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Our ULTIMATE autumn faves 🍂🍁 | Books, movies, and more! · Gorls Unplugged

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Woo guys, it is October. I'm so excited for today's
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episode. You might remember in the last
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episode we talked about how we were going to go through our
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autumn favourites. Well, the time is here.
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It's time for cozy blankets. It's time for cinnamon rolls.
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It's time for candles. It's time for chunky cardigans.
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Literally this is my time. I was not expecting that.
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I'm so excited today. Yeah, I've, I've had a lot of
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sugar, actually. But I just love this time so
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much. I'm so excited to talk about it.
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Yeah, I, I am a big I I think I touched on this in our last
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episode as well. Like it's like a bit sweet thing
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for me. Like I love all the vibes of
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autumn, but I do suffer with sad.
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So there's like dark mornings are a downer on the vibe of the
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season overall, but the bare mamps are a vibe.
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They are vibe. They're a big vibe.
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So we're actually gonna take you through all of our favorite
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things about the Bermont. We're gonna talk about spooky
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season books, cozy autumn books, films, TV, clothes, other
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miscellaneous things that we love about the seasons.
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So let's get into it, yeah? So we're going to start with
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books, obviously, because why wouldn't we?
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These are our like, tried, tested, we've read, we'd love
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them. We recommend them all the time.
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Ones that you should definitely add to your spooky season TBR if
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you haven't yet. So, Brunty, why don't you go for
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book one for you? So my first one is A Dowry of
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Blood, which I talk about every single autumn.
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Recommend it every spooky season because it is a gothic literary
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fiction sort of romance in a way, and it is a Dracula's Bride
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retelling, So all the gothic vibes are perfect.
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It's also written really nicely. Like it's really poetic.
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It's second person POV that's written in a letter.
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So that also feels quite, I don't know, something about
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that. Yeah.
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But it also something about that feels like a hot that you sat in
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a haunted house writing a letter by a candlelight, you know what
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I mean? So the vibes are just there.
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And also it's queer and polyamorous, so it has really
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great representation there as well.
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So if you haven't read it already, then you definitely
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have to add this one to your TBR 100%.
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What about you and? So first one, I'm going to go
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soul searching. It's a new release.
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It literally just released a few days ago at the time of filming
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this. I was lucky enough to get proof
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of it back in August and I was just obsessed with it from the
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moment I picked it up. It's just got all of Lila's ages
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perfect. Like cozy bromance, small town
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vibes great, like tension with the relationship, good spice.
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But it's also got this like creepy undertone because it's
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set in this in this ghost town. I can't remember where it is,
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but it's like up in the mountains, really small town.
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She can see and hear ghosts since she was a child, but for
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some reason she can't hear them anymore even when she sees them.
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So it's kind of like I'm weaving this mystery of what's happened
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with her powers. It's just all around.
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It's the perfect cozy season read.
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I'm so excited for that one because we love Lila Sage.
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Yeah. My next one is more of like a,
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it's kind of gothic where it is more of a paranormal
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romanticity, I would say. And that is Hollow Heathens,
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which is book one in like a series of they're almost like
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interconnected standalones, would you say?
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Because like, you could technically read them
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separately. You could technically, but they
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definitely make more. More sense as a normal series.
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I wouldn't say that they're interconnected standalones,
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because I don't think you could really understand book 2 very
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well without book one, but they're very separate stories to
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stay in the same place. Yeah, it's yeah they, yeah,
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exactly what Tor said. But essentially book 1 Hollow
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Heathens and then book 2 is Bowen Island, and each of them
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follows different couples. But what is so perfect for
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spooky season is it's warring witch covens.
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And there is this coven where there are 4 leaders or men who
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are cursed with these like big animal kind of school masks that
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they have to wear. And honestly, like first of all,
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warring witch covens is the most Halloweeny thing I've ever
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heard. And then you have these dark,
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cursed, masked love interests, which if you're on mask Talk,
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you're already in for a treat. And then, yeah, just each story
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has a different couple. So they're just like, again,
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quite atmospheric, very vibey, I would say.
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Yeah. I've given this recommendation a
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couple of times for, like, the girlies that are really into,
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like, contemporary dark romance. Yeah.
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I feel like it's the perfect introduction to like,
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supernatural fancy esque books. If you're a dark romance reader,
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Yeah. 100% I would agree with that because the romances as
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well are very like forbidden enemies to lovers kind of.
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They definitely have those dark undertones, so it's a perfect
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one. Okay, so sticking with the
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darker theme, I'm going to say Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's
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Royal Coven series. It is again, it's a dark fantasy
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about witches, but it's set in the UK and it's basically HMRC,
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven. They are this behind the scenes
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like government agency that protects humans from the witchy
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demon world. It's very dark, gritty.
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It has this amazing Junior has this amazing way of creating
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nostalgia in these books because there's a lot about Spice Girls
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90's pop culture, very realistic, like female
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friendships. It's just all round perfect
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spooky season type of read and it's now a complete series which
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is perfect for the winter months I think so that you can just
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binge whatever you want. Yeah, and I haven't read the
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whole series like Tor has. I've only read book one, but
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that was so good. I really want to do these the
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rest of the books as well. I'm going to try and do them
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soon, but and. I will say about this series is
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it does not. It's a trilogy and there's a
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novella in the middle which I wasn't that keen on but I never
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really am on novellas. Every book is fantastic.
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It doesn't have second book in a trilogy syndrome at all.
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Every single book just hits hits his and the ending of the series
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was perfection. Like God Tears series.
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We love that. Makes me emotional.
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My next one I'm going to go for a cosy read because you do still
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need the cosy vibes at Autumn as well and this is like the
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perfect read on the sofa with a blanket fireplace on the TV.
