Welcome to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our

different perspectives to honest, funny conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.

We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of

things to talk and laugh about yet. Today we are talking all things books for our spring reading roundup episode.

We'll talk about what we've been reading lately and what we plan to read.

Plus, we'll both share what else we've been reading or listening to besides books

and recount recent memorable reading moments.

And since we have all of our book-loving listeners here, we want to make sure you don't miss our

upcoming book club episode that is just for Friends of the Show, where we will talk all

about the book, The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, which is also a recent movie,

if you happen to have caught it.

And I think we're going to have some differing opinions here.

Spicy takes.

So don't miss that one.

So if you aren't already a part of our Patreon group, you can join for just $5 a month

and get that book club episode plus access to all of our bonus episodes and content. Okay, let's dive into our book talk. What have you finished recently? What are you reading? Okay, I'm a read and fool lately. All right. I'm almost, I'm on track. I think I'm a few, maybe two or three books behind of meeting my 100 books for the year. You know how good reads will tell you if you're on track? I sure do. It's very motivating for me. Sometimes they're very judgy when they tell you how many books behind you are. I'm like, you just relax. I will catch up when I have a minute. Give me some space. But I just finished Down Among the Sticks and and bones by Shannon McGuire.

And this is the second novella in the Wayward Children series, which is, I've heard about it from a few different people, but I'm really enjoying it and flying through it. It's like short portal fantasy.

So each one is under 200 pages, but there's like, I think, eight or nine in the series now. And it takes place at a boarding school for children who have journeyed to magical lands and been forcibly returned to the real world. And it's a little bit dark. It's a little Alice in Wonderlandy. It's a little dark. There's some magic. There's some found family ideas. It's just, I have really been enjoying them.

And they're a quick read.

So if you're in a slump, I would recommend giving those a shot.

And which are they Y.A.

Or?

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