December 2, 2025 • 34 mins
We trace Lex’s path from closed-door romance to dark romance and into horror, breaking down why anti-heroes, revenge arcs, and detailed prose changed how we read and review. We trade messy trope confessions, memory hacks for multi-reading, and how BookTok helped us show up on camera with our full voices.
• shifting from soft romance to dark romance, thrillers and horror
• why revenge horror and splatterpunk land on the page
• when spice enhances plot and when it distracts
• favorite tropes including enemies to lovers and secret baby
• reading anywhere with zero shame and some strategy
• DNF rules, mood reading and avoiding “homework” books
• note-taking, highlights and memory systems for multi-reading
• prepping author interviews with catalog deep dives
• BookTok as community, confidence and creative practice
• choosing formats, series styles and favorite narrators
You guys can find her on TikTok and Instagram and on Facebook as Lex Between the Lines. That’s BTW.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Hi everybody and welcome to BDST with Toya.
I am your book bestie and hostToya.
I am here today with my favoritebook bestie.
We're gonna put the spotlight onLex today, honey.
I'm going to take a moment.
I'm going to let her do herspiel.
(00:23):
Tell us a little bit aboutyourself, Miss Ma'am.
Whenever you're ready.
SPEAKER_01 (00:30):
Oh wow.
Like my cheeks hurt fromcheesing so bad.
So I am licks between the lines.
I am a reader, a reviewer, and Iam a podcaster.
(00:51):
Um for the most part, when Iread and review, I try to say
between the lines, butoccasionally, more than
occasionally, I do cross them.
I'm a dark romance girly.
Well, if you would have told memaybe about the beginning of the
year, what was my favoritegenre?
I would say dark romancebillionaire, but lately fantasy
(01:15):
and thriller have been takingover my catalog.
And so it's kind of like thescales of the different genres,
it's not like battle of thegenres.
So I said, Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (01:28):
So let me ask you.
So what was it?
What book or genre, what was itthat got you into reading in the
first place?
SPEAKER_01 (01:40):
Romance.
I think it was just really, andit was when I started reading,
it was like Marie Force, likesoft romance.
Okay.
And it wasn't even like realsmut.
I know, can't you believe that?
SPEAKER_00 (01:54):
So it was like the closed door stuff.
SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Yes.
And then when they did have likescenes and stuff, I feel like I
was like invading.
I was just like, and it wasn'teven comp like compared to the
stuff I read now.
I would be like looking over myshoulder trying to see if
somebody was like watching meread it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:13):
Okay.
So were you were you young?
Is that why you was looking overyour shoulder?
No, I wasn't even.
Because girl, I don't care whostands right now.
SPEAKER_01 (02:28):
Like now I don't, but when I first started, like
it may, it may be like threeyears now.
Um, since I've been reading likesmut and jumped into the dark
romance.
But before that, it was like Iwas ashamed to like girl, you
would have thought my daddy wasa priest like a pest or
something.
SPEAKER_00 (02:51):
Oh my god.
Girl, really?
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (02:56):
Oh, yes.
SPEAKER_02 (02:58):
Not for me, honey.
SPEAKER_00 (03:00):
Not for me.
Okay, let me ask you, let me askyou a question.
SPEAKER_02 (03:04):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
What is it about horror that you love so much
that has pulled you in and kindof taken over?
SPEAKER_01 (03:18):
So in a dark romance, I love like a um an
anti-hero and the things horroris introduced.
Like, don't judge me.
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
I promise I won't, because I can't say nothing.
SPEAKER_01 (03:34):
Some of the horror, and what's crazy is I can read
it, but I'm not really like ahorror fan, like TV show.
But like, especially when it's ahorror, when it's like a revenge
horror, and they go intodetails, and it's like a
splatter punk or splatter, whatdo they call it?
SPEAKER_00 (03:52):
Splatter punk.
SPEAKER_01 (03:53):
Yeah.
When they give more of thedetails of the unaligned.
I know that's gonna sound so badof like the unaliving.
SPEAKER_00 (04:07):
Okay, so you you like to hear, you like to read
more in depth, like, to be ableto take your time with the
scene.
SPEAKER_01 (04:18):
Mm-hmm.
And like they don't hold back,like there's no closed door
violence.
It goes straight.
unknown (04:27):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (04:28):
That's why I said don't judge me.
So, so do you okay?
So let me ask you this question.
So, do you prefer your horrorbooks to have smut in them, or
are you okay with no smut inyour horror books?
SPEAKER_01 (04:39):
I'm okay with no smut because I have read some
horror and it was like it didn'treally flow with with it.
It was like random pop-ups andstuff, but I like for it if it's
gonna be in there to kind offlow with it.
But for the most part, I can dowithout smut and horror.
unknown (04:59):
Oh, yeah, no, baby.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (05:02):
Especially when the plot is plotting.
Toya, I'm telling you, don'tmiss it.
When the plot is plotting, likeand the story is flowing, you
don't even miss it.
SPEAKER_00 (05:12):
You know, um I actually announced on my podcast
how I think I may have liedbecause there are some slow
burns that I can handle.
It's still the but there's stillsmut in the slow burns, but I
don't know if I can I may haveto try.
(05:33):
Well, I mean, there's the onethat we read together, and that
one didn't have no smut in it.
SPEAKER_01 (05:38):
Which one?
SPEAKER_00 (05:39):
The one with the LM Juniper, that book.
SPEAKER_01 (05:44):
That one definitely didn't.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
You know, and I enjoyed it.
The the plot was plotting realwell.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
I feel like we read another together and it wasn't
really.
SPEAKER_00 (05:54):
Um, the only other one that I read that didn't
really was The Seven Husbands ofEvelyn Hugo.
You would think with the titlethat there would be a whole lot
of smut in there, but there wasnot a whole lot of smut in that
book.
SPEAKER_01 (06:11):
That's been on my show forever, and I have not
tapped into it yet.
I know.
SPEAKER_00 (06:17):
Oh my god.
Oh my god, I know.
Oh girl.
Okay, so let me ask you thisbecause you are what do you like
to call yourself?
Pantropeal.
Is that right?
Okay, okay.
So if you can only read onetrope for the rest of your life,
(06:38):
just one, which trope would itbe?
Damn it.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
Maybe uh enemies to lovers are a bully, like,
because sometimes enemies loversand bully be like, I'd like
what's different?
Well, it is a difference becausea bully be more like young
adult, and but yeah.
Maybe an enemies just dang it,Toya.
SPEAKER_00 (07:16):
That's your one.
That's your one.
Are you sure you don't want tochange your answer?
Do I need to start playing theJeopardy music?
SPEAKER_01 (07:23):
Oh my god, it's so hard because I like a secret
baby too.