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And that is Sangu Mandana's latest book, A Witch's Guide to
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Magical Innkeeping. I always have to like really
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concentrate to say that. I don't know why.
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I'm just focusing on the fact that you said fireplace on the
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TV. I don't have any.
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People have real fireplaces, you know.
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I live in a flat, guys. I am living through my TV but so
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this is a new read for me. But previously I'd read her or
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the book, which is The very Secret Society of Irregular
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Witches. And I would say that one was
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like slightly more like summer to autumn.
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And then this one, which is Guide to Magical Innkeeping is
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like autumn to winter. It's perfect.
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There's a lot of like really snowy scenes.
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There's part of it where it's set in Edinburgh.
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There is again, the quirkiest found family.
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The love interest is great. There's also a lot about there's
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a kid in the book who has autism and I thought that
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representation was so good. It was so well done.
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And then also like mental health as well.
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But it it wraps all of those things up in like a very cozy
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bow. Like it's not depressing.
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It's not, it's not going to kind of leave you feeling like sad or
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depressed. It's just going to.
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Touch on it, make you think about it.
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Yeah. So it's not connected to the
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other book. No, OK, no, it's not connected,
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but it's very similar. Like you can tell it's set in
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the same world, same magic system, that kind of a thing.
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But the characters are not actually connected or the plots
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not connected. So you can read it definitely as
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a standalone. You do not need to read the
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other one first, but it's the perfect cozy like Sunday
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afternoon read. It is on my kind of autumn or
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winter hopefuls. I will get to that for sure.
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I am like 90% sure you will love it.
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Yeah, it's one of those books that I will just enjoy that pop
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it on audio. It's done by the same narrators
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as well, isn't it? Yeah.
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Great narrators. So such good narrators.
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Yeah. Amazing.
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OK, my final recommendation is the Blood and Steel series by
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Helen Shurer. There's nothing specifically
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about it that gives like spooky season.
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I just find myself, I always read a lot more fantasy in the
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autumn months, especially when it's a series that is complete
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because I love just being able to.
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I'm at home so much more. I'm typically reading a lot
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more. I'm in bed earlier.
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So being able to like really binge through a series is
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perfect for me. And it's just a series I
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absolutely love. There's, you know, slow band
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tension like feisty female deadly trials that makes it
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sound quite trophy, but it isn't.
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It's just a really fantastic series and there's a new spin
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off that has just been releasing through this year, so there's
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plenty to really sink your teeth.
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Into Yeah, I've heard such good things about this series.
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I don't know a single person that doesn't like it who's read.
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It I don't know anyone Kyle's reading it at the moment.
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So he just finished book 1. He started book 2.
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This reading journey for Tor's husband like is the best thing
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ever started with Zodiac, right? No, it started with Akhtar.
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Started with Akhtar, then he's done Zodiac and 4th wing, 4th
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wing and now and now. Blood and steel, yeah.
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We love to see it. We do.
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That is a bookish. Husband.
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What Autumn book has stuck with you the longest?
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Should we say after three 1/2 Vampire Academy?
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It has to be Vampire Academy. You've probably, if you've
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watched any of these episodes, you've probably heard us mention
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it before. Austin and Abel TikTok.
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Yeah, because we both absolutely love Vampire Academy.
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It was Aya series in the 2000s that we both read at the time.
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Really like ignited our love for reading in the teen years around
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the same time as Twilight. We talked about it, but it's
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just it's just still great. On reread now it is.
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Like Bronte's done a full reread.
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I did like half the series reread in last year and intend
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to continue that reread this year and it's really perfect.
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I think for anyone that has read it or did read it in like in the
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noughties should should reread it because it's still just as
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good now and for anyone that didn't read it back then but
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that because and now as an adult like reading YA it's still so
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good. It really is.
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And like the because it's an Academy setting again, which is
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like this big gothic building called St.
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Vladimir's that's really gothic in itself and like Halloweeny.
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And then you have Rose, who is like a very feisty, strong
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minded main character and it's just got those.
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It almost reminds me of like a younger version of the
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Underworld movies in a way. I don't know why but.
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Just has that vibe. Yeah, just has that vibe.
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It's perfect for autumn. OK, so I have a question for
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you. OK, if you were plonked into the
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world of the book that you are reading right now, do you think
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you could survive it? Guys, I'm literally reading
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Alchemized. So if you've read Manacled or
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you're reading or have read Alchemized, then you know the
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answer is no, because it is the most brutal dystopian book ever.
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And I can't even say too much because she might read it at
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some point, but there is just no way I'm surviving that.
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I wouldn't even have the will to survive that.
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I would honestly just say see you and Chuck myself out a
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window and just be done with it. I don't.
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Yeah, I genuinely, I wouldn't want to survive that.
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And that's what makes that book so emotional anyway when you're
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reading it is because it's horrendous.
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What about you? Well, I'm, I'm reading two books
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a minute, but let's go off the one I'm actually reading in
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physical form. I'm reading On Wings of Blood by
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Briar Berlin, and I'm only about 20% into the book, so I'm not
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really sure what's going on, but I think I would, I like she's
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literally the start of the book. She like wakes up and she's in
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another world and something's happened to her in the world
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that she's from and she's dumped into this world where there are
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vampires and humans and she gets forced to be the consort of like
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the vampire Prince basically, and is going to this Academy,
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it's called Bloodwing Academy. And, and she's really getting
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pushed around as and I feel like I'm the type of person that
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thrives when people tell me I can't do something or try to put
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my back up against the wall. So I actually think I would
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thrive in that type of environment.
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I would be the FMC that just comes out swinging.
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I would not. I would run back to the world I
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was from. I already feel like I haven't
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even read the book and I know I won't survive.
