The Bookish Hour

Diving into Wintry Reads (Book Recs for Winter)

• Jor & Fab • Season 1 • Episode 51

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Books for Snowy Days and Winter Nights

This episode embraces the enchanting world of winter literature, featuring a diverse range of book recommendations that resonate with the wintry season. We discuss the allure of icy settings, captivating narratives, and passionate romances, highlighting how these stories evoke warmth amidst the cold.

• Cozy (and VERY spicy) winter book recommendations 
• The appeal of smutty narratives in winter settings 
• Exploring character-driven stories influencing winter themes 
• Community engagement around book reading  
• Winter as a metaphor for self-discovery and resilience 

Come join us for this very snowy, wintry filled episode!

Cover Art by: Fabienne and Jordan
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Jordan:

welcome to the bookish hour with jor and fab a long time. No see, honey hi long time.

Fabienne:

No see, wow, it's feel like it's been forever.

Jordan:

That's forever and never and never and never I always used to think that I was so great at acting when I was younger I thought I would make such a good, like good actress. And now, sometimes I just like pretend to be, you know like enthusiastic in certain like things and like, yeah, I can't fake that shit I don't want to tell you this actually you're a great actress. Uh, no, I love it.

Fabienne:

Give it all to me, actress. No, I love it. Give it all to me.

Jordan:

Okay, I can't, that's all.

Fabienne:

That's all you got. That's all.

Jordan:

I got. Well, that's not all I actually have. I came with recommendations for this entire episode. I did homework for you.

Fabienne:

I did too. I'm so proud, because wintery books, that's a hard fucking wreck to give. I just want to state that because it's hard.

Jordan:

Do we go with like, where there is like snow undercover? Do we go for like gothic tales? Do we go for christmas books? No, because you know we're way past december.

Fabienne:

At this point no you just have to go with like winter book recs. So want to go back and forth again.

Jordan:

You know what? Yeah, let's do it. You want to go first?

Fabienne:

You want to go first, I'll go first. Okay, I'm so proud of this one because I actually thought of this one from my head instead of Googling Wow. So I have books that I've read first, and then I have books that I've read first, and then I have ones that, like other people have said that are on my TBR. So, like, these are the ones that I've read.

Jordan:

So the first one's Credence by Penelope Douglas, the female main character literally goes into the woods and it's like snowy and shit and then some stuff happens.

Fabienne:

Honestly, I think that's the best book blurb to have ever existed. Oh my god wait. Do you remember when we had to like butcher book blurbs and then the other person had to guess the book?

Jordan:

this would take the fucking cake.

Fabienne:

Yes honestly that I should have. We should do it again. We need to do it again. Write it down again.

Jordan:

Write it down again. Wait, wait. I'm opening up the notes app. Um, do I only write with the blue or like the colored dates? Is that like out?

Fabienne:

is that, yes, the blue is ours, okay, butchered book, blurb titles, whatever that was so fun, but I also feel like we guessed it every single time, like we knew anyways okay um winter book rex you next uh, I have bone island by nicole fiorina fuck, that was my other one, but that one is a good winter book because I feel like Hollow Heathens is fall but, like Bone Island, people were waiting for fall to read it and I had to tell people I'm like, no, do not wait for fall, you are out of fall, like it's perpetually winter there.

Jordan:

It's like, literally, like, almost, like a presence in the like, literally like, almost like a presence in the book itself, like a character on its own. So, yes, wintertime, yes.

Fabienne:

Great book and both of those are well. Bone Island and Credence are both smutty. So you want some smutty, smut, smut, smut.

Jordan:

Mm-hmm. Oh yeah, I actually kind of forgot about that. Bone Island is hella smutty. Yeah, I actually kind of forgot about that Bone Island is hella smutty, as opposed to Hollow Heathens.

Fabienne:

Hella, oh yeah, hollow Heathens is like. I don't know what to do.

Jordan:

It's like a YA version for her younger daughter back then.

Fabienne:

And she couldn't do a YA version for Bone Island. Okay, so I would have to go.

Jordan:

It's like redacted, redacted, redacted. The entire book will be black.

Fabienne:

Yes, but actually no. But I was going to say Hockey God series by S Massery Granted. I only read the first three, but like hockey happens in the winter, so like Brutal Obsession is the first one, then Blank yeah, I don't remember what book two is titled and then secret obsession is the third one, then it's twisted obsession, then it's fierce obsession, so many obsessions yeah, why can I not think of the second one?

