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#710 The Book That Kylie Can't Put Down · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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  Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast. It's the podcast for the
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  Speaker 1: time poor parent who just wants answers.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's the right time for a book like that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's sat there for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know when it's the right time.
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  Speaker 3: I decided I see violence and some rawns in my life,
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  Speaker 3: it's the right time.
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  Speaker 1: And now here's the stars of our show, my mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, this is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder the Very
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  Speaker 3: Tired and Over Kids, founder of Happy Families dot com.
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  Speaker 3: I'm laughing, Kylie because of what happened this morning in
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  Speaker 3: the kids.
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  Speaker 4: Room with the Google clock.
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  Speaker 3: So at Christmas time, one of the kids got a clock, right,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a Google clock, which means that it's got
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  Speaker 3: a speaker in it and they can say, hey, Google,
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  Speaker 3: do whatever, and it does stuff. But we had a
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  Speaker 3: fifteen year old and a twelve year old that were
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  Speaker 3: mad at each other this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you say what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Because you were the one that actually walked into the
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  Speaker 3: room because I couldn't bring myself to do it.
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  Speaker 5: Google turn on the music, and then three seconds later,
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  Speaker 5: the fifteen year old Google turn the music off, over
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  Speaker 5: and over.
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  Speaker 2: Again, and so it would start and then it would
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  Speaker 2: stop every three seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, why just why? Anyway, today we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have a break from pairing on the podcast. Once
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  Speaker 3: a month we do book club. It's the third Thursday
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  Speaker 3: of every month. We talk about what we're reading. We
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  Speaker 3: give you a chance to There's something wonderful about books.
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  Speaker 3: They apparently they increase our empathy. They help us to
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  Speaker 3: see the world through other people's eyes.
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  Speaker 5: You know, well, it's not working because our girls read
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  Speaker 5: like you wouldn't believe.
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  Speaker 3: It's not working for me either, I've got to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: But they do at least give us a sense of escape.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's why our kids do read so much. Gives
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  Speaker 3: them a chance to get away from each other.
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  Speaker 5: Oh is that why you read?
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  Speaker 1: So?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I try, I really do try.
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  Speaker 3: So today it's the opportunity for us to, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: dive into the stuff that we're reading and share what's
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  Speaker 3: I guess up or what's not. And there's always a
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  Speaker 3: problem when we do book club because you missus happy
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  Speaker 3: families don't seem to understand what it means to talk
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  Speaker 3: about one book. You want to tell the whole world
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  Speaker 3: about all of the books that you've been reading. So
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  Speaker 3: what have you been reading? And what are we going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about? I will jump in after you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, a couple of years ago, my sister actually gave
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  Speaker 5: me the entire Outlander series to read. That's by That's
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  Speaker 5: by Diana gibbled gabbled on.
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  Speaker 3: If Diana Gabaldon is listening to this podcast, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I really hope she is, but I doubt it. I
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  Speaker 3: only know how to pronounce her name because I looked
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  Speaker 3: it up on the internet. I cheated, I did a
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  Speaker 3: quick cheat, and this is how it sounds.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Diana gabble going, gabble going, gabble going, gabble.
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  Speaker 3: Gabbled gabbledon gabledon. Anyway, go on now that we know.
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  Speaker 5: So it's been sitting in my cupboard for a couple
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  Speaker 5: of years, and I just they are big, chunky, heavy
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  Speaker 5: duty books.
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  Speaker 3: And the books the books launched the series that is
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  Speaker 3: on Netflix and a handful of other streaming platforms that,
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  Speaker 3: from what I understand, is very violent and a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of launchy as well.
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  Speaker 5: It is so with questionable themes. I have been just
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  Speaker 5: kind of waiting for the right time.
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  Speaker 2: What's the right time what's the right time for a
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  Speaker 2: book like that? I mean, it's sat there for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. How do you know when it's the
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  Speaker 2: right time.
