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We read Butch for today's episode at the request of listener Os who emailed us last year saying,"A while ago, I read a book that, while incredibly badly written, still somehow left me feeling for the protagonist, because all the other characters are (in every sense of the word) ridiculously homophobic. It's called "Butch" by Jay Rayn. It's a "life story thus far" type of book about a butch woman who constantly ights discrimination in the most cartoonish ways possible and romances just about every woman she meets. I'm 99% sure this is just a veiled attempt at rewriting her own biography by the author. Maybe this can be a fresh bad taste for your reading palate. Best, Os (a listener who bought that book thinking it was actually a big deal for butch culture, only to realize they had been tricked by the self-publishing author).”

References & Thanks:

• "G.I. Joes in Barbie Land": Recontextualizing Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture by Sherrie A. Inness & Michele Lloyd
• https://www.ncsby.org/content/normative-sexual-behavior
• Thanks to Tris for consulting on this episode and helping us navigate Butch identity

In addition to our usual barnyard language, today’s episode includes discussion or mention of: homophobia, racism, and sexual assault.

For today's episode, we read The Energy Conspiracy by David C Seman, vanity published in 1981. This was requested by our patron beastwiththeleast, who had this to say:

"Here's to another year of Terriblo's blessings and curses. I hereby submit my patron book request for you guys to read at some point next year...I haven't read the book in full, but I skim-read a few of the extremely short chapters. It looks like the sort of thing Ted Cruz would badger his wife into reading to him as a bedtime story. Please enjoy (tolerate? choke down?) this word salad tossed with right-wing dystopian elements, baffling typos, half a pound of cheese wrapped in aluminum foil, and dry-ass dialogue in place of croutons. BYOB."

Thanks for the recommendation, beastwiththeleast. We applaud your efforts in finding us an out-of-print book and digitally rendering it for ease of reading - truly a gentleman and a scholar!

In addition to our usual barnyard language, today’s episode includes discussion or mention of: THE GUB'MINT in the vein of authoritarianism and some conservative and libertarian viewpoints around energy.

One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe was written and self-published by William M. Carpenter in 1885. However, Chris found this on a homeschooler’s Twitter page where it was recommended for teaching children in 2023, so we figured it was worth a review.

• Folding Ideas:

  • In Search of a Flat Earth

• Science of Our Spherical Earth:

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Demonstrates Absurdity of Flat Earth

  • Dave Explains: The Earth is Definitely Not Flat

  • Dave Explains: The 10 Things That All Flat Earthers Say

  • Wikipedia: Empirical Evidence for the Spherical Shape of Earth

The 9th Colony by Colin Curtis was vanity published through AuthorHouse UK in February of 2023. We received an email from a podcast PR rep asking us to have the author on the show as a guest. We don't have authors on the show, but we get a lot of these emails because some PR companies just send blanket form emails without actually having any idea what the podcasts or other entities they’re contacting actually do. Normally we just skim and delete, but this one caught our eye because it suggested that Mr. Curtis had expertise in the science of human evolution and space exploration and would talk about "the evolution debate". Considering the book was only 128 pages, it seemed worth a read and review for us this year.

Disclaimer: Most of this year's episodes were pre-recorded many months in advance. Please keep in mind that when we recorded this review in early 2023, the UAP/UFO hearings in congress that took place in July obviously hadn't happened yet. If you haven't yet watched or read the transcripts of those hearings, it's worth your time: UAP Hearing Wrap Up

In addition to our usual barnyard language, today’s episode includes discussion or mention of: aliens, alien abduction, cartoon-level violence, conspiracy theories, and UAPs/UFOs.

• U.S. Government Alien/UFO Investigations

  • Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Preliminary Assessment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

  • National Archives: Project Blue Book

• Kurzgesagt's Short-Form Videos about Alien Possibilities: 

  • The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2)

  • The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas – Where Are All The Aliens? (2/2)

  • Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

  • Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets

  • What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

• Citations Needed:

  • The Very Real Social Brain Rot of Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse

We've got another reddit find for you this week! Paris found this when perusing the latest "What's the worst book you've ever read?" post that surfaces a few times each year in various literary subreddits. In one response, redditor u/lydiardbell explained that Interview with the Devil (Part 1 - Victor's Account) was indeed the worst book they've ever read. What made it really memorable was that the author threatened to burn their house down for the review they wrote for the book.

