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Speaker 1:
[00:09] Hi, guys, welcome back to Ill Read What She's Reading. I'm Mikayla.
Speaker 2:
[00:13] I'm Reggie.
Speaker 3:
[00:13] And I'm Kennedy.
Speaker 1:
[00:14] And today we're gonna be talking about our 2026 Reads So For.
Speaker 2:
[00:21] So For.
Speaker 1:
[00:23] Goofy. I'm goofy, I guess, okay. Today we're gonna be talking about our 2026 Reads So Far. So we have some categories, for example, should we just say all of them?
Speaker 2:
[00:34] Yeah. So we have our best book so far, worst book so far, our most emotional read, our most unique read, and the read with the biggest surprise.
Speaker 3:
[00:44] Should we also check in with our reading goals?
Speaker 2:
[00:46] Yeah. While we're at it, we might as well.
Speaker 1:
[00:48] Do you have to call me out like that?
Speaker 2:
[00:49] That's freaking rude.
Speaker 3:
[00:52] No, I wasn't trying to call you out. I was just trying to add a little, another little category that the listeners might be interested in.
Speaker 2:
[00:58] Yes. Let's start off with that actually.
Speaker 3:
[01:01] Oh, you want to start off?
Speaker 1:
[01:02] Yeah. You start off with it.
Speaker 3:
[01:04] Listen.
Speaker 2:
[01:04] Honestly, I haven't checked my reading goal all this year until Mikayla today said, I only read 13 books. Then I went and looked at mine and I was like, same.
Speaker 1:
[01:14] I lied. I've read 20, but it feels like 13.
Speaker 2:
[01:18] Oh, great.
Speaker 3:
[01:19] I was going to say, when you said you read 13 books, I thought to myself, there's no way she's only read 13 books.
Speaker 2:
[01:23] Well, I've only read 13.
Speaker 3:
[01:25] No, that's okay. Your reading goal, Reggie, what is your reading goal? Where are you at?
Speaker 2:
[01:29] My reading goal is 75 books. I've read 13.
Speaker 1:
[01:34] That's still really good.
Speaker 2:
[01:36] So it says, I need to read five books to get back on track.
Speaker 3:
[01:39] That's fine.
Speaker 2:
[01:40] That's fine. So I'm going to try to push through the MMI line.
Speaker 3:
[01:43] I was going to say, yeah. Where are you at?
Speaker 1:
[01:47] I feel cold out.
Speaker 3:
[01:48] It's fine.
Speaker 1:
[01:50] My goal is 115, which is 20 books less than last year. And I've only read 20. And I have seven to get back on track.
Speaker 3:
[01:59] You can do it.
Speaker 1:
[02:00] You can do it. We just read honking books at the beginning of the year. And I think that just really messed me up.
Speaker 3:
[02:07] Think about your driving that you're going to be doing, the little romance books you can listen to, the little thrillers. You'll you guys will make it up. My reading goal is 100 and I've read 25. It's really good. Very good. It says I'm right on schedule. Right on track. Right on track. But the other day I the other day it was counting Kindle books. So it said I was five books ahead of schedule until I went back.
Speaker 2:
[02:31] Got it unseen in Kindle from your Goodreads.
Speaker 3:
[02:33] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[02:33] So, you know, that's where we're at.
Speaker 1:
[02:39] It's not well for me, but.
Speaker 2:
[02:41] But the fact that you've read that many books is still impressive. Like you've read 20 books. That's a lot of it is.
Speaker 3:
[02:48] So some people don't even read one book in a year. So you're doing fantastic.
Speaker 1:
[02:53] I think I'm ahead of the average human being, that's for sure. I just, I really hate that number.
Speaker 2:
[02:59] I just can't look at my reading goal.
Speaker 1:
[03:00] Yeah, I just need to not look at it.
Speaker 3:
[03:02] We're going for quality this year.
Speaker 2:
[03:03] After last year, I was like, you know what? Reading goal, I decided I wanted to make more like reading goals, not like a number of books goals, like DNF more books or read every day. Yeah, read every day or try to read something out of my comfort zone. Like I'm telling myself to focus on those kind of goals this year instead of how many books I'm reading because I was feeling so good. Then the last year until I realized my Kindle was counting books for me.
Speaker 3:
[03:28] It's okay.
Speaker 2:
[03:30] That's fine.
Speaker 3:
[03:30] We're going for quality this year, ladies. Quality, quality, quality.
Speaker 1:
[03:34] I think I saw someone on TikTok post like, I've read 30 books this year so far and it was like beginning of March and I was like, I can't compare myself.
Speaker 3:
[03:43] I can't. I was like, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:
[03:46] I was feeling a little sad about my. But you guys make a good point. Quality over quantity.
Speaker 2:
[03:51] We also can't compare because some people like, you don't have a job and they can just sit and read. Or like I know a girl who literally just works at receptionist desk and she basically reads the whole time she's at work. Or can listen to an audiobook the whole time she's at work. So it's like.
Speaker 1:
[04:10] Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:
[04:10] Everyone has a different situation.
Speaker 3:
[04:12] That's true.
Speaker 1:
[04:13] It's true. But should we get into our categories?
Speaker 2:
[04:18] Yeah. Start off with a bang with the best book we've read so far this year.
Speaker 3:
[04:22] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[04:23] Here's my problem. I just can't remember what I've rated something.
Speaker 3:
[04:27] Was it a book club book?
Speaker 1:
[04:28] Yeah. I just didn't ever rate it. So I'm like, I don't know which one is on top.
Speaker 3:
[04:36] What if you share both?
Speaker 1:
[04:37] Okay. Emma M. Lyon and then The Will of Many. I know those don't compare to each other at all. I just genuinely don't, like I don't have a rating. I don't remember why I rated The Will of Many.
Speaker 2:
[04:49] Well, what would you rate it now? Like if you could?
Speaker 3:
[04:51] I don't know.
Speaker 1:
[04:53] Five, four and a half.
Speaker 3:
[04:54] And what would you rate Emma M. Lyon?
Speaker 1:
[04:56] Oh, Emma M. Lyon is five.
