A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray - Book Talk

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Could the secrets of the universe be nestled within the folds of alternate realities? We are here to unravel the multiverse mysteries in Claudia Gray's "A Thousand Pieces of You." Prepare to grapple with dimensions of deceit and webs of love spun across the multiverse as we hop from one reality to another, critiquing the emotional odyssey of Marguerite and her companions. Join us for a discussion that promises to be as unpredictable as the book's ever-twisting plot!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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I'm your host, darby, and I'mMikayla, and if you've ever
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Hello, happy fourth episode ofLazy Girl Library.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We're back.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So happy to be here yeah this is a good one.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm excited to really get into the discussion on this
one because I think it'll beinteresting.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Much better than episode two.
Let's just say that there's noFrankie so already this is going
to be a million times better.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, so welcome back to Book Talk.
This is our book club episode.
Our book club book for themonth was A Thousand Pieces of
you by Claudia Gray.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, I'll go ahead and read the book description
for this book for anyone who'snot familiar.
Marguerite Kane's physicistparents are known for their
groundbreaking achievements.
Their most astonishinginvention, called the Firebird,
allows users to jump intomultiple universes and promises
to revolutionize science forever.
But then.
And promises to revolutionizescience forever, but then

(01:24):
Marguerite's father is murdered,and the killer, her parents'
handsome, enigmatic assistantPaul, escapes into another
dimension before the law cantouch him.
Marguerite refuses to let theman who destroyed her family go
free, so she races after Paulthrough different universes,
always leaping into anotherversion of herself.
But she also meets alternateversions of the people she knows

(01:48):
, including Paul, whose lifeentangles with hers increasingly
familiar ways.
Before long she begins toquestion Paul's guilt as well as
her own heart, and soon shediscovers the truth behind her
father's death is far moresinister than she expected.
So that's the book.
So what we're going to betalking about is our thoughts on

(02:10):
the book, answer some bookclub-esque questions about the
book and kind of give our finalratings as well.
After we talk about this book,we will touch on our new book
club book for April, which isgoing to be the Nightingale by
Kristen Hanna.
So stay tuned, because at theend we'll read the description

(02:32):
of that book.
Warning book spoilers ahead.
Please head to the descriptionand show notes to find where to
skip to.
You have been warned, so wekind of wanted to do a reading
recap for this book and justkind of like go through it.
Obviously we can't read thewhole book again, but just to
cover the heavy plot points.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, get our brains moving.
Fresh reminders, for if youguys have read it or if you
haven't read it, then you kindof understand what we're talking
about.
As we go through Reminders forus, while we go through as to
what's happened, because, atleast for me, it's been a little
bit since I finished the book,so it's nice to have a little
refresh.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, also, we do have some listeners that aren't
necessarily book readers, butthey just like to listen to us.
So I think being able to sharethe actual story will help you
to follow along with ourthoughts, give some context.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right, starting off, I think, yeah, this book
started off hot.
We like dove right in here.
Uh, marguerite's dad ends upkilled in a car accident.
Um, and they believe the killeris paul, who I believe the
research assistant was the title.
Um, and he also stole what theycall the Firebird, which is her

(03:43):
parents' life's work.
It's a device that allows youto travel through different
multi-universes dimensions andit places you into the person
that you would have been in thislike multiverse.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
So if there's a universe that you're not in for
whatever reason, like yourparents didn't want to have kids
, or your parents aren'ttogether you're not in that
universe.
It's physically impossible foryou to travel there, yeah you
can't because you have to gointo yourself in that universe.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
So Marguerite and her family are like super
distraught about this, obviously, um, and so Theo, who is their
other research assistant on thisfirebird project, goes back and
he remakes the old prototypesof the firebirds that they had
tested out but then discarded,so that way he can go and travel

(04:36):
.
And he's going to go try tofind Paul and kill him,
basically for what happened toMarguerite's dad and for
abandoning them and causing allthe chaos that's been going on.
And Marguerite's like well, youthem and causing all the chaos
that's been going on.
And Marguerite's like well,you're not doing that without me
, I'm going to.
So Theo sets the Firebirdspecifically so it follows
Paul's Firebird throughout thedifferent dimensions.
So anytime they travel, it willtravel to wherever their

(04:59):
dimensional Paul is at.
This is going to get a littleconfusing, because we're going
to go through a lot ofdimensions here.
So we're talking about, when wesay the OG dimension, that's
like the original, like wherethe true main plot line lies.
So the OG dimensional Pauls, ogdimensional Theos, that's what
we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, and so in the first dimension they go to what
I think they might refer to as,like the Londonverse.
I think it's a more futuristicLondon.
And so in this first dimensionthey do find Paul, but he's
super confused on why they're soangry and they actually attack
him, but also they're justsurprised that they found him.

(05:42):
And so we find out he wasshocked to learn that the dad
died, which leads marguerite tobelieve he didn't kill him.
But theo is still very, verymuch convinced that he did um
because one track minded thereyeah, also, theo doesn't like
see his shock.
So marguerite, I think, thinksthat it's like partially that,

(06:03):
because in the London verse Pauland Marguerite like end up on a
train together, and so that'swhen she comes to that
realization of like, oh no, hedoesn't know, but Theo wasn't
there to see it.
So she is like no, he reallydoesn't know.
But they chase him into anotherdimension and in this one Theo
and Mar Marguerite are separatedby a great distance, but her
and Paul are together.
And Marguerite are separated bya great distance but her and

(06:25):
Paul are together.
And Marguerite is a Russianprincess and Paul is her like
personal guard, kind of.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
And so Theo tries to like talk to her through like
letters, because obviously thisis like an older time frame, not
as like high tech, and so thetry to get to her from where
he's at, I think, in like france, would take forever.
So in this version of themultiverse they're separated
pretty much the entire time.
Um, marguerite, immediately herfirebird like breaks, she falls

(06:58):
and it breaks into a millionpieces.
So she has to figure out a wayto fix it.
Um, her paul uh, the og paul,dimensional paul uh, is going to
try to help her fix it together, but then because he's a guard
and he's caught with hisfirebird, his like commanding
officer in that dimension takesit, which, without that, that

(07:20):
means that paul, her stuck there, is stuck there and starts to
forget who he is and revertsback into Russian Paul, and
Russian Paul is like taking overback over the memories and
what's going on in theconsciousness, basically.
And so her OG dimensional Paulis like kind of like asleep

(07:40):
within him.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
And also Marguerite is not smart like her parents.
She's not not smart, but she isnot like the grad student or
physicist.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
She's the artsy brain .

