Welcome to the Library!

This first episode of the Lazy Girl Library, hosted by Darbi and Mikayla, offers a unique sanctuary for book lovers, weaving together personal anecdotes, reading styles, and a shared passion for literature. From their earliest reading memories to the literary bonds that underscore their friendship, the hosts embark on a nostalgic journey through the stories that have shaped them. They introduce their distinctive reading personalities—Darbi as the 'present escapist' and Mikayla as the 'conspiracy theorist'—and express their fondness for genres and authors, notably Sarah J. Maas. The podcast resonates with childhood nostalgia, the evolution of their reading habits, and the communal joy found in shared literary experiences. Through laughter-filled discussions and candid reflections on the challenges of reading amidst life's distractions, Darbi and Mikayla create an inviting space for listeners to reflect on their own literary journeys. The episode closes with a heartfelt invitation to join their ongoing celebration of reading, emphasizing the podcast's role in uniting readers through the love of books and the enduring magic of storytelling.

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Transcript

Lazy Girl Library Podcast Introduction

Speaker 1 0:10

Welcome to the Lazy Girl Library , the podcast , where reading is a pleasure and captivating adventures happen from the comfort of your couch . I'm your host , darby , and I'm Mikaela , and if you've ever spent more time rearranging your bookshelf than your priorities , then you , my friend , are in the right place . Alright , hello , mikaela , hello Darby , hello listeners .

Speaker 2 0:37

We're here , we did it .

Speaker 1 0:38

I can't believe it's already been a night for us . We have I mean , as the name states , we are Lazy Girl Library , but yeah , we've had to not be lazy tonight and we've had a lot of technical difficulties , but we're here .

Speaker 2 0:51

A lot of workarounds , but we made it Shout out , josh , thanks for the help .

Speaker 1 0:54

Yay , but anyway , we're so excited to have you here . This is our very first episode , so kind of for this episode , we really just want to talk about the who , what and why . So this podcast and , you know , take the opportunity to introduce ourselves to all of you fellow book enthusiasts . So I guess kind of just hopping in with like who we are in introductions I'm Darby , hi , darby . Hey , sorry , this is weird , I'm still trying to get used to talking . Still a little bit about me , basically the type of reader that I am . I have labeled as the present escapist , which I love . What does that mean ? It means that I like to escape reality in books and I'm very present when I read . Like I am not thinking too deeply into it , I am living in the book moment . I am never guessing the ending or guessing anything . Actually I am , I'm just there , I'm escaping life . But then as soon as the book closes do not ask me what happened because I don't know I was in the moment . What type of reader are you , michaela ?

Speaker 2 2:03

I am definitely the complete opposite . I consider myself the conspiracy theorist . So , unlike Darby , who loves to be present in her books , I am constantly thinking ahead and coming up with the wildest theories of what could happen . What is going to happen ? I bet this person is going to fall in love with this person , or this person is the bad guy , whatever . So I'm always trying to figure out the ending before the ending can come . Like a little game for me , the worst .

Speaker 1 2:30

A lot of times I'll have read a book before Michaela and so she sends me all of her thoughts , and the worst is when I have to try and gaslight her because she's correct about everything and I'm like maybe the best feeling is , like some of those where I'm like , okay , this one's really outlandish , I really don't think this is going to happen , but I'm going to write it down anyway , and then it ends up happening .

Speaker 2 2:51

Such a validating feeling it does it's good .

Speaker 1 2:54

Well , actually I don't know the feeling , but I assume that would be cool . Alright , our favorite genres . My favorite genres are fantasy that's probably my top one , but then I also like romance , and I really like self-help books too , especially like faith-based ones .

Speaker 2 3:10

You find really good ones . Thanks , I always love the recommendations , my favorite genres . I also do fantasy . It's how Darby and I really got into this with the Sergey Masks books . I also love a good mystery or historical fiction , but really I'm just kind of an eclectic reader . If there's a good story to it , then I enjoy it .

Speaker 1 3:33

Yeah , what are your top three favorite books , michaela ?

Speaker 2 3:37

That's a great question , anything . Sergey Masks , as we both well know . As you readers will know , yes , I talk about her all the time . We bond over the trauma of the Massevers . Specifically , I loved A Court of Silver Flames I'm a Nesta girly through and through or the Throne of Glass series . Just all of them , can't pick one . They all are at the top there Outside of fantasy , I loved Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton . I hope I pronounced that last name right . It is not related to the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo , as many people like to think when they hear the name . Completely different author , premise and everything . It's definitely more of a mystery , but it's one that kept my head spinning the whole time as a conspiracy theorist . It's hard to find those , so that's top of my list there .

Speaker 2 4:36

And the third one , I'd say the Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller . It's very different than most books that I like to read , but it was just beautifully written , the prose in it , the visuals that you have . I'm also such a sucker for Greek mythology so I loved those tie-ins there . Definitely top three , that's good , I haven't .

Speaker 1 5:01

I actually haven't read Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle or the Song of Achilles , but maybe I'll give those a try . You have read all of my favorite books , my top three favorite books .

Speaker 1 5:14

I also echo anything by Sarah J Mass , and Throne of Glass , I think , is my favorite series by her . There was just so many good characters and like there was not a single one of those characters that I didn't like . I really just I felt a connection to all of them . Really I think this is an underrated fantasy book and it's one of my top three favorite books is the Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent .

Speaker 1 5:39

I read this book on well , not fully on a plane , but the ending I read on a plane and , oh my gosh , the people next to me must have thought I was crazy . I was crying , I was gasping . It made me feel all the emotions . It was so good , it was so good . I wish I could reread that one for the first time . And then I think my third favorite book is I Don't Wait Anymore by Grace Thornton . I hope I said that right .

