August 29, 2025 • 45 mins
We dive into the world of books with Brittany's sister-in-law Sami, discussing everything from favorite reads to literary adaptations and our book club pick "The Seven Sisters." This episode is for book lovers everywhere.
• Sami, Brittany and Kristen give some of their favorite book recommendations, including "The Boys of Tommen" "Small Mercies," "I'm Glad My Mom Died," and "The Last Mrs. Parrish"
• All-time favorite authors include Elin Hilderbrand, Emily Giffin, Jodi Picoult, Colleen Hoover, Kristin Hannah, Sally Hepworth and Emily Henry for their consistent ability to deliver satisfying reads
• The hosts debate their favorite book boyfriends, with mentions of Johnny Kavanaugh, Miles from "Funny Story," and the classic Mr. Darcy
• Discussion of book-to-screen adaptations highlights successes like "The Hunger Games" series and anticipation for upcoming productions
• Detailed review of "The Seven Sisters" by Lucinda Riley, exploring the dual timeline narrative set in modern-day Europe and 1920s Brazil
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ready, ready.
Hey everyone, welcome back tothe latest episode of Snitchin'
it's your host, kristen.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And Brittany, Get ready for the best part of your
day Happy Friday snitches.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is a very exciting Friday episode for us.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have the Sammy, the biggest bookworm that I know
, my new sister-in-law I can'tbelieve I can call you that
officially and yeah, just theperson I know that loves books
more than anything.
Sammy Nolte Well, I guess SammyMartin now, technically yes,
Almost there.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We're working through the name change but yes, I'm so
excited to be here.
I'm Sammy.
I am Brittany's sister-in-law.
I'm a huge fan of books, so I'msuper excited to talk through
the book club pick and kind ofour thoughts on reading in
general.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yes, sammy, is it true.
I've heard the rumor that yourparents used to punish you, not
by taking away like TV orgrounding you, but just taking
away your books.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, that is what they did, which is kind of crazy
because I feel like that istaking away from your child
learning, but it's something,but Sammy was also there for the
bat breaking.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So, sammy, let's let the snitches hear your side of
the story.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, I was sleeping and I woke up in the middle of
the night I think it was likefour in the morning to Connor
screaming and he was crying, andI then heard Brittany say
something about why don't you gowash your hands?
So I thought like I don't know,he threw up, he wet the bed
like something like just withConnor, like not affecting
(01:34):
anyone else, and I must've justlike rolled over and fell back
to sleep.
And then the next morningBrittany was like yeah, there
was a bat in the room and I waslike, oh my God, no way, that's
disgusting.
We started like talking aboutthe rabies and the shot and I
was like, okay, well, this is.
I'm like a hypochondriac, soI'm like you guys shouldn't have
told me about this.
I'm looking up everything she'slike next level, Asking all my
(01:58):
medical friends should I begoing to get this?
I think I probably would haveif I had a car and.
I was someone else drive me likeI probably would have went.
But also what threw me off wasthat you had to get four
different shots.
So I was like if it was one Iprobably would have gotten it,
but we just like we kept lookingat every avenue and there was
just no way that anyone else wasactually in the room with the
(02:22):
bat, so we didn't get it.
I think we have to wait like afew months to just make sure.
That's the worst part.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But like four months from now, we can be dead.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No, I was like I was like off, I put on my clothes to
go for a run and then I waslike this could be like one of
my last days, like I'm notrunning, I didn't go for a run.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh, I would use that excuse for the next four months.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Easy, yeah.
But the exterminator did comeand he well, my dad said he was
like it's highly unlikely a batwould get in, Like they couldn't
have got across the rooms.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So that's peace of mind.
I mean literally.
I told I was with Mish, who thesnitches know.
She was on the pod and she waslike, oh yeah, I had a friend
that happened to in the Southend.
I was like, am I just the onlyperson that had no PSA about
bats flying in your room?
I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Same.
This was why I had to educate,I had to spread awareness.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh, my God, thank you so much.
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Hopefully I'm not dead in four months.
Kristen, I loved your referenceto the office episode.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh, oh yeah, such a good episode.
I love that Hilarious.
Well, I'm ready to learn aboutsome new books.
Should we get into our topics?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm so excited for this episode.
I love books.
But okay, so yeah, we read theSeven Sisters book.
All three of us read it.
We're going to talk about it.
We understand that probably noteveryone has read it, so we're
going to save that discussionfor the end.
We'll do a little summary forthose who didn't read it and if
you want to read it, you can hopoff.
But first we're just going tostart talking about general book
discussion book club here.
(04:01):
So question question number onewhat are the best books that
you've read in the last year,sammy?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
you go first okay, so I read this series this year,
or I haven't read all.
I have one left and I'm justnot.
I'm not starting it because, oh, kristen will love this.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is this the irish boy , one the irish?
Oh yes, high school, yes, it'slike.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So it's called the boys of common series.
The first one's called binding13 and it's like how I describe
it to people it feels like I'mreading one tree hill, but it's
like set in Ireland.
So it's about like it's a groupof high schoolers and they're
all like really good rugbyplayers or the, the guys, and
they all like date each otherand there's like it's so cute
(04:47):
and I love all of the characters.
Like it's so fun, it's funny,but it's like sad, it's
everything, and they are acommitment.
Like I don't recommend it toeveryone because it's like one,
not everyone cares to read abouthigh schoolers, but two, they
are long.
What's that?
Like cares to read about highschoolers, but they are long.
Like you said that you're likeI'm not a long book person.
(05:08):
I would try the first one inthere.
I'm obsessed.
What's the name?
Again, the boys of Tommen.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh my God, I mean literally sold snitches.
Can't see but my, my hands likewe're thrown up twice in that
description.
We've got Ireland and oh, likehigh school love and drama.
That sounds amazing.
How long are these?
Are we talking?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think like 600.
Okay, it's just crazy for likewhat that substance is, Cause
it's not like it's like ahistorical book that has so much
.
But try the first one.
The first one's called binding13.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I know I feel like I didn't read it Cause you were
like, were like, I don't know ifyou like it, if it's too high
school-y, but then you were likeoh, maybe you will like it, so
maybe I should read it yeah,like I, me and my friend, like
we both really like it, and thenI was like slowly introducing
it to other people, so I gave itto my sister and now she's like
four books in.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
She's loving it.
So it's like, okay, now I feellike I'm not just being a weirdo
liking these and it's actuallylike how did you find it?
Someone else told me about it.
And then, yeah, coming up on myTikTok and then here we are.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, you should try the audio book, kristen.
I feel like you would like theaudio book Like go on a walk.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
They're on Spotify.
I mean I definitely am like anauditory person.
I I mean I definitely am likean auditory person.
I love podcasts, I love music.
But I mean I'm good with likeI'll read it if it's if the
thing is, if I'm into the book,I'll fly through it.
But generally I will notapproach a book that I haven't
read if it's over like 400 pagesbecause, yeah, I just think
it's too long of a commitment.
But this is sounding right upmy alley.
(06:41):
So I'm willing to give it a try.
I'm already thinking thatthat's like a perfect like book
to TV adaption.
I've already cast Paul Meskelin my mind as the main character
.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't even know who that is.
Normal people, oh yes, oh, Ilove him.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I do love the, the Irish boys.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Totally.
I was going to tell a tangentabout when me and my friend Jill
went to Ireland and I've beenseeing this like trend now
online where they get Irish boysto say the number 33.
And I feel like I need to claimthat because her and I that was
our joke back in Ireland Really, three cents or whatever.
(07:21):
And the waiter came over andwas like, oh, it's $9.33.
And I was like, oh my God, thatis the best thing an Irish
person can say, hands down.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And now it's like a trend.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now it's a trend.
Yeah, we send those TikToks toeach other, but yeah, okay, I'm
sold.
I'm sold, great pick.
I'm trying to think of some ofthe best books I've read in the
last couple of years.
I would say Small Mercies.
I loved that book.
Oh, yeah, I read that too, isthat?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
the South Boston.
Yeah, what was that about?
Again, it's like about it's setlike the backdrop is like the
busing thing in the 70s, butit's like not really about that,
but it's like a lot about justlike all like the prejudicedness
and the like racism in the 70sand like I don't know if it's
Whitey Bulger or like a WhiteyBulger type character in it.
So there's like a mob thinggoing on and like the main
character is like a mom andshe's like ends up being really
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badass and it's just, it's good.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
The one that I was thinking about.
I read it more than a year agoand I've already talked about it
.
But I write all the books thatI have read like in my notes app
and I was looking through itand you know, a lot of times,
like you look through titles andI'm like I can't totally
remember what this was about,what this was about.
But the one that I saw that Iwas like, oh, I loved this, was
the I'm glad my mom died byJeanette McCurdy, the
(08:35):
Nickelodeon star.
That book is it's autobiography.
It's so good and it's about herrelationship with her mother,
who was definitely like theultimate stage mom as she was
starring on Nickelodeon so good.
So I would definitely say thatone.
And then also, I think you'veread this Brit and Sammy.
I feel like you probably wouldhave too, because I know it's
been pretty popular.
(08:56):
I think it might be being madeinto a movie is the last, mrs
Parrish.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah, I love that book.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
One of the made into a movie.
I thought I saw that Don't.
I could be wrong, but I feellike it's probably.
I think that was one of thebest like twists and I won't say
the twist, but one of the besttwists that I've that I've seen
in a book.
I think JLo is in it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh JLo.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's good.
Oh, I wonder who she isInteresting.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, that was one of the first books I read.
Like I kind of had a gap ofreading Really, yeah, like
probably like a little incollege and then after that, and
then COVID like brought me backinto it, but like right before
that, because I remember I wasat my grandmother's house in
Florida and I was reading thelast.
Mrs parish loved it and Iaccidentally left it there and
(09:49):
then she had texted me like oh,I started that book and it was
like very like inappropriate.
but I remember her grandmotherand I'd be like oh, my god,
that's so awkward that she'sreading this and you know.
But I just read it and I, yeah,that one was so good.
And then did you read thesecond one no oh, it came out,
yeah read it, it was good ohyeah, okay, it's good.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It wasn't as good, but like it was good.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The next, mrs Parrish yeah, oh my gosh, I already
have two books.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, let's go, okay oh, you're gonna have so many
books.
Oh, you know, the other one Iloved is the Marjorie Post.
Like, if people haven't readthat, read that book.
No, magn I loved is theMarjorie Post.