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yes, so this is definitely a difficult situation
for her, because her firebirdis broken and now the only
person who would be able to fixthat doesn't know who he is
anymore, because that dimensionof himself has now come back
through.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
And she can't reach theo because theo's across the
world and can't get to her.
So she does come across her dad, who's still alive in this
dimension, and so she's tryingto find a way to convince the
russian dad to fix the firebirdfor her without having to
explain a bunch to him and makeher sound crazy and him question

(08:29):
everything without.
So it's a very like secret kindof mission that she's going
through and on and trying to getthis back.
And in the meantime I thinkit's over a few weeks that she
and paul are stuck there shecomes to like really love
Russian Paul, which poses thisreal conundrum for her because

(08:49):
she's like am I in love with allPauls?
Is it just Russian Paul?
I don't know what I'm feeling,how to go about this in this
multi-dimensional world.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Also we forgot to mention in the London verse her
and Theo actually had a momentwhere they kiss and it almost
goes farther, but it doesn't,because Theo's being a gentleman
, um so we love a good lovetriangle yeah but it's almost
like more than a love trianglebecause it's like Russian Paul
right, paul and Theo it's like amulti-dimensional love

(09:23):
something.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yes, yes.
So she is able to convince thedad to fix it after a lot of
hijinks and a lot of crazinessgoing on and she ends up giving
into like her impulses, and herand russian paul do have a
steamy night together.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
She actually opens up and comes clean to her dad and
Russian Paul about how she isnot Russian Marguerite, um, or
Margaret I can't say her nameand I'm just anyway, um.
So she comes clean to them andthey believe her and, um, they
help her.
But Gresham Paul dies and soyou think that their Paul is now

(10:08):
dead with them, because ifyou're in someone else's
dimension and they die, you goalong with it because your soul
is now like in that person.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
But and Margarita is distraught.
Yeah, she is.
She is such an emotional wreck,which obviously you know.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sad girl.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, totally understandable.
She travels to an emotionalwreck, which obviously you know.
Sad girl.
Yeah, totally understandable.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
She travels to a different dimension, which then
proves that her Paul made it outof Russian Paul before he died,
which leads to even moreconflicted emotions because she
is still grieving Russianmultiverse of it all.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Is it that Paul is essentially the same in all
dimensions, just as she's thesame in all dimensions, and so
it doesn't matter whichdimensional Paul she loves, she
loves them all?
Or is it strictly Russian Paulwho she loves?
Because, you know, people aredifferent depending on your
circumstances and things and howit goes?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
So she has a lot of internal turmoil over this
situation yeah, and in this, um,in this universe I think they
call it the triadverse which isa company that funds her parents
research um.
So it's this, you know, ordimension that she travels to.
It's super similar to her own,but just slightly different.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Both her parents are alive in this one If you had the
same style shirt but in adifferent color it's very
similar and she's reunited withTheo, which is super nice
because he was really scared forher and he's been helping her a
lot with the technical side ofjumping universes dimensions,

(11:47):
keeping everything straight forher too.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Yeah, but he's still, like paul's, a bad guy like he
hasn't.
He's just been chilling infrance and russia verse and has
no idea.
So he he still is like paul's,not great.
Like he killed, he killed yourdad, mm-hmm.
So he takes her to thecorporation triad that he's

(12:12):
interning at that helps fund herparents' research on the
Firebirds.
But her Paul warns her via textthat the CEO his name is Wyatt
Conley conley is after her andshe's got to get out.
Um, actually, I don't eventhink he says that the ceo is
after her, but he just says likeyou need to do not go to that

(12:34):
room, like you can't be there,so you're in danger, basically.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
So she like finds a way to be, like get out of the
situation, basically like, oh,like I lost my bracelet, I gotta
go find it in the car, likeI'll be right back, kind of
thing.
But in actuality she goes,steals the car and like dips and
finds og paul in this dimensionand where he's at, and
basically when she finds him hekind of lays it all out there

(12:59):
for her.
She explains that yes, he stolethe Firebird but it wasn't
because of like malintentions.
He was trying to protect reallyher and her family by doing so.
Because Margarita's special, shedoesn't need the reminder, she
doesn't need the Firebird, as wesaw in Russia, to remember who

(13:20):
she is in her original dimensionself.
Remember who she is in heroriginal dimension self, unlike
everybody else.
Like a Russian Paul where whenhe didn't have the Firebird to
remind him, he kind of fellasleep within Russian Paul.
The OG Paul fell asleep withinRussian Paul and Russian Paul's
consciousness took over.
So it's a really like insaneskill to have that triad once,

(13:43):
because they want to use thather and like figure out how
she's able to do this and useher as a spy and other
dimensions to steal technologyand other things from them to
bring to their own dimension.
So this is huge for margueriteto figure out and things are
starting to kind of cometogether for the reader, but not

(14:04):
, maybe, for Marguerite.
She's still very confused onthe whole situation.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
And she needs to convince Theo of this as well,
because again, one-track mind.
But then they travel to a newdimension, because Paul says he
needs to confirm something, buthe's still being a little
cryptic.
And this dimension dimension,we can call it like the.
I don't think they say but likeunderwater dimension.
So in this dimension, uh, waterlevels have risen.

(14:32):
There's like no land, soeveryone lives in underwater um
towns kind of yeah, like rigs.
But uh, it's here that sherealizes that what paul is
trying to confirm is that herdad is alive, but he was just
trapped in this dimensionwithout a Firebird because of
Triad, and that's what Paulneeded to confirm.

(14:53):
But they had been separated inthe dimension by distance.
But then Marguerite uses herFirebird to give her dad a
reminder and they have this likeheartfelt exchange Moment.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, like you know, know proud of you, love you,
kind of thing it's sweet um butthen.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
So theo finds her and is able to get to her before
paul is and so they travel viasubmarine to pick up paul, who's
also making his way, andMarguerite is filling Theo in.
She has told him everythingthat's going on.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
The problem is, too, though, that they only have
between Paul Theo and Marguerite.
They only have three firebirds,but in order to bring back her
dad, they need four, so that'sthe conundrum that they're in
right now trying to figure outhow to solve this situation to
get her dad back to their all,their original dimension um, and

(15:50):
then whilst they're in thesubmarine they hear intercom
from her dad and then paul, whoactually made it on there.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
And so paul learns that triad made a green drug to
kind of enhance the time thatyou don't need a reminder.
So reminders are like shocksthey hurt.
But for people who aren'tperfect travelers they need
those reminders.
And this green drug, which Ithink they call Night Thief, it