In addition to our usual barnyard language, this episode includes mention or discussion of: cannibalism, violent abuse, r*pe/sexual assault, su*cide, and torture.

This week, we discuss our experience reading Golden (The Golden Wolf Series Book 1) by Shannon Mayer at the request of our Patron Robin. Robin said, “It looks truly abysmal. I can't wait to hear your summary.” Golden is a shifter romance where a wolf is cursed to be a golden retriever and gets wrapped up in the events of Ragnarök (the end of the Norse cycle of renewal) and everything's got a little nü-metal flavor. Paris goes full red-strings-on-corkboard to try to figure out how the elements of the plot could possibly make sense.

In addition to our usual barnyard language, today's episode includes discussion or mention of r*pe fantasies and physical violence.

The Man Without Qualities by Morris Berman was recommended by listener (and author!) O.F. Cieri back in December of 2020. It was recommended to them by a friend who said this book "would change America" and that "we were all going to look at each other differently "- "a new culture would emerge from this book!" Although this book is supposedly intended as satire, it left us wondering how much of it or what elements were supposed to be funny.

Check out O.F. Cieri's urban fantasy, Lord of Thundertown

In addition to our usual barnyard language, this episode includes discussion of: American politics (specifically the 2015-2016 brand) & jokes based on ethnicities and gender. 

Correction: Around 2:00 and 9:50 we mention that we were told this author was a "major conservative thinker who worked for the Nixon administration" by the original person who recommended it to O.F. We later discovered that neither of those things were true - Morris Berman is an American historian and social critic and is not typically categorized as conservative. He also never worked for the Nixon administration. Whoops! Apologies for the accidental misinformation.

• Sherry Turkle:
  • 2012 TEDtalk: Connected, but alone?
  • Turkle's Books & Articles
• U.S. Socioeconomic & Political Background Info:
  • Poverty & Disenfranchisment:
    • https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/resource/power-of-poor-voters/
    • https://www.prrac.org/newsletters/julaug2002.pdf
    • https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systematic-inequality-american-democracy/
    • https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/racist-roots-denying-incarcerated-people-their-right-vote
    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9930477/
  • Police Brutality:
    • https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
    • https://policebrutalitycenter.org/police-brutality-statistics/
    • https://policeepi.uic.edu/u-s-data-on-police-shootings-and-violence/
  • March & Protest Statistics:
    • https://stacker.com/history/famous-protests-us-history-and-their-impacts
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size
    • https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/

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Welcome to While You Were Reading — a podcast for contemporary romance readers.
I’m your host, best-selling rom-com author Lisa Daily — and every week, I'm bringing you the best contemporary romance novels of 2023. Today we’re talking with debut romantic comedy author Jessica Joyce about her fun new rom-com YOU WITH A VIEW.  Jessica lives happily-ever-ongoing with her husband and son in the Bay Area. When she’s not writing character-driven, realistic and relatable tales of millennials who are just Doing Their Best while falling in love, you can find her listening to one of her dozens of chaotically curated Spotify playlists, trying out a new skincare face mask, crying over cute animal TikToks, or watching the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice.

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Tropes for YOU WITH A VIEW

♻️ Second chance romance
🧳 Forced proximity

🚗 Romantic road trip
🥰 Enemies to lovers

🛌 Only one bed

Book Boyfriend Keeper Rating: 4 1/2 💍💍💍💍
Note: So many books, so little time! We only review 5-star books we 💗 LOVE💗 on While You Were Reading. The book boyfriend keeper rating is Lisa's ranking based on her experience as a former dating guru on whether or not she would personally date our hero in real life.  (If she were single, which she's not.) 😂💙  