Speaker 3:
[04:57] So based on this reaction. Lyon. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[05:01] Which one?
Speaker 1:
[05:04] Seven or eight. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[05:07] Okay.
Speaker 1:
[05:08] That's what I'm gonna say. Emma M. Lyon, I don't know. I just, I love the little, the town, the characters. I don't know, it's just like so light and fluffy. And there's not like a huge plot, but like it's just fun, entertaining. I was entertained. And you know, Emma M. Lyon just has this certain vibe to it that you just can't help but like fall in love with. So yeah, I'd probably say that. But honestly, like The Will of the Many is like, it's, I would say it's on its own platform because you can't even compare the two at all.
Speaker 3:
[05:41] Polar opposites.
Speaker 2:
[05:42] Polar.
Speaker 1:
[05:44] But if I had to like pick, I feel like my reading experience with Emma M. Lyon was better than The Will of the Many.
Speaker 3:
[05:52] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[05:53] So yeah, moving on.
Speaker 2:
[05:55] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[05:55] I've only read one book, five stars this year, and that is The Will of the Many. It was our winter book club book. It was a reread for me this year. Honestly, the farther I get into 2026, the more I'm kind of considering having it be the year of rereads. Just because I'm kind of missing all of the feelings that I had with my original favorite books. Rereading some romance books, some fantasy books. But I just think that especially on the second time rereading The Will of the Many, everything just made that much more sense and I really love the pacing of the book. I really love the characters, the magic system is really cool and unique. The stakes felt really high. The ending is one of the craziest endings I've read in a fantasy book in a very long time. If you're unfamiliar with The Will of the Many, you're basically following the main character, his name is Viz, and how do you describe the book without spoiling anything? You can't really describe it.
Speaker 1:
[06:57] He starts out, he's an orphan.
Speaker 3:
[07:00] Yeah, he's an orphan and he is fighting in these fighting rings to get money. And the magic system is like a pyramid scheme. It's hard because it's one of those books that I feel like it starts off with a bang, but you don't want to tell people what the bang is because it's partly a plot twist at the same time. If you like Red Rising, chances are you probably like The Will of the Money.
Speaker 2:
[07:22] But don't read them too close together.
Speaker 1:
[07:24] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[07:26] So there you have it. It's just a good time. So yeah, that's probably what I would say is the best book that I've read so far this year.
Speaker 2:
[07:34] Well, same. I know we have a whole podcast episode dedicated to the will of the many and the strength of the few. But I don't really know if we've talked about it just like in a general podcast episode for a long time, because Kennedy read it. When did you read it the first time?
Speaker 3:
[07:53] I read it when it came out.
Speaker 2:
[07:54] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[07:54] So I think two years ago. Dang.
Speaker 2:
[07:58] But yeah, it was so good. There's just not a better feeling than like hearing about a book that's so hyped, and you're so scared to read it, and then it like exceeding your expectations. That's how I felt with The Will of the Money. I went in trying to keep my expectations low. I was also really scared to start this book because I felt like from what I had heard, it was kind of hard to understand with the magic system, but the way Kennedy explained it, it's like a pyramid scheme. It made it so much easier for me to understand certain things in the book with the magic system. Ditto to everything Kennedy said, but I started that book just being like, wow, I cannot remember the last time I picked up a fantasy book and I felt this excited and giddy. It had been a while. Very, very well done. The second book is a doozy. Golly. If you're wanting to read it, just know that like you'll want to pick up the second book immediately. Just know that going into it, there's a lot you got to keep track of. It's a lot. So a book that I know all three of us definitely recommend, the first will of the many. Strength of the Few is still very good. There's just a lot going on.
Speaker 3:
[09:20] So I think that's one of those series where you, the second time you read it, I feel like you just have a whole new appreciation. I don't know about these two, but I am planning on, I will probably reread at least the Strength of the Few when the new one comes out. Just a good time. All right.
Speaker 2:
[09:37] Well, shifting gears, worst book. You want to start us off, Mikayla?
Speaker 3:
[09:42] Yeah. I'm actually scared. I'm scared because I just...
Speaker 1:
[09:47] I'm scared.
Speaker 2:
[09:48] Why are you scared? Because I just...
Speaker 1:
[09:50] No, no, no, no, I just...
Speaker 3:
[09:52] I feel like we don't... I don't know. I feel like worst book is just silly.
Speaker 1:
[09:56] Worst book.
Speaker 2:
[09:57] Lowest rated. Let's call it that.
Speaker 3:
[09:59] Most disappointing.
Speaker 2:
[10:01] Lowest rated book. Didn't Love. I don't know.
Speaker 1:
[10:03] Worst book.
Speaker 3:
[10:05] Mikayla is a savage.
Speaker 2:
[10:06] I have a feeling we're all going to have the same one.
Speaker 1:
[10:08] Nope.
Speaker 3:
[10:09] I can guarantee mine is not the same as yours.
Speaker 2:
[10:11] Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:
[10:12] Guilt.
Speaker 3:
[10:14] Oh.
Speaker 1:
[10:14] By Raven Kennedy.
Speaker 3:
[10:16] You also should be afraid. Because I feel like there's a lot of people that are, you know...
Speaker 1:
[10:20] I feel like it's so common for people to be like, the first book sucks, yeah, but just read the next two and then it will get better. The fourth one.
Speaker 3:
[10:33] You know, like that TikTok sound? Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[10:35] When I posted about it, that was like everyone's response. It's like, just wait, get to the fourth book. And I'm like, the first one sucks so bad.
Speaker 2:
[10:43] How many pages was it?
Speaker 1:
[10:44] It's not super long. I don't know. It's just really gross. It's grody. And you know, when people said like it starts off in orgy, like they were not pulling punches with that.
Speaker 3:
[10:58] First chapter straight up orgy?
Speaker 1:
[10:59] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[10:59] Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:
[11:01] They weren't pulling punches with that. The main female character is like not a part of it, but she's like watching it. It's weird.
Speaker 3:
[11:11] What's the, is it like fairies, dragons, mermaids, spikings?
