Episode 109 - Why are Some Popular Books so Meh (Mickey 7)

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[music] Welcome back to another episode of the Reading Ruralfians, your favorite library podcast. Mallory here, having just got it. Oh God bless. You should leave that in there. No, I'm starting over. Welcome back to another episode of the Reading Ruralfians, your favorite library podcast. Mallory here, having just another manic Monday with my ice cream Sunday, Monday BFF Ariel. We have been left unsupervised by our Supreme Overlord Karla. And we are recording at our library in Jackson County, West Virginia. Zach, famous for his book flops, time after time, is joining us from Seattle, Washington. Other people appear to like these books. I'm just saying, just forgot a movie. Okay, but that doesn't mean it's good. It's not a twilight. And an actor is supposed to, so don't. Oh gosh, yeah. Today, we are discussing The Ruffian Book Club Book, Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton. Before we get into that, let's share some life updates. If you got them, not it. If you got them flying, thank you guys, life updates. I mean, I guess I got a few. Let's see here. Went to WorldCon a few weeks ago. That was pretty cool. Got to see a bunch of people. I met Martha Wells in person. Got some book signed. Ariel now has a book signed by Martha Wells. Had to talk to Matt Denim and some more, so that was pretty cool. Again, super chill guy. I also saw Brando Sando and George R.R. Martin. Not like just a bunch of other people. I met John Skulls E2. That was a pretty cool thing. So all kinds of cool people. John Skulls him. John Skulls, he did the, what was that book I read last summer? Kaiju Preservation Society. Yeah. Preservation. Preservation Society. Yeah. Kaiju Preservation Society. He did. He did red shirts, which I think is one of his really popular ones. I've only read one of his books thus far, but-- Yeah, I've only read that one, but it was fun. It was better than Mickey Seven. Wow. Spoilers. Anyway, aside from that, kind of bum. Last week of eating lots of food is this week, so not happy about that. Cannot relate. But oh well. Yeah. Well, it sucks. Next week I have to eat less food, so not happy about it. I actually had to watch my diet and stuff like that because it's, I've been like, happy bulking this whole time. It's been great four months. Now it's going to be like four or five months of misery just in time for all the fun food holidays here in a couple of months. Yeah, it's great. Looking forward to that. Soup season. Oh man, I'm so excited. It was in the 70s for the first time in like weeks. Months. When does soup season start? Uh, literally now. Yep. As soon as it hits-- I think technically it's August. I think technically September. Yeah, but-- I would say maybe late September or October. No, I'm starting literally-- Once it starts feeling folly. What is September 9th? That's a Tuesday, right? So I will start soup season. Making soups to freeze. So I don't have to like make them all the time. September 13th. You mean you don't do that thing or you make it in like a crock pot, and then you just leave it in there all week with the crock pot on? No, I don't. And my soups don't last so long. My soups are gone pretty quick. Immediately. I'm actually really upset that I don't work here anymore just for that. Yeah. I actually don't do that with soup. So do do that with chili, though, which is bad. Or use to when I was in college. You what? Just would leave the slow cooker chili on for an entire week. That's the spice too. I'll eat through the chili. I think it's actually probably pretty dangerous, but it was yummy. Anyway, yeah, that's that's about all my life updates. I mean, I went float in yesterday on the on green. Like that was nice. Had some some drinks out there on the water. In total around an inner tube, but Derek. So pretty chill. Fun. Chillin. Not bad. Yes. I started back to school this past week. Barve. Yeah. That's how I feel about it. My kids started back to school this week last week last week. I broke my tooth and I'm having to wait three and a half weeks to get it fixed. I go to get it fixed on the 11th. It feels real weird in my mouth. Let me tell you that. Don't they do it all the front teeth? No, they're just doing the two front ones right there. And then I go back in October to get a cleaning done. And they're going to mark where I have all kinds of problems in my teeth. And we're going to work towards getting them fixed. I want to talk to them about possibly just like putting me to sleep and fixing them all at once. Yeah. That would be easiest. I think so. No, be the nice host. Yeah. I don't know that they'll do it. That's what I want them to do. Life, like I said, soup seasons come in. So I'm planning me some soups. So I did for that. Oh, actually, regarding soup season, I wrote a little fun. I'm not even going to call it an apple, a little front fun thing. It's called the supinator. It gives you random soup to make. Really? Yeah. Like an actual soup or just... No, these are real real soups. Yeah, let me see if I can run it. While you guys are talking, talk amongst yourselves. I don't know. I don't really how a lot going on in my life right now. I mean, not that I can talk about.