March 16, 2023 • 11 mins
Kalie shares the books shes been obsessing over, as well as some tips for how to get back into reading.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, I'm Kayleie Short, and this is too much
to say questions out you? Okay, So this week I
want to talk about some books that I've been reading recently.
(00:22):
And I read a lot, and I have a lot
of friends who like tell me that they want to
read more and they wish they could and blah blah
bla blah blah. And specifically, my boyfriend Sam always has
a really hard time finishing books and he desperately wants
to read, like he's super smart and like loves he
(00:43):
loves reading, but he just can't make himself do it.
And I think I hypothesized that it's because he picks
like really hetty intellectual books like philosophy or like just
like kind of dense things, which is really fine because
I read those as well. But if you want to
get back into reading, you kind of got to read
(01:05):
something that's going to keep you hooked, like it's a
TV show. And so I told him to read Daisy
Jones in the Six, which I'm not even gonna bother
talking about because I think, like so many people have
read it, but just know if you haven't, you should.
And then yeah, there's TV show, the TV shows great,
but I was like, you need to read Daisy Jones
in the six I promise you'll be able to get
(01:25):
through it. And it was the first time he'd like
finished a book in forever, and I was so proud
of him, and he was like, damn, you were right.
So I'm sharing that advice with you guys, just because
I know how many people want to read more. I
personally love it because I have ADHD, so when I'm
watching TV, I have to be doing something else and
then I don't like looking at a screen, but I
(01:46):
wind up on my phone and I don't like e
readers like I like just like the good old fashioned book.
I think they smell amazing and they just feel good
and you can bring them anywhere. Yeah, I just I
love reading so much. I actually the weirdest flexible ever here.
But in third grade I read more books than any
(02:09):
kid at my local library. So I got to go
meet Barbara Bush, like George Bush and George W. Bush's
wife and mother, and she was doing some sort of
like incentive in Maine because they have a summer home there.
But it was very random, but what a sweet lady.
And I was very proud of my accomplishment. Okay, So
(02:31):
first book I'm going to talk about is by Holly Jackson.
It's called A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. You've probably
seen the cover. I mean it's it's everywhere, It's at
every airport ever, and it's an amazing book. It starts
off with a teenage girl who decides to do her
senior final for high school on a local murder case
(02:54):
that happened, and it was basically like a murder suicide,
but she always felt something was up and that somebody
went down and who didn't do it, And she was like,
I'm just going to re examine the case to cast
out on the original investigation. But then she ends up
finding all these crazy holes and realizing that there's like
(03:16):
it goes so much deeper than she could have imagined.
So that one's really great. And then there's a sequel.
I believe there's a third one that I haven't read yet,
but that's next on my list. But the second one
is called Good Girl, Bad Blood. So she ends up
making a true crime podcast about her the case from
the last book, and it goes super viral and she
(03:37):
like it blows up and everyone's listening to it. It's
like crime junkie or yeah. And then somebody that she
knows goes missing and she's really like afraid of it,
and like people are like, oh, no, he's fine, and
she's like, no, he's absolutely not, and her and his
(03:58):
family like team up to try to find him, and
she ends up realizing that she could do a lot
of good if she would if she would like do
another season of her podcast about this, so she does
it in real time and it's really fascinating, like somebody
totally has it out for and she like almost like dies.
(04:19):
And I don't want to give too much away, but
those are really really good. I read them, like, I
mean so fast. So then the next one I'm going
to talk about is a movie, and we'll talk about
that more after the break, but it's called Where the
Crawdad Sing. So Where the Crawdads Sing is an amazing
(04:49):
story about this girl who grows up in the Marshes
of North Carolina in like a very very impoverished neighborhood.
It's in the late sixties and so like it's very
just tons of problematic people, and her mom runs away
from her dad because he's abusive, and then her dad
just like disappears one day and never comes back, and
slowly all of her siblings had left until it was
(05:12):
just her and her dad because he was so abusive.
And then she's just a little girl raising herself in
the marsh, went into town every once in a while,
made money by selling oysters at this little like bait shop.