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  Speaker 3: I decided violence and some launch in my life it's
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  Speaker 3: the right time.
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  Speaker 5: No, I decided that I was going to allow myself
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  Speaker 5: the luxury of reading a big book instead of trying
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  Speaker 5: to do one in two days.
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  Speaker 3: So these books have been in your wardrobe for, like
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  Speaker 3: you said, like two or three years.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how many? There's like seven of the year, is
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  Speaker 4: that right?
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  Speaker 3: I was a guest, Yes, and so you've been halfar.
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  Speaker 4: In are you?
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  Speaker 5: I've read the first one, right?
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  Speaker 3: And was it as provocative as the series is supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Really?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Definitely? So sensitive is the device? Might want to
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  Speaker 5: stay clear of it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? And what about sensitive souls? Because like it's violent, right,
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  Speaker 4: there's some.
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  Speaker 5: Horrible it is, But I don't think it's a justification.
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  Speaker 5: It's one thing to read something, it's another thing to
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  Speaker 5: watch it, right, And when we read things that are uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 5: we kind of gloss over them. It's really easy for
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  Speaker 5: us to gloss over them when we watch it. Outside
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  Speaker 5: of turning it off, you can't you can't actually get
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  Speaker 5: rid of that picture.
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  Speaker 4: It's like that you can't unsee this kind yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So you can kind of read something and you're
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  Speaker 5: aware that it's happening, but you don't allow your mind
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  Speaker 5: to dwell on it. You don't actually allow your mind
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  Speaker 5: to create the picture to go with that part of
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  Speaker 5: the story.
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  Speaker 3: I think I can relate. I remember years ago reading
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  Speaker 3: The Hunger Games and going it's pretty it's pretty full
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  Speaker 3: on from a themes perspective, but you're not actually watching
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  Speaker 3: people go out there and slay one another so that
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  Speaker 3: they can win this prize.
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  Speaker 4: Whereas watching the movie.
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  Speaker 3: I was really put off with The Hunger Games by
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  Speaker 3: the movies, was like, this is it's one thing to
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  Speaker 3: read it, it's another thing to watch it. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: such an assault on all of the senses.
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  Speaker 4: It changes. So I get that.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, you're reading Outland by gubbled On, how do
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  Speaker 3: you rat it?
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  Speaker 1: Look?
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  Speaker 5: I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's such a out of this
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  Speaker 5: world experience.
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  Speaker 3: You know, It's like it's historically accurate, right, It's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty historical kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's huge historical information in it, but obviously a
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  Speaker 5: lot of fiction.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So historical fiction.
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  Speaker 5: Flows through it, and so I'm fascinated by history in
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  Speaker 5: so many ways and appalled and just drawn in by
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  Speaker 5: the way life was and the choices and the justifications
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  Speaker 5: for choices that were made in a different era and time. Yea,
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  Speaker 5: So I really enjoyed it. It's going to take me
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  Speaker 5: probably the next six months to get around to reading
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  Speaker 5: the next.
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  Speaker 3: Book, so it's going to take you three more years
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a really dense read. It's a very dense read,
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  Speaker 5: very small print, and about six hundred pages, so it's
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  Speaker 5: a solid read. Should I read it, I actually think
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  Speaker 5: you'd really, you'd really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to stay thirty five books on my
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  Speaker 3: bookshelf right now, but I'll read it.
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  Speaker 5: Mentally challenging, right, Okay, So if you're open to kind
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  Speaker 5: of branching out and reading something that's going to challenge
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  Speaker 5: you in lots of areas, then I definitely suggest Outlanders
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  Speaker 5: a good book.
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  Speaker 4: What would you rate it out of five?
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  Speaker 5: Probably four?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Really? Okay, it's a good book. Okay, all right, cool,
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  Speaker 4: good book.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at your paperwork like you've got more to
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  Speaker 3: talk about. It's you don't get to talk about all
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  Speaker 3: the books that you've read. Okay, now you can't say
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  Speaker 3: that and then not talk about them, because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like you really want to What else have you got
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  Speaker 3: on the list?