(laughs) The evil cackles.'Cause I've been doing something and saying some stuff. She's in her villain era and we're about it. Yeah. And I can't disclose that information because... Reprecussions. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I got three new cats. Oh my god. Why are you still not getting cats? Well, I was down to one cat. Okay. I was down to one cat. And my ex hit two of his cats I'm kitten. So he had eight kittens. And he's like, I can't have this when he cats. But he got really attached to these three from the first litter. And they were really attached to each other. And I was like, you can just bring him here. It's fine. I only have one right now. Well, I have like an outside cat but he's strictly outside. And he like, he doesn't like coming in. So I don't even count him as a cat. He's just a lawn ornament at this point. But so I was like, you can bring me those three. And he was like, okay. So I get those three. And then another cat shows up and brings her three-week-old kittens. So now I have to find homes for those because I'm like, no. Yeah, that cat had been written off. Yeah, she'd been gone for months. Like ran off and then began for months. And just ran only shows back up with her three-week-old kittens. And I'm like, no, no. So she's going to find a home. And then I'm taking the kittens the Walmart. And being like, freak it in. Meow, meow. So to get rid of them. Wild, wild times. Like I love cats but no. Yeah. Force good. Force my limit. Yeah. So. And they're all inside out cats. Side cats, so they kill the snake. Inside out cats. They're inside outside cats. They killed the snake. That's all what you said the first time. I corrected myself. I know. They killed the snakes in my own. Oh, man. Knox killed a baby snake the other day. Yeah. It was black and white. And like just had, it was like very tiny. It almost looked like gravel. It was very speckled. Yeah, I've never seen one of those. Yeah, thanks. But she, I walked outside. I also have outside cats. I'm very allergic to cats. I still have them. Yes. Go. I don't care. Anyway, yeah, I walked outside and I was coming to work. And she like darted away. Like I caught her doing something bad. And it was a baby snake just laying there. And I was like, why are you trying to hide that whenever you literally bring birds to the door? Like, ma'am. Goob brought in a ring the other day. And I had to save it from her. It had one tail feather left. Oh, my word. But it looked okay. Like it did, like unless it, you know, it was too much nerves. Yeah. It might die. But I didn't find a dead body anywhere. Yeah. But I threw my shirt over it and picked it up. And it was like, all right, let's go. And it was the shirt that I was wearing. I definitely took it off. Yep. I mean, it's me. It's what you got to do. My house. I can do what I want. It wasn't a speckled king's day. I don't know. Let's see. Let's get an image of a speckled king's day. But yeah, um, also, yeah. Knox and Lumos have been trying to hunt the hummingbirds. They're on my list right now. The hummingbirds are the cats. The cats. They've never bothered the hummingbirds before. And this year, they're like, yep, we're going to sit on this railing and watch them come in. And if it was more white as a baby, but yeah, it kind of did look like that. Normally, Lumos is the sweetest little baby. And if I even like look at him wrong, he like runs away. But the other day, he was sitting on the railing. And I was knocking on the window. And I said, get away from the hummingbirds. And he just looked at me. And then he moved over on the railing. And then looked at me some more. And I was like, you're such a shit. Pardon my French. You know, you can say that. I start to believe it out. I know. I feel good. Beckled kings, they eat other snakes, including copper. Are they native here? Oh, okay. Well, of course, she would kill one that's good. According to the soupinator, your first soup is Matsubal soup. Matsubal? Matsubal soup. Then it's tomato basil. I've made that much. Then John, John G.K. Okay. I feel like you did not say that right, but Matsameel takes water in a bag. Matsubal, isn't it like, it's like a Jewish soup. Yes, you'll want to hear a great little tidbit from Anisex childhood. Yes. I grossed him out really, really bad once. I love this already. I don't even know what it could be. Okay, so he was sick. And he was drinking broth from chicken noodle soup. God, I know what this is. Well, he was drinking it. I was like, you realize that chicken fat, right? I grossed him out. Oh my gosh. It isn't just chicken fat, everybody. It's mostly water, but I didn't think this is the time and I was grossed out. Bones and fat have been soaking in. Bone water. Oh my God. I'm more fine with bone water than just liquid fat. Please don't do that ever again. Thank you. Love you so much, but actually, no. Do you not let me forget to tell you about okay, Matsameel, do you never mind? Yep, that's a good idea. He's the one said oh Lord, I'm not ready. Okay, well, I mean, I feel like we've spent long enough on our little. I don't have any life updates other than just