(16:20):
makes you able to not need areminder longer, so you can stay
in control of that personlonger and at this point she
realizes that Theo has beentaking the drug and she now
knows that this is not her OGTheo, like she thought, but it's
actually a spy.
And Theo realizes that sheknows too.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
So they're stuck in this little submarine together,
both realizing that now all theinformation is laid out on the
table.
Everybody well, they both knoweverything.
So then it becomes the mad dashof Theo trying to hold
Marguerite to like tell hereverything that's been going on,
give her all the information,be like I'm so sorry he's from

(17:03):
Triadverse too, I think, iswhere he's from.
I had to to do this, you know,uh, we really needed this like
information.
And she's like what the heck isgoing on?
I can't trust you.
You're a horrible person, blah,blah, blah.
It's kind of like a real fight,like they're like throwing
punches, grappling each other,like throwing each other to the
ground.
She steals theo's firebird andescapes through and the escape

(17:27):
pod on the submarine, leavingtheo in this submarine that
throughout everything is nowbroken and on the edge of a
trench underwater, soessentially leaving him to his
death, kind of thing.
Um, but she's like, whatever,screw this guy, I'm taking the
firebird for my dad and I'mgonna get back and we're gonna,

(17:47):
you know, make everything right.
Uh, when she gets back to theunderwater, like rigs place,
yeah, city, whatever boat, kindof thing, uh, she explains what
happened to paul and how theo isactually not there, theo, but
Paul decides to go back and savethat other dimension's Theo,

(18:10):
because it's still, and again itgoes back to the.
Is it really all Theos or allTheos?
Is it just that dimension Theo?
You don't really know, but it'sstill Theo to Paul.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
So he doesn't and this underwater, theo, who has
done nothing wrong, but it'sjust the body that's been used.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yes, and so he wants to go back and save him.
Marguerite then uses theFirebirds to take her dad back
to the original dimension.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
So they're all back in the original dimension now in
the original dimension now, andit's there that they also come
to the realization that thistriadverse Theo has been in the
OG's Theo body for like months.
He has been there for so long.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
All the weird things that they were seeing, like you
know, thinking he had substanceabuse issues and was like acting
kind of strange.
It's because he was, because itwasn't their Theo.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, and the substance was night thief.
But so once home, her mom andsister and og theo, who is now
back in his own body becauseonce triad verse theo left, he
was og theo.
They all know what's been goingon and they're so happy to have
dad back because they also,they all still thought that he
was dead.
So that's a shock and a happysurprise, uh.

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And then finally, margueritegoes to face og paul and her
feelings for him.
But she can't figure out if sheloves all pauls, or kind of
just russian paul, and then alsotheo at the end kind of says
like that triad verse theoruined my shot, didn't he?
because of the way you'relooking at me right now.
So then you kind of, you kindof see actual, sincere theo come

(19:50):
through and then you're left inthe middle of this will they,
won't they?

Speaker 2 (19:55):
does she love him, does she not?
What about theo?
Because the theo she came toknow wasn't actually the real.
And thus the trilogy starts.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
And then you're also left with.
Okay, they got away from Triadand Wyatt Conley in this moment
and in this instance, but youknow that he's not done.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Like he's going to come back.
So what will happen next?
Read book two yeah, and that'sthe book.
That's our little reading recapof it.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Hopefully you were able to follow along and it made
sense.
I'm sure we left out somethings, but again, we can't read
the whole book.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
But those are just some big things and it gets
really confusing because it islike through the
multi-dimensions it's all thesame, russian first og
marguerite, russian margueriteright, all these different, like
yeah, it's the same character,but it's a different character
at the same time, kind of thing.
So yeah, hopefully we were ableto at least keep it somewhat
coherent for you guys.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yeah, but so I had read this book before, I think
in high school.
But what were your initial?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
thoughts.
I had very mixed feelings onthis book.
So, unlike last book club, thisone definitely expectations
were met.
I knew what I was getting intowhen I was reading this book.
So, unlike Last Book Club, thisone definitely expectations
were met.
I knew what I was getting intowhen I was reading this book and
I knew going in that it was ayoung adult novel.
So it was going to be a littlebit different and cater towards
a different audience than, like,my eighth bracket.

(21:17):
So some of that you can seewhen you're reading like it is
kind of young adult.
But it didn't affect my readingof it because I did expect that
going into it.
However, with this book I just Idon't know.
The story was super compellingfor me and I really loved the
idea of it and themulti-dimensions and the ethical

(21:40):
questions of it all ethicalquestions of it all.
But the writing I had a hardtime with a lot of times, just
because it got kind of hard tofollow in the beginning until
you really got your bearings.
But then, once you got yourbearings, you're okay and then
all of a sudden it ended soabruptly for me.
I don't know.
It was a very.

(22:01):
I'm still undecided on thisbook and how I feel about it.
It's very mixed for me.
What about you?
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well, it's funny you say that because I had read your
Goodreads review before we didthis, so I kind of knew a little
bit of your thoughts, but Ithink well one I didn't remember
as much as I thought I wouldhave, so that was nice, it was
like reading it again.
And then I really think youhave to go into this with the
mentality of it being a 2014young adult sci-fi book in order

(22:30):
to enjoy it, because it is verymuch like mid-2010s um-esque
sci-fi young adult, uh, but I dolove the concept.
There were parts that were alittle cheesy, but for me it was
still very enjoyable, and Ithink nostalgia plays a role in
that as well, since I had readthis before it was like, like.

(22:51):
Oh, I remember that yeah um, butto your point of it.
Starting, uh, kind of quickly,it reminds me of, uh, enola
holmes, that movie where it's itkind of goes in pretty
action-packed and then it's alot of just like flashbacks to
get those Right, to get thatinfo, which I'm actually
surprised that you don't likethat, because you are someone

(23:14):
that like likes to figure outthings.
So I feel like you'd pick up onthings that they haven't
touched on yet or I don't know.
Maybe because you like to thinkabout it, you want all the
information ahead of time.
For me, I'm like I don't know.
Maybe because you like to thinkabout you want all the
information ahead of time.
For me, I'm like I don't care,I could care less, like whatever
you give me.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I'm like taking it's a very, very great point, very
valid point for me, like I lovedEnola Holmes and you're right,
normally I can keep up with thatand it keeps you thinking
throughout the whole thing.
The only reason it didn't workfor me with this book is because
you needed to connect with thecharacter, to feel her emotional
trauma, and because it wasn'tjust you're thrown in the action
and you're trying to figure outwhat's happening.

