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Our ULTIMATE spring faves 🌸🌱 | Books, movies, TV, and more! · Gorls Unplugged

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Hey guys, welcome back. Today's episode is all about the
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return of spring. The daffodils are coming out.
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They are. So excited.
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If you've been here a while, you might have seen that we did an
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episode last year all about autumn, our autumn favorites,
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autumn book recommendations, habits and things like that.
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And today we're basically going to do the same book for spring.
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So we're going to talk books, movies, TV shows, fashion, like
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all the things basically. But until we get into it, do not
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How are we feeling about the return of spring?
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Are we ready for the season to begin?
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Yeah, I mean, you know that I am a spring girlie to my court.
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I don't like to admit it because I feel like people think I'm a
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tammling girl. I'm not, but I do love spring.
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For me, it's like that time where I start to feel really
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like, reinvigorated and just feel some sunshine on my face.
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It makes me feel good. Although I love autumn, winter
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vibes, I don't actually love the reality of it.
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So like, this is my time that I start to thrive.
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I feel. So yeah, I'm happy for it.
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What about you? Yeah, I'm normally like the
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opposite to tour and I love autumn and winter so much.
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Specifically autumn especially because I love Halloween and
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Christmas like my favorite times of year.
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But this year I am so ready for spring and summer as well
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because I just feel like this winter has been so miserable in
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terms of like, I love the cold, but the rain and the.
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Green I was about to say like this is going to be so Brit of
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us to start talking about the weather, but we have had like
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the greyest. It's got to have been the
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greyest, wettest start of the year on record.
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I've never known this time of year be so wet and grey.
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It's been miserable. I actually saw like a news post
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the other day, this was about a week ago that until last week we
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hadn't had a single day in this country without rain.
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Isn't that mad? That is mental.
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So no wonder we are ready for the sunshine because we're
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getting seasonal affective disorder over here.
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Yeah, seasonal depression is starting to leave my body as
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we've seen some sunshine in the last week.
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So yeah, long may it continue. And with that in mind, spring
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reading, how do we feel about it?
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I know that for me, I don't really feel like, I feel like
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autumn has a specific set of like, cozy, kind of like Viber
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books that come with it. I feel like spring reading is
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kind of different for everybody. Yeah.
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So what books do you associate with spring?
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Not necessarily just books, but like genres and what what's been
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springy to you? Well, spring to me I think
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always means romance and I always tend to if I look at my
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Goodreads or story graph stats for the last few years between
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April and June. It's hilarious, I know.
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I love numbers. Guys, even though they hate me
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and I'm not very good at them, but yeah, if I look at my stats,
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April to June is always the I read the most like always
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without failing. Yeah, I both the last three
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years, my most read month has been April, May or June.
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And it would. Be like, that's the sun, like
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energizing. Yeah, like for sure.
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A new lease of life. Yeah, and I need it this year.
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Guys. I've only read 6 books so far,
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but I associate that time of year, I think very much with
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romance because they feel sunshiny, they feel light
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hearted, they feel easy to read and that's kind of what I
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associate spring with, just like happiness and joy and chilled
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out vibes. So I definitely look forward to
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some romances in this time of year.
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And one of the books that I actually associate most with
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spring is All Roads Lead here by Mariano Zapata, which I read
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like, I want to say like 4 years ago.
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And it's a if you don't know, it's a slow burn romance between
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a single dad and this woman who returns to her small town to do
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this like hike in memory of her mum.
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And it's just so cute and so sunshiny.
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And but then you have this grumpy single dad and it's the
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perfect slow bird. I need to.
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Read. This you really do.
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I've been talking. About I've never read any
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Marianas Pata and I've heard she's like the Queen of Slobel.
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She and I love torturous Slobel. It's actually torturous as well,
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like you will not get a kiss until you're like 400 pages in.
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And I think in particular, like me, your favorite would probably
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be Wall of Winnipeg and Me because it's a sports romance
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and he is like, so grumpy. And it's just, yeah, it's just
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great that one. I really like that one.
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And then the second book that I've got that I think more
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people definitely need to read. And I feel like it has a spring
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vibe in a way is a love song for Ricky Wild by Tia Williams.
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This is the author of Seven Days in June, which I know a lot of
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people have read that one and do love it.
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But this one I feel is a bit underrated.
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It's a romance that sort of has a historical element as well.
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If you've read Addie LaRue or June Farrow, it has a similar
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vibe. But specifically, it reminds me
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of spring because she's a florist and she, this whole
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premise is like her setting up this beautiful, like, florist's
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shop in New York, and she meets this old lady that lives above
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the building, and it's just got these sort of like, yeah, just
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the spring association with flowers, I guess.
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I mean, not very groundbreaking for flowers, for spring.
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It's like that Devil Wears. Pride, it is the just the
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natural what you associate with though, isn't it?
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So if it's got the vibe, it's got the vibe, I think.
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Yeah. And then I was thinking like,
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well, all of what I've associated with is romance, but
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what about other genres? And I was thinking like, is
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there any fantasy books that I feel like have more of a spring
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vibe? Because I feel like they tend to
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be more winter or autumn meaning and one I thought of.
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And Tor has read this, so I'm excited to see what she thinks
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is Twin Crowns. Yeah, I see what you mean.
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Yeah, because with it being YA, it's obviously not quite as like
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intense or serious as an adult book anyway.
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But then there is like half the world is quite hot and like
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sunshiny and there's a lot of like travelling and things.
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Book two goes a bit more like snowy, I would say.
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But yeah, so I think that's that's mine.
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OK, I do. I do agree.
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I think like I do read romance. I read a mix of those dramas all
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through the year. I wouldn't even say that I read
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loads of Cozy in the autumn even though I think I want.
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To Yeah. But I think I actually learn
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more towards fantasy at this time of the year, whether it's
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dark or not, because I like that like questing vibe, that
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adventurousness. It kind of makes me feel like
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I'm heading because I tend to hibernate so much in winter.
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I feel like there's books where they're like questing or there's
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trials. It feels a bit more like as
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you're heading into spring and summer, like there's adventure,
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like what's going to happen through the summer, like going
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to go on trip. Do you know what you mean?
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It just has that kind of excited like anticipation.
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Because now you're saying that I actually think Lord of the
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Rings. Yes, it's.