Speaker 1:
[11:15] I don't even literally know how to describe it. Pretty much, there is this girl, she is covered in gold, head to toe. Like she's gold, and everything she touches turns to gold.
Speaker 2:
[11:33] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[11:34] I mean, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2:
[11:35] I like Midas.
Speaker 1:
[11:37] And there's this king that found her when she was younger and brought her in, and everyone called her the king's pet. Anyway, the premise is cool, and by the end, it was okay. But I just, I don't know. I don't know. It wasn't my cup of tea.
Speaker 3:
[12:00] I don't know.
Speaker 1:
[12:00] I feel like that was a really bold move to start out a series like that.
Speaker 3:
[12:05] With an orgy.
Speaker 1:
[12:05] With an orgy. And just very sexualizing female characters, which I feel like there is a little bit of feminine rage involved in it. But I feel like that's just bold. Just insert your readers into this storyline, and it's hard to like any of the characters. Or want to, I don't know, enjoy it. Because it's not enjoyable to read. It's just like, you just kind of feel like gross, you know? Yeah. So, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[12:37] So what was your star rating?
Speaker 1:
[12:38] I think I rated it 2, if I looked at it correctly, 2.5.
Speaker 3:
[12:43] So you will not be continuing?
Speaker 1:
[12:45] I don't think I will. I don't know. Everyone's like-
Speaker 3:
[12:48] Also, isn't there like seven books in that series?
Speaker 1:
[12:50] There is a lot of books.
Speaker 2:
[12:52] I don't know.
Speaker 1:
[12:53] It's just, yeah. So, I don't know.
Speaker 2:
[12:56] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[12:57] That was just like, it just wasn't a book for me, I guess. But everyone was like, it gets so much better.
Speaker 3:
[13:03] Well, it's hard to commit to, I'm going to assume each book is at least 400 pages. It's hard to commit to 1200 pages before it gets good.
Speaker 1:
[13:12] No. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I might have to be like, we're just really bored and not know what to read next to start the next one. So, I don't imagine you guys would like it. I wouldn't suggest it.
Speaker 3:
[13:26] I don't think I will read it probably.
Speaker 1:
[13:30] But I know there's a lot of you guys that really like that series. If you feel really passionate about the series, let me know. Just shoot us a little DM. I will hear you out. I don't promise I will finish it, but I will hear you out.
Speaker 2:
[13:46] Yeah. It's hard to want to continue a series when you didn't love the first book.
Speaker 1:
[13:50] Yeah. Anyways, next, who? Is anyone scared?
Speaker 3:
[13:57] I am actually scared. I don't think a lot of people listening to our podcast are necessarily massive fans of Matt Deniman, but I do know that there is a cult following that follows that man. I am a little bit scared to say that the worst book, or my least favorite book that I read this year is Operation Bounce House by Matt Deniman. I actually DNF'ed this at about 63 percent. You know, I had fun with Dungeon Crawler Carl. I read the, I listened to the first two books. I don't think I would ever read them. I think listening to them is the method to go with those books. I don't think I'm going to continue in the Dungeon Crawler Carl universe, one, because I don't remember what happens, and two, it's like the same thing, just repeating itself over and over and over again. I can appreciate Matt Deniman's writing because he is quite funny, he's witty, his premises are cool, but I just don't think lit RPG is my style of genre. I thought that this book would be different, but it wasn't. It was confusing, but basically, there's this colony of people who are transported off of Mars, no, Earth, to live on a planet, but then their planet starts, these people, not even people, these robots show up on their planet, and it's these people on Earth playing a video game, but they're actually killing the people on their planet. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:
[15:26] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[15:26] So in theory, that kind of sounds cool, right? Yeah. Fun premise. It just was written for a 17-year-old boy, not a 30-year-old woman, you know?
Speaker 1:
[15:37] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[15:39] Like the gamer tags, they would say, were just a 17-year-old boy's gamer tag, you know? And the writing, it just was random info dumps that made things confusing, and then there would be random things talked about, the main character's past, he was in a band. And then I thought to myself, how is this going to even make sense in the end? What does this have to do with anything? I don't know if it ever had anything to do with it because I didn't finish it. But Kyle probably would love it. A man would probably love it. It just wasn't written for a 30-year-old woman.
Speaker 1:
[16:09] Yeah, that's fair. I don't think you should be scared about saying that. Not at all. It just wasn't your cup of tea.
Speaker 3:
[16:16] And I know so many people love that style of writing and that style of book. It just wasn't for me.
Speaker 1:
[16:21] So I think that's completely valid.
Speaker 3:
[16:24] You know, it's just scary. You know, it could be someone, if you're listening to this and that's your favorite book. I wish I loved every book. So I'm not yucking your yums. It just didn't work for me. I don't know if I know Reggie's, but I don't know if I do.
Speaker 2:
[16:42] I gave two books, three stars. I'll tell you both of them. Those are my lowest rated. I haven't rated anything lower than two or lower than three. The first one was Weathering Heights. So I still enjoyed that book. I think had I physically read it, it would have been more enjoyable for me. And also had I maybe not seen the movie before, or I don't know. I don't want to go off on Weathering Heights. It was still a very interesting. Like my review literally just says, what a tale. Because literally, what a tale.
Speaker 3:
[17:16] Imagine reading that book when it first was published.
Speaker 1:
[17:20] Yeah. I look, you kind of forgot we read that. That would be my least favorite book.
Speaker 2:
[17:25] Yeah, and also, I forgot about that. That's why I was like, I wonder if our-
Speaker 1:
[17:29] I burned that from my braid.
Speaker 3:
[17:32] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[17:32] I also think I read it out of time. I had just finished The Strength of the Thea.
Speaker 3:
[17:36] It was a horrible time for us all.
Speaker 2:
[17:38] It was a rough go for all of us. I forgot. I don't have much else to say about Wuthering Heights, but three stars was my rating. But I will talk a little more in-depth about this one because I don't know how we talked about this book on the podcast. We all read it.
Speaker 3:
[17:54] I don't know if we have.