Jordan:

I don't know, not obsessed enough no, clearly, oh, but no wait do we, do we, would, we say, like we'd scale like every single ice hockey book like to be a winter book, because isn't there like this hannah grace book like icebreaker? Is that like a winter book, then, which is also apparently smutty, I think, from what people? Yeah, yeah, it's smutty.

Fabienne:

Yeah, I would label like I think if you want a winter book, like I would label a hockey book winter, just because in the winter so like they're cold and stuff. But it's not. I think like if you really want like a winter book, I would definitely lean towards like credence and bone island more, but I like this is on the lighter side, but it still works as like a winter book. Okay, fair, hot ice hockey.

Jordan:

Also, when you say hockey sorry, this is like going off on a tangent, but it still works as like a winter book. Okay, fair, ice hockey. Also, when you say hockey sorry, this is like going off on a tangent, semi-tangent here when you say hockey, do you immediately go like, oh, field hockey.

Fabienne:

Or do you go? Oh, ice hockey, oh, ice hockey, yeah. Do you go? Field hockey, yeah. Now, granted, now my Discover page on on instagram because I was reading those books. Oh, it's all hockey, all hockey, which I'm not mad about it, but I'm also like I'm kind of over it, but maybe that's just because I'm here people, I want to see other posts too.

Jordan:

Geez, instagram typical honestly. When, um, when, like the episode from uh for like quicksilver came out with you and lauren, um I was like looking up like stuff about quicksilver. You know, like I I downloaded like the key um the kindle, uh, wow, sorry, the ebook like on kindle. And then everything was quicksilver too. Like every single book post had like quicksilver, so like it goes so quickly, like it goes so fast like quicksilver.

Fabienne:

That was a bad pun, but but I like it exactly, never mind um actually, would you argue maybe that quicksilver is like a wintry type of book I, I have this feeling. Yes, I added it, that is in my, uh, in my like winter book recs, but I it because it starts off where it's like super dry and they have no water and shit but then like grit this isn't a spoiler, but she goes to like the fate world and I think there's snow. So I made it a winter book, okay, which then?

Jordan:

oh yeah, no, no, no, no, I have nothing to add, hugo okay.

Fabienne:

So then I was also gonna say would you argue that agatar, like especially the first one, is a winter book, because it's like snowy and shit, she kills a wolf in the snow honestly yes, also because, yeah, but oh, yeah, okay, we are so hyped about this, okay, yes, I know.

Jordan:

But also because it gives off like, uh, beauty and beast vibes and for me, like a wintry type of story.

Fabienne:

Oh, but then also like she does go to the spring court, so then she does leave winter.

Jordan:

But then if you talk, we'll ignore that, but then if you continue, the series.

Fabienne:

If you continue the series without spoilers, the novella. No, I'm even thinking book two, there's some like dark stuff. I mean the night court has snow. I was gonna say that I was gonna give that away.

Jordan:

Oh spoiler, I mean there. Well, there, I mean, there's also like the who hasn't read this series? Honestly at this point, do you live under a fucking rock? I'm kidding I mean no I mean yes, but like a quart of frost and starlight, definitely wintry oh, yeah, but also, but also oh, my goodness, like it's so boring. I see people like gushing over that story, like, oh, how it's so good and how it's like the onset for like a story, and I'm like, yeah. I but also we could have done without that novella.

Fabienne:

Yes, the thing is, I think, all right. So we're coming in hot with the tea right now, which is also OK. I'm going to start with it.

Fabienne:

I think Sarah J Maas has a very interesting fan base. We love her books. Like we love Throne of Glass like that, by far, is going to be like one of my all time favorite series ever. Like I'm obsessed with those books. I'm obsessed with those books but I'm not necessarily obsessed with Sarah J Maas in general. But I feel like her fans are like such ride or die. So like if someone were to say, like I don't like her books, they like come after you. Like these fans, they're like, no Like. Clearly you just hate reading because you don't like these books. And it's so interesting because this I definitely talked about this guy before in a previous episode, but Dylan Reading he did a post literally today that talked about he was like you know, I mentioned in a video saying that I DNF'd Throne of Glass and he's like the books are just too long and I don't necessarily like I think he got past a couple of them.