Speaker 1 6:08

It's been a while since I read this book , but this one really helped me at a time in my life where I was just a little lost in my faith and just wasn't sure what my purpose was and it just I don't know . It really helped me and I just I liked her stories , I liked how she rated , related things back to God and it just I don't . All I can say is that , like it enlightened me . I was reading it and I remember specifically I was on a cruise and there was this one chapter and this one page talking about a verse and I was just like whoa and for the rest of the trip , the rest of the day , I was just engulfed and my mind was like opened up . It was like a new part of my brain like started working ?

Speaker 2 6:47

Yeah , it is . You recommended it to me and I read it and I keep it by my bedside . I have little notes highlighted and everything they go back in reference because I thoroughly enjoyed it too . So I can't echo your thoughts enough on that . Yeah , 10 out of 10 . It's a sweet one , I like it .

Speaker 1 7:03

Okay . Well , why are we here , like , why are we doing this podcast ?

Speaker 2 7:11

Another great question Darby . So really , we started . Well , this is honestly , truly all because of Darby . Darby started this . All all credit goes to her because she started the book club that I joined , which is what got me back into reading , but we can go into that later , and so , oh , shout out book babes . By the way , too , that's our book club , so we've been reading together for a while . You got me into Sarah J Mass , and so we're always texting back and forth about those books , and , as I've been going on the journey , after you're holding my hand through it , which I can't appreciate enough .

Speaker 1 7:54

It is funny . The fact that you read a Sarah J Mass book before me is going to be weird , it's weird .

Speaker 2 8:00

I don't think it'll ever come . We've gotten two said their ways at this point , but we talk about books all the time . Because of that and because we have very similar likes and dislikes with books , and so my fiance , josh , was always telling us that we need to start a book podcast , to just sit down and start recording all these conversations that we'd have Like , yeah , sure , whatever , eventually , maybe . And then finally we were hanging out and Derby's like you know what ? We really should start a podcast .

Speaker 1 8:32

For real . Let's do this . We talk for hours about books and I feel like the book community is so close , but at the same time I feel like it can be kind of spaced out , because you don't know who's reading what . You don't want to spoil something , you don't know if someone likes something that you like , or you just don't know if someone's like a reader . I feel like sometimes reading can be intimate .

Speaker 2 8:54

So I feel like this is a good place for us to share and meet more book friends like ourselves , create our own little community of people to talk to about all things book related , which is what you can expect from this podcast .

Speaker 1 9:08

Exactly , we will be rotting on the couch and talking about books .

Speaker 2 9:13

Nothing new there . We're just recording it now . So things you can expect from us here we're just going to be talking about all things bookish . Really , I'm sharing our favorite reads , exploring different genres . That is one thing that we love to do in our book club is we always pick a different book and a different genre , trying to expand our horizons , so you'll get a wide range of books from us .

Speaker 1 9:39

On this journey of a podcast , and then also not well , still related to books , but not just reading . We're going to talk about popular bookish topics , things that circulate on book talk or bookstagram , what's trending , what are funny memes that we saw Just all things books and bookish .

Speaker 2 10:02

It will be kind of fun too , because we do have such different reading styles . You'll get the two different versions of the books that we're reading , or two different point of views for some of these topics too , and we'd be curious to hear where you all land on that spectrum , whether you're more like me , more like Darby or somewhere in the middle it's going to be interesting .

Speaker 1 10:25

I'm really going to have to focus on taking notes as I read because , like I said , I read something and then , once the book's over , like it's over , like trying to pull the thoughts out . Sometimes , luckily , mckay like has so many notes that it like jogs my memory .

Speaker 1 10:40

I'm like oh , yeah , yeah , yeah , I did like that , or no , I didn't like that , but I think it'll be good . And so each each month , we'll be talking about a different book , and right now , our aim is to do two podcasts a month one specifically , like on a book that we're reading , and then the other one will be more bookish topics . But we are lazy girl library , so Don't take that to heart . Take it with a grain of salt , we'll get to it when we get to it .

Speaker 1 11:10

Learning curves , but that's what we're going to try and do . So welcome to our book club , because that's kind of what this is . Each month we're going to be doing a new book and hopefully you guys can read with us .

Speaker 2 11:22

We'll let you know what the books are , too , so you can follow along . This month , I think we're doing the Worst Best man by LucyScore , so that'll be the next podcast episode . You'll get to hear our thoughts on the book that we're still currently reading , or at least I am . I did , yeah , that is the other thing . I feel like Darby is a really fast reader , but I'm not , and I'm a very slow reader .

Speaker 1 11:46

Okay , but it's like I'm not a fast reader . I just put off every single other priority and spend the hours reading , but it's not happening fast . It's definitely like I'm not a fast reader . I just really , I just , yeah , put off all other priorities sometimes .

Speaker 2 12:03

I feel that I'm such a specific type of reader too , like I'm not somebody that can tune out the world and read anywhere , I feel like I'm like one of those plants that needs like the specific type of environment and soil in order to thrive . That's me reading . I need a certain environment .

Speaker 1 12:21

You're like a secular plant , exactly Not too much sun , not too much water .

Speaker 2 12:27

I need just the right conditions in order to get into a book , which can be difficult sometimes , but we're working through it and I will be finishing the book here soon , yeah .

Speaker 1 12:38

Yeah , we'll get it in by the next podcast , but this is really fun already . I'm having fun already . But also in this episode , since it's new and we're talking about who we are , we kind of wanted to talk a little bit about kind of how we got into books , because for some people they don't start really reading or getting into fiction until like college , while some people start like , as they're a kid , they just read all growing up . So we kind of wanted to talk about our history in reading and how we grew up . So for me , I really have always loved reading . My mom likes to tell this story . I did a pageant when I was like a baby , like a little . I was a toddler in Sierra , but only one's , only one pageant . But she always tells the story that when the judges ask what my favorite toy was , I said a book . A book was my favorite toy .