Speaker 2:
[17:54] Conform by Ariel Sullivan. I gave this three stars. First of all, I was really excited to start this book because Dystopian. Dystopian? Romance. Give it to me. I've been begging for more books like that to fill the void that I've been missing since Divergent, Hunger Games, all that stuff. It felt very, I don't know, like the female main character felt like she was a teenager. So it felt very young adult to me even though it wasn't. She just was very immature. I also didn't feel like the romance was believable. It was, I was entertained in the fact that I was excited to see where things were going to go. By the end of the book, I was like, there was nothing that super surprised me. Very, very bingeable, very refreshing in a sense because it was like a dystopian. The vibes of the book are so cool. You have the, what do they call them in the book? I don't want to say the wrong thing. The elites, is that what they call them? Yeah, the elites. The elites are like living in the clouds. If you've seen the cover of the book, kind of gives you a feel. But it's like the city in the clouds, insane. Give me a movie of this just so I can see what that would be like. Maybe my imagination would be better, but so cool. But yeah, I just, I don't know. I think maybe it was a little overhyped for me from what I've seen other people rate it. But yeah, it just didn't hit for me. And I was really disappointed because I really wanted to like it. I mean, I liked it, but I really wanted to love it because I've just been needing something like that.
Speaker 3:
[19:43] You know what? I think that almost labeling books as dystopian does it a disservice. Because in my brain, the moment I hear of a dystopian book, I immediately think it's going to be good as Hunger Games. You know what I mean? For some reason.
Speaker 1:
[19:58] I don't know why.
Speaker 3:
[19:59] And so I think, yeah, I did also go into that book with a lot higher expectations. I mean, it had great parts to it and it was entertaining, like Reggie said, but little lackluster. And I really couldn't get over the fact that this late 20s female main character acted like she was 16.
Speaker 1:
[20:17] Yeah. I just had to language that read like a young adult book.
Speaker 3:
[20:23] Yeah. It was, what did we say? We said it felt like a young adult book with mature language and sex, right? Is that what we had decided about?
Speaker 2:
[20:32] And like, there's nothing wrong with a young adult novel, but like think of how many young adult dystopian books are just so good.
Speaker 1:
[20:41] Well, and especially when it's labeled as an adult dystopian.
Speaker 2:
[20:45] Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, there was something about it that just felt very juvenile. And you know, while I love, like I'm going to be starting my Hunger Games reread soon. Like I'm really excited about that. I know that still maybe reads a little like juvenile, but like there's something about it that still works even as an adult, if that makes sense. Maybe it's the nostalgia.
Speaker 3:
[21:09] It's the nostalgia for sure.
Speaker 2:
[21:11] But I don't want to feel that reading a dystopian novel now. Like I want to feel like, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it. And maybe dystopian, that genre is just kind of hard to, I don't know. I don't know. I want more dystopian novels, but unfortunately the ones that I've read this year just haven't been what I've been looking for. So if you have a good rec, send it my way. Especially when there's romance involved. I don't know, maybe they just all start to feel the same. In a sense. But anyways, next category is most emotional read. And maybe there wasn't an emotional read. Maybe you guys haven't read one that was emotional. I did.
Speaker 1:
[21:54] Probably the most emotional read for me was The Woman by Kristen Hannon. I just feel like I truly didn't know much about the Vietnam War. And it was very eye-opening reading this book and just like how brutal and devastating the Vietnam War was. And yeah, there's just really tough topics. Like everything that you can think of, I feel like is involved in The Woman. And it's just a, it's kind of like a tough, it's a tough read. It's a tough read to like feel happy. And like you can't read that book and turn away from it and just like be normal, if that makes sense. It's just, it's just, it was tough. And there were some emotional parts for me where I was like, if I was in that situation, like just putting myself into those shoes, I just couldn't imagine, you know.
Speaker 3:
[22:59] So you know that perfect moment where you have a good book, but nowhere to be. Yeah, that right there, that is my happy place.
Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
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Speaker 1:
[23:42] You know when you're really into a book and the last thing you want to do is stop and make food? That's been us a time or two.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 3:
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Speaker 3:
[24:23] That book was gut punch after gut punch. Yeah. As with any Kristin Hannah books, her main characters just really get put through the wringer.
Speaker 2:
[24:32] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[24:32] But that one also is hard because there's this element to the whole story about how women did not serve in the Vietnam War.
Speaker 1:
[24:41] Like no one believed that. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[24:42] No one believed that they did. And so obviously, the main character serves in the Vietnam War.
Speaker 1:
[24:47] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[24:48] So that's also something I just was getting so angry for her throughout the entire book because that was just a very common theme throughout the whole thing. And yeah, you do learn a lot about that war specifically, obviously, because it's the time period. But I think maturing is like in Kristin Hannah books. No, I'm being so dead serious. Because I think we had The Nightingale as one of our book club books on the podcast early on. And I just remember being not excited to read The Nightingale because historical fiction, I just want to read smutty fantasy books. But as I've carried on as a reader, it's so refreshing to have those books that, I don't want to say give you purpose, but just give you perspective because Kristin Hannah does so much research into her stories, especially specifically the women. I think how many years did she take to write this book?
Speaker 1:
[25:42] Ten years.
Speaker 3:
[25:43] Yeah. She interviewed so many people and such a great, great read. I almost put that as my most emotional read, but I changed it.
Speaker 1:
[25:50] I think her books are just very grounding.
Speaker 3:
[25:53] For sure.
Speaker 1:
[25:55] So yeah, that one just like, I don't think I've read very many emotional books this year, but that one's definitely a top one for me so far in 2026.
Speaker 3:
[26:07] So you can always count on her to give you a good cry. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[26:11] Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3:
[26:12] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[26:12] All right.