(23:55):
It's like you needed thatemotional connection to her to
feel for her and to feel thepain of her loss for her father
and the anger towards Paul.
You really didn't get that whenyou're starting.
For me it felt like starting themovie 15 minutes in, where you
lose some of that characterbuild up and dimension to like
connect with her before you getthe trauma dump, to like so that
way it felt more, you couldfeel for her more in that and

(24:18):
understand her actions, versuslike just my dad died.
I'm doing all this and, um, youknow, like I'm so angry at this
person I want to kill him, butyou're like what the heck is
going on?
I don't understand.
Like sure, okay, I guess, likelet's go on.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Have you seen my Life with the Walter Boys on Netflix
?
I have not, or okay, but I feellike there are other movies and
shows that start off and it'slike my parents died, or like
the vampire diaries.
You start off.
You don't know anything abouther, but you know that, like her
parents are gone, but you can'tconnect to that trauma yet, but
you still.
I'm not trying to convince you,but I'm just saying like there
are definitely other instanceswhere it does start very just

(24:56):
like, oh, she had all thistrauma and now you're going to
learn how she's going to gothrough it.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
But to counter vampire diaries is it's like
yeah, you don't have that likeit, but it didn't start the
action.
Yeah, that's.
Yeah, that was true.
Yeah, you don't have like thebackground of it.
You're like, yeah, my parentsdied, but you, you're not like
thrown in the middle of likealmost all of a sudden there's
vampires everywhere and you'relike being you know and that
whole thing.
It's like you still have a bitof a build up.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Start with um leia, princess leia, saying give this
to obi-wan, and then it's action, and you don't know anything.
I'm just starting to find whenthat matches like you're done
I'm not taking it away from you,but for me also.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I'm done.
That was my last input.
I'm trying to find another one.
Yeah, just for me.
For this book.
I just needed a little bit of Ithink it's really context in
the beginning, more context,more I need to in order to
understand her anger and thelike huge swell of emotion.
I just needed a little bit morebuild up for me that was really

(25:57):
the thing with this book no,that it totally does make sense,
but I like, I did enjoy it andthat kind of gets into like what
my favorite part of the bookwas was the russian part,
because I feel like at thatpoint you did, you finally got
that, like you got the connectwith her more, and then the book
pace kind of slowed down alittle bit to like a reasonable

(26:17):
pace, not like super slow, andyou really got to feel like the
emotions within it.
Yeah, I love when she sees herdad.
Yes, so you, yeah, I love whenshe sees her dad.

(26:51):
Is that that marguerite alsoloves paul.
But it's the complexity of thesituation because it's not her
paul, it's russian paul, andlike does that mean she loves og
paul too?
And that whole complexity.
But so that I love.
Because as soon as, as soon asyou got more of that connection
with her, then it really like Ithink that part really did a
good job of like making youconnect with her more yeah so I

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I thought that was a beautifullywritten part in the whole
russia scene definitely.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
I feel like that's the author's favorite part as
well, because that russia partis like a majority of the book
she took her time with it.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
I think that's where it gets into.
For me, with this book was likewith the writing style, more so
than the story, because italmost feels like she was so
excited to write this book thatshe was just kind of like
rushing through it to get tolike the meat and potatoes of it
all and then, once you got tothe meat and potatoes.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Then it like took off and it like made more sense,
kind of thing yeah, I think myfavorite part was when
marguerite realizes that herpaul had feelings for her.
Um, because there's a lot offlashbacks in the book of her um
, kind of interacting with ogpaul and she's kind of finally
putting together like, oh, thatlook wasn't a look of you're not

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smart, but a look of like adeep understanding and longing,
which I thought was cool just tolike see her realize it,
because it then just like addsto the feelings of our soulmates
a thing.
Is it all Paul's?
Is it just one Paul?

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Absolutely.
Yeah, no, I loved that too.
It really like.
It's like you're growing intothe love for him and realizing
things that you didn't realizebefore.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
But it's funny because this kind of ties into
my least favorite part as well,because my least favorite part
was that the love triangleextended to Russia, paul and OG
Paul, and that it wasn't justlike Theo and Paul or just
Russian Paul and Paul, but itwas.
It was a little mult.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Multidimensional kind of yeah, weird.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
And then also the fact that she didn't I
personally don't think sheconsidered Russian self's
feelings when making a lot ofdecisions in Russia.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
It's like she kind of does and she recognizes, but
then as soon as OG og margueritewants something, it's like
completely out the window, likedoesn't even care about it.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah and or she she just makes excuses like she
would want this too, or like, oh, that might be hard for her,
but like I need this, I wantthis.
And it's like, well, this isn'tyou, like it's you, but like
this is not your dimension, likeit's not your place Right, like
.
Oh, it really irked me.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I was like no, and it makes you wonder too, like
because it kind of gets into thecomplexity of the science
behind the whole book, Justbecause the Russian Marguerite
is dormant when OG Margueritetakes over.
But does she have those?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
memories when OG Marguerite leaves her.
Or is she completely left inthe dark?
We don't even know too.
Is she just seen behind theeyes being like let me out?
We don't know.
But if that's the case, that ispainful too, you know.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah.
It's definitely an ethical,morally kind of weird situation.
We're philosophers today,Absolutely yeah.
So another thing I didn't likewas the whole London verse of it
all.
That part was just not myfavorite.
I think a lot of it still hadto do with like getting
acquainted with the book andeverything, but it just, I don't

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know, it felt very chaotic andyou're still trying to
understand, and I thought thewhole Theo part was like again,
it was like thrown in there andI'm like what's going on?

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I don't understand.
The Theo part didn't bug me asmuch as her, just like blatantly
getting drunk and maybe that'spart of like her grieving, was
her like going off.
But I was like you got thingsto do, girl.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
This is only the first stop.
Yeah, where are your priorities?
It's not like you've been atthis for a while and you're just
done.
Yeah, yeah, um yeah, that wasanother part that I just yeah,
not my favorite.
What were your thoughts, though, on the love triangle?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
okay, right now, oddly enough, theo interesting
yeah I like his, like confidence, even though that was the evil,
theo's confidence.
So maybe I don don't actuallyknow.
We love a good villain though,but they're like they say that
like you're like similar acrossdimensions.
So I'm sure like Theo is likecharismatic, like that, but I

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think I just didn't like likePaul seemed a little brooding to
me and like Interesting, likeI'm just not into that, or like
the secrecy, like just not intothat, or like the secrecy like I
don't know, or the fact that henever expressed his feelings,
like I'm just like come, like Idon't have time for that like.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
See, I had the complete opposite view of this
because I loved paul throughoutit.
I didn't take him as likebrooding, or I took it as like
he had these feelings but hejust didn't know how to express
them properly.
It's like he like he reallyliked marguerite, but he didn't
know how to express themproperly.
It's like he really likedMarguerite but he didn't know
how to approach the situationbecause he's very introverted,