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It's always been a dream of mine to learn how to fight really
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well, but I just refuse to pay for intense PT in that
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department. Oh.
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My God, you actually should though.
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You should. So obviously we're already in
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October now, like spooky season is underway.
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But what is on your spooky season TBR?
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Because you must be like planning it.
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Not right now. I am, I am OK.
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Book 1 is dire bound because everyone's been talking about
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it. It was our book club book.
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It was I'm the worst, worst book club admin ever.
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And I didn't read it. I didn't read it, but I've had
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really good things and Bronte is admin that I will absolutely
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love it because it's supposedly like 4th Wing vibes but with
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werewolves. So that's very high on the
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priority list. Yeah, it is.
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I will eat my fucking socks if she doesn't like this this book,
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because it is everything we love in romancy.
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Like really fast-paced Academy setting.
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I know great romance. It's actually not werewolves,
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but I won't say any more than that.
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But it's wolves. Yeah, I've.
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Got the wrong end of the stick and.
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Yeah, it's just really fun. Like it's not ground breaking or
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super unusual or anything, but it is so fucking fun.
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And I listen. I'll come back and eat my socks
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on camera if I have to. I almost want to hear.
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Just to watch you do that, Yeah. She's going to rate it two stars
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now because I've said that. Great.
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How about yours next one? So I need to read Neverkeep,
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guys, because Neverkeep has been on my TBR since last year and I
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said I was going to do it last spooky season, and then I
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didn't. And there's like a psychological
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element to this of why I'm not reading it.
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And that's A, because I have big book fear, and then B, because I
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have this weird thing with the Twisted Sisters books where it's
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like I actually don't want to finish their series because I
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don't want to ever feel like I have nothing to read of theirs
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or nothing to look forward to or like the feeling you get when
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you finish Zodiac. I don't want to feel that again.
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Yeah. So I I've noticed that I keep
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kind of subconsciously putting it off.
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And I've realized that's why. And that's why I've not finished
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Age of Vampires or Dundalkmal. Oh my God, yeah, I still need to
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finish the vampire. As long as I defend the dark
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more so. Fantastic.
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Yeah. I think that you will love it.
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Even though you're not a white choose person, I think that you
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will like dark. More and obviously we know well,
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I know two of the characters that are in it.
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Yeah, and I love them. And there are some really great
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sprinklings of characters. Yeah, yeah.
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Good. And that's the one of the best
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things about their books is the little Easter eggs and the
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crossover. But yeah, what else is on your
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TBR? So, so random.
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And it's not very like spooky season of me, but I need to read
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Wild Card by Elsie Silva. It is the final book in the Rose
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Hill series, but I'm going to Mexico in like well at the time
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I'm filming this I'm going to Mexico in like 2 weeks.
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So I've been saving some of my more like summary type romances
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like easy reads for while I'm there for by the pool.
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So that is randomly on my spooky season TVR this year I.
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Actually do kind of like to break up Autumn reads with like
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a little summary romance sometimes.
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Do you? I don't really like it at all.
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I'd never read oh I feel like MC Steel but it's a real like
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summer romance type of read. Like I will read some romances
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in between but typically like not something that feels like
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such a beach read do. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, I get what you mean. Hers are very summary, like Lila
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Sages as well. But I just kind of like having
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something that breaks up that like little kind of dark and not
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depressing, but just like a palate cleanser, I guess.
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Definitely my next one is actually more of a cozy 1.
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So that kind of ties in perfectly because it is Lila
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Sage is soul searching, which Tor has already read and I've
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been dying to get to. But like every time I'm about to
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pick it up, a new book club book comes or something like that or
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a buddy read or you know, I just keep like getting distracted
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from it. So it is definitely my next read
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after I finish alchemized, which I will finish tonight and will
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you? Yes, I've only got 20% left and
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and I'm just super excited for it because Rebel Blue Ranch is
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my all time favorite romance series.
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I would say especially in that small town sort of cowboy
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romance genre. Lila's writing and the way she
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puts in things about mental health and that kind of thing, I
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just, they always hit for me. So I'm really excited to have
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that, but then also add this like new and spooky paranormal
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element. Yeah, nice.
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Love this for you. Love this journey for.
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You I will keep you all updated on what I think.
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This will be my like, I'll eat my fucking socks if it doesn't
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like this book. Like it's so good.
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OK, so third, it's obviously not final book on my spooky season
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TBR, but Assassin's Apprentice, Yes, we will actually be buddy
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reading this together with our good friend Jamie.
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Yeah. So for those of you that don't
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know, this is a book by Robin Hobb and it spans a huge
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universe of books. And actually back story to this,
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I read her Rainwild Chronicles series, which is it a quartet?
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Not sure. Is that what it's called?
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So it's a four book series. At the time I didn't know it was
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from a wider universe of books, but I loved that series.
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So I've been meaning to go back to this series literally for
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years. So I'm very excited to actually
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go all the way back to the beginning and just to read some
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some proper fantasy. Yeah, there's so much romance
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out there and I love reading that.
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But I am like to my bones like born and bred on proper, like
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high fancy. So I'm really excited to dig
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into this. Yeah, I am really excited too.
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And I also feel like it's trending quite a lot on Book
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Talk at the minute. Like, I've seen it.
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I haven't seen it. Oh my gosh, I've seen so many
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people reading it and crying and like, so yeah, I really think
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we're going to love it. But my final, not final book on
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the TBR is Catabasis by RF Kwang.
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I have only read actually the Poppy War series by her.
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I haven't done Yellow face. I haven't done Babble.
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So I don't know how I'm going to be with this book, being that
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it's more like fantasy, dark academia rather than just
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straight fantasy like Poppy War is.
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But I'm really excited to try it.
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It is about two students who like journey into hell while
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they're studying. So that's.
