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You're So Right

November Book Club Discussion: The Compound

You're So Right

Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Personal Journals

5.0641 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Welp, shit's about to get weird because this was a weird-ass book! We actually both finished this one very quickly and rather enjoyed it. Did we think it was as "dark" as everyone said? Is it all just a metaphor for climate disaster in a late-stage-capitalist world? We still don't know, so let's find out together! Join Rachael and Caitlin for this dystopian discussion where we reflect on how much of our dignity we'd sell out for a new dress, Caitlin's almost-Bachelor fate, and the very sad ways in which we, as influencers, related HARD to parts of this book. To join our book club discussions be sure to go to @wilderbeginnings and tap the broadcast channel link in bio! ⁠Follow the Pod for Weekly Clips!⁠ ⁠Caitlin's Instagram⁠ ⁠Rachael's Instagram⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi.

0:25.0

Hey, how are you?

0:26.8

I'm good.

0:27.4

How are you?

0:27.8

Oh, I'm great.

0:28.6

I'm great.

0:30.3

Well, we're not in the compound, so we're definitely great.

0:33.5

You know, I've never been happier to not be in a giant mansion in the desert. Right. Okay. Welcome everyone to the You're So Right. NapTrap Book Club. Today we are talking about the compound. Yes. Which is the book we just read. Yes. I actually finished this one very quickly. I felt like you. You did. I finished it in less than a week. Yeah. Now, I hadn't told you

0:56.0

that I had already been done for days and days, but I was very pleased with the speed with which you

1:01.0

went through it. I really thought I was a speed reader until I met you. You go through books so insanely

1:07.4

fast. But it's because, you know what, this is the key point, and you made this point the other day. I can read two pages at a time. When I'm going P, sorry if that's TMI, I'm grabbing my Kindle and I'm reading. If I'm, I try, instead of scrolling, I have the Kindle app on my phone. I'll just, like, look through a couple pages if I'm, like, waiting for something. can very easily go in and out. And you said you can't do that. No. And like there have been quite a few things in my life in the last several months that make me question if I have ADHD. I don't think that I do. I don't really present that way in most areas. But there are certain things where I'm just like, how do you do that?

1:44.9

Like, I can't even imagine reading one page of a book. Yeah. I just could never. Just like a little quick hit for me. Could never be me. But I love that for you. I also, I will say I do love, I have the Kindle app on my phone and I do love that because if I'm ever at, you know, like a doctor's appointment or something like that where I'm waiting and I don't have my Kindle or I don't have my book.

2:03.8

I do love having the option of

2:05.4

doing that versus scrolling. Exactly. Now, our book this week, I loved that you read or this

2:12.7

month, I loved that you felt like you needed to quote unquote watch your show tonight? Okay. And you, by reading.

2:19.5

Yes. I really did feel like in, you know, when you're waking up in the morning or like you just have like a random passing thought. Well, we know you don't have thoughts in your head.

2:28.7

Thoughts. You know, when you have that random jolt of like, oh, we can't wait to watch my show tonight or something like that that you're really into, that was the exact feeling I got about this book. Like, I a couple of times forgot that it wasn't a reality show that I was going to be watching, that it was a book that I was going to be reading. And that was so, I don't know. I just, I don't know what it is about what she did with this writing, but it really just felt so immersive and real to me.

2:54.4

And maybe. And that was so, I don't know. I just, I don't know what it is about what she did with this writing, but it really just felt so immersive and real to me.

2:54.4

And maybe, maybe that's because I have very much watched shows like this.

2:59.3

Those shows.

2:59.8

Like very into Love Island, as we all know.

3:03.2

So maybe I could like really kind of conceptualize what it was like. I don't know. Maybe people that don't watch a ton of reality TV didn't get it as much or feel that way. But I really felt very connected.

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