The Things We Leave Unfinished | Episode 14

 WARNING: THIS PODCAST HAS SPOILERS

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This week we dive into The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros.

The Things We Leave Unfinished is a dual-timeline romance novel about a woman who must work with a bestselling author to finish her late great-grandmother's final, unfinished manuscript, which tells the story of her grandmother's tragic World War II love affair with a pilot. (Thanks Google)

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey boo.

SPEAKER_00 0:02

And three. Two. One.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Hey Boo.

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Hey Boo.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

How are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:09

I'm good. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 0:11

You're really good.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Me?

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Yeah, I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Oh, okay. Just wondering. Our door broke today.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Well, I wasn't gonna tell them about that.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Okay, we don't have to talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

I mean, other than that, you know, I like to look at it positively and I like to say that we wanted a new back door.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

We have.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

So I don't mind spending what I spent today. And uh you said you'll split it with me. So I'm not that upset. I'm I'm only half mad now. So uh, you know, back doors break, but uh yeah, it was weed eating and we're gonna blame the rock. You know, it it wasn't you, it wasn't me, the person with the weed eater that hit the rock that made the rock hit the window. It was the rock that was just chilling that ended up hitting my window, but it was just hanging out with its rock family, and it went rock, and now we're gonna blame it. So that's our story, that's our story. We're sticking with it. So um, welcome back to Books with Boo.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Hi.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Uh we are gonna jump into the beer real quick. So I'm gonna do that, and then you give us the word of the day, and we'll move forward.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Tonight we are drinking one of my favorite breweries.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Monday night.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Done it several times, but gotta shout them out again. Love Monday night. Uh, this is Alana 404 Lager. Call it 404 Lager. I don't know why I said Alana because it says it right there. But um 4.04%. I'm sure they hit that every single time. So yeah. We haven't done this, right?

SPEAKER_01 2:00

No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Okay, cool. Yeah, me saying I'm sure they hit that every single time sounded familiar in my head. I'm sure it was a time when I was talking to friends.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

But I'm sure they hit exactly 4.04% ABV every time. Okay, cool. So when I pour this up, will you uh give us the word of the week?

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah. So Boo actually found this word.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Boo boo.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

And it's called rebracketing. So it's also known as resegmentation or mentanalysis. Analysis. You got it. Keep going. So rebracketing often focuses on highly probable word boundaries. So a noodle might become an oodle since an oodle sounds just as gram grammatically correct as a noodle. And likewise, an eagle might become an eagle, but the bull would not become the kite. A kite would not become a kite.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Understandable.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

Yeah, it's something that natural would naturally like flow into a new world word. And it's funny because I remember um studying something like that in linguistics, it was probably that, but I don't remember the term. And it's funny because words and language shifts all the time. It's like y'all, we're in the south, y'all came from somewhere. It used to be you all.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Y'all.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Y'all.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

That's one word that I actually don't use that much, even though I do live in the south.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

I do.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

I try to hold myself above that, and I try to say you all, or everybody, or everyone, or well, you grew up all around the world, so yeah, and Georgia has been home for a very home, has been home for a very long time, but uh I still try not to say all. Yeah. It's just a word that I'm like, eh.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

It's not your type of word.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Well, can we try the beer and then can I tell you a story about how I came up with the word of the week? Yes. Cheers.

unknown 4:15

Cheers.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Monday night.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

So much better than last week's beer.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Hey, sweetwater. Sweetwater is an OG classic, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:35

Yeah, but not that beer.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

Alright, so this was brewed in Atlanta, Georgia. Really nothing, just government label on the back, really nothing. It just is a uh 4.04 every single time ABV logger. So cool. Um, all right. Story time. So I was trying to come up with are you ready for this story? Yes. Okay, cool. Sit back, get comfortable. So I was trying to figure out what my my alias is gonna be when I write my first book.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

So you know how we said, or I said that we'll both write a book and we'll see which one's done first. So I just you said that. I did say that. That's why I said, yeah, I said that. So I like the name Ned.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

I like it too. It's a fun name.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Ned is weird. It's out there. Not a lot of people are named Ned, right? So you got Ned Flanders from The Simpsons.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Ned Stark from Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Never heard of that guy. He looked found the cat. Okay, so we got Ned. We just won't pay attention to him to we just won't pay attention to him until he starts causing a big, big scenery.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

Bernard.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

So Ned Stark from where?

