January 2, 2025 • 27 mins
Today is Kelsey’s birthday! In honor, she has compiled a list of her top 10 books of 2024. She’s read over 80 books of the year and narrows it down to the one’s she recommends the most. Mike also shares his favorite comic of the year!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, welcome to Telsa's Book Club. Just kidding. This
is still movie Mike's movie.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Podcast, but it's the book episode.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It is the book episode, but you host.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This because I I haven't read any books. I'll give
you my top comics I've read this year, but I
have never good I've not finished a book this year.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I know. I have this very formal post it note
my best books of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Probably gonna have to consult my good Reads.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Still tell everybody how many books you read total this year?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have finished eighty year. I'm reading others, but eighty
was my goal for the year. I actually hit all
of my personal growth goals for the year. My goals
were well at the start of the year, they were
focused on books in boxing classes, and then like midway through.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The year, it's about finding a job.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But I have since found a new job. I hit
two hundred and fifty boxing classes and I've read eighty books.
So I'm done with the personal growth for this year.
So if anyone needs me for the remainder of twenty
twenty four, I'm on my calchrutching Bravo with a glass
of wine.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Done with personal growth.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
My personal growth for the year was to make a
list about the goals I wanted to accomplish, and I
didn't finish the list, So I don't know if I
had any personal growth of this year.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I would say you about personal growth and professional growth
like your podcasts, True Crown.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I guess normally I have more specific goals. I just
did things this year.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I feel like, yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So I read eighty and I have compiled a list
of my top ten.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I think there's ten.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let's say count the list and this very official post
it note.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Ten.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes, but I think I was gonna swap one of
them out. I might have eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You can do ten and then do a honorable mention.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Kick it off with number ten.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh, but I don't have them. They're not like, oh,
it's just ten. Oh, okay, you pick a favorite. Okay,
give me to pick a favorite child. Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I love ter rank things.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, because they're all it's a mix, sure of like
fiction and nonfiction. And I feel differently about fiction than
I do nonfiction. So it's just the ten that stuck
with me.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I just do book one.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Book one.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We are going with the Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa
Barr and I gave that a four point five out
of five, and that is not a surprise a World
War two book, but it was fascinating. It is about
this actress and she is famous, and she's older now
I think she's in her seventies or eighties. It's fiction,
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but she in another lifetime earlier in her life was
like a spy. And I don't want to give anything
else away, but the writing was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The story.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I loved the idea of like her being this like
famous older actress and then her being like, but you
don't know my history.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Done Dune, you'll know my history exactly all right.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Book two, okay, this one is called aft Annie by
Anna Quindlin, and I gave that one a four point
twenty five out of five.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And this one was sad. I'll give you it's a
tear jerker.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So if you're feeling like you need something sad, read
this one.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And if you feel like you don't want to read
anything sad, don't read this one.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It is about a mom and a wife who suddenly
dies and like how the people in her life pick
up the pieces and move on. It's Ballet cower, kids,
her husband, her best friend, how they all move on
in her absence.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Do you remember the first sad book you read, Because
for me, I remember reading Where the Red Fern Grows,
and that book destroyed me.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It was honestly probably a chicken soup for the kids.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You read those man, I had every version. I had
one that had twenty five Christmas stories. To this day,
they are some of the most depressing stories that have
stuck with me. I have not read them over twenty
years now. I can remember reading some of them. It
was like a story for each day. There was one
that I read that, like, to.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
This day haunts me.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I won't even talk about it on here because it's
so sad. I'll tell you later, but it's so so sad. Yeah,
I had like chicken soup for the teenage soul. Remember
they used to have like chicken soup for the American
idol Lover Soul didn't have that one. I remember all
of those, but yeah, I rose were probably sad.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I remember Where the Red Friend Grows and I remember
Flowers for Algernon. Those are the two saddest books I
read growing up.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Where the Red Friend grows.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's a good one. Pretty sad oh was another one.
I cared old yeller, No, anything with the dog is
usually pretty sad roll. It's under here my cry. That
one got me too.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's been so long since I read the one.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, it was the only time I paid attention like
early on reading books.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's Kill a Mockingbird made me really sad. Someone changed
me as a person.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I would say, so the movie too, movie is good.
What do you have for book three?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So books three and four, I'm gonna kind of wrap
these ups of combo because they had very similar plots,
and hold on, let me in my professionalism.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I forgot to write down some of the authors.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I like how non professional you are with everything posted note.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think it's because I'm so professional in my work
life and everything else. I'm a project manager and everything else.
Like my book club is thorough. It runs organized the
rest of my life like Christmas gifts lists, and then
sometimes I come down to it and I'm like, post it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Note and reading books is it's your hobby.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It is my hobby. So I don't want to be
but I do log them. And then all the Colors
of the Dark by Chris Whitaker and God of the
Woods by Liz Moore, very similar books, and they came
out this year.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Both of them.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Got Off the Woods came out July second, and All
the Colors of the Dark came out June twenty fifth,
so a week apart. And they're both kind of about
like a missing kid in the Woods. I gave All
the Colors of the Dark five stars and Got of
the Woods four point seventy five.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Does it happen a lot with books of two similar
things coming out around the same time, because that happens
with movies like twin movies, where sometimes they try to
like jump on the other person, like, oh, we both
are working on a movie that's very similar. We're going
to get ours out first. I don't feel like it
that's a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I think this one was just a coincidence. All the
Colors of the Dark is very long. It's like a
six hundred page book.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I could never I read it on.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
My kindle, and that honestly made it feel less intimidating.
I love a long book, but I think five hundred
is my max that I can read physical book. Other
than that it overwhelms me. So I enjoyed reading All
the Colors of the Dark.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On average, how long does it take you to read
one book, like, say, like a what's a normal book?