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Quite an interesting concept I think.
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Yeah, I have seen really mixed reviews on it though.
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I've seen really mixed reviews. On it, Yeah.
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I've seen a lot of three stars and a lot of, like, DNFS, so I'm
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a little bit nervous. Yeah, that's neat.
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I know. I hope I like it, because that's
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cross for you. Yeah.
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And I loved Poppy Wars so much. But we'll see.
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I mean looking at our pics we're clearly not very horror ish
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girls, but are you planning on reading?
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Because you are more likely to read a bit of horror than I am.
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But have you got anything on your TBR this year that you're
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thinking you might read that's a little bit more?
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Yeah, I have actually. Actually, I've got a couple.
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So 1 is like romantic leaning into horror.
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And that is Eldritch, which is the sequel to Anathema.
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OK, so Tor hasn't read this yet. If you've read it, you know,
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like Anathema is very, very dark romantic fantasy and it has some
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like, body horror elements in it.
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I don't think it will scare you or anything, but it's just some
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things that you're like, oh, that's a bit darker than your
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typical romantic. So I am gonna hopefully do the
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sequel to that. Because I saw that on your
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hopeful. Yeah, and people have been
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saying that it's really good. And then my other one, I'm
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pretty sure it's called the Buffalo Hunter, it's like by
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Steven Graham. And that is actual horror.
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And it's about like a Native American ghost who is like
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haunting this land. And it's not my usual type of
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thing that I would read, but I've seen a lot of mutuals who
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do like that type of thing reading it on TikTok and their
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reviews like had me interested in it.
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So I thought if I had the chance and if I read my other things
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that are priority, I would delve into it and see what I think.
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Because I have read a couple of horror books the other past
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years and enjoyed them. Like I really liked Into the
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Drowning Deep by Mira Grant and Juniper and Thorn.
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So I do like horror when I go for it, but I just, it doesn't
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happen very often. Yeah, I, I mean, I don't really
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like reading horror at all. There are some that I have
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enjoyed like Juniper and Thorn, like Oh my God, what's it
22:40
called? It's like the IKEA one horosaur.
22:42
Oh yeah, the Grady is it Grady Hendrix like that was quite fun.
22:47
And I do always think like I I must try another Grady Hendrix.
22:50
My friend Amy loves them but I'm definitely more about I would
22:54
like fantasy vibes in Halloween like Halloween season than I am
22:58
like an actual horror. Like I don't watch it, I
23:00
typically don't read it. Not really my bag.
23:04
I like safety, security feelings.
23:06
Yeah, I mean, it's weird because I actually watch quite a lot of
23:09
horror, but I just don't find myself reading it.
23:12
I don't know. It's too scary.
23:13
Yeah, it's a weird one. Too scary.
23:15
So speaking. Of horror shows, what are some
23:20
of your like? Go to comfort films and TV shows
23:24
this time of year. Well honestly one of them
23:27
actually is a horror which is American Horror Story the TV
23:30
show, but specifically seasons one to three.
23:34
So season 1 which is Murder House, season 2 which is Asylum,
23:39
and season 3 which is Coven. And that was just like peak mid
23:44
2000s TV. And I saw someone put it on
23:46
books to grant me yesterday and I was like Oh my God I need to
23:49
do another rework. But I've probably rewatched each
23:52
of those seasons minimum three times.
23:55
They are so good. They are scary though.
23:57
Like season 1. I actually rewatched that last
24:01
year and I thought how did I watch that by myself for like
24:04
16? I actually did watch that as
24:06
well, believe it or not. Did you have?
24:08
Three seasons. Yeah, I did watch the first
24:10
three seasons and never carried it on.
24:14
I mean, the real truth of the matter is I was such a Stoner
24:17
back then. I probably just like, blacked
24:20
out and didn't dream at all. But they did freak me out.
24:23
And I remember thinking that Season 1 was very clever.
24:26
Yes, it was. Season 2 was just pure creepy to
24:30
me. Yeah, season.
24:31
I don't actually think I finished season 3 and I don't
24:34
actually know why. Season 3 was one of my
24:38
favourites because of the witchy vibes and like the Stevie Nicks
24:40
scene and stuff like that obviously.
24:42
Oh my God, I'm literally wearing a Fleetwood Mac T-shirt.
24:44
But that wasn't even planned, guys.
24:46
Just saying. But yeah, I just think every
24:50
season obviously highlights like a different part of Halloween as
24:53
well, like witches, ghost houses.
24:56
Like it is there is a season mental asylum.
24:59
Yeah, the circuses. There's a season for absolutely
25:02
everything. And the way that they bring the
25:04
cast back and like even the costumes and stuff in especially
25:08
the Covent season, I just love it isn't.
25:11
Kim. Was she in like last season?
25:13
Yeah, she's in. She's in the newer one with Emma
25:16
Roberts. I can't remember what it's
25:17
called. I can't remember which one it
25:19
is. I've not actually.
25:20
Watched that one Spider woman or something.
25:22
Yeah, but she's also like a manager.
25:24
Like she's basically playing Chris Jenner.
25:27
Like she's playing Chris Jenner, but she's apparently she's
25:29
really good in it. I haven't seen that one.
25:31
I've stopped watching them because they all started to get
25:33
not as good. I stopped after Apocalypse.
25:37
Apocalypse wasn't very good for me, but I did like Hotel Lady
25:40
Gaga. That one was good.
25:41
I did see bits of that on on TV but just like I didn't actually
25:45
watch. It that one was really creepy,
25:46
actually. I mean, I like we've just said,
25:49
I'm not a horror person. I don't like things that pull me
25:52
out of my comfort zone and scare me.
25:53
I'm all about comfort in in these winter months.
26:00
Practical Magic is an absolute must for me.