I know like a lot of peopledon't like a secret baby, but I
love a surprise pregnancy secretbaby.
SPEAKER_00 (07:33):
Baby, I love a surprise pregnancy and when they
cheating.
SPEAKER_01 (07:37):
And don't have it be a billionaire mixed in.
SPEAKER_00 (07:41):
When it is messy, messy, messy, I love good, well,
you know.
Because I hate you read messy.
SPEAKER_01 (07:52):
And that's a powerful messy plus billionaire
plus uh a good and oh, and thena jealous ex-girlfriend.
Or one who think that theyshould, it should have been
their spot.
I'm finna eat it up every time.
SPEAKER_00 (08:13):
Okay, so you said that when you started reading
The Smud, that you would kind oflook over your shoulder and just
kind of see, like, okay, wherehave you been?
What is the wildest place thatyou have read a smuddy book and
had to keep a straight facewhile you read said book?
SPEAKER_01 (08:36):
That was just recently.
Oh girl! My daughter was in likethis coronation, and I'm gonna
read anywhere I go.
So I knew it was she was um likea princess to the queen, and the
queen comes comes out last,right?
(08:57):
Okay, so they have all of theseother dances and the stuff in
between before they even bringthe queen out.
So I was in the stands readingmy book, Blackthorne by JT.
Oh child, I'm up there reading,and it started.
I said, um, and then now, mindyou, there are actual people
(09:21):
behind me.
SPEAKER_00 (09:25):
You were Kindle reading.
SPEAKER_01 (09:27):
Yes, I was reading on my phone, and what's crazy is
I feel like the lady behind mewas kind of reading my stuff,
and as I was reading, and I waslike, it was a little girl on
the side of me, and her ass keptcoughing.
And she was coughing in my face.
I'm I was kind of like had myjacket, I put my jacket kind of
like over my mouth or something.
So I would look at the girl andthen I would look back at the
(09:49):
mama like, you ain't gonna saynothing.
So sometimes when I be lookingback, it was like she'll be
looking over my shoulder, likeat my phone.
Girl, I was like, but I stillwas reading it though, baby.
But I was just like, and thenand then my daughter and Monica
was sitting on the side, so Ireally had my phone like like I
(10:11):
was in school.
SPEAKER_00 (10:15):
Oh my god.
And so you was just trying tojust kind of you still, so that
means that you still be likekind of watching, making sure
ain't nobody because sometimesmy daughter be like, what you
read?
SPEAKER_01 (10:30):
And I'd be like, mind your business.
We got buddy reads together.
This ain't one of them.
SPEAKER_00 (10:37):
That's cute.
You and your daughter have buddyreads together.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
Oh man.
Yeah, my daughter ain't readingnothing that's not lyrics to
Chris Brown.
She don't my daughter ain'treading nothing.
She ain't reading nothing.
What?
No.
My daughter's not readinganything.
(10:58):
She did not pick up the thereading gene.
Oh.
Yeah.
Because I started when I was 13,honey, and my intro was Air
Drone Dickey.
SPEAKER_01 (11:15):
Not your intro.
SPEAKER_00 (11:17):
Yes, ma'am.
I started reading.
I started with smut books at 13.
Air Drone Dicky, Milk in mycoffee.
SPEAKER_01 (11:33):
And I started with like thriller and crime.
I don't know if I told you, butmy uncle's trifling um ex-wife
now.
She gave me like this box ofbooks, but it was grown-up
books.
Like you bitch.
Like now that I know that shenow did I know that she's a
trifling individual.
(11:55):
I can understand why it didn'tclick in her mind.
Like, I shouldn't give this to achild.
Right.
Because it had like kiss thegirls.
It was another book in therecalled God's Other Son, I must.
Okay.
I couldn't even, I I read a fewpages of that book, and I gave
it to my cousin who shouldn'thave been reading it either.
(12:16):
I couldn't, I couldn't even dealwith that one.
And then the kiss the girls, andI was like, this ain't like the
movie.
They went into detail.
But because it was like amystery, like who did it, like
who the killer was, and stufflike that.
I I went on ahead and read it.
But like the forms of tortureand stuff, I was like, what the
(12:36):
hell?
I should not be reading this.
SPEAKER_00 (12:39):
But but wait, but how old were you at that time?
SPEAKER_01 (12:43):
I was in like sixth grade, sixth, seventh grade.
Should not have been reading it.
I should not.
SPEAKER_00 (12:49):
Let me tell you.
Don't judge me.
So I am not uh one of thoseparents who uh filters or
sugarcoats things for mydaughter.
I have found that it's easierfor me to just be up front with
(13:15):
her.
So when my child got into ninthgrade, I sure did let her read
that Messy S book that I gave.
SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
No, you didn't.
SPEAKER_00 (13:31):
I did.
I did.
She was like, oh my god.
I was like go ahead and readthis book back.
Go ahead and read this.
Because at the end of the day,in reality, this is how it is.
So we was watching Bad GirlsClub and everything.
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
I was just gonna say it's on TV anyway.
SPEAKER_00 (13:55):
We watched all that stuff, and it was just like to
me, it worked out in my favorbecause there were things that
her friends were going throughthat she didn't have to deal
with or go through because yougot to read and see the mess.
Maybe that's why she don't liketo read it.
I don't baby.
SPEAKER_01 (14:21):
I I am the problem.
You didn't shock her.
You you shocked her sister.
Speaking of cards, did you hearthat new album?
Oh that's so off topic.
SPEAKER_00 (14:31):
Girl, it's okay.
And no, I have not.
Um you know, only the one whereshe was talking about how she
was outside.
And uh as a married woman, Idon't get to go outside, so I'm
just gonna live through herthrough that song.
SPEAKER_01 (14:45):
Do you hear me?
Do you hear me?
I don't even have all theproblems, but I sure was the
girl popping.
SPEAKER_00 (14:53):
Yes, that'd be hoping like as if I do have
problems and I don't.
I don't know nothing about that.
I am in love, Marligay.
Okay, so let me ask you thisquestion.
When it comes to your books, doyou DNF books or do you power
(15:18):
through?
Like how far into a book do youget before you DNF it, or you
don't DNF it at all?
You just kind of push through.
SPEAKER_01 (15:27):
Sometimes I can probably count on my hand, on
one hand, how many books I DNF.
And as long as a book isentertaining to me, I'll go
ahead and finish it.
Because I'm so nosy, I gotta seewhat the hell is going on at the
end.
Like, I probably in my wholelike thing of reading, because
(15:50):
sometimes I'll just pause itbecause I'm a mood reader too,
and sometimes I just don't be inthe mood, but I'll pause it and
then I'll go back to it.