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  Speaker 5: Well, at the beginning of the year, I decided to
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  Speaker 5: sign up to Beck Sparrow's book club.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, books for Beck and Jane.
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  Speaker 5: But father, father, I'm really enjoying discovering new reads and
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  Speaker 5: just I guess branching out. So I've started doing that.
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  Speaker 5: I actually missed the first.
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  Speaker 4: Book, right, did you read the book?
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  Speaker 5: I did read the book, and I was so excited
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  Speaker 5: to sit down because one of the great things that
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  Speaker 5: Beck and Jane do is they actually get the author on.
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  Speaker 5: Oh wow, so you get to have a night with
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  Speaker 5: the author discussing the book and the choices that they made,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, the storyline and stuff. So I was
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  Speaker 5: really looking forward to it because I actually this was
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  Speaker 5: this was a I'm going to say it quite a
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  Speaker 5: dark book.
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  Speaker 4: So what was it called? You haven't said it? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, It's called The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth. She she writes,
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  Speaker 5: actually writes beautifully and it was actually quite I would say,
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  Speaker 5: an intricate read from the point of view that there's
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  Speaker 5: four main characters, and each chapter is a different character.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of describing it's actually not They're not overlapping, it's
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  Speaker 5: not describing the same event. It's actually telling the story
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  Speaker 5: at different points in time by the different people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some novelists are so clever, aren't they?
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  Speaker 5: Like does my Head? And I don't know how you
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  Speaker 5: would actually write a book like that, but she's done
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  Speaker 5: a fantastic job of piecing everything together to the point
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  Speaker 5: where I obviously had to keep reading. It only took
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  Speaker 5: me a couple of days. Very very easy read. Like
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  Speaker 5: I said, definitely deals. There's suicide, domestic violence issues dealt with.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a dark book and I guess just challenging
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  Speaker 5: the mindset of what it means to love and what
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  Speaker 5: lengths you'll go to prove that love. But if again,
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  Speaker 5: if you're interested in kind of reading a book that's
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  Speaker 5: going to kind of stretch your reading capacity and being
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  Speaker 5: open to being challenged by what that looks like, then
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  Speaker 5: I would definitely recommend the.
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  Speaker 4: Soul Mate score of five.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go three point five.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any more on the list that you've
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  Speaker 3: read this year that you want to talk of?
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  Speaker 5: I have one that I'm halfway through at the moment,
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  Speaker 5: so we'll leave it for next month.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're off to a much slower start reading
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  Speaker 3: wise this year. Is it because of the kids fighting
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  Speaker 3: over the Google book and the music going on and off?
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  Speaker 4: Is that? No?
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  Speaker 5: It depends on the book matter. And the book that
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  Speaker 5: I'm reading at the moment that i'm halfway through is
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  Speaker 5: very dense and it's challenging me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it not to mention that Diana Gabaldon's book was
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  Speaker 3: that was the big the big read as well. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right, I'm going to share mine my books of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three thus far.
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  Speaker 5: It's the Happy Families podcast, the podcast for the time
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  Speaker 5: poor parent who just wants answers now. And if you've
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  Speaker 5: been waiting with baited breath to find out what Justin
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  Speaker 5: has been reading this month, he's about to tell us.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to get in trouble because you know
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  Speaker 3: how I gave you a hard time about having a
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  Speaker 3: long list and you only had two and a half
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  Speaker 3: books on the list. I have seven books on the list,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm going to go through them super fast, and
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  Speaker 3: maybe I won't do them all. We'll just see the
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  Speaker 3: first book I want to talk about. I finished early
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  Speaker 3: in the new year. I was reading it through December.
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  Speaker 3: Huge book by Jared Diamond called Guns, Germs, and Steel.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard from so many people that this book is
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  Speaker 3: the one that must be read to understand the world.
