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Wife of the Party

# 144 - Book Club: The Last Bookstore

Wife of the Party

Berty Boy Productions

Comedy, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Today I book club with my friends Cathy, Kirsten, and the co-author of the book we read, Brooke Purdy! We go through our thoughts on the book and then Brooke takes us through her writing process, the most challenging part of writing the book, her collaboration process, ego, being accountable, and much more!  Get Brooke’s Book “The Last Bookstore” on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Bookstore-defense-extinction-knowledge/dp/0998179531  You can get the “Resilience Based Parenting” Course and apply for a scholarship at http://www.macdermottmethod.com/wotp  Get a necklace/mask and a Wife of the Party bracelet by my friend Nathalie B Designs here: https://nathaliebdesigns.com/products/leeann-stack  You can get 20% off Natural Skin Care, Hand Sanitizer, and more until the end of May at www.privai.com when you use the code “WOTP20” at checkout.  Check out the new Wife of the Party Facebook groups here: http://www.facebook.com/pg/wifeotp/gr...   I have WOTP merch! You can buy a brand new Wife of the Party mug, shirt, or a tote bag at http://www.wifeotp.com   If you have any questions you would like me to answer on the podcast feel free to email me from my website at http://www.wifeotp.com   Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So I'm excited about two things this week.

0:02.8

One is the book that we're reading and we read

0:06.2

and are discussing the last bookstore

0:09.4

with Brooke, her friend Colette, or her friend,

0:11.6

her writing partner and friend,

0:13.2

wasn't able to make it today.

0:14.9

But we got Brooke, and she talks about this book.

0:18.6

And I love this book.

0:19.8

It was a young adult, Goonies meets Stand By Meets Hunger Games kind of great adventure, teamwork, really great book.

0:35.0

I really loved it, but it is for kids like 11, 12, 13 years old, somewhere in there, maybe 9, 10,

0:42.0

a little bit of scary stuff a couple monsters but nothing too bad but I was so glad that my friend Brooke who I have known for a long time for probably 20 years wrote a book I was so

0:56.2

excited and then I called her and I was like can we do that as a book club and then as soon as

1:02.3

I hung up I was like what if the book is bad? That's really a bad call.

1:06.7

Oh, well, I've already asked her, let's read the book and if the book's bad, then I just don't have to record an episode. I'll just put her off or something but I ended up really

1:13.9

liking it I really really liked it I like the way she told the story I like the

1:18.9

characters I like the pacing of it I liked I everything. Obviously I'm not 11, so it's not something I would usually read, but I loved it. So I encourage you, if you have kids and the young adult, young reader demographic to seek it out.

1:36.9

You can go to my website at WIFOT.com and look on the book club tab and there's a link to

1:42.0

Amazon on that tab so you can just click the

1:45.3

link and buy her book you can also just go to Amazon and search by her last

1:49.0

name which is Brooke Purdy p-U-R-D-Y or you can search the last bookstore was really fun read so highly recommend it and I'm

1:57.8

Really excited about this episode

2:00.9

Second thing I'm excited about are my new house shoes.

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