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kind of in himself, lessbrooding, more just awkward,
doesn't know how to be sociallyaware with people you know, so
interesting.
But I will say for me in thelove triangle, even though I was
team Paul throughout the, theentire thing, now that russian
paul, I was team russian paul,but up until the end, when we
find out that theo wasn't reallytheo, well like, well, now I

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feel like I need to give theo agood chance moving forward.
Yeah, I can't judge him becauseI was like not really him per
se, kind of like Paul in RussianPaul.
So now I'm like I'm undecidedas of the end of this book.
I need more information on realTheo before I can truly commit
to Paul.
But I do think Paul is endgameat this point.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
I think Paul is endgame too, but I'm going to
root for Theo anyway, but I do.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I would love to see that relationship and that
dynamic blossom a little bitmore in the next book.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, especially because they talked about like
soulmates or whatever in thisbook, so like you can kind of
assume that like, okay, paul andher are soulmates, I guess, I
don't know.
Interesting, interesting.
I feel like you have lots ofthoughts on the author's style
of writing.
It just wasn't your fave itjust wasn't, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
It was very opposite of our last book, where it was
like the writing was great butthe story was not.
It was very opposite for thisbook for me, where the story was
super captivating I alreadykind of talked about it but like
the writing, yeah, it just feltvery rushed to me and it wasn't
even the young adult aspect ofit because, like I said, I was
kind of expecting that, likementally going into it.

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So, even though that's notnecessarily like my preferred
way of reading, it didn't botherme because I knew that going
into it it was truly like thedevelopment of it and that first
third of the book that drove mecrazy.
And then the very end, I feellike at the end of the book, she
like didn't know how to end thestory without starting book two

(33:55):
.
Yeah, so it became like a veryabrupt ending.
That wasn't even like a leftyou like a cliffhanger kind of
thing.
It was just very like okay,we're ending it here, and then
the next book would start.
And so I was like what the hecklike, that's it.
That's where we're ending ithere, and then the next book
would start.
And so I was like what the heckthat's it.
That's where we're ending on,yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
So yeah, the writing was kind of off for me she was a
bit jumpy, even not justjumping into a new dimension,
but even certain scenes were, Ifeel like, a little jumpy.
But maybe we're just used tothe pace of Sarah J Maas, of how

(34:31):
you're getting everything.
800 plus pages of books yeah,absolutely.
But I honestly I didn't mind it.
I don't think it's some like atype of style that I could read
all the time, but like once in awhile it's like fine it's a
nice little break from all thereally heavy kind of books that
you read and I don't think, mindnot having like all the pieces
of the Palazzo like just kind ofjumping in places because, I

(34:52):
don't know, I'm still likecaptivated by it.
I think it kind of reminds me oflike when you're on Instagram
and then you get a little blurbof like the werewolf king did,
like you know of those likee-books, that like pop up and
it's like read more.
Download the app.
Like I'm already captivated byjust like the little bit, so I
think it's kind of like similar,like I don't necessarily need
like all of it to like becaptivated sure, for me it's

(35:14):
like less, like I totally getthat.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I guess it's less like that for me with like
the ebook previews, but on liketiktok when they have like
little snippets of whatever lawand order svu things.
And you're like you're watchingand you're like, okay, well,
now what's going on?
Like you're kind of like, well,what happened?
Did they get the bad guy?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
yeah, what did you find most surprising about the
story?

Speaker 2 (35:36):
if you found anything surprising, um, I found it like
it's hard for me because Ipredicted a lot but there it
definitely didn't get me all theway, which I appreciated about
the, because I had kind offigured out that the triad guy
was the bad guy and like triadwas like going after, like going

(35:56):
to play a bigger role ineverything with the firebird,
and I kind of thought that herdad was still alive because of
that.
Not necessarily that like Imean, it makes sense that they
brought him to a differentdimension, but in some way,
shape or form I figured he wasstill like alive.
And I didn't trust theo fromthe very beginning.
Theo is not somebody.
I was like this is too sus,he's too like motivated because

(36:18):
it was written in 2014 you donot have to try absolutely.
Um, but I didn't have it figuredout that theo was a spy, like
that whole aspect of it and how,like putting together with,
like the drug the made them likeyou know not need reminders
yeah, the night thief, like thatpart.
When I was reading that in this, the whole submarine scene, I

(36:40):
was like my jaw on the floorlike oh my gosh, what the heck.
So I loved that part yeah thatwas super shocking to me, which
I appreciated, because you kindof expected to be a predictable
book.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
So the fact that it got me, yeah, I loved that yeah,
I did not remember the evilTheo either from the last time I
read this book, so that was.
I also was like, oh, so you'resaying there's a chance.
I love that.
Um, and then also somethingthat was surprising is like the
reasoning for why triad wantedMarguerite, like why her like I

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don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's like you already have the drug, then like why do
you need her?
But I do understand to a pointbecause it's like like what
makes her special?
Like maybe they want to likestudy, that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
But I don't know yeah , it's kind of a it was a mixed
feeling there yeah, that one wasinteresting.
Anything you'd change about thebook?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
yeah, just I mean I think nothing new for me, like
just the beginning, like I wouldhave rather had like just not
too much of a build-up, butmaybe, just like you know,
starting at like the father'sfuneral or something like I
don't know I feel like ithappened just after he died that
they're like we're gonna gofind him and avenge him, kind of
thing, and I needed that extralittle like boost to understand

(37:58):
her and kind of like understandwhere I'm at with and like her
grieving process before likejumping into like now we're
gonna go do this.
But that's like a personalthing for me.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
I feel like maybe being like left with a little
bit more of a cliffhanger wouldhave been nice, but more so also
development of theo andmarguerite, because I feel like
they barely touch on it at theend and I feel like that's
something they're gonna exploremore.
Yes, but for most people whoaren't me, I feel like they

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haven't let the the reader kindof like have any desire for want
theo to be a love interest,because it was just all paul
completely agree I feel likeadding a little bit more to that
, whether it was in london or atthe end, but just like having a
little bit more there wouldhelp for whatever this future,

(38:51):
to make it a successful lovetriangle.
Yes, I think they needed alittle bit more.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah oh no, I absolutely agree because, yeah,
I do.
I think that's why, at leastfor someone like me who, like,
was rooting for paul so much,it's because she didn't like
develop that theo bond as much.
So, yeah, yeah, no, I totallyagree with that.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Okay, this is a fun question that I thought of.
What do you think your otherdimensions would look like and
which would you want to visit?
It's like how would you be inanother dimension.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
So this was like a tough one for me when we were
talking about it pre-recording,because I'm a very like decisive
person, so trying to think backon like Cannot relate recording
, because I'm a very likedecisive person.
So trying to think back on liketrying to think back on like
big decisions that could havelike changed trajectory for me
was kind of difficult.
I know that there are, but itwas just like in the moment, um,
but some big things that Ithink could have changed like