Speaker 3:
[26:14] My most emotional read, I'm going to choose Tuesdays with Maury by Mitch Album. It's actually on my Spring TBR, so if you listen to the Spring TBR episode or frequently listen to our TBR episodes, I'm going to repeat myself, so I'm sorry. But I'm sure most of you listening have heard of Tuesdays with Maury. A lot of the times, they sign it for you to read in high school, which I never did. And my mom was trying... My mom has always tried to get me to read this book, but I read it at the most perfect time in my life. If you're unfamiliar, Mitch Album is a very famous sportswriter. And before I started this book, I didn't realize it was a true story. I thought it was fiction, so it's true. Mitch has a mentor named Maury in college, and then they lost touch. Maury gets ALS, right? I think it's ALS, and they end up reconnecting, and Mitch spends Tuesdays with Maury up until he passes away. And it's just kind of Maury sharing with Mitch what he's learned throughout his life and just life lessons. And I'm not a self-help girl. I don't love reading self-help books, but I truly believe that everybody should read this book at least one time, once in their life. My mom actually rereads it every year, and she says she gets something different out of it every single year she reads it. But it just really gives you perspective on what's important in life, and things that you're stressing about in the moment are as important. And it just teaches you to slow down a little bit and just appreciate what you have and appreciate those around you. And so I truly think if you haven't read it, try it. It'll help you reach your reading goal. It's only 200 pages. And I think you'll learn something from it. It's so emotional. I sobbed at the end. I sobbed in the middle. It's just good.
Speaker 2:
[28:08] Yeah. I need to read it again as an adult because I remember that book having a very big impact on me when I was in high school when I read it for the first time. I'm just scared to read it as an adult because I had my grandma died of ALS. And I remember, anyways, I don't need to get into that, but I just know that it's going to wreck me. But I need to read more books like that. But reminding me of those things that you said it reminded you to do.
Speaker 3:
[28:34] Well, and also, it's kind of like with the women as well. You're hearing, while the women is fiction, and Tuesdays with Maury is non-fiction, you just gain so much perspective from other people who have different walks of life and who have such larger challenges than I personally have right now in my life. And so it's like, just to hear this, to hear Maury going through ALS, and he's so positive, there's this one part where he talks about how he feels a feeling. Mitch asks him, how do you not feel sorry for yourself? You are living this whatever. You have this disease. And he's just like, I let the feeling, I feel the feeling, and then I let it go.
Speaker 1:
[29:16] I just let it go.
Speaker 3:
[29:17] It's just really, it was just a really good book. It's just, it gives you perspective on life for sure. So, and I don't read a lot of books like that.
Speaker 1:
[29:25] So, I love that. Feel like it's just a book that pretty much everyone loves. Yeah, that reads it.
Speaker 3:
[29:31] If you're in the mood for it, I feel like you have to be in the mood to do a little bit of like self-reflecting and you have to be in the mood for that type of like, it's not self-help, but kind of. Personal growth, I guess you could say, but very sweet story regardless.
Speaker 1:
[29:47] Love that.
Speaker 3:
[29:48] I love it.
Speaker 1:
[29:50] Reggie.
Speaker 2:
[29:50] Sorry. I'm getting teary over here and then I'm like, oh, what was my most emotional read? A fantasy book. I haven't really read any. Here's the thing, part of me thought it would be a romance book that I read that had some like, because it was an emotional book itself, but like I didn't really react to any of the emotional elements to it. But when I think of like what book, like I'm looking at all these, which one of these books made me cry? There's only one that has made me cry. So I feel like I have to say that one and that one is The Will of the Money. So I can't really say why it made me cry, but like I remember I was driving to Mikayla's house. There was a certain chapter. These two guys are having a conversation in a tunnel. I'll just tell you that. I was sobbing. Like I had to like, I had to pull over to get gas and I think I made myself late to Mikayla's because I was like, I can't, I have to finish this. I don't want to like, anyways, I just sat while I was filling up my car with gas and I listened to it and I was just crying. So, you know, I can't really tell you what it was that made me cry, but there were a few moments in that book that surprised me. I was like, why am I crying? I think I'm just filling for my boy, this. So, next quarter, I will definitely have a more, she's going to read a Kristen Hanna book. I'm going to read a Kristen Hanna book. I actually have a lot, I feel like on my Spring TBR, or books that I recently added, I'm like, wow, am I in the mood to cry or something? Because I feel like I've got a lot of emotional reads that I'm anticipating reading. So anyways, they're all like, Kristen Hanna.
Speaker 1:
[31:29] Every book hits someone differently and it doesn't have to be one specific book.
Speaker 2:
[31:33] This is my sign that I need to read an emotional book.
Speaker 3:
[31:36] You want to know what though, Viz's story is very emotional.
Speaker 2:
[31:39] It is. It is very emotional. And his resilience, I was even just crying over his resilience. I'm like, and also I'm like, you're a kid. I just want to, I don't know if I was just like the mother in me. I was just like, this poor boy. I just want to be your mom. My boy.
Speaker 3:
[31:54] Let's be honest, I don't normally read books like Tuesdays with Mori or The Women. So this was an anomaly. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[32:00] So anyways, watch me come up next quarter with a dog book.
Speaker 3:
[32:04] So, okay.
Speaker 2:
[32:06] Yeah. You never know.
Speaker 3:
[32:08] You guys know me.
Speaker 1:
[32:08] I cry over everything.
Speaker 2:
[32:10] But anyways, moving on, we have our most unique read. I'm curious which one was yours.
Speaker 1:
[32:18] Me?
Speaker 3:
[32:19] I feel like out of the three of us, Mikayla reads the most unique.
Speaker 2:
[32:24] Maybe.
Speaker 3:
[32:25] I feel like you do.
Speaker 1:
[32:27] No, no, no.
Speaker 2:
[32:27] Me and Meany, like you. Operation Bounce House. Come on. No, no, no.
Speaker 3:
[32:29] Sorry. You read, I feel like out of the three of us, the most like unique in the sense of I haven't heard a lot about certain books that you read.
Speaker 2:
[32:38] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[32:39] No, that's fair.