Fabienne:

I DNF'd Throne of Glass and he's like the books are just too long and I don't necessarily like I think he got past a couple of them and I think he DNF'd the third one, which I love the third one. But I also get like my favorite character of all time, so like obsessed with the third one. But I understand that like the books aren't going to be for everyone. She also started that first book when she was 16. So again, if you can't, I totally understand, because I also thought book two was boring as fuck.

Fabienne:

But if you can get past it, like they get better and better. But like people were coming at him in his comments being like you just hate reading, like you say that you're a reader but like you won't read a thousand page book and I'm like it's not for everybody, but like I think her fans just like will come at you for not like but it's so true Because even like my sister has talked to me about her, like her fans like Sarah J Moss's, like she's read A Court of Thorns and Roses and she liked it.

Fabienne:

But she's, like you know, like people go like fucking nuts and I'm like they do. Like she's read A Court of Thorns and Roses and she liked it. But she's, like you know, like people go like fucking nuts and I'm like they do. Like I don't think we're on that side of like Bookstagram or BookTok, but like her fans oh thank God Her like fans that are like to the nth degree are fucking nuts. And I'm going to say that just because, like I feel like we can understand why somebody wouldn't like them. Like it's not every book is for everybody, but again, I did love them and I loved A Court of Thorns and Roses. Granted, I do think Throne of Glass is better. Crescent City can go in the toilet, like I just have my own thoughts on it. But I just like her fans are nuts and we're probably going to get like something from this episode after me talking about it. But, like I think the, the diehard fans can calm the fuck down.

Jordan:

I agree, they can calm the fuck down I don't think I have anything to like, anything else to add to that.

Fabienne:

You praised it so beautifully I don't even know where I was going. With that, that's fine honey we never do.

Fabienne:

No, that's the point. It's like those fans are like whatever she puts out is gold. So they're like obsessed with that novella, even though we're like it's boring as fuck. Granted, I read it before Nesta's story came out. So, like I finished this like trilogy, like the Court of Thorns and Roses, that I needed more, because it does like, put you, I still love the books, I love where they, when I read them, how they made me feel and stuff like that. That also like I wasn't ready for the series to be over.

Fabienne:

So like, of course, I read this novella and I was obsessed with it because I wanted these characters still, but I can still acknowledge that the book was boring, but because I still wanted that feeling that the first three books gave me well, books two and three and then us 30% of the first one, and so like I'm willing, I was willing to take whatever I could get. So so like, of course, I like loved the novella, but it it is boring. But I think that's what it is is. Her fans are like no, no, it's a masterpiece and you can't say otherwise. And I'm like no, it was boring.

Jordan:

And these people? Are they of like legal age? Are they like mature? I think so. Oh, wow, that's even oh, that's worse, oh, that's bad Very childish. Anyways, I actually I mean, I say childish and I actually have a YA recommendation in this sense Honestly, it's a great story. It's by Margaret Fuck, no-transcript, literally, um, and then there's this one demon and there's like this snowy world wonderland sort of situation going on outside, but it's very cozy, action-packed, suspenseful read actually, and it's really beautifully written. Um, I read this when I literally just started bookstagram, like when you know, like way back in 2020, when I was only like starting. I wanted to read, like ya, but this book on the top of my list for wintry recommendations, a sorcery of thorns by margaret yeah, I don't really know what her last name is- yeah, so you can look it up, people look it up

Fabienne:

don't be lazy I am currently reading una out of order, like o-o-n-a una, and I literally put everybody's like name for each book except her and I. So I don't know who this is by, but it's una out of order and it was a good morning america like pick, but it it's. I love magical realism, but it's basically a new year's eve, new year's day type book. So, like this girl, she is born on new year's day and then when she turns is it 19, I think. When she's turning 19 in 1982, she jumps to 2015. So she's living her life out of order. So like she's going back and forth between different years and it's like actually really good, I'm loving it.

Fabienne:

I still I think I have like 100 pages left, but I would definitely like it's. I don't know if I would. I would just label it as wintry only because it's like a New Year's Day, new Year's Eve type book, fair, so I would count it. But like, if you like magical realism, it's. I wouldn't say like it's smutty or anything, but I really like it and I'm labeling it wintry.

Jordan:

Well then, it is wintry, as per. Now she said, very 18th century, like, um, I have the dark hours by amy jordan. It's I have. This is like a recommendation that I saw online, so you know, don't don't take my word for it um, but it's a thriller and like a snowed-in type of story.