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So spring, and that's obviously a very similar thing of going on
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an adventure request and the Shire and everything.
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So yeah, I can definitely see that.
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And plus like when I've made a few videos before about books
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for Hozier, as in the singer fans, quite a lot of them seem
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to have like a spring feeling like a river enchanted, stuff
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like that. That's a bit whimsical almost.
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So yeah, I can definitely see that.
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So I wouldn't even give like, I mean, in terms of specific book
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recommendations, I can't even like think of loads off the top
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of my head. But like Star Side, which I was
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like, I'm not going to talk about that today because I feel
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like I'll start obsessing about it.
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But I just finished a book called Star Side by Alex Astor
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and the whole book she's on like a quest.
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The whole book is like travelling a journey.
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And that, to me, felt like a perfect spring.
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Yeah. Because it's just, and then the
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payoff at the end, you're like, yeah, this feels like it's never
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going to happen to you because Dragons in magical lands don't
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exist. But you kind of feel energized
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at the end because there's been such a build up, like with Lord
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of the Rings, such a build up of this long journey.
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And at the end, something quite like gratifying.
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And the payoff is so good. You're like, I can do shit this
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year. Do you know what I mean?
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It's kind of got that vibe to it.
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So when Star Side comes out, I highly recommend that people
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read that and I think other books like Metal Slinger.
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Yeah. Do you know that was when I was
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thinking of when I was looking through my Goodreads as well.
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Yeah, and bridge Kingdom books like that I think have good like
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spring fantasy kind of energy. For romance books, I would
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always lean to like the typical like cowboy romance because I
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always associate like sunshine with ranches and stuff.
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I feel like that always gives that like happy summer of spring
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vibe. Do you know what I mean?
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Yeah, definitely. I almost said Rebel Blue Ranch,
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but then I was like for me I could it's more specifically
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summer than spring, but definitely they are like the
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perfect things to read at this time of year.
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What about TBR? What is on your TBR for the rest
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of spring and summer? My TBR is not really TBR ING at
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the moment. I haven't really even been doing
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hopefuls. A plan like a star side was not
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even in my periphery. I was lucky enough to get sent a
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copy by balloons and just looked at it and I was like, I really
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want to read this. Yeah.
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And I'm definitely just in that vibe at the moment.
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As soon as I finish that, my thought process.
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I had other fancy books I thought I wanted to read over
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the next couple of months. And I was like, I don't want to
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pick up a fancy yet because I loved it so much.
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I was like, I feel like something isn't going to compare
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to that at the minute. So I've picked up a fluffy
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romance Lauren Asher Love arranged because I just found
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her so easy to read and I've picked up a dark stalk romance.
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I'm listening to an audio at the moment, so I just think I'm very
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much in a mood. Yeah.
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There's a couple of anticipated releases I'm really looking
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forward to. Obviously Fury Bound is coming
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out soon, which we're really excited for.
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In Her Own League by Liz Tom Fordy, really excited for that.
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So I think, yeah, I feel like the next couple of months is
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very much just going to be what do I fancy?
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And I'm going to pick it up, yeah.
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Mine's similar really. I was looking at my TBR and I
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was looking at my 26 for 2026 and there wasn't a lot that was
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calling spring. A lot of it was sort of like a
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5050 split of upcoming releases and then like wintery fantasies
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for me or darker books. And none of them were really
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calling my name for spring other than maybe Fury Bound.
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But one thing I desperately need to do and want to do, because
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it's definitely a spring vibe, is book 6 in the Sparrow Falls
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series, which is. Oh yeah, I forgot that that's.
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Coming out secret yes, it's out secret haven, so I'm going to do
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that and finish that series off especially because that book is
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the one that I was kind of waiting for the whole series
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it's the one it's the couple that you'll.
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I'm glad we've had a bit of a break from the series now as
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well because we both said, didn't we?
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They felt like they were getting a bit samey because we went so
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close together. Yeah, the plots and like the
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formulas are the same in every book and it's just the
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characters that change. So I'm excited to kind of finish
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that off, close it off and have it be the most anticipated
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couple. Similarly to what I recommended,
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I want to finish Burning Crowns, which is a book 3 in the I know
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it's book 3 in the Twin Crown series.
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Last year I read half of it and I just can't remember what
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happened. I don't know if I had an ARC to
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read or something else pulled me in, but I came away from it and
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I just never came back. That's that's terrible.
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Yeah, and I really want to do it and finish it because I did
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really love book 1 and 2 and it definitely has kind of a summary
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vibe in a way. And then I think my friends are
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going to kill me if this isn't the spring and summer that I
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finally read. 7 Year Slip. Oh my God how did I not even
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think of that for spring books. The seven-year slip actually
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gives perfect spring vibes. There you go, I need to read it.
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I haven't done it yet. I've had it on my TV off like 2
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1/2 years. So I've got, I don't even know
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for people on camera, I've actually got the most stunning
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special edition of seven-year Slip.
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Oh my. Goodness it's so so stunning.
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Honestly you have to read this. It's like one of my all time
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favorite romance. Everybody says that and I've
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never read any of her books. Like I haven't read dead
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romantics either or anything else that she's.
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Done. I haven't read anything else
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since, but I will because her writing was so fantastic.
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It's just not something I've been like, oh, I'm going to read
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that right now. I think because I know they have
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an element of like ghostiness and like almost like time travel
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and stuff, I've been put off them because that's not really
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something I love. However, I did love June Farrow
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and as I said, love song for Ricky Wild, which is kind of
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similar. So maybe that's changed and I am
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getting more into that side of kind of magic and whimsy now.
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But yeah, I need to read that. And then finally for me on my
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TBR is the two Hunger Games prequels, so Sunrise on the
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Reaping and the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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I don't know what it is. Even though they these have been
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so hyped and people love them and people cry them.
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I've had no urge to read them and I've I've got both of them
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in hardback until recently when I watched finally watched
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Songbird of Ballads, The Ballad of Songbirds.
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And snakes. These names get more more
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complicated honestly. I watched the film and I really
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enjoyed it and now I want to do the books and something about
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them feels like the right time of year, I think because like
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the actual games and trials are like often outside in the in the
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arena. I don't know.
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But yeah, that's mine I think. Love that I've never never read
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any of The Hunger Games books. I have no desire to.