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Game of Thrones. Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. Yeah. I'm sure there's other Neds out there.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Yeah. I don't, I can't think of any more. I can't either.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So I was like, oh, Ned's a pretty cool one.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

I approve of that name.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

And then it made me curious about where or what the name Ned is short for. Yeah. Do you know what the name Ned is short for?

SPEAKER_01 6:24

You I think you told me. Was it Edward?

SPEAKER_00 6:27

It is Edward.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

But that's weird.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Okay. Oh, now we're good. He's about to, he's about to go underneath the blinds. Or curtains. Um, so it's weird that it's Edward. So why is there an N in front of it? So I looked it up and it put together bracketing, right? Is that the word? Rebracketing. Rebracketing. Okay. So the one that I saw said the name Edward. You can have Ed for short. And then people say, like, bless you. They say my like my ed. And then they put it together as like med. And then they put it together as Ned. And then there was other words. So like orange. You know how we have the word orange? Yeah. So orange used to be an orange.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Really?

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Yes. So that's what Google said. So I have my computer, so let's look it up real quick. Okay. I should have pulled it up, should have done some pre pre-prep, but um it said that it was a norange instead of an orange. And the the it came from like Latin or something. And because of the way that people were saying it, it just they rebracketed it. Yeah. Into that. So let's see, it will say an orange, which I it's kind of weird to type because I like to type orange, not norange. I'm like, wait, what? So the word orange was originally norange derived from the Arabic, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Not Latin.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Yep, sorry. The Arabic naranj, narange, or Persian narang.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

Narang.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Narang. Through a list linguistic process called rebracketing, the phrase a norange shifted over time to an orange. The N attached to the article, changing the word used today. So it was just very interesting. And there were other words that were very similar to the an orange. So things that were taken off to be like an something else. Let's see.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Um makes me want to go get my linguistics book that I kept. Yeah. It would be cool. It was my most like the most interesting class I took in college. And I highly recommend it if you have an elective you can use, or if you're an English degree.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

I don't have an English degree, but for those of you out there, get it.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

And then you can do what I do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

Okay, so right here, I'm gonna read this now. Ned is traditionally a diminutive. Diminu diminutive diminutive? What's diminutive? Okay. We'll Google that. We can keep our discussion going that way.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Uh like a smaller, like it's not as important.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Diminutive is a word or a suffix added to a word indicating a small size. See? E.g. book lit youth, duckling, or a sense of familiarity.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

We can't talk.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

Familiarity, affection, or contempt. E.g. doggy, comma tom. Don't don't know what that means, but okay. So it's a word or a suffix added to a word indicating small size. So keeping that in mind, net is a traditionally a diminutive, which is a word put in front of a word for a small size, or a nickname for the masculine name Edward. It also commonly acts as a short form or for similar names beginning with Ed, Ed, including Edmund, Edgar, Edwin. Historically, Ned involved the phrase mine edward.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

That's it, it'd be like the wife saying my Edward.

SPEAKER_00 11:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

Ned.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

It was mine. Mine Edward. I said my earlier, but it was mine Edward.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Mine Edward.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

So mine Edward through a linguistic process called rebracketing, similar to how a no hey, this is where I figured out of it. A norange. A norange became an orange. Okay. Well, I just thought it was really cool, and I was really excited to find a word that I could send to you and blah boo.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

I'll save my word for next week. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

You already had a word. She already had a word, but she let me you use that one.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

It's funny when you when you said mine Edward, it made me it's like it's like Jane Austen up in here.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

Oh yeah. Well, see now so we'll have to do Jane Jane Austen maybe like in like a year and a half when I like learn more words and like I'm more into it, and maybe I could be like revisit it.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

Uh maybe. We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Okay, we'll see. Um, but all that to say is that when I do come out with my book, Ned.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

Ned word. I think Ned word would be cool. So all right, I'm gonna put that over here and my business out later.

unknown 12:08

Oh, they can see my brain. Oh, they can see my brain.