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the trajectory of my life indifferent dimensions was like I
grew up an Air Force brat, so wemoved constantly.
So what happens if, like, my dadwasn't in the Air Force and we
were actually like living inlike a small town or maybe a big
city, who knows wherever,living somewhere, like where
would that place be?
What would my life look like?
How much would I be differentas a person?
Would we be doing this podcastExactly Like not having that

(40:06):
experience moving forward?
So that's kind of reallyinteresting to think about.
Another one is that youreminded me of that if I never
stopped working at Disneybecause I worked at Disney World
for a while and that's like wasmy passion, that's what I
thought I wanted to do.
I wanted to work up thecorporate ladder there and get
there.
I'm like, nope, not for me,don't want to do it anymore.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
But what happens?
Like if I stayed there would Ihave, like you'd be the person
be.
Like, did you see the new drink?
They?

Speaker 2 (40:34):
introduced like just I don't know, that's kind of
like an interesting one too, islike if I stuck with it and
didn't give up so quickly on it.
Or like maybe instead of likethe path I was on wasn't because
like working in attractions orwhatever.
It was fun for the time.
But if I swapped jobs to likesomething else, would that have
changed my perspective on it atall either?

(40:54):
Would I still be there?
So that's kind of curious.
Could have been friends with aprincess and this one is shout
out to my mom because I getreminded of this one all the
time.
I took fencing lessons in fifthgrade and my mom was so excited
because apparently I was reallygood and she was thinking about
all the scholarshipopportunities I had and like.

(41:14):
This is going to be amazing.
You could be in the ParisOlympics right now.
I could be an Olympian if I hadkept with it.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Isn't it happening in ?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Paris this year, I think.
So that could have been you, Icould have.
And if I stuck with it?
But of course I'm like allright, I did it, I'm done.
Check the box.
What's next?
My mom devastated.
So what would have happened ifI, like, stuck with it?
I think that's the one I wouldlove to visit the most out of
all of them.
Like, what would happen if Idid stick with fencing?

(41:41):
Would I have actually gone onto be like an Olympian when I've
gone to a different schoolbecause of scholarship
opportunities?
Like that could have changed alot too.
Yeah, wild, what about you?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Okay, so one that I thought of was I was a zipline
guide for a summer right afterundergrad and I think about if I
hadn't stopped being a ziplineguide and I stayed living up in
North Carolina and just lived upthere.
It would be a much more quaintlife and, I think, nice.

(42:12):
I think I would really enjoy it.
And then another one I actuallyapplied and got hired to be a
flight attendant at one point,but I ended up not going through
with it.
So I wonder what would happenif I had gone through with it.
Like I feel like that would beso different and I think I would

(42:32):
have a lot more experiences incertain aspects, but I wouldn't
get to have the nice home lifeand getting to foster the
relationships with friends asmuch, getting to foster the
relationships with friends asmuch.
So I do wonder what that wouldlook like.
Right, and then two more quickones.
One I lived in Miami for mostof my life, actually, no, maybe

(42:55):
half of my childhood life.
I lived there until I was 10,and then I moved a little north.
So I wonder what would happenif my parents had decided not to
move.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Would I be fluent in Spanish?
I would love to say speakingfluent Spanish.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Yeah, would I be fluent in Spanish.
I would love to say speakingfluent Spanish.
Yeah, would I have an accent.
So that would just beinteresting, like.
I feel like that drasticallywould have changed my life,
because I was only there till 10.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
But to actually Like what you're interested in and
things like that, yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I think I would be so different.
And then also I had two schoolchoices, so it was either UCF or
FGCU and all of my like highschool friends, like my like
besties at the time, went toFGCU and I didn't really know
anyone going to UCF.
So I almost went there becauseit was like safe and what I knew

(43:41):
, so that that would beinteresting too.
Like would I?
Would I still be friends withthem if I went um?
Because I'm not necessarily asclose with them now as I was,
like it's just so.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
I don't know what that would look like it's kind
of fun to think about but, it'shard and it's challenging
because you're so used to yourlife the way it is right now,
yeah, that it's hard to pictureit any other way yeah, but they
don't have a fgcu, doesn't havea basketball or a football team,
so I wouldn't have liked thatyeah um, I think I would most
want to visit the zipline guide.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
I feel like she's so at peace right now can't really
so that one would be fun.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, that would be a good one.
So, kind of like going withthis theme of like thinking
about the book and like if wewere in it, like let's talk
about like the ethics of it.
We kind of touched on it, um,so like, what are your thoughts
on like the body snatching thatthey talked about?
When you're, it's like you'reentering another version of you
in a different dimension yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
So this kind of corresponds with my least
favorite part of the book, whichis how she treated russia
marguerite um.
So not cool and very dumb ofher to explore a love that isn't
for her like it's not it's I.
I don't like it yeah but it'shard too, because it's like
what's the harm in a quick visit?
So I think in those instancesof like a quick visit, like

(45:01):
london is fine, they were therefor like a day.
It depends what you're doing,yeah, it depends what you're
doing.
Yeah, it depends what you'redoing, who you're talking to.
I could see that being so likebeneficial for like a grieving
process of like you get to seesomeone that you haven't seen.
But as a whole, I'm not cool,yeah, like especially just doing
the things that she did right.

(45:22):
I'm not a big fan of it longterm and doing a relationship in
another dimension I totallynice.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
I totally get that.
I go back and forth on it a lotbecause it's one of those
things where it's stilltechnically you and so it
depends on, like, how much thatdimensional you is present while
you're visiting and like takingover that person's body per se.
So like when we're talkingabout, like Russia, marguerite,
like is she still aware and doesshe remember everything that

(45:53):
went on while OG Marguerite wasthere, or is it like complete
memory wipe?
Only OG Marguerite, who wasexperiencing those things, can
remember those things.
Og Marguerite, who isexperiencing those things, can
remember those things.
So I think that's a big questionI would like to know in order
to like refine my thoughts onthe matter a little bit.
But yeah, it's kind of it is.
It's a tricky one because, likeyou said, like if you're just

(46:13):
visiting and like in the Londonversion, where you're just kind
of like seeing what the world islike, you can maybe, like you
know, visit an old loved one.
Just for the time being it'slike one thing.
But I think once it startsgetting into like the triad
aspect of it, of like takingtechnology from different
universes, it totally changesthe aspect and trajectory of

(46:34):
your own and like what couldhave come.
If you didn't have thattechnology, you could have
created something entirely newthat could have been way more
beneficial than the technologyyou stole.
But you kind of took thatoption away by like bringing
something back that wasn't meantfor you and your original goal.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, I don't know, because my desire, I feel like,
would be to see the differentdimensions, like a dimension
where it is like there are nophones, because I have never
lived in a world where there wasnot a cellular phone or a home
phone or that type of device, solike just getting to experience
something that I would never beable to experience.

