:always a child. I know, see, that was good. It was set in the COVID times, like you said, and I really didn't like that.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:I really almost wanted to throw it in the garbage, because of it.
Speaker 2:I hate COVID times.
Speaker 1:The book was good, but I just don't think it needed to be set in that time. So it was just like okay, stephen King has something to say about COVID and this is how he's doing it. And it was just like oh hi, I'm Holly, are you vexed? Yeah, me too. Moderna, johnson and Johnson.
Speaker 2:That's how we did it.
Speaker 1:I know, but nobody wants to relive that.
Speaker 2:No, it's terrible. I hated having to do it the once. Having to listen to everybody follow proper procedure multiple times in a book. I agree it was too much. Every time COVID comes into my books I'm like why I mean?
Speaker 1:he could have not written it like that and then still done his afterward where he's like hi, I'm Stephen King, I believe in COVID and I followed precautions. You can still say that without putting it in the book.
Speaker 2:Did you like the bathroom? It's so funny.
Speaker 1:I was worried that he was going to be on the other side, on the wrong side of the COVID fence, but he wasn't. He was on my side, so that's okay At this point I'm like what's happening?
Speaker 2:Where are we? Stop saying COVID, can't we help? Just move on.
Speaker 1:No, because we keep reading books where it's brought back up over and over and over again, but otherwise.
Speaker 2:But as far as it was done, I mean, I think it was done fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was, just it was too much. She's investigating, so she's talking to multiple people and going to multiple places and everywhere she goes, she has to follow the right protocol in this situation and follow the right protocol in this situation. Are these people wearing masks or they're not wearing masks?
Speaker 2:She's a hypochondriac as a character, so it fits character that she would worry about these things. I know.
Speaker 1:It was a lot, but I do love the idea of elderly killers. I thought that was fun so it was good. I liked it. I love Stephen King. And then I read the Spirits Up by Todd Babbiak. I don't know if I didn't love it. It was good. It's kind of a contemporary ode to a Christmas Carol. I don't know, I guess I don't. Maybe it's just, it's a retelling, but it's pretty loose. I love a Canadian author, though Canadian. The book was set in Edmonton, so that's fun. That's not. You know, it's set in Canada, that's fun. Edmonton's. I've never been there, so I can't say you haven't.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's great there you go.
Speaker 1:I've only been to Calgary. I've only been to Calgary, calgary, yeah, a couple of times, and it was those were the only times I went to Alberta.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah, okay, well, let's go to Edmonton. You just go to the mall and then you leave. I'm surprised you're not calling it Edmonton, Edmonton, edmonton.
Speaker 1:So it's about this family in Edmonton. The dad has invented a machine that basically erases the need for any fossil fuels Mean energy machine. Which is when you're in Alberta. Oh, it's broke. Nobody likes you for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you want to move to BC before you make that announcement? Yes.
Speaker 1:But the good news is it doesn't work. Oh, but he said that it does. So he has all these investors and then he continues to lie about it and then more people are investing and it's kind of starting to look like maybe he could go to jail for it. That happens, yep. So he has a ghost which is like his secrets, his lie, his machine.
Speaker 2:Oh, is there too much metaphor in this for you?
Speaker 1:No, or like I don't really know what I didn't like about it. Well, I will say one thing the mom, her name is Karen, and she talks a lot about how her name is now a verb and she's a Karen, and she says at one point that she doesn't understand how a crappy movie like Love Actually became such a classic. What? And I was like you, bitch you.
Speaker 2:What a fucking Karen. You Karen, yeah, has she seen the zipper scene? She didn't mention it, oh my God. Well, I don't even believe she's seen this movie, though.
Speaker 1:No, they do reference the movie quite a few times throughout the book.
Speaker 2:Oh for such a terrible movie. That's weird, right? Sorry, I haven't even read it and I'm angry. I know.
Speaker 1:So they just this family is. They're living in their house, they all have their ghosts there's ghosts from the present and there's ghosts from the future and there's ghosts from the past but they don't really know why. They don't really know where they came from. This is a bit weird, but also a bit mundane. Yeah, nothing special, and it was also set in COVID Ugh, so I had two books in a row that were COVID books, so I think that kind of knocked it down just almost immediately. There was more masks, more socially distanced yoga, vaccines.
Speaker 2:I might just skip new books for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Review them first.
Speaker 1:They should be like star-warning Trigger, warning COVID yeah, yeah, because Ugh yeah, so that was annoying and the end was kind of this weird hallmarky.
Speaker 2:It felt like a hallmarky type of book.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the whole story isn't until the end, and then the end is like here's this really weird conclusion and everything is going to be fine. But the rest of the book was kind of dark, but not really I don't know. It was weird. It was kind of a weird experience. I didn't think I loved it. I wanted to love it more than I did. I didn't want to read about COVID. I do like ghosts, yeah, but they kind of seem like your secret's following you around, ugh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ugh. No, I like being real haunted. Yeah, well, that's too bad. So I don't know. And it has a character named Benedict, which I'm always into.
