 Good morning. Welcome to Church of the Chair. We celebrate all things we do while seated. Today, we are going to be doing writing sprints. I'm not sure how many we're going to be doing, but we're going to be going for 30 minutes at the time. Getting my timer ready. We're going to chat for about 15 minutes before we get started, and then I will not be looking at chat or replying to chat until my breaks. So feel free to ask any questions or chat amongst yourselves. That's fine. I got me a little gravity timer face. If you're new to the stream, I use a gravity timer. I put my phone on do not disturb so that I'm not bothered while I'm writing. Good morning, Brian. Good morning, Nick. All good here. Hope you are. Yeah, I'm doing really good other than the fact that it's 29 degrees outside. Good morning, Nick. The trusty timer. Yes. Can't wait to write with you. Well, good. Get some words in. The more you write, the better you get. I'm going over. I'll be back and forth between my document and you guys for a little while. Currently working on rewrites for current project. Hopping back over to chat. Sorry, I kind of got lost for a second, but that's what we're here for. I'm looking over a short story and possibly going to continue with the novella that I've been writing. Cool. I'm trying to come up with a unique title for your movie reviews, but I can't think of anything. I like two of them so far. Pondering pictures and seen on the screen. Those are the two that I'm looking for. Good morning, Jayrod. How you doing this morning? I'm doing fantastic, Jayrod. You like those, Brian? Yeah, me too. Pondering pictures is cool. I think Jayrod, wasn't that your suggestion? I can't remember. Let me go back. I'm wondering how many people have already put discord on mute or or not paying attention to notifications because so many people entered. Yeah, Jayrod was pondering picture pondering. I think I like him switched pondering pictures. But we'll see. I really, I really like that one. I was thinking seen on the screen. I don't go to many movies, like in movie theaters. I didn't think it fit, but I mean the screen is a television also. So yeah, it works both ways. I don't know. It kind of, I think it kind of rolls off the tongue. I have my phone on Do Not Disturb. Why am I getting boo-boo? Why am I getting ding-dong? Ding-dong. So what are y'all up to this morning? I am reading the Absolutely Fantastic on the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel. She's one of my favorite authors. The Sum of the Melted Everything and Betty are two absolutely pitch-perfect books. And this one is no less amazing. The very first chapter has a rad twist to it. It's not something that I haven't seen before, but I wasn't expecting it because of her first two books. This one seems like it's going to have more supernatural elements to it. It's more of a horror thriller, psychological thriller, whatever you want to call it. I don't know what they're calling it these days. But like a Sarah, what is it? Sarah Pinborough? Pinborough, whatever. It's very much like one of her books, but much, much better written. Not that Sarah is a bad author, but yeah. I'm also trying to warm up because it was what, 26, 29 degrees, something like that? It's 27 degrees here this morning. The air smells like watermelon. If you were in the Discord, you already know that, but I think it's all the pollen in the air and how cold it is. I don't know. I've never smelled anything like it. Those are on my TBR. Cool. You have to, you have to, you have to read them. I'm not joking. Amazing books. Moxie, good morning. The name of the author is Tiffany McDaniel. No S. I always say McDaniels, but it's no S on it. So Tiffany McDaniel. Some of them melted everything. Betty and now on the savage side. You're reading a few things at the moment? Cool. What are you reading or did you put it in the Discord? Are you in the Discord, Nick? What Discord? Hang on. Do I not have it in the description? Go check the, I'm not sure that I can edit it while I'm live. The Drift by CJTutor. Pretty good. Anyways, Nick, go to the other yesterday's video. Go to that one and click on the Discord in the description. I couldn't, I have an issue with CJTutor. I don't know. She's like a stripped down Stephen King. There was one book that she had where she completely just repurposed the burial scene from Pet Cemetery. And it was like, it wasn't word for word, but it was like scene for scene. And I was like, I don't know. I don't know. She doesn't do it for me. There's Nick. Ms. S. A. It's your first book by her. I hope you, I hope you enjoy the whole thing. I really do, Jen. Jayron. We got about four minutes, well less than four minutes, like 350. But before we get started, I'm gonna stick to my time schedule today, because I got a mind of business that pays me, if you know what I mean. I have to make room for Owen King's new book. I don't know where the hell I'm gonna put it, because I have all the Stephen King, Tabitha King, Joe Hill, Owen King, all them all on one shelf, all on over here. And I don't have any more room, because daddy writes so much. So, but it's like, it's all Stephen King for like the first three shelves. And then it starts