You're listening to The Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica. And I'm Kelsey. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting

you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. Today's episode is our

fall reading roundup. We love talking about books and reading,

so we dedicate one episode quarterly

to all things bookish.

So today we're gonna talk about fall book recommendations,

books that changed our life,

what we're reading lately, and as usual,

a memorable reading moment.

But before we dig in, I wanted to share something that's happening around our house

that is very fallish.

This morning we were doing homeschool and I put on the, have I talked about these before,

these ambiance videos on YouTube?

Oh, no.

So there's like, you can find like 12 hour long videos where it's just like a cozy scene

that has like a little bit of animation in it like maybe falling leaves, but it's mostly like

photographic.

Yes, I know what you're talking about.

And then it's got like jazz music or whatever playing in the background.

So that is so lovely to put on the TV in the homeschool room.

There's a little bit of ambiance. There's a little bit of, you know, music to listen to,

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