SPEAKER_01 12:11

I think it's all right.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

So let's move on to the book. What we got?

SPEAKER_01 12:21

So the book of the week was The Things We Leaf Unfinished by Rebecca Yarrows. The reason I picked it is it was like, oh, I've never read this before. JD's definitely never read it. I like the author. Um, I've read a few of her other books and I've thoroughly enjoyed them, even balled my eyes out reading some of them. And I heck, we even got one of her books right here on our picture. Um that's yeah, that's fourth wing. With the dragons? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

So dragons only have two wings.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Don't hate on my painting.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

I'm just joking, but you it's called you you said four wings.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

Oh, well, she had two dragons, so she had four wings. Well, also, also, she was in the fourth wing.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

Uh military school. Okay. I guess I'll figure that out when you make me read that.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

I don't know. Might be a little bit, but maybe one day.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

So I just ended my mic and I just redid it. Okay, hopefully it caught my audio. Okay, we're good.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

So I was so excited to read this, and I the first two chapters, I was like, ooh, I can get behind this this couple, because obviously they're gonna turn into a couple. Right. Um, and then it went back in time to her grandmother's story. I'm like, oh, this is kind of cute, kinda cute, and then I'm like, I am so disappointed in myself that I did not finish this book. It would not I got to page 64.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

I even made it further than that.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

I know you made it further. I could not it could not it it grabbed my attention, but then it didn't hold it and I feel so disappointed in myself. So I think this is a book that if I had more time other than a week, and I could take it slow, maybe like step away from it for a little bit, then come back to it. I think I could get through it. And I'm sure it'd probably hit me like some of her other books, but maybe not. But I don't know. It's just I feel bad.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

I don't think you should feel bad.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Um that's someone's life work. Well, not her life work because she has multiple books, but that's like her hard work, and and it's just like I feel horrible that did it just didn't catch catch my attention. Attention.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

I agree with you because I too did not finish.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Yeah, but you skipped ahead.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

I did skip ahead. I did I I made it further than you before I decided to say hey.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

Nope. Um, but I would like to share my notes, so I'm gonna pull those up in a minute. But I I don't think you should feel bad because as a as a business owner, someone that has put my hard effort, hard work into what I do, it's my passion, just like this person, this writer, it's their passion. And I feel the same way that you do about like, oh, I feel bad for not liking it, but if you don't like it, you don't like it. So when people tell me, hey, I had a lady tell me the other day, bad person to tell, but I was working late, I was walking into the front tap room, and and the person's walking in with a mixed drink from next door, and that's not allowed. And I'll she was walking in, she was like, Hey, I just can't have anything here. My husband loves it, but I just can't have anything because none of the beers taste good to me. And you know, we've won I've won, I've proven myself, so I don't need to he he's won.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

We don't need yeah, so like it's we've proven ourselves as a brewery, but not everyone's a beer drinker, correct.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

But also it's illegal to bring in outside alcohol into a production brewery, it is, but everybody is allowed their opinion.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

So even though I have the brewery and we were a packed house that night, it was a trivia night, we were packed out, people love the beer. There are still people that don't want it. You know what I mean? So, like, even though this book was as seen on TikTok, and you know, people probably love this. Oh, yeah, we just didn't like it, and that doesn't mean that Rebecca Yaros Yeah, because I we don't I don't know books, so obviously, if I say anything, that doesn't matter at all.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Well, I'm going to make you read one of her books that I absolutely loved.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

I'd be excited, I'd be excited to try something different. Yeah, um, but I I don't think you should feel bad for not liking it because you feel that it's her life, not her life work, like you said. Yeah, but it's she worked hard on it. Yeah, somebody worked hard on it, and then I feel that way whenever I see things, but you gotta also remember not everyone's gonna like America. You can like whatever you want. Plenty of other people did like it, and that's good enough. So I'm gonna pull my notes up. Yes, do you have any good notes that you want to review or no?

