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It's the simple show. You've got episode 80.

Hey, I'm Tishawksin Writer. And on The Simple Show, we talk about books, travel, and life at

home. In this episode, I'm joined by my co-host, Haley Stewart. Hello, Haley.

Hello. Haley, tell us who you are and what you do. Well, I'm a writer. I blog at carrots from

Micklemish.com and I podcast for The Fountains of Home podcast and I live in Central Texas

with my three kids and my husband. And I'm a writer and mom living in central Texas and I'm

online at the art of simple.net. This is a books episode. So we are going to talk about two

books. I will be talking about Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. And I'll be talking about a man called

Ove by Frederick Bachman. And Haley, I am super glad you're going to talk about this one because

this has been on my nightstand for literally months.

Like it's just sitting there because I've had so many people recommend it that I finally went out and bought it and I got to about a page 100 and I moved on.

So I want you to tell me what you think of it.

Okay.

I loved it.

Here's how I discovered this book.

A friend of ours was renting our house last summer

because we were still living on the farm where my husband works. So we had our living arrangements

all set up when we bought our house. So she was renting from us for the summer before we moved in

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