Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on I-Heart Radio. I'm home in Florida after a full month away. I was in Bangkok, Hanoi, and Singapore, my first ever trip to Asia. I posted some stuff about it on my Instagram, Carol in public. And then I was in New York with our

family. Getting home to Florida has just been amazing. The plane landed and I like took this deep breath and was just like,

I get to live here. I drive around with a smile on my face. I have to admit to some

summer wins and losses. I largely failed at Analog Summer.

I would say it's really not my fault. I'd wake up in Asia to a thousand plus texts that President Trump

had been shot or Trump has picked JD Vance for his vice president. I wanted

to disconnect like I'd done on years, but I never had the news come and get me and bring me back in such a way before.

My friend Dave Rubin of The Amazing Rubin report does a very serious version of this for the month of

August every year where he locks his phone in a drawer and just doesn't consume any

news no matter how big. I respect this, obviously I do and I wish I could do that, maybe

someday. But I have a summer win and that's that I've been reading fiction which was my overall goal for this year.

I'm eight books in and about halfway through two other books. I know that's just

how I do it like I have a book in my bag for when I travel and then a book for when I'm home

I just I need different books in different places.

Honestly it's been a bit of a slog I'm not to lie to you. I might just be picking the wrong books because I only have one really

recommendable book for you all. The one book that I really loved so far is City of Thieves by David Bennyoff and it's not like I'm only reading

high-brow stuff either. I have beach reads, I have you know more serious novels, it's a real mix of stuff so it's August 1st and there are still a few weeks

left of summer so if you have fiction recommendations for me please send them in Carol Markowitz Show at g-m-o-com. It's a bunch of weird spelling, K-A-R-O-I, C-A-S-N-E-S-N-Sebra, Sia-I, Sia and Zee is in Z and Zebra show at gmail.com.

And if you made summer resolutions for yourself as I know some of you did because I've heard from you,

I'd love to hear how you're doing with them.

I heard from some people before the summer began who were planning to do a dating app detox.

If you did one, I'd love to hear how it's going.

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