SPEAKER_01 17:28

No. Other than I did kind of like phase to the back, and I saw there was like a twist, but it didn't really hit because I didn't read the whole book.

unknown 17:40

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

But we don't have to talk about that because I don't want to spoil spoil it.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Well, if anybody does make it through the pod and the book, good for them. Just leave us a comment. We'll send you a thumbs up somewhere. Uh all right, well then or we'll comment back. Yeah, with a thumbs up somewhere. Um, we won't have too many spoilers like you said then, but yeah, spoiler alert. I have it written down as new book.

unknown 18:11

Yeah, new book.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

All right. So for me, I didn't like the way in chapter three they were describing dudes. And this is just a me thing, and this is why I didn't like the book. So, like you told me multiple episodes ago, you cannot like something, yeah, but come with why you didn't like it and why it wasn't enjoyable to you. So I don't like listening to them describe dudes.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

It is a contemporary romance, though.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

So and I'm not now, I know I understand I'm not into a contemporary romance because they were like his chiseled jaw was so nice, I would wonder what it tasted like.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

And I'm like, But he also, the main male male character in the today's time, he described her the main female character in this time, not the grandma's story. Like she noticed he was attractive, and then he was like, Oh, she's freaking beautiful. So I got things, I got things about it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

I got things about that, but that was just my first thing. It was like chapter three, because that was the grandma's part. It was because, like you said in the beginning, you were like, Oh, I can get through this, like, okay, because they meet, we automatically know that oh, that's the author, that's the girl. Um, and I was okay with that. I'm like, all right, it's a love story, I can get through that. And but then it was grandma coming up. Yo, grandma was a freak.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Just because she was checking out Army, dude.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Yeah, and like her thoughts in her head were crazy.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Just wait until you read some other books.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

I don't know if I'll be able to.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

You can luckily you listen, so you can skip ahead 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Yeah, but like I don't want to have to waste one credit from my audible account on something I'm gonna only listen to six minutes of.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

It's not gonna be that. Hey, at least this one was a free download, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:08

I am financially responsible. And yes, this was actually a free download. Thankfully, there was a buy one or download one, get one. So I was able to pre-download this one. Uh, totally worth the free download. Okay, uh, so chapter four.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Uh I think that's where I stopped. That's where my notes stop.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Let's see. She wants to know how he tastes. See, and I said gross, and I said pass, and then I said switching to a pod to clear my mind. Then I got to uh chapter five, and uh, because I switched to a pod when I came back to chapter five. She says something about tasting her name because he said her name, and then and then when I say her, I think it's still the grandma, but the old guy was like, the old guy, sorry. The grandpa basically uh was like he said her name, and she was like, Oh, the way he said it he said it like he wanted to taste how it was or how it tasted, see how my name tasted. And I was like, no, don't need to be listening at the brewery.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Uh that that's a way to say he's so like entranced by boo. Okay, don't be creepy. But that's that's not how it is. It's it's more like he's so entranced by her that he's just by my lip.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Hey, boo.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

But like he's so entranced by her that it's like he wants to eat her alive, but he's not gonna eat her alive, you know? It's like I want to know every little thing about you, aka I would take taste your name.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Yeah, aka. I want to listen to that. So uh at the end of that, I said, I'm out again. Gross. And then I skipped ahead to chapter nine. And then I skip a few because I can't get into this. Uh let's see. The next note says, then I get to the part where she's talking to Homie on the phone. Oh, this part. And they're on the phone. I was listening for about 10-15 minutes of this because I'm trying to get through. Like, I was I was like, all right, let me just skip ahead. Let's see what I can get out of this. And she was talking to the author on the phone, and she being the main character. And he sat down and she heard the plump of him sitting down somewhere. And she said he probably just sat down on his couch or his bed. Not that I'm thinking about his bed. And I was like, skip again.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

