Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to a very special season promo
Speaker 1: episode A Mean Book Club.
Speaker 2: We can call these episodes.
Speaker 3: A minisode perhaps, you know. Buckle up, a buckle, a
Speaker 3: little something to pump you up, get you prepped, get
Speaker 3: you ready.
Speaker 1: Thirsty for season twenty one, where we give you the
Speaker 1: book list, right, what what do you want?
Speaker 4: Water?
Speaker 3: Thirsty for books?
Speaker 4: Because you drink for water, everyone drink, I drink words.
Speaker 2: I would say we've gone on the wrong kind of
Speaker 2: at tangent.
Speaker 4: Okay, sure, don't.
Speaker 3: Make me spit my water out.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's talk about some of these books
Speaker 1: we got this season, so they can you know, our
Speaker 1: listeners can get started.
Speaker 3: Yes, wet their appetite.
Speaker 2: Never too late to get started. As a Mean Book
Speaker 2: Club podcaster, let me tell you, it's never too late
Speaker 2: to start a book.
Speaker 3: You can start it the day before it's due. You
Speaker 3: can ever read it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine. Actually, just listen, you know what. That's
Speaker 1: actually fair. You don't have to talk, so it's true,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: But here we go. We got Rose in Chains by
Speaker 3: Julie Soto.
Speaker 4: Ooh ooh Cheney, Yes, like Dick Cheney.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's about Dick Cheney. What else?
Speaker 3: What else do we got?
Speaker 4: We have a book I'm really excited about everybody. It's
Speaker 4: the book that is the TV show that everyone.
Speaker 3: Is watching this fall except for Johanna. It is Heated.
Speaker 4: Rivalry by Rachel Read. And we had a guest in
Speaker 4: that episode, James Cocher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an F one influencer, so it really fits sports.
Speaker 2: Then we have Ninth House by Lee Bardugo. And now
Speaker 2: I'll take a little shot at Sabrina. For some reason,
Speaker 2: out of nowhere, everybody's reading this book except Sabrina.
Speaker 4: Well that's not true. I read the book, but you
Speaker 4: scheduled she missed it for a time. I preemptively said
Speaker 4: I couldn't do this is for anyone.
Speaker 3: Shot yourself. You have powerless? All right? Fine?
Speaker 1: Next we have Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown. Is
Speaker 1: this our third, Dan Brown?
Speaker 3: Our third?
Speaker 1: Isn't it?
Speaker 4: Angels in America and the bookst Angels?
Speaker 3: What are they called? Angels and Demons?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: In America. We've done a few Dan Browns. That's all
Speaker 3: I have to say. Yes, And we have a guest.
Speaker 3: Can we say that? No, it's Jonathan Bernandez.
Speaker 1: He's background last n he's back, the actor the the brilliant,
Speaker 1: the fernandoah the writer.
Speaker 4: Then after that, what do we got remarkably bright creatures? Bye?
Speaker 3: Shall be van Pelt. Here's what I feel.
Speaker 4: Like, what I like about it. It's like both parts
Speaker 4: of her name are animal houses or for like a
Speaker 4: shell a pelt.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, that Shelby shell is a little bit.
Speaker 1: Reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like.
Speaker 2: It's like if a turtle married a fox. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: baby Shelby van Pelt.
Speaker 1: And that's a remarkably bright creature. All right, I'm scared
Speaker 1: of that one. Next we have sometimes I Lie by
Speaker 1: Alice Feeney.
Speaker 3: Ooh, naughty, I lie?
Speaker 4: Did she write that book about the authors on the
Speaker 4: island and the men who kept not being able to live?
Speaker 2: From that description I knew, not know, you know, beautiful ugly?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did she write that?
Speaker 4: Oh she did, perfect description of that book.
Speaker 3: It got me there. It took me a second, but
Speaker 3: I got it at all, all right. And then finally
Speaker 3: what do we got bill a bomb?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Whoops? Gettick silver?