Like, if people haven't readthat, read that book.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post.
You didn't read that, no, whatam I doing oh?
God, yeah, I mean yeah, but theMagnificent Lives of Marjorie
Post is so good it's about.
So Marjorie Post is like Inlike early 1900s and he like he
started out but then he kind ofdied.
(10:47):
She like really made it intolike what it is, but it's like
all about her life and she justhas like she grew up obviously
like super rich, but she's likevery charitable and it's like
she lives through both worldwars and like she donates a lot
and like I don't know, she justis a very fascinating human
being.
I would definitely recommend itif you like history especially.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Sweet.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Let's do our all-time favorite books.
Mine's, the Nightingale.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Nightingale, yeah, I think that's going to have one
of the biggest box officeopenings of the year.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I feel like that type of stuff, though it's harder to
watch on TV.
That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I can't wait though yeah, that that is.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That would definitely be on mine and, of course,
harry potter oh yeah, of course,all the hps oh, I read, we read
the kite runner oh, that was agreat book yeah, read that, that
was really good I was trying tothink of mine.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I feel like I don't have like books specifically.
I have all time favoriteauthors Like I love.
I mean, I'm definitely a chicklit reader and I love Ellen
Hildebrand.
All of her books are set onNantucket, Always like a love
story, always a lot about likethe relationship between
characters.
And then there's also thisauthor, Emily Giffen.
She wrote Something Borrowed,Something Blue.
(12:05):
She has one called Baby Proofthat I also love.
I love those authors justbecause of their consistency.
You know exactly what you'regoing to get when you pick up
one of their books and I feellike they always deliver and I'm
always left satisfied with whatI read.
It's always kind of easy,breezy storylines, but I like
them a lot and I feel like theauthor, Emily Henry, is kind of
(12:26):
coming up in that genre.
She wrote what are some of theones?
Like people you meet Funnystory yes, Happy place.
People you meet on vacation.
So I feel like those areauthors that I like generally.
But I did put down one of thefirst books that like hit me so
hard I was sobbing reading thiswas do you guys remember the
Pact by Jodi Picoult.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Holy moly.
I mean haven't read it since Iwas literally a teenager, but I,
yeah, same.
Is that a movie?
I think it was like a Hallmarkadaption or something Jodi
Picoult's good adaption orsomething Jodi Picoult's good.
She's really good at doing.
Every one of her books, fromwhat I remember, has a legal
(13:10):
component and she's really goodat taking you through the court
case and the court proceedingsand that whole process.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
My favorite.
I'd always say 19 Minutes wasmy favorite book for a while and
then I haven't read it sincehigh school, but I remember it
being so good that was like theschool shooting right, yeah,
yeah, so good, so good, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What about what other authors do?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
we like here?
I like, I mean, what do youguys think about Colleen Hoover?
Oh, I like her, everyone like.
I feel like everyone eitherlike, likes her or they're like
think that it's too basic tolike her.
I enjoy the books, so I haven'tread one that I haven't liked,
and I'm excited for a lot ofthem to become movies too.
It sounds like.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, I think I heard regretting you.
That was that has a castalready reminders of him.
I think it's also being filmed.
I'm so excited for Verity.
I think that's my favoriteColleen Hoover book.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I think mine's November 9th.
Did you read that one?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, I haven't read that one.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You would like that one, I love that one Another.
Did you read that one?
No, I haven't read that one.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You would like that one.
I love that one.
Another one of hers that no onekind of talks about, but all of
our friends all read it.
It's called Too Late, it's more.
Oh, I read that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really good.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So it's different than her other ones, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The thing I like about like Colleen Hoover is I
feel like I can appreciate allher books, like they're just
easy to get into, you know.
It's like you don't have tolike really try or like think,
it's just like very easy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I also really like Leanne Moriarty.
Oh yeah, I like her too.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, hypnotist love story I remember.
I love she did Big Little Lies.
She misses, though.
Her latest one with the tennisfamily what was that?
One called Apple Doesn't FallFar or something that was
painful, but generally I likeher, yeah I like sally hepworth
I love sally.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I've read every single one.
They're just like very gooddomestic thrillers.
I think is what they're, yeahthat's a good way to put it and
they're all like.
I wouldn't say any of them arethe best book I've ever read,
but they're all just like, verysolid, like you could read any
single one of them.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I read Darling Girls recently.
That one was good also, likeyou love Elin.
Haven't you met Elin?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Sammy, yes, yeah, I went to like an event and she
like talked and she's great.
I follow her on Instagram likeI just I don't know.
She shares everything and likeyou can kind of see all of like
her life and her books.
It's really cool and she'swriting a book or it's about to
come out, I think, likeSeptember 15th or something a
book with her daughter, who herdaughter's like 18 or 19.
(15:34):
They read a wrote a booktogether.
I think the daughter goes to aboarding school, so it's like a
boarding school drama type bookand she's like it's not like
young adult, like it's very likeanyone can read it.
So I'm excited because thatwill be different than what she
normally writes.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh, how cool.
I don't know many.
I mean I can't think of anotherlike co-author novel with them
daughter duo, that's definitelylike an interesting kind of
angle.
Sammy, you said that you gotyour recommendation for one of
the books that we talked aboutfrom TikTok.
Is that like where you find alot of your book recs?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, tiktok, instagram, like I have saved
collections for both apps ofbooks that I see.
I follow certain bookinfluencers, I have group chats
with different friends that arelike book recommendations.
So I, yeah, I get honestly fromeverywhere and then I use
Goodreads to keep track of themall.
(16:27):
But the Goodreads app is notgood, like Kristen, like you
have probably have a better userexperience writing them in your
note than what Goodreads does.
Like it's just it looks like itwas built in 2007 and hasn't
been updated since.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Really, yeah, I legit don't know how to friend
someone.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I can't figure out how to friend someone it's
really difficult and, like Ieven tried today, I want to sort
books by when I most recentlyread them, so that way I could
like see the ones from this pastyear.
And I couldn't even do that.
It's just yeah and there'sother ones that I think like
people have like tried to make,but it's just like it's already
so universal that nothing elsehas really replaced it.
(17:08):
But it's just not good.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's really surprising.
Goodreads do better.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, they have a lot of potential.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, like I have some ideas that I'll share.
Like me and two of my friends,we do a mini book club where,
like, we're actually reading it.
We're not like doing a socialhour, we are like doing this to
read.
So we did just three of us, butwe're like, if you could just
go on Goodreads, pick your twoother friends and be like, pull
a book out that's on everyone'swant to read, that no one else
has read.
Yeah, so simple.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And I'm like it's like basic internet stuff that
it should be able to do Likethere's a lot of opportunity.
Who owns Goodreads Amazon?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They might.
They're like half all theintegration.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But, oh, get it together.
Amazon, seriously, yeah, makeit better, please.
Like, how do you friend someone?
And well, I actually didn'tknow about Goodreads forever.
I mean, I'd seen it, I knew itwas like a review thing, but I
didn't really know.
But I was like, oh my god, youguys, I have such a good idea
for an app.
Like you put it's like socialmedia for books.
Like you put all the booksyou've read and you have friends
(18:09):
, you could see what books theyread, and then you could see
books like you want to read andwhatever, and like you could
comment to each other andthey're like, yeah, that exists,
it's, it's called goodreads,that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Well, you're right, though.
Goodreads is owned by Amazon.
It announced its acquisition ofthe website in March 2013,
which is very ironic givenAmazon's roots.
They started by selling books.
Jeff Bezos, get back to yourroots here, man, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
They've forgotten about Goodreads.
That needs to get back on thepriority list for.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Amazon.
I think after 12 years, theywould have updated something by
now.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Seriously yeah, do you get your book recs from
Goodreads too?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, I mean, I mostly get my book
recommendations from Sammy.
Oh, that's perfect.
I like to like hear from someonewho's already read the book.
I feel like sometimes when Ilike I all do the redheads you
know, like the toast, how theyhave their redheads.
I know you like that, Sammy,too, but lately they have been
(19:11):
on my shit list because they'vebeen picking bad books and then
I read them and I'm like whatthe fuck redheads Don't make me
read these bad books.
Can someone pre-read them andthen tell me to read them, or
something?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I can't be caught talking negatively, but they had
a few bad books in a row.
I read the most recent one andit was good.
It was called Margo's Got MoneyProblems.
It was not what I expected, butI ended up liking it.
I also do listen to podcasts onbooks.
Like Ellen Hildebrand has apodcast.
Oh, I listen to the Redheads.
(19:37):
And then I also like this is sonerdy of me, but when I finish
a book, like I'll just search onthe podcast app like the name
of the book and I like listen toa podcast about it, cause I
just like like talking about itand I'm like if someone didn't
just read the book, like it'shard to talk about with someone
else, I'm like I just likehearing other people talk about
it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That is also kind of great strategy.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, I've never thought to do that, but I think
I definitely will now.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Cause, whenever you finish a book, yeah, you're like
I want to talk about this withsomeone, I want to hear other
people's opinions, but like it'skind of in that moment you need
it.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, because I'll have friends that read a book
that I told them or anyone, andlike they read it six months
later and they're texting me ohmy God, that part with blah,
blah, blah and I'm like I haveno idea what you.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, I like this question what's your
favorite book boyfriend?
Mine is still Miles from FunnyStory.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh right, Did you guys read that?
I just thought he was like sonice.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I loved, how nice he was.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
There's like two from the Boys of Tom and that I love
.
Like Johnny Kavanaugh is moreof like the all-american athlete
, like really good kid and he'sso sweet, I love him.
And then there's also, likesome of the other books, there's
more of like this bad guy, vibe, who, like I, wouldn't actually
go for in real life but justreading about him you fall in
(21:03):
love with him so I feel like I'mgonna go old school, which kind
of leads into our questionabout books, to movies and TV
show adaptions.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The number one boyfriend of all time, mr Darcy,
from Pride and Prejudice,that's like my number one.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh, wait, okay, I want to ask you guys this Do you
read classic books, like theclassics, like Charles Dickens?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Not now, not now, not now, I mean, there's only been
like a couple of classics thatI've reread because I loved them
so much when I was younger,like the Catch and the Rye I
reread as an adult and it wasgood but I don't seek them out.
Like a lot of those old books,I feel like I'm spending so much
time trying to dissect, like ordissect exactly what they're
even saying, like the languageitself that I can't work exactly
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.
