Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I'm joined in studio by Ellison. Hello, Sarah. How are you? I'm well. Good. Good. And what are you reading these days?

Well, right now I'm casting around for a new read because I just

finished a fabulous book which has been getting a lot of attention long bright

river by Liz Moore.

And it's her third novel.

The first one that I've read definitely won't be the last.

Fantastic, people that follow me on Instagram at book bully. I've heard all this before but

it's a story of family addiction just how families uplift us and also disappoint us, but then it's wrapped into a mystery

because the protagonist is a female cop.

And so she, more does just amazing job

of sort of keeping both of those story plots going and weaving them in together and it's 480 pages hard back

but I was just like can't put it down can't put it down. Well, in that case and it's great that it's longer because yes

There's more of it to enjoy that's exactly what I thought. Yeah, yeah another one that I was sorry to see and

Did finally read the testaments okay recommend was a bit

surprised because it's I I and that's the Margaret atwood the follow-up right the

handmaids tail yes But it's a little bit more entertaining, if I can use that word. It's interesting to see the difference. I guess it's, you know, what, over 30 years since you wrote the

handmaid's tail.

And this one was a little bit more plot, you know, pick it up, pick it up. But I really enjoyed it. In fact, I may have enjoyed it more than the handmaids tail.

Wow, that's saying quite a lot. Maybe I need to dive into it because I still have not cracked it well here's

your nudge yes what about you so okay I'm not typically much for why a young adult novels but when I was at Rancho La Puerta I read

We Were Liers by E Lockhart. Oh I've heard of that. And so I the plot definitely stuck with me. I had trouble falling

asleep the night I finished it because my mind was just kind of turning it over and over and

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