Jordan:

Um, there is also again a gothic-esque type of vibe going on, because you know like you're in a cabin in the woods, um lights go out, you know like a snowstorm is hitting you and you have this like feeling that there's like this presence lurking around you. Um, so it's definitely thrillers. Um, it has action, um, and apparently it's like really like action packed like the. The action scenes are like really well written. I have no clue because I haven't read it, but apparently this is a good book. The Dark Hours I have never heard of it before, but I do like thrillers that are like set in like Scandinavia too, because I love to watch like Scandinavian Well series like on TV, you know. Know, like you have like these british um detective shows, you also have like the like the scandinavian um detective shows and I love those. So I think, um, yeah, I just love like the the scandinavian thrillers, and most of the time they take place in a wintry setting.

Fabienne:

So you know come to the territory. Yeah, it does count, it does it totally does I. Okay, so mine, I would. I I think this is like an, if you want, um splinters of you by ann malcolm. She like goes into the woods so she can like write her like I think she writes like thriller books, but like since she's going to a cabin in the middle of the woods, I think it's like kind of wintry, kind of cold, not. I wasn't totally thrilled with the ending of this book, but I would label it as like a wintry read, if it's something you wanted, not super smutty, um yeah, I think I have that one here too, and I remember you telling me that you weren't like agreeing with the ending yeah, I think it doesn't doesn't fit.

Fabienne:

But I guess if you would have read all of her other books it does fit. But since this being my first one, it just oh, it's like one of like that.

Jordan:

It's like a book that takes place in like a grander narrative wasn't it like the thing I think?

Fabienne:

so I also think too. She like wrote 75 at one point and then the other the last 25, like years later. So it kind of reads like that.

Jordan:

Yeah, oh, oh, okay, that's a shame. Yeah, I have again another recommendation from like somebody else the Bear and the Nightingale.

Fabienne:

Oh, I had that too on my. What other people have said are wintry books by Katherine Harden.

Jordan:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, like magical realism, fantasy, romanticy. You know you name it, but isn't the bear and the nightingale? Now I might be mixing things up here, which is not going to be like the first time ever, but it sounds like an actual fairy tale.

Fabienne:

Is it a fairy tale? I want to say it's like a Russian fairy tale. Might be totally lying, but I believe it is a fairy tale. And I want to say it's Russian, but I'm not sure.

Jordan:

Oh wait, Would you say. Anastasia by Sophie Lark.

Fabienne:

Oh fuck, yeah, yes, I would 100%. And that is yeah, yes, anastasia. And that is yeah, yes, anastasia. Oh yeah, and even Anastasia in general, because, like the movie takes place in, like the winter. Oh, I'm so glad you said that I didn't even think about it.

Jordan:

I think it was because you said Sophie Lark not too long ago to me and like that was like floating in the back of my head.

Fabienne:

I'm like something, something Sophie Lark also very wintry, I don't know yeah yes, um, okay, wait, I have one that this one is actually on my tbr, but spinning silver by naomi novak novik um, oh that, but I think that's a rumple still skinelling, but I think it's very like wintry. I haven't read it, I want to read it. I read her Uprooted, which I loved so fucking much, but that's definitely not wintry at all.

Jordan:

Okay, are these books? I don't want to say older in like the negative sense, but they are like they came out like a while ago, right yeah, like like, say, years back, okay, yeah, um, oh yeah, I don't know. I feel like fantasy does tackle winter.

Fabienne:

Yes, I agree pretty often, yeah, so I feel like there's definitely a lot more fantasy, like well yeah, yeah, I also have.

Jordan:

I think her name is, I want to say, erin. No, wait, earnshaw, shay, earnshaw, winterwood. It's like a very small town, village type of story, like, like, like, like, say, like a city in maine, for example, like coastal town. That's what I'm looking for, but then, like you know, like takes place in in the evenings. Um, the story actually like it's, it's time framed, if that makes sense, um, and definitely in the darker time of year. I can't remember. I read this a while back, like again first year bookstagram way back. Um, I think it takes place in winter or it takes place in early spring, because I remember a scene, something about spring like coming. I think it actually took place in winter. Fantastic recommendation of this. Actually, I have no idea what I'm talking about, um, but I would definitely, uh, would say winterwood and uh also I mean it's right there in the title for one. Um, yeah, but also because it's it has just this like wintry coastal vibe to it, also witches I love witches.

Jordan:

God damn those witches um always those damned witches. What can you do?

