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Book Club: Murder Among the Stacks · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and smitha and all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you a prediction of iHeart radio.
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  Speaker 2: And we are starting this year's book club with a
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  Speaker 2: cozy novelty book. Okay I say it like that, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, it was a TikTok purchased andy. I
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  Speaker 2: saw it on TikTok, thought it was really cute, loved
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  Speaker 2: the idea, and I was like, I'm gonna get this
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  Speaker 2: as part of Annie's Christmas gift this year. And then
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  Speaker 2: as I went through and thought it through, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we should do it as a book club because
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  Speaker 2: in my head when I give you gifts, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the listeners know this, I like to
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  Speaker 2: theme it with very specific themes throughout the year. I
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  Speaker 2: know you do the same for me. But like and
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  Speaker 2: like this year, you have talked about how much you
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  Speaker 2: love like solving mist and I was like, this good,
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  Speaker 2: this is this is a cute thing to do, and
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  Speaker 2: so I thought, why not try this book out which
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  Speaker 2: is considered a cozy mystery. I didn't know that was
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  Speaker 2: a category. Mm hmmm, did you know this?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, But a listener wrote in after I said,
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  Speaker 1: is there such thing as like cozy murder mystery.
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  Speaker 2: And there is.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, yes, obviously, kind of like huge.
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  Speaker 2: It's apparently specifically this author that we're your featuring. So
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  Speaker 2: the first book. So first, the book is titled Murder
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  Speaker 2: among the Stacks, and it's written by Rosie a Point,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought maybe a pseudonym. She does write under
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  Speaker 2: a different person's name. I don't know which one's the pseudonym.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, because Rosie a Point seems very specific.
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  Speaker 2: But she has hundreds, apparently of different types of theme books.
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  Speaker 2: They usually, uh, it's something to do with adventure or food.
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  Speaker 2: She has a lot of food mysteries or bookstores. And
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  Speaker 2: she always involved a cat, I believe because she has
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  Speaker 2: a cute cat, so it was really cute. And this
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  Speaker 2: book is her first word search mystery book, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: because there are four, well three right now. So it
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  Speaker 2: is with the help of puzzle creator Charles Timmerman, so
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  Speaker 2: he does the actual word puzzle, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: not to say that he's not doing it an amazing job,
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  Speaker 2: but I did figure out when I was in college,
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  Speaker 2: so twenty years ago. You can put it into a
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  Speaker 2: website and create your own word searches.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you have done more word searches than I have,
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  Speaker 1: so you can say I am incorrect, But I feel
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  Speaker 1: like mister Timimran here used a lot of deployed a
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  Speaker 1: lot of techniques that threw me off, Like three diagonal
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  Speaker 1: words in a row, yeah, so I kind of might
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  Speaker 1: miss the one in the middle there.
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  Speaker 2: So they gave you at the beginning of the book
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  Speaker 2: strategies to use if you need to, and those were
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  Speaker 2: the similar strategies I used growing up, because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you have to use this in this combo. He did
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  Speaker 2: throw in a lot of tricks where he had like
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  Speaker 2: partial words in some of them. Yeah, because I used to.
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  Speaker 2: They used to do that, and I used to mess
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  Speaker 2: me up a lot because I would started out. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh, no, that's not the word. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: have to you have to be careful. But he did
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  Speaker 2: a good job, I will say so. Like this is
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  Speaker 2: also when I found out one of my friends was dyslexic,
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  Speaker 2: because she's amazing at word searches, and apparently that is
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  Speaker 2: like a superpower word searches if you're dyslexic. And I
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  Speaker 2: started wondering if I was, because I'm like, you, I
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  Speaker 2: can see the words like upside down better than I
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  Speaker 2: can straightforward, and I'm like, oh oh, that's okay. We
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  Speaker 2: all love them, uh huh yeah. So with this, she
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  Speaker 2: has again two others as a part of the series,
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  Speaker 2: with one more to be released in May of this year,
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  Speaker 2: and the new the third one she just released this month.