Speaker 3:
[32:39] You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:
[32:40] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[32:41] I think I was thinking about this, and I'm going to say What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez, pretty much. It was unique because it's similar to Divine Rivals, where there is magical realism. But it takes place in Egypt, and I've just never read a book that has that setting. And it also takes place in the 1800s. And so it's about this girl who is from Argentina, and her parents live in Egypt. Like their whole life is in Egypt, but she's in Argentina. And they come and like visit her, and she like begs to come with them, but they always like say no. And then she gets a letter saying that her parents are passed away, deceased. And so she decides, she, I think it's 19, 19 years old, she decides to go to Egypt, and just like, she lives with her aunt and cousin in Argentina. And she just decides to like leave and doesn't tell them. And she wants to like figure out what happened to her parents. And so it's just kind of like the story of that. And it's like finding Cleopatra's tomb and just kind of like in that phase, in the time and place where like England was very much involved in Egypt and like grave robbers, people trying to like sell artifacts, like kind of on the black market. So it's just kind of like fun. And there was like lots of adventure, lots of twists, and just like a very different setting. And I ate it up because at the same time, I was also like in the Louvre, looking at like these like Egyptian artifacts. And like, it was just really cool, really neat experience. Like the time that I read it, and just like the timing of my trip was just like top tier. It was really, really fun.
Speaker 3:
[34:52] So I really, truly don't think I've ever read or even heard of a book being set in Egypt, which is kind of sad.
Speaker 1:
[34:59] Yeah. The way the author liked to kind of like market it was like The Mummy, the movie The Mummy.
Speaker 3:
[35:06] That's what, when you were describing it, that's what it reminded me of was The Mummy.
Speaker 1:
[35:09] Just like similar vibes to that. So, duology, yeah? Yes, duology. I'm in the middle of the second book right now.
Speaker 2:
[35:18] How many books are there?
Speaker 3:
[35:19] Duology.
Speaker 2:
[35:20] Oh, sorry. Duology is a great part.
Speaker 3:
[35:23] Oopsies.
Speaker 1:
[35:24] Two books and they're pretty short. And yeah, they're just, it's been really fun. Really fun.
Speaker 3:
[35:32] So I've heard a lot of great things about that duology.
Speaker 2:
[35:36] The covers are pretty too.
Speaker 1:
[35:37] Yeah. I like them. They're pretty. And I also really like, I don't know if, I think they're young adult, but I feel like they don't feel young adult. Does that make sense? Because the character is 19, and like the characters surrounding her are like older. There's more mature language, explicit language. So, and yeah, I don't know. I just have really enjoyed this. And I feel like it's just the most unique that I've read thus far. So, yeah. Awesome.
Speaker 3:
[36:12] I mean, honestly, that makes me want to move it up in my TBR.
Speaker 1:
[36:15] So, I'm nervous. I don't know. I don't know if it was just like peak reading experience for me. So, I don't know. It has similar-ish vibes as Rebecca Ross. I even think she dedicated her book to Rebecca Ross.
Speaker 3:
[36:29] So, her besties, I love that. Yeah, it's really cute.
Speaker 2:
[36:31] Yeah, cute. Is it me? You?
Speaker 3:
[36:34] I think it's me.
Speaker 2:
[36:35] All right.
Speaker 3:
[36:36] I really honestly haven't read that many unique books this year, unfortunately. I'm choosing this one. I'm reading Bound House.
Speaker 2:
[36:42] Okay. That seems unique to me.
Speaker 3:
[36:46] And I didn't like it, so why would I keep talking about it? No, I'm going to choose this one because I just think that the dynamics within the book were so fun and unique. And yeah, anyways, my most unique read, I'm going to go with The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. I rated this book three and a half stars, I think. I think it's the right book, wrong time for me when I read it. So you're following a main character who is a priest, and he is tasked with an assignment. Can't remember what the assignment is, but he has an assignment and he is told that he will have this holy flock that goes with him to help him on assignment. Come to find out that his holy flock is actually a whole bunch of unholy, horrible people. We have a werewolf. They don't call her a gnome, but I picture her as a gnome.
Speaker 1:
[37:40] A gnome?
Speaker 3:
[37:41] A vampire. Basically, just picture Suicide Squad, and that's what it was.
Speaker 2:
[37:48] Yeah. It's giving me Hotels Transylvania.
Speaker 3:
[37:51] Yeah. Yeah. But the thing is, if you're interested in reading or starting Joe Abercrombie, I do think that this is a great place to start. I read The Blade Itself by him, and I prefer this book over that series. He just does character-driven stories unlike any other fantasy author I've ever read. So his plots aren't the most overbearing or complex, but the characters and the relationships and the banter and the humor that he weaves into his writing is what makes it special, in my opinion. His pacing is a little whack, so if you do want to read this book, just know that there are going to be some lulls. But I mean, it's just, it was wacky and outrageous, and it was very unique. He also, sorry, this is such a, not a tangent, but like Joe Abercrombie, you're amazing, but if you would stop writing spicy scenes, that would be great because they were spicy scenes.
Speaker 2:
[38:51] I don't know how spicy is there.
Speaker 1:
[38:53] Like there was a priest not getting, getting unholy.
Speaker 3:
[38:56] Oh, yeah, they're all unholy. Yeah, it's just was a priest. Is he anymore?
Speaker 2:
[39:01] I don't know.
Speaker 3:
[39:02] He got to read to find out.
Speaker 2:
[39:04] That's funny. I guess be excited. I didn't know his books were spicy.
Speaker 3:
[39:08] Okay, when I say spice, it's like maybe three paragraphs, but the paragraphs are so painful. And I don't know if, but also like the dynamics between the characters also would be so uncomfortable and awkward. So maybe that's the reason. Like all of the spice, they're like very small spicy scenes. They're nothing too crazy. But even in the other series I read by him, they were also so uncomfortable, but also the characters, imagining them being intimate, it would be uncomfortable. So I don't know. But yeah, this is a great place to start with his work. But yeah, I think I will definitely reread this book again. The end papers are beautiful. You guys should Google it.
Speaker 1:
[39:50] All right. Love.
Speaker 2:
[39:52] All right. Mine was, I feel like I was going to say, no.
Speaker 3:
[39:57] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[39:59] My most unique book I read was The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown. Book of Doors mentioned, y'all. And I know Kennedy, you gave this five stars.