Speaker 1 13:30

It's so cute .

Love of Reading Through the Years

Speaker 1 13:33

And then I vividly remember being a kid in elementary school and I loved , loved , loved performing . I thought I was going to be an actress one day . And so I remember reading certain books and I would like sing the pages out loud or like read them as if it was a performance and I was like the actress . And so I definitely read in elementary school and that was more of like performing to me , with little books . I know that's weird , no , that's so awesome though . But and then in middle school I had the sweetest librarian and she , she just like got me , and she , she knew what books to like , point me in the direction to read , because I , I don't know , I didn't know what to read , and she just gave me some really good ones . So she kind of kept me going . And then in high schools , when things like really like developed for me but did you read when you were a kid ? Like elementary , middle school ? I did .

Speaker 2 14:25

I came from a big family of readers so my mom , she would read to me every night before bed and that really like sparked my love of reading , because we've been doing that from for as long as I can remember . We would always , whether it's like picture books or whatever . When I got a little bit older we would even do like chapter books that I remember and going through .

Speaker 1 14:45

Okay , I know like sorry , I don't mean to cut you off , but I've I don't remember . Sorry , mom and dad , if you did read chapter books to me , but I don't ever remember being like reading a chapter book with another person . So did you guys just like literally read like one chapter at a time ?

Speaker 2 15:02

or just how many pages it felt like it's because of like we always did at night , so like before bed , and we didn't get in the chapter books really until I would say like third , fourth , fifth grade . We really stopped after fifth grade . She kind of get older . At that point You're not reading bedtime stories anymore , but it depended on like how late it was .

Speaker 2 15:22

If we just do a chapter or if it was a little bit earlier , we might do like one or two chapters kind of thing , and we just do that every night , like a chapter or two every night until we finish the book . I'll never forget like our favorite series was called the Santa Paws series , which was about it's about like a dog . I think he was like a rescue or like a living on the streets kind of dog and like all the adventures he'd go through around Christmas time and like helping kids and like you , know like , really like goodwill type of things .

Speaker 2 15:54

I'm getting air buddies , vibes If you've seen that movie , kind of it was and it was just a really like heartwarming and dogs for a big dog family love dogs and so , yeah , always around Christmas time that was like the big thing that we would read a lot . I remember that's cute , but yeah , big , big reading family . Both my grandmas loved to read , especially my dad's mom . She's a huge reader , until we talk about books a lot . And then my grandpa I will never forget one summer over elementary school . It was the summer between second and third grade . He was always like giving me little challenges or things like that , and so this one he said that if I could read 100 books over the summer , he would give me a hundred one dollar bills , which for me I like seven , eight years old , I'm like , oh my gosh , I'm going to be rich . This is me right now .

Speaker 1 16:49

That was the offer Easy .

Speaker 2 16:53

And so I would . I went through and they weren't , like you know , like picture books , like easy books , like they had to be , like more like real books . I did , I did do it . Hundred bucks in the summer . A lot of Junie B Jones loved her , but we did it and I will , yep . I will never forget that feeling of being at the bank and the lady counting out a hundred one dollar bills for me .

Speaker 1 17:14

Wow , that's , that's impressive . My good reads go . Last year I read 24 books in the year and I was like this is amazing , this is crazy . I can't imagine a hundred books over the summer .

Speaker 2 17:26

I was motivated man . I wanted that , I wanted that money ?

Speaker 1 17:28

Yeah , it was a great it really did .

Speaker 2 17:31

It was a great motivator for me , like through life too . It kept me reading at that point because it's like Pavlov's dog meat .

Speaker 1 17:40

You're like drooling as the pages are flipping .

Speaker 2 17:45

Give it to me . So yeah , big reader , big reading , family love it .

Speaker 1 17:50

That's so fun . What is your first book memory as a child ?

Speaker 2 17:54

I know you you mentioned Junie B Jones . Yeah , junie B Jones , for sure . That was like the first real chapter books I got into . I feel like that's a staple for a lot of people .

Speaker 1 18:03

Oh yeah , I read Junie B Jones yeah .

Speaker 2 18:04

You can't not read Junie . We love Junie , oh yeah , um , sass Master for sure

Childhood Book Memories

Speaker 2 18:10

. But the other one that's more obscure , it was called Clementine by Sarah Penny Packard and it was a very similar kind of style to Junie B Jones . But I just related with Clementine so much because she had like this restlessness about her , like getting distracted in class or just like not wanting to do things . How my parents didn't figure out I have ADHD at that point .

Speaker 2 18:36

I don't know but relating to this girl so much and it was just a very different vibe to Junie B Jones , even though they're like similar , very , very different . And I remember absolutely loving that book and reading it to death when I was a little .

Speaker 1 18:52

I feel like that one sounds similar to me . I need to look that one up . If maybe I might have read that one too , but I can't remember . I will say I'm so excited to have kids one day and to read to them , and I think part of it goes back to me like perform , like I can't wait to be each like character .

Speaker 2 19:10

Do fun voices .

Speaker 1 19:12

Like they're all going to have different accents . I think it's going to be really fun .

Speaker 2 19:17

Performance .

Speaker 1 19:18

Yeah , but to get to read them like our favorite books . My first childhood memory book would be all Dr Seuss ones , so like the green eggs and ham . I think I knew that one by heart at one point . It's such a it's just such an iconic book , so it's going to be cool to like read those . And then also where the sidewalk ends , by Shel Silverstein , so nostalgic , talking about performing again . That's what reading was to me in elementary school . But I would sing those little , all those little stories .

