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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: K k.
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  Speaker 2: K k.
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  Speaker 1: K k k les, gentlemen, I have your attention. Please.
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  Speaker 1: The show starts in right seven six hard cool.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, this is your girl Scie book out eight
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  Speaker 2: four three, And it is another Tuesday night tonight actually
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  Speaker 2: and well today actually in Charleston, it's the first day
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  Speaker 2: of school. Oh my god, welcome back to school, and
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  Speaker 2: some of you guys, welcome back to the library.
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  Speaker 3: We hope your first day was great.
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  Speaker 2: You know all the jitters I called my too little,
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  Speaker 2: I call my two little broke besties.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to their mom. But when I get off.
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  Speaker 2: The podcast, called back to them, and I got my
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  Speaker 2: older nephews, the oldest in the middle one call and
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  Speaker 2: check on them. But happy first day. So I know
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  Speaker 2: you often say, oh, Trace, what book we're gonna have tonight,
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  Speaker 2: What author we're gonna have tonight, But unfortunately, because of
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  Speaker 2: the first day of school, our author had to cancel.
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  Speaker 2: Why But always remember it's your chance to get to
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  Speaker 2: know me. So the last time we did this show,
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  Speaker 2: I had questions that were submitted from another author friend,
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  Speaker 2: And now I'm gonna go ahead and answer to the
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  Speaker 2: one that I didn't get a chance to answer. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but if you have a question for me, go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and submit it any chat, it'll appear on the stream and.
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  Speaker 3: I'll answer your question. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So the background at c book yal eight four to three.
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  Speaker 2: I live in South Carolina in the eight four to
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  Speaker 2: three area code. So that's how that came together. Loving
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  Speaker 2: mother of two twenty three year old male, my oldest boy,
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  Speaker 2: and the ten year old diva who's been clowning me
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  Speaker 2: about my age because she's learning about the civil rights error.
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  Speaker 2: So every day there's some joke about my age. Today
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  Speaker 2: she came to me and she had this book and
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  Speaker 2: she said, Mommy, do you know any of these.
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  Speaker 3: People in the book?
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  Speaker 2: I said no, not really, Well this was the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: something and another she said, weren't you alive back then?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm through with you again? Every time
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  Speaker 2: it's a back then older and she liked the top
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  Speaker 2: of my great head. So that's where we are. So
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  Speaker 2: we do have a question. And the question said what
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  Speaker 2: inspire you to start your book blog and how that
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  Speaker 2: evolved since she began, Oh, when I first started my
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  Speaker 2: book blog? Lord, it has to be over Lord, it's
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  Speaker 2: been a long time. Once are getting close to maybe
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  Speaker 2: somewhere the range of five to ten years. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a while.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say that.
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  Speaker 2: My reviews were not as in.
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  Speaker 3: Depth as it were. As they were.
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  Speaker 2: It started off, this book was good. I recommend this book.
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  Speaker 2: I like the cover. But as you study your craft
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  Speaker 2: or let's say, pay attention to what you're doing and
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  Speaker 2: give more thought to details, and it expounded. I now
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  Speaker 2: interview you authors. I give them a chance to have
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  Speaker 2: a podcast interview or blog interview. So that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things to change. It's going to change again. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to start doing pieces just randomly giving you guys
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  Speaker 2: thoughts about the book industries. Okay, so that's that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that has changed. I'm just wanting to
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  Speaker 2: be more consistent, which is on me, you guys.
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  Speaker 3: So that's I would say has.
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  Speaker 2: Been the biggest change. Okay. Ooh, this one is a
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  Speaker 2: good question. Do you prefer physical book eat books or audiobooks?
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  Speaker 2: And why ebooks? Physical books? Not too often. I will
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  Speaker 2: read them if they're given to me, And that is
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  Speaker 2: how you would like to review your book. I will
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  Speaker 2: do a physical book. I am an e book person.
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  Speaker 2: Why because I can carry the book anywhere as long
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  Speaker 2: as I got a phone or some type of electronic
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  Speaker 2: device I can do and read, do the review or
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  Speaker 2: read the book. Audio books is the last thing I
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  Speaker 2: want to do. I have a tendency to when I'm reading,
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  Speaker 2: I hear the voice, and if the voice does not
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  Speaker 2: match the voice of the audiobook in my head, then
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  Speaker 2: that's like a done deal. I remember reading a street book.