📚 Episode TBR Pile:
You With a View by Jessica Joyce: https://books2read.com/YouWithAView
The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily: https://books2read.com/CuttingEdge
The Nanny by Lana Ferguson: https://books2read.com/TheNanny
Planes, Trains & All the Feels by Livy Hart: https://books2read.com/PlanesTrainsAllTheFeels
Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly: https://books2read.com/SomethingWildAndWonderful
Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren: https://books2read.com/TwiceInABlueMoon
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren:  https://books2read.com/TrueLoveExperiment

📺 To Watch Pile!
Pride & Prejudice 2005: https://amzn.to/3O0eS0E
Letters to Juliet 2010: https://amzn.to/3PO25j4

📖 About YOU WITH A VIEW by Jessica Joyce

"Jessica Joyce is a new and forever fave!"—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically

Two high school enemies must reunite for a road trip inspired by their grandparents’ broken engagement in this electric debut romance.

Noelle Shepard is unemployed, living with her parents, and grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos of Gram and a smitten man, tucked alongside a love letter. She creates a TikTok to search for the mystery man, which goes viral, and she’s shocked when his grandson responds—a man who happens to be her high school nemesis, Theo Spencer.

Noelle refuses to let Theo’s annoying accomplishments in adulthood—or his sexy smirk—stand in the way of meeting his grandfather and unlocking the secrets he knew about her gram as a young woman. When she learns that their plans to elope were thwarted, Noelle decides to take the honeymoon road trip they planned but never got to carry out. There’s a catch, though: Paul, Theo's grandfather, asks to come with her, and he insists that Theo join them.

It’ll be a miracle if they make it through the trip without Noelle throwing Theo out of the moving car—or the bed they end up sharing. As the miles tick by, the tension simmers hotter between them...until she discovers that Theo’s hiding a secret that could cause their tenuous relationship to end before it can restart.

About The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily

A laugh-out-loud hockey romantic comedy perfect for fans of Helena Hunting and Pippa Grant!

Logan Rivers is a star pro hockey player for the St. Pete Slashers -- and he's in a slump.

He hasn’t scored in 3 games and it’s starting to freak him out. Enter Coco, who strikes a deal with an assistant coach to be Logan's lucky charm to pay off her training expenses as an Olympic figure skater. Everything is looking up for both of them.

She’s almost got her debt paid off and the Slashers are on a winning streak. There's only one problem: she doesn’t know how to tell Logan she’s been lying to him the whole time.

If she can just keep her secret until the playoffs are over…

Buy The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy here.

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Waldo Beyond the Walls: Adventures in the Galaxy by Bill Shook was recommended by an anonymous fan who has been a devoted listener to the podcast for 5 years. Thanks, anonymous friend! We very much appreciate your devotion. Our wonderful anonymous listener here recommended this book because, “It read not like…someone's first pass at writing something...It was so utterly abysmal that it deconstructed my brain…and put me off reading for a wh[o]le week…I ran the [book] by [4 family members, one of whom is] a professionally published writer. Their opinions were in line with my own, and I'm sure yours will be as well…It has been optioned for a movie; these truths need [to] be expressed [so] that [Waldo Beyond the Walls] may be extinguished.”

In addition to our usual barnyard language, today's episode includes some discussion of 1990s-era "multiculturalism" which means we'll be touching on race and racism but not heavily.

• Vikings in North America:

• https://brewminate.com/the-norse-in-america-and-the-myth-of-viking-discovery-fact-and-fiction/ or the video version: https://youtu.be/ldOtYQOqCw8?t=450

• https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2023/01/vikings-in-north-america-heres-what-we-really-know

• Massa-two-setts:

• https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/massachusetts-loses-maine.html

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Welcome to While You Were Reading — a podcast for contemporary romance readers.
I’m your host, best-selling rom-com author Lisa Daily — and every week, I'm bringing you the best contemporary romance novels of 2023. Today we’re talking with New York Times best-selling author of Weather Girl and The Ex Talk, Rachel Lynn Solomon, about her new romantic comedy BUSINESS OR PLEASURE, in stores July 4th.