But the books that I did, DNF,one of them was like a chapter
in, and I was just like, it feltlike homework, like like I had
to piece it together, and thenit was just like all of these
(16:13):
complex words that I had to goand look up because I didn't
know what the hell was going onin the book, because it was like
a and I was just like, I can'tdo this, I don't know what the
hell is going on because I don'tknow these words, right?
And it was like uh the main malecharacter was some kind of
engineer, and something happenedwith his girlfriend, but he was
(16:34):
working for this tech companyand like stuff was going on, and
I was just like, okay, but itwas just telling like the
technical side, like just hisjob stuff, and I was just like,
okay, we're the plot, or likewhat, like, I don't give a fuck
what's going on to his job andall these words, like, is
somebody picking on him upthere?
Is he gonna like you know?
(16:54):
And it just was like themexplaining what he did at work
and stuff, and I was like, howis this gonna pertain to
anything?
Like, it was just that the wholeand I was just like, Yeah, I
can't, I can't even, I didn't itit didn't interest me enough to
see where it went.
SPEAKER_00 (17:08):
See, you have an ability to do something, and it
leads me into my next questionfor you.
You have this amazing abilityabout you um that I'm gonna be
honest, I try to mimic, right?
So you're gonna have to breakthis down for me.
How the hell do you keep up withwho, what, where, when, why when
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it comes to these books?
Because let me tell you, I willread a book and I got about 72
hours before my brain does adump on everything that that
book was about.
I am the person that they talkabout on book talk when you're
like, this book is really good,and the FMC and the MMC is
really good, and oh no, but Idon't know what the fuck
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happened in the book once Iclosed it.
Baby, you do your videos andstuff, and you have the whole
rundown, and you are amulti-reader, so what do you do
that allows you to be able tolike how do you do that?
SPEAKER_01 (18:15):
I don't know, my brain just kind of I don't know,
but I've been like that allthrough school and stuff, like
to be able to multi, I don'tknow.
I just say my brain is amultitasker, which in real life
I'm a horrible multitasker, butwhen it comes to my mind, like
processing stories and stuff,it's just I don't know.
(18:37):
It's especially when it's a goodone.
Oh, I'm gonna remember even thesmallest details, but then I
can't tell you what happenedyesterday, though, in my real
life.
SPEAKER_00 (18:52):
Listen, I am to the point now where I am taking
notes.
I will be at work, and I will itI don't care what a defendant is
doing, hold on, because I haveto get this scene down.
I have to write, I need to writedown these names and who they
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are and who is connected to whoand all of that.
And then when I get home, I needto plug it into something and
type it up because when it getsto the point where I start doing
other stuff, I need to know whatI'm talking about.
SPEAKER_01 (19:28):
Now I do highlight, I do highlight in the um books
and stuff like this book thatyou got me reading, because I
had to go back and highlight,because I said, um, I know I
ain't just read what the fuck Ithought I read.
That him and Nora, this lady wasin the hospital dying, and you
and Nora was messing around, andthen when this lady died, you
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marry her.
So I highlighted that so thatwhen we talk about it, I can go
back to my highlight and belike, girl.
So I highlight I do highlightcertain things that catch my
attention in the book and stuff,so that helps too.
SPEAKER_00 (20:06):
So let me ask you when you are preparing to
interview your authors andthings like that, because you do
do your interviews with authorsand things like that.
Is there research and thingslike that that go into it?
Or are like what what do you doto prepare yourself for that?
SPEAKER_01 (20:28):
Mostly that's why I try to stick to interviewing um
the authors that I have read orI'm familiar with their work.
And so that way the questionskind of form from me reading the
instead of just interviewingsomebody that I don't know their
work, I don't know their, youknow, because sometimes I be
nosy, especially when I read agood catalog of people, you
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know, a good bit of theircatalog.
And I feel like I know them, andI'm not gonna lie, I be going
and stalking them and go back.
I'll probably be liking stufffrom two, three years ago from
you know how you be hittingthem.
So that's how I kind of prepare.
I um read their books and then Igo search their profiles.
I'm still waiting to interviewlike Kiri Casey.
(21:11):
When I tell you I ran thislady's profile at first, because
I was like, why can't you findno information on her?
So I did like a deep dive andthen I found out that she lives
in Shreve Put.
I said, Yes, do you know that'sright up the road for me?
I was getting ready to say shelived down the block.
(21:33):
I went and stopped this lady'sprofile, I went and found her
Facebook, added her as a friendon.
I had to be like, hey, I'm not astalker, I'm not a stalker, but
yeah, we do.
Uh-huh.
I'm stimulated in to kind ofconnect with her, but that's
what I do.
I go like a I go down a rabbithole.
And so whenever I have put myquestions and stuff together, it
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be from like the stuff that I'veseen that I'm post or the
questions that I have that Iread from the book that maybe I
missed or didn't answer, or aquestion, like one of my
questions for Samara.
I can't wait to get her in.
Is what was the actual diagnosisfor um her character in the book
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that I read of hers?
Because it didn't really get it,it didn't tell like what he was
diagnosed with or what was hisexact.
So I kind of that's the questionthat I kind of asked.
That's how I prepare.
SPEAKER_00 (22:29):
So are you are you a people person?
Is it easy for you to do yourinterviews and stuff like that,
or do you get nervous?
SPEAKER_01 (22:38):
You know what?
I is both.
But I am a I I try, I like tosay I'm an introvert, but I'm
like an introvert extrovert.
Like I really am a people personbecause I'm a statician and I
have to talk and deal withpeople all day and stuff, but
then sometimes I like to be bymyself and I'm kind of shy.
But when it comes to stuff thatI really like or that I really,
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especially, or if I really knowmy shit on it, then it's like
like I'm about to talk your headoff.
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (23:10):
So then it just flows.
It's real easy for you.
It is okay.
So what got you into book talk?
Like what took you over there?
SPEAKER_01 (23:26):
So when I got into reading, remember I told you
about three years ago when Istarted reading for uh reading
my dark romances and stuff, andthen I was on TikTok, but I was
on there for my other business.
And then some kind of way Iheard somebody say something
about book talk.
And so I went and Googled booktalk.
SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
Not the Google, honey.
SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
I felt dumb as hell when I've well, that's why I
tell people now when I say, Oh,are you on book talk?
And I say, Hey, it's just it'sjust TikTok, but it's just the
book side.
Because I'm thinking that it'san actual app or it's an actual,
you know.
And so I went looking for it,and then it was like, it's a
(24:14):
part of TikTok.
And I was like, wait, book talkis on TikTok, or book talk is,
but I was new to TikTok, and Iwould just post my videos and I
barely knew how to do that.
So I started putting, and thenthat's when people were like,
you know, you could just type insomething on TikTok, and then
it'll show you like everythingthat's like related to it and
stuff.