Speaker 3:
[40:10] I did, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[40:11] It was a right book, wrong time for me, unfortunately. It took me like a month to read it, almost a month. I just, I've been in kind of a weird reading slump. I thought this would get me out of it. I think I just had so much going on at the time, and I was trying to not listen to it. So I was like, oh, I'll sit down and read it. I'll sit down and read it. And then I did. So I was like, I'll start listening to it. Very fun and unique concept. I know Kennedy's mentioned this book on the podcast before, but definitely check it out if you haven't already, or if you haven't heard about it. It stands on its own, but there is a second book. I don't know if I'll read the second book, but I gave it 3.75 stars. I really wish I could have rated it higher. Like I said, write book wrong time. Coolest concept. It was so fun. You have this girl that works at a bookshop, and she works with this very old man, and he unexpectedly passes away, and he leaves her the Book of Doors, which is this magical book that if you hold it in your hand, you can literally walk through any door and it will take you wherever you want to go. I gave an update while I was reading. I was like, I want the Book of Doors. Give that to me. Very cool. And so honestly, I didn't know this before I started. Maybe I should have known. Maybe this is common knowledge. Maybe it's in synopsis. I didn't know that there's a bunch of different magical books. So people are coming after her because she has this Book of Doors, and then there's all these other books that are involved, that have different powers. There's like the Book of Memories and the Book of Light, and the Book of Pain. It's crazy. There was so much going on. It was really cool. It was a really cool concept for a book and especially just like, yeah, how the magic and how everyone could use the books differently, and you had to like learn more about the books. Super cool. I was surprised at how brutal it was. Like Kennedy made some comment about how the second book, she's like, I like the second book, but it was pretty gory or something. And I was like, what? Like, I didn't think the first. There were a few moments where I literally was listening and I had to like take off my headphones. I was like, oh, that surprised me. So yeah, very high stakes, very fun. Honestly, I would say it's fast paced if you have time to like sit down and read it and you're not like me, that's like, oh, I'll get to it in a minute. Yeah, very fast paced and just, yeah, I feel like very unique. I've never read a book quite like it. So definitely recommend.
Speaker 3:
[42:45] Love Me the Book of Doors, but y'all know that. I don't have to say that. I would love this to be adapted to a limited TV series by Apple TV. It would be so good. So good. Apple, if you're listening, you could also cast me as the female main character if you want.
Speaker 2:
[43:01] There's so much you could do.
Speaker 3:
[43:03] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[43:03] It would be visually so cool.
Speaker 3:
[43:07] But also it would be so expensive.
Speaker 2:
[43:08] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[43:09] Because the amount of places that they go to. Yeah. Definitely. I love the Book of Doors. The other one was fine. You can stop at the Book of Doors if you want.
Speaker 2:
[43:19] All right. Do you want to do Biggest Surprise?
Speaker 1:
[43:21] I feel like I'm choosing this one because I feel like my expectations were really low because I think a lot of my, like the people that I'm friends with on Goodreads, didn't read it as like high, like the three stars. And so I was like, okay, like it's a mid-level book, but I actually really flipping enjoyed it. It's a Fate, Inked in Blood. Did I say that right? Yeah. A Fate, Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Junten. I don't know if I just really enjoy her writing because she also wrote The Bridge Kingdom. But this is like viking-esque. Pretty much it's about this. I really like it because it's about an older female main character. She's like, I think 25, 26, 27. And she is married, but she hates her husband. Like he's a terrible human being. Like it was like marriage of like standings, if that makes sense. Yeah. And so it's just kind of about just like the viking culture and stuff like that. Obviously, there's some kind of like, there's magic elements to it, but it was just, it just surprised me. I just went into it with lower expectations. And so I, at the end of it was pleasantly surprised. I'm very excited to read the next book. So is it a duology?
Speaker 3:
[44:49] I think so.
Speaker 1:
[44:50] If I remember correctly, I've been on like a duology kick, just so I can like finish it. Yeah, I think it's just going to be a duology.
Speaker 3:
[44:59] And it's out, right?
Speaker 1:
[45:00] Yes, it's out.
Speaker 3:
[45:02] The covers are beautiful for those books.
Speaker 1:
[45:05] Yeah, anyways, I like don't want to give away too much, but I really like it too, because it's a little brutal.
Speaker 3:
[45:13] She likes the violence.
Speaker 1:
[45:14] I like a violent book, just kidding. But yeah, there's, she just has like her, yeah, anyways, that's pretty much all I'll say. Her husband's a piece of trash.
Speaker 3:
[45:25] Feminine rage.
Speaker 1:
[45:26] Yeah, feminine rage. I guess I'm all about those kind of books right now.
Speaker 3:
[45:32] Are you angry?
Speaker 1:
[45:33] I guess. So yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 3:
[45:36] So I'm going to read The Bridge Kingdom soon. I'm going to go, okay. For my biggest surprise, I'm going to say Margot's got money troubles, my roofy Thorpe. Now I only read this book, I think, three, three and a half stars. And I wouldn't say it's my favorite book that I've read this year, but I was pleasantly surprised how much I really enjoyed it. So it's also being turned into an Apple TV show. That's why I decided to read it because-
Speaker 2:
[46:03] You love the Apple TV show.
Speaker 3:
[46:04] I literally love Apple TV, you guys. And it's funny because I knew it was going to be turned into a TV show. I knew that they cast the fanning, one of the elf fanning as Margot. I didn't realize that they cast Nick Offerman for her dad, but that's quite literally such a great casting. I'm so excited to watch the show. Margot, she gets pregnant by her professor and then starts an OnlyFans to be able to support her and her child, which sounds really racy. But honestly, I remember talking about this book to you guys, and I was like, it's going to be wholesome. And I don't want to use the word wholesome, but honestly, just how Margot's people show up for her and support her was so heartwarming. And also, Margot is just surrounded by a whole bunch of quirky people. And so, it's just kind of this outrageous story about this girl who's trying to navigate life with a newborn and just survive. And then there's a whole bunch of things thrown at her like judgment, some other stuff that I can't say because it will be a spoiler. But it just surprised me how entertained I was by it and how non raunchy it was. I thought it was going to be way more raunchy because the start of the book starts out with a penis cake. So, it gets better from there.
