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. So today we're doing another

one of our reading roundups. And as we said in our last one,

we'll plan to do these a few times a year. We'll be chatting about the books we've been reading,

our reading habits lately, and what our kids have been reading. So these reading roundups are going

to be for now taking the place of our book club episodes, which we're actually loving because

this format gives us a chance to talk about a lot of books instead of just one.

And we always have more than one book to talk about. So plus, no spoilers this way. So if you haven't read the book,

you can, you know, this is more just our recommendations. So we could honestly talk about books forever.

Let's get into it. Tell me about the where, when,

and how of your reading lately. How are you fitting it in? What are your reading habits looking

like lately? Where are you at? Okay. I really do love checking in on this because it really does

change like throughout the year or just different seasons of your life. So I do think this is a good

thing just to kind of reflect on. So I do think this is a good thing just to kind of

reflect on. So right now we are just a few weeks into summer and that is definitely having an

effect on my reading habits. Both in I'm noticing the types of books that I want to be reading,

which that kind of caught me a little bit off guard. I am really starting to notice I really do need to kind

of manage my reading cue a little better for what I want to be reading in the summer. But then

also definitely changing with the boys being home from school, I usually have a lot of audiobook listening

time while the boys are at school while I'm just home with

Maeve because I can often have one of my Bluetooth earbuds in and just be listening to a book

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