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  Speaker 2: I turned around and listen to the book. The voice
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  Speaker 2: was no offense, none whatsoever, but the way it was
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  Speaker 2: read it just didn't correlate with the book. And I
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  Speaker 2: did speak to the author about that and she said,
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering, I just chose an automated voice. Was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you need to redo that. So me, I'm an ebooker. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The next question I have is, let's see, oh curious.
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  Speaker 2: It says, how do you choose what's books to read
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  Speaker 2: and review? That's on you, you guys. That is on
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  Speaker 2: the author to send me the book the request a review.
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  Speaker 2: I am working with another group and she sends me books,
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  Speaker 2: and how the way she does it. She sends me
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  Speaker 2: a suybnopsis of a bunch of books, and I choose
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  Speaker 2: the ones I want to read. There are some authors
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  Speaker 2: that will contact me and say, hey, I would like
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  Speaker 2: you to do a review on my book. The only
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  Speaker 2: books I will not do a review on is those
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  Speaker 2: a fantasy, mystery, and sci fi.
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  Speaker 3: I will try if.
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  Speaker 2: The author really, really really wants me to do it,
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  Speaker 2: but I kind of shy away from those books.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason because.
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  Speaker 2: It's not my strongest genre to read and.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 2: Want to give more to it, but it just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: hold my attention and I do not want to fault
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  Speaker 2: the author for that. Okay, So how.
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  Speaker 3: Do you choose what's book to review?
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  Speaker 2: Send it to me or you can get the publisher.
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  Speaker 3: To send it to me.
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  Speaker 2: But long as the request is send to me and
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  Speaker 2: it's not those three, I'll be happy to okay. Our
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  Speaker 2: next question, you guys, This one is sounded hard for
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  Speaker 2: me because I don't know what I would say, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you all tell you a question. It says,
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  Speaker 2: what's one book you think everyone should read at least
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  Speaker 2: once in their lifetime. One book everyone should read. I
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  Speaker 2: know this is gonna sound really really cliche with you guys,
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  Speaker 2: but of course I'm gonna say the Bible. That's just
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  Speaker 2: one book that's gonna guide us the everything, especially with
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  Speaker 2: the craziness is going on nowadays. As a child, I
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  Speaker 2: would feel that that book would be The Three Chinese
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  Speaker 2: Brothers or was the Five Chinese three or five? That
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  Speaker 2: book was very profound as a kid, as a tween
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  Speaker 2: and young adult, the skin that I'm in. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: put those ones up on my blog. I think that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Next week I'm gonna have a blog of great back
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  Speaker 2: to school reads. But those would be the books you guys. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: here's my next question. This question says, who are some
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  Speaker 2: of your favorite authors and what draws.
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  Speaker 3: You to your work.
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  Speaker 2: I did away with favorite authors, and now you think
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  Speaker 2: of like, really, Patrice, I really did away with favorite authors.
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  Speaker 3: The reason being is.
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  Speaker 2: Too many. But if I have to choose a favorite
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  Speaker 2: book that stuck out to me and I just saw
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  Speaker 2: this book for the first time in a while, and
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  Speaker 2: it's called Staying Ground by Chris Victoria Christopher Murray stand
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  Speaker 2: Your Ground, and it's exactly how it says. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: do recommend that book, but I do not have a favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Author.
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  Speaker 2: But if I have to recommend five to read, of course,
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  Speaker 2: it would be any of the divas in the Crew,
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  Speaker 2: Trevita Angela, Latanya Black Diamond Alma who now has a
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  Speaker 2: coloring book. Congratulations. I would recommend them. I recommend Keith Williams,
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  Speaker 2: Keith Kareem Williams, Teresa Patterson. Uh, who else would I pick?
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  Speaker 3: Treasure Hernandez and Sharon Draper.
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  Speaker 2: And if you know this, only to those books are mainstream,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm really not a fan of mainstream authors. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's one author who everybody is read. She's very mainstream.
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  Speaker 2: But I just feel that sometime the mainstream authors kind
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  Speaker 2: of loses their audience because they're like, hey, I just
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  Speaker 2: put this book out there, you're going to read and
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  Speaker 2: go on about her happy very way. I do remember
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  Speaker 2: wanting to read a book by this mainstream author and
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  Speaker 2: she said on a not a television a radio broadcast
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  Speaker 2: that I don't care if people don't like my book.