Speaker 2: I did get it by Callie Hart, a book that
Speaker 2: I like keep forgetting the name of. And when I
Speaker 2: see it in my stack of books I have to read,
Speaker 2: I'm like it's not for mean book clubs. So something
Speaker 2: about it is leaving my brain in a really bad way.
Speaker 3: It bodes badly for the book, all right, But yeah,
Speaker 3: we're going badly for the book. But I think that
Speaker 3: means it's going to have a great break.
Speaker 4: I just looked cover for that and yeah, Wow, we've
Speaker 4: really got a theme this season, don't we?
Speaker 1: Look we do? And we went hard. We'd picked some
Speaker 1: things from book talk. We picked some things you guys
Speaker 1: were recommended screaming at us for to do them, and
Speaker 1: we're and we also picked some long ones. We made
Speaker 1: some mistakes. We picked some long ones, and we're not
Speaker 1: that happy about that, but we're dealing with it. Okay.
Speaker 3: At least they're all New York Times bestsellers this time.
Speaker 4: JOHNA and Sarah picked this list without consulting me.
Speaker 3: Certainly.
Speaker 4: I can't say if Clara was consulted.
Speaker 3: She was certainly not consulted.
Speaker 4: I'm going to assume.
Speaker 2: Okay, I do think we maybe overdid it because I'm
Speaker 2: reading the description of Quicksilver. It's yeah, Sarah's Faine, a
Speaker 2: thief with hidden powers, is pulled into a magical world
Speaker 2: of Fay Warren alchemy.
Speaker 3: A lot of.
Speaker 2: Powers, a lot of secrets, a little more am I
Speaker 2: like the driving balance force in the planning call?
Speaker 1: How can.
Speaker 3: Cast you are?
Speaker 1: I think if you want any nonfiction, we need for
Speaker 1: you to Yeah, I'm not going to pick it.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to pick it without your insistence.
Speaker 4: And also, like I have to stress that diversity is
Speaker 4: not just in fiction versus nonfiction. It's in eighteen hours
Speaker 4: versus eight hours. We use a little more eight hours.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll work on it.
Speaker 1: Okay. I think we were leaning into popular books, and
Speaker 1: that's maybe where, well, where we went wrong.
Speaker 4: I don't know or what right you guys tell people
Speaker 4: are nerds these days, they're actually.
Speaker 3: Still recording the promo. Did you guys know that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know what I think Sarah and I did this
Speaker 2: is that feigned incompetence thing, like when you ask some
Speaker 2: one to unload the dishwasher and they do such a
Speaker 2: bad job you don't ask them again. I think that's
Speaker 2: what we've done to encourage you to get more involved.
Speaker 3: In maybe next season.
Speaker 4: It's Claire exphercise enough that you did not remotely invite
Speaker 4: me to a plan meeting that would have involved picking books. No, no, no, no, no, no, listeners.
Speaker 4: You need to know that the day before they were
Speaker 4: having a meeting that did not seem to include picking
Speaker 4: the books. They said are you available? And the answer
Speaker 4: was no, And I could have I could have told
Speaker 4: them that everyone's invited a week before.
Speaker 2: Sabrina, you need to lean in, take your seat at
Speaker 2: the table.
Speaker 3: Okay, right.
Speaker 1: Look, Also, you are notoriously hard to schedule, so I
Speaker 1: listen to blame us for that.
Speaker 4: Well, but you didn't say that it was picking the books.
Speaker 4: I mean I would not have been available that day
Speaker 4: that you chose without consulting me.
Speaker 3: Look a day again.
Speaker 4: I even remember earlier I was trying to offer every
Speaker 4: other day next week.
Speaker 3: You know what, I'm being everything they could listeners.
Speaker 1: Way in, does that those books seem like a great
Speaker 1: season of books? Or are you mad like Sabrina weigh in?
Speaker 1: Are you mad and wrong like Sabrina? Oh?
Speaker 3: Wow, wrong? Okay? So are we doing a little fucker
Speaker 3: of the promo because we're not in vogue to dole
Speaker 3: out of the proo. This is just a promo. Let's
Speaker 3: end it boost my stats in that way. My child
Speaker 3: is screaming my name behind me. I should go Okay,
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