Speaker 1:
[47:23] Love that. Love it.
Speaker 2:
[47:24] Okay, mine, I'm going to go with 50 50 by Steve Cavanaugh.
Speaker 3:
[47:29] Yo, that's blowing us up on TikTok right now.
Speaker 2:
[47:31] Shout out to Steve. Shout out to Steve. I made it a goal to read some more thrillers this year or like more.
Speaker 3:
[47:42] I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:
[47:46] I'm so sorry. I saw that. I was like, I'm going to freak her out.
Speaker 3:
[47:52] It's right there.
Speaker 2:
[47:52] It's right there. It's moving though. Squish it in a little more.
Speaker 1:
[47:56] That's what we get for recording in a basement.
Speaker 2:
[47:58] I have something to spray my bugs this week.
Speaker 1:
[48:01] I just saw, I was like, what?
Speaker 3:
[48:04] I can't.
Speaker 2:
[48:04] The web.
Speaker 3:
[48:06] I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:
[48:07] I cannot wait to watch that back.
Speaker 1:
[48:10] All right. Reggie, do you want me to tell us what you're talking about?
Speaker 2:
[48:14] Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1:
[48:17] Well, it's some books. That's okay.
Speaker 2:
[48:18] We'll just leave it. In case you're wondering, you can tell we're a little out of sorts. Just a quick little break there if I didn't include it. There was a spider on Kennedy's microphone.
Speaker 3:
[48:29] It landed on me. I almost died.
Speaker 2:
[48:33] Spider woman. I should have let it bit me. Filming in a basement has its disadvantages. Anyways, back to my good boy.
Speaker 3:
[48:44] 50-50.
Speaker 2:
[48:45] Eddie Flynn.
Speaker 3:
[48:45] Steve.
Speaker 2:
[48:46] It's the Eddie Flynn's. Okay. So it's in a series. So I talked about this on my Spring TBR. So I'll report back if I read more of his books, but which I'm pretty sure I will because I enjoyed it. A lot of people on TikTok were saying you can read this on but you don't have to read it in the order of the series. So I just read it on its own because I was intrigued. It's about two sisters that are on trial for the murder of their father. And you, as a reader, are trying to figure out who did it.
Speaker 3:
[49:16] Which one did it?
Speaker 2:
[49:17] And-
Speaker 3:
[49:18] A sister.
Speaker 2:
[49:20] One of the sisters did. I don't know. So anyways, it really surprised me because I feel like going into it, I knew that the series itself is called Eddie Flynn. Eddie Flynn is the lawyer. So I was like, okay, the lawyer, it's going to be just like from his perspective, court drama, cool, sign me up. No, there's a lot of different point of views. So there's like his point of view. And then you also have the point of view from- So I'm pretty sure his point of view is first person. But then all the other point of views are third person. If I remember correctly- So it's multiple point of view? Yeah. So then you have- There's a point of view called she, which is the murderer. So you're getting this backstory, but you don't know which sister's point of view it is. So it was really cool because every time a chapter would start and it was like, chapter five, she. I'm like, who is it? And the way that it was written was so cool. It was so mysterious and you're like, why is she doing all this stuff? But then you're trying to remember like what you're learning from the case. It was so cool. And then also the other lawyer for the other sister, you get her point of view as well. So very cool. I'm very intrigued to just like, I kind of want to start from book one and make my way through them because you learn, and I'm pretty sure this is like introduced in the first book. Eddie Flynn, the lawyer, used to be a con artist. So I'm really curious to know his backstory. And there's like something crazy with like his wife. I don't know. I'm really wanting to know more of his backstory. And honestly, all the books before this one, because this one was book five, seemed very fascinating. Like the one before, this one's about a serial killer that's on trial. Or he's a juror. He's not on trial. He's the juror. So, yeah, I'm really, it really surprised me because I just wasn't expecting a point of view change. And I wouldn't say it's the most like twisty thing I've ever read. There was a few things that happened that I was, I was still surprised by some of the twists. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, but it was very entertaining. It just felt a little long. That's like the only reason. I didn't read it higher, but very good. Great audiobook.
Speaker 3:
[51:44] I'm going to read them now, so.
Speaker 1:
[51:46] I think I want to start with one.
Speaker 2:
[51:48] Yeah. Let me see what the first one's about. I can't remember. I can't keep them all straight.
Speaker 3:
[51:53] I want to start with the serial killer one.
Speaker 2:
[51:56] So the first book, and he has another book coming. He has, I think the eighth book comes out this year. So he's just cranking those out, Steve. He's cranking them out.
Speaker 3:
[52:06] It's just giving, I mean, why do I just feel like he's Saul Goodman? I don't know.
Speaker 2:
[52:10] Yeah. So yeah, Eddie Flynn needs to be a con artist. Then become a lawyer. He vowed that he's never going to step into a courtroom again. So this is the first book. Infamous head of the Russian mafia has strapped a bomb to his back. Yeah, that sounds crazy.
Speaker 3:
[52:24] All right, Eddie Flynn.
Speaker 2:
[52:25] But yeah, all of these books-
Speaker 3:
[52:26] I didn't know your game, Eddie Flynn.
Speaker 2:
[52:28] They're all rated pretty, pretty highly. So I'm looking forward to seeing where the series takes me. But yeah, book 10 coming out in July.
Speaker 1:
[52:39] Wow. But I feel like it's fun because there are different cases. And you don't necessarily have to read them close together. You can space them out. And it's just something that you can do in between series or, you know? At least from what you have said of it. So yeah.
Speaker 2:
[53:00] Yeah. I'm excited. I'll keep you guys posted. But those are our categories.
Speaker 1:
[53:05] Awesome. Okay. We're done with our 2026 So Far Awards. It's going to be very interesting to see how it changes throughout the year. And you guys know we do a awards show for every year that we do the podcast. And so it will be interesting to see how different or maybe the same some of the books could be at the end of 2026.
Speaker 3:
[53:33] So, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:
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