And it's a really fascinating thing, and it sounds like
kind of out there, but I feel like the way
that the author, Delia Owens writes it, there's a like
(05:36):
something to back up every claim she makes. So when
like you're like, how would a little girl survive out there,
she answers the question and it's just really fascinating. But
then basically this like hometown hero winds up dead and
everybody suspects her and she goes to jail and gets
tried for murder and people in the town are so
mean to her and whatever. But it has like this
(05:58):
crazy plot twist that you would never see coming, and
I love a good plot twist, so that one is amazing.
I also really really love the movie. The movie was
so beautiful and all the characters were just so likable,
and there's a lot of heartbreaking parts in it, but
at the end of the day, like it has a
good ending, and that's I love a good ending. You know,
(06:21):
there's so much depressing shit in the world, like I
just want to read something positive. Okay, so this one. Basically,
any Lisa Jewel book you read is going to be incredible.
I've read so many of her books, like I'm talking
like probably like fifteen, and I'm obsessed with them. She's
a British mystery thriller author, but her books are really
(06:45):
focused on like psychological dynamics within families and society and
ostracization how that leads to like crime. And it's not
just like I don't like mystery books and murder books
that are just about like violence against women. Like sometimes
it's just like I don't know, I just I don't
want to just read about brutality, but I do love
(07:07):
a good murder. Miss dream and hers are amazing. But
this book specifically is about this family and there's like
their mom's name is Laura Lime, and she's like just
total manic pixie dream girl and everybody loves her and
she's very sociable, but she's also very childlike and she
starts to just hoard things and then all of a sudden,
(07:31):
like her and her there's something happens when the kids
are young and somebody in the family dies and it's
just really tragic, and so she goes from being like
a hoarder of things to like a full blown hoarder.
And then she passes away. So her kids have to
(07:51):
come back home and like sort through the house and
they find out all these crazy things that they didn't
know about, like why that person died and what was
going on with their mom. And it's like the mom
is so frustrating but also so lovable, And to be
completely honest, I like sobbed my way through this book
because she reminds me of my mom a lot. And
(08:14):
I mean I just was like having a whole moment
about being like the child of a hoarder and all
of that stuff. And yeah, just absolutely beautiful book. Okay, last,
(08:35):
but not least, this is one that I didn't read recently,
but it is the first book that got me back
into reading like a book in a day, Like I
finished this one in twenty four hours, and I wish
that it was longer because I loved it so much.
It's not super long at all. It's two hundred and
fifty five pages, including the acknowledgments. But basically it's got
(08:58):
a little bit of supernatural stuff to it, which like
I typically like my books to be grounded in reality,
but this one uses it as a really interesting device
where it just like they don't explain it at all,
like how it could possibly happen with the laws of
physics and nature, but it just basically this girl is
like really really organized and has her whole life planned out.
(09:21):
Her best friend is like man who picks your dream
girl energy, and the narrator's name is Danny. Her best
friend's name is Bella. She goes to this incredible job interview,
gets the job, and accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal all
at once, and then falls asleep totally content. When she awakens,
(09:41):
she's in a different apartment with a different guy, different
ring on her finger, and has a totally different job,
And she spends one hour there five years in the
future before she wakes up in her own home on
the rate at midnight, and it's one hour that she
can not shake, and so she just has to live
(10:02):
like those five years, like knowing that's going to happen,
and so she's like with this guy that she just
said yes to marry marrying and she's like, wait, I
don't end up with you? Like how weird would that
be if you're with someone you were so confident about
it and then you like flash forward and you were like, oh,
I don't actually end up with him? What the fuck?
Like crazy, And it's like there's a total plot twist
(10:26):
about who the guy that she sees in the future
is and it's just amazing. And I'm reading her other book,
The Dinner List now, and I just I really like.
Her name is Rebecca Searle, and I really hope that
this becomes like a movie or something because it's so
beautiful and well written and I just loved it. But
that was the front of the novel says, as clever
(10:49):
as it is moving, the rare read in one sitting
novel you won't forget. And I was like, hmm, I'd
really like to read something in one sitting. And boy,
oh boy did I I read it on a flight,
like one single flight, and it was so good. So
those are some ones that I recommend to people who
are wanting to get back into reading. And then also,
I mean Daisy Jones and The Six and the Seven
(11:11):
Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins read. Cannot recommend
those enough, um, but you should check these out. Let
me know what you think, and good luck on your
reading adventures. My name is Kaylie Shore and this is
too much to say asking questions. Now turn it out
(11:37):
you
Hey, y'all, I'm Kayleie Short, and this is too much
to say questions out you? Okay, So this week I
want to talk about some books that I've been reading recently.