So I said, let me start umputting in some of these books
(24:38):
and stuff that I'm reading,because maybe there are other
people out there who are readingthis, and I can kind of, you
know, and that opened up thefloodgates.
What I found people who like thesame books, and there was no
shame.
And we could talk about likewhat I could talk about this on
the live and or the things thatthis anti-hero or this MMC did,
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and we know in real life thatit's not okay, but in this
situation, in this fictionalworld, girl, we here.
SPEAKER_00 (25:08):
So I have a confession.
I have a confession.
Just just a little bit.
You are what inspired me to showmy face on my booktop.
What so what happened wasoriginally when I started, um
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like I said, I've been readingforever.
So I was like, I had taken abreak from social media from
October to January from allforms of social media.
Um, and I was just reading.
And then I was like, there's Isaw something before I ended my
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social media and did my breakabout book talk, and I had
researched it and was like, oh,okay, I'm gonna join this when I
come back.
So I had everything.
I had girl, I had gone to HobbyLobby Marshalls, I had gone to
Michaels and was buying all thisstuff because I'm like, I'm
gonna do an account and it'sgonna be faceless.
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And when you look up stuff onsocial media for book talk, you
get all the pretty backgroundsand everything so colorful and
coordinated, and there's no formof chaos when you first go and
look up book talk.
It's like okay, so I was gonnado that, I was gonna take
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pictures, I was not gonna showmy face, and then I came across
your page, and I was like, oh,okay, well, I'm gonna follow
her.
I don't know why.
Um, I think it was because whenI'm talking about books, I can
be very animated in what I'msaying.
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And I felt like I don't know howthese people are going to accept
the fact that I am animated asfuck.
When it comes to these books, Ican get real loud and start
clapping, and the words comeout.
There's probably not whereyou're not gonna find the words
in the dictionary.
But you heard what I said, andyou know what I said, you heard
me.
Don't play with me.
(27:23):
So I'm looking and I'm lookingat your page, and I'm like, I
can do that.
She did that, I can do that.
And then I started talking toyou.
And I was like, oh, I like her,she is fun.
I'm about to mimic the shit onthis page.
Maybe she's gonna be like, youbetter not take nothing else.
(27:44):
And I didn't take anything, butit was just more so uh an
inspiration.
So thank you.
Because everybody sees my facebecause baby, I was not, I was
not gonna show my face, honey.
Mine was gonna be all cute withthe pretty pictures and
everything else.
And then the more I startedlooking and the more I was
(28:05):
seeing more people that justposted real book stuff.
It wasn't let me colorcoordinate all of this.
Oh man.
And I was real happy that therewas no color coordination, it
was just you just on there.
So thank you.
(28:29):
Oh my god.
Look, how does it feel to be onthe other side of this?
SPEAKER_01 (28:35):
You see me?
I'm like, don't do not cover upyour face.
I'm like, oh my god, stop.
I'm blushing.
You were like, oh, so I'm likelook, inspiring people.
SPEAKER_00 (28:51):
Was that the goal?
SPEAKER_01 (28:54):
It would I was just out here to make book friends to
talk about some of the stuffthat I like and didn't get like
side-eyed for it.
But you just added to my days,like what?
SPEAKER_00 (29:09):
Uh-huh.
That's how I started, honey.
When I got on that, when Istarted this book app, I was on
Drake, no new friends.
We wasn't doing it.
I was like, mm-mm-mm-mm.
I'm just gonna get on here andpost some book stuff and let me
see what they're talking about.
Because I think the first bookthat I posted about was um 365
days.
I was like, okay, here we go.
(29:31):
But then it turned intosomething else, honey.
And then yeah, and then poof,here you come.
God was like, let me go aheadand put this girl in your lap
real quick so that way you cando what the hell I need you to
do.
SPEAKER_01 (29:41):
And look how we how everything lined up and what
we're doing now.
SPEAKER_00 (29:45):
Yes.
And it's absolutely amazing.
It really is.
SPEAKER_01 (29:49):
He sends help, he sends help.
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00 (29:55):
Because child, yeah, I'd have never thought I'd have
had this damn floor to ceilingbookship.
In here, but I was happy with mythree little bookshelfs.
Like, oh, we'll figure out howto get this, baby.
I got on booktuck, and they waslike, and here's 86,000 more
books for you to be trying toadd.
SPEAKER_01 (30:13):
So, all these new releases, and then all of these
recommendations on top of thenew releases.
What?
Like, what?
SPEAKER_00 (30:23):
Listen.
So, I'm gonna play a little gamewith you.
We are going to do a little bitof this or that.
Because the last time we didthis or that, I had you stumped.
And it was a tell me Tuesdaypost.
(30:43):
So I'm like, oh no, we're gonnaplay this little game real quick
with you and see.
Okay, you ready?
I'm ready.
Okay.
This or that ebook or a physicalcopy?
SPEAKER_01 (30:58):
Ebook.
Because I can read it anywherein ebook.
SPEAKER_00 (31:06):
You know, I want the I want the physical copy.
Okay.
So do you prefer a series orstandalone?
SPEAKER_01 (31:17):
I'll take a ser I I could do either or, but I do
like a series.
But I like the series where itkind of carries over into like
the same like you know how theydo like the different couples
and stuff.
I do like the same couple goingthrough the series and stuff,
but I'll take a series with thedifferent friends, especially if
they're in they're interested.
SPEAKER_00 (31:41):
Yeah, I'm not even gonna try to answer that because
I don't get the answer for you.
Okay, so there are two narratorsthat are very popular in the
book world.
SPEAKER_01 (31:56):
So Corbin King or Teddy Hamilton, Corbin Corbin,
(32:18):
really Oh, over teddy.
I don't know, that was a hardone.
SPEAKER_00 (32:37):
I agree.
unknown (32:39):
I agree.
SPEAKER_01 (32:40):
Well I want to kind of draw back my answer, but
girl.
SPEAKER_00 (32:56):
Does it depend on the book?
Because for me it depends on thebook.
SPEAKER_01 (33:01):
It's the voice.
SPEAKER_00 (33:05):
It it depends.
It depends on which one.
It really didn't.
SPEAKER_01 (33:17):
It has.
SPEAKER_00 (33:18):
I appreciate you doing this interview and being
on the other side of this hotseat, chat.
SPEAKER_01 (33:25):
It's so different being on the other side of being
like interviewee instead of theinterviewer.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (33:35):
Because you can't how you prepare, I think, might
be a little bit different.
So it's okay.
It's okay.
SPEAKER_01 (33:45):
I like this.
This was a good experience,though.
Yes, this was a really goodexperience.
SPEAKER_00 (33:51):
Well, I'm happy I provided a good experience,
honey.
This works.
Oh, well, thank you everyone forjoining us.
I have had an amazing timetalking with Lex.
You guys can find her on herwhere?