I just like I'm not into she was definitely thinking about his bed.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Right. She definitely was. And I don't like I'm no pass. Like, cool, sweet. Okay. So then I skipped to chapter 32 because I did skip. I went to like 20 something. I went f to 25. I was like, I kept going, kept listening. I was like, no, no, no, no. So then I got the 32. They mentioned Ipswich. And I like this. So we liked Ipswich when I we lived there. So when I lived in England, Ipswich was the town that my neighbor liked.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

So my neighbor soccer, their football team.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

Their football team. Um, Mr. Shane, and he we lived in a big, like double-story duplex. It was a two-story home, but it was combined in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Popular in England. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

And uh so when we moved there, my dad, you know, being a good neighbor, was friends with the neighbor, and uh he was Ipswich fan, so we became Ipswich fans. Yeah, I guess support your friends. Yeah, so I thought that was really neat, and that kind of tied the story in, and I think that was the best part about the whole book. And then skip ahead to chapter 39.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

J well, just like last book, you like things that you can connect with.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

I do, I do. Speaking of nine inch nails originally sang the song Hurt, not Johnny Cash, but we appreciate the comment. Yeah, I'm sorry, I said I think that Johnny Cash originally sang it, and I was incorrect, but good thing I said, I think. And I was wrong.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

So I learned something new. And I just think they're both good songs.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

We both didn't know until somebody called us out in a comment online, and we were like, wait, what? And we looked it up. So thanks to you, appreciate it. We did learn something.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Yeah, but we like comments, so it's okay. We do, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Keep interacting. When we're wrong, please call us out because I do want to know the right thing. So now I know nine inch nails made it, and then Johnny Cash covered it, which to me is backwards of what I thought it was.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

So because I think in our minds, Johnny Cash was older, and it's like, oh, he was gone way before nine inch nails ever came around, even though he wasn't. Right. Yeah. So I think that's just uh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

That makes sense. Well then, um, yeah, let's see. Here's the big big spoiler in three, two, one. I skipped. And then they got married. Um, who gets married?

SPEAKER_01 25:28

Grandma and grandpa?

SPEAKER_00 25:30

I can't, I won't spoil it all. Like we said, we're not doing hard spoilers, right?

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Yeah, true. We're little so little spoilers.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

They got married. The couples. Good story. She's still bringing up sex scenes in this chapter. Question mark. This book sucked. Pull up the chapter and find the parts and show why I don't like it. So, chapter 39, I'm gonna start pulling up. Will you start talking about the book and give us some content while I uh look up why I don't like it?

SPEAKER_01 25:56

So, for me, I'm gonna go a bit deeper into why I think I didn't like it. So I do typically like romances. I typically Rose. Hey, um, I'm a girl. What do you expect? But like I like seeing that the connection of relationships and like people growing into who they are and falling in love. And so that's why I was like with the f the young couple in the book, I was like, Oh, that's gonna be great. And then I get to grandma and grandpa section and I'm like, okay, this is still interesting, but the way it's written compared to the younger couple, it brought it's written like that time, which is good because it sets the scene, but it's also in my mind, I'm like, why is it so slow? Yeah, so for me, it kind of like it it's supposed to disconnect you because it's a different couple, but it disconnected me too much.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

I could see that. I also got confused when it was the author's chapter. So the new were listening, so yeah, but it would also but like right here, like even when it would say the name, it so it says the chapter number, and then it says the character, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Yeah, so and that and then it goes into the letters, and the letters are from not that chapter.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

Oh, so like when I okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

So if you look at previous chapters, it's the letters between grandma and grandpa.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

Well, then yeah, right here is like a perfect example, then because it says chapter 23. Noah, Noah, which is the author, and then right here it has little uh script writing, and it says, Scarlet, how are you, my love? Are you miserable as I am?

SPEAKER_01 27:40

I can see how that would mess with you when you're like, Oh, this is no why is he writing to Scarlet, the grandma?