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I feel like they're the type of thing that people still love now
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because they read them when they were younger.
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No, I don't think that's it. Like because they are, they're
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not like Twilight or Divergent where it's like poor writing.
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They're like phenomenally written.
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I can't say that word phenomenally.
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You know what I mean guys? They're so well written.
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I mean, they're like basically classed as modern classics now.
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I, I just think they are so powerful and obviously she wrote
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them inspired by real world events so they always feel quite
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timely as well. I it's hard to say if I think
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you would like them because I know dystopian is not one of
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your big genres. Anyway, although I have to say
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like, oh, I try not to give in to the top.
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We can't speak today. Today, guys, just forgive me,
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OK? It's been a week.
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I'm trying not to lean into the top hype, but I am very
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intrigued by this Daggermouth book that everyone's talking
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about. I've started that, have you?
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I've started it so I've outdated everyone.
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I saw so many people whose taste I love give this five stars, 6
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stars. And obviously we talked about
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the author in the Book Talk drama video because she was the
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one that had the argument with KM Moranova.
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Oh yeah. This was her SO.
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Oh, I didn't even make the name. Yes.
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So this was the book that she took a quote from, and then KM
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Moranova wasn't happy about it. But it's a dystopian book, so it
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makes sense, right? So anyway, that's kind of
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another reason I wanted to read it.
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Interesting. Yeah I'm not very far in, I'm
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literally like 2 chapters in but I will update.
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OK, interesting. Yeah, let me know.
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Keep me in the loop. Yeah, this is exciting because I
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feel like that's going to be because it's being re released,
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isn't it? So I feel like that's kind of
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becoming a highly anticipated for people to read over the next
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couple of months. Yeah, going to be tried
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published. There's actually lots coming out
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there's. So much I can't.
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Do when the moon hatched that soon, isn't it?
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Isn't that April? Yes, really soon.
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And I mean that will be a spring one I have to read, but more so
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because of the anticipation rather than it fit spring
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because I just need to know. I just need to know what.
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Happened. I think that's how I feel about
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Fury Bound. Yeah, that too, actually.
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When's the next metal Slinger out, light wielder?
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I want to say May as well, April or May, and that's going to be
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like an instant. Yeah, that's going to be an
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instant read. The cliffhanger on that is
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literally what makes the book Oh my God.
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That's so good. There's other ones as well.
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Like I know that you're not feeling too asked about reading
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it at the moment, but the newest L Kennedy is coming out.
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Yeah, because it's because it's a Graham and Logan Logan's.
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I'm just like, this is going to be so good.
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I know that the book's going to be full of bad chat text
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messages and I'm just, I'm all about the fucking nostalgia that
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it's going to give me. I probably will read that one
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because like you say, it's got. It's got the original characters
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in it, so I feel like it's going to be different.
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Yeah, I just need to get through Charlie method.
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I don't think you need to read that to do this though, OK.
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So maybe I'll just skip it. Yeah, Charlie method guy, she
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is. In she is in the Charlie method
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quite a bit I think, but I don't think it's relevant to this
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story at all. I guess it's a standalone.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, I guess it's like Briar you and off
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campus anyway, right where you can read any of the books and
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that makes sense. Yeah.
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Yeah, I'm gonna do that. Then everyone was giving Charlie
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Method low ratings guys so I've just given up on.
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I'm just so easily pleased in these situations.
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If it's fun and funny and spicy, like I'm happy because I
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especially typically love someone I'm going to read.
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But I do a lot of L Kennedys on audio so that I just feel like
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they've got that easy energy to them.
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Do you know what you mean? That it's just easy to have one
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while I'm cleaning or driving or whatever?
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So it's not an effort. There's no effort to it because
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I'm not sitting down reading it. I don't feel like I'm wasting my
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time. Yeah, they're definitely.
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It's not like reading a high fantasy, no.
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Okay, so we've obviously talked about books and what's on our
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TBR and books we'd recommend to you for spring, but what about
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movies and TV? Are there any specific things
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you like to watch in spring? A certain genre?
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Certain type of show or film or re watches?
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I know what I have, but I don't know with you not being so much
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of ATV and movie person how yours changes in that time of
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year. I feel like movies for me, it's
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just like it's never like it's a very rarely specifics apart from
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autumn. I'm like practical magic got to
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be watched movies. I don't really.
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It's just a it's ad hoc for me, like is there something cool
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coming out? Do I want to watch it?
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Does Kyle want to have a movie night and we pick something?
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So movie is not really a thing for me.
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Spring, to me is all about Maths Australia.
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Married at first sight. I still haven't watched that
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guys. Honestly I mean I only watched
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the Australian one but it is so entertaining.
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Me and my best friend normally put it on at the same time every
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evening. We text the whole way through
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every episode, it's the whole thing.
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So that is that scream spring for me and obviously it's the
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start of the F1 season, which is big for both of us and for a lot
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of book top girlies or also F1 girlies.
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Pause. Why don't we say here who we're
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calling as constructors champion and world champion and we can
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look back guys at the end of this year and we'll know who who
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was closest. OK, I am going to say
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constructors championship. Can't we do this after the first
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race? No.
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OK, OK, fine. I'm going to say constructors
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champions. I'm going to go.
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I'm just going to say McLaren. OK, And drivers champion.
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I want to go really rogue and say Kimi Antonelli.
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I can see that, you know, like. I feel like he was amazing last
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year. I feel like he could wow us.
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And his testing, I know it's only testing, but his testing
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scores so far this year, he was really high and.
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A lot of people, there's been a lot to talk about the Mercedes
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car for this season, so yeah. I am going to say constructors
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champion, I think it'll be Mercedes again because I think
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both of them are going to be really consistent and they've
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got this good engine and everything.
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Drivers champion. I was going to say George until
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recently because his testing was doing well again the Mercedes 8
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engine. Now I've got this weird feeling
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about Lewis, and I don't know if that's just delusion or if it's
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actual gut. Instinct.
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Delulu Hamilton, but OK, that's my predictions.
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Lewis and Mercedes. Maybe George Russell for
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champion, I don't know. OK, fine.
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This is going to be so interesting to look back on.
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Let us know as well. Comment below who you think's
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going to win, whether it's constructors or the actual
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championship. I want to know, I want to know.