my cats being absolute turnips. Well, I guess like turnips. I don't like turnips, so just so everybody knows whenever I call somebody a turnip. Yes, I hate them. But they're trashes. I don't know how to describe it. It's just wrong. I see I've always wondered, dangly, and I hate it. Like rattlesys kind of spicy, but not right. You might be allergic to them. No, no, they're just not right. They're just not right. Like, I don't know, that's not the right word, but that's how I can explain it. They taste very earthy to me. Like, just they taste a lot like dirt. Let's be honest. That's what I thought. That's not even, yeah. The mushrooms that Mama cooked me for the first time ever, that's what I thought that tasted like. I was like, this tastes like dirt. You enjoyed dirt. Maybe she has left a lot of dirt on them. Because I made other mushrooms. I've made mushrooms with spargers and really enjoyed them. Yeah. I spent years of my life not like in mushrooms because she makes them taste like dirt. They don't taste great. I really like mushrooms, but yeah, when she cooks them, they're not great. It's funny. She doesn't listen to podcast, so she'll never know. And she's not even here to take up for herself. That's right. I gotta mention how she's a trader. Oh, yeah. Okay. So we're setting up the podcast, right? Let me set the scene. Setting everything up. We're in Carlos' office where we record now. And I glance over. And I see this bright orange and purple thing. And I'm like, excuse me. I know this. So I look over there and I'm like, she has a Reese's. But not just the normal Reese's. She has pumpkin Reese's. King size pumpkin Reese's. Does she even eat Reese's? I don't think so. I mean, I would assume so. Does she not? I don't think so. I don't see her eat candy a whole lot, but that doesn't mean much. She might hoard it for whenever she-- She always like dark chocolate. Yeah. And she likes her sheep. This is true. She does like those. Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen her eat a Reese's. You know, I don't think about it. I don't think about it. Commenters, we know it's Reese's, but Reese sounds better. No, it's not. Shut up. We're in Hillbilly's. We can say what we want. Yeah. Yeah. Darn Tateen. All right, are we going to-- Yeah, we need to. Are we going to talk about this book? I guess we can talk about Mickey. As Mallory said, this Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, I got the good reads description here. You guys ready? You want us to read our reviews? Yes. Yeah, you guys should read that afterwards, maybe? I don't know. No, actually, hold that off until next time. No, why? They're not spoilers. Do you want to do it this time? Well, mine. Kind of. Yeah. OK. Months. OK. Maybe. OK, yeah, we can do that next time. First of all, good read. Good reads. Good read. It's the nominee for the Reader's Favorite Science Fiction of 2022. Just saying. No. Oh, it was only nominated. It didn't win, right? It didn't win. It was nominated, though. Suck it, Mickey. OK. After several deaths punctuating a series of all two brief lifespans, a clone reassesses his purpose and his humanity in Edward Ashton's Mickey 7. Expendable. A human clone utilized for dangerous work on space exploration missions. And expendable's personality and memories may be transferred intact to a new body if and when the current host dies. Mickey Barnes is an expendable. Now in his seventh iteration, living and dying, among his fellow colonists near the uninhabitable ice world of Niffleheim. Some consider him immortal. Others believe he's a solace monstrosity. For the past nine years, he has been deployed for hazardous assignments and subjugated to experiments that test the limits of human endurance, his humanity sacrificed for the greater good. While on reconnaissance, Mickey 7 is injured and left for dead, only to be saved by Niffleheim's native species, thought to be incentient by the colonists. Return to base, Mickey 7 meets his next generation, Mickey 8. Neither clone is willing to recycle himself, but if anyone discovers multiple Mickey's exist, they'll both be executed and there won't ever be a Mickey 9. But Mickey 7's premature twin isn't his only secret. He hasn't uploaded his memories in a month, leaving his clone in the dark about his near death and close encounter with the plants inhabitants. Mickey 7 also doesn't know how all of his previous selves died. And though he remembers, and those he remembers have left him traumatized and mistrustful of the colony's mission. A mission that has Mickey Barnes questioning his moral and mortal existence again and again. I will say that that description makes it sound better than it is. Yep. It's also a ridiculously long summary. Yeah. That was a very long summer. I tuned it out half way. That was basically the whole world. Yeah, we were both scrolling. Anyway, you guys have the attention spans of a goldfish. I'm pretty sure. But no, all right. So what did you guys think? Overall, I mean, I've already read your things. OK, OK. I'm going to first off, I thought it was me. At best, I think it is a poor mix of motorbought, the 100 and altered carbon. Because motorbought is kind of like the expendable aspect of