26:03
Practical Magic is literally fucking peak spooky season
26:08
watching. I remember watching it when it
26:10
first came out and I think I've watched it every year since.
26:14
I just absolutely love it so much.
26:19
Yeah. Oh my God, It's.
26:20
I actually didn't watch it until I was like 21.
26:24
Yeah, because I I feel like it's one that I still find this now
26:27
actually it's not really on streaming services.
26:30
No, it's not. I think it is on Amazon this
26:32
year though guys. I'm pretty sure I've seen it on
26:35
there. I might have to watch that soon
26:37
then. But yes, such a good film and
26:39
like Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock both.
26:41
Great. So good.
26:42
I love them in anything they're in, and you've actually reminded
26:45
me I was going to pick something else, but now I'm like, how
26:47
could I not say this? And that's hocus pocus because
26:50
that is what me and my sister watch every year probably as
26:53
long as I can remember. I think I've talked on here
26:56
before about how Max was like my first crush.
27:01
I'm pretty sure I have and it's true he was but just it's so
27:06
funny. Like I feel like it although
27:08
it's so old now it still makes me laugh like it's not dated if
27:12
that makes sense. Yeah, I do not.
27:13
Well, IA bit like you have practical magic.
27:16
I didn't watch Hocus Pocus until.
27:19
I don't think I've watched it since I was in my 30s.
27:21
Wow. Maybe I'd like seen it on, but I
27:24
never actually sat down and watched it.
27:26
I think the first time I actually sat down and watched
27:28
the whole thing start to finish that I can recall was a couple
27:33
of years ago when Zola was maybe like 3.
27:36
So maybe like 2 years ago. Oh my goodness, I sat down and
27:39
watched it. I had like my best friend and
27:40
her kids over and we made a little den in the living room
27:43
and watched it Zola. And when I put it on I was like,
27:46
is this going to freak her out? But she really enjoyed it and
27:48
we've watched, we've watched it a couple of times.
27:50
Since yeah, I love that one. And Sarah Jessica Parker, when
27:54
she does the little song and the song that Bette Midler sings,
27:59
it's so fun and camp and just silly, goofy old SO.
28:03
Much fun, yeah. Yeah, what about?
28:05
Have you got anything else? I mean, my other comforts first
28:09
would be Vampire Diaries. I rewatch every year.
28:14
I wouldn't say I don't have as much time for TV these days as I
28:17
used to. I literally used to rewatch the
28:19
whole thing every year and The Originals could always just have
28:22
it on as background noise. But now obviously I read a lot
28:24
more and there's so much other things going on.
28:26
But I do always put it on through autumn and it's like my
28:29
background because I just know what's going on all the time.
28:33
And it it does give like it does give spooky seasons. 100.
28:36
Percent like it. It just is.
28:38
I don't know so many people that like it's Autumn, like I'm
28:40
putting Vampire Diaries. On yeah, I'm I'm one of those
28:43
too. Like I maybe don't do the full
28:44
season show what's like me now, yeah, I'll just put my favorite
28:48
episodes on or whatever, but it's Mystic falls like that.
28:52
How could that not be Autumn fall falls like.
28:55
And it's just so witchy. Yeah.
28:58
Like Bonnie's storylines and like, the originals as well.
29:02
When it's in the New Orleans, I mean.
29:04
Yeah, that gives like great spooky season 5.
29:07
Yeah, I actually feel like I might go home and watch that
29:09
tonight because I'm just thinking about it now do.
29:11
You know what I used to like my friend Amy used to literally
29:14
call me. Like if she had had like a bad
29:16
day or she was on her period, she wanted to cry.
29:19
She'd always call me. But like, what episode is this?
29:21
I need to have a good cry. And I'd be like, oh, it's season
29:23
3, episode 19. It's season 4, episode 2.
29:26
Do you know what you mean? Like literally how obsessed I
29:30
was. Not a talent because there's
29:32
about 20 episodes per season as well so.
29:35
Bad. Honestly, my final one is like
29:39
tours that you've heard me talk about it.
29:41
It's a comfort watch. I watch it every single year.
29:44
I'm deep in my rewatch right now and that is Gilmore Girls.
29:49
Honestly, I feel like 90% of people other than Tor have seen
29:53
it at this point. So I'm not going to talk about
29:55
it too long and rattle your ear off, especially because we've
29:57
definitely talked about it on here before.
30:00
But just know that the most important thing is that I am
30:02
team Jess. OK, I actually comment below
30:06
what team you are, Dean, Jess, or Logan.
30:09
But if you're Logan, you're wrong, sorry.
30:12
It's true, you are. This feels like a whole like it.
30:18
Literally is like picking Logan is the equivalent of picking
30:21
Jeremiah in my eyes. Oh my God, I do need to watch.
30:24
I probably never will end up doing it.
30:26
I keep saying I'm going to do it and then I just don't.
30:29
But it's just because I don't watch TV.
30:31
It's such a, it feels like such a huge.
30:32
Commitment, yeah, but you could definitely have that on in the
30:35
background while you're working from home because it's such an
30:37
easy watch. Yeah, OK, fair.
30:39
You won't like miss anything important, you know.
30:41
OK, so I think you could do it. My final one is not spooky at
30:46
all, but as we've touched on multiple times, I'm all about
30:49
the comfort, especially in these months because I always feel so
30:53
on edge and like my just like my favorite.
30:57
I think it's probably my favorite film ever currently,
31:01
and that's anyone but you. Yeah.
31:03
He didn't even like it. I just love I so I grew up
31:08
watching like when when people were kids and they were watching
31:11
Cartoon Network, I was watching much do about nothing.
31:14
Like I was a big fan of it from a very young age.
31:17
The Kenneth Branagh Emma Thompson version.