Speaker 2 19:52

Some of them were so dramatic and easy to get into . The perform yes , great one , so nostalgic . And then what about ? Like your first young adult book I remember reading it's called cry of the ice mark . I don't remember the author , but this was like my first step into fantasy . This was in fifth grade and it was like young heroin who can take care of herself and she was like really independent , had the kind of like Ron stoppable , kim possible vibe to it with like the love interest , which was great . And I remember absolutely loving that book so much . And it's tragic because I didn't learn that it was a series until literally this year , and then I could have been reading the full series but I didn't know it was a series . I thought it was a standalone book , and so now I feel like I need to go back and revisit this book you do ?

Speaker 1 20:49

How long is the series ? How many books are there ?

Speaker 2 20:52

I don't know , but I do know that there's at least two or three more , I think . So I feel like I need to go back and revisit this .

Speaker 1 21:01

I do think at some point , maybe even like with the podcast , we should pick out some of our like childhood books or like our first YA books . My first one was it was called wings by Apriline Pike , which is really funny because it's about this girl finding out that she is like a fairy , like sorry spoiler alert but fairies from the stars .

Speaker 2 21:23

Exactly .

Speaker 1 21:24

And now I'm obsessed with Sarah J Mass , but it's literally I don't remember a lot of it . I do remember there was a love triangle . I think we love a love triangle but it's like this girls in high school . And she wakes up and there's like a lump on her back and she's like what is this ? But of course she's not telling her parents or anyone . And then she grows wings and instead of telling people , she like ties them down , like behind her back , so she can wear shirts and stuff to school , and then I can't I could be butchering some of this because it was in middle school but I think what happens then is like she like meets an actual fairy and he's like I know what's wrong , but like I know you have wings .

Reading Journeys in Friendship

Speaker 1 22:03

The beginning of it ?

Speaker 1 22:04

Yes so that was probably my first one . And then when I got to high school I kind of like I was going through like a wait , like I dropped reading a little bit . But then this girl we all go through that yeah , this girl in my chemistry class I remember she was reading a book and I was like really intrigued she also . I thought she was cool . So she was reading this book and I was like I wonder what that is . And I asked her and it was the matched trilogy . I don't know if you ever read it . I've heard you talk about it before .

Speaker 1 22:34

Yeah , it was like my first intro into like a dystopian like series and so that was pretty cool . Again , another love triangle , but Love it .

Speaker 2 22:43

Yeah , for me in high school it was all about Percy Jackson and John Green . Those are my two big , big books that I absolutely loved . I ate up the Percy Jackson again , with the Greek mythology obsessed . And then John Green just got just felt so emotional and deep and they were really it just like , especially at that age , you're like no one understands . It had the teen angst Yep , that's exactly the word . Teen angst to it . For sure that I ate up . I loved it , plus all of his symbolism , because I was really into that .

Speaker 1 23:17

I know a lot of people hated that I probably didn't get any of that when I read them back in the day .

Speaker 2 23:21

It's like everybody's least favorite part of English class is like but why were the drapes red ? But that was my absolute favorite . I loved finding all the symbolism in meeting , so , john Green , was it for me ?

Speaker 1 23:34

I also went through a John Green phase . I'm trying to think what my favorite book by him was but I can't , I don't know . They feel so long ago . But I definitely liked looking for Alaska , that one I really liked , and I liked Abundance of Catherine , right . But I think now my memory of that one is skewed because of the movie . So now I don't know what was the book and what was the movie , since that was so long ago .

Speaker 2 24:01

I loved Fault in Our Stars , obviously .

Speaker 1 24:04

I actually never read that one , I only saw the movie , really yeah .

Speaker 2 24:08

I loved the book . The movie was cute too , but the book's always better . But I did love looking for Alaska . I did a lot of like book reports and stuff on that one , because that one I think was my favorite too .

Speaker 1 24:18

I think the series I was obsessed with in high school was the Selection series . With this girl on my cheer team . She recommended it to me , or she was reading it at the time , and I ate it up . Oh my gosh , it was like it , like how do you explain it ?

Speaker 2 24:36

It was like a bachelor meets dystopian princesses . Yes , yes , yes , that's literally , I think .

Speaker 1 24:40

On the back of the book it says like the bachelor meets the hunger games is what it says , and like it's definitely a YA book . But it's just , oh , it was so good . I recently reread it , like a couple years ago , and it's still . It's still hit the same . I was like , oh , this is good . A little more like nostalgic this time , sure , but I was like , oh , this is this is good .

Speaker 2 25:01

I did read the first one from your recommendation . I did really enjoy it , it was really cool and it's a really interesting concept because it's not something that like as much as like dystopian novels were such like the rage at that time . And very much was its own thing it was very original , unlike some of them that kind of feel like copy paste a little bit .

Speaker 1 25:20

It was very much its own thing and I really appreciated that . Yeah , I it's definitely like . When I read it the second time , it definitely had a little more like a kid feel to it , especially now that we're reading more adult books . But I don't know , I think that one will always be one of my favorites and like who doesn't want to dress up ? Absolutely , I don't know . That was a good one .

Speaker 2 25:41

So , coming back to the reading journey , I do again gotta give Derby her props , because I was always in and out of reading depending on what was going on at the time , especially when we got to college . I really got out of it Because at that point you're like you're reading textbooks , you're busy studying . I didn't have the time to read the way that I was in middle school and high school , but then I met Derby and Derby and Shelby started this book club and we read a court of thorns and roses . Actually , the first book was Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo , which I appreciated , but their second book was a court of thorns and roses , and that just sprint . It was a sprint . After that I just took off running and never stopped .