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  Speaker 3: It's basically a short history of the last sixteen thousand.
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  Speaker 5: Years that doesn't sound very rivitine.
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  Speaker 3: It's absolutely incredible. So he reviews the history of migration, development,
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  Speaker 3: language writing, domestication of food and animals, wore domination, and
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  Speaker 3: other forms of human progress since the last Ice age
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  Speaker 3: said I don't know how many thirteen thousand years ago
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it was, And the theories that he proposes
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  Speaker 3: are just so compelling, the writings engaging, the books illuminating.
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  Speaker 4: I loved it, except it was really.
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  Speaker 3: Long, like we're talking, I don't know, four hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty five hundred pages, pretty dense. Getting through the last
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  Speaker 3: few chapters was pretty challenging, and a lot of what
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  Speaker 3: was in those chapters felt superfluous to me as a
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three Westerner living the life that I live.
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  Speaker 3: But I can also see why he included them. I
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  Speaker 3: think by the time I got to page four hundred
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  Speaker 3: of the five hundred and fifty pages that it was,
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  Speaker 3: I felt like this story had been told and I'd
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  Speaker 3: had enough, and I was sort of drag kicking and
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  Speaker 3: screaming towards the end of the book. But I'm giving
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  Speaker 3: it four and a half out of five. Guns, Germs,
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  Speaker 3: and Steel. It's a compelling book. Who is Jared Diamond?
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  Speaker 3: And it's basically why, basically, why did the American Indians
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  Speaker 3: and the South Americans who were so populous, so like
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  Speaker 3: millions and millions of them living on the South American
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  Speaker 3: and the North American continent, Why did they not spread
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  Speaker 3: across the world and invade Europe and take over Europe?
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  Speaker 3: Why was it that the Europeans were the ones who
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  Speaker 3: dominated the world. And why did the Australian Aborigines not
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  Speaker 3: progress in terms of the tools and the social climate
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  Speaker 3: and cultural development? Why was it all so different? He
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  Speaker 3: talks about Papua New Guinea, he talks about Africa. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's a fascinating story and the evidence that he leans
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  Speaker 3: on I found just extraordinary.
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  Speaker 4: I loved the.
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  Speaker 3: Book next four point five out of five. Yeah, really
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  Speaker 3: really good book. I probably should make it five, but
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  Speaker 3: it was just too long, and that's why I've deducted
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  Speaker 3: half point. It was just too long, such a harsh credit.
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  Speaker 3: The next one that I want to talk about, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, I'm not going to talk about it. I
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  Speaker 3: gave it two and a half stars. It was based
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  Speaker 3: on I'll mention it quickly. Ali Hazelwood. She wrote a
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  Speaker 3: book called The Love Hypothesis that I talked about this
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  Speaker 3: time last year.
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  Speaker 4: It's a rom com sort of novel.
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  Speaker 5: This was exact spress science geek. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was exactly the same as the last book.
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  Speaker 3: This one was called Love on the Brain. I hated
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  Speaker 3: it because I'd already read it last year, except it
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  Speaker 3: was a different book. But it was the same book,
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  Speaker 3: and I just didn't enjoy it, so I gave it
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  Speaker 3: two and a half. I also read a book because
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  Speaker 3: I'm big on productivity and motivation and being awesome with life.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a brand new book that's making big waves
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  Speaker 3: in the sort of motivation world at the moment. It's
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  Speaker 3: called Get It Done by Ailet Fishback. Really really smart
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  Speaker 3: individual with some really great ideas. But the book was
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  Speaker 3: completely non compelling, one of the most uninteresting and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to say generally not even very original books on
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  Speaker 3: productivity and effectiveness that I've ever read.
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  Speaker 4: Just didn't love it.
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  Speaker 3: I gave it two and a half. Get it done.