Speaker 1:The book that I was talking about maybe DNF-ing I haven't decided yet but it's called Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead. It is so painful, but I just keep thinking that maybe it'll turn around.
Speaker 2:An hour never.
Speaker 1:Like someone. I looked at reviews, because whenever I'm really like hating a book, I go to the reviews and I'm like, okay, tell me what I need to know. Did I keep going or should I stop? Yeah, one of the review says if you liked Twilight and you like motorcycle gangs, you'll, this book is for you. I'm like, well, I do those. Things are fine, I love Twilight you love Twilight.
Speaker 2:I've never taken you for a motorcycle gang gal.
Speaker 1:You know that's fine in books Maybe. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:No, I want you.
Speaker 1:I would look the boots like.
Speaker 2:Tassels. It would be so bad. Leather tassels. Long dangly earrings. I just don't I, I just don't have the look. Oh my god.
Speaker 1:No, but we could make you know, I would look like Reba McIntyre.
Speaker 2:Yes, Big things feather out your hair.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, you're gonna do that. I tried, it just goes back down to my normal hair. No, we could do it.
Speaker 2:It's terrible. We could do it. I need a wig. I can make this happen.
Speaker 1:Um, another one was like there's too much witchcraft in this book or something. I'm like, well, that sounds good, yeah, too much, but I'm I'm, most of the way, like I'm pretty far through and so far the only witchcraft is like there's been Half moons carved on trees. That's not enough.
Speaker 1:No, so it's about any is too much for this room. Maybe it's about this woman, this young woman who she lives in a town in like Louisiana or something and it's like really religious and her father's the preacher and he kind of runs everything and Too much Jesus in this book yeah, way too much. And she kind of becomes friends with this one kid who's like well, he's like a kid when they became friends, but this one guy who's kind of an outsider and she talks about how much he was twilight all the time. I'm like I like twilight, I love twilight you know all the time eventually like okay, your grown up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he stopped talking about it now. And she kind of is like, kind of describes this guy Like maybe he's a vampire. So like is there vampires in this book? I don't know. And then there was a review that said there's a moment where he's like say it out loud what am?
Speaker 1:I I'm like, oh no, it's really funny when that happens in books, but that kind of makes me want to keep reading it. I'm very confused because they've done something bad and now, to cover up their crime, they are breaking into motorcycle gangs, house and planting evidence To frame them for the crime that they did.
Speaker 2:But they're just really naive, early 20s people so they're just choosing a different way to die? Yeah, it's really weird slowly in jail or brutally at the hands of a murderer yes, career murderer.
Speaker 1:Yes it makes no sense. It's like twilight meets, where the crowd at sing oh no meets.
Speaker 2:Riverdale. Can I read where the crowd at sing this year Can't have been? It would have been on my list. I think it was last year. Oh, I still hate it.
Speaker 1:Plus, oh, plus true blood. Maybe this sounds awful, it's.
Speaker 2:It's quite bad, but it sounds like you might like it actually.
Speaker 1:I'm just really curious, just like what happens to people are like the ending. I'm like when does this go? Is he a vampire? Is there vampires in this book? Is there witches in this book, can you? I saw something about like bathing in the blood of animals somewhere. I was like when's that gonna start? So I'm curious enough to like maybe continue on point seven five, if it picks up, you can slow it down.
Speaker 2:I want to read with intention this year, it was still last year still last year. Sounds bad. Sounds bad. Sounds like I would absolutely hate it. It's so bad.
Speaker 1:We'll see. I'll let you guys know in two weeks what are you doing in two weeks? Yeah, that's, that's what I read. It's really hard to read during Christmas time. It's impossible.
Speaker 2:It's so hard. I mean, it's not that impossible. I definitely could have done it I don't know.
Speaker 1:I tried and it was not happening. Me and Sam booked a trip to Mexico Woo Third march with no kids, so that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2:That's gonna be so good, yeah, so, like a verge of that, I'm sure I've got something to look forward to this year. I just have decided what it is yet, but there's something good, something good happening this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're so close. If you, it's right there, right there.
Speaker 2:I could almost recall.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, jen, where could they find us? You can find us at in her good books podcast on facebook, instagram and tiktok.
Speaker 2:Otherwise, that doesn't feel like a natural transition, but I guess that's all we have for you this week. Oh, turns out caroline did leave us a five star review already.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I want her to write words, yeah so sorry caroline, we yelled, but I can see that no one no, I'm not gonna say no one has written words. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 2:Come on, write some words, guys. Professor, your love, otherwise we'll see you in two weeks. We'll see you in two weeks, bye.