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  Speaker 2: So it's coming, it's coming along, and I believe they're
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  Speaker 2: all based on the based on this character, and Cranberry Creek,
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  Speaker 2: or at least Like is a Cranberry Creek series, which
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  Speaker 2: is the location of where this mystery is happening. So
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  Speaker 2: she is referred to as a cozy mystery writer. She
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  Speaker 2: actually referred first to herself as that as well as
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  Speaker 2: others classicfire her as that who loves bookstores and cats,
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  Speaker 2: which she includes in a lot of her writings. So
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  Speaker 2: this is from a Writer's Digest dot com. ROSIEA. Point
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  Speaker 2: is a USA Today best selling cozy mystery author of
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  Speaker 2: more than ninety novels and novella's set in fictional small
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  Speaker 2: towns across the United States. She loves writing about food,
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  Speaker 2: amateur sleuths, cats, and secrets. Her favorite books are ones
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  Speaker 2: you can snuggle up with under a cozy blanket. On
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  Speaker 2: a winter's day like today. Rosie lives in Cape Town,
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  Speaker 2: South Africa, with her son, husband, an adorable kitten, Shiva
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  Speaker 2: the Destroyer. I like that's as long. So in that
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  Speaker 2: same article, this is the elevator pitch for the current
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  Speaker 2: book are featuring, So this is what they write. Abby
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  Speaker 2: Jones's dream bookstore opening in Craneberry Creek turns deadly when
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  Speaker 2: a famous author is murdered, putting her new life at risk.
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  Speaker 2: In this interactive, cozy mystery, readers can follow Abby's clues
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  Speaker 2: and solve the who done it themselves through themed word
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  Speaker 2: search puzzles. So there you go. That'st the entirety of
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  Speaker 2: the book. It's very short, so you can do it
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  Speaker 2: pretty quickly. The reading, like the chapter is one page
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  Speaker 2: per chapter, and then you get one puzzle per chapter.
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  Speaker 2: So this half and half. So the longest part is
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  Speaker 2: doing the actual word search, which I love word searches.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I guess this was more for me than you.
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  Speaker 2: It was a combo. Any it was a combo.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was great. I do love You're right,
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  Speaker 1: I love solving mysteries. I thought it was very cute. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I come from we've talked about all the time. Come
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  Speaker 1: from a very small town. There is a very cute
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  Speaker 1: store in our town or there used to be called
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  Speaker 1: Cranberry Corners. So I kept thinking about that the whole
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  Speaker 1: time I was reading this, And they have a like
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  Speaker 1: map in the beginning of the book.
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  Speaker 2: Super cute. The illustrations are really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very fun, very fun.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So this includes a lot of word searches, which
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  Speaker 2: I again I think I've said at the beginning. I've
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  Speaker 2: said it before. I love word searches. Those were my
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  Speaker 2: like go to, like before I started doing the little
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  Speaker 2: coloring books, easy coloring books with the markers, and my
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  Speaker 2: favorite thing to do is get different color highlighters to
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  Speaker 2: find the words so I can make beautiful, colorful strikes
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  Speaker 2: through my puzzles. So I would alternate different colors each word.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, yeah, I love that, and but I can't
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  Speaker 2: do that much because most of the word puzzles I
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  Speaker 2: think this book may have been. I would have been
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  Speaker 2: able to do it, but I didn't because I used
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  Speaker 2: the pen. Well, no, that's not true. I tried to
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  Speaker 2: use the pen that you bought me for Christmas last year,
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  Speaker 2: and as I was taking it downstairs in between me
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  Speaker 2: come from upstairs to downstairs. I lost it. I don't
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where that pen is.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the multiverse, No, I just never see.
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  Speaker 2: I went hunting for it, but I used another fun
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  Speaker 2: like really thin, because I'm a lover of pens and markers,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't know, but a different pen. But I
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  Speaker 2: didn't do it this time round because I probably could have.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's thick enough. But most of the word searches,
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  Speaker 2: if you buy them at a grocery store, they're too thin,
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  Speaker 2: and so it bleeds through and it makes me very sad.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't. I can't do that. But I have
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  Speaker 2: to ask what this thought? What are your thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: word searches?