(00:22):
And I read a lot, and I have a lot
of friends who like tell me that they want to
read more and they wish they could and blah blah
bla blah blah. And specifically, my boyfriend Sam always has
a really hard time finishing books and he desperately wants
to read, like he's super smart and like loves he
(00:43):
loves reading, but he just can't make himself do it.
And I think I hypothesized that it's because he picks
like really hetty intellectual books like philosophy or like just
like kind of dense things, which is really fine because
I read those as well. But if you want to
get back into reading, you kind of got to read
(01:05):
something that's going to keep you hooked, like it's a
TV show. And so I told him to read Daisy
Jones in the Six, which I'm not even gonna bother
talking about because I think, like so many people have
read it, but just know if you haven't, you should.
And then yeah, there's TV show, the TV shows great,
but I was like, you need to read Daisy Jones
in the six I promise you'll be able to get
(01:25):
through it. And it was the first time he'd like
finished a book in forever, and I was so proud
of him, and he was like, damn, you were right.
So I'm sharing that advice with you guys, just because
I know how many people want to read more. I
personally love it because I have ADHD, so when I'm
watching TV, I have to be doing something else and
then I don't like looking at a screen, but I
(01:46):
wind up on my phone and I don't like e
readers like I like just like the good old fashioned book.
I think they smell amazing and they just feel good
and you can bring them anywhere. Yeah, I just I
love reading so much. I actually the weirdest flexible ever here.
But in third grade I read more books than any
(02:09):
kid at my local library. So I got to go
meet Barbara Bush, like George Bush and George W. Bush's
wife and mother, and she was doing some sort of
like incentive in Maine because they have a summer home there.
But it was very random, but what a sweet lady.
And I was very proud of my accomplishment. Okay, So
(02:31):
first book I'm going to talk about is by Holly Jackson.
It's called A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. You've probably
seen the cover. I mean it's it's everywhere, It's at
every airport ever, and it's an amazing book. It starts
off with a teenage girl who decides to do her
senior final for high school on a local murder case
(02:54):
that happened, and it was basically like a murder suicide,
but she always felt something was up and that somebody
went down and who didn't do it, And she was like,
I'm just going to re examine the case to cast
out on the original investigation. But then she ends up
finding all these crazy holes and realizing that there's like
(03:16):
it goes so much deeper than she could have imagined.
So that one's really great. And then there's a sequel.
I believe there's a third one that I haven't read yet,
but that's next on my list. But the second one
is called Good Girl, Bad Blood. So she ends up
making a true crime podcast about her the case from
the last book, and it goes super viral and she
(03:37):
like it blows up and everyone's listening to it. It's
like crime junkie or yeah. And then somebody that she
knows goes missing and she's really like afraid of it,
and like people are like, oh, no, he's fine, and
she's like, no, he's absolutely not, and her and his
(03:58):
family like team up to try to find him, and
she ends up realizing that she could do a lot
of good if she would if she would like do
another season of her podcast about this, so she does
it in real time and it's really fascinating, like somebody
totally has it out for and she like almost like dies.
(04:19):
And I don't want to give too much away, but
those are really really good. I read them, like, I
mean so fast. So then the next one I'm going
to talk about is a movie, and we'll talk about
that more after the break, but it's called Where the
Crawdad Sing. So Where the Crawdads Sing is an amazing
(04:49):
story about this girl who grows up in the Marshes
of North Carolina in like a very very impoverished neighborhood.
It's in the late sixties and so like it's very
just tons of problematic people, and her mom runs away
from her dad because he's abusive, and then her dad
just like disappears one day and never comes back, and
slowly all of her siblings had left until it was
(05:12):
just her and her dad because he was so abusive.
And then she's just a little girl raising herself in
the marsh, went into town every once in a while,
made money by selling oysters at this little like bait shop.
And it's a really fascinating thing, and it sounds like
kind of out there, but I feel like the way
that the author, Delia Owens writes it, there's a like
(05:36):
something to back up every claim she makes. So when
like you're like, how would a little girl survive out there,
she answers the question and it's just really fascinating. But
then basically this like hometown hero winds up dead and
everybody suspects her and she goes to jail and gets
tried for murder and people in the town are so
mean to her and whatever. But it has like this
(05:58):
crazy plot twist that you would never see coming, and
I love a good plot twist, so that one is amazing.