Two hundred three d pages?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's a short one to me.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's a normal one to me.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I mean, if I have all the time in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
A day, gosh, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We came home from Wicked and I started a book
that was like four hundred pages and I stayed until
two am reading it, and I read it all that night.
But it was a fast paced So it again depends
fiction nonfiction, funny, sad, the mood I'm in if I'm
sitting up right in bed reading or if I've rolled
over and I'm on my side with one I open
reading my kindle.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Meanwhile, it takes me like fifteen twenty minutes to read
a comic.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But yeah, so they're both about kind of like a
kid missing in the woods. I think the writing of
All the Colors of the Dark was really interesting and
I felt like it kept me guessing.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
A little bit more than God of the Woods.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Feel like God of the Woods. I kind of figured
out the twist, but not fully. But All the Colors
of the Dark really kept me guessing.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That was four and five, three and four, three and
four okay, Book five.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Book five is okay, So I guess I have another
by two authors, and I forgot to write this one down,
so I'm gonna go five is Code Girls, The Untold
Story of the American Women code Breakers of World War
Two by Eliza Mundy, and I believe I gave that
one five stars, so it is about Synopsis's Code Girls
(07:44):
is a book by e. Liza Mundy that tells the
story of the American women who secretly broke codes during
World War Two, meaning like they figured out where like
German ships were going to be when they were moving
in all of these things. I love this book because,
as we all know, I love a book about a
badass female heroin most of the books on my lists
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this year are about women, I don't think. I think
All the Colors of the Dark is maybe the only
one that has like a prominent male character. I didn't
have time to read about men this year.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, I know, I'm going back to what the
episode they came out before this. Of my underrated movies,
a lot of those were women's stories. Yeah, female directed,
female starring female leads.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's where we've been deprived of female stories for so long.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
In me and people, Yeah, underrated.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I loved this because the idea was that you know,
the men all go to fight off in the war,
so women would kind of take like the administrative jobs.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No women were.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Solving, I mean and when I I still to this
day don't entirely understand how they broke the codes because
these things were encrypted with an encryption key that changed
every day. So they had these machines that you would
type a message and then you would like encrypt it,
and so like the third letter would shift to become
the seventh letter. So they got the finish puzzle, and
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they worked backwards and solved all of these things and
it became like a fully readable message. My mind is literally,
if you feel like giving yourself a headache, look up
the machines that they used for code breaking, because I mean,
I have a master's degree, and that thing looks like
I'd never be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's worse than No Kim.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Trying to figure out how to hack into something exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So then going off of that one, my next book,
book six is The Sisterhood, also by Eliza Mundy, So
this is a book about women in the CIA and
this one.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Phenomenal also gave this one a five. I love books about.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Women in professions that like the world deemed too frail,
too fragile, that women wouldn't be good at Women in
the CIA so fascinating to me. Learned a lot about
just the CIA as an organization, a lot of interesting
stuff in there, specifically a round pre nine to eleven,
(10:02):
what was happening with intelligence and like learning about organizations
plotting things. I really want to say the word on
this podcast, hopefully everyone else does. I thought that was
really interesting and about how like women would go out
in the field and they would do these undercover jobs
and they were better at being undercover operatives because no
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one suspected that women were undercover. Ciah and Say were
expecting it to be the men, and so women were
kind of the like surprise, Like I've been collecting intell
on you. Eliza Mundy's research is so detailed, like her
notes at the end about how much research she does
is what makes her think an incredible like investigative journalist
(10:44):
and to be able to tell these stories because it's like,
I mean, she's got like the days the transcripts, Like
she is going off of so much research and then
is able to put it into a story that doesn't
bore you. It's like some of these things if you
just start like reading case reports, but she like weaves
it into a story. So I highly recommend that one.
Next one, Let's see what book is this? This is
(11:06):
book four seven? Oh, I thought we're going the other oay,
I lost dragon numbers. All right, we're at book seven seven.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We're going to go into a break here and come
back with the rest of the list because got to
pay the bill around here. We are back, and we're
back book seven, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Book seven is Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dre also
gave that one a five. So this one is about
the woman who would become the Secretary of State under FDR.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
She is responsible for like the creation of Social Security
and her relationship working with FDR. I was like, women
politicians don't always get their own stories. Again, deprived of
women's stories.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Thought that one was really good, couldn't put it down.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Book eight is All You Have to Do Is Call
by Harry Mayer, and I gave that one of four
point seventy five out of five. One of the things
that I learned about this year, and I feel that
it's very timely in the light of twenty twenty four,
is about the Jane Network in the seventies before bro
v Wade was passed, and it was an organization of
women who first just kind of connected women to safe
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abortion providers, and then the women in the group like
actually learned how to provide these services.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So it's a group of women.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
They were like, why aren't we the ones doing this
if we're the ones having to receive it, and like
know how women feel. So it was a story of
the Jane Network, and the idea was all you have
to do is call and you just say. There was
another book that I read where you would say, like
I'm looking for Jane, and that meant you needed access
to abortion services.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I won't make this.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Political, but as someone with a background in public health,
I do have a master's degree in it, access to
women's healthcare is one of the most important things. So
the idea was these women banded together in the early
seventies and they said, we're going to be the safe
space for each other. And initially, like I said, they
were reaching out to mail doctors asking them to partner
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with them, and then finally they were like, why are
we sending all these women to male doctors who like
aren't doing this. So they became trained and they would
like have a full operation, and I thought it was
so cool that they were willing to take that risk
to provide healthcare for women. So there's a lot of
books about that. I've read a couple fiction and then
I read a nonfiction one. They're all kind of similar
titled like Oh you have to Call looking for Jane.
