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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Let it Be
Easy with Susie Moore.
Lately, my friends, I've beenin a real fiction book frenzy.
I'm reading so much fictionlately maybe a book every three
or four days.
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And you know what, when I'masked what books I'm reading, I
always forget.
So let me try and remember acouple for you here right now.
I just got the book theHousemaid, which is about to be
a movie with Sydney Sweeney.
And what's her name?
Amanda somebody?
I want to check it out.
One thing that I like about theHousemaid and there's a series
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of these books now there's likethe Housemaid, the Houseguest,
the Roommate.
The author is actually a doctor.
She's a full-time practicingphysician and this is her side
hustle.
She writes under a pen name,frida McFadden.
So that's so cool.
The only limits we have are thelimits we believe.
I also just read Orbital, theBooker Prize winner last year,
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which was incredible.
I also just read Orbital, theBooker Prize winner last year,
which was incredible, loved it.
Sentences so beautiful.
You'll want to read the booktwice.
Right now I'm reading also Signs, the book by that psychic
medium.
I forget what her name is.
I told you I'm not good withthis.
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I know that's not fiction.
I also read Remarkably BrightCreatures, an incredible fiction
book.
I just finished Liz Gilbert'sbook All the Way to the River,
which is a memoir.
Oh my gosh, I'm on a tear ofbooks lately and I am loving
them.
Why am I talking to you aboutthis?
Do you see the tangents thatcome up when one talks about
books?
It is so exciting.
Okay, what is my point?
Ah, yes, here is my point.
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I have to open the notes app onmy phone to remind myself Okay,
every life is like a novel,every life is like a book.
When you think about it, itdoesn't matter how long the life
is, it doesn't matter where thelife is based, if it's male or
female.
But think about it.
Each life is a story and itdoesn't go like this.
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Girl wakes up, girl has agorgeous childhood, girl goes to
college, falls in love, girlhas an incredible marriage and
incredible children.
Girl keeps going up and up andup in life in all the ways that
are meaningful to her.
Her family and friends areperfect.
She's perfect.
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And then, after many, manyhappy years on planet earth, she
dies, surrounded by love.
Whose life is that book?
How boring is that book?
Everything goes well, no plottwist, no twist, no turns, no
rock bottom, no heartache, nodevastation, no rug being pulled
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.
That is a boring book.
It is a boring story.
It would be a boring life.
Now I know, as we read fictionor watch movies or follow any
stories, we think, ah yeah, youknow like we enjoy these ups and
downs.
It's the rollercoaster.
It's why it's interesting.
The saying is true of life yourlife has ups and downs.
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Your life will have plot twists.
It's not always going to be upand up and up and happy moments.
And doesn't the character,doesn't the writer, doesn't the
author, doesn't the directorneed to take us on this path of
ups and downs, of highs and lows, of oh my gosh, nail-biting
moments?
Why would we reject this thenin our lives?
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Show me a straight river, showme a straight river.
In nature, of course, it twistsand turns, it finds its own way
to where it's going, but what alot of us do is we fight
against that.
We think the river should bestraight.
We think that the story and thebook should just follow this
flawless straight line.
And notice how many of us justwant to flick to the last page.
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We want to get to the last pageof the novel and see yeah,
everything's going to be okay,this is what I wanted, I'm going
to arrive at this place right.
This is how we miss the fun.
This is how we miss thosechapters, those experiences,
those pages that test us butmake us wise and make us strong
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and make us arrive at adifferent mountaintop towards
the end of the novel than wewere at the beginning.
The growth, the expansion, thelessons.
As we're in the story, can weappreciate whatever page we are
on, appreciate whatever page weare on.
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