Fabienne:

I have rules of civility. I think civility, yeah, I think civility um the. It's the same author of, like the gentleman of moscow, but I've heard that one's very wintry, um, definitely not smutty. But I that's on my tbr and I feel like I'm gonna read it sooner rather than later, because if it's is wintry I feel like it's the book to read now, but I don't know, I haven't read it.

Jordan:

So we're throwing a like throwing a contemporary lit and classic books too. I mean, a Gentleman in Moscow I'd say it's kind of like a classic book in that sense.

Fabienne:

Oh Girl, you were just lucky I got some Winter Rex in there. I didn't know we had to stick with.

Jordan:

Muddy. Oh no, no, no, no. But then I mean, I would say Dorian Gray, I would say Weathering Heights, I would say Dracula.

Fabienne:

No, I would label that more like gothic and like fall yeah.

Jordan:

I wouldn't label those.

Fabienne:

No, we got like vampires. Paranormal gothic fall. I'm winter.

Jordan:

Huh, wait, do you do that Wait question? I mean obviously like in the general, okay, well, hopefully Okay. So in a general sense, gothic like equals fall, spooky, autumumnal. But there is also like the winter gothic right where it's like cold and just dark days and like shivers and frost and like big fields.

Fabienne:

So whether or not it's like okay, I haven't read that book, but I feel like I still equate that to fall, even though, because I think fall, I can think cold, I can think those sort of things. So I wouldn't label them.

Jordan:

Okay, fair, maybe not the picture, dorian Gray, though.

Fabienne:

Yeah, no, that's definitely. That's like fall, that's fall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jordan:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm actually through my list.

Fabienne:

Oh well, I did have one more, which I don't know. This is what somebody else was saying Uh-huh, but A Study in Drowning. Do you think that's wintery? I've never read it, but I want to. I want to, but I don't know wintery.

Jordan:

I've never read it, but I want to I want to, but I don't know if ellison something, something book ava reed no, ava reed completely. Somebody else like oh wait, there's also a similar book that sounds like that title, but it's written by a ellison you're not giving me much here, fob, no, no. I don't know.

Fabienne:

But I think Ava Reid Okay, some other people were also saying um One Dark Window by Rachel Liu.

Jordan:

Oh, uh, yeah, the one that's from my uh anticipated reads too. Uh, rachel Gillick.

Fabienne:

Yeah, yes, I started, started. Someone else also mentioned. I'm literally going off like reddit from the ones that, like I work it's homework, you know, because I gave you.

Fabienne:

I gave you all the ones that I like read and then the ones that I want to read that I know are wintery. But then someone else said one for my enemy, but I I don't, which is olivie blake, I think is how you say her first name, but I don't know if that I've. I've read like the first, like third of it. I don't know if I would have, because someone else said it. I am adding it here but I don't know if I would have added it. But maybe it gets like wintry if I would have continued. But the first is now third. I didn't.

Jordan:

Yeah, no, huh, wait, didn't she also wrote wow, right didn't. She also write januaries, isn't?

Fabienne:

like lisa reading that. Oh, yes, yes, but that's like a bunch of short stories. I don't know, are they?

Fabienne:

wintery, I have no idea, I just, I just, I mean you're, you're mentioning, like olivie blake, and she was january- and I'm like winter yes, oh, um, but lisa did say that if you have not read her before, don't start with januaries, because it's a bunch of short stories that she says to either start with, like atlas six or one for my enemy, but I think one for my enemy it's witches and it's oh, it's definitely one book where atlas six is like several. I think it's like a trilogy that's a series, oh yeah.

Fabienne:

So I think like if you want to dive into her, depending on how you want to dive in, maybe start with one for my enemy, or she has like alone with you in the ether, and I think that's like a contemporary, like love story, no smut or very little smut or something. I have like all of her books because Lisa has like made me buy them, not like actually like held me at gunpoint, but like I just buy them because she's like obsessed with them.

Jordan:

You can be honest, you can say that she did.

Fabienne:

But I have yet to finish one of her books, like I've gotten the farthest with one for my enemy. But I literally own all of her books. I just have yet to read any of them. I will Well, you know, maybe that's the you have choice.

Jordan:

You have choice whenever you do. We like choice, we like choice.

Fabienne:

We like variety. Variety is no, life is no, variety is the spice of life.

Jordan:

Yeah, is that a? Thing? Oh, it is now, maybe not.

Fabienne:

Yeah.