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I think one was just called the Jane Network and
it was actually written by a former member, so that
one was really interesting. Next one, book nine is We
Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter five star.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It is also a mini series on Hulu.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I would recommend reading the book first because you get
obviously way more of the stories than you do in
Hulu mini series. But I thought the miniseriies was really
well done. I think it took it so the book
spans an entire family across like twenty years, so the
mini series I feel like, just had to kind of condense.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It afferent mini series.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I thought the cast was great. Joey King Logan Lerman
is really well done. I think it's six or eight episodes,
maybe eight came out earlier this year. I'd had the
book on my list forever and it was just one
of those that, like I kept getting off the wait
list for another Library book and another Library book, and
then it was just at the bottom of my list.
(14:24):
And then when I saw the mini series was coming out,
I was like, I need to read that, and then
I read it and my life was changed. It was
It's one of those that you read it and you're like,
how is this story real? Because it's almost so unbelievable
the things that they went through and endured that you're like,
this has to be made up, but it's not. And
I think that's my fascination with World War two books
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is that. And I've said this before, it's still it's
not even it's what eighty years ago, Like I can't
imagine people going through these things and surviving, but they did,
and they're still telling their stories. And I'm just mind
blown of the things. Like I talked about the people
in Poland that lived in the sewers, people we talked
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about it with the Blitz movie, people sending their kids
away to keep them safe. Like the things that humans
endured and made it through to live and tell the
story about feels. So I just can't fathom it. I
simply can't fathom the way that they were treated and
the conditions that they lived in for so many years,
and like the human spirit prevailed and like people just
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did what they had to do to survive. And I'm
sure we all think when push comes to show, if
we could do it, but I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't know that I could. So I highly recommend.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
If I was going to recommend just one off this list,
I think it would be We Were the Lucky One. Yes,
I think it would because it's just it's based on
the author's family, so it's someone who has like the
first hand interviews and experience, and I think that makes
it more personable too, because she writes with an emotion.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And then it's cool you can read it and then
go watch to see your.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I highly recommend reading it before you watch the series. Okay,
Book number ten, The Six by Lauren Grush five stars,
and I'm now so obsessed with space, which I mentioned
briefly when we did the Underrated Movies that you had
talked about fle Me to the Moon. I have a
fascination with all things space. Now I want to understand it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So the six is about the first six.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
American women in space, because the Russians did beat us
two that unfortunately in sent women to space before we did.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But it's the first six.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It was the class of like nine, either nineteen seventy
six or nineteen seventy eight that NASA first started accepting women.
And so it tells the full story of the first
six women, Sally Ride, Judy Resnick, Shannon Lucid, Kathy Sullivan,
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Raya Sedden, and Anna Fisher. I think, and I just
did that off the top of my memory, thank you.
And I think the order was Sally Sally Ride was
the first, Sally, Judy, Anna, Kathi, Rayah and Shannon, and
then I went on a deep dive and Raya Seddin,
who was the fifth woman. She was trained as a surgeon.
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She's from Murphysboro, Tennessee. She then went on to work
in Nashville, like in medicine, which I thought was really cool.
Like imagine you go somewhere and it's like, oh yeah,
she was a former astronaut, like she casually like still
doing surgeries and stuff. I think she went on to
hold some leadership positions, but I thought that was cool,
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kind of a local celeb.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And all those women paved the way for Sandra Bully
to go to space.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yes, they did so then and history is not a
spoiler alert. So the book ends on Judy Resnick being
on the Challenger when it exploded. So now I'm reading, well,
I started reading the book about the Challenger and then
weird full circle. I'm in the Sharon mc man Virtual
book Club and Challenger was actually picked just one of
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our books.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
For next semester.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're already reading it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He's already reading.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It, which means we get another plug if you would
like to join Sharon McMahon's book club.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You get author meetings, so we're gonna get to hear
from the author that wrote the Challenger book, and I
want to hear all about his research. But I have
fascination with space now, and most of these women were mothers,
so they had kids and they were like going to
space and then just hearing all the things that they
did in space, like they would do a space walk
and they'd use this robot arm to pull out like
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what they called the payloads. Fascinated by it. So loved
that book. That was my eightieth book of the year.
Once I started it, I was like, this is gonna
be on my top ten list. I was like, this
is so good. And then I actually found out that
a friend of ours knows the author, So I'm gonna
have to see if I can get the author's contact
just so I can write her and be like, I
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loved this book.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm now obsessed with space.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You know how much I love space. The crazy thing
to me is when you look at those like scales
of like how small we are compared to everything. When
you just start pulling out further and further and further
and there's all these different planets, this huge galaxy. We're
just so small. It's this little rock just floating here.
That's what blows my mind about space, Like what is
out there? I will go? How long will it take
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you to get there? Some say that the aliens aren't
invading the world, they are leaving it. They've been here
this whole time, and they're like, we gotta go.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
One thing I learned was one of the missions I
don't remember which one their windshield like had a slight
cracking it. Thankfully it didn't like fully bust because they
would have fall died, Like your windshield can't come off
in space, like you can't be exposed to that. But
it was from a paint chip, because things in space
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moved so fast that a paint chip flew off the
space shuttle hit the windshield and cracked it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's also what blows my mind about space. I literally,
how can you go through and not be hitting things
all the time that are making holes in the spaceship
as that happened, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And then like it's just funny too, like this world
was fully designed for men, and it's like women are
an afterthought most of the time. Like they designed all
the like space suits and stuff for men, and then
they had to be like, well, how are women going
to pee in space? And I'm just like why are
we were an afterthought?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And every design are they addressed in the book?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They do? They do?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
They basically like they had to do like a it's
almost like a tube that like connects to you because
women can't. It's a lot harder for us to pee
into something steadily than it is for men. But yeah,
so I thought those books I would highly recommend. I
think the lowest one on the list is a four point.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Twenty five strong list.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I will also give up plug for the app story Graph.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
How do you say, where can people find Do you
have that boasted on there.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
My book reviews?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Like I have all the books I've read this Yeah, okay,
so I have a good Reads, which I'm still using
because I know some people just to really love good Reads.