I can't even really understandlike the like what's happening,
because I'm just too in theweeds with the actual words yeah
, I feel like school ruined thatfor me, just making it into
like work and they'd be likewhat did the color yellow mean,
right?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
yeah, it's like how was that a?
Theme throughout the book, likeI don't care yeah yeah, I'm
like I'm just trying to say like, was the book good?
Was it bad?
Like, did you laugh?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
yeah, I don't even like, sometimes like people will
be like yeah, I don't like theway that, like she's not good at
writing or like I noticed this,I'm like oh, I never noticed
that I just like a readingapplaud, like I have no idea if
they're good at writing or not,like yeah, you wrote a book, so
you're.
You're better than me.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
What was your favorite like summer reading
book, though?
Do you guys remember Like Idefinitely think Captain the
Ride was one of my faves?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I remember liking Great Gatsby, and Of Mice and
Men, oh yeah and uh, of mice, ofmen.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh yeah, I like that one too.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I felt like lord of the flies, wasn't bad, I hated
shakespeare that was like myleast favorite by far you had to
read on the left side was likethe actual language and the
right side was like basically atranslation to modern day
english.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, yeah, I'm not trying to work that hard.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
No, no yeah, outsiders that was a good one
that was a movie in the 80s Iread we read that in middle
school like english class.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Well, speaking of book to movie, tv, what are like
our favorite adaptions?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
or any ones that are coming out that we're excited
about.
I'm excited about the handmadecoming out same good, sydney
sweeney's in it.
Have you read that book?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
no you would love it yeah, it's a thriller.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I mean it's an easy thriller read.
I used to have it, but I thinkI actually gave it away.
Oh wait, we should telleveryone to do your shower theme
, because that was like the besttheme ever for sammy shower we
did.
It was a book theme and it waslike book club and and in the
invitation we had like a littlething that said like sammy's
little library, like everyonebring a book to, not for the
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bride to like swap, and so likeit's basically like you come
with a book, you leave with anew book.
I came with, I think, two booksand I left with like four or
five books.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
What a good idea.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And everyone was just like yeah, brought home their
book and talked like oh, I thinkyou should read this one.
I remember walking in andseeing that, though, and thought
they were all for me, and I waslike I have no room for this,
oh my god, and read the littlething, I was like wait, this is
adorable yeah, we had to make itclear that, like they weren't
all for you, hilarious but, yeah, it was like just like a great
conversation starter at like ashower.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Everyone I've told about it is like whoa, that's
such a great idea so, like otherpeople, should steal it.
Maybe taylor can do it for hershower.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, that's a great idea.
I love that so unique for bookto movie.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I like I think some of the best ones are just the
series, like the old series,like harry potter, hunger games,
twilight, like I think all oftheir games.
Yeah did a really good job.
Yeah, the help is another one.
I hope you guys have read orwatched that.
I haven't I have and then watchit.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It was really good, I would say.
I mean, I've said it again, Iwon't pride and prejudice, but
we all know my feelings on thatI also loved when we were
younger.
I think the and I've read thebook.
I think the movie's better awalk to remember.
So so good.
That's a great movie, and thenthat's a couple that has
chemistry oh my God, like MandyMoore and Shane West, like
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that's why that movie was sogood, cause they have good
chemistry and I've seen sincethey've done interviews Like she
was like 15 or 16 when they didthat movie and she said that
Shane West, the guy who playsLandon, was like the best to her
, like just, and they're stillfriends, they still keep up.
She did her like Hollywood walkof fame and he was there.
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So I love that.
And then I also remember when Iwas younger loving these two
books and then loving the moviesthe sisterhood of traveling
pants oh yeah, theories, if youhave like any young people in
your life or whatever, if youjust want to read it.
It is so cute, so good, and Ilove the movie as well.
There's two of them and thenalso the perks of being a
wallflower.
It became a movie with LoganLerman, emma Watson was in it
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and I remember really likingthat as well.
So definitely myrecommendations.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Did you guys see or read?
Are you there, god?
It's me Margaret.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh no, but I know you like that one.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It was so cute Like it did the book such good
justice.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I'm really excited for the one that Emily Henry the
people we meet on vacationthat's coming out soon, that's
being me a movie.
Yeah, and it's coming out, Ithink pretty soon, and the
actors, the girls kind of a noname.
The boy is.
He played the young PresidentSnow in like the latest hunger
game movie.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm hoping it'll be really good I feel like one bad
one was speaking of elonhildebrand, the perfect couple
do you guys?
Watch that.
I loved the book, but I thoughtthe show was way better book
was one that they did off.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
They didn't they.
The show is good, the book isgood, but they are not the same
at all as firefly lane did youguys?
Oh yes, yes, it changed theentire thing, but like both are
good, but I kind of just had tolike forget about the book
watching the show because it wasso different and I was good
again.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah I don't love when they do that, though if
they, if they change it toosubstantially, like that reminds
me of my sister's keeper Ithink that was a Jodi Picoult.
The ending is such a massivepart of the book and then they
completely did a 180 in themovie and I remember being like
what's the point of that?
Like it's like that was thewhole purpose, but I forgot
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about Firefly Lane.
Liked both of them, yeah, butit is definitely very different
Also.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Summer I turned pretty oh.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That was better.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I think oh, also, if we're talking book boyfriends,
I'm taking Conrad.
Oh, yes, what am I thinking?
What are we thinking?
What are we thinking, oh my God.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Team Conrad all day.
Well, should we get into ourSeven Sisters review?
Yeah, let's do it.
I'm excited to hear what youguys thought.
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Me too.
Should we give a little likesummary or something?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh yeah, that's a good idea, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Google gave me one Great All right, all right, real
quick.
So in the first book of LucindaRiley's series, the seven
sisters were introduced to MayaDiapolis and her five sisters,
all adopted by their mysteriousbillionaire father, pa Salt
After his sudden death.
The sisters gather at theirbeautiful home on Lake Geneva.
Each is given a clue to herheritage.
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As the eldest, maya's clueleads her to Rio de Janeiro in
Brazil.
Using a dual timeline, the bookfollows Maya in the present day
as she uncovers her familyhistory and also transports
readers to the 1920s Rio, wherewe learn the story of her
great-grandmother, isabellaBonifacio, a passionate young
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woman who must choose between anarranged marriage with an
aristocrat and a forbidden lovewith a sculptor working on the
Christ Redeemer statue.
The novel explores themes ofloss, love, destiny, as Maya
pieces together her past and, indoing so, finds a new direction
for her own future.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
So, yeah, what'd you guys like?
I timed myself a little wrongwith my reading schedule and I
did it this morning, so it'sreally fresh.
I loved it.
Like I did not expect this,because it opens with you're
talking about the six sisters,you're going to learn a little
bit about each one and BrittanyI had just started and I was
like, oh, I made a list of thesix sisters to keep track and
then like it's not about them atall, it's literally just about
one and then it goes backthrough her kind of family's
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history.
But I loved it at first.
When it flashed back to Bella'slife I was like, oh, I don't
want to read about this.
And then all of a sudden I'mlike now I don't want to read
about the present day.
It sucks you in so fast.
I really enjoyed her as kind ofthe main character and like her
story and, yeah, I overallwould recommend.
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I rated it five stars onGoodreads.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I'm with you, sammy.
I binged it this week and Ifeel like sometimes when you
like have to read a book by acertain timeline, it can feel
like homework.
But I was like totally in anytype of like like astrology,
astronomy, parallel, I'm totallyin for that.
I love that type of stuff andwe'll kind of get into this.
But I think one of my favoriteparts about the book was that
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it's that it incorporates realtime people and events, so like,
for instance, at one point it'sset in 1920s Paris and they
talk about Chanel influencingthe fashion, they talk about
going into, like the artist areaand they see F Scott Fitzgerald
and Pablo Picasso and JamesJoyce and like all these real
people.
First off, totally didn'trealize that Pablo Picasso was
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alive in like the 1920s.
I thought that guy was like inthe 1700s.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Totally learned something new there.
What did you think?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
of it.
Yeah, I mean I loved it.
I felt like the same way.
I like couldn't put it downbecause I was like so interested
in the current story and then Iwas like so into the new story
and I was so frustrated with thegirl Bella like the historical
one, because I was like is shegoing to end up with?
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what's the guy's name?
Now I read this a month agoLaurent.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, I really wantedher with him.
Like are they going to end uptogether?
And I feel like I read a lot ofbooks so I can usually like
guess the ending, but I had likeno clue what was going to
happen this whole time.
And then, like in the future,it's like the mystery about,
like how she's related to themand like what happened to her
family and like these are likegenerations apart, so like how
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did they all come together?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
like yeah, I just felt like she kept she kept you
hanging on until the very endand I also feel like it explored
a lot of like the theme of itwith, yeah, like with Isabella
the grandmother, like what doyou want to do versus what you
should do, you know?
Like, do you marry into therich family that your parents
want you to and like you'll havesecurity, or do you follow your
heart?
So, like, those types ofstories are always really
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interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
It is so crazy, just like being a woman then, and
it's not even that long ago,like some of the things that
it's like like when she wasn'teven allowed to like step
outside in Paris, when she wasthere, yeah, I know what of her
going.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I know what of her going?
No Well, she kind of likelearned.
It's like she almost learned alesson too, because she ended up
dying like three years later.
That was crazy.
So she should have been, sheshould have stayed with the guy
from Paris, like she didn'treally end up having a life
there anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, that's such a good point.
Yeah, that is like a goodlesson of it of, like you know,
live the life you want to live.
I mean me and Brittany havetalked about this before Like we
, our number one.
Like value is like no rules andfreedom, like I read those
books and I'm like, oh my God,blessed to live when we do.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Like I didn't know much about, like Brazil, yeah,
Just like Brazil's history, buteven it's like in the 1920s.
It sounds like that's when,like a lot of like the coffee
industry was booming and it's.
But it seems like they werelike even more behind us in
terms, or like America in termsof like I don't know.
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I feel like they were stillhanging on to that like
tradition and like socialsociety and stuff like that,
like they kept calling it thenew world, like like North and
South America, but I felt likethey were still like living like
the old world.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, it was like a throwback to like Titanic right
when it's like, oh, they're newmoney.
It was definitely that like newmoney, new coffee farms, versus
old money, which you know justrich inheritance.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
And had so many different surprises, like, first
of all, belle or Isabelle dying, I did not expect that.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Like at that, such young age.