Where can they find you,darling?
SPEAKER_01 (34:10):
They can find me on TikTok and Instagram and on
Facebook as Lex Between theLines.
That's BTW.
SPEAKER_00 (34:17):
All right.
Thank you so much, and you guysenjoy your evening.
Bye.
Hi everybody and welcome to BDST with Toya.
I am your book bestie and hostToya.
I am here today with my favoritebook bestie.
We're gonna put the spotlight onLex today, honey.
I'm going to take a moment.
I'm going to let her do herspiel.
(00:23):
Tell us a little bit aboutyourself, Miss Ma'am.
Whenever you're ready.
SPEAKER_01 (00:30):
Oh wow.
Like my cheeks hurt fromcheesing so bad.
So I am licks between the lines.
I am a reader, a reviewer, and Iam a podcaster.
(00:51):
Um for the most part, when Iread and review, I try to say
between the lines, butoccasionally, more than
occasionally, I do cross them.
I'm a dark romance girly.
Well, if you would have told memaybe about the beginning of the
year, what was my favoritegenre?
I would say dark romancebillionaire, but lately fantasy
(01:15):
and thriller have been takingover my catalog.
And so it's kind of like thescales of the different genres,
it's not like battle of thegenres.
So I said, Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (01:28):
So let me ask you.
So what was it?
What book or genre, what was itthat got you into reading in the
first place?
SPEAKER_01 (01:40):
Romance.
I think it was just really, andit was when I started reading,
it was like Marie Force, likesoft romance.
Okay.
And it wasn't even like realsmut.
I know, can't you believe that?
SPEAKER_00 (01:54):
So it was like the closed door stuff.
SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Yes.
And then when they did have likescenes and stuff, I feel like I
was like invading.
I was just like, and it wasn'teven comp like compared to the
stuff I read now.
I would be like looking over myshoulder trying to see if
somebody was like watching meread it.
SPEAKER_00 (02:13):
Okay.
So were you were you young?
Is that why you was looking overyour shoulder?
No, I wasn't even.
Because girl, I don't care whostands right now.
SPEAKER_01 (02:28):
Like now I don't, but when I first started, like
it may, it may be like threeyears now.
Um, since I've been reading likesmut and jumped into the dark
romance.
But before that, it was like Iwas ashamed to like girl, you
would have thought my daddy wasa priest like a pest or
something.
SPEAKER_00 (02:51):
Oh my god.
Girl, really?
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (02:56):
Oh, yes.
SPEAKER_02 (02:58):
Not for me, honey.
SPEAKER_00 (03:00):
Not for me.
Okay, let me ask you, let me askyou a question.
SPEAKER_02 (03:04):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
What is it about horror that you love so much
that has pulled you in and kindof taken over?
SPEAKER_01 (03:18):
So in a dark romance, I love like a um an
anti-hero and the things horroris introduced.
Like, don't judge me.
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
I promise I won't, because I can't say nothing.
SPEAKER_01 (03:34):
Some of the horror, and what's crazy is I can read
it, but I'm not really like ahorror fan, like TV show.
But like, especially when it's ahorror, when it's like a revenge
horror, and they go intodetails, and it's like a
splatter punk or splatter, whatdo they call it?
SPEAKER_00 (03:52):
Splatter punk.
SPEAKER_01 (03:53):
Yeah.
When they give more of thedetails of the unaligned.
I know that's gonna sound so badof like the unaliving.
SPEAKER_00 (04:07):
Okay, so you you like to hear, you like to read
more in depth, like, to be ableto take your time with the
scene.
SPEAKER_01 (04:18):
Mm-hmm.
And like they don't hold back,like there's no closed door
violence.
It goes straight.
unknown (04:27):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (04:28):
That's why I said don't judge me.
So, so do you okay?
So let me ask you this question.
So, do you prefer your horrorbooks to have smut in them, or
are you okay with no smut inyour horror books?
SPEAKER_01 (04:39):
I'm okay with no smut because I have read some
horror and it was like it didn'treally flow with with it.
It was like random pop-ups andstuff, but I like for it if it's
gonna be in there to kind offlow with it.
But for the most part, I can dowithout smut and horror.
unknown (04:59):
Oh, yeah, no, baby.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_01 (05:02):
Especially when the plot is plotting.
Toya, I'm telling you, don'tmiss it.
When the plot is plotting, likeand the story is flowing, you
don't even miss it.
SPEAKER_00 (05:12):
You know, um I actually announced on my podcast
how I think I may have liedbecause there are some slow
burns that I can handle.
It's still the but there's stillsmut in the slow burns, but I
don't know if I can I may haveto try.
(05:33):
Well, I mean, there's the onethat we read together, and that
one didn't have no smut in it.
SPEAKER_01 (05:38):
Which one?
SPEAKER_00 (05:39):
The one with the LM Juniper, that book.
SPEAKER_01 (05:44):
That one definitely didn't.
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
You know, and I enjoyed it.
The the plot was plotting realwell.
SPEAKER_01 (05:50):
I feel like we read another together and it wasn't
really.
SPEAKER_00 (05:54):
Um, the only other one that I read that didn't
really was The Seven Husbands ofEvelyn Hugo.
You would think with the titlethat there would be a whole lot
of smut in there, but there wasnot a whole lot of smut in that
book.
SPEAKER_01 (06:11):
That's been on my show forever, and I have not
tapped into it yet.
I know.
SPEAKER_00 (06:17):
Oh my god.
Oh my god, I know.
Oh girl.
Okay, so let me ask you thisbecause you are what do you like
to call yourself?
Pantropeal.
Is that right?
Okay, okay.
So if you can only read onetrope for the rest of your life,
(06:38):
just one, which trope would itbe?
Damn it.
SPEAKER_01 (06:54):
Maybe uh enemies to lovers are a bully, like,
because sometimes enemies loversand bully be like, I'd like
what's different?
Well, it is a difference becausea bully be more like young
adult, and but yeah.
Maybe an enemies just dang it,Toya.
SPEAKER_00 (07:16):
That's your one.
That's your one.
Are you sure you don't want tochange your answer?
Do I need to start playing theJeopardy music?
SPEAKER_01 (07:23):
Oh my god, it's so hard because I like a secret
baby too.
I know like a lot of peopledon't like a secret baby, but I
love a surprise pregnancy secretbaby.
SPEAKER_00 (07:33):
Baby, I love a surprise pregnancy and when they
cheating.
SPEAKER_01 (07:37):
And don't have it be a billionaire mixed in.
SPEAKER_00 (07:41):
When it is messy, messy, messy, I love good, well,
you know.
Because I hate you read messy.
SPEAKER_01 (07:52):
And that's a powerful messy plus billionaire
plus uh a good and oh, and thena jealous ex-girlfriend.