SPEAKER_00 27:45

And like in this book, when for the audio version, they did have two people reading, like a male and a female.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

And when they did this, excuse me, I think that um he did change the voice a little bit. Okay. So from like the normal, so like right here it says my arms are back and ached. I rolled my shoulders and my neck behind my desk. The storm had dumped, so that's how he was kind of reading normally. And then when he did the thing, it was Scarlet, how are you, my love? Like he was kind of putting more emphasis on things. Okay, that makes sense. So it was kind of I could break it up that way, but it was just kind of hard to be like, all right, when are you talking? What's going on? And I thought that the letters were the book. So I thought that that was him writing the book, and like that's what he was putting into the book. So I was picturing every time that I heard him speak in that tone as the him writing the.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

He thought he was writing the rest of the grandma's book.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

I didn't realize that it was the letters that he was reading he was reading then, right? Oh, okay. Yeah, so yeah, that threw me off too. So I understand how you were not confused, but like thrown off and didn't really enjoy the going back so far, uh, because that part, the throwback to the the letters threw me off.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

So well, it's like when you read a series and it's a different story in the series, each book, and it's like I liked book two better than book one, or book five better than book three. Like it's just depends on the character sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Yeah. All right, can I read something real quick? Yes. All right, so this is chapter 39. Let's see. Can you? I leaned back, brushing a kiss over his jaw. I heard the ending was even a surprise to the author on a release day. I grinned shamelessly. Huh. Imagine that. Much more satisfying sex scenes than his normal books, too, I shrugged. He scoffed. Have you read his latest? Pretty sure he got a hold of some excellent inspiration. Hmm. I'll have to check it out. I'd be happy to give you a private reading. I laughed so hard, I almost snorted. Okay, that was just bad. Yeah, he admitted. Definitely not my best. How about kiss me, Georgia? I have to go sign some books. That I can do. I tilted my head and kissed him, keeping it PG 13. Barely. The man was too addictive for public consumption. His grip tightened and his nipped my lower lip. I love you. I love you. Now go do your thing. I'm gonna head next door and do mine. I flashed him a smile and he stole another kiss before disappearing down the next aisle, leaving me dazed for a moment, staring after him as a woman wandered into the romance section next to me. So, like, those are the things I'm hearing in my head while I'm trying to brew award-winning beer, and I'm like, ah, for context, everyone, he doesn't even like kiss his own screen.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

He's like, Why are they kissing? Just get to the action. Yeah, um me, I don't mind.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

So uh here we go. Moving on, just like one or two sentences. I came all the way from Cheyenne, Wyoming, she said with a grin. My sister's holding my place in line. Have you seen him? He's gorgeous. She s if she shifted her, she lifted her brows. Seriously, I definitely wouldn't kick him out of bed, I agreed. I never did, in fact. I spent as much time as possible letting him get into bed, getting me into bed. The fact that Noah got more handsome every single day had not escaped my notice. Far from it, right? Me either. Oh, it's starting. She waved and disappeared into the next aisle. I grin and slid in the book. Okay, so like that's the reason. So I'm I'm sorry, people. I just don't like romance. So hey, Rebecca, come on the pod. Let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

Um, so you know how I'm like, you should read or how Heather, our friend, is like, you should read fourth wing.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

So I think that's when you and Heather, that's where you're gonna need the guest boo. And me and her boy, her boo, go do something else. We'll go play golf or something, and you guys, you guys do it because I've heard it's about dragons and smut, and I don't wanna it's mostly about dragons politics.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

They're at a school for military.

SPEAKER_00 32:29

I'm not a big dragon fan to begin with, so that already turns me off.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

Just wait until you meet Wi-Waverne's.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

It's like a dragon, but not okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

Is there smut?

SPEAKER_01 32:43

There's like two scenes in an eight book series.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

So two scenes could be like eight chapters.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

No, it's more like the pa there are a thousand in the last book, there's like eight seven hundred, eight hundred pages, and then there's like two hundred pages. So there's a lot of pages, and the fact that there's like probably fifteen pages out of the whole series like that, it's not just much. Okay. But that's what they're in a class of. But uh yeah. Fourth week you might not you might be sc Yeah, there's a few scenes that you would skip.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

I mean, yeah, do you do you do you even think it's worth me trying it?