But I'm also using a new app called story Graph.
It is female founded. There's no ads. You can do
like a five dollars a month subscription which I have,
which allows you to build really cool like charts and
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graphs based on what you read for the year. But
the biggest thing about story Graph is that you can
rate books by quarters, so point two, five point five
point seven five. My biggest hang up with good Reads
besides the fact that it glitches half the time, so
you can only do whole numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So like, you'll go on my good Reads and.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All of these will probably be a five because they
were above a four, so I didn't want to give
it a four, but not all of them were a five.
But on story Graph, you can see exactly what you
give things, so I think you have to add people
in StoryGraph. We'll put that in the show notes. Because
I don't remember my username, it's probably the Kelsey Rod
or something. And we'll put my good Reads on there
as well. I love hearing what other people are reading.
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I like seeing on Goodreads what everyone's reading. Shout out
to my friend Mandy who got me into the Sharon
McMahon book Club.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's so much fun. I think that's all I am
to say.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I didn't do an honorable mention because if every other book,
all the other seventy are honorable mentions.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You can go look at out everything you've read. All
the other honorable mentions are on there. Yes, for me.
My favorite comic I read this year the series was
Ultimate Spider Man, which is Spider Man now and like
his mid thirties. He's an adult married to Mary Jane.
They have a couple of kids, and he's Spider Man.
He that's when he becomes Spider Man, instead of becoming
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Spider Man as a teenager. He's in his thirties. So
I loved this series.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
That is really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I think it would make a great movie because they've
done everything else they've done high school teenager. I think
having somebody in their thirties, which is a lot of
Spider Man fans like me who grew up with you know,
the nine show, Toby maguire, you've had all those iterations.
I think that would really speak to people now who
are like people who grew up with Spider Man in
that era of like, oh, it's somebody now at our
(23:09):
age being Spider Man. But he probably had to take
like a lot of advil and you know, have other
things going on. But in this series, he's totally good.
He's has the super ability to do every.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He doesn't have Spider kids because he's not Spider Man yet.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
They're regular kids.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Fascinating.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But yeah, there has been twelve issues of that and
they've all been great.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You've read all twelve.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I haven't read the twelfth one yet because it hasn't
come out at the time of recording this, but I've
read all other eleven and they've been It's been the
only comic that I have to go get when it
comes out.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, you have been getting your stories regularly.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I go get my stories regularly. The other one's like, yeah,
I miss it.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Later whenever they restocking. But that one, when it comes out,
I have to go get it because they also put
out like variant covers, and if you don't get those
the week it comes out, they're gone forever.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It is good to snow.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So that is my one of the year.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'm trying to think of other book related things.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Like all those all those issues added up. Maybe it's
a book. I would think so, because they put end
up putting it out like all together, where you can
just buy the one where it's every issue.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I think it's book.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's my book of the year.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's a hobby. I don't think it hass.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It's no different than people who are like I don't
like to read a physical book like an audio book,
Like yeah, you're consuming information, whether it's informative or enjoyable.
Like still still reading to me, Like I consider an
audio book just as much. Hold on, I still feel
like I had some other book thoughts. My favorite book
light is called The Mighty Bright. I can put that
(24:34):
in the show notes as well. I get no kickback.
I just really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Oh yeah, you have a light, I do.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It gets pretty bright.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It does.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
You have to face the wall when I'm reading, but
it is dimmable, it has a long battery life. Oh,
this year we are going to do We didn't do
it last year. I talked about it, and then when
it was my birthday, people are like, I hope you
get your like books at the bookstore. We are going
to do the thing. Let's set the ground rules now, Okay,
where we go to our low bookstore? Shout out Parnassis
(25:01):
greatest place ever? How long do I have to go
around the store to get books?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ninety seconds?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Do I get like a pre Do I get a
warm up lap? Because I have to read about some
of these books. I can't just buy based on the comer.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You can know going into it, but it's in ninety seconds.
How many can you grab? I feel like you could
have a list, but you can't go through and see
where everything is. I think that's part of it. Who
because that's the that's.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, two minutes. I think ninety seconds too short.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think ninety seconds is good. I don't like that
because it's a skill thing, Like you have ninety seconds
to get all the books? How many can you get?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But I don't necessarily know what I want?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's what you can do. You can look it up
before and have a list and then you have to
go find them ninety seconds because if you have two minutes,
that's a lot of time. Then it becomes less of like,
oh I had to get these quickly. They'll be like,
oh I can, I can take some time. I think
the ninety seconds puts the pressure on you.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And what if it's crowded in there? Can we extend
the time.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I can't mow people over.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That's part of the game, that's what makes it fun.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I don't want to agree to these terms and conditions.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Initially I was thinking sixty seconds. I thought ninety seconds
was being generous. I think nineties perfect. Okay, I think
that makes it fun. And you can film a video
in ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Boom, I'm not filming the video. I'm too busy looking.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm filming it ninety seconds. That's the only rule. In
ninety seconds. You can have a list going into it,
but you can't go through and plot it out. You
can't like go in and do a test run. It's
ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I mean, I know the layout of the story.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, you already, you already kind of know the layouts
you already have an advantage there.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Okay, fine, are we shaking on it?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Shake? Shake, shake, shake, seen Aura? All right? Anything else?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I would love to see the rest of these become.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Movies or many series.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, or many series, I guess the like. Nonfictional ones
are a little bit harder to do. All right. I'm
gonna read more about space now.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
All right, Thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Thanks for caring about what I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And you do the optro And until next time, go
out read good books.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Until next time, go out read good books
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And we will talk to you later.