And then the part whereBeatrice, who's the grandmother,
didn't even know who her realdad was.
Like I assume when she wastelling this whole story she
knew all that.
Then at the end it was like, oh, she met the professor's
assistant.
And then I like went back andread it twice because I was like
, wait, did she just not knowthat that was her father?
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So crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Sammy, that's so funny.
I wrote that too.
I was like that made me sad.
When she goes over to Paris andshe does spend time with
Laurent, like I was so happy forhim because I felt so bad for
Laurent, like he knows that hehas a child.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Okay, I remember now.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, and he knows he has a child and he but but his
love is not going to stay withhim.
She's going to stay with her,the guy she married and Gustavo.
And so he goes back to Parisand then like I love that he got
to interact with his kid and heknew it, but I felt so bad for
his daughter, beatrix, yeah,that she never knew that and
then she thought her dad wasjust kind of like a drunk who
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didn't want to spend time withher.
But yeah, that was sad yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Gustavo was like I couldn't.
At first I was like thought hewas a nice guy and then he kept
being like so aggressive oncethey started getting married.
I I was like oh, he's anasshole.
Like this is easy, now youdefinitely can leave him.
Yeah, and I've like showed hisside and I'm like his parents
didn't treat him well.
So he wasn't a bad guy, he justwas dumb, like he didn't know
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how to like have a wife and hejust kind of was like I don't
want to show emotion because mymom told me I showed too much
emotion and now like so I feltbad for him at the end, but I
feel like she should havedefinitely left him.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Like I felt like they weredefinitely leading towards him
being almost I was expectingthere to be violence, like I was
expecting him, as the story wasprogressing, like get you know
more of a drinking problem, endup being violent and then it's
an easy person to root against.
But, agreed, like you do feelbad because the mom's such a
bitch and Isabelle or Bella islike the most beautiful woman in
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Brazil and he is not attractiveat all.
So, like he, he knows she's notinto him.
So, yeah, you kind of felt badfor him at the end and then,
like, when he found out that shedid have an affair, he was, you
know, nicer to her than youwould expect and like he kept
her secret.
It definitely, you know, nicerto her than you would expect and
like he kept her secret, itdefinitely made me like him more
, but he was never someone thatI was rooting for.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, I know I was like the whole time because it
was weird, because I felt likeyou kind of knew that like bella
didn't end up with laurenbecause the maya was related to
gustav, I don't know, we weren'tsure they got together.
But yeah, I was the whole time,though I was just still hoping.
I kept thinking she was gonnalike trade places with that,
like friend that was writing toher right and like I was like
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why'd they keep bringing thisgirl up?
I thought they were.
But then you know why I read inthe the like.
Author's note it's because sheused like a lot of that girl
that was a real girl and her dadwas like building the Christ
Redeemer and a lot of like herjournals and stuff were like
inspiration.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh, I love that.
It's like a bigger part.
Yeah, did you guys end up likelooking up anything about Christ
the Redeemer?
Because, oh, okay, well, Iguess I keep forgetting that
everyone who's listening rightnow has read the book, but so
much of it being focused on theconstruction of Christ the
Redeemer and like the realpeople who did it it totally.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I started googling.
I was like, oh, we saw there'sa like a remake of it in
portugal.
Oh, right, right, yeah, yeah.
And I remember when we went onthat we went on the boat cruise
in portugal.
I remember them talking aboutit and they said it was like a
replica of the real one inbrazil.
It's like a nod to brazil yeah,that's a tough question.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Like didn't, didn't he say he was going to make it a
mosaic?
That didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I don't know, I didn't look up that part, but I
thought the mosaic, those tilesthat they were putting on, I
feel like they did do it right.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yeah, I was picturing the statue being blue little
tiles.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, I know Good question.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
But yeah, I did like how they centered it all around
that.
That was interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Who do you guys think would play the main characters?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I said Anna de Armas because it seems like she was
like gorgeous and I think theysaid that she had like dark hair
and fair like.
So that's who I picture wasAnna de Armas.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's a good one.
Hair and fair like.
So that's who I pictured wasAnna de Armas.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
I'm so bad at this, like I cannever think of anyone, I wrote
down Vanessa Hudgens, oh okay.
And then for my I did MilaKunis, because I was just trying
to think of like someone that'sshe's good and brown hair.
And then I did Gustavo, like hejust was like such a joke in my
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head that I did James Marston,like someone that like literally
, yeah, he just keeps appearingand he's just clueless and
that's what I was thinking of,but looks wise, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Oh yeah, I see that oh, laurent would be like,
because he's fair-skinned.
He's, I think, timothy chalametI was even french.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Who were you saying leo for him?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
oh, oh, yeah, yeah leo, yeah, oh, leo woodall, the
guy from one day and the newbridget jones, oh yeah and the
White Lotus.
What a cutie.
I would totally watch that.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yes, I love him.
Love him, I would watch thathe's dating the girl from White
Lotus.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yes, megan Fahey Love her, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Me too.
I read the second and the third.
I just finished the third, likea week ago, and I'm reading
another book in between thefourth, because the fourth
sister seems like she kind ofsucks.
But I actually thought thethird one was like the best one
which sister?
Is that about Star, who's likethe quiet one?
about that whole CC and Stardynamic me too yeah yeah, so
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she's like she's I mean thisisn't giving it away because you
could read it in the back ofthe book.
Like she, her story is likefrom England and it ties back to
like one of the.
It's very like Downton Abbey,like oh, love that.
Yeah, like one of those likeold families that had one of
those like big estates that theyhad to manage and whatnot.
But that one was good.
And the second one was good too.
Wasn't my probably my leastfavorite, but it was still
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really good, are they all likethe same time period going back,
or like some later.
Oh, going back, no, no, sothat's what I like too.
Like they're all different.
Like in the second one there'slike two different.
It flashes back on like twodifferent people from her family
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, so like one from like the late1800s and then one from like
world war ii period and thenlike the.
The third one is like onlyflashback to one person, but
it's like kind of likethroughout her whole life.
So it covers like a lot moretime.
So they're all kind ofdifferent.
But the the present day part, Ithink, is like pretty much the
same and like they definitelyintertwine more.
Like they'll talk about likethere's like a show that the
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second sister does and the thirdsister goes to it and they like
talk about it in the secondsister's book and the third
sister's book, like from both oftheir perspectives.
And yeah, they obviously talkabout like Pa Salt dying and all
that stuff, like from each oftheir perspectives.
So it's good, it's like, yeah,it's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Can we talk about, though, pa Salt for a second,
because I feel like that's a bigcomponent that we haven't
touched on First off.
Is Pa Salt alive?
Because the end of the bookmakes me feel like he is alive.
I feel like he could be alivetoo.
Yeah, because Allie's like,okay, there's this boat wreck,
he was involved, I don't know.
It left me thinking like, okay,so he might be alive.
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He no one actually saw him getburied.
Also, the fact that pod knewabout Maya's baby I loved, I was
like he just knows her betterthan she knows himself, or yeah,
yeah, she knows herself.
And also the only part about thebook that I didn't like, love,
and I'm sure we'll getconfirmation of this in the
second, but I just wish.
I mean, it was very apparent tome that Paul Salt is the little
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boy who was the impoverishedkid who comes across like
Dowsey's, like studio, and theytake him in.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
That's what I thought .
Oh, you think.
Yeah, I think I might've hadthat thought too.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I just was like what's the connection otherwise?
Why would he choose her?
And there's this little boythat's keeping that keeps
getting mentioned.
It would have been probablylike somewhat the same age, I
think, and I was looking forconfirmation of that and it
never came.
So that was like the only onlypiece.
But that was my theory.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I just got chills you saying that oh.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
I know, though, but I don't, but I don't, I can't
imagine that he's like connectedto one of them and not the rest
.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Well, I had that thought too and I was like,
because one of the questionsthat was like kind of in the
book club was like what do youthink about Pasal's decision to
adopt the daughters?
And like do you think it'smorally right or wrong?
And in my mind it's morallyright, like he gave them a good
life.
It wasn't like you know he,they didn't have a great
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upbringing.
But I was thinking about that,like why would he have adopted
all of these people?
And my thought is like maybeit's.
They're all related to peoplethat throughout his life those
people helped him.
So like Lendowski and Laurenthelped him, took him in, gave
him shelter, you know gave him acraft whatever.
So he was looking out forLaurent's family and then like
maybe when he's in his twenties,like there's a family that
gives him something and so he'slooking out for them.
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So that's kind of like what myearly day hypothesis is.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
I could see that the last book I think is about him.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh, that's a great yeah, heard it here first.
No, it actually is oh the lastbook's about him.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
That is, oh, the last book's about him.
That would be cool, like I justcan't believe that, like they
knew nothing about him and likeno one I know one I did not get.
I don't know what her name ismaria marina.
Is that their mom?
Like I know it's not their mom,but like were they together
romantically?
Like what?
No, she was.
Yeah, it's weird like a house,like a nanny like.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I didn't think she was like their housekeeper.
Yeah, yeah, they called her maso like a nanny, like I think
she was, like their housekeeper,yeah, yeah they called her ma,
so I was getting so confused.
I was like and they, they actlike she is, like their mom.
But yeah, it's weird becausethere's no like relationship
yeah, okay, yeah well, whatoverall then?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
like?
What do we think, though do wewould, we would recommend yes,
definitely definitely recommend,loved it it was good.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And for historical fiction, I feel like I've never
read a book set in brazil.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Same I didn't know that much about brazil, and it's
great because all of them areabout like different areas.
Like the second one's a lotabout norway, um which is
interesting and like it's about,like the symphony and the
orchestra there, which I guessit's a big deal, and then, like
I said, the third one's likeDownton Abbey.
I don't know about the fourthone yet yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I like how they're all set in different places.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
We're learning so much about different cities
around the world yeah, justbecoming so worldly and cultural
, oh my god we're so culturedsammy.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
This was so much fun yay, we could have talked for
like another hour girl yeah, somuch to talk about.
I'm so glad we got to do this Iknow same.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I'm glad we had our first one with the ultimate
bookworm, samantha nolte martinyes, so many good takes.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well, we hope everyone has a great weekend.
Next week actually, we havesammy's husband coming on kyle
and we're going to talk allthings.
Baby k making an appearance onthe pod.
We can't wait, so definitelytune in for that and remember to
like us, comment.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Follow us on social tiktok and instagram.