Speaker 1 26:27

It's so funny because I was . I remember at the time I was so nervous recommending a court of thorns and roses . I was like they are going to think this is so weird . I'm trying to explain it to them and for anyone that reads fantasy you know that trying to explain it to someone it sounds like you're an idiot . You're like oh yeah , there's this fairy and a different work . But they're not like little fairies , they're like big , muscular , powerful , magical fairies and it's like that . It does not come across the way it's supposed to . It just doesn't sound enticing . But it's like there's war , there's like romance , drama . But I remember I was so scared recommending that book . But I was similar to you .

Speaker 1 27:07

I like read kind of dropped off in college , at least with fiction wise . I kept up with self help books I was in college but I really just kind of dropped all like fiction . And then this girl who I interned with at Make-A-Wish . She was reading a court of thorns and roses and she she made it sound good and I remember she was like , but there's a little bit of spice and I was like I've never read a book with spice . I don't even know what that means . And yeah , I think once you read a court of thorns and roses , you get the bug . Like her writing is just like magical . I think it might be like like a potion , or like you read it and like I'm going to trance , like I have to keep going .

Speaker 2 27:55

It is . It's one of those that once you started , you can't stop it's it's sectioned until you finish . All everything , all the books .

Speaker 1 28:02

Yeah , but I think our breaks are over . We , we did that . We read a court of thorns and roses and we've been all gas , no breaks , yeah , Flying through ever since . Mm-hmm . But realistically , like where you at now reading wise , here you're reading journey . I have slowed down a bit .

Speaker 2 28:20

So like that first year back , mm-hmm , there was pedal to the metal . I was cruising through books .

Speaker 1 28:27

You were doing like two or three , you're ready for a hundred ready to go around for my money .

Speaker 2 28:34

No , but yeah , I was just non-stop . I mean , they talk about being like a bookworm or a book dragon . It's like bookworms like just devour books constantly , versus book dragons like hoard books even though you don't read them . I feel like I a hundred percent of both , where I was like constantly just reading and devouring book after book , but then I was collecting books at like twice the pace that I was reading them to . Now I have this huge physical TBR , yeah , that I've . Now that I've slowed down , I'm like okay , we got it , we got to take this down before I'm allowed to touch anything .

Speaker 1 29:12

Barnes and Noble okay , see , I'm different in that I have maybe two physical books right now that I haven't read . Like if I buy a book , I am reading it . Then , like I do not have physical TBRs , like if I want to read a book I'm gonna get it or it's gonna stay in my , like good reads , want to read . I saw this really .

Speaker 2 29:33

I don't know who said it . I think it was like I saw it on TikTok or something . It was a quote by somebody talking about how they treat books like fine wine and then when you're collecting them it's just like sitting in the cellar . It's not the right time . Yet you got to let it age properly before you touch it and I feel like that's very much how I treat books .

Speaker 1 29:49

I love that analogy . I'm like book people are so smart , I know .

Speaker 2 29:53

I cannot take credit . That is not me , don't come at me . That was not whoever created that saying or in that quote . All credit goes to you , not an original . But I do love it and I definitely it makes me feel a little bit better about my endless TBR . Yeah , I get you .

Speaker 1 30:13

I think I also . I did not go as hard as you , but I definitely was like really ramping up . After we started book club I was going so hard , so fast , like I just wanted to keep going , keep going , keep going , and now I think I'm in a I pretty like consistent , like I try to read two books a month is kind of like my goal . So it's like normally our book club book and then one like extra curricular right look like that's just on my TBR .

Speaker 2 30:37

I think it's a totally doable goal . Yeah , and like something easy that I'm trying to do too . I was hard after the holidays and things got crazy and Darby got married , so we were going through all the wedding planning and fun stuff .

Speaker 2 30:51

Yeah , that's that , but and now Michaela's engaged , so she's up next , but we're taking our time on that one , but also should enjoy the time it's also why slowing down a little bit so it's said , I'm not , it's not gonna be as crazy as it was before for me , but definitely I think the two books a month is totally doable and an easy goal to keep for the both of us yeah , also I was thinking about it .

Speaker 1 31:16

I think the term book hangover is so real too that sometimes , when you've read such a good book like one , you like want to read another book , but at the same time it's like you know it's not gonna be as good . So then it's like kingdom of ash . Yeah .

Speaker 2 31:36

I'm gonna cry , I think that happens too .

Speaker 1 31:42

It's weird now that , like I feel like we're so so much more into books now than when we first became friends . And it's funny . I was talking to Justin my husband shout out hubby we were talking about like how we've changed and our relationship has changed and one of the first things he said was like well , you definitely read a lot more than what we first started going out . But I don't know . I just think you , you kind of just get into your own like zone and routine of reading and I feel like now we've hit like a routine . Like before we were trying to figure out like I want everything , I want to read now , and now we're like I do want to read everything , but that's impossible . So we're gonna take it as it comes .

Speaker 2 32:21

Yep , fantastic way to put it . Yeah , josh really appreciates my book obsession because , same thing like I , was not reading as much when we first started dating , but now it gives him time to go out and play golf because he knows it's like hey , did you see ? Like have you started the latest book ? Or for book club ? You know like you should probably get on that . And he's like oh , by the way , I'm also leaving for tea time . That .

Speaker 1 32:46

I'll see you

Book Club Chat

Speaker 1 32:47

later . That's Justin , but with video games . So he loves that . He gets to hang out with his friends and play video games and I go read with the dog , but it's funny . I've tried to read while he plays video games . I can't . He's so loud that I it's just not doable . Like , or you know , you get in a zone during some some scenes of books and then when they're yelling , I'm like , all right , I need a different setting . I cannot .