All right, welcome to Telsa's Book Club. Just kidding. This
is still movie Mike's movie.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Podcast, but it's the book episode.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It is the book episode, but you host.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
This because I I haven't read any books. I'll give
you my top comics I've read this year, but I
have never good I've not finished a book this year.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I know. I have this very formal post it note
my best books of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Probably gonna have to consult my good Reads.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Still tell everybody how many books you read total this year?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I have finished eighty year. I'm reading others, but eighty
was my goal for the year. I actually hit all
of my personal growth goals for the year. My goals
were well at the start of the year, they were
focused on books in boxing classes, and then like midway through.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The year, it's about finding a job.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But I have since found a new job. I hit
two hundred and fifty boxing classes and I've read eighty books.
So I'm done with the personal growth for this year.
So if anyone needs me for the remainder of twenty
twenty four, I'm on my calchrutching Bravo with a glass
of wine.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Done with personal growth.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
My personal growth for the year was to make a
list about the goals I wanted to accomplish, and I
didn't finish the list, So I don't know if I
had any personal growth of this year.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I would say you about personal growth and professional growth
like your podcasts, True Crown.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I guess normally I have more specific goals. I just
did things this year.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I feel like, yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
So I read eighty and I have compiled a list
of my top ten.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I think there's ten.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let's say count the list and this very official post
it note.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Ten.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes, but I think I was gonna swap one of
them out. I might have eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You can do ten and then do a honorable mention.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Kick it off with number ten.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh, but I don't have them. They're not like, oh,
it's just ten. Oh, okay, you pick a favorite. Okay,
give me to pick a favorite child. Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I love ter rank things.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
No, because they're all it's a mix, sure of like
fiction and nonfiction. And I feel differently about fiction than
I do nonfiction. So it's just the ten that stuck
with me.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I just do book one.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Book one.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We are going with the Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa
Barr and I gave that a four point five out
of five, and that is not a surprise a World
War two book, but it was fascinating. It is about
this actress and she is famous, and she's older now
I think she's in her seventies or eighties. It's fiction,
(02:32):
but she in another lifetime earlier in her life was
like a spy. And I don't want to give anything
else away, but the writing was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The story.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I loved the idea of like her being this like
famous older actress and then her being like, but you
don't know my history.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Done Dune, you'll know my history exactly all right.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Book two, okay, this one is called aft Annie by
Anna Quindlin, and I gave that one a four point
twenty five out of five.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
And this one was sad. I'll give you it's a
tear jerker.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So if you're feeling like you need something sad, read
this one.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And if you feel like you don't want to read
anything sad, don't read this one.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It is about a mom and a wife who suddenly
dies and like how the people in her life pick
up the pieces and move on. It's Ballet cower, kids,
her husband, her best friend, how they all move on
in her absence.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Do you remember the first sad book you read, Because
for me, I remember reading Where the Red Fern Grows,
and that book destroyed me.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It was honestly probably a chicken soup for the kids.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You read those man, I had every version. I had
one that had twenty five Christmas stories. To this day,
they are some of the most depressing stories that have
stuck with me. I have not read them over twenty
years now. I can remember reading some of them. It
was like a story for each day. There was one
that I read that, like, to.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
This day haunts me.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I won't even talk about it on here because it's
so sad. I'll tell you later, but it's so so sad. Yeah,
I had like chicken soup for the teenage soul. Remember
they used to have like chicken soup for the American
idol Lover Soul didn't have that one. I remember all
of those, but yeah, I rose were probably sad.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I remember Where the Red Friend Grows and I remember
Flowers for Algernon. Those are the two saddest books I
read growing up.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Where the Red Friend grows.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's a good one. Pretty sad oh was another one.
I cared old yeller, No, anything with the dog is
usually pretty sad roll. It's under here my cry. That
one got me too.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's been so long since I read the one.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, it was the only time I paid attention like
early on reading books.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It's Kill a Mockingbird made me really sad. Someone changed
me as a person.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I would say, so the movie too, movie is good.
What do you have for book three?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So books three and four, I'm gonna kind of wrap
these ups of combo because they had very similar plots,
and hold on, let me in my professionalism.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I forgot to write down some of the authors.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I like how non professional you are with everything posted note.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I think it's because I'm so professional in my work
life and everything else. I'm a project manager and everything else.
Like my book club is thorough. It runs organized the
rest of my life like Christmas gifts lists, and then
sometimes I come down to it and I'm like, post it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Note and reading books is it's your hobby.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It is my hobby. So I don't want to be
but I do log them. And then all the Colors
of the Dark by Chris Whitaker and God of the
Woods by Liz Moore, very similar books, and they came
out this year.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Both of them.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Got Off the Woods came out July second, and All
the Colors of the Dark came out June twenty fifth,
so a week apart. And they're both kind of about
like a missing kid in the Woods. I gave All
the Colors of the Dark five stars and Got of
the Woods four point seventy five.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Does it happen a lot with books of two similar
things coming out around the same time, because that happens
with movies like twin movies, where sometimes they try to
like jump on the other person, like, oh, we both
are working on a movie that's very similar. We're going
to get ours out first. I don't feel like it
that's a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I think this one was just a coincidence. All the
Colors of the Dark is very long. It's like a
six hundred page book.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I could never I read it on.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
My kindle, and that honestly made it feel less intimidating.
I love a long book, but I think five hundred
is my max that I can read physical book. Other
than that it overwhelms me. So I enjoyed reading All
the Colors of the Dark.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On average, how long does it take you to read
one book, like, say, like a what's a normal book?
Two hundred three d pages?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That's a short one to me.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's a normal one to me.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I mean, if I have all the time in the world.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
A day, gosh, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
We came home from Wicked and I started a book
that was like four hundred pages and I stayed until
two am reading it, and I read it all that night.