We also have just found out wehave comments on YouTube which
we're so excited about.
So sorry if we've ignored you,but we'll get back to you.
Yeah, and keep commenting.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, keep commenting .
Sorry for like two months lateon some of those, but we are
just figuring out how, to youknow, work the internet.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, and tell everyone you know about us, and
that's all we have for today.
Thanks, Sammy.
Thank you guys for having meAnytime.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Can't wait to have you back.
Bye, everybody, bye.
Ready, ready.
Hey everyone, welcome back tothe latest episode of Snitchin'
it's your host, kristen.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And Brittany, Get ready for the best part of your
day Happy Friday snitches.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
This is a very exciting Friday episode for us.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have the Sammy, the biggest bookworm that I know
, my new sister-in-law I can'tbelieve I can call you that
officially and yeah, just theperson I know that loves books
more than anything.
Sammy Nolte Well, I guess SammyMartin now, technically yes,
Almost there.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
We're working through the name change but yes, I'm so
excited to be here.
I'm Sammy.
I am Brittany's sister-in-law.
I'm a huge fan of books, so I'msuper excited to talk through
the book club pick and kind ofour thoughts on reading in
general.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yes, sammy, is it true.
I've heard the rumor that yourparents used to punish you, not
by taking away like TV orgrounding you, but just taking
away your books.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, that is what they did, which is kind of crazy
because I feel like that istaking away from your child
learning, but it's something,but Sammy was also there for the
bat breaking.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So, sammy, let's let the snitches hear your side of
the story.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, I was sleeping and I woke up in the middle of
the night I think it was likefour in the morning to Connor
screaming and he was crying, andI then heard Brittany say
something about why don't you gowash your hands?
So I thought like I don't know,he threw up, he wet the bed
like something like just withConnor, like not affecting
(01:34):
anyone else, and I must've justlike rolled over and fell back
to sleep.
And then the next morningBrittany was like yeah, there
was a bat in the room and I waslike, oh my God, no way, that's
disgusting.
We started like talking aboutthe rabies and the shot and I
was like, okay, well, this is.
I'm like a hypochondriac, soI'm like you guys shouldn't have
told me about this.
I'm looking up everything she'slike next level, Asking all my
(01:58):
medical friends should I begoing to get this?
I think I probably would haveif I had a car and.
I was someone else drive me likeI probably would have went.
But also what threw me off wasthat you had to get four
different shots.
So I was like if it was one Iprobably would have gotten it,
but we just like we kept lookingat every avenue and there was
just no way that anyone else wasactually in the room with the
(02:22):
bat, so we didn't get it.
I think we have to wait like afew months to just make sure.
That's the worst part.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
But like four months from now, we can be dead.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
No, I was like I was like off, I put on my clothes to
go for a run and then I waslike this could be like one of
my last days, like I'm notrunning, I didn't go for a run.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh, I would use that excuse for the next four months.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Easy, yeah.
But the exterminator did comeand he well, my dad said he was
like it's highly unlikely a batwould get in, Like they couldn't
have got across the rooms.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So that's peace of mind.
I mean literally.
I told I was with Mish, who thesnitches know.
She was on the pod and she waslike, oh yeah, I had a friend
that happened to in the Southend.
I was like, am I just the onlyperson that had no PSA about
bats flying in your room?
I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Same.
This was why I had to educate,I had to spread awareness.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh, my God, thank you so much.
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Hopefully I'm not dead in four months.
Kristen, I loved your referenceto the office episode.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh, oh yeah, such a good episode.
I love that Hilarious.
Well, I'm ready to learn aboutsome new books.
Should we get into our topics?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm so excited for this episode.
I love books.
But okay, so yeah, we read theSeven Sisters book.
All three of us read it.
We're going to talk about it.
We understand that probably noteveryone has read it, so we're
going to save that discussionfor the end.
We'll do a little summary forthose who didn't read it and if
you want to read it, you can hopoff.
But first we're just going tostart talking about general book
discussion book club here.
(04:01):
So question question number onewhat are the best books that
you've read in the last year,sammy?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
you go first okay, so I read this series this year,
or I haven't read all.
I have one left and I'm justnot.
I'm not starting it because, oh, kristen will love this.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is this the irish boy , one the irish?
Oh yes, high school, yes, it'slike.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So it's called the boys of common series.
The first one's called binding13 and it's like how I describe
it to people it feels like I'mreading one tree hill, but it's
like set in Ireland.
So it's about like it's a groupof high schoolers and they're
all like really good rugbyplayers or the, the guys, and
they all like date each otherand there's like it's so cute
(04:47):
and I love all of the characters.
Like it's so fun, it's funny,but it's like sad, it's
everything, and they are acommitment.
Like I don't recommend it toeveryone because it's like one,
not everyone cares to read abouthigh schoolers, but two, they
are long.
What's that?
Like cares to read about highschoolers, but they are long.
Like you said that you're likeI'm not a long book person.
(05:08):
I would try the first one inthere.
I'm obsessed.
What's the name?
Again, the boys of Tommen.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh my God, I mean literally sold snitches.
Can't see but my, my hands likewe're thrown up twice in that
description.
We've got Ireland and oh, likehigh school love and drama.
That sounds amazing.
How long are these?
Are we talking?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think like 600.
Okay, it's just crazy for likewhat that substance is, Cause
it's not like it's like ahistorical book that has so much
.
But try the first one.
The first one's called binding13.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I know I feel like I didn't read it Cause you were
like, were like, I don't know ifyou like it, if it's too high
school-y, but then you were likeoh, maybe you will like it, so
maybe I should read it yeah,like I, me and my friend, like
we both really like it, and thenI was like slowly introducing
it to other people, so I gave itto my sister and now she's like
four books in.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
She's loving it.
So it's like, okay, now I feellike I'm not just being a weirdo
liking these and it's actuallylike how did you find it?
Someone else told me about it.
And then, yeah, coming up on myTikTok and then here we are.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, you should try the audio book, kristen.
I feel like you would like theaudio book Like go on a walk.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
They're on Spotify.
I mean I definitely am like anauditory person.
I I mean I definitely am likean auditory person.
I love podcasts, I love music.
But I mean I'm good with likeI'll read it if it's if the
thing is, if I'm into the book,I'll fly through it.
But generally I will notapproach a book that I haven't
read if it's over like 400 pagesbecause, yeah, I just think
it's too long of a commitment.
But this is sounding right upmy alley.
(06:41):
So I'm willing to give it a try.
I'm already thinking thatthat's like a perfect like book
to TV adaption.
I've already cast Paul Meskelin my mind as the main character
.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I don't even know who that is.
Normal people, oh yes, oh, Ilove him.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I do love the, the Irish boys.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Totally.
I was going to tell a tangentabout when me and my friend Jill
went to Ireland and I've beenseeing this like trend now
online where they get Irish boysto say the number 33.
And I feel like I need to claimthat because her and I that was
our joke back in Ireland Really, three cents or whatever.
(07:21):
And the waiter came over andwas like, oh, it's $9.33.
And I was like, oh my God, thatis the best thing an Irish
person can say, hands down.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And now it's like a trend.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now it's a trend.
Yeah, we send those TikToks toeach other, but yeah, okay, I'm
sold.
I'm sold, great pick.
I'm trying to think of some ofthe best books I've read in the
last couple of years.
I would say Small Mercies.
I loved that book.
Oh, yeah, I read that too, isthat?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
the South Boston.
Yeah, what was that about?
Again, it's like about it's setlike the backdrop is like the
busing thing in the 70s, butit's like not really about that,
but it's like a lot about justlike all like the prejudicedness
and the like racism in the 70sand like I don't know if it's
Whitey Bulger or like a WhiteyBulger type character in it.
So there's like a mob thinggoing on and like the main
character is like a mom andshe's like ends up being really
(08:11):
badass and it's just, it's good.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
The one that I was thinking about.
I read it more than a year agoand I've already talked about it
.
But I write all the books thatI have read like in my notes app
and I was looking through itand you know, a lot of times,
like you look through titles andI'm like I can't totally
remember what this was about,what this was about.
But the one that I saw that Iwas like, oh, I loved this, was
the I'm glad my mom died byJeanette McCurdy, the
(08:35):
Nickelodeon star.
That book is it's autobiography.
It's so good and it's about herrelationship with her mother,
who was definitely like theultimate stage mom as she was
starring on Nickelodeon so good.
So I would definitely say thatone.
And then also, I think you'veread this Brit and Sammy.
I feel like you probably wouldhave too, because I know it's
been pretty popular.
(08:56):
I think it might be being madeinto a movie is the last, mrs
Parrish.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah, I love that book.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
One of the made into a movie.
I thought I saw that Don't.
I could be wrong, but I feellike it's probably.
I think that was one of thebest like twists and I won't say
the twist, but one of the besttwists that I've that I've seen
in a book.
I think JLo is in it.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh JLo.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That's good.
Oh, I wonder who she isInteresting.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, that was one of the first books I read.
Like I kind of had a gap ofreading Really, yeah, like
probably like a little incollege and then after that, and
then COVID like brought me backinto it, but like right before
that, because I remember I wasat my grandmother's house in
Florida and I was reading thelast.
Mrs parish loved it and Iaccidentally left it there and
(09:49):
then she had texted me like oh,I started that book and it was
like very like inappropriate.
but I remember her grandmotherand I'd be like oh, my god,
that's so awkward that she'sreading this and you know.
But I just read it and I, yeah,that one was so good.
And then did you read thesecond one no oh, it came out,
yeah read it, it was good ohyeah, okay, it's good.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It wasn't as good, but like it was good.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
The next, mrs Parrish yeah, oh my gosh, I already
have two books.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, let's go, okay oh, you're gonna have so many
books.
Oh, you know, the other one Iloved is the Marjorie Post.
Like, if people haven't readthat, read that book.
No, magn I loved is theMarjorie Post.
Like, if people haven't readthat, read that book.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post.
You didn't read that, no, whatam I doing oh?
God, yeah, I mean yeah, but theMagnificent Lives of Marjorie
Post is so good it's about.
So Marjorie Post is like Inlike early 1900s and he like he
started out but then he kind ofdied.
(10:47):
She like really made it intolike what it is, but it's like
all about her life and she justhas like she grew up obviously
like super rich, but she's likevery charitable and it's like
she lives through both worldwars and like she donates a lot
and like I don't know, she justis a very fascinating human
being.