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  Speaker 1: Annie, Well, it's been a long time since I've done one,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually had to go find a pencil, and
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  Speaker 1: I realized I haven't used a pencil in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a long yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was thinking like you, and well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want it to bleed through. Hopefully I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: use an eraser, but if I do, fair So I
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  Speaker 1: had to go searching in my D and D E
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  Speaker 1: quick box for a pencil. But I actually am really glad.
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  Speaker 1: I found it because one of my favorite parts of
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  Speaker 1: it was I did find doing the word search like
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  Speaker 1: a nice break, like a good way to just kind
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  Speaker 1: of turn off my brain for a little second. And
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  Speaker 1: then I really liked the sound of the pencil crossing
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  Speaker 1: through the word when I found it. It was very satisfying.
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  Speaker 2: If you can do a straight line, the perfect circle
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  Speaker 2: like that is the trick. When you can, you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: and I figured out I can't do up and down
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  Speaker 2: very well. Up and down. It's really hard for me. Diagonal, Yes, across, yes,
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  Speaker 2: up and down not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, diagonal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm queen, I am so do you like we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about the fact that they do tell you kind
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  Speaker 2: of strategies. Do you have any strategies when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to ward searches.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so I usually do pretty much what they said.
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  Speaker 1: But if there's multiple words that start with A, for example,
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  Speaker 1: then I try to get every like A, then you
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  Speaker 1: or A and then T or so I'm looking for
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  Speaker 1: like three words at once. Yeah, and I go horizontal first,
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  Speaker 1: and then if I hate it when if I haven't
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  Speaker 1: found it by the end, then I go vertical, uh
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  Speaker 1: to check that way, and then if I still have
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  Speaker 1: not found it. Then I do the other thing they said,
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  Speaker 1: which is like does it have an X in it?
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  Speaker 1: Or does it have a It's very rare I have
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  Speaker 1: to resort to that. But sometimes, yes, it didn't happen
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  Speaker 1: to me. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes that's the key sept strategy. Double letters or letters
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  Speaker 2: that yeah, are like together, you're like that. You don't
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  Speaker 2: see Often my first ins need is to still look
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  Speaker 2: at the page and find all the obvious words like
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  Speaker 2: things said to jump out of it. Yeah, I gotta
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  Speaker 2: get all that done. That's our satisfactory. And then after that,
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  Speaker 2: if I have a hard word, I'll go to the
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  Speaker 2: next word, knowing that I'll probably find that one word
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  Speaker 2: trying to find the next word.
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  Speaker 1: Oh nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of one of those oh yeah yeah type
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  Speaker 2: of moments. So those are my strategies. And I think
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  Speaker 2: I already know this answer because the way you already answered.
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  Speaker 2: But are you a person who circles the words or
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  Speaker 2: do you strike through it or straight line?
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  Speaker 1: I circle? I thought I thought you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I actually thought you were a strike through.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I wanted to strike through, but I
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  Speaker 1: thought you're supposed to circle.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was the right way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: There's no right or wrong. There's no right or wrong.
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  Speaker 2: This is why I also like The High Ladder because
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  Speaker 2: it almost does both, Like you just envolve the entire
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  Speaker 2: word and you're like, yes, But I am a strike
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  Speaker 2: through person because circles, I am actually not good at those,
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm all over the place. I might have probably
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  Speaker 2: taken three words that doesn't make sense into one bubble
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  Speaker 2: and that just annoys me.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe my diagonal is not so bad.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe when it comes to the circle exactly, because
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  Speaker 2: then that's the difference. But I do it. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: strike through. Always happened? Oh boys will Wow?
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  Speaker 1: That sounds really intense and final.
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  Speaker 2: It does, and it takes this very serious life as
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  Speaker 2: you should. Who are you?