But it was a fast paced So it again depends
fiction nonfiction, funny, sad, the mood I'm in if I'm
sitting up right in bed reading or if I've rolled
over and I'm on my side with one I open
reading my kindle.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Meanwhile, it takes me like fifteen twenty minutes to read
a comic.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
But yeah, so they're both about kind of like a
kid missing in the woods. I think the writing of
All the Colors of the Dark was really interesting and
I felt like it kept me guessing.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
A little bit more than God of the Woods.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Feel like God of the Woods. I kind of figured
out the twist, but not fully. But All the Colors
of the Dark really kept me guessing.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
That was four and five, three and four, three and
four okay, Book five.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Book five is okay, So I guess I have another
by two authors, and I forgot to write this one down,
so I'm gonna go five is Code Girls, The Untold
Story of the American Women code Breakers of World War
Two by Eliza Mundy, and I believe I gave that
one five stars, so it is about Synopsis's Code Girls
(07:44):
is a book by e. Liza Mundy that tells the
story of the American women who secretly broke codes during
World War Two, meaning like they figured out where like
German ships were going to be when they were moving
in all of these things. I love this book because,
as we all know, I love a book about a
badass female heroin most of the books on my lists
(08:05):
this year are about women, I don't think. I think
All the Colors of the Dark is maybe the only
one that has like a prominent male character. I didn't
have time to read about men this year.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I mean, I know, I'm going back to what the
episode they came out before this. Of my underrated movies,
a lot of those were women's stories. Yeah, female directed,
female starring female leads.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's where we've been deprived of female stories for so long.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
In me and people, Yeah, underrated.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I loved this because the idea was that you know,
the men all go to fight off in the war,
so women would kind of take like the administrative jobs.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No women were.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Solving, I mean and when I I still to this
day don't entirely understand how they broke the codes because
these things were encrypted with an encryption key that changed
every day. So they had these machines that you would
type a message and then you would like encrypt it,
and so like the third letter would shift to become
the seventh letter. So they got the finish puzzle, and
(08:59):
they worked backwards and solved all of these things and
it became like a fully readable message. My mind is literally,
if you feel like giving yourself a headache, look up
the machines that they used for code breaking, because I mean,
I have a master's degree, and that thing looks like
I'd never be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's worse than No Kim.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Trying to figure out how to hack into something exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
So then going off of that one, my next book,
book six is The Sisterhood, also by Eliza Mundy, So
this is a book about women in the CIA and
this one.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Phenomenal also gave this one a five. I love books about.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Women in professions that like the world deemed too frail,
too fragile, that women wouldn't be good at Women in
the CIA so fascinating to me. Learned a lot about
just the CIA as an organization, a lot of interesting
stuff in there, specifically a round pre nine to eleven,
(10:02):
what was happening with intelligence and like learning about organizations
plotting things. I really want to say the word on
this podcast, hopefully everyone else does. I thought that was
really interesting and about how like women would go out
in the field and they would do these undercover jobs
and they were better at being undercover operatives because no
(10:23):
one suspected that women were undercover. Ciah and Say were
expecting it to be the men, and so women were
kind of the like surprise, Like I've been collecting intell
on you. Eliza Mundy's research is so detailed, like her
notes at the end about how much research she does
is what makes her think an incredible like investigative journalist
(10:44):
and to be able to tell these stories because it's like,
I mean, she's got like the days the transcripts, Like
she is going off of so much research and then
is able to put it into a story that doesn't
bore you. It's like some of these things if you
just start like reading case reports, but she like weaves
it into a story. So I highly recommend that one.
Next one, Let's see what book is this? This is
(11:06):
book four seven? Oh, I thought we're going the other oay,
I lost dragon numbers. All right, we're at book seven seven.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We're going to go into a break here and come
back with the rest of the list because got to
pay the bill around here. We are back, and we're
back book seven, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Book seven is Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dre also
gave that one a five. So this one is about
the woman who would become the Secretary of State under FDR.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
So interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
She is responsible for like the creation of Social Security
and her relationship working with FDR. I was like, women
politicians don't always get their own stories. Again, deprived of
women's stories.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Thought that one was really good, couldn't put it down.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Book eight is All You Have to Do Is Call
by Harry Mayer, and I gave that one of four
point seventy five out of five. One of the things
that I learned about this year, and I feel that
it's very timely in the light of twenty twenty four,
is about the Jane Network in the seventies before bro
v Wade was passed, and it was an organization of
women who first just kind of connected women to safe
(12:21):
abortion providers, and then the women in the group like
actually learned how to provide these services.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
So it's a group of women.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
They were like, why aren't we the ones doing this
if we're the ones having to receive it, and like
know how women feel. So it was a story of
the Jane Network, and the idea was all you have
to do is call and you just say. There was
another book that I read where you would say, like
I'm looking for Jane, and that meant you needed access
to abortion services.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I won't make this.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Political, but as someone with a background in public health,
I do have a master's degree in it, access to
women's healthcare is one of the most important things. So
the idea was these women banded together in the early
seventies and they said, we're going to be the safe
space for each other. And initially, like I said, they
were reaching out to mail doctors asking them to partner
(13:09):
with them, and then finally they were like, why are
we sending all these women to male doctors who like
aren't doing this. So they became trained and they would
like have a full operation, and I thought it was
so cool that they were willing to take that risk
to provide healthcare for women. So there's a lot of
books about that. I've read a couple fiction and then
I read a nonfiction one. They're all kind of similar
titled like Oh you have to Call looking for Jane.