Jordan:

I think it's a saying.

Fabienne:

I think it is a saying Maybe in the US, not anywhere else.

Jordan:

Not here, not here. No, okay, I have one and I think that might be. I mean, if you're done with your list, I think this might be like a, because I also want to talk about the books that I'm reading at the moment. If that's okay, hit me. And a book that's actually also like you know, I want to say deals with winter, but that sounds so stupid. Like you know, like it takes place in winter, in the first half it's Anathema, by Carrie Lake. Ooh, like the first book in her new fantastical series. I'm not sure if it's going to be a trilogy or a duet or a series. Actually, it's very heavy world building. I am still reading it, but it's a little bit tough at some points to just actually get through, which is not something I'm used to when it comes to Keri Lake, because I loved Master of Salt and Bone no.

Fabienne:

I still label that. No, I see I'm gothic. Aw spooky phone. No, I still label that. No, I see I'm gothic, oh okay, okay, fair.

Jordan:

Okay, fuck the gothic. I'm just, I'm just not going to give you any more gothic recommendations than for this part. Um, but I like, I mean, I love the way that carrie writes. It's not as creepy as Noctocadia, yeah, no, definitely not.

Fabienne:

I want to love that book, so fucking bad.

Jordan:

I know, I know, girl, but sometimes like hey, sometimes maybe this is like your. What's it like? Crown of Midnight? Maybe it's your Crown of Midnight for that Dylan guy, the third book, the series Throne of Glass. Is it Crown of Midnight? Maybe it's your Crown of Midnight for that Dylan guy, the third book, the series Throne of Glass. Is it not Crown of Midnight? No, maybe like this is what's done, but close Bucket. Oh, almost, am I. People will come after me now, you are not a true fan.

Fabienne:

No, no, you're not, but yes I Wait. No, you're not, but yes I wait. We're coming back to Sarah J Maas. I am also. I just want to state, like, everybody will come after you if you don't like her, just forget about that. So I, you cannot come after people for not liking her books if you don't know all the books she's written. Just putting that out there, mic, drop, snap fingers, um, okay, and you can continue. Have you ever watched Queer?

Jordan:

Eye.

Fabienne:

I love, I like what I've been. I am managing. For some reason, like you, like being Jonathan, like this, like Johnny oh yes, I think when I like watched it only like three seasons were out and I never went back to it.

Jordan:

But I love Queer Eye oh, I love it so much. It's such like, it's such a good vibe, like good feel it's like a good, like serious good feel.

Fabienne:

Yeah, a good feel good show, feel good, wow, that's so hard words uh, no, but I bought the special edition of nocticadia before I read it, so now I just have this like special edition, that I'm just like you know, just catching dust, collecting dust on the shelf I don't even know where it is anymore because clearly I've moved, so it's somewhere it's somewhere okay, sorry, now continue with yeah, yeah, no no, no, um, uh, I am also reading too many books because I can't think of another single title.

Jordan:

Um, I actually read re.

Jordan:

Wait, do do like, do very, very recent reread counts, no right yeah, oh yeah, yeah, well, I um, this is like, not somebody, it's not like like, wow, it's not like um, um, literary fiction, it is well, it is. It's like a collection of essays by mary oliver, um upstream, and it basically tackles, like, um, how the mundane is not mundane at all, but it's like it's suspiciously, and in how do I say that? Well, not necessarily suspicious, but like it tries to deceive. To be seen, I'm explaining this so poorly. Anyways, I just read upstream. It was really good. I like it.

Jordan:

Yeah, I like it I like it so anathema, anathema okay well reading that one fair.

Fabienne:

But so, like I mentioned it earlier, because I want to talk about what I'm currently reading, too back and forth.

Jordan:

Jesus, of course.

Fabienne:

Una Out of Order, which I'm almost done with. I'm actually like doing this book club, that like, where I'm going to like meet with them tomorrow. Oh, so I have to have the book finished by tomorrow, but I also go happy out of your book.

Jordan:

Wait, you're actually physically kind of going to go there. Yes, yes, I'm so excited Girl, I'm so proud of you because I remember you talking to me about how you were like, so like anxious, but also like excited.

Fabienne:

Oh, ok, that's a different one. So now I have to. I actually went to that one. Ok, you know what I'm talking about. That one there was only one person and it was me, and then there was the people that worked there. But the people that work there are so nice and so I just chat with them for like two hours, but it was like so fun. But this one is actually like there's like 10 of us. I went to the first one last month and this is the second one, which they decided on Una out of order.