it, the 100 because they're like trying to do and stuff on a new planet or whatever. And altered carbon because the people are backed up on like a hard drive in their neck and altered carbon. But like, you know, the same kind of like they're backed up. Memories and feelings and all that jazz. It's like they took all three of those, mashed them together, and then dunked them into the toilet a few times. And it was like, that's a book. It sure is a book. It sure is. Oh, boy. So we all know how I am with reading stars wise. It's hard to knock it a five star for me. This book got three, so yeah, it was a book. It was written and it got a movie. So you know, people liked it apparently and that's good for them. But I hated pretty much everybody in this book. I don't know. I mean, like Mickey 7 was probably the least hateable person in the book. And that says a lot. I just, I don't know. I didn't, I just, I wasn't with it. It was a struggle to read it. I don't know. I don't think he was the least hateable person. I thought that, you know, the bugs were pretty good. But yeah, the creepers, the creepers are fine. And also his girlfriend wasn't bad. Oh, no! No! Don't you dare! No. What was wrong with her? She was weird. She was weird. Whatever specifics. But she didn't do anything too bad. Did she? She got to do nothing except perhaps that. That's weird about stuff. Like, I, she wasn't written well. No. That's all she did. She wasn't written well, but she wasn't hateable. It was my point. I didn't like her. She didn't like her. She didn't like her. She didn't love her. She didn't. And she also was just, and she took advantage of the whole situation. Yeah, she really did. She did do that a little bit. I'm not gonna lie about that part. That's not a good person. Sorry, no, sorry. I feel like, you guys are very, like, whether you like a book is very highly dependent on how much you like the characters. No, no, the characters make the book. No, no, no, no. The characters make the book. Yeah. I mean, listen, if I hate a villain, I'm gonna like the book. I'm normally, I love villains. But if I hate a villain, that makes it even better because you love to hate them. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It just, yeah. I don't know why I want to read a book about people I absolutely hate. Like I didn't like hardly any of the people in here. Like Mickey Seventh was the best one, and he was just okay. Well, no, that's my point, though. It's like, have you guys liked books where you don't like any of the characters, because the book was good or well written or whatever. Oh, I don't know. Like, I have difficulty with this, too. There's a reason I'm asking. I don't know. I know Secret History, for example, was very good. It was a very good book. I hate all the characters, and same thing with the magicians. I was gonna say, I probably don't like the magicians, because I don't like them. I liked the premise of the magicians. I just hated everybody. Exactly. Like, so that one I hated enough, I didn't want to read a book. These ones I just thought the characters were mad. No, I like the one side character in Discovery, which is, and I didn't care for any of the other ones. Yeah. That was another one. It could have been a really good book. Yeah. You know, like, if I took out the characters, that was another one that was just like that. Yeah. No. No, I can understand that. Yeah, I think that I think we've all got that same sort of vibe, is that if the characters either, if you don't like them or feel strongly about the characters, it's difficult to enjoy a book as much. I mean, I've read, like, unless it's like a super dry sci-fi book, I'm fine with that, but these characters were just, like, normal people, and it was just kind of boring with them. I don't know. I didn't feel like they were that horrible. Or they were just not likable at all. No, but plenty of stuff, like, um, oh, my God. Who was? Fairytale. Oh, yeah. No, he was the worst. He's the best friend guy, right? Yes. Yeah. Screw that guy. He was the absolute worst. I cannot. Anyway. Yeah. I don't know. Other people might like this book. It just... It wasn't for me. Mickey, like, and he talks about it in the book. Essentially, he says, we can't, like, we just have to take our friends as they are. And, like, on some level, I get that. But literally, Berto never did anything for Mickey. Yeah. He was never good. And it's not like Mickey was expecting him to do anything, but that's the entire point. That's actually lied to him for no reason. Oh, my gosh. Multiple times. Mm-hmm. I can't. I don't know. I just... I don't know. So, overall, not good vibes from you on this one. I mean, it could have been... We don't want to get too spoiler, are you? No. It could have been better. Like, if Berto had only been, like, a little bit debaggy. It would have been fine. Yeah. And I probably would have actually loved him, because me. But, like, he wasn't. There was nothing redeeming about him at all. And I don't even think he actually felt bad. I really... I think that if they had taken the book, I made it less about... Mickey trying to solve his problem. And more about the bug and him figuring that out. I would have