(13:32):
I think one was just called the Jane Network and
it was actually written by a former member, so that
one was really interesting. Next one, book nine is We
Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter five star.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It is also a mini series on Hulu.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I would recommend reading the book first because you get
obviously way more of the stories than you do in
Hulu mini series. But I thought the miniseriies was really
well done. I think it took it so the book
spans an entire family across like twenty years, so the
mini series I feel like, just had to kind of condense.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It afferent mini series.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I thought the cast was great. Joey King Logan Lerman
is really well done. I think it's six or eight episodes,
maybe eight came out earlier this year. I'd had the
book on my list forever and it was just one
of those that, like I kept getting off the wait
list for another Library book and another Library book, and
then it was just at the bottom of my list.
(14:24):
And then when I saw the mini series was coming out,
I was like, I need to read that, and then
I read it and my life was changed. It was
It's one of those that you read it and you're like,
how is this story real? Because it's almost so unbelievable
the things that they went through and endured that you're like,
this has to be made up, but it's not. And
I think that's my fascination with World War two books
(14:45):
is that. And I've said this before, it's still it's
not even it's what eighty years ago, Like I can't
imagine people going through these things and surviving, but they did,
and they're still telling their stories. And I'm just mind
blown of the things. Like I talked about the people
in Poland that lived in the sewers, people we talked
(15:06):
about it with the Blitz movie, people sending their kids
away to keep them safe. Like the things that humans
endured and made it through to live and tell the
story about feels. So I just can't fathom it. I
simply can't fathom the way that they were treated and
the conditions that they lived in for so many years,
and like the human spirit prevailed and like people just
(15:29):
did what they had to do to survive. And I'm
sure we all think when push comes to show, if
we could do it, but I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I don't know that I could. So I highly recommend.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
If I was going to recommend just one off this list,
I think it would be We Were the Lucky One. Yes,
I think it would because it's just it's based on
the author's family, so it's someone who has like the
first hand interviews and experience, and I think that makes
it more personable too, because she writes with an emotion.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And then it's cool you can read it and then
go watch to see your.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I highly recommend reading it before you watch the series. Okay,
Book number ten, The Six by Lauren Grush five stars,
and I'm now so obsessed with space, which I mentioned
briefly when we did the Underrated Movies that you had
talked about fle Me to the Moon. I have a
fascination with all things space. Now I want to understand it.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So the six is about the first six.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
American women in space, because the Russians did beat us
two that unfortunately in sent women to space before we did.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But it's the first six.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It was the class of like nine, either nineteen seventy
six or nineteen seventy eight that NASA first started accepting women.
And so it tells the full story of the first
six women, Sally Ride, Judy Resnick, Shannon Lucid, Kathy Sullivan,
(16:55):
Raya Sedden, and Anna Fisher. I think, and I just
did that off the top of my memory, thank you.
And I think the order was Sally Sally Ride was
the first, Sally, Judy, Anna, Kathi, Rayah and Shannon, and
then I went on a deep dive and Raya Seddin,
who was the fifth woman. She was trained as a surgeon.
(17:15):
She's from Murphysboro, Tennessee. She then went on to work
in Nashville, like in medicine, which I thought was really cool.
Like imagine you go somewhere and it's like, oh yeah,
she was a former astronaut, like she casually like still
doing surgeries and stuff. I think she went on to
hold some leadership positions, but I thought that was cool,
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kind of a local celeb.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And all those women paved the way for Sandra Bully
to go to space.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yes, they did so then and history is not a
spoiler alert. So the book ends on Judy Resnick being
on the Challenger when it exploded. So now I'm reading, well,
I started reading the book about the Challenger and then
weird full circle. I'm in the Sharon mc man Virtual
book Club and Challenger was actually picked just one of
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our books.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
For next semester.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You're already reading it.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He's already reading.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
It, which means we get another plug if you would
like to join Sharon McMahon's book club.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You get author meetings, so we're gonna get to hear
from the author that wrote the Challenger book, and I
want to hear all about his research. But I have
fascination with space now, and most of these women were mothers,
so they had kids and they were like going to
space and then just hearing all the things that they
did in space, like they would do a space walk
and they'd use this robot arm to pull out like
(18:33):
what they called the payloads. Fascinated by it. So loved
that book. That was my eightieth book of the year.
Once I started it, I was like, this is gonna
be on my top ten list. I was like, this
is so good. And then I actually found out that
a friend of ours knows the author, So I'm gonna
have to see if I can get the author's contact
just so I can write her and be like, I
(18:54):
loved this book.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm now obsessed with space.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You know how much I love space. The crazy thing
to me is when you look at those like scales
of like how small we are compared to everything. When
you just start pulling out further and further and further
and there's all these different planets, this huge galaxy. We're
just so small. It's this little rock just floating here.
That's what blows my mind about space, Like what is
out there? I will go? How long will it take
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you to get there? Some say that the aliens aren't
invading the world, they are leaving it. They've been here
this whole time, and they're like, we gotta go.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
One thing I learned was one of the missions I
don't remember which one their windshield like had a slight
cracking it. Thankfully it didn't like fully bust because they
would have fall died, Like your windshield can't come off
in space, like you can't be exposed to that. But
it was from a paint chip, because things in space
(19:50):
moved so fast that a paint chip flew off the
space shuttle hit the windshield and cracked it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's also what blows my mind about space. I literally,
how can you go through and not be hitting things
all the time that are making holes in the spaceship
as that happened, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
And then like it's just funny too, like this world
was fully designed for men, and it's like women are
an afterthought most of the time. Like they designed all
the like space suits and stuff for men, and then
they had to be like, well, how are women going
to pee in space? And I'm just like why are
we were an afterthought?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And every design are they addressed in the book?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They do? They do?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
They basically like they had to do like a it's
almost like a tube that like connects to you because
women can't. It's a lot harder for us to pee
into something steadily than it is for men. But yeah,
so I thought those books I would highly recommend. I
think the lowest one on the list is a four point.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Twenty five strong list.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I will also give up plug for the app story Graph.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
How do you say, where can people find Do you
have that boasted on there.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
My book reviews?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Like I have all the books I've read this Yeah, okay,
so I have a good Reads, which I'm still using
because I know some people just to really love good Reads.