Speaker 2 33:13

I will say Josh is very talented . He has a sixth sense for knowing when those scenes come up and that is exactly when he chooses . That we're gonna have like a really great conversation about something asking me ran questions .

Speaker 2 33:26

They can be sitting on the couch for a couple hours not talking and I'm reading the book . As soon as I get to a spicy part I'm not even kidding like a few words in and he immediately is like now is the greatest time for me to ask what are we doing about dinner ? Well , you know like , oh , we should go see this next movie that's coming out . I hope he hears this right now . He's in another room right now and I really hope Josh is here , he knows I tell him and he thinks it's funny .

Speaker 1 33:52

He does nothing to change it , but it's fine it is funny too , like when you're reading and you're like trying to finish a chapter and they ask you a question and it's like two more pages , like hold on , I can't focus . And then they ask you another question . I'm like one more page , hold on , let me just get to a stopping point .

Speaker 2 34:09

Oh no , josh knows like if he sees that I'm down at the end , he won't bother me . Yeah , otherwise I'll have to deal with the consequences of that , and he doesn't want to deal with that that's so good .

Speaker 1 34:20

That's so good . But I'm really excited about this and about our podcast . I think it's gonna be so much fun and , like we said , we're kind of in like a nice routine , so we're excited to just talk about books with more people . We really want to hear from you guys and hopefully you like the books that we're reading , but if not , let us know and give us recommendations for books that you think are way better than the books that we're reading , or even if you just have recommendations for us .

Speaker 2 34:47

Our TBRs are endless , so you know what's one more , two more books to add to it exactly , exactly .

Speaker 1 34:52

I know we both love Sarah J Mass , but we both are late to the fourth wing craze , so we both do have the book already . No , but it is on my list . That's on mine too . I just actually bought both of them . I think it's Iron Flame is the second one , so I figured we were gonna read those eventually , but I do . I've heard such good things about them . I think that'll be my next like fantasy book , after Chris and City all over book talk .

Speaker 2 35:19

Yeah , it's definitely on my on my list after I finish . The Chris and City House of Sky and Breath is next one , for me at least , I think I'm gonna take a little bit of a fantasy break , do a little palette . You need a fantasy break and I call them palette cleanses , because otherwise , if you go from one fantasy to the next , they start to blend and they do much they just doesn't work for me , then joy .

Speaker 1 35:46

It's the worst when they use the same names for characters and you're like oh no , or the same like place names . That has really thrown me . I'm like what world am I in ? Like I don't know .

Speaker 2 35:57

Sometimes I've gotten like something like is too similar or like the magic systems are really really similar , but then , there's like one nuance difference that you forget about yes , yeah , I need , especially after a Sarah J Mass type of fantasy book . I need a break before I go in . Yeah , to anything else .

Speaker 1 36:15

Yeah , I don't know what the next one will be , but my breaks are usually like a romance book , cuz compared to the thick fantasy books , it's such like a quick read , yeah , like I think the newest Sarah J Mass book is like 102 chapters over 800 pages . And then I get a romance book and it's like half that or even less than that order of it . Yeah , whoa , this is me so quick . Yeah , and that's why it looks like I'm reading it so fast , because in comparison it's so little , it's true .

Speaker 2 36:45

Yeah , all depends on the timing you have to , which you know we're adults , which sucks , and being in an adult world sucks . Next , all you want to do is sit on the couch and be lazy and read books all day .

Speaker 1 36:56

Yeah , so if you all could listen and share this , so that we can make this our full-time gig and not have to work , that would be great , because we are not meant for corporate world but so , speaking of book club and books , like we said , we are reading the worst , best man right now by Lucy score .

Speaker 1 37:20

So , on our next podcast , that's gonna be the book that we're talking about . So if you want to read it beforehand so you can kind of understand sort of references we're talking to , we're really gonna try , and when we talk about books , if we're gonna talk about spoilers or get into the nitty-gritty , we're gonna try and break it up so that if you still want to listen to the podcast but haven't read the book , we are hoping to give you like time slots where you can like skip ahead .

Speaker 2 37:48

Like if we want to talk about the actual plot and stuff , we'll say , okay , skip to minute 23 or something , and then you can listen to the podcast but not necessarily hear all the specifics about the book and the spoilers right , and so if , like , the episode comes out before you finish the book , because you're joining us for book club , you can still listen to everything that's going on , and then later , when you finish the book , you know exactly where to go for all of our thoughts on it . Yeah , so no spoilers here . We hate spoilers . Coming across them . Bookstagram is the worst about it . It is .

Speaker 1 38:24

You will not find them here you okay , you know it's crazy . I'm not gonna say like the spoiler for people who haven't read it , but one of my co-workers , I got her to read a court of thorns and roses and she wanted to look up the characters . But she looked up one of the main characters while she was reading the first book , but then it shows a lot of characters from future books and it it like ruined it for her .

Speaker 2 38:51

That is one you cannot . If anybody has yet to read a quarter thorns and rosin's and you're listening to this , do not , do not , do not look up anything while reading that series .

Speaker 1 39:01

It will ruin it for you , literally email or email who you want to see . We will find the character and we will send you a fan art of just that character , but if you look up one , you're going to get all of them . Yep , yeah , also sorry , we're going to talk about Sarah J Mass a lot . So , speaking of Court of Florence and Roses again , do you remember our friend Samantha ? She poor girl . She read , I think , the first one and then , before starting the second one , she started reading like the last one . Yes , and that ruined it for her too . Oh my , that broke my heart .

Speaker 1 39:33

I was like the fact that you're not going to get to like . See that play out naturally , but you just had to like , Because I don't know how much that second book would hit , knowing the spoilers for it .