liked that a lot more, I think. That would have been a lot better. Well, see, then he would have had to have been, like, you know, I guess a curious person or an intelligent person. He wasn't. He was just kind of a deadbeat. I mean, yeah. That's why he got the job effectively. I mean, I know that. I think it would have been cool to have, like, a multiple POV from, like, Mickey and maybe then the bugs. Yeah. Like, that would have been... Because they're obviously... Okay. But, yeah. Yeah. I think that would have been cool. See, that would have made it better. Yeah, no. Good. That would have made it better. Yeah, we're gonna... I didn't want to... That one's spoilly, so. Yeah, so we didn't want to lie about it too much, but... Okay, sure, sure. Yeah. No, I feel like it's the same sort of thing. My five thus far... I mean, for that book was basically... It was a good idea that could have been done a lot better. Yeah. Like, they didn't even really get into the... They would have got into it, like, there's a lot of peach. Huh? There's more books than that universe. No, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, there's... There's no. There's a sequel. Yeah. I didn't write the sequel. Yeah, there's none. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. That's right. I completely forgot about it. I think it's just... It's a sequel just 'cause it did so well. Audible tried to read... Are not audible, but Libby tried to read me an excerpt from it, and I was like, absolutely not. I just turned it off and returned the book. Immediately, no. I feel like it just didn't go as much into the... If it's gonna be like a more of a philosophy, e-type discussion of things, it should have actually gotten into that a little bit more, but it didn't do a good job of it, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Kind of bad, in that way. I don't know. Yeah. It really could have been a lot better than it was. It was just kind of silly. Not well done. So... Okay. Any other non-spoilery thoughts that you guys have off the top of your head? No, 'cause I mean, really everything else happens in the book pretty far in, so... Yeah. Actually, did you guys think it was particularly funny? A lot of people said it was fun or funny, and I think they leaned into that in the movie, supposedly. I haven't actually seen the movie. What was it? We should watch it before the next... I was gonna say, I wanted to watch it, because I was talking to Eddie about this book, and he was like, "Oh, I watched the movie. It was good." Yeah. And I hit my review of the book, and he was like, "Oh, so the book's not." I kind of do want to watch the movie. We should watch it. Yeah. And we can talk about that, too. Yeah. Why don't we just do our next... So our next episode is the spoiler, and then episode after that, we should just do a watch party. Oh, we could do that. Oh, that would also work. We could. Yeah. And have our commentary. Yeah. It's like live tweeting, except for... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, yeah. No, I don't think there's a ton of non-spoilers talk about the book, because I mean, we can talk about plot points. You didn't really have a good plot. No. Honestly, there wasn't a ton that happened in the book. I feel like it went over the car. Like, the whole book was like, what, three, four days, something like. It wasn't very long. No, it wasn't. It might have been a little bit longer than that, but not a ton. That's how I feel about it. You know what? Now that I'm thinking back, you know who I think my favorite character out of this whole thing is? Hmm. Marshall.[laughs] What was Marshall? The Commander, dude. Oh, that guy was... He was the most entertaining, definitely. He was the most entertaining. You're right. You're right. He was the most entertaining. You're right. You're right. He was the most entertaining, because he was absolutely non-sense. And the most true to himself, I think. Yes. He was that. He was very true to himself. He did. And he stuck to him. That was it. That was it. He didn't like Mickey and you knew he didn't like Mickey. And I actually loved him interacting with Mickey. Like that was some of the most fun I had in those books. Like that was pretty much it. I don't know. Yeah. You said people call this this book funny. And I, like, yeah, I laughed sometimes, but most of the time I was just like, okay. I don't think I laughed once. Okay. Yeah, there's that. But there's also this, uh, so it is funny occasionally, but not really overall. Most of that book was just about food. Yeah. And not in a interesting way. It was just like, Oh, but I have this many calories. Oh, but you can't have that many. I just came out of the thing. I eat this many calories. You know, I get enough of that in my brain. That was the whole book. That was the whole book. Yeah. I don't know if they would have cut out the food discussion. I think it would have been about 50% shorter, which is pretty bad. Yeah. But it was a long book. I literally had to return it. And then wait for it. Actually, no, I didn't have to wait for it. It was 300 pages. Yeah. Yeah. I was looking at my. That's how much I struggled reading the audible my audible the other day. And