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So yeah, I mean, apart from maths and F1 starting, I don't
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really feel like for me I've got a lot of because TV movies just
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isn't my thing. Yeah, yeah.
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I feel like I have things that I would recommend to you guys that
21:57
I associate with Spring. So for TV I've got my little
22:00
list because there was so much on here I had to write it down.
22:03
TV Grace and Frankie is the ultimate TV show for spring.
22:07
I actually think you would love that TV show someone.
22:09
Said that to me recently. Is this about the wives who at
22:12
the beginning their husbands basically tell them that they're
22:16
they're gay together, they're all friends and Oh my God.
22:19
Their husbands have been having like a 30 year affair behind
22:23
their back. And so at like 80 years old,
22:25
they have to get divorced. And then these two women who
22:28
have not been friends previously and now only have each other,
22:33
who understands this situation and all of their families are
22:37
involved. And it's like a kind of comedy.
22:39
But the reason I think you specifically would like it
22:41
because I think the friendship that develops between the two
22:43
women feels quite relatable. OK, one's like really type B and
22:48
hippie ish and spiritual. The other one's really type A
22:50
and I. Sounds like me and Amy.
22:53
Yeah, so I think that one is the ultimate spring watch.
22:56
It's sat on a beach, like it's just perfect and it's so easy
22:59
watch. The next one is something I love
23:02
to rewatch and I've just done a rewatch and that's Girls and
23:06
that's the Lena Dunham show that was like, I think it's like 2014
23:10
to 2017 kind of time. And it's just like, it's almost
23:14
like a modern Sex in the City because it's about these 4
23:17
millennial women that are friends, but they're all like
23:20
horrendous like but like in the funniest way.
23:25
So there's like 1 scene that I'll never forget where one of
23:28
the girls and she's like this white kind of art gallery, like
23:32
very put together, very chic. And she gets up at this party
23:36
and she does a very serious cover of Kanye West.
23:41
And it's like, you know, when you're watching something,
23:44
you're cringing for the person. Oh.
23:46
My. God, it's just the funniest show
23:48
ever. So I love a light rewatch of
23:51
that because it's comedy. And then also, I don't know why
23:54
I associate this with a spring rewatch, but this is one of my
23:57
favourites to binge watch. And I actually don't know if
23:59
you've ever seen this or if you're a fan, and that's Gossip
24:01
Girl. Oh yeah, I, well, I say like I
24:04
used to love Gossip Girl, but it's not the type of show that I
24:09
think I would ever rewatch. I have rewatched it so many
24:12
times like. This.
24:13
This. I've just started to rewatch
24:15
last week and it must be at least my 7th or 8th.
24:18
Oh my God. I love it.
24:21
I don't know what it is and I don't know why I associate it
24:23
with spring because actually quite a lot of the episodes are
24:25
like New Year's parties, Christmas parties, Halloween
24:28
parties, like things like that. But I think again, just because
24:30
it's that light hearted romance, nothing too serious or intense.
24:35
So those are the three for me that are TV and then movies.
24:40
I feel like it all comes down to again, romance and like
24:43
nostalgic re watches and kind of kids films and things like that
24:47
because it's again just happy and easy watch.
24:51
My ultimate ultimate ultimate spring movie comfort watch is
24:55
Pride and Prejudice, but the Keira Knightley.
24:59
Yeah, that one. And how can that just not be
25:02
spring? Like it's literally set where
25:04
I'm from in Derbyshire. I'm part of it anyway.
25:08
Part of it's at Caddleston, Chatsworth House, sorry.
25:11
And then there's like that rain scene in the green, and it's
25:15
just so. Yeah.
25:16
It's just so. Spring Springy.
25:19
Yeah, and I cry at the ending every single time.
25:22
And then Mermaids with Cher, if you've ever seen that, Oh my
25:27
gosh. Oh my God.
25:27
OK, Mermaids has got Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina
25:30
Ritchie when she was tiny. And it's about a single mom with
25:33
these two girls and they move town every time the mom has a
25:38
relationship that breaks down. And it's it's kind of practical
25:42
magic vibes in in a sense of like the dysfunction of the
25:45
family, but also like how much they love each other.
25:48
Very cozy, easy watch, like comforting, quite funny.
25:53
Love Cher and then finally my all time favorite ROM com
25:57
Clueless again just like the perfect.
25:59
I can see that that gives her spring vibes.
26:02
Yeah, because a lot of it's like outside as well.
26:04
And then you have the scene with her shopping and then there's
26:08
the flowery like wedding bit at the end.
26:11
And yeah, it's just very perfect for that time of year, I think.
26:14
I just, I have to say, I just watched the other day, people we
26:19
meet on vacation. And I would say for like a new
26:22
ROM com to watch that would be perfect because it kind of it's
26:27
very like summary, but it kind of gives that nice like summer,
26:32
spring kind of energy. And I loved it.
26:35
It was like cheese on fucking toast.
26:37
And I was all about it. Yeah.
26:39
And we've just had the casting for her new one, which is going
26:43
to be beach read, so it's going to.
26:45
Be actress. I didn't thought to check it out
26:46
because I didn't wasn't 100% from the picture.
26:48
Is that Daphne from season 1 of Bridgeton?
26:51
Oh yes, fine. So I think her name's Phoebe
26:53
Denver, and so she's Daphne in Bridgeton season 1, and she's
26:57
going to be playing January in Beach Read.
26:59
We don't have Gus yet, though. I mean.
27:01
Speaking of spring, Bridgeton gives such.
27:04
It's really got that like spring energy.
27:07
I almost just put that down, the drop of the second part of
27:10
Season 4. Yeah, I almost put that down,
27:13
but then I thought, is that just too obvious for me to say that
27:15
everyone's seen it, surely? But it is.
27:17
There's still people out there that have never watched it.
27:19
Imagine being one of those people and discovering it and
27:22
watching it from being able to binge watch four whole seasons
27:25
of it. 5 if you include Queen Charlotte.
27:27
It's so good. I want to know everyone's
27:30
favorite season of that because we have conflicting.
27:33
My favorite season is season 1, yours is 2.
27:35
Right, Season 2, Yeah, Season 4 is going to be a strong contend.
27:38
I was just about to say though, season 4 I'm really enjoying so.
27:41
Far, it's so good. The acting.