Speaker 2 39:44

I don't know it's heart wrenching knowing yeah . Like , oh my gosh , you poor souls who have had that spoiled for you , I feel for you , I'm here for you , you're in my thoughts and prayers , yeah .

Speaker 1 39:57

We love books to gram book talk and all the memes , but at the same time , please keep it away . Even publishing places like isn't Bloomsbury , they're just out here posting things . That was wild for the New Crescent City book , which I do get it to an extent , because I was reading some of the comments on one of them and some people are like , well yeah , we read the other one when it first came out . We've been waiting two years . We want these little like snippets . So I get it Like I can't be mad .

Speaker 2 40:25

I just now know like I am not going to look on those sites or look at photos or but it's really hard when it's like you can't blame the publishing company for putting some of that stuff out or for people being excited . But it's really hard when you don't go looking for things like that but you find them anyway Because , like , obviously I know that the new Serger Mass book is coming out , so I'm not going to look on all of these different places that I normally am for , you know , books , grand book , talk , whatever . But they still find you anyway and that's the frustrating part of it , there's nothing you can do about it .

Speaker 2 41:00

It's just the way of the world . At this point , Nobody's fault . But oh , it's frustrating . You know what ?

Speaker 1 41:06

I'm thinking about as we're like talking about like Serger Mass and kind of like talking around spoilers , like being in the book community , it's like you have to talk in coded messages . Like you , when you're talking about a book or a sequel or literally anything , you don't want to give anything away because it , like reading , gives you such a like I don't know it's like a high it is , and so like you can't take that away from someone . So you're just like I don't know . I feel like it kind of sound crazy talking right now , Like I hope the listeners can like follow along with us , like what we're getting at , because you know we don't want to spoil things .

Speaker 2 41:44

It's like that conversation between Rachel and Joey , I think , on Friends , where it's like I know , you know , or like I can't tell you until you tell me yeah , I know , do you know something ?

Speaker 1 41:57

Maybe Do you know something , maybe .

Speaker 2 42:00

What do you know ? What do you know ? It's exactly what it's like it is .

Speaker 1 42:05

I love it , though . It's so fun , like meeting a random person who's read the same book as you . Like that's cool . And when you're both like , oh my gosh , I love that so much . Like , oh , it's so cool .

Speaker 2 42:17

I have somebody too that loves to hear like differing opinions from mine too . So as much as I love an Adora Sarajeh mask , I do enjoy reading like the one star reviews or things for her books , because it is interesting to see how other people interpret things , and sometimes they bring up good points that you don't think about because you're like so swept up in the moment of it all too . It's just interesting seeing like how somebody can have such a differing opinion from you on like something so similar .

Speaker 1 42:44

Or like the same thing it is . Yeah , I think that's kind of why we work , because I think we do have a lot of differing opinions on books , on characters , lots of characters .

Speaker 2 42:56

Yeah , but it works . It's so good it's for interesting conversation , hence the podcast .

Speaker 1 43:05

Yeah , that's what's nice about like books , too , is it's like your own world , like these are my friends Like , and then you get to share it with other people . But if they have different , differing opinions , it's like okay , because it's like well , they weren't in my head when I read it , like these are my feelings .

Speaker 2 43:23

Like I don't know Well , or it's even better if , like , they have a different pronunciation than you on a certain character , because , then you're like well , it's not even my character anyway .

Speaker 1 43:31

Exactly I'm trying to . When I learn the new pronunciation for certain characters , like I'll try , but for some of them like it's just gonna stay If I learn it early on enough in the book , then I can swap it .

Speaker 2 43:47

But if I'm already like a third halfway through , it's my pronunciation now I don't care what the correct way to say it is . This is the way it's gonna be for me , so there's no going back at that point .

Speaker 1 43:59

It's so fun hearing the authors like when they say it , like when they say names that everyone else is pronouncing differently , but they wrote it . So , even if that's not proper English like that , literally is her character Like this is who she wants it to be . This is how she wants it spelled and this is how she wants it to be said . So that's right , you know ? Like oh no .

Speaker 1 44:23

But , it's just like I don't know , authors are so powerful . This is , I mean . I found a lot of fun . I feel like this is

Borrows & Returns

Speaker 1 44:30

really good . I feel like we've talked a lot on this podcast and just this first episode , and I think it's going to be really good and really fruitful , because I could talk for hours and hours still , Absolutely , and like we do . And it's because I'm trying to hold back on certain topics too , because I know , like , like we could do a whole episode just on Goodreads , like which we should one day , but like I don't know , let us know if you have any good topics you want us to talk about too .

Speaker 1 44:57

Or like books you want us to read and discuss Literally anything . We're ready to talk about anything and everything , because we clearly love to talk .

Speaker 2 45:07

Yeah , I can't shut up , but we have fun doing it , we do .

Speaker 1 45:12

We do Well . I feel like we've covered a lot for this first episode .

Speaker 2 45:16

So a little taste of what will come . We'll be further deep dives into a lot of these topics later .

Speaker 1 45:23

And definitely really . This is our first episode , both of our first time doing a podcast . Let us know what you think . Does this work ? Can you follow us at all , or do we just sound like we're jumping from like ?

Speaker 2 45:34

point A to point Q Do we talk too fast ?

Speaker 1 45:38

Oh yes .

Speaker 2 45:39

Let me know , we'll fix it up . We want this podcast to be great .

Speaker 1 45:45

And we really want to make more book friends . But , like we said , I think we mentioned this , all right , our book club next month the worst , best man by Lucy score . Go ahead , get it , read it . Or if not , and you don't care about spoilers and you just want to hear our voices , then just tune in next episode .

Speaker 2 46:03

We always have plenty of opinions to share on books .