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  Speaker 1: Where did you come from?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to talk about kind of a summary
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  Speaker 2: of the book again. The concept of this book is
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  Speaker 2: super cute, and I actually try to do some research
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  Speaker 2: I don't to see if this was the first of
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  Speaker 2: its con like this, because this is honestly the first
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  Speaker 2: I've seen where it actually has storytelling within the word
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  Speaker 2: search and with the word search included. And again, you
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  Speaker 2: don't really I don't know why you wouldn't. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have to do the word searches except for one specific one,
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  Speaker 2: and the rest is just like kind of adds to it.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't necessarily give you clues about anything, but just
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  Speaker 2: adds to the story a little bit. But yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: can just read through it if you want to and
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  Speaker 2: go through there. I didn't see any of the books
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  Speaker 2: like that other than her own. But I did find
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  Speaker 2: a book that uses word search as a way to
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  Speaker 2: get clues. But I again, which isn't this book. You're
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  Speaker 2: not going to get the clues from most of these
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  Speaker 2: except for one until the end, like I said, But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think then those books there are narratives. I
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  Speaker 2: could be wrong. I could be wrong. I just saw
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  Speaker 2: one where it's like you unsolve the mystery or get
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  Speaker 2: these clues through these word search and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's interesting. Not the same thing to me. So it
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  Speaker 2: is a little different one of us kind that I saw.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see her talk much about the puzzle mystery
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  Speaker 2: part to it outside of like the cozy parts. She
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  Speaker 2: talks about how yes, she has to get quick to
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  Speaker 2: the point and make it interesting but short, and you
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  Speaker 2: get a lot without a lot of detail. But a
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  Speaker 2: little personality here and there, and which is probably a
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  Speaker 2: good thing in like having a series type of things.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'll say it like that again, easy read,
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  Speaker 2: very fast read. Teenagers kids probably would be fine reading
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: this book. I I don't know there's a rating syst
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  Speaker 2: It does mention murder obviously, no cursing, Yeah, no cursing,
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  Speaker 2: nothing gratuitous. No, okay, it's like, eh, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: like I do. So anyway, going on, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: do a quick summary without spoilers. I'm not doing the ending.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that would ruin the purpose of this
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  Speaker 2: puzzle book for you to participate in, so we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to do that. I'm just going to give you
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  Speaker 2: kind of a rundown of things that we know and
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  Speaker 2: then moving on. So we have Abby who has decided
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  Speaker 2: to come to this new town with her contankers Kat Reggie,
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  Speaker 2: to open a small bookstore. The town, Cranberry Creek, is
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  Speaker 2: not so welcoming of this newcomer, but she hopes that
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  Speaker 2: will change after the success of her first book signing
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  Speaker 2: with popular romance novelist Brooke Pines, who is a resident
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  Speaker 2: of that area. With the help of her friend Rose
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  Speaker 2: she is preparing for the day as Brooke and her
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  Speaker 2: assistant Haley, come to make sure everything is ready for
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  Speaker 2: the big day the next day, specifically with the list
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  Speaker 2: of demands for the author that has to be in place.
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  Speaker 2: So she's like, these are the things I require for
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  Speaker 2: me to be happy here, including scheduled coffee service and
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  Speaker 2: the bottled Nivian water, very specific As the big day
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  Speaker 2: is happening. During the chaos of it all and the
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  Speaker 2: constant complaining from the mamager Nessa her mom, the day
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  Speaker 2: is quite busy and as Abby hans Brooke her coffee
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  Speaker 2: and her mother hands her her special bottle of water,
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  Speaker 2: Brooke begins to choke and falls unconscious, and then she
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  Speaker 2: later dies. We figured out she dies pretty quickly. Brooke
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  Speaker 2: has been murdered and Minnis suspect that's poison, and we
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  Speaker 2: find Abby is the prime suspect. As Sheriff Swift seems
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  Speaker 2: to indicate he does not care. He does not care
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  Speaker 2: at all. It seems throughout the book it's like it's you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why it's you, but it's you. Again.