Tropes for BUSINESS OR PLEASURE
🐠 Fish out of water

😛 McDreamy Moment

🧳 Forced proximity

🛌 2nd chance with a one-night stand

🌶️ Sexy school

📎 Workplace romance

💗 Friends with benefits

🍆 Friends to lovers

📺 TV star falls for a normal

Book Boyfriend Keeper Rating: 4 1/2 💍💍💍💍
Note: So many books, so little time! We only review 5-star books we 💗 LOVE💗 on While You Were Reading. The book boyfriend keeper rating is Lisa's ranking on whether or not she would personally date our hero in real life. (If she were single, which she's not.) 😂💙  

📚 Episode TBR Pile:
Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon: https://books2read.com/BusinessOrPleasure
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon: http://books2read.com/WeatherGirl
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon: https://books2read.com/TheExTalk

Meet Me at the Lake by Carly Fortune: https://books2read.com/MeetMeAtTheLake
The Nanny by Lana Ferguson: https://books2read.com/TheNanny
The Cutting Edge: A steamy hockey romantic comedy by Lisa Daily: https://books2read.com/CuttingEdge
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler: https://books2read.com/AdelaideBook
Plus One by Kelsey Rodkey: https://books2read.com/PlusOneBook
Ciao for Now by Kate Bromley: https://books2read.com/CiaoForNow

📖 About Business or Pleasure

An Indie Next Pick
A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick

Named a Most Anticipated Summer Read by Buzzfeed, Glamour, Town & Country, BookRiot, and more!

A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk.

Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for a book she wrote—and the author doesn’t even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when all their sexual tension culminates in a spectacularly awkward hookup, she decides this is one night better off forgotten.

Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Her next project is ghostwriting a memoir for Finn Walsh, a C-list actor best known for playing a lovable nerd on a cult classic werewolf show who now makes a living appearing at fan conventions across the country. Chandler knows him better from their one-night stand of hilarious mishaps.

Chandler’s determined to keep their partnership as professional as possible, but when she admits to Finn their night together wasn’t as mind-blowing as he thought it was, he’s distraught. He intrigues her enough that they strike a deal: when they’re not working on his book, Chandler will school Finn in the art of satisfaction. As they grow closer both in and out of the bedroom, they must figure out which is more important, business or pleasure—or if there's a way for them to have both.

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"El Mayor Poder del Mundo" revela los secretos ocultos tras el dominio de la mente, desafiando los límites de lo posible y empoderando a quienes se atreven a explorar su potencial más allá de lo convencional." Descubre cómo desbloquear tu mente y alcanzar el poder ilimitado en esta fascinante obra llena de sabiduría y revelaciones sorprendentes.

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"Transforma tu vida" Es un viaje inspirador hacia la realización personal y el crecimiento interior. Descubre las claves para alcanzar tu máximo potencial y crear la vida que siempre has deseado."

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Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine is an illustrated book that examines the inventor of an appliance most of us use daily, but know nothing about its origin. 

Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine is an illustrated book that examines the inventor of an appliance most of us use daily, but know nothing about its origin. 

The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie is a charming book about being a good friend, telling the truth and bringing others into the fold.  

The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie is a charming book about being a good friend, telling the truth and bringing others into the fold.  

"El poder de la motivación radica en tu capacidad de convertir los obstáculos en oportunidades y transformar tus sueños en una realidad imparable."

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El libro "Mastery"  nos habla de la importancia de dedicar tiempo y esfuerzo para dominar una habilidad y convertirse en experto en ella. También enfatiza la necesidad de buscar un propósito personal y seguir un camino propio hacia el éxito y la realización personal.

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Our Patron Julius the Nice Dragon requested today's book saying, “I want to nominate...“First Impressions” by SJ Saunders…It’s the first of three installments in a rather short trilogy I found floating on audible, but it never found an audience. Several years later it has about five total reviews online! So I think the question [for] this book is - Why did it flop the YA “dystopia” space? Is it too mediocre? Just got bad and irrelevant? Good but undiscovered?"

We return to The Dunks! This book is all about cyborgs and supersoldier cloned teens in future Boston. Naturally, we discuss the MBTA for too long because we discover that even in an imagined highly advanced technological society, it still doesn't work. In fact, there is so much Boston-talk in this episode that it may be dangerous to listeners outside of New England. Please be advised.

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