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  Speaker 2: I've already gotten paid for it. Well, I won't be
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  Speaker 2: reading your book because that means you didn't put the
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  Speaker 2: love into it. You didn't you didn't put the care
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  Speaker 2: into it. You didn't you know, nurture the book. You
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  Speaker 2: just put something together rang with it. So those are
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  Speaker 2: some of my authors I would recommend that you read. Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a good question. You guys, and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of piggybacks off the how do you choose what books
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  Speaker 2: to read and review? The question says do you stick
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  Speaker 2: to specific genres or read widely across different ones. I
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  Speaker 2: am a culprit of the stick to the genre I love,
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  Speaker 2: and that is bad. As a book reviewer, that is
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  Speaker 2: very bad. But I don't want I.
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  Speaker 3: Give the wrong review for a book because.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not liking this genre. So that's why I said
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  Speaker 2: when I review books, I kind of stay with the
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  Speaker 2: genre that I love.
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  Speaker 3: So wiley across different ones, I really can. I remember
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  Speaker 3: I had a co worker. I told her to go
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  Speaker 3: on the shelves, choose.
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  Speaker 2: A book, and I will read the book. She chose
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  Speaker 2: an Amish book. I looked at her like, who are
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  Speaker 2: you playing with? And that ain't gonna cut it.
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  Speaker 3: You can put that book on the show.
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  Speaker 2: I had one coworker give me a mystery book. Couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get into that. So I am really urban romance Erodica
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  Speaker 2: Street look lit contemporary. Uh. I would do some young adult.
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  Speaker 2: I love children's books, but yeah, I mean like specific dramas.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I can't do it. Okay, this question is
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  Speaker 2: a great question. The reason why I say it's a
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  Speaker 2: great question is because I get this whole lot when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to reviewing books, and I do understand why
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  Speaker 2: the authors would ask me this question. And the question
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  Speaker 2: is how do you handle reviewing the book you didn't enjoy?
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  Speaker 2: I will never, ever, ever give a one star view,
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  Speaker 2: even if your book has spelling or grammar grammar grammar errors.
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  Speaker 3: As you could tell, I'm not a proper speaker, So
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  Speaker 3: if you.
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  Speaker 2: Have those issues in your book, I may de duct
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  Speaker 2: some point, but I will never give a one star. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I think the lows I've ever done has been three.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I feel no books should deserve one star, and
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  Speaker 2: the reason for that is because it's your blood, sweat
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  Speaker 2: and tears. Okay. Giving somebody a one star is somebody
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  Speaker 2: cooking you water. Okay, nobody's gonna well, I hope nobody
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  Speaker 2: cooks you water.
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  Speaker 3: But that's my equivalent number one star.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Even if I do a three star, I will
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  Speaker 2: pre email the author and say, here's the issues that
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  Speaker 2: are inside your book, and I will give them the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to say would you like me to post a review?
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  Speaker 2: Or would you like me not to post a review?
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  Speaker 2: Some authors say I would love for you to post
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  Speaker 2: a review. I would like to make the changes, and
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  Speaker 2: then I would like you to read read the book
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  Speaker 2: I've had. That happened, and it was the second time around.
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  Speaker 2: It got four and a half stars because they really
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  Speaker 2: paid attention to the things that I said in the review.
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  Speaker 2: So there are books that I do not enjoy that
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  Speaker 2: I review, but you will never get under a three star.
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  Speaker 2: That's just totally disrespectful. If you get ain't lowered than that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this one says, what is the most memorable interaction you
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  Speaker 2: had with an author or a fellow book lover. This
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  Speaker 2: was crazy, you, guys. I was at work and this
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  Speaker 2: young lady came to me and she was like, I've
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  Speaker 2: seen you before. I said, oh, yeah, I've been here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at this location thirteen years.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, no, no, no, no, I've seen you before.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: The child comes up to.
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  Speaker 2: Me and said, you were the lady that read that
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  Speaker 2: book about the monster in the back of the book.
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  Speaker 2: I said yeah, I said, I read it at a school.
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  Speaker 2: I said, so, I guess you go to good one.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, do you have that book here? I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I do not.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what I'll do.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get that book and have it come to this
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  Speaker 2: library for you. So we put the book on hold.
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  Speaker 2: The child had to be somewhere between six and eight
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  Speaker 2: years old, okay, So we put the book on hole
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  Speaker 2: then left. They came back about two three leads later
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  Speaker 2: and he came and he showed me the book. I
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  Speaker 2: got the book. I said, but do you remember there's
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  Speaker 2: a monster at the end of the book. He said,
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  Speaker 2: sh don't tell mommy. She's never had it before. I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so you're gonna read the book to mommy. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have mommy read the book to you. And she was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: of course he can't read. That's well out him.