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  Speaker 3: Should I just talk about the ones that I loved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: let's just do that, because I've got to wrap up.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at me like I'm talking too long? Am
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  Speaker 3: I boring you a little?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to mention a book that was written in
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  Speaker 3: eighteen sixty one that I read a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: It's on my bookshelf now because you loved it so.
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  Speaker 4: Much, so much.
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  Speaker 3: This is by George elliotts So George Elliott is a
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  Speaker 3: pseudonym for a female writer. But the book is called
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  Speaker 3: Silas Mahna.
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  Speaker 4: This book, I was.
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  Speaker 3: Actually unsure if I wanted to read it, don't even
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  Speaker 3: get it. So it sat up my bookshelf I reckon
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  Speaker 3: for about three years. I bought it years ago and
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  Speaker 3: I read a review somewhere when someone said, this is
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  Speaker 3: a brilliant nineteenth century book. Okay, written in eighteen sixty one.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to write it.
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  Speaker 5: It's written in like proper English. Oh yeah, yeah, totally
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  Speaker 5: so pride and prejudice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I guess so. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I've got to say my life is better because
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  Speaker 3: I read this book. It's a novel, and it tells
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  Speaker 3: the story of a setup and falsely accused weaver who
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  Speaker 3: leaves his town and becomes a recluse following this horrible incident.
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  Speaker 3: Silas Mana, I would say, is just sublimely written, and
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  Speaker 3: it's so intelligently written, and it's completely absorbing once you
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  Speaker 3: get over the language, because the eighteen sixty one language
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  Speaker 3: is a little bit tricky to get into.
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  Speaker 4: But the characters are well.
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  Speaker 3: Rounded and so beautifully thought through, and the time and
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  Speaker 3: the place fit.
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  Speaker 4: Together so well.
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  Speaker 3: And Elliott's understanding of the psychology of the characters in
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  Speaker 3: the story is so deep and so rich. I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: goosebumps talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know that I was grateful that the book
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  Speaker 5: is only very, very little, because every waking minute you
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  Speaker 5: had spare I would find you on the bed reading it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's beautiful, it really is. It's a compelling book.
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  Speaker 3: This weaver ends up with a child in the strangest
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  Speaker 3: of circumstances, and the child brings him out of being
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  Speaker 3: this horribly maligned reclose to being an integral part of
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  Speaker 3: the community. The lifeblood of the community, and it just
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was so beautiful. It's not really about parenting,
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  Speaker 3: and yet it's so much about who we are as
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  Speaker 3: people and children.
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  Speaker 4: I just love the book.
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  Speaker 3: I gave it one hundred percent, like five stars. Great book,
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  Speaker 3: Silus Mana, George Elliott.
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  Speaker 5: I know that you've got a whole lot.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you want to talk about talking about them, but.
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  Speaker 5: Considering you gave me such a hard time about the
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  Speaker 5: two books I talked about, Yep, we're going to call
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  Speaker 5: it quick.
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  Speaker 3: Can I just mentioned them? Freely Determined by Kennon Sheldon.
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  Speaker 3: I gave it four out of five and that all
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  Speaker 3: shall be Saved David Bentley hard I gave it one
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  Speaker 3: out of five and I only read one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty to two hundred pages, which is really weird because
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  Speaker 3: I always read everything. But George Elliott, Silus Marna, just
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  Speaker 3: read it and guns, germs and steel. If you want
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  Speaker 3: to really push yourself, great book.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm looking forward to seeing what you read next month.
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  Speaker 5: Reading because the pile next to your bed is not
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  Speaker 5: getting any smaller.
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  Speaker 3: No, I promise you it is. I promise you it
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  Speaker 3: is getting smaller. I am reading a book right now
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  Speaker 3: that I cannot cannot wait. I cannot wait to talk
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  Speaker 3: about next month in book club. This is I think
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  Speaker 3: going to be my book of the year.
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  Speaker 5: So good, okay.
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