SPEAKER_01 33:31

I personally think it's worth it because of all of the other stuff that's going on, because the percentage of it that is actually smut is not that much. Okay. However, I think we'd be better off starting you with something like Throwing a Glass where there's like nothing. Because that's more like a fantasy. Yeah, it's not a romanticy, which is big. And it's also my favorite series that I've been wanting you to read. Bernard even posed with a picture of it on her Instagram.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Good Bernie.

SPEAKER_01 34:08

Bernie. Bernardo. He's hiding somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

I was gonna say he's been actually pretty good. I haven't heard him in a bit since the current incident.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

Yeah, he's like, no.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Okay, well, um, I do Rebecca, I do Rebecca, I do invite Rebecca Yarros. Yarros?

SPEAKER_01 34:26

She's too busy being a hockey mom, writing, going on tours. She's popular.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

Hey, Rebecca, you should come on the pod and uh tell us why we're wrong for not enjoying and not being able to finish. She'd probably be like Things We Left Unfinished. Oh, that's a perfect name. I I've slapped the desk about 10 times tonight because I feel like I'm making good points. Um, well, she'd probably sayings we left unfinished. Guess what? We left this book unfinished.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Good one. Good one.

SPEAKER_00 35:02

Is this is this my pose for that?

SPEAKER_01 35:04

I don't know. You you're the one that makes it.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

All right, so I'll figure it out. So uh, okay, cool. Rebecca, hit us up. Have your people hit us, hit us up.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

So she she would probably be very supportive of that because of who I think she is, based off what I've seen. She'd be like, it's okay, you didn't like it. Have you read this?

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Yeah. And I just want to I just want to learn because I don't know enough about books yet to be to even say why I didn't like it for the romance part. That's a romance, so like that's the only reason. It could be a great novel, it could be great writing, great plots, great character development, whatever. Just not my thing. So okay, that was a little soft tap. Okay, I'm sorry. I got excited. I don't snort when I get excited, like you. I just hit the table.

SPEAKER_01 35:54

I when I laugh hard, I snort. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Okay. All right. Anything else? What do you give it?

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Well, I didn't rate it because I didn't finish it.

unknown 36:04

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

So if we don't finish, we can't rate him.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Oh no, because you don't get the full picture. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

I think that gives it an automatic zero. I mean, that's a DNF, did not finish.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Yeah. Alright, that's a DNF.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Yeah, we'll take a DNF. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

Write that down. DNF? I'll try to read this. And it's really without the study, and then if I ever finish it, I'll be like, guess what I finished, guys? Ready for next week's book?

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

So I think you're gonna well, you already know what it is. But I thought JD would be excited because this is one of his books that he had even before we started dating. And I have never read it. I've kind of seen the movie, but not really. I've seen scenes.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

I think you were in the room when I watched it.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

Yeah. So it's about 200 pages, so it should be easy to read. It is Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. So for those well, it doesn't really have a description on the back because this is the movie poster um cover. But it's a nonfiction journalism book. Should I read this back? Should I read the back? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:26

Just bleep out your.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Self-censor.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of na, five sheets of high-powered blotter, nah, a salt shaker half full of um, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers, dot dot dot dot. Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and and two dozen. But the only thing that worried me was the mah. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an binge from fear and loathing in Las Vegas. So this is what what was it? You told me it's based off of his experience in Las Vegas. So or something like that. He wrote it after going to Ball Spaghetti.