Or one who think that theyshould, it should have been
their spot.
I'm finna eat it up every time.
SPEAKER_00 (08:13):
Okay, so you said that when you started reading
The Smud, that you would kind oflook over your shoulder and just
kind of see, like, okay, wherehave you been?
What is the wildest place thatyou have read a smuddy book and
had to keep a straight facewhile you read said book?
SPEAKER_01 (08:36):
That was just recently.
Oh girl! My daughter was in likethis coronation, and I'm gonna
read anywhere I go.
So I knew it was she was um likea princess to the queen, and the
queen comes comes out last,right?
(08:57):
Okay, so they have all of theseother dances and the stuff in
between before they even bringthe queen out.
So I was in the stands readingmy book, Blackthorne by JT.
Oh child, I'm up there reading,and it started.
I said, um, and then now, mindyou, there are actual people
(09:21):
behind me.
SPEAKER_00 (09:25):
You were Kindle reading.
SPEAKER_01 (09:27):
Yes, I was reading on my phone, and what's crazy is
I feel like the lady behind mewas kind of reading my stuff,
and as I was reading, and I waslike, it was a little girl on
the side of me, and her ass keptcoughing.
And she was coughing in my face.
I'm I was kind of like had myjacket, I put my jacket kind of
like over my mouth or something.
So I would look at the girl andthen I would look back at the
(09:49):
mama like, you ain't gonna saynothing.
So sometimes when I be lookingback, it was like she'll be
looking over my shoulder, likeat my phone.
Girl, I was like, but I stillwas reading it though, baby.
But I was just like, and thenand then my daughter and Monica
was sitting on the side, so Ireally had my phone like like I
(10:11):
was in school.
SPEAKER_00 (10:15):
Oh my god.
And so you was just trying tojust kind of you still, so that
means that you still be likekind of watching, making sure
ain't nobody because sometimesmy daughter be like, what you
read?
SPEAKER_01 (10:30):
And I'd be like, mind your business.
We got buddy reads together.
This ain't one of them.
SPEAKER_00 (10:37):
That's cute.
You and your daughter have buddyreads together.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
Oh man.
Yeah, my daughter ain't readingnothing that's not lyrics to
Chris Brown.
She don't my daughter ain'treading nothing.
She ain't reading nothing.
What?
No.
My daughter's not readinganything.
(10:58):
She did not pick up the thereading gene.
Oh.
Yeah.
Because I started when I was 13,honey, and my intro was Air
Drone Dickey.
SPEAKER_01 (11:15):
Not your intro.
SPEAKER_00 (11:17):
Yes, ma'am.
I started reading.
I started with smut books at 13.
Air Drone Dicky, Milk in mycoffee.
SPEAKER_01 (11:33):
And I started with like thriller and crime.
I don't know if I told you, butmy uncle's trifling um ex-wife
now.
She gave me like this box ofbooks, but it was grown-up
books.
Like you bitch.
Like now that I know that shenow did I know that she's a
trifling individual.
(11:55):
I can understand why it didn'tclick in her mind.
Like, I shouldn't give this to achild.
Right.
Because it had like kiss thegirls.
It was another book in therecalled God's Other Son, I must.
Okay.
I couldn't even, I I read a fewpages of that book, and I gave
it to my cousin who shouldn'thave been reading it either.
(12:16):
I couldn't, I couldn't even dealwith that one.
And then the kiss the girls, andI was like, this ain't like the
movie.
They went into detail.
But because it was like amystery, like who did it, like
who the killer was, and stufflike that.
I I went on ahead and read it.
But like the forms of tortureand stuff, I was like, what the
(12:36):
hell?
I should not be reading this.
SPEAKER_00 (12:39):
But but wait, but how old were you at that time?
SPEAKER_01 (12:43):
I was in like sixth grade, sixth, seventh grade.
Should not have been reading it.
I should not.
SPEAKER_00 (12:49):
Let me tell you.
Don't judge me.
So I am not uh one of thoseparents who uh filters or
sugarcoats things for mydaughter.
I have found that it's easierfor me to just be up front with
(13:15):
her.
So when my child got into ninthgrade, I sure did let her read
that Messy S book that I gave.
SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
No, you didn't.
SPEAKER_00 (13:31):
I did.
I did.
She was like, oh my god.
I was like go ahead and readthis book back.
Go ahead and read this.
Because at the end of the day,in reality, this is how it is.
So we was watching Bad GirlsClub and everything.
SPEAKER_01 (13:51):
I was just gonna say it's on TV anyway.
SPEAKER_00 (13:55):
We watched all that stuff, and it was just like to
me, it worked out in my favorbecause there were things that
her friends were going throughthat she didn't have to deal
with or go through because yougot to read and see the mess.
Maybe that's why she don't liketo read it.
I don't baby.
SPEAKER_01 (14:21):
I I am the problem.
You didn't shock her.
You you shocked her sister.
Speaking of cards, did you hearthat new album?
Oh that's so off topic.
SPEAKER_00 (14:31):
Girl, it's okay.
And no, I have not.
Um you know, only the one whereshe was talking about how she
was outside.
And uh as a married woman, Idon't get to go outside, so I'm
just gonna live through herthrough that song.
SPEAKER_01 (14:45):
Do you hear me?
Do you hear me?
I don't even have all theproblems, but I sure was the
girl popping.
SPEAKER_00 (14:53):
Yes, that'd be hoping like as if I do have
problems and I don't.
I don't know nothing about that.
I am in love, Marligay.
Okay, so let me ask you thisquestion.
When it comes to your books, doyou DNF books or do you power
(15:18):
through?
Like how far into a book do youget before you DNF it, or you
don't DNF it at all?
You just kind of push through.
SPEAKER_01 (15:27):
Sometimes I can probably count on my hand, on
one hand, how many books I DNF.
And as long as a book isentertaining to me, I'll go
ahead and finish it.
Because I'm so nosy, I gotta seewhat the hell is going on at the
end.
Like, I probably in my wholelike thing of reading, because
(15:50):
sometimes I'll just pause itbecause I'm a mood reader too,
and sometimes I just don't be inthe mood, but I'll pause it and
then I'll go back to it.
But the books that I did, DNF,one of them was like a chapter
in, and I was just like, it feltlike homework, like like I had
to piece it together, and thenit was just like all of these
(16:13):
complex words that I had to goand look up because I didn't
know what the hell was going onin the book, because it was like
a and I was just like, I can'tdo this, I don't know what the
hell is going on because I don'tknow these words, right?
And it was like uh the main malecharacter was some kind of
engineer, and something happenedwith his girlfriend, but he was
(16:34):
working for this tech companyand like stuff was going on, and
I was just like, okay, but itwas just telling like the
technical side, like just hisjob stuff, and I was just like,
okay, we're the plot, or likewhat, like, I don't give a fuck
what's going on to his job andall these words, like, is
somebody picking on him upthere?