I would definitely recommend itif you like history especially.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Sweet.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Let's do our all-time favorite books.
Mine's, the Nightingale.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Nightingale, yeah, I think that's going to have one
of the biggest box officeopenings of the year.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I feel like that type of stuff, though it's harder to
watch on TV.
That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I can't wait though yeah, that that is.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That would definitely be on mine and, of course,
harry potter oh yeah, of course,all the hps oh, I read, we read
the kite runner oh, that was agreat book yeah, read that, that
was really good I was trying tothink of mine.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I feel like I don't have like books specifically.
I have all time favoriteauthors Like I love.
I mean, I'm definitely a chicklit reader and I love Ellen
Hildebrand.
All of her books are set onNantucket, Always like a love
story, always a lot about likethe relationship between
characters.
And then there's also thisauthor, Emily Giffen.
She wrote Something Borrowed,Something Blue.
(12:05):
She has one called Baby Proofthat I also love.
I love those authors justbecause of their consistency.
You know exactly what you'regoing to get when you pick up
one of their books and I feellike they always deliver and I'm
always left satisfied with whatI read.
It's always kind of easy,breezy storylines, but I like
them a lot and I feel like theauthor, Emily Henry, is kind of
(12:26):
coming up in that genre.
She wrote what are some of theones?
Like people you meet Funnystory yes, Happy place.
People you meet on vacation.
So I feel like those areauthors that I like generally.
But I did put down one of thefirst books that like hit me so
hard I was sobbing reading thiswas do you guys remember the
Pact by Jodi Picoult.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Holy moly.
I mean haven't read it since Iwas literally a teenager, but I,
yeah, same.
Is that a movie?
I think it was like a Hallmarkadaption or something Jodi
Picoult's good adaption orsomething Jodi Picoult's good.
She's really good at doing.
Every one of her books, fromwhat I remember, has a legal
(13:10):
component and she's really goodat taking you through the court
case and the court proceedingsand that whole process.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
My favorite.
I'd always say 19 Minutes wasmy favorite book for a while and
then I haven't read it sincehigh school, but I remember it
being so good that was like theschool shooting right, yeah,
yeah, so good, so good, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
What about what other authors do?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
we like here?
I like, I mean, what do youguys think about Colleen Hoover?
Oh, I like her, everyone like.
I feel like everyone eitherlike, likes her or they're like
think that it's too basic tolike her.
I enjoy the books, so I haven'tread one that I haven't liked,
and I'm excited for a lot ofthem to become movies too.
It sounds like.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah, I think I heard regretting you.
That was that has a castalready reminders of him.
I think it's also being filmed.
I'm so excited for Verity.
I think that's my favoriteColleen Hoover book.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I think mine's November 9th.
Did you read that one?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
No, I haven't read that one.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
You would like that one, I love that one Another.
Did you read that one?
No, I haven't read that one.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You would like that one.
I love that one.
Another one of hers that no onekind of talks about, but all of
our friends all read it.
It's called Too Late, it's more.
Oh, I read that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Really good.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
So it's different than her other ones, okay.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
The thing I like about like Colleen Hoover is I
feel like I can appreciate allher books, like they're just
easy to get into, you know.
It's like you don't have tolike really try or like think,
it's just like very easy.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I also really like Leanne Moriarty.
Oh yeah, I like her too.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, hypnotist love story I remember.
I love she did Big Little Lies.
She misses, though.
Her latest one with the tennisfamily what was that?
One called Apple Doesn't FallFar or something that was
painful, but generally I likeher, yeah I like sally hepworth
I love sally.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I've read every single one.
They're just like very gooddomestic thrillers.
I think is what they're, yeahthat's a good way to put it and
they're all like.
I wouldn't say any of them arethe best book I've ever read,
but they're all just like, verysolid, like you could read any
single one of them.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I read Darling Girls recently.
That one was good also, likeyou love Elin.
Haven't you met Elin?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Sammy, yes, yeah, I went to like an event and she
like talked and she's great.
I follow her on Instagram likeI just I don't know.
She shares everything and likeyou can kind of see all of like
her life and her books.
It's really cool and she'swriting a book or it's about to
come out, I think, likeSeptember 15th or something a
book with her daughter, who herdaughter's like 18 or 19.
(15:34):
They read a wrote a booktogether.
I think the daughter goes to aboarding school, so it's like a
boarding school drama type bookand she's like it's not like
young adult, like it's very likeanyone can read it.
So I'm excited because thatwill be different than what she
normally writes.
Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh, how cool.
I don't know many.
I mean I can't think of anotherlike co-author novel with them
daughter duo, that's definitelylike an interesting kind of
angle.
Sammy, you said that you gotyour recommendation for one of
the books that we talked aboutfrom TikTok.
Is that like where you find alot of your book recs?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, tiktok, instagram, like I have saved
collections for both apps ofbooks that I see.
I follow certain bookinfluencers, I have group chats
with different friends that arelike book recommendations.
So I, yeah, I get honestly fromeverywhere and then I use
Goodreads to keep track of themall.
(16:27):
But the Goodreads app is notgood, like Kristen, like you
have probably have a better userexperience writing them in your
note than what Goodreads does.
Like it's just it looks like itwas built in 2007 and hasn't
been updated since.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Really, yeah, I legit don't know how to friend
someone.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I can't figure out how to friend someone it's
really difficult and, like Ieven tried today, I want to sort
books by when I most recentlyread them, so that way I could
like see the ones from this pastyear.
And I couldn't even do that.
It's just yeah and there'sother ones that I think like
people have like tried to make,but it's just like it's already
so universal that nothing elsehas really replaced it.
(17:08):
But it's just not good.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's really surprising.
Goodreads do better.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, they have a lot of potential.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, like I have some ideas that I'll share.
Like me and two of my friends,we do a mini book club where,
like, we're actually reading it.
We're not like doing a socialhour, we are like doing this to
read.
So we did just three of us, butwe're like, if you could just
go on Goodreads, pick your twoother friends and be like, pull
a book out that's on everyone'swant to read, that no one else
has read.
Yeah, so simple.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And I'm like it's like basic internet stuff that
it should be able to do Likethere's a lot of opportunity.
Who owns Goodreads Amazon?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
They might.
They're like half all theintegration.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But, oh, get it together.
Amazon, seriously, yeah, makeit better, please.
Like, how do you friend someone?
And well, I actually didn'tknow about Goodreads forever.
I mean, I'd seen it, I knew itwas like a review thing, but I
didn't really know.
But I was like, oh my god, youguys, I have such a good idea
for an app.
Like you put it's like socialmedia for books.
Like you put all the booksyou've read and you have friends
(18:09):
, you could see what books theyread, and then you could see
books like you want to read andwhatever, and like you could
comment to each other andthey're like, yeah, that exists,
it's, it's called goodreads,that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Well, you're right, though.
Goodreads is owned by Amazon.
It announced its acquisition ofthe website in March 2013,
which is very ironic givenAmazon's roots.
They started by selling books.
Jeff Bezos, get back to yourroots here, man, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
They've forgotten about Goodreads.
That needs to get back on thepriority list for.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Amazon.
I think after 12 years, theywould have updated something by
now.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Seriously yeah, do you get your book recs from
Goodreads too?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, I mean, I mostly get my book
recommendations from Sammy.
Oh, that's perfect.
I like to like hear from someonewho's already read the book.
I feel like sometimes when Ilike I all do the redheads you
know, like the toast, how theyhave their redheads.
I know you like that, Sammy,too, but lately they have been
(19:11):
on my shit list because they'vebeen picking bad books and then
I read them and I'm like whatthe fuck redheads Don't make me
read these bad books.
Can someone pre-read them andthen tell me to read them, or
something?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I can't be caught talking negatively, but they had
a few bad books in a row.
I read the most recent one andit was good.
It was called Margo's Got MoneyProblems.
It was not what I expected, butI ended up liking it.
I also do listen to podcasts onbooks.
Like Ellen Hildebrand has apodcast.
Oh, I listen to the Redheads.
(19:37):
And then I also like this is sonerdy of me, but when I finish
a book, like I'll just search onthe podcast app like the name
of the book and I like listen toa podcast about it, cause I
just like like talking about itand I'm like if someone didn't
just read the book, like it'shard to talk about with someone
else, I'm like I just likehearing other people talk about
it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That is also kind of great strategy.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, I've never thought to do that, but I think
I definitely will now.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Cause, whenever you finish a book, yeah, you're like
I want to talk about this withsomeone, I want to hear other
people's opinions, but like it'skind of in that moment you need
it.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, because I'll have friends that read a book
that I told them or anyone, andlike they read it six months
later and they're texting me ohmy God, that part with blah,
blah, blah and I'm like I haveno idea what you.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, I like this question what's your
favorite book boyfriend?
Mine is still Miles from FunnyStory.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh right, Did you guys read that?
I just thought he was like sonice.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I loved, how nice he was.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
There's like two from the Boys of Tom and that I love
.
Like Johnny Kavanaugh is moreof like the all-american athlete
, like really good kid and he'sso sweet, I love him.
And then there's also, likesome of the other books, there's
more of like this bad guy, vibe, who, like I, wouldn't actually
go for in real life but justreading about him you fall in
(21:03):
love with him so I feel like I'mgonna go old school, which kind
of leads into our questionabout books, to movies and TV
show adaptions.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The number one boyfriend of all time, mr Darcy,
from Pride and Prejudice,that's like my number one.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh, wait, okay, I want to ask you guys this Do you
read classic books, like theclassics, like Charles Dickens?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Not now, not now, not now, I mean, there's only been
like a couple of classics thatI've reread because I loved them
so much when I was younger,like the Catch and the Rye I
reread as an adult and it wasgood but I don't seek them out.
Like a lot of those old books,I feel like I'm spending so much
time trying to dissect, like ordissect exactly what they're
even saying, like the languageitself that I can't work exactly
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.
I can't even really understandlike the like what's happening,
because I'm just too in theweeds with the actual words yeah
, I feel like school ruined thatfor me, just making it into
like work and they'd be likewhat did the color yellow mean,
right?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
yeah, it's like how was that a?
Theme throughout the book, likeI don't care yeah yeah, I'm
like I'm just trying to say like, was the book good?
Was it bad?
Like, did you laugh?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
yeah, I don't even like, sometimes like people will
be like yeah, I don't like theway that, like she's not good at
writing or like I noticed this,I'm like oh, I never noticed
that I just like a readingapplaud, like I have no idea if
they're good at writing or not,like yeah, you wrote a book, so
you're.