Speaker 1 46:06

So , but that's what we'll be talking about in our next episode , but to wrap up this one , we're going to be ending each episode with a recurring segment we like to call boroughs and returns , so similar to borrowing and returning a book at the library . This is where we're going to get to talk about what books we're currently reading , or our next step on our TV R list , and which books we've just recently finished and want to share our thoughts on . So , mikaela , what books are on your boroughs and returns ?

Speaker 2 46:35

list . So my boroughs . Right now , obviously we're best man still reading up on our book club book . And then House of Sky and Breath . I did just finish the first Crescent City book . I forget the House of Earth and Blood , I think it is . It's the first one . I enjoyed it , loved it , ready for the second one , but not till I finished book club book first , because that other one is a commitment , like we talked about , between the difference of romance and fantasy , my returns . Recently I read a really popular book talk book called A Little Life by Hanya . I'm going to really butcher this name , Yungira Sounds good to me . Gonna go with it . I had seen this for years , like not years , a year over TikTok of people talking about just like how heart-wrenching it is , but how like beautifully written the story of it all by like reading the back of it I got kind of very like a dead poet society vibe from it .

Speaker 1 47:40

Is this the one that you were like ? I'm reading it but I know I'm gonna cry .

Speaker 2 47:43

Yes , Okay , yes , I was like I was in an emotional state and I was like I need , I'm ready for this book now . I want , I want this book and I read it and I will say it . It was beautifully written to a point and it was really , it was different and it was like it was really nice for like the first third of it . And then it just gets so depressing and it is one of those books that it's not like a lot of like depressing things , have at least like some glimmer of hope in the end .

Speaker 1 48:19

I was just gonna ask to have some like no , no Okay .

Speaker 2 48:23

It was just full on dark despair .

Speaker 2 48:24

And then there is no hope in the end and everyone dies and who cares about life and everything's depressing . I don't know if I would like that . I don't get me wrong , I'm live for like a good , like heart wrenching story , but at least with like a little bit of like . It doesn't even have to end on like a happy note , but just like the fact that there is hope for something happy at the end . There was not that and it just the story dragged on for a really long time and so when you're reading something that depressing for such a long time , I'm like it wasn't for me and I'm really sad about it because I was really looking forward to it . Yeah , if you're into really deep , depressing books , it is written beautifully , so maybe check it out , but it wasn't my cup of tea .

Speaker 1 49:09

I mean , sometimes you are in the mood to cry , so yeah .

Speaker 2 49:12

And it will . It will do that , so that's good . What about ?

Speaker 1 49:15

you .

Speaker 2 49:15

Derby . What are your borrows and returns ?

Speaker 1 49:19

So borrows . I am ahead of Michaela with Sarah J Mas book , so I'm reading her most recent book , the third Crescent City book , house of Flame and Shadow . I'm not really going to say anything about that because Michaela has some catching up to do and I literally just started it last night , so but I'm intrigued for how she's going to develop .

Speaker 2 49:41

You never know what she's going to do , so last hundred pages of those books , just all her breaks loose .

Speaker 1 49:48

So I'm really excited about that one , but that's going to take me a while , so this might be one of my borrows for a little bit , but who knows ? But I'm also reading how to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie . So it's a self-help book . I think it's a really famous one . It is a really well-known one , so it's been okay so far . I'm doing it . I'm really doing it like a little bit at a time , but it's very interesting all the different things that he says about people , and a lot of it is true . A lot of what he's said so far is just kind of how people are very self-centered and they only want to talk about themselves . They never want criticism , which , like that's all true . So it makes sense , when you want to influence people and win friends , to not Helps be aware of it . Yeah , yeah , so to give them like true praise and maybe watch your criticism around them if you're trying to influence them into helping you with something .

Speaker 2 50:49

I do love the psychology of people .

Speaker 1 50:51

It is cool . I'm trying to let it sit a little bit and trying to reflect on it . So , as I do things , or even just my own motivations , I'm trying to reference the book . He compares a lot of what we should do to acting like dogs and babies , which is funny . So a dog's almost sole purpose is to love its owner and they every day . One of the happiest parts of their day is when their owner comes home and they are so excited to greet them . And so he was saying we should be so excited to greet people and to like it pure love , you know , really love each other and I thought that was really cool . That is cool , yeah . So I don't know . Anyway , those are my take .

Speaker 1 51:35

Yeah , those are my boroughs right now , and then my returns . I have finished book club book already . So I finished the Worst Best man by Lucy Score , and then I finished Everybody Always by Bob Goff , and that one was a really good one too . Bob Goff is a Christian author and his stories are really nice . He's lived a really cool life , so that's one of the reasons why I really liked it . He reminds me like a grandpa and it's like oh , tell me more stories .

Speaker 2 52:07

I heard you talk about him , so that one's on my TBR as well .

Speaker 1 52:10

It's really sweet and it's not . Sometimes things can get really heavy and , like some self-help books or faith-based books , can feel really heavy and really like hard . But he keeps it very light and very happy but still can get like an emotional point across and be really passionate . Diggs writing yeah , so those are my returns . Love it , yeah . One way to end this thing . I can't believe it . Those were our boroughs and returns .

Speaker 2 52:44

First ones ever . Yeah , those were our Lazy Girl library .

Speaker 1 52:49

Yay , well , we really hope that you liked this episode . This is the end of episode one .

Speaker 2 52:55

Can't believe it . We did it , long time coming . We did it and we're here Now .

Speaker 1 53:00

hopefully we don't have technical difficulties saving this . It all goes quickly for us .

Speaker 1 53:08

But thanks for listening and we'll see you next time . Bye , guys .

Lazy Girl Library Community Appreciation

Speaker 1 53:18

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