(47:11):
That is something that wouldinterest me, but that is more.
The setting like sticky,ethically, is when you're going
for, like the person and otherpeople, like that's to me, when
it's a little more messy and,again, like you said, when
you're taking stuff from thatdimension.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Right, I don't know it's a weird one, so I will be
curious to see how she kind oftackles these themes in the
other two books I agree, so doesthat mean you're going to
finish the trilogy?
I think I will.
I, the story intrigues meenough that I want to know.
I want to know how she answersthese questions, um, and I want
to know what happens, like Iwant to learn more about Theo at
this point now, yeah, and see,like, where that goes.

(47:52):
And so I do.
I think I'm going to, but it'snot one of those I'm going to
read consecutively, like I doneed the little break just
because of the writing style.
I, I need some more.
I don't know different writingwithin that.
Yeah, what about you?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
I will finish it.
I actually started the secondone last night.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Nice Love it.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
It's pretty good.
I think you'll like it.
Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say.
Okay, because I also think Ionly read the first two books
last time.
So even originally when I readthis trilogy, I didn't finish it
.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
I definitely want to know.
Yeah, I don't remember anything, especially the second book.
I'm realizing I remembernothing except for one part, so
I'm super curious to see whathappens but, I, think I will
read them back to back like Ithink I'm just gonna like knock.
They're super quick books.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
I feel, like.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
So I just, I do just want to like, knock them out um
and see the story.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Yeah, I did.
I contemplated because they aresuch a quick read and it's like
I just need it.
But no, I need it a little.
I need a little break between.
I do that a lot.
It's not even just this series.
With other series too, I tendto break them up.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
I like I don't go too long, because then you forget a
bunch of things between I dothat when it's a bigger series,
um, but I think sometimes fortrilogies I can do them back to
back, but when it starts tobecome more than three books, or
if it's like thick three books,and that's what, I'm gonna take
a break yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Yeah, so final thoughts what are we thinking?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
my final thoughts were 3.7 stars.
I do think the nostalgia ofreading this as an adult now
plays a large role in that, butit's just so fun.
Like the different worlds andthe different versions of
oneself is so interesting.
It's just like cool anddifferent and of course I like
think of myself, like how wouldI be?
So I liked it A solid 3.7.

(49:37):
I gave it a 2.7 just because Ireally went back and forth on it
, even as we're talking about itnow, I still.7.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I gave it a 2.7 just because I really went back and
forth on it.
Even as we're talking about itnow, I still have very mixed
feelings about it for me.
So I'm not going to beat a deadhorse, but yeah, there's just a
lot to contemplate on this bookand I wasn't fully convinced.
But the story was good, so yeah, solid 2.7 for me.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Well, that was A Thousand Pieces of you, and
those are our thoughts on it.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Let us know your thoughts on it if you've read it
.
If you haven't read it and youwant to reach out on our
Instagram at LazyGirlLibrary, wealso have our website,
LazyGirlLibrarycom.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Let us know your thoughts.
There were no Frankies, and Iappreciated that.
I did too.
I really don't think I dislikeda character, even like the evil
ones.
I'm like I still liked whatthey added to the stories.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
That was nice.
Yeah, there wasn't one thatlike stuck out like a sore thumb
where you're just like, oh mygosh, I can't with this person,
yeah, so yeah, no, it was solidand expectations were met.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Yes expectations were met.
Yay.
Stamp of approval for this book.
Club book Amazing.
Going on to our April book club.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
I'm excited for this one.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
My friend shout out Emily.
She's the person who wasreading it that made me add it
to my Goodreads, and I told herthat we were going to do this
and she was so excited.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
So that makes me excited.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Yeah, I feel like it's going to be good, but it's
the Nightingale by Kristen Hanna.
I'll go ahead and read the bookdescription for you guys.
In the quiet village of Caravu,maybe, vianne Mariac oh my gosh
, I can't read the French inthis book.
Yeah, vianne Mariac saysgoodbye to her husband, antony,

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as he heads for the front.
She doesn't believe that thenazis will invade france, but
invade they do, in droves ofmarching soldiers and caravans
of trucks and tanks and planesthat fill the skies and drop
bombs upon the innocent.
When a german captainrequisitions Vianne's home, she

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and her daughter must live withthe enemy or lose everything,
without food or money or hope.
As danger escalates all aroundthem, she is forced to make one
impossible choice after anotherto keep her family alive.
Vianne's sister, isabelle, is arebellious 18-year-old
searching for purpose with allthe reckless passion of youth.
While thousands of Parisiansmarch into the unknown terrors

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of war, she meets Gaten, apartisan who believes the French
can fight the Nazis from withinFrance, and she falls in love
as only the young can completely.
But when he betrays her, isabeljoins the resistance and never
looks back, risking her lifetime and again to save others.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
I'm so excited this book.
I've seen a lot over likeInstagram, tiktok not to the
extent of like you know when abook goes like viral, but just
it seems to be getting a lot ofpraise.
It's one that's been on my listfor a while.
It's a historical fiction whichI haven't read in a hot minute,
so I'm super excited for thisbook.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah, I've never really been a big historical
fiction person, but I just don'tthink I've explored it.
So I am excited to read thisone and it'll good to like break
up from what I normally read,add a little bit of spice,
something different.
I'm I'm excited.
We hope you guys are excitedtoo.
Let us know if you've read thisone before, um, or if you're

(53:12):
gonna read it with us.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
What about books you are reading right now, when we
get into borrows and returns oh,my borrows and returns, of
course.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Well, my borrows, I'm still.
I have not touched this book,but how to Win Friends and
Influence People.
I'm still reading that one.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
It's so good.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
It's a back burner book, One I am currently doing.
Besides, the second trilogybook is Bride by Allie Hazelwood
.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
I've heard this one a lot recently.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
Yeah, I actually hadn't heard it a lot by people
and as soon as I started I'mdoing an audiobook.
Um, as soon as I startedreading it, it's like popping up
everywhere, interesting, it'spretty good.
I do wish I had started itpaperback and not audiobook,
because I think I would be evenmore into it.
Right, but I'm still very muchinto it audiobook wise, but I'm
not paying as much attention.