Fabienne:

But it's kind of nice because they like smutty books but like they choose more of the traditionally published books. So it's like books I wouldn't necessarily pick up for myself, like I never would have picked up una out of order, but I'm loving it. And so this time, like we're gonna talk, we're gonna decide based off of. Have you seen the thing on um reels where it's like everybody writes down on a piece of paper like what they want to read, and then you go through and as people pick it, like I'm not, we're not gonna read. Um, oh no, I have not seen this. Oh, it's like so cool. So it's like everybody like writes it down and then you go in order and then the last book picked is the book you read, so like every, so you you could have multiples of the same book because it's like what people want to read. So I have to decide what I'm gonna like bring on a piece of paper. But the thing is that I don't want to go like super smutty because like this is only like the second time.

Jordan:

I'm like meeting with these people yeah, you don't want to like show them your freak side. No, I get that not yet not yet, yeah.

Fabienne:

So I need to figure out what book I want to like suggest, which I think I'm going to do. What are we Kiss of the Basilisk God? Oh my God, I would just die to know. How about Baby Rose guys?

Jordan:

How about Vibe by, you know, Lessa James?

Fabienne:

What do you think, guys? What do you think?

Jordan:

Oh, my God.

Fabienne:

I think they'd be like out, you're kicked, out, you're gone, goodbye, goodbye, sure.

Jordan:

This is your time out. Go stand in the corner.

Fabienne:

Yeah. Yeah so you know, yeah, so I'm so excited, but we're going to like ease them into it.

Jordan:

Sorry, yeah, okay, wait, that's tomorrow. Wait now, I'm confused. I'm off track. Now, when is this? Yeah, tomorrow. Because you need to finish it by tomorrow. Oh, you are on it. Yeah, but I do have the audiobook, audiobook.

Fabienne:

so I'm gonna listen while at work and then, like I'm gonna have like my drive, so I I have like less than three hours on like the audiobook from like where I am in the paperback, so I know I'll be able to like finish it before tomorrow. But then I'm also I'm also currently reading. I just have those two. This one is the Moon and His Tides by Gianna Darling. I'm not too far. I think I'm on like. Well, actually I couldn't sleep last night. I woke up at like 1pm and I couldn't fall back asleep, so I pulled out my Kindle and read for an hour and a half and then was like I need to try to go back to sleep. So I got farther than Wait 1 pm or 1 am, 1 am, and then I read till 2.30 am.

Fabienne:

So I'm only on. I'm chapter eight, so I'm 25% in, but I'm actually really liking it and Huh.

Jordan:

Yeah, and this is one of her more recent yeah, like this one comes up, oh, I got the arc. Yeah, so it actually comes out on the 23rd of january, which depending?

Fabienne:

on when this episode comes out, it might already be out awkward yeah, somewhere in february yeah, oops, what are you currently reading? What else?

Jordan:

I am reading a novella, paradise Rot, by Jenny Havall. It's very postmodernistic, very like structured and fragmented, like sentence structures, like the main character is just all over the place. It's very much contemporary, like fiction, and I have still yet to decide what my thoughts are on it. I do like the writing style, like I'm very much like engaged with it, if that makes sense, but I have no clue what I'm actually like reading. So it's interesting, so I have you know yet to see where it goes. So I'll give you my thoughts when I do finish it whenever I like it.

Jordan:

I like it and I'm also trying to read a high fantasy, because that's really not necessarily like right up my alley. But you know, with you know this being the new year, and I want to read like um, as many unknown authors to me like I already said this, by the way but also I want to read, out of my comfort, genres and high fantasy, like, actually like high high fantasy, like talk, lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. It's not necessarily like my cup of tea, but I do want to try it. So I picked up the Vagrant by Peter Newman. No idea what it's about. I'm literally at page four or something Going strong, bob going strong.

Jordan:

Bob going strong. I know, I know. So maybe there's a reason why I'm reading so many books. You know, like maybe all of these are just not for me, but no, they're all gonna be for you. You're gonna be like you're gonna love them hopefully so yeah, those, those are my reads at the moment nice, I only have those two, so hey, also going strong.

Fabienne:

I'd say yeah, thank you so much for listening and please don't forget to rate and review wherever you can find us so catch you next time bye, wherever you can find us, so catch you next time. Bye.