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  Speaker 3: I say, can you guys can read it together?
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  Speaker 2: And they did read it together, and she came back
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  Speaker 2: and she said thank you, and he was just the sweetest,
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  Speaker 2: the one, Oh my god, you're so cute. That that
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  Speaker 2: was the best interaction I've had from a kid. Now
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  Speaker 2: from an adult. I have this one patron who always
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  Speaker 2: calls me the black girl with the book, And when
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  Speaker 2: she comes in the library, the first thing she says
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  Speaker 2: to me is hit baby. That's how she talks and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, how are you? She said, I need
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  Speaker 2: them thugy thuggy books. Let's meet the thuggy douggie books. Giryeah,
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  Speaker 2: the one my son don't want me reading. I love her,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it in her whiles. I hope she
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  Speaker 2: comes in pretty shoot, pretty soon. But she she's the
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  Speaker 2: older lady about an elate sixty seventy. Don't give her
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  Speaker 2: nothing spicy. She's just not want to read the spicy books.
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  Speaker 2: She just wanted the thuggy dougie books. So those were
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  Speaker 2: some memorable interactions that I've had with fellow book lovers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take one more question, and here's that question.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, how do you balance reading for pleasure with
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  Speaker 2: reading for content creation? I do not read for content creation.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't make any sense to me. I read for
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  Speaker 2: pleasure and that pleasure turns into content creation. So now
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  Speaker 2: I do not read for content creation.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if this question and is saying, if I'm reading
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  Speaker 4: like factual, I'm not a nonfiction type person.
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  Speaker 2: I've read some biographies, but I think the last nonfiction
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  Speaker 2: book I read was Girl Fiction Crown by Queen Latifa.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not a big excuse me I'm not a
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  Speaker 2: big nonfiction fan, okay, so my reading is really just
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  Speaker 2: for pleasure or reviewing, and reviewing is my pleasure. So
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  Speaker 2: if we're talking about reading for content creation, now, so
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  Speaker 2: what I'm reading is the content.
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  Speaker 3: That pleasure is the content.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, so that is my last question for tonight
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  Speaker 2: you guys. Just remember I'm going to be here every
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday night. Now. Next week, I think that's my trip
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  Speaker 2: or header. I think I got three authors coming to
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  Speaker 2: you guys next week. That is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fun. If you wanted to get your review
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  Speaker 2: your book reviewed by me, contact me. I am scbook
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  Speaker 2: gaal A four to three or sc book gally Friends
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  Speaker 2: across all social media. The only one I don't have
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Sky, and there's another one that I do
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  Speaker 2: not have, some new one Lemon eight. Yeah, but everything
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  Speaker 2: is sc book galt A four to three just how
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  Speaker 2: it sounds, and sc bookut Inference. So I'm on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: and we have a website at www dot scbook galsenfriends
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  Speaker 2: dot com. So full out the request and box meet
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  Speaker 2: or email mail me and we'll put your review in. Okay. Also,
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  Speaker 2: remember I'm going to be on every Tuesday night, like
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  Speaker 2: I said before, And what else? What else?
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  Speaker 3: What else we got going on?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I have two birthday shout outs, she got so
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  Speaker 2: the first one they're both named Jackie. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is from your son, Miss Jackie. Le
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  Speaker 3: Kendrick says, happy.
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  Speaker 2: Birthday and he can't wait to see you. And also
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  Speaker 2: for me, Happy birthday, Miss Jackie. And the second Miss Jackie,
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  Speaker 2: is my aunt Jackie. Happy birthday. That aunt you could say,
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  Speaker 2: she's my mom aunt. She really does mean a lot
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  Speaker 2: to me. She takes her kids on my own. The
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  Speaker 2: only on I know calls me seven o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: even on my day off. So don't call me seven
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  Speaker 2: o'clock tomorrow morning in the morning, call me around but
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  Speaker 2: ten thirty. But I just want to tell you, ladies,
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  Speaker 2: thank you and happy birthday. Thank you for being a
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  Speaker 2: part of my life. Thank you for being a part
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  Speaker 2: of my kid's life. Just thank you for being the
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  Speaker 2: strong woman that we know you guys to be. It's
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  Speaker 2: a happy birthday to the missus Jackies and you guys.
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  Speaker 3: That's it for me tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But always remember there's no such thing as an old book,
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  Speaker 2: because not everybody has read every book.
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  Speaker 3: See you next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Good Night everyone, Bye,