27:44
I'm not someone that really like, I don't even think about
27:47
the fact that people are actors like some of like our group of
27:50
friends, yeah. But in this one, I'm like, wow,
27:52
this actress is fucking phenomenal.
27:55
She's Sophie is amazing. She's so good.
27:59
Yeah, I'm really excited to see how this one ends.
28:02
So moving on from all things entertainment, books and TV,
28:08
spring in general, because I think it's got a lot of nice
28:11
things about it other than what we're reading and watching.
28:14
In fact, I prefer the other things I've all reading and
28:17
watching. And I don't know about you, but
28:19
for me, I feel like spring is actually more of a time where
28:24
although I always make New Year's resolute, not New Year's
28:27
resolutions, but like goals at the beginning of the year,
28:29
Spring is actually when I think I start to feel a lot more
28:32
energized in the, and a lot of like Chinese New Year is more
28:35
like heading into spring. A lot of people actually see it
28:37
as like, like a rebirth of our environment when people are kind
28:40
of, you know, what are some of just like your normal favorite
28:44
things about spring? Again, I love the return of like
28:48
all the nature. Obviously we've talked about the
28:51
daffodils coming through, but just generally like animals
28:54
start to come out more as well. You hear the bird song in the
28:56
morning, the sunshine and like just the natural environment
29:01
feels a lot more alive than winter and autumn, which
29:06
obviously makes sense because all the leaves go and everything
29:08
in those months. But one of my favorite things
29:11
specifically about this time of year is also the fact that I
29:14
feel way more energized and motivated.
29:17
And to me it definitely feels like, right, we are in a new
29:20
year now. I can start to do things and
29:25
like I kind of get into better habits and routine I would say
29:29
at this time of year. I feel like it's easier to kind
29:31
of put that I don't like the word motivation because I feel
29:34
like it's not, it's not helpful. Motivation only gets you so far.
29:39
But I do think it's it's this time of year creates an
29:43
environment where it's easier for you to remain consistent
29:46
with healthier habits. Do you know what I mean?
29:48
And what are the habits that you like to do during spring?
29:52
I feel like. Or like how your habits change,
29:56
I suppose. I think like what we just said,
29:59
I just think it helps. So for me, one of my favorite
30:01
things about spring is that the lighter mornings, I know that a
30:06
lot of people struggle in the winter with dark evenings, but
30:08
for me, the dark mornings are much, much harder.
30:12
I'm a real morning person. I quite like getting up at 5:00
30:16
in the morning. Literally my worst nightmare.
30:19
But especially this year, for whatever reason, the dark
30:22
mornings have really, really impacted me at the beginning of
30:25
this year. So for me, it's just that waking
30:28
up with the sunshine in the morning, like you say, the birds
30:31
are chirping. I feel just naturally happier.
30:34
And it makes it easier for me to like, right, I'm going to get up
30:36
and exercise today, the sunshine or it's a bit brighter, it's
30:39
that little bit warmer. So it helps me be like
30:41
lunchtime. I'm going to go out and get my
30:43
steps in because I want to enjoy the sun on my face.
30:47
So I don't think it's new habits that I create.
30:49
I just think that that more alive environment makes me more
30:53
inclined to stick to healthier habits.
30:56
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, mine's similar.
30:59
I it is almost a new habit for me because I completely stopped
31:02
doing it in winter, which is lunchtime walks.
31:06
And they're so much more enjoyable in spring.
31:09
And I live by a river as well, so I can kind of walk up the
31:13
river. And yeah.
31:15
And you have the sound of the the water and everything and the
31:19
sun just blaring down on you. And it's just, it just makes
31:22
such a difference, particularly in breaking up the work day as
31:25
well, which then makes you focus better or just be better at your
31:29
job and just in general, like getting outside more.
31:32
So not just for lunchtime walks, but even when I have plans with
31:37
friends and stuff at the weekend, I'm much more likely to
31:40
want to do something outside and to like get those steps and
31:43
exercise in. And a lot like particularly one
31:46
of my best friends, Ellie, we love to do like weekends where
31:50
we kind of go round all different coffee shops in London
31:53
and like get a matcha and go for a walk and then go in book shops
31:56
and clothes shops. And it's so much easier to do
31:59
that when you're not having to like, take off your jacket every
32:01
time you step in front in step inside a store.
32:04
And then wet like wet bottom of your trousers.
32:07
Or like you've got to wear your big like Doc Martin boots rather
32:11
than just like a nice little trainer or sandal.
32:13
Do you know what I mean? Like, it's just so much easier.
32:15
Everything feels more practical in these times of year.
32:19
Yeah, I also love this Will anyone that's been following
32:23
along either our journey or me on social as well.
32:26
I'm so severely type A and I with some severe type B
32:32
tendencies as well, though. But I for me like the spring
32:35
clean. There is nothing better than
32:37
like pulling everything out, like super satisfying.
32:40
I'm not looking at my garden right now, which you guys can't
32:43
see. Like the thought of being able
32:45
to like brush up all the like shit that's dropped off the
32:47
trees through the winter and just like that energy of spring.
32:52
I bloody love a good spring clean.
32:55
It makes me so happy and do. You know, one thing that I think
32:58
is really underrated as well is just actually like buying
33:01
flowers to have in your house because they all come in season
33:04
again. Like I've got some tulips at the
33:06
moment and it just makes such a difference that you walk into
33:09
the room, you see this. Gorgeous like bouquet of
33:11
flowers, vibrant some colour. Some colour, some just.
33:14
Yeah, I think they make such a difference.
33:16
I have to say, moving on to thinking about clothes for a
33:20
second and spring style for a very like neutral like beige and
33:26
black girly. I am actually very excited about
33:28
how colourful wearing clothing is looking this year.
33:32
Hence red T-shirt for me is very young character, but all these
33:36
like I wouldn't do it in my house because my house has to
33:40
feel neutral for me to feel calm.
33:41
So what he was doing in the houses right now I think is a
33:44
little bit wild I have to say. But they're like really
33:48
colourful, bold clothing that I'm seeing kind of coming in for
33:51
this year has me quite excited. I don't know how much of it I'm
33:54
actually going to wear, but I'm really enjoying the visuals of
33:58
it at the moment. I actually have that on my list
34:00
as well. Yeah.
34:01
Which is so funny because neither of us are very colourful
34:04
people, but in completely different ways.