You're better than me.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
What was your favorite like summer reading
book, though?
Do you guys remember Like Idefinitely think Captain the
Ride was one of my faves?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I remember liking Great Gatsby, and Of Mice and
Men, oh yeah and uh, of mice, ofmen.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh yeah, I like that one too.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I felt like lord of the flies, wasn't bad, I hated
shakespeare that was like myleast favorite by far you had to
read on the left side was likethe actual language and the
right side was like basically atranslation to modern day
english.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, yeah, I'm not trying to work that hard.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
No, no yeah, outsiders that was a good one
that was a movie in the 80s Iread we read that in middle
school like english class.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Well, speaking of book to movie, tv, what are like
our favorite adaptions?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
or any ones that are coming out that we're excited
about.
I'm excited about the handmadecoming out same good, sydney
sweeney's in it.
Have you read that book?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
no you would love it yeah, it's a thriller.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I mean it's an easy thriller read.
I used to have it, but I thinkI actually gave it away.
Oh wait, we should telleveryone to do your shower theme
, because that was like the besttheme ever for sammy shower we
did.
It was a book theme and it waslike book club and and in the
invitation we had like a littlething that said like sammy's
little library, like everyonebring a book to, not for the
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bride to like swap, and so likeit's basically like you come
with a book, you leave with anew book.
I came with, I think, two booksand I left with like four or
five books.
It was great.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
What a good idea.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And everyone was just like yeah, brought home their
book and talked like oh, I thinkyou should read this one.
I remember walking in andseeing that, though, and thought
they were all for me, and I waslike I have no room for this,
oh my god, and read the littlething, I was like wait, this is
adorable yeah, we had to make itclear that, like they weren't
all for you, hilarious but, yeah, it was like just like a great
conversation starter at like ashower.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Everyone I've told about it is like whoa, that's
such a great idea so, like otherpeople, should steal it.
Maybe taylor can do it for hershower.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, that's a great idea.
I love that so unique for bookto movie.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I like I think some of the best ones are just the
series, like the old series,like harry potter, hunger games,
twilight, like I think all oftheir games.
Yeah did a really good job.
Yeah, the help is another one.
I hope you guys have read orwatched that.
I haven't I have and then watchit.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
It was really good, I would say.
I mean, I've said it again, Iwon't pride and prejudice, but
we all know my feelings on thatI also loved when we were
younger.
I think the and I've read thebook.
I think the movie's better awalk to remember.
So so good.
That's a great movie, and thenthat's a couple that has
chemistry oh my God, like MandyMoore and Shane West, like
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that's why that movie was sogood, cause they have good
chemistry and I've seen sincethey've done interviews Like she
was like 15 or 16 when they didthat movie and she said that
Shane West, the guy who playsLandon, was like the best to her
, like just, and they're stillfriends, they still keep up.
She did her like Hollywood walkof fame and he was there.
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So I love that.
And then I also remember when Iwas younger loving these two
books and then loving the moviesthe sisterhood of traveling
pants oh yeah, theories, if youhave like any young people in
your life or whatever, if youjust want to read it.
It is so cute, so good, and Ilove the movie as well.
There's two of them and thenalso the perks of being a
wallflower.
It became a movie with LoganLerman, emma Watson was in it
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and I remember really likingthat as well.
So definitely myrecommendations.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Did you guys see or read?
Are you there, god?
It's me Margaret.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Oh no, but I know you like that one.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It was so cute Like it did the book such good
justice.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I'm really excited for the one that Emily Henry the
people we meet on vacationthat's coming out soon, that's
being me a movie.
Yeah, and it's coming out, Ithink pretty soon, and the
actors, the girls kind of a noname.
The boy is.
He played the young PresidentSnow in like the latest hunger
game movie.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm hoping it'll be really good I feel like one bad
one was speaking of elonhildebrand, the perfect couple
do you guys?
Watch that.
I loved the book, but I thoughtthe show was way better book
was one that they did off.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
They didn't they.
The show is good, the book isgood, but they are not the same
at all as firefly lane did youguys?
Oh yes, yes, it changed theentire thing, but like both are
good, but I kind of just had tolike forget about the book
watching the show because it wasso different and I was good
again.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah I don't love when they do that, though if
they, if they change it toosubstantially, like that reminds
me of my sister's keeper Ithink that was a Jodi Picoult.
The ending is such a massivepart of the book and then they
completely did a 180 in themovie and I remember being like
what's the point of that?
Like it's like that was thewhole purpose, but I forgot
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about Firefly Lane.
Liked both of them, yeah, butit is definitely very different
Also.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Summer I turned pretty oh.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That was better.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I think oh, also, if we're talking book boyfriends,
I'm taking Conrad.
Oh, yes, what am I thinking?
What are we thinking?
What are we thinking, oh my God.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Team Conrad all day.
Well, should we get into ourSeven Sisters review?
Yeah, let's do it.
I'm excited to hear what youguys thought.
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Me too.
Should we give a little likesummary or something?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh yeah, that's a good idea, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Google gave me one Great All right, all right, real
quick.
So in the first book of LucindaRiley's series, the seven
sisters were introduced to MayaDiapolis and her five sisters,
all adopted by their mysteriousbillionaire father, pa Salt
After his sudden death.
The sisters gather at theirbeautiful home on Lake Geneva.
Each is given a clue to herheritage.
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As the eldest, maya's clueleads her to Rio de Janeiro in
Brazil.
Using a dual timeline, the bookfollows Maya in the present day
as she uncovers her familyhistory and also transports
readers to the 1920s Rio, wherewe learn the story of her
great-grandmother, isabellaBonifacio, a passionate young
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woman who must choose between anarranged marriage with an
aristocrat and a forbidden lovewith a sculptor working on the
Christ Redeemer statue.
The novel explores themes ofloss, love, destiny, as Maya
pieces together her past and, indoing so, finds a new direction
for her own future.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
So, yeah, what'd you guys like?
I timed myself a little wrongwith my reading schedule and I
did it this morning, so it'sreally fresh.
I loved it.
Like I did not expect this,because it opens with you're
talking about the six sisters,you're going to learn a little
bit about each one and BrittanyI had just started and I was
like, oh, I made a list of thesix sisters to keep track and
then like it's not about them atall, it's literally just about
one and then it goes backthrough her kind of family's
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history.
But I loved it at first.
When it flashed back to Bella'slife I was like, oh, I don't
want to read about this.
And then all of a sudden I'mlike now I don't want to read
about the present day.
It sucks you in so fast.
I really enjoyed her as kind ofthe main character and like her
story and, yeah, I overallwould recommend.
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I rated it five stars onGoodreads.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I'm with you, sammy.
I binged it this week and Ifeel like sometimes when you
like have to read a book by acertain timeline, it can feel
like homework.
But I was like totally in anytype of like like astrology,
astronomy, parallel, I'm totallyin for that.
I love that type of stuff andwe'll kind of get into this.
But I think one of my favoriteparts about the book was that
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it's that it incorporates realtime people and events, so like,
for instance, at one point it'sset in 1920s Paris and they
talk about Chanel influencingthe fashion, they talk about
going into, like the artist areaand they see F Scott Fitzgerald
and Pablo Picasso and JamesJoyce and like all these real
people.
First off, totally didn'trealize that Pablo Picasso was
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alive in like the 1920s.
I thought that guy was like inthe 1700s.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Totally learned something new there.
What did you think?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
of it.
Yeah, I mean I loved it.
I felt like the same way.
I like couldn't put it downbecause I was like so interested
in the current story and then Iwas like so into the new story
and I was so frustrated with thegirl Bella like the historical
one, because I was like is shegoing to end up with?
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what's the guy's name?
Now I read this a month agoLaurent.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, I really wantedher with him.
Like are they going to end uptogether?
And I feel like I read a lot ofbooks so I can usually like
guess the ending, but I had likeno clue what was going to
happen this whole time.
And then, like in the future,it's like the mystery about,
like how she's related to themand like what happened to her
family and like these are likegenerations apart, so like how
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did they all come together?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
like yeah, I just felt like she kept she kept you
hanging on until the very endand I also feel like it explored
a lot of like the theme of itwith, yeah, like with Isabella
the grandmother, like what doyou want to do versus what you
should do, you know?
Like, do you marry into therich family that your parents
want you to and like you'll havesecurity, or do you follow your
heart?
So, like, those types ofstories are always really
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interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
It is so crazy, just like being a woman then, and
it's not even that long ago,like some of the things that
it's like like when she wasn'teven allowed to like step
outside in Paris, when she wasthere, yeah, I know what of her
going.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I know what of her going?
No Well, she kind of likelearned.
It's like she almost learned alesson too, because she ended up
dying like three years later.
That was crazy.
So she should have been, sheshould have stayed with the guy
from Paris, like she didn'treally end up having a life
there anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, that's such a good point.
Yeah, that is like a goodlesson of it of, like you know,
live the life you want to live.
I mean me and Brittany havetalked about this before Like we
, our number one.
Like value is like no rules andfreedom, like I read those
books and I'm like, oh my God,blessed to live when we do.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Like I didn't know much about, like Brazil, yeah,
Just like Brazil's history, buteven it's like in the 1920s.
It sounds like that's when,like a lot of like the coffee
industry was booming and it's.
But it seems like they werelike even more behind us in
terms, or like America in termsof like I don't know.
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I feel like they were stillhanging on to that like
tradition and like socialsociety and stuff like that,
like they kept calling it thenew world, like like North and
South America, but I felt likethey were still like living like
the old world.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Well, it was like a throwback to like Titanic right
when it's like, oh, they're newmoney.
It was definitely that like newmoney, new coffee farms, versus
old money, which you know justrich inheritance.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
And had so many different surprises, like, first
of all, belle or Isabelle dying, I did not expect that.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Like at that, such young age.
And then the part whereBeatrice, who's the grandmother,
didn't even know who her realdad was.
Like I assume when she wastelling this whole story she
knew all that.
Then at the end it was like, oh, she met the professor's
assistant.
And then I like went back andread it twice because I was like
, wait, did she just not knowthat that was her father?
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So crazy.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Sammy, that's so funny.
I wrote that too.
I was like that made me sad.