31:20
Oh so good. And it was so funny.
31:22
The first time I watched it, I was watching anyone.
31:24
But you're thinking this is this is giving me this is giving me
31:29
much to do about nothing but. And it wasn't until the very end
31:32
that I even realized it was a remake.
31:35
Yeah, much to do about nothing, but I just love it.
31:37
I can. I could rewatch it once a week
31:40
easily and not get bored of it. Just makes me feel like all
31:43
mushy, gushy and happy inside. Yeah, I I'm like that with
31:46
Clueless and Devil as Prada, to be fair.
31:48
Like those are the ROM coms that I can just rewatch any day of
31:51
the week. And any time of year.
31:53
But sorry, the way you said Brunty didn't even like that one
31:57
was so sad. Like you sounded so sad about
32:00
it. I felt so bad.
32:01
About the fact that she didn't like Chestnut Springs as well.
32:03
I just she just when she I think she does on purpose to upset me.
32:08
No, she knows I'm a crybaby. You know, because when I
32:11
actually put anyone but you on, I was like, Oh my God.
32:14
I think I'm like very at the beginning of the film, I was
32:17
like, Oh my God, I think I'm going to hate this.
32:18
And then I'm going to have to tell her that I hate this.
32:20
And she's going to think I'm doing it on purpose at this
32:22
point because it's like specifically romance things you
32:27
like. It feels targeted at this point,
32:29
but I promise it's not. We do just have we very similar
32:33
like fantasy vibes. We typically mesh well on the
32:37
romance things. We just have very different
32:40
standard into what we like. Tor just likes the happy good
32:45
times, which is great, but I need a little bit more.
32:50
So as we've established, I don't watch new TV shows, I just watch
32:54
the same stuff until I'm so bored of it I couldn't possibly
32:56
watch it again. So you as the, what do you call
33:01
it, a cinephile? Cinephile, the cinephile of the
33:05
team. What are you planning on
33:08
watching the spooky season? Like new upcoming things that
33:11
you want to watch that other people that might be into stuff
33:13
might want to watch? So I haven't actually found any
33:17
specific TV shows with spooky vibes that I want to watch
33:20
because Wednesday's already like, been and done.
33:22
I have one. What go on?
33:24
I have one. Who's the girl that you said
33:30
Zola looks like? Alexandra Daderi.
33:32
Yes, there's a new show on Netflix.
33:35
Mayfair witches. Mayfair witches, it looks.
33:38
Really good. I don't know too much about it,
33:40
but I think she's like human and finds out that her family maybe
33:43
I like witches or have like supernatural abilities or
33:45
something along those lines. It kind of what I've seen of it.
33:50
It's giving me HMRC vibes actually.
33:53
Yeah. And that's just been added onto
33:55
Netflix. So actually I lied.
33:56
That is something I do want. Yes, and that you've reminded
33:58
me. I put that on my list the other
34:00
day because it does look really good.
34:02
Yeah, and also the actress looks like an adult version of what
34:05
Tours daughter looks like. It's trippy anyway, but one
34:09
thing I am really excited to watch and it's not like strictly
34:12
autumn vibes, but it is at the same time.
34:14
If it's going to be anything like what it's based on is House
34:17
of Guinness. So I don't know if you've seen
34:19
the trailer or anything on TikTok, but this is about the
34:22
Guinness family in Dublin and it's like their origin story but
34:27
it's fictionalized. Obviously it's not a documentary
34:31
and it's by SO. A bit like that Menendez
34:34
Brothers series. Monsters.
34:35
Yeah. Yeah, Kind of like that.
34:38
And it's by the creators of Peaky Blinders.
34:40
So it's got that. Like I've only watched 5 minutes
34:44
of episode 1 at the minute because I really wanted to watch
34:47
it, but I put it on and I was like, I can't stop thinking
34:50
about anything other than my Shameless USA rewatch that I'm
34:52
doing. So I was like, I'm going to save
34:54
it until I finish that. And it immediately had those
34:58
similar Peaky Blinders vibes of like, miserable weather, cobbled
35:03
streets. And I don't know what time
35:07
period it's set in directly directly, but it's obviously
35:09
like old. So yeah, that was kind of given
35:12
autumn in a sense, exciting. And then movies.
35:16
We have Frankenstein coming. I have seen the trailer for
35:20
this. I'm super excited about this
35:22
because. It's really creepy.
35:23
Yeah, and it's Guillermo del Toro who is the guy that did
35:27
Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, like massive, kind of
35:30
creepy ish film director. And I'm really surprised that
35:35
this is not getting a theatrical release and it's going to
35:37
Netflix. But I actually quite like that
35:38
because we'll be able to like, well, I don't know if you're
35:40
gonna watch it, but we'll be able to watch it at home with
35:42
like a blanket and. I will watch it after you've
35:45
watched. It and I tell you if it's scary
35:47
or not. Yeah, yeah, I can deal with
35:52
scary. It's when it gets too
35:55
psychological and jumpy that I just can't.
35:59
Yeah, cope. Because then I think someone's
36:01
going to fucking jump through my patio door windows in the middle
36:05
of the night. Yeah, I actually, the thing that
36:08
I the only thing really I struggle with in horror is jumpy
36:11
moments. Yeah, I just feel like I'm
36:13
having a fucking heart attack. So I'm excited for that.
36:16
And also my husband's the main character, Jacob Bellady.
36:20
Yes, I did see that. As well.
36:21
Love him. And then this isn't new, but I
36:25
have still not seen Nosferatu. What's that?
36:28
That is the one that came out last year with Johnny Depp's
36:32
daughter Lily Depp. It has Aaron Taylor Johnson,
36:36
Nicholas Holt, and it's Nosferatu is like an old film
36:42
based on Dracula, and it's like a remake.