SPEAKER_00 38:35

Something like that. So he was supposed to go and um write an article about, so it's like Hunter S. Thompson. I'm gonna get called out again. Let's go, haters. Uh Hunter S. Thompson was one of the people that came up with like gonzo journalism, where they would go and actually write articles for newspapers and stuff or uh magazines, but they would put themselves into the story. So I think for Rolling Stone, I think, see magic word, I think. Let's fact check. Uh, I think that he did something for Rolling Stone about the Hell's Angels, but he put himself into the story. Yeah, uh, and then this one is he goes there for uh it's some sort of race. And I saw the movie, I I've read the book a long time ago, long time ago. So haters gonna hate. Sorry. I like keep bringing up that one hater.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

He wasn't hating.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

I'm sorry, yeah, I know. It's a car.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

Or he or she, I don't know if it was a guy or a girl, but they weren't hating, they were just like they were supporting, telling us that we're rage baiting.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Okay, but uh we didn't mean to. Goes goes to goes to Las Vegas for a race, supposed to do that, but then they obviously you just read what they had, so they're their time turns pretty intense. Um they try to cover the race and things happen. This should be very interesting. It should be. So I'm I'm curious to go back as a older man. I'm a middle-aged man. Middle-aged, I'm 35.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

Does that make us middle-aged? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Hopefully, I don't live hopefully I live past 70, so that'd be past. I'm not middle-aged yet, but hopefully. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

Um can I just show off something about this book? It has art in it. It's throughout the whole book. There goes my bookmark.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

Where's my bookmark from way back in the day?

SPEAKER_01 40:37

It's in the office.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

Oh, I want to show the crowd.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

Oh, it's that peace sign.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

Yeah, because I read this back when I was what, 18?

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Oh, that's kind of a creepy drawing. I don't know if anyone can see that, but it's just noise.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

Noise.

SPEAKER_01 41:01

So we shall see how this turns out. Um Yeah, I'm excited for it.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

I mean, I am excited to revisit it um and then actually take notes on it because I'd never did that before.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

Uh so going back and actually trying to analyze the characters this time, because I've I feel like I've been trying to do a better job about character, like picking up on character traits and then trying to figure out like um uh writing styles, things like that.

SPEAKER_01 41:30

Well, I feel like this one's gonna be different just because it is like he's he put himself in it, right? Did he? Let's see.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

I think he did.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

I think we were somewhere around Barstow. Barstow? On the edge of the desert when the began to take hold.

SPEAKER_00 41:55

I remember saying something like Well, that's when they're on their way to Vegas. Yeah. Like just cut like open up like halfway. Halfway. And just like pick a random like little blurb.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

Or at least I was feeling this way until I got the big gray door that opened into mini suite 1150 in the far wing. I rammed my key into the into the knob lock and swung the door open, thinking, ah, home at last. But the door hit something, which I recognized at once as a human form.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

Bum bum bum. That's all you get, people.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

Did you see my face? This is gonna be very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

All right, well, uh, everybody should uh read that. Um are we going there real quick?

unknown 42:54

Do you want to?

SPEAKER_00 42:55

Uh okay. Yes, I do actually. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 42:57

Uh, we don't need another all right.

SPEAKER_00 43:00

So, people, get this. The other day.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

It was so funny.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

The baby cat was laying in the dog bed crate.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

And she's so tiny and it's so big because our dog's big.

SPEAKER_00 43:13

Dog is big, cat is small, small cat in her big dog bed.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

Because he's still a kitten.

SPEAKER_00 43:19

And I was by the back door, closing up the back door, let the dog in or something, shut the back door, looked at the cat, and the cat looked up at me. And he just And he said, Dad, dis my bed now. Because he doesn't have fingers to do the thing. So it's just his paw going, Captain Phillips reference. Dis my bed now.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Should we? I think you should grab him unless that's the air.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

I think that's the air. But Emma lost it for 15 minutes straight, not even joking. She would die down about halfway through. She did die down about halfway through. And I just did it one more time. The little this my baby. And she snorted and she laughed.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

He's so cute, guys. I wish he was around here. So he's in here.

unknown 44:15

Do you see him?

SPEAKER_00 44:16

I don't. And they don't want to hear us try to get him. So, all right. Well, this was a short up because we didn't finish the book. Sorry. But I do like our word of the week because there is a lot of cool things that you can learn from that. I think that people should go out and see what other words were re bracketed. And then let us know. Let us know your favorite re bracketed word. So um see ya.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Bye.