When she goes over to Paris andshe does spend time with
Laurent, like I was so happy forhim because I felt so bad for
Laurent, like he knows that hehas a child.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Okay, I remember now.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, and he knows he has a child and he but but his
love is not going to stay withhim.
She's going to stay with her,the guy she married and Gustavo.
And so he goes back to Parisand then like I love that he got
to interact with his kid and heknew it, but I felt so bad for
his daughter, beatrix, yeah,that she never knew that and
then she thought her dad wasjust kind of like a drunk who
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didn't want to spend time withher.
But yeah, that was sad yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Gustavo was like I couldn't.
At first I was like thought hewas a nice guy and then he kept
being like so aggressive oncethey started getting married.
I I was like oh, he's anasshole.
Like this is easy, now youdefinitely can leave him.
Yeah, and I've like showed hisside and I'm like his parents
didn't treat him well.
So he wasn't a bad guy, he justwas dumb, like he didn't know
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how to like have a wife and hejust kind of was like I don't
want to show emotion because mymom told me I showed too much
emotion and now like so I feltbad for him at the end, but I
feel like she should havedefinitely left him.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, I agree with you.
Like I felt like they weredefinitely leading towards him
being almost I was expectingthere to be violence, like I was
expecting him, as the story wasprogressing, like get you know
more of a drinking problem, endup being violent and then it's
an easy person to root against.
But, agreed, like you do feelbad because the mom's such a
bitch and Isabelle or Bella islike the most beautiful woman in
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Brazil and he is not attractiveat all.
So, like he, he knows she's notinto him.
So, yeah, you kind of felt badfor him at the end and then,
like, when he found out that shedid have an affair, he was, you
know, nicer to her than youwould expect and like he kept
her secret.
It definitely, you know, nicerto her than you would expect and
like he kept her secret, itdefinitely made me like him more
, but he was never someone thatI was rooting for.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, I know I was like the whole time because it
was weird, because I felt likeyou kind of knew that like bella
didn't end up with laurenbecause the maya was related to
gustav, I don't know, we weren'tsure they got together.
But yeah, I was the whole time,though I was just still hoping.
I kept thinking she was gonnalike trade places with that,
like friend that was writing toher right and like I was like
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why'd they keep bringing thisgirl up?
I thought they were.
But then you know why I read inthe the like.
Author's note it's because sheused like a lot of that girl
that was a real girl and her dadwas like building the Christ
Redeemer and a lot of like herjournals and stuff were like
inspiration.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh, I love that.
It's like a bigger part.
Yeah, did you guys end up likelooking up anything about Christ
the Redeemer?
Because, oh, okay, well, Iguess I keep forgetting that
everyone who's listening rightnow has read the book, but so
much of it being focused on theconstruction of Christ the
Redeemer and like the realpeople who did it it totally.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I started googling.
I was like, oh, we saw there'sa like a remake of it in
portugal.
Oh, right, right, yeah, yeah.
And I remember when we went onthat we went on the boat cruise
in portugal.
I remember them talking aboutit and they said it was like a
replica of the real one inbrazil.
It's like a nod to brazil yeah,that's a tough question.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Like didn't, didn't he say he was going to make it a
mosaic?
That didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I don't know, I didn't look up that part, but I
thought the mosaic, those tilesthat they were putting on, I
feel like they did do it right.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Yeah, I was picturing the statue being blue little
tiles.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, I know Good question.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
But yeah, I did like how they centered it all around
that.
That was interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Who do you guys think would play the main characters?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I said Anna de Armas because it seems like she was
like gorgeous and I think theysaid that she had like dark hair
and fair like.
So that's who I picture wasAnna de Armas.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's a good one.
Hair and fair like.
So that's who I pictured wasAnna de Armas.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
I'm so bad at this, like I cannever think of anyone, I wrote
down Vanessa Hudgens, oh okay.
And then for my I did MilaKunis, because I was just trying
to think of like someone that'sshe's good and brown hair.
And then I did Gustavo, like hejust was like such a joke in my
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head that I did James Marston,like someone that like literally
, yeah, he just keeps appearingand he's just clueless and
that's what I was thinking of,but looks wise, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Oh yeah, I see that oh, laurent would be like,
because he's fair-skinned.
He's, I think, timothy chalametI was even french.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Who were you saying leo for him?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
oh, oh, yeah, yeah leo, yeah, oh, leo woodall, the
guy from one day and the newbridget jones, oh yeah and the
White Lotus.
What a cutie.
I would totally watch that.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yes, I love him.
Love him, I would watch thathe's dating the girl from White
Lotus.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yes, megan Fahey Love her, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Me too.
I read the second and the third.
I just finished the third, likea week ago, and I'm reading
another book in between thefourth, because the fourth
sister seems like she kind ofsucks.
But I actually thought thethird one was like the best one
which sister?
Is that about Star, who's likethe quiet one?
about that whole CC and Stardynamic me too yeah yeah, so
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she's like she's I mean thisisn't giving it away because you
could read it in the back ofthe book.
Like she, her story is likefrom England and it ties back to
like one of the.
It's very like Downton Abbey,like oh, love that.
Yeah, like one of those likeold families that had one of
those like big estates that theyhad to manage and whatnot.
But that one was good.
And the second one was good too.
Wasn't my probably my leastfavorite, but it was still
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really good, are they all likethe same time period going back,
or like some later.
Oh, going back, no, no, sothat's what I like too.
Like they're all different.
Like in the second one there'slike two different.
It flashes back on like twodifferent people from her family
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, so like one from like the late1800s and then one from like
world war ii period and thenlike the.
The third one is like onlyflashback to one person, but
it's like kind of likethroughout her whole life.
So it covers like a lot moretime.
So they're all kind ofdifferent.
But the the present day part, Ithink, is like pretty much the
same and like they definitelyintertwine more.
Like they'll talk about likethere's like a show that the
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second sister does and the thirdsister goes to it and they like
talk about it in the secondsister's book and the third
sister's book, like from both oftheir perspectives.
And yeah, they obviously talkabout like Pa Salt dying and all
that stuff, like from each oftheir perspectives.
So it's good, it's like, yeah,it's an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Can we talk about, though, pa Salt for a second,
because I feel like that's a bigcomponent that we haven't
touched on First off.
Is Pa Salt alive?
Because the end of the bookmakes me feel like he is alive.
I feel like he could be alivetoo.
Yeah, because Allie's like,okay, there's this boat wreck,
he was involved, I don't know.
It left me thinking like, okay,so he might be alive.
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He no one actually saw him getburied.
Also, the fact that pod knewabout Maya's baby I loved, I was
like he just knows her betterthan she knows himself, or yeah,
yeah, she knows herself.
And also the only part about thebook that I didn't like, love,
and I'm sure we'll getconfirmation of this in the
second, but I just wish.
I mean, it was very apparent tome that Paul Salt is the little
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boy who was the impoverishedkid who comes across like
Dowsey's, like studio, and theytake him in.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
That's what I thought .
Oh, you think.
Yeah, I think I might've hadthat thought too.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I just was like what's the connection otherwise?
Why would he choose her?
And there's this little boythat's keeping that keeps
getting mentioned.
It would have been probablylike somewhat the same age, I
think, and I was looking forconfirmation of that and it
never came.
So that was like the only onlypiece.
But that was my theory.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I just got chills you saying that oh.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
I know, though, but I don't, but I don't, I can't
imagine that he's like connectedto one of them and not the rest
.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Well, I had that thought too and I was like,
because one of the questionsthat was like kind of in the
book club was like what do youthink about Pasal's decision to
adopt the daughters?
And like do you think it'smorally right or wrong?
And in my mind it's morallyright, like he gave them a good
life.
It wasn't like you know he,they didn't have a great
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upbringing.
But I was thinking about that,like why would he have adopted
all of these people?
And my thought is like maybeit's.
They're all related to peoplethat throughout his life those
people helped him.
So like Lendowski and Laurenthelped him, took him in, gave
him shelter, you know gave him acraft whatever.
So he was looking out forLaurent's family and then like
maybe when he's in his twenties,like there's a family that
gives him something and so he'slooking out for them.
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So that's kind of like what myearly day hypothesis is.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
I could see that the last book I think is about him.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh, that's a great yeah, heard it here first.
No, it actually is oh the lastbook's about him.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
That is, oh, the last book's about him.
That would be cool, like I justcan't believe that, like they
knew nothing about him and likeno one I know one I did not get.
I don't know what her name ismaria marina.
Is that their mom?
Like I know it's not their mom,but like were they together
romantically?
Like what?
No, she was.
Yeah, it's weird like a house,like a nanny like.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I didn't think she was like their housekeeper.
Yeah, yeah, they called her maso like a nanny, like I think
she was, like their housekeeper,yeah, yeah they called her ma,
so I was getting so confused.
I was like and they, they actlike she is, like their mom.
But yeah, it's weird becausethere's no like relationship
yeah, okay, yeah well, whatoverall then?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
like?
What do we think, though do wewould, we would recommend yes,
definitely definitely recommend,loved it it was good.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
And for historical fiction, I feel like I've never
read a book set in brazil.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Same I didn't know that much about brazil, and it's
great because all of them areabout like different areas.
Like the second one's a lotabout norway, um which is
interesting and like it's about,like the symphony and the
orchestra there, which I guessit's a big deal, and then, like
I said, the third one's likeDownton Abbey.
I don't know about the fourthone yet yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
I like how they're all set in different places.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
We're learning so much about different cities
around the world yeah, justbecoming so worldly and cultural
, oh my god we're so culturedsammy.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
This was so much fun yay, we could have talked for
like another hour girl yeah, somuch to talk about.
I'm so glad we got to do this Iknow same.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I'm glad we had our first one with the ultimate
bookworm, samantha nolte martinyes, so many good takes.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well, we hope everyone has a great weekend.
Next week actually, we havesammy's husband coming on kyle
and we're going to talk allthings.
Baby k making an appearance onthe pod.
We can't wait, so definitelytune in for that and remember to
like us, comment.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Follow us on social tiktok and instagram.
We also have just found out wehave comments on YouTube which
we're so excited about.
So sorry if we've ignored you,but we'll get back to you.
Yeah, and keep commenting.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, keep commenting .
Sorry for like two months lateon some of those, but we are
just figuring out how, to youknow, work the internet.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, and tell everyone you know about us, and
that's all we have for today.
Thanks, Sammy.
Thank you guys for having meAnytime.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Can't wait to have you back.
Bye, everybody, bye.
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