But I'm also using a new app called story Graph.
It is female founded. There's no ads. You can do
like a five dollars a month subscription which I have,
which allows you to build really cool like charts and
(21:21):
graphs based on what you read for the year. But
the biggest thing about story Graph is that you can
rate books by quarters, so point two, five point five
point seven five. My biggest hang up with good Reads
besides the fact that it glitches half the time, so
you can only do whole numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So like, you'll go on my good Reads and.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All of these will probably be a five because they
were above a four, so I didn't want to give
it a four, but not all of them were a five.
But on story Graph, you can see exactly what you
give things, so I think you have to add people
in StoryGraph. We'll put that in the show notes. Because
I don't remember my username, it's probably the Kelsey Rod
or something. And we'll put my good Reads on there
as well. I love hearing what other people are reading.
(22:02):
I like seeing on Goodreads what everyone's reading. Shout out
to my friend Mandy who got me into the Sharon
McMahon book Club.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's so much fun. I think that's all I am
to say.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I didn't do an honorable mention because if every other book,
all the other seventy are honorable mentions.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You can go look at out everything you've read. All
the other honorable mentions are on there. Yes, for me.
My favorite comic I read this year the series was
Ultimate Spider Man, which is Spider Man now and like
his mid thirties. He's an adult married to Mary Jane.
They have a couple of kids, and he's Spider Man.
He that's when he becomes Spider Man, instead of becoming
(22:42):
Spider Man as a teenager. He's in his thirties. So
I loved this series.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
That is really interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I think it would make a great movie because they've
done everything else they've done high school teenager. I think
having somebody in their thirties, which is a lot of
Spider Man fans like me who grew up with you know,
the nine show, Toby maguire, you've had all those iterations.
I think that would really speak to people now who
are like people who grew up with Spider Man in
that era of like, oh, it's somebody now at our
(23:09):
age being Spider Man. But he probably had to take
like a lot of advil and you know, have other
things going on. But in this series, he's totally good.
He's has the super ability to do every.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He doesn't have Spider kids because he's not Spider Man yet.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
They're regular kids.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Fascinating.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But yeah, there has been twelve issues of that and
they've all been great.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You've read all twelve.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I haven't read the twelfth one yet because it hasn't
come out at the time of recording this, but I've
read all other eleven and they've been It's been the
only comic that I have to go get when it
comes out.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, you have been getting your stories regularly.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I go get my stories regularly. The other one's like, yeah,
I miss it.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Get it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Later whenever they restocking. But that one, when it comes out,
I have to go get it because they also put
out like variant covers, and if you don't get those
the week it comes out, they're gone forever.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It is good to snow.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So that is my one of the year.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'm trying to think of other book related things.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Like all those all those issues added up. Maybe it's
a book. I would think so, because they put end
up putting it out like all together, where you can
just buy the one where it's every issue.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
I think it's book.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's my book of the year.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
It's a hobby. I don't think it hass.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It's no different than people who are like I don't
like to read a physical book like an audio book,
Like yeah, you're consuming information, whether it's informative or enjoyable.
Like still still reading to me, Like I consider an
audio book just as much. Hold on, I still feel
like I had some other book thoughts. My favorite book
light is called The Mighty Bright. I can put that
(24:34):
in the show notes as well. I get no kickback.
I just really enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Oh yeah, you have a light, I do.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It gets pretty bright.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
It does.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
You have to face the wall when I'm reading, but
it is dimmable, it has a long battery life. Oh,
this year we are going to do We didn't do
it last year. I talked about it, and then when
it was my birthday, people are like, I hope you
get your like books at the bookstore. We are going
to do the thing. Let's set the ground rules now, Okay,
where we go to our low bookstore? Shout out Parnassis
(25:01):
greatest place ever? How long do I have to go
around the store to get books?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Ninety seconds?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Do I get like a pre Do I get a
warm up lap? Because I have to read about some
of these books. I can't just buy based on the comer.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You can know going into it, but it's in ninety seconds.
How many can you grab? I feel like you could
have a list, but you can't go through and see
where everything is. I think that's part of it. Who
because that's the that's.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, two minutes. I think ninety seconds too short.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think ninety seconds is good. I don't like that
because it's a skill thing, Like you have ninety seconds
to get all the books? How many can you get?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
But I don't necessarily know what I want?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's what you can do. You can look it up
before and have a list and then you have to
go find them ninety seconds because if you have two minutes,
that's a lot of time. Then it becomes less of like,
oh I had to get these quickly. They'll be like,
oh I can, I can take some time. I think
the ninety seconds puts the pressure on you.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And what if it's crowded in there? Can we extend
the time.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I can't mow people over.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That's part of the game, that's what makes it fun.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I don't want to agree to these terms and conditions.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Initially I was thinking sixty seconds. I thought ninety seconds
was being generous. I think nineties perfect. Okay, I think
that makes it fun. And you can film a video
in ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Boom, I'm not filming the video. I'm too busy looking.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm filming it ninety seconds. That's the only rule. In
ninety seconds. You can have a list going into it,
but you can't go through and plot it out. You
can't like go in and do a test run. It's
ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I mean, I know the layout of the story.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Yeah, you already, you already kind of know the layouts
you already have an advantage there.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Okay, fine, are we shaking on it?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Shake? Shake, shake, shake, seen Aura? All right? Anything else?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I would love to see the rest of these become.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Movies or many series.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, or many series, I guess the like. Nonfictional ones
are a little bit harder to do. All right. I'm
gonna read more about space now.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
All right, Thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Thanks for caring about what I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
And you do the optro And until next time, go
out read good books.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Until next time, go out read good books
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And we will talk to you later.
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