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  Speaker 2: Not a big fan of Outsiders. Thus begins the investigation
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  Speaker 2: for Abby to clear her own name, with the help
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  Speaker 2: of her only two friends, Rose, who is the baker
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  Speaker 2: who owns the bakery near that area who apparently has
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  Speaker 2: great muffins, and her landlord Marna with her three Dotson's
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  Speaker 2: Really we love the chaos she she is chaos apparently
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  Speaker 2: with the leashes, she narrows down the suspects. Who is
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  Speaker 2: Brook's mother, Nessa Brooks assistant Hayley, and her best friend Frank.
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  Speaker 2: So those are her like top three we know immediately
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  Speaker 2: who she suspects. Throughout her investigation. She also meets the
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  Speaker 2: handsome deputy Nathan. We just throw them in there just
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  Speaker 2: for good measure, to have romance obviously, who she's like, Oh, hey,
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  Speaker 2: how are you? He immediately asks her out, and her
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  Speaker 2: response is to run away, which I feel like is fair. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good response. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, she's she's had a bad breakup recently.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, that's why she moved in the first place. And
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  Speaker 2: he's like, immediately after meeting number one during a murder trial,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, what's up? She runs away. So during
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  Speaker 2: this time, we find out that the water the Nivion
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  Speaker 2: had been poison and at the same time, there's an
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  Speaker 2: internet anti fan named Last fall who's been criticizing all
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  Speaker 2: of Brooks books and that it revealed it to be
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  Speaker 2: a he nessa has been standing in the way of
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  Speaker 2: Hayley's writing career somehow, because you know, Haley says that,
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  Speaker 2: and the sheriff has not investigated at all, but still
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  Speaker 2: thinks Abby is the main suspect. The town has turned
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  Speaker 2: on her, including a brick being thrown in her poor bookstore,
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  Speaker 2: all the things, And of course nobody's investigating that because
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  Speaker 2: no one apparently cares who mhy not. Oh, and Brooke
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  Speaker 2: had written a tell all book which makes her mother
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  Speaker 2: look pretty pretty bad, real bad. So as we come
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the book, we as the reader
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  Speaker 2: help get to help solve the mystery within the word
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  Speaker 2: search puzzle. And yes, there is a happy ending and
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  Speaker 2: apparently more books to come. So that's how I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to leave it readers. So if you want to know,
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  Speaker 2: go purchase this book. You can find it everywhere on
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  Speaker 2: the sites. So, Annie, were you able to guess before
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  Speaker 2: the ending?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you were halp with this. Well, I want to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: ask a follow up question to you because I, due
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  Speaker 1: to time constraints at work, I only did half of
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  Speaker 1: the word searches and then the final one that you
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: have to do, and so there's kind of a I'm
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: curious if I was able to guess it, because if
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I was just reading the I was just reading the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: chapter and not doing the puzzle, it was much more
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: quickly where things becoming clear to me. But also that
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: was at the back half of the book, so there
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: was more information. So I don't know if the like
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: word searches kind of slow you down. And I'm not
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: sure did you do every puzzle I did?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I did do every puzzle For me, I am too
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: used to twisting turns, like big twists and turns and
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: making up things because I had a whole different scenario
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: and I really made up this entire or other scenario.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: And I remember looking a chapter thirty eight and saying, oh,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I know who in this I was wrong.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It's fifty chapters by the way, listen, yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So because I kept going back and forth, I'm
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: like this, no, that can't be right, all these things,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and then I'm like, okay, this is a simple, sweet book.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I think I overthought this.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I have to say, this is hard to talk about
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: without spoiling things.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But I was immediately comically, very tellingly suspicious of the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: handsome deputy. But I think that was my own issues.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Like what would men be here? Like that was when
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: he was introduced. I immediately was like, it's either him,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: but also Shareff. I was like, also, yeah, these two
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: are the worst.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we have. We had a lot more
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: like conspiracy theories going on.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Also men like apparently that's their whole narrative in this thing.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so I did the same thing again. Like
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I said, I guess wrong again, way too much conspiracy
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: in mind. I had too much time to think about this.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Very funny to me, I can't wait till you'll have
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to tell you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: But I was like, oh, this is okay, all right,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: my bad, I'm back now again. Love this cozy way
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: of doing a word search. I will definitely look into
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the other books as well. There are themes. Obviously, it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: trying to find a new life, like she up and left.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: We don't know much about her past. I wonder if