34:06
Taught, like she says, obviously loves neutrals.
34:08
I'm very monochromatic. I tend to just wear a lot of
34:11
black, a bit of white, maybe some burgundy if I'm feeling out
34:15
there, dark green. But this year, I really, I mean,
34:19
in general, I would say actually spring and summer is the time of
34:22
year when I do tend to wear more colour.
34:24
Like I've got a few like summary dresses and things, yeah.
34:27
You probably wear more colour than I do.
34:28
In. Yeah, actually probably.
34:31
And this year I'm really excited for it.
34:33
Like there's so much nice green shades and like corals and stuff
34:37
and yeah, I'm really excited for.
34:38
That for me, it's like the stripes, like I've got a pair of
34:40
trousers I was actually thinking of wearing for this episode
34:42
today, which is why I bought this T-shirt, funnily enough.
34:45
But it was a bit too much red. But it's like very bold pink and
34:49
red stripe like wide leg trousers.
34:52
And there's such a vibe, which is absolutely not something I
34:55
ever wear. Never thought I would hear you
34:57
say pink and red. Stripe, but they're just.
35:00
They're such that's your vibe and I'm really loving the
35:02
stripes at the minute. Funnily enough, I've just
35:05
brought two things that are stripey.
35:06
One you've probably seen because I've got it on in a TikTok video
35:10
quite a lot, and it's this long sleeve like flared stripe, dark
35:14
green and grey stripey top. But then I've also just brought
35:18
this long sleeve, but like slightly oversize and baggy pink
35:22
and like a dark brownie burgundy stripe.
35:25
Nice. And it's because my friend
35:26
Sarah, Sarah was wearing it last time I saw her last weekend.
35:32
And I was like, I need that. And it's so funny because we
35:35
always get called twins. And now I'm literally like
35:36
purposely buying something She's.
35:39
Wearing so I just got Zola the other day in next.
35:43
We bought her these like she got loads of birthday money.
35:46
This is my daughter for reference people she's 6.
35:49
We took her out shopping with her birthday money and got us
35:53
some new clothes and she got these trousers in next.
35:56
They're like like a pinky ready, kind of like check barrel leg,
36:00
like thin material. They're giving very like cool,
36:04
cute, like spring summer vibes. And they've got little like
36:07
picture like colourful pictures on that kind of dotted around.
36:10
And I looked on the website and they're coming age 16.
36:13
So I'm going to buy a pair and see if they fit.
36:16
That is so funny. So we could have little matching
36:18
trousers because they're actually, they might look a
36:21
little bit young, but they that's such a vibe.
36:23
You might probably make them look cool.
36:26
Yeah. Honestly, yeah, there's just,
36:29
and there is some really nice stuff at the minute everywhere.
36:32
Like I just done a £300 shopping order but half of it will
36:36
probably go back knowing me. So another thing I noticed about
36:40
spring and Summit is that for me, I tend to dress more
36:42
feminine as well. So like in winter and autumn,
36:46
I'm very much kind of like a little bit tomboyish.
36:50
I would say even though I love fashion and I love makeup and
36:52
glam and stuff, I do lean a bit more tomboyish.
36:54
I love trainers, baggy silhouettes, like things like
36:58
that. But in summer and spring I go a
37:00
bit more almost like a bit whimsical.
37:04
Like I love, yeah, I love a MIDI dress and like something that
37:08
looks a bit fantasy ish. Do you know what I mean?
37:10
And like or. Like a ruffle or a puffle, even
37:12
when you go even with your like, I'm thinking of your like black.
37:14
Dress. Yeah, I know the one you think?
37:16
Yeah, I love something that feels a bit boho almost.
37:20
I don't know if any of you follow the Tik Toker or
37:22
Instagrammer. I think her name's Bethany
37:25
Centineo, and she's this mom of four, but she's got this like
37:29
gorgeous long WAVY hair and she wears all these like very boho
37:34
outfits. And she always does videos like
37:36
inspired by Arwin from Lord of the Rings and that stuff like
37:38
that. I look.
37:39
So ridiculous in that kind of stuff.
37:41
And I really tried it because I would love to be able to.
37:44
I think it's just a mix of like my shape, I'm very even even
37:48
when I'm smaller. Like, I'm very curvy and I'm
37:52
very short, so it just looks stupid on me.
37:55
I feel like it's it probably doesn't look stupid.
37:58
I think that's a bit of an exaggeration and you're being
37:59
hard on yourself. But I know what you mean because
38:02
even when I was curvier than I am now, it was harder than it is
38:07
when I'm slim. Yeah, it's just, I think it's
38:11
overall like my general shape and height.
38:16
Don't go with that type of, especially longer ones.
38:22
Yeah, because they can look like a bit like frumpy or you.
38:25
Can drown a kid wearing your mum's clothes?
38:27
Yeah, yeah, No, I do get that. I am quite a bit taller than
38:32
tall, so I can sort of get away with that side of it.
38:35
But when I was curvier, I did find it harder on like creating
38:39
a silhouette that made me still look like I had a waist and
38:41
stuff. But I've lost a bit of weight
38:44
now, guys. Whole different topic entirely.
38:49
Interbronty's live traumas. Yeah, Another thing that I had
38:55
down was that I love trends as well in general.
39:00
So with each season, whether it be spring or summer or winter or
39:04
whatever, I do like to kind of experiment with new trends.
39:07
And I'm a very trend LED person, which means I'm always like
39:10
changing my wardrobe and I have like someone that I'm obsessed
39:14
with at the minute. I don't know if any of you guys
39:15
follow her. She's an influencer on Tiktok.
39:17
I think you pronounce her name like Salome Salome Andrea and
39:21
she is this. What do I feel like?
39:23
I recognize that. She's she's got black hair,
39:25
she's fair and she's got these twin daughters and they always
39:29
do like outfit videos together and they're really foot like
39:32
cool and she's got. I need to follow this lady.
39:36
Yeah, she's got the most perfect style, like her style is.
39:39
American or. American, but I think.
39:42
If she gets matched, there's just matching outfits with her
39:44
kids. Sort of.
39:46
Sort of like hate. When they're American, I'm like,
39:48
I can't get these clothes. Yeah, I know.
39:50
And but like, yeah, she's just so cool.
39:52
Like she's so cool. So I'm taking a lot of
39:55
inspiration from her wardrobe, right?