(53:59):
I think yeah, and I I wish Iwas, because it's it's really
good.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
I I like it a lot.
I'll be curious to hear likeyour end thoughts, because that
is one that it's been popping upa lot, but I know nothing about
it other than just like a lotof people are reading this book
and enjoying it yeah, the.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
The premise is that it is in a land where I think
it's a modern land, where thereare humans that live there and
then werewolves and vampires,but they all live in their own
like territories.
Uh, so they're they're notfriendly with each other, and so

(54:32):
what they have decided to do isthe like alpha of the
werewolves, um, and then thelike vampire king's daughter,
essentially, um, or like someonehigh up in the vampire world,
his daughter.
They do kind of like, not likea forced marriage, but they like
, agree to marry, like for theirpeople, because it's like a

(54:54):
sign of like, good faith, likewe're not going to kill each
other, like this is happening,um, but they don't know each
other, and so they have allthese stereotypes about each
other and stuff like thatInteresting.
So that one's that and it'sreally good.
And then Returns.
I finished House of Flame andShadow and my gosh, so good.
It feels so weird to be caughtup on Sarah J Maas for so long.

(55:19):
It was like, okay, there'sanother book.
Like I don't want to look atcertain things because I'm not
sure, and it's like I amunbreakable, I can look at
everything, nothing will bespoiled for me, because I've
seen it all.
I've read it all so that's beenreally cool.
But great book, great book.
I'm not going to say much elsebecause someone is reading it
read it for my.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I'll start with my returns just because we're on
the topic.
So I did finish House of Skyand Breath by Sarah J Maas.
Love that.
That was wild toward at the endand, just as all of her books
do, the last hundred pages arejust crazy.
I will say it's not my favoriteof her series, but I didn't.
I was kind of expecting thatgoing into it, I feel like it's

(56:01):
more of like a connector seriesthan anything, um, but I did
still really enjoy the book.
Um, I do think I'm gonna take abreak before I read House of
Flame and Shadow, because I kindof because that's the last one
yeah, I want to spread it out alittle, I want to save it and
I'm like I don't blame you.
Even though it was like kind ofa cliffhanger um not kind of a
massive cliffhanger on Sky andBreath, I feel like I'm almost

(56:23):
still kind of content to pauseand like wait for that one a
little bit at least, untilthere's another Sarah J Maas
book coming in the foreseeablefuture that I can like look
forward to after I finish.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
I totally get that gonna wait on that one.
Also real quick pause for SarahJ Maas talk.
Have you seen?
There are a plethora ofcelebrities reading ACOTAR right
now, really, yes, I know MeganFox is reading it, and then
there were a couple of others.
She's just the only one that'scoming to mind right now.
And then Margot Robbie and herhad that meeting.

(56:55):
There's something going on.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Oh, absolutely there's something going on.
It's one of those that you getso excited for.
Is there an ACOTAR seriescoming to like TV like?
I would absolutely love thatbut at the same time, you're
like and hate it.
Yeah, exactly, you love and hateit because you're like so
excited you see that.
But then you start thinkingabout it and you're like you
have such an emotionalconnection to these characters
that you've built in your head.
But now you're about to see itbuilt from somebody else, like

(57:20):
is it even gonna hit the markanymore?

Speaker 1 (57:22):
like are you gonna hate it?
Even if it's actors Iabsolutely love, they're not
good enough.
Right?
The, the best actor in theworld, who I is my favorite, is
not good enough to play anyother characters, so it is.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
It's one of those like I want it, but do I?
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Yeah time will tell.
It'll still just be nice, if itdoes come to fruition, to see
some of those visuals right like.
Obviously we all think of theworm as like the spongebob.
Yeah, and so it would be niceto like actually see, because
like I can't envision a scaryworm.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
So it would be nice to see something like that well,
especially if sarah herself isworking really closely on
production, because thenobviously you know that she's
signing off on things and it'smore like what she envisioned
while writing it.
Yeah, that'll be kind ofinteresting, this scene,
compared to like what you read.
But yeah, reading such apersonal experience, I don't
know I agree time will tell,time will tell anyway, sorry, I
couldn't no, you're good, whatare you reading right?

(58:16):
now I'm actually so I'm readingthe anthropene Reviewed by John
Green on audiobook.
Okay, it's his only likenonfiction book that he's done
so far.
It's really interesting.
It's more like a sociology,like how humans affect the world
.
I think it's kind of like whatthe Anthropocene is.
He explains it in the beginningof the book much better than I

(58:39):
ever could, but kind of liketouches on uh, explaining like
what the anthropocene is, um,which is like, yeah, how humans
and the world are like symbioticrelationship, like how we
affect certain things, and thenit's just a book of short essays
about different topics.
So he has that like scratch andsniff stickers, like his
thoughts on scratch and sniffsticker stickers, but he weaves

(59:02):
it into much greater detail,yeah, of how, like the essence
of scratch and sniff stickers.
It goes into like smell and howwe like can, how we perceive
like a banana smell isn'tactually what a banana smells
like, because it's likeartificially and he makes it.

(59:23):
I'm doing a horrible job ofexplaining.
I'm following I'm following buthow he like he takes it into
like deeper meanings and kind oflike it's like the symbolism of
it all, which I'm just like ahuge sucker for.
It's in a very john green-esqueway.
Um, he does some science on itwhere it's just like
storytelling, but it connects tolike a broader psychological,
sociological, like idea of itlike that and then at the end he

(59:47):
like gives it a star ratingreview of like what his thoughts
are on like this specific thing.
So some of them obviously arelike horrible and others are
like this is amazing, five starskind of thing.
So it's really cool, it'sreally interesting and I'm
enjoying doing the audio.
Um, and then the other bookthat I just started, but I'm
only like 20 pages in, so Ithink I'm gonna put a pause and

(01:00:07):
read our book club book first isCirce by Madeline Miller.
She read one of my all-time orshe wrote one of my all-time
favorites, the Song of Achilles.
So I'm love my Greek mythology.
I'm like it's time to time totake a step back into that world
.
Um, and this one is like reallygot really good reviews, and so
I'm like it's time to take astep back into that world, and
this one is like really gotreally good reviews, and so I'm
excited to kind of like jumpinto that one again.

(01:00:28):
Yeah, and that's it.
Those are my borrows andreturns.
I love that.
Well, another great podcast,yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
That's it for today, guys, for this month's book club
episode.
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