I happen to either the not finished section. The city we become is still in there. I can return that. I'm finishing that. Yeah. I'm beginning to think a lot of these, like, you know, the more popular. This is why I'm especially like hipster. Yeah. Okay. Because most of the time, these super popular books that people like to rave about. Yeah. Was that one super popular? I don't know. Uh, the soup became. It's pretty big because NK Jamison's pretty bigger. Other books are really good. The ones I've read at least. Yeah. But I might as well now have I read a popular book and hated it. Mm-hmm. I feel like most of the popular books I've read have just been kind of mad. Like, they never that good. Yeah. And I don't understand. Like, do you own. No, I'm not going to say that. That's mean. I get corrected a lot at work because I'm out. I get in trouble, guys. I got a lot of trouble over the cannibalism episode. Oh, that's right. Yeah. I remember that. Like, I still periodically get lectured about that one. Yeah. That's stilliness. Anyway, I think that there is some degree of people who. I do wonder if this is true. I'm not sure. But people who don't read anything aside from those more popular books. And they're more marginally better than like other books, you know? Yeah. Because they're not generally poorly written most of the time. I wonder if it's just that those people haven't read something that really emotionally connected to them before. Yeah, see. And this is just something that gives you a little bit more. I don't know. Yeah. And it kind of makes me feel bad for people. But also, I don't know. Like, are we just really stupid, lucky to read this many books that we actually love? Oh, I think it's because we get recommendations from people that we actually. I think it's because of the things that I can't say on this. Why? Key. So, yes. I mean, I don't know. Sometimes I just, until we have our, I mean, yeah, that's fair. Yeah, we need to pick another book for our book club, though. We're not exactly. Yeah, well, we can announce the next time we should discuss it. Yeah. It's not my, not my. Okay. So let's start to pick. Who picked before? What was before me? What was the last one we wrote before this one? Oh, it's been a while. Let me double check here. What's my red book? The long dead silence is going to be great. More. Oh, yeah. It was. It was for it. Yeah. Mom picked that one. Mom picked that one. Yeah, she did. Yeah. Yeah. And actually a good book. I'm so excited. I'm just trying to pick the books that are like, you know, Gabe Robin Hood. A little bit more. That was so much fun. Providence. In the world. It's more adventure than it is. Rom. Okay. It's more like. Advent. Advent calm. What are you talking about? The book is called hold on. Let me scroll back down here. Why did you have to ask? The book is called not for the faint of heart. And I read it for an online book club that I'm in. And it was super cute. It's technically, I guess you would call it a romcom. But it's more action and adventure than it is romance. It's also. Oh, no, your mom would not let us. Carla would veto that real hard. She won't read it anyway. Was this. Was this. Something. Yeah. Didn't we read? Did we not read House of the Srilian Sea before? We did. Yes, we did today. We did. But it's not yet. Well, I mean, like we've all read it. I don't think that we've discussed it for the book or for the podcast. That's what I was talking about. Yeah. It's like that's another one. It's sort of. Anyway. All right. Let's go wrap it up. Ariel just made my life. I think I'm going to die. Yeah. I need. Okay, I'm sorry. Okay. We're going to. I'm dead. What was that called? Please. Backer bound. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Oh, my God. I'm dying. Everybody pause. I'm in the park. I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you? I'm in the park. Are you?- Do you though?- Nah, just remember it.- I feel okay.(laughing)- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would make you seven and I remember it.- I would just remember it. - I would just remember it.- I would just remember it.- Paladin Books, she hasn't done more, and she's been in my TBR for like a while, ma'am.- I thought you knew. - You are fired.- Hey, ma'am, I told you about it. - Just now.- With the expected publication date, I'm literally screening on the inside.- Check your TBR, make sure it's not in there.- I am, want to read just now.- I'm 95% sure that I should.- Speaking of which, I found that book that I lost that, what disfaced bought you? I'll give it to you after this is in the small room.- What? There's so much happening, I'm so confused.- Okay, we need to wrap this up.- Yeah, we do. Okay, it's time to go.- Wow, what a mess, everybody.- What a mess, everybody. It's Monday.- We'll definitely have a book picked out next time.- Yeah, and our next episode is going to be the deep dive. The absolute, I don't know, what are we doing to this book?- Shredding.- The absolute shredding of it.- There it is. Okay. Well, we hope you enjoyed today's episode. It's time for us to sign off, but before we go, only the best libraries have librarians who don't show shoe.(upbeat music)(upbeat music)