Is he gonna like you know?
(16:54):
And it just was like themexplaining what he did at work
and stuff, and I was like, howis this gonna pertain to
anything?
Like, it was just that the wholeand I was just like, Yeah, I
can't, I can't even, I didn't itit didn't interest me enough to
see where it went.
SPEAKER_00 (17:08):
See, you have an ability to do something, and it
leads me into my next questionfor you.
You have this amazing abilityabout you um that I'm gonna be
honest, I try to mimic, right?
So you're gonna have to breakthis down for me.
How the hell do you keep up withwho, what, where, when, why when
(17:34):
it comes to these books?
Because let me tell you, I willread a book and I got about 72
hours before my brain does adump on everything that that
book was about.
I am the person that they talkabout on book talk when you're
like, this book is really good,and the FMC and the MMC is
really good, and oh no, but Idon't know what the fuck
(17:56):
happened in the book once Iclosed it.
Baby, you do your videos andstuff, and you have the whole
rundown, and you are amulti-reader, so what do you do
that allows you to be able tolike how do you do that?
SPEAKER_01 (18:15):
I don't know, my brain just kind of I don't know,
but I've been like that allthrough school and stuff, like
to be able to multi, I don'tknow.
I just say my brain is amultitasker, which in real life
I'm a horrible multitasker, butwhen it comes to my mind, like
processing stories and stuff,it's just I don't know.
(18:37):
It's especially when it's a goodone.
Oh, I'm gonna remember even thesmallest details, but then I
can't tell you what happenedyesterday, though, in my real
life.
SPEAKER_00 (18:52):
Listen, I am to the point now where I am taking
notes.
I will be at work, and I will itI don't care what a defendant is
doing, hold on, because I haveto get this scene down.
I have to write, I need to writedown these names and who they
(19:14):
are and who is connected to whoand all of that.
And then when I get home, I needto plug it into something and
type it up because when it getsto the point where I start doing
other stuff, I need to know whatI'm talking about.
SPEAKER_01 (19:28):
Now I do highlight, I do highlight in the um books
and stuff like this book thatyou got me reading, because I
had to go back and highlight,because I said, um, I know I
ain't just read what the fuck Ithought I read.
That him and Nora, this lady wasin the hospital dying, and you
and Nora was messing around, andthen when this lady died, you
(19:48):
marry her.
So I highlighted that so thatwhen we talk about it, I can go
back to my highlight and belike, girl.
So I highlight I do highlightcertain things that catch my
attention in the book and stuff,so that helps too.
SPEAKER_00 (20:06):
So let me ask you when you are preparing to
interview your authors andthings like that, because you do
do your interviews with authorsand things like that.
Is there research and thingslike that that go into it?
Or are like what what do you doto prepare yourself for that?
SPEAKER_01 (20:28):
Mostly that's why I try to stick to interviewing um
the authors that I have read orI'm familiar with their work.
And so that way the questionskind of form from me reading the
instead of just interviewingsomebody that I don't know their
work, I don't know their, youknow, because sometimes I be
nosy, especially when I read agood catalog of people, you
(20:49):
know, a good bit of theircatalog.
And I feel like I know them, andI'm not gonna lie, I be going
and stalking them and go back.
I'll probably be liking stufffrom two, three years ago from
you know how you be hittingthem.
So that's how I kind of prepare.
I um read their books and then Igo search their profiles.
I'm still waiting to interviewlike Kiri Casey.
(21:11):
When I tell you I ran thislady's profile at first, because
I was like, why can't you findno information on her?
So I did like a deep dive andthen I found out that she lives
in Shreve Put.
I said, Yes, do you know that'sright up the road for me?
I was getting ready to say shelived down the block.
(21:33):
I went and stopped this lady'sprofile, I went and found her
Facebook, added her as a friendon.
I had to be like, hey, I'm not astalker, I'm not a stalker, but
yeah, we do.
Uh-huh.
I'm stimulated in to kind ofconnect with her, but that's
what I do.
I go like a I go down a rabbithole.
And so whenever I have put myquestions and stuff together, it
(21:56):
be from like the stuff that I'veseen that I'm post or the
questions that I have that Iread from the book that maybe I
missed or didn't answer, or aquestion, like one of my
questions for Samara.
I can't wait to get her in.
Is what was the actual diagnosisfor um her character in the book
(22:17):
that I read of hers?
Because it didn't really get it,it didn't tell like what he was
diagnosed with or what was hisexact.
So I kind of that's the questionthat I kind of asked.
That's how I prepare.
SPEAKER_00 (22:29):
So are you are you a people person?
Is it easy for you to do yourinterviews and stuff like that,
or do you get nervous?
SPEAKER_01 (22:38):
You know what?
I is both.
But I am a I I try, I like tosay I'm an introvert, but I'm
like an introvert extrovert.
Like I really am a people personbecause I'm a statician and I
have to talk and deal withpeople all day and stuff, but
then sometimes I like to be bymyself and I'm kind of shy.
But when it comes to stuff thatI really like or that I really,
(23:00):
especially, or if I really knowmy shit on it, then it's like
like I'm about to talk your headoff.
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (23:10):
So then it just flows.
It's real easy for you.
It is okay.
So what got you into book talk?
Like what took you over there?
SPEAKER_01 (23:26):
So when I got into reading, remember I told you
about three years ago when Istarted reading for uh reading
my dark romances and stuff, andthen I was on TikTok, but I was
on there for my other business.
And then some kind of way Iheard somebody say something
about book talk.
And so I went and Googled booktalk.
SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
Not the Google, honey.
SPEAKER_01 (23:53):
I felt dumb as hell when I've well, that's why I
tell people now when I say, Oh,are you on book talk?
And I say, Hey, it's just it'sjust TikTok, but it's just the
book side.
Because I'm thinking that it'san actual app or it's an actual,
you know.
And so I went looking for it,and then it was like, it's a
(24:14):
part of TikTok.
And I was like, wait, book talkis on TikTok, or book talk is,
but I was new to TikTok, and Iwould just post my videos and I
barely knew how to do that.
So I started putting, and thenthat's when people were like,
you know, you could just type insomething on TikTok, and then
it'll show you like everythingthat's like related to it and
stuff.
So I said, let me start umputting in some of these books
(24:38):
and stuff that I'm reading,because maybe there are other
people out there who are readingthis, and I can kind of, you
know, and that opened up thefloodgates.
What I found people who like thesame books, and there was no
shame.
And we could talk about likewhat I could talk about this on
the live and or the things thatthis anti-hero or this MMC did,
(25:00):
and we know in real life thatit's not okay, but in this
situation, in this fictionalworld, girl, we here.