39:57
Now, I think then Brunty thinks that she's cool.
39:59
Yeah, she's really cool, guys. I do.
40:02
I know what you mean though about the trends.
40:04
I feel like I am very much like that.
40:07
I see things and I'm like, I want to try that most of the
40:10
time try and think this doesn't look very good on me.
40:13
But this year especially, I think I'm trying to, I'm trying
40:18
to be a lot more conscious this year about fast fashion.
40:21
Yeah. So I am trying to be a bit more
40:24
selective this year in terms of, and I'm being much more
40:27
financially minded this year, as you will have seen probably from
40:31
our New Year's goals episode. So I think that I'm trying to be
40:38
much more buy something for multiple outfits and a season
40:44
rather than buying everything for a reason.
40:46
Do you know what you mean? Buying it for a specific outfit?
40:49
I want everything to be like how many times can I wear this and
40:53
how many different ways can I wear it instead of just buy
40:57
every time I'm going out to do something.
40:59
Yeah, I should do that, but I don't and I've tried before and
41:04
I think my way around this is that I'm trying to re like sell
41:10
onwards on vintage and stuff more and also buy more from
41:14
vintage which I'm like semi successful that at the minute.
41:19
But I think any effort is progression there, and that's
41:22
important to remind yourself of. Yeah.
41:24
And I think, like, I don't know if anyone relates to this at
41:26
home, but it's difficult when you're a woman, right?
41:28
And your weight changes so often, like even just in a month
41:32
from period to luteal phase to normal, like, my weight can
41:36
change by like, over half a stone.
41:38
Yeah. Which means I need so many
41:40
different shapes of clothing, sizes of clothing.
41:43
So I completely agree. Even that in itself is annoying.
41:46
Which is why why I live in activewear, because I can wear
41:48
the same 7 pairs of leggings every single week and it's not.
41:51
A problem? Yeah, exactly.
41:53
But then, like last year, I was starting to feel a bit like, oh
41:56
God, like I just always am in the same thing.
41:58
I don't make an effort anymore. And then earlier this year, for
42:01
like a few weeks, I was going on dates and I was dressing
42:04
obviously nice for them. And I was like, Oh my God, I
42:06
love dressing nice again. It makes a difference, doesn't
42:09
it? Even when I went into the office
42:11
recently, which I don't do very often, I was like, oh, it's so
42:13
nice to be in like a put together kind of powerful woman.
42:18
Yeah. Do you know what I mean?
42:19
Like I was like, it does change your vibe.
42:22
Even when I get dressed for the podcast, I'm like, oh, this is
42:24
this is a nice change of faith. Yeah.
42:27
It just gives you like an inner confidence that you don't really
42:30
get with practical and comfort clothes.
42:33
And obviously you get other things out of wearing them.
42:35
But the sort of feeling good about yourself comes from, I
42:38
think, dressing in nice or things that you feel really
42:42
special or different in. Yeah, I agree.
42:45
I mean, we've ended up talking about clothes longer than I
42:47
thought we were going. To talk about clothes longer
42:48
than this, but. Not really that surprising
42:50
because we do we both for two people that are like fairly like
42:55
plain Jane sometimes we fucking love clothes and fashion and
42:59
accessories and all things like girly.
43:01
So it's not really actually a surprise.
43:03
It's not a surprise if you follow us on TikTok as well
43:05
because we even do content about it sometimes.
43:10
Spring food and drink. I love spring food and drink
43:14
because I automatically gravitate towards healthier
43:18
things I think without even much effort.
43:21
Like I love fruit in spring and summer, I love salad in spring
43:25
and summer. But in winter I'm much more
43:27
likely to want those kind of like hearty carb heavy meals,
43:32
which I think is normal, right? It's to obviously bulk up for
43:35
the colder season, but I just find that naturally I gravitate
43:40
towards those lighter meals, fresher meals, picky bits.
43:44
Yeah, I love picky bits, guys. M&S picky bits.
43:47
Nothing better is there? See I just I actually more think
43:51
of picky bits at Christmas. But you are right like we do
43:54
tend to do it especially as it gets into like summary months we
43:58
do. We do have picky bits.
44:00
Like crackers and cheese and fruit and stuff.
44:02
You see, I wouldn't say that we do that a lot in the early
44:04
spring and summer. We're more like, to me, spring
44:08
is more like pasta out in the garden.
44:11
We eat even more pasta than we already do in in the summer, but
44:16
we'll go and eat outside a lot. So but it kind of like changes
44:20
pace from, I don't know, like, like red sauce and like
44:25
Bolognese or lasagna to more like pesto pasta or catcher or
44:30
Pepe or, you know, just kind of more.
44:33
It just has a different vibe because we'll eat it outside and
44:36
we'll have a glass of wine. Yeah, it's just more, I don't
44:42
know. That's kind of what spring food
44:44
is to us. I think I say us.
44:46
I'm obviously talking about my husband, but that's that screams
44:51
spring summer to me. Yeah, one thing I have noticed
44:54
as well is like for me, I drink iced coffee and iced matcha all
44:59
year, right? Like I don't.
45:01
Yeah, that's like an actual swap for me.
45:03
There you go. But for me, I drink.
45:05
I don't really have hot coffee or hot matcha.
45:08
What I do have in winter is tea, like your normal English
45:13
breakfast tea or I love the Yorkshire tea, biscuit brew,
45:17
stuff like that. But as soon as it it gets to
45:19
spring and summer I stop having that and I'm much more likely to
45:23
have an iced bubble tea. Bubble tea you have.
45:27
Bubble tea. To me.
45:29
I'd always forgot you fucking drink.
45:30
It I know it's because I have matcha so often now, right?
45:33
But to me, like bubble tea and summer hand in hand because it's
45:37
so fruity and refreshing and like it's like a sweet treat in
45:41
a way as well. And then also Speaking of sweet
45:44
treats, I love it when it gets to spring and summer and you can
45:46
have like ice cream and ice lollies.
45:48
Oh my God my kids are already starting to ask for ice creams
45:51
and I swear to God last year I this year I'm going to have to
45:55
track how much money we spend on ice creams on our weekly food
45:58
shops because we really get through and my kids don't like
46:01
cheap ice creams either. My 6 year old daughter have
46:04
favorite ice cream and mink cornetto and it can't be the
46:08
cheap saying it has to be and me as well.