36:46
And it's meant to be really, really good, but really creepy.
36:48
And I've seen it's come on now TV, so I'm going to finally
36:50
watch it. I think that one is scary.
36:52
I don't know, film. Yeah.
36:54
Yeah. And then, guys, I still need to
36:57
watch Sinners as well. You know, the Michael B Jordan
37:00
one that came out at the start of this year.
37:02
You see it? Oh yeah.
37:04
Vampires. Did look good.
37:06
Yeah, did look good. Everyone says that's amazing and
37:08
I think it's about twin vampires, so I really want to
37:12
see that. And then we'd watch it just for
37:13
Michael B, wouldn't we? Yeah, literally great casting
37:17
choice. And then this is one that I've
37:20
seen, but I was just going to recommend it actually because I
37:23
think it's quite a good Halloween watch.
37:24
And that is Weapons. If you haven't seen Weapons,
37:27
that's a recent horror film that's just come to cinema if
37:30
you don't know. And that is slightly more of
37:33
like a jumpy one, like a jump scare horror.
37:35
But it was actually really fucking funny as well.
37:38
There was like so many bits that made me laugh and like our
37:40
friend Amy watched it and she texted me about all the bits
37:42
that she laughed at as well. So it's kind of a weird
37:44
Halloweeny, a funny one to watch.
37:47
Like Halloween, like when I think like funny Halloween it I
37:50
just think of the scary movie films and me and my sister
37:53
always will be talking to each other about something and be
37:55
like I'm a shame these whiles right?
37:57
I fucking love it. It's so.
38:01
Funny take, my Yeah, isn't the guy that says that he's in
38:08
American Horror Story, isn't he? Is he?
38:11
I'm sure it's him, I might be wrong.
38:14
I don't know, I just, I would never like sit and watch those
38:17
films now, I don't think they're not the type of thing I would
38:20
sit and watch. But me and my sister did used to
38:22
like watching them and we just come out with like little lines
38:25
from all the time and we just. Think it's so funny.
38:28
Yeah. Film like comedies like that are
38:30
so quotable. So true.
38:32
Yeah. So I have a good question
38:34
actually. If you could live in any
38:36
fictional world for autumn, or like an autumn fictional world,
38:39
which would you pick? This is gonna sound so bog
38:43
standard because it's literally where I live anyway, okay.
38:49
But like very secret site of irregular witches like that,
38:53
like cozy cottage, like British countryside.
38:58
Yeah. Because I truly believe that
39:01
England is one of the best places to be for autumn like you
39:04
can. Decide the.
39:04
Season of it, you know what I mean?
39:07
Whereas like, you know where some places it's already
39:10
freezing cold by an hour, it's still hot.
39:11
Like you get the real autumn feel of the season change in
39:17
England. And we have so many green spaces
39:19
that like, you do really get so many like brown and golds.
39:23
And yeah, I totally get that. And she specifically lives in
39:25
Brighton I think, which is like best of both worlds in that it's
39:30
England and countryside and autumn vibes.
39:32
But you also do have the beach. So like an autumn little beach
39:34
walk. Cute.
39:36
I know what I would pick, and it's the same answer as I would
39:39
pick for any time anyone asks me what fictional world I want to
39:42
live in. And that is the Shire, because I
39:45
want to be with Sam eating potatoes second breakfast.
39:49
I bet they have the best cinnamon rolls there too.
39:51
Oh my. God I bet they have the best
39:53
cinnamon. Rolls and I wouldn't have to
39:55
have a fireplace on my TV because I'd have a real 1.
39:58
Oh yeah, OK, fair. I totally get.
40:00
Yeah, that's all decent. The only other place would be
40:03
Stars Hollow and Gilmore Girls, but you need to watch that to
40:05
find out why, OK? Fine, fine, fine.
40:08
I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch it.
40:09
So other than books and movies, what else do you love about
40:13
Autumn? I love all the things about
40:16
autumn, I love the clothes. Just all the things guys, I love
40:19
all. The things I yeah, I love the
40:22
clothes. I love the home decor.
40:24
Like I was instantly in September, I was like pulling
40:27
everything off off all of the accessories around my house,
40:30
like putting all the little orangey bits out.
40:33
And my pumpkins, I love so specific.
40:36
They're like the smell of the seasonal candles.
40:40
I love, like those pumpkin smells, those vanilla Chai
40:44
smells like oh, I just, if I could have them all year round
40:47
and it'd not be weird like I would.
40:49
I love them. So I actually sometimes do like
40:51
there's a candle that B&M specifically do, it's called
40:53
sugar doughnut and I have that all year round from that it's.
40:57
So delicious. There's 2Y smells, one that I
41:02
cannot get anywhere anymore and it was like called like sweet
41:04
almond cookie or something that I used to absolutely adore.
41:09
And there was another one that got last year that I haven't
41:11
found this year or they haven't specifically haunted for extra
41:14
the shop in town anymore, but they do.
41:16
They used to do a banana bread wax smell.
41:19
Oh my good God it was the best smelling thing I have ever
41:25
smelled. I feel like we're both obsessed
41:27
with banana bread things, and that leads me on to something
41:30
that is my current favorite thing about autumn fixation.
41:33
Yeah, which is the banana bread iced matcha latte from Blank St.
41:39
It's so good. It's honestly unreal, isn't it?
41:42
Yeah, it is. I had one the other day.
41:44
She I was outside Blank St. She was like told me about it.
41:47
I didn't know anything about it. It's so good and The thing is it
41:51
doesn't even really taste of matcha.
41:53
So like you're not really getting your matcha fixed
41:55
because the banana part is so overpowering, but it's so funny
41:58
I. Wonder if they put that syrup in
42:00
a coffee. Yeah, I don't know.