I also really really love the movie. The movie was
so beautiful and all the characters were just so likable,
and there's a lot of heartbreaking parts in it, but
at the end of the day, like it has a
good ending, and that's I love a good ending. You know,
(06:21):
there's so much depressing shit in the world, like I
just want to read something positive. Okay, so this one. Basically,
any Lisa Jewel book you read is going to be incredible.
I've read so many of her books, like I'm talking
like probably like fifteen, and I'm obsessed with them. She's
a British mystery thriller author, but her books are really
(06:45):
focused on like psychological dynamics within families and society and
ostracization how that leads to like crime. And it's not
just like I don't like mystery books and murder books
that are just about like violence against women. Like sometimes
it's just like I don't know, I just I don't
want to just read about brutality, but I do love
(07:07):
a good murder. Miss dream and hers are amazing. But
this book specifically is about this family and there's like
their mom's name is Laura Lime, and she's like just
total manic pixie dream girl and everybody loves her and
she's very sociable, but she's also very childlike and she
starts to just hoard things and then all of a sudden,
(07:31):
like her and her there's something happens when the kids
are young and somebody in the family dies and it's
just really tragic, and so she goes from being like
a hoarder of things to like a full blown hoarder.
And then she passes away. So her kids have to
(07:51):
come back home and like sort through the house and
they find out all these crazy things that they didn't
know about, like why that person died and what was
going on with their mom. And it's like the mom
is so frustrating but also so lovable, And to be
completely honest, I like sobbed my way through this book
because she reminds me of my mom a lot. And
(08:14):
I mean I just was like having a whole moment
about being like the child of a hoarder and all
of that stuff. And yeah, just absolutely beautiful book. Okay, last,
(08:35):
but not least, this is one that I didn't read recently,
but it is the first book that got me back
into reading like a book in a day, Like I
finished this one in twenty four hours, and I wish
that it was longer because I loved it so much.
It's not super long at all. It's two hundred and
fifty five pages, including the acknowledgments. But basically it's got
(08:58):
a little bit of supernatural stuff to it, which like
I typically like my books to be grounded in reality,
but this one uses it as a really interesting device
where it just like they don't explain it at all,
like how it could possibly happen with the laws of
physics and nature, but it just basically this girl is
like really really organized and has her whole life planned out.
(09:21):
Her best friend is like man who picks your dream
girl energy, and the narrator's name is Danny. Her best
friend's name is Bella. She goes to this incredible job interview,
gets the job, and accepts her boyfriend's marriage proposal all
at once, and then falls asleep totally content. When she awakens,
(09:41):
she's in a different apartment with a different guy, different
ring on her finger, and has a totally different job,
And she spends one hour there five years in the
future before she wakes up in her own home on
the rate at midnight, and it's one hour that she
can not shake, and so she just has to live
(10:02):
like those five years, like knowing that's going to happen,
and so she's like with this guy that she just
said yes to marry marrying and she's like, wait, I
don't end up with you? Like how weird would that
be if you're with someone you were so confident about
it and then you like flash forward and you were like, oh,
I don't actually end up with him? What the fuck?
Like crazy, And it's like there's a total plot twist
(10:26):
about who the guy that she sees in the future
is and it's just amazing. And I'm reading her other book,
The Dinner List now, and I just I really like.
Her name is Rebecca Searle, and I really hope that
this becomes like a movie or something because it's so
beautiful and well written and I just loved it. But
that was the front of the novel says, as clever
(10:49):
as it is moving, the rare read in one sitting
novel you won't forget. And I was like, hmm, I'd
really like to read something in one sitting. And boy,
oh boy did I I read it on a flight,
like one single flight, and it was so good. So
those are some ones that I recommend to people who
are wanting to get back into reading. And then also,
I mean Daisy Jones and The Six and the Seven
(11:11):
Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins read. Cannot recommend
those enough, um, but you should check these out. Let
me know what you think, and good luck on your
reading adventures. My name is Kaylie Shore and this is
too much to say asking questions. Now turn it out
(11:37):
you
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