46:11
Look, I love them, but I always used to be able to when they
46:13
were younger. Younger used to have to buy them
46:15
and a box would last me the week I'd have 1A night.
46:18
But now my kids love them as well.
46:20
So like we get through a box of Cornettos in like 2 days.
46:23
Yeah, yeah, it was a nightmare. And then last year they
46:26
obviously released white chocolate Kinder Buenos ice
46:29
creams, which were insane. Oh my God, they're so good.
46:33
I also just love like, you know, you get those what they call
46:36
true fruit and they're like chocolate covered in
46:39
raspberries. And so like, it's frozen
46:40
raspberries. I would never eat those.
46:42
I don't eat fruit. Oh my God, they're so good.
46:44
Bananas. I didn't know that.
46:46
They're like raspberries and then they do all the like.
46:48
I think they do blueberries and stuff as well, but they're like
46:51
covered in white chocolate and then milk chocolate.
46:53
I don't know what it is that makes them so much better than
46:55
making them yourself, but they are incredible.
46:58
And then also they're frozen, so they're like ice cold.
47:01
You bite into them and the raspberries like a little bit
47:03
jammy. So good.
47:06
And then I also do have these frozen bananas.
47:08
I think the brand is called like Pookip or something.
47:11
Pookip. And it's just chocolate.
47:14
It's just dark chocolate frozen bananas, right?
47:17
Again, I don't know why they're so much better than when I make
47:19
them like I used to make these. Myself I have seen on Pinterest
47:23
all the time there's like sandwich like 2 like slices of
47:26
banana with a bit of peanut butter in the middle like half
47:28
dipped in chocolate and they always mean to try and make them
47:31
and I. Never do.
47:32
But I might do that this summer. I always used to do the Snickers
47:35
ones, which is like you slice the banana lengthways and then
47:38
half it again, so it's like quarter length.
47:41
And then you put either like you could do peanut butter, you
47:44
could do like the Biscov spread or like something like that, a
47:47
layer of that. Then you do dark chocolate on
47:50
top of it with it, and then you sprinkle some like chopped
47:52
hazelnuts on top. They're so fucking good because
47:54
the ice cream, it tastes like ice cream, the banana.
47:57
But I see guys that I could talk about food all day.
48:00
Oh my God, I am. I've already made the track,
48:04
started to make the transition over to the ice strings.
48:07
Like, my routine has kind of turned from hot tea and coffee
48:11
all day to now hot coffee in the morning and then in the
48:15
afternoon. I'll have a nice mature every
48:17
afternoon now. So I'm already starting to make
48:20
that transition. And I know as soon as it starts
48:22
getting warmer, it'll be like, oh, it's all day every day.
48:25
Yeah, but I do. I love that transition.
48:27
It is so weird, isn't it? But.
48:29
One thing we haven't mentioned actually, which I feel like is a
48:32
very spring, summer thing that I look forward to every year, is
48:35
picnics. Yes, I love a picnic and you can
48:39
just go out. Now, see, when you say picnic
48:41
and then you think of picky food, I'm like a cool, yeah.
48:43
Then I'm thinking less of like the M&S, like picky bits, which
48:47
I think of like as hot food. Yeah.
48:50
And then I go to like traditional like Scotch eggs,
48:53
cocktail sausages. See, that's the kind of picky
48:56
bits I mean. Yeah, fine.
48:57
Yeah, I do. I get what you mean.
48:59
There is like this is a very British discussion again, guys,
49:02
so Americans, because I know there is a few of you listening,
49:05
sorry, but there are two different types of picky bits I
49:07
feel in the UK. 1 is like, yeah, the party food like halloumi
49:12
sticks and like mozzarella sticks.
49:15
Salmon, beer and bread. Yeah.
49:16
And like you're beige kind of shove in the oven foods, party
49:20
foods and then the other picky bits.
49:22
It's like your tapas like little little bits and bobs and your
49:26
fruit and your cheese. And that's the kind of picky
49:29
bits. I mean, yeah.
49:30
So you said crackers and I'd just immediately go Christmas.
49:34
That's so funny. Yeah, yeah.
49:37
OK, So guys, I've prepared a little game of Spring Smash or
49:40
Pass for Tours specifically because I picked these.
49:44
So obviously I can't do it, but just going to give you these
49:47
scenarios and obviously you're going to smash or pass them as
49:49
soon as you can with no like rationale I get.
49:52
I was stressing. OK, Are you ready reading
49:56
outside? Smash.
49:58
Cowboy. Romances smash floral covers.
50:02
Floral covers pass. Hard pass.
50:05
Q1 wrap UPS. Smash.
50:08
Pastel covers. OK, that's it.
50:16
I feel like pastel covers to end on that night.
50:19
I it would so depend on the color and like the overall like
50:24
design and vibe of them. I could definitely go like some
50:27
cute pastel sheets in a very neutral room.
50:30
Like if it was, you know, like cute butty yellow stripes of
50:34
like white. Do you know what you mean?
50:35
Like something like that that's kind of neutralish I could do.
50:39
Or even like the I'm trying to get it, but even like the kind
50:42
of pastel tones of the Playing for Keep series are as long as
50:45
the. Sheets weren't too much like if
50:47
they were like overall, like a bit too in your face.
50:52
Yeah, I couldn't. Yeah, I know it.
50:54
Depend on design over, you know. Do you know what I mean?
50:58
Yeah, one thing I do love, which is pastel, is the after light
51:04
romance special editions of the Ali Hazelwood books.
51:07
Do you remember I sent sent mine and they're like just these tiny
51:11
lovely little illustrations. And then the rest of it is like
51:13
a solid pastel colour, but it's like, it's like those kind of
51:16
colours where it's almost not quite pastel because it's quite
51:19
bright. Yeah, I know what you mean.
51:21
They're really I prefer like a pastel pastel.
51:23
Interesting. And I think that's the thing
51:25
with pastel colours is there's a quite actually a broad spectrum
51:29
of shade think of as pastel. And I like that real like that,
51:34
almost like icy pastel blue that like icy pastel pink and lilac.
51:38
And do you know what I mean? Yeah.
51:40
So that's it. That's the kind of like in the
51:42
middle one for me. But anyway, we digress.
51:45
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