42:03
It would be nice though. They also do another one that I
42:05
need to try which is like apple butter but I feel like that
42:08
might not be as nice. I'm not really an Apple Gap.
42:10
Yeah, I'm a bit on you. Did make it at home though,
42:13
didn't you? I did and it was super easy.
42:15
I'll quickly tell you. I did just a normal match of
42:17
latte and then I blended half a banana in a blender with some
42:21
oat milk, nutmeg, cinnamon and then I frothed it and then
42:25
poured it on top like cold foam and it was delish.
42:28
Maybe we should do a little one. Yeah.
42:31
I've got all the things here we would need to have those TikTok
42:34
coming soon to a place near you. We're gonna make fun.
42:40
Yeah. Yeah.
42:43
And I just. Yeah, all just all the freaking
42:45
autumn things. I do especially love autumn
42:48
fashion. Yeah, and I have to say I have
42:51
made a very specific pact with myself this year that I am
42:55
wearing my autumn clothes because as Bronte knows, I am
42:59
terrible for living in my active wear.
43:01
Oh, school runs and stuff. It's just so easy for me to get
43:04
into leggings, trainers, like I'm going to be going out for a
43:06
walk in the day gym. So I do tend to just live in
43:10
active work, especially as I'm a homeworker.
43:12
I don't have to go into the office or anything.
43:13
But this year I've been very much like I need to wear my
43:17
clothes because I have so many really nice autumn pieces, so
43:21
many cute outfits. I love fashion but I just live
43:25
in my gym clothes. Yeah, I'm the same because like,
43:28
we're both homeworkers and I feel like you just don't get as
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much opportunity to make an effort with your physical
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appearance as you do when you're in the office.
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It's really hard to motivate yourself to do makeup in a cute
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outfit just to sit at home all day.
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But I'm the same. I love autumn fashion.
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I feel like it's when my colours come in as well, like
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burgundies, cranberries, rust black, like those are for a lot
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of the tones that I like to wear and really, really like dark
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green this year as well. So yeah.
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And then also just I love like big chunky boots and those come
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in and then, yeah, it's just like the perfect time for me.
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And I would rather be cold than hot.
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So I like that kind of element of the fashion as well.
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Yeah, love this for us. Yeah.
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So obviously we are already in autumn, but have you got
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anything that you want to do as like a bucket list autumn plan
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this year I. Do I do?
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And I feel like I'm having to really cram everything in
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because I literally leave the country on the 20th for two
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weeks. So the reality of me getting
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around to doing some of this is so unlikely.
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But I really wanted to have never.
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I keep seeing it on TikTok, those like, girly nights where
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they do like pumpkin painting. Yeah.
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It looks like so much fun. I really want to try and do
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that. But I guess you could do that in
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November. Do you know what?
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It doesn't need to be done this early out walking so much this
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year. So I'm just really looking
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forward to when it really starts to get very like orange and
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yellows and Reds outside to just go and having some like nice
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cold walk, like long walks in the words, like I'm all about
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that. Yeah.
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And the other thing I think I mentioned in our last episode, I
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really want to bake a bit more this year.
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Yeah, the kids are really at an age where they can really, like,
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help and love it now. So I really want to do some,
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like, good autumn baking this year.
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Banana breads, cinnamon rolls, like all those types of things.
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I keep seeing like these on Pinterest, these like pumpkin
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cream cheese frosted cookies. Yeah, that looks so good.
45:34
Yeah. So yeah, bit of baking as well
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as on my on my bucket list this autumn.
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Yeah, mine's similar to yours. I really want to do more.
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Not necessarily baking, but cooking.
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I want to try and find some like new autumn recipes and stuff.
45:48
I actually did start that already.
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I made a new soup the other day and it was actually really
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tasty. So I'm off to a good start with
45:53
that. And then other than that, I
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don't actually have any like specific things that I want
45:58
wanna do. But I did realize through the
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day that I've never been to a pumpkin patch.
46:03
I mean. I really wanna go to one but I
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have been to 1 and they are so much fun.
46:07
Yeah. And you've got a few near you.
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In there, there is so much. Fun Tullies.
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Yeah, I think so, yeah. So I was like, maybe I could
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convince my friend Ellie to go, but other than that, this is
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like, not autumn specific to probably anyone else.
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But for me, when I think of autumn and winter, I think of
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ice hockey season because last year a few of our mutual friends
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and I went to hockey quite regularly because it's like near
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where we all live. And we're gonna do that in
46:34
November this year. And I'm really, really excited
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for that. My God, nice.
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Yeah, I'd love this for you. I just associate now, like
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autumn with going into the arena, ice hockey coming out and
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it being all cold and I was like walking back together.
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It's just a nice little kind of tradition now.
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I love this. Do you know what one thing that
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we didn't touch on, but you just reminded me from your wanting to
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cook more? It's actually one of my favorite
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things about autumn is the food. Yeah, so basic and not for you
47:01
because you're veggie, but cottage pie, shepherd's pie,
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like casseroles with dumplings. I do make a mean veg Stew to
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beef. Well, I was going to.
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Say like my mom actually used to make vegetarian shepherd's pie
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and cottage pie with corn mince all the time and I do fucking
47:19
love it. It's just, it's just like that,
47:21
Like it's cold outside, it's warm, it's hearty like that,
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just like really like British winter food.
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It's just oh so good. And then Mashed potato on top.
47:31
Like I feel like Mashed potato in winter just elevates any
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meals. So true.
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And especially if there's loads of butter in it.
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Yeah. Oh God, I love potatoes.
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Now. I really do sound like Sam from
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Lord of the Rings. Amazing.
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Well, that was all of our all of our favorite autumn things.
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47:55
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