SPEAKER_00 (25:08):
So I have a confession.
I have a confession.
Just just a little bit.
You are what inspired me to showmy face on my booktop.
What so what happened wasoriginally when I started, um
(25:35):
like I said, I've been readingforever.
So I was like, I had taken abreak from social media from
October to January from allforms of social media.
Um, and I was just reading.
And then I was like, there's Isaw something before I ended my
(25:56):
social media and did my breakabout book talk, and I had
researched it and was like, oh,okay, I'm gonna join this when I
come back.
So I had everything.
I had girl, I had gone to HobbyLobby Marshalls, I had gone to
Michaels and was buying all thisstuff because I'm like, I'm
gonna do an account and it'sgonna be faceless.
(26:18):
And when you look up stuff onsocial media for book talk, you
get all the pretty backgroundsand everything so colorful and
coordinated, and there's no formof chaos when you first go and
look up book talk.
It's like okay, so I was gonnado that, I was gonna take
(26:40):
pictures, I was not gonna showmy face, and then I came across
your page, and I was like, oh,okay, well, I'm gonna follow
her.
I don't know why.
Um, I think it was because whenI'm talking about books, I can
be very animated in what I'msaying.
(27:02):
And I felt like I don't know howthese people are going to accept
the fact that I am animated asfuck.
When it comes to these books, Ican get real loud and start
clapping, and the words comeout.
There's probably not whereyou're not gonna find the words
in the dictionary.
But you heard what I said, andyou know what I said, you heard
me.
Don't play with me.
(27:23):
So I'm looking and I'm lookingat your page, and I'm like, I
can do that.
She did that, I can do that.
And then I started talking toyou.
And I was like, oh, I like her,she is fun.
I'm about to mimic the shit onthis page.
Maybe she's gonna be like, youbetter not take nothing else.
(27:44):
And I didn't take anything, butit was just more so uh an
inspiration.
So thank you.
Because everybody sees my facebecause baby, I was not, I was
not gonna show my face, honey.
Mine was gonna be all cute withthe pretty pictures and
everything else.
And then the more I startedlooking and the more I was
(28:05):
seeing more people that justposted real book stuff.
It wasn't let me colorcoordinate all of this.
Oh man.
And I was real happy that therewas no color coordination, it
was just you just on there.
So thank you.
(28:29):
Oh my god.
Look, how does it feel to be onthe other side of this?
SPEAKER_01 (28:35):
You see me?
I'm like, don't do not cover upyour face.
I'm like, oh my god, stop.
I'm blushing.
You were like, oh, so I'm likelook, inspiring people.
SPEAKER_00 (28:51):
Was that the goal?
SPEAKER_01 (28:54):
It would I was just out here to make book friends to
talk about some of the stuffthat I like and didn't get like
side-eyed for it.
But you just added to my days,like what?
SPEAKER_00 (29:09):
Uh-huh.
That's how I started, honey.
When I got on that, when Istarted this book app, I was on
Drake, no new friends.
We wasn't doing it.
I was like, mm-mm-mm-mm.
I'm just gonna get on here andpost some book stuff and let me
see what they're talking about.
Because I think the first bookthat I posted about was um 365
days.
I was like, okay, here we go.
(29:31):
But then it turned intosomething else, honey.
And then yeah, and then poof,here you come.
God was like, let me go aheadand put this girl in your lap
real quick so that way you cando what the hell I need you to
do.
SPEAKER_01 (29:41):
And look how we how everything lined up and what
we're doing now.
SPEAKER_00 (29:45):
Yes.
And it's absolutely amazing.
It really is.
SPEAKER_01 (29:49):
He sends help, he sends help.
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00 (29:55):
Because child, yeah, I'd have never thought I'd have
had this damn floor to ceilingbookship.
In here, but I was happy with mythree little bookshelfs.
Like, oh, we'll figure out howto get this, baby.
I got on booktuck, and they waslike, and here's 86,000 more
books for you to be trying toadd.
SPEAKER_01 (30:13):
So, all these new releases, and then all of these
recommendations on top of thenew releases.
What?
Like, what?
SPEAKER_00 (30:23):
Listen.
So, I'm gonna play a little gamewith you.
We are going to do a little bitof this or that.
Because the last time we didthis or that, I had you stumped.
And it was a tell me Tuesdaypost.
(30:43):
So I'm like, oh no, we're gonnaplay this little game real quick
with you and see.
Okay, you ready?
I'm ready.
Okay.
This or that ebook or a physicalcopy?
SPEAKER_01 (30:58):
Ebook.
Because I can read it anywherein ebook.
SPEAKER_00 (31:06):
You know, I want the I want the physical copy.
Okay.
So do you prefer a series orstandalone?
SPEAKER_01 (31:17):
I'll take a ser I I could do either or, but I do
like a series.
But I like the series where itkind of carries over into like
the same like you know how theydo like the different couples
and stuff.
I do like the same couple goingthrough the series and stuff,
but I'll take a series with thedifferent friends, especially if
they're in they're interested.
SPEAKER_00 (31:41):
Yeah, I'm not even gonna try to answer that because
I don't get the answer for you.
Okay, so there are two narratorsthat are very popular in the
book world.
SPEAKER_01 (31:56):
So Corbin King or Teddy Hamilton, Corbin Corbin,
(32:18):
really Oh, over teddy.
I don't know, that was a hardone.
SPEAKER_00 (32:37):
I agree.
unknown (32:39):
I agree.
SPEAKER_01 (32:40):
Well I want to kind of draw back my answer, but
girl.
SPEAKER_00 (32:56):
Does it depend on the book?
Because for me it depends on thebook.
SPEAKER_01 (33:01):
It's the voice.
SPEAKER_00 (33:05):
It it depends.
It depends on which one.
It really didn't.
SPEAKER_01 (33:17):
It has.
SPEAKER_00 (33:18):
I appreciate you doing this interview and being
on the other side of this hotseat, chat.
SPEAKER_01 (33:25):
It's so different being on the other side of being
like interviewee instead of theinterviewer.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (33:35):
Because you can't how you prepare, I think, might
be a little bit different.
So it's okay.
It's okay.
SPEAKER_01 (33:45):
I like this.
This was a good experience,though.
Yes, this was a really goodexperience.
SPEAKER_00 (33:51):
Well, I'm happy I provided a good experience,
honey.
This works.
Oh, well, thank you everyone forjoining us.
I have had an amazing timetalking with Lex.
You guys can find her on herwhere?
Where can they find you,darling?
SPEAKER_01 (34:10):
They can find me on TikTok and Instagram and on
Facebook as Lex Between theLines.
That's BTW.
SPEAKER_00 (34:17):
All right.
Thank you so much, and you guysenjoy your evening.
Bye.
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