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: we're going to come back to that because it obviously
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: was so bad because the dude cheated on her with
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: three of his office coworkers, and I was like, oh
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: my god, how do you have time for that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just gives me a headache.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Right right, So immediately like that was okay, she needed
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to come through, and then being welcomed by Rose and
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Marna was very sweet. I love also the cat he
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: is also chaos. Reggiet is very upset about his dinner.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: She takes it for walks. That was my favorite part.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I know that's more and more common now,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: but I love that this has become a thing in
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: here because she took it for a walk while she
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: went to try to figure out what was going on.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Then she took it to the bakery.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Didn't she attack? Didn't Reggie attack Nessa? Reggie attacked somebody.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Reggie attacked a few people. We're not gonna lie. It
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: went after a few was not a fan of a
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: lot of things, and Nessa was not the nicest of
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: people and caused a lot of chaos in the town
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: as well. All of Vanessa and her daughter both had
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: pretty bad reputations in the town as being overly controlling
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and Karen's of the of the neighborhood or the community,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: but very rich because there was mentions of mansions involved
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: in here. Lots of mansions. We do again see a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: small romance possibly forming and against again the very handsome
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: deputy Nathan. Mm hmmm, kind of comes out of left field. Sure,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: why not, let's let's do that again. Mentions of great muffins.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because it's such a short book, a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: lot of these things do move very quickly. Yes, So
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: one of the things that I was struck by was
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: also rose like the friendship with Brose kind of came
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: up really quickly. I was like, oh, but I'm glad
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: there's great friendship. I'm very happy for it. But a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: lot of it does me very quickly. Yeah, And I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: know listeners have heard at least me talk about I
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: do love a good mystery. I do love solving puzzles.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I love the tropes of it. And so this was
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: also an interesting way to very quickly go through a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: lot of the tropes because you had your three main suspects, yep,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and they kind of each filled a certain trope, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: they would each come to her and be like, actually,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: this is the person you should be looking into because
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of this reason, and so that that was fun to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: see them in such quick succession of you caught me.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I did do that, but I didn't do this.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: It was her, but I was still her friend, but
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I still cared. Yeah, it was interesting because we do
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: have each one of them telling her they don't believe
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: she would murder Brook and then the sheriff was like, no, yeah,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: but you used to. I have no other reason to
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: believe it. But no one else believes it. But I do.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I know because I mean it kind of talked them.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, but then they each one of them said
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: he refused to listen or he refused to look into
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Every single one of them said this, which made me
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: a little suspicious. I was like, wait, But also he
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: gets to be the hero in the end too, I'm like, wait.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what Yeah. I also love that she kind of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: runs from the cops at one point. That was great.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I can't blame her, but are we sure?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Because I thought this is gonna be one of those
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: miscommunication where he's like, you're in danger type of thing,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: or tried to help her, but she's running away from
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: fear of I also love that she ends up banging
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: on the bakery at five am with her hand, like
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the way that the scripture is. I was like, you
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: know what, that desperation is real? Yeah, I get it. Yeah.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: There's a scene where Abby and Rose are at like
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: a nice dinner and then Nessa like crashed. Yeah, and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: it's like drenking champagne or something and ordering escarco.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Not lackling wine. That's what dare you.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: And I there was something very funny about that seemed
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to me just because you know, Nessa's been horrible to Addy,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to like everybody. But she's there saying I think they're
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: trying to kill me too, and here's why and I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: didn't do it. But just having like these three women
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: around the table and that kind of overbearing mom trope.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: But also she was so kind of comically unaware about
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: she was coming across.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Also talking about how delicious Nathan is. Deputy Nathan is
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: she can I'm like, that's I guess when we're driving
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: all the point.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: He looks good. Real you made your point, Cleary, Yes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: she's That's why she was like, Okay, maybe I will
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: date him. I don't know now that Nansa's told me
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: he's a catch.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: He's a catch apparently. Oh yes, this entire book it's
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: actually really cute. I really love the illustrations there. There's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: like pictures of the cat throughout the beginning has a
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: wonderful map of the town map of Cranberry Creek, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: then yeah, you get to see little tidbits of illustrations throughout.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: The cat is the main draw again, it's also the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: low key hero of the book. He kind of solves
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. I feel like the R two two Yeah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: maybe definitely, definitely, don't you say that? And then it
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: does have again, like I said, the end has all
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: of the answers if you do get stumped or need
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: some help or just an overlap and check. They circle everything,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: so they are circlers. Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I saw that when I was like flipping through the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: pages and circle. Yeah, the circle that's in the key
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in the back, yes, key.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: So like it's very cute. So the other books are
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: murdered by Muffin, which you can get it right now,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and apparently I was wrong the Murder before I Do,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: which is the third book I was talking about that's
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: released this month. It's not released yet. It's not gonna
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: be released till twenty seventh. So if you're listening when
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: this is released, which will be January twenty third, twenty
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: twenty six, then you're too early. You gotta wait till
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: the end of this month to get this book, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: then in March of twenty twenty six that will be
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Murder on Vacation. Oh yeah, yeah, it's so very cute.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Murder by Muffin maybe my favorite title though.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It's fun. It's alliterative. Yeah, it's so so. I mean,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this was a nice This is very cozy. It's a bookstore.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: It was like autumnal vibes. It's cats, this bakery. Uh,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: there's coffee.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah again. And she has so like the different series
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: that I see her. Have a very murder mystery, the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Beach Bay Mystery, which is, like the title is a
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: very flavored obituary. I love a good pun. I do
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a fudge flavored grudge.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Oh that's fun as well.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: And then a lime flavored crime we love.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of foods death by food. Anytime somebody,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you know, like mystery says I have a food allergy,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That's the death. Also just death by She has the
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Bees Bakery Mysteries, and it's death and donuts, death by
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: a cookie, dough, Devil's food cake and death and death
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Danish pastry and death like it's succinct nothing else. There's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: a book called The butter Cream Murder. Oh no, there's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: also a murder By Milkshake. So we got a lot.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of options. We've got burger mysteries. Okay,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: all right, she really does like food, you know what.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: And then there's a oh so I believe her other
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: names she publishes under as Allied Cat.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it though.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, so I feel like this is
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: really cute. I love that this is what she does.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I love the best of our genre because it does
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: feel very cozy to be able to do mysteries. You know,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: this kind of like very throwback old school touch grass
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: type of literature because you can kind of come back
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to the old school. The word search because they've been
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: around for a long while and they are really soothing,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Like I have stories. My aunt and I would race
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: each other trying to be each other's time and how
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: quickly we can solve word searches. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: this is what I did for a summer, for a
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: few summers.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I love how I do this too, But I love
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: how you took a relaxing activity and turned it into
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a race.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I think this is her way of trying to tire
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: me out, also to put me in my place and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: be like, you're not smarter than me, kid, I was
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: probably like ten. Anyway, I think this is really cute.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: This was kind of a break from or coming back
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: in easily with something fun and relaxing, with everything going
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to hell in a handbasket as it fills. I'm sure.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna have some amazing books this year.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have some great options. If you have any suggestions,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: you know we also love themes, please let us know.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: If you have anything like this that's kind of new
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: wish to us, please let us know because we love
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: finding novelty things like this.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely, and thank you for the gift, Samantha.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely thinking about getting one from my mom because
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: she also loves mysteries and more searches.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: At least well I guess they're not all out, but
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: at least get two of them.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she would really like it. So it
• 29:52
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• 29:57
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• 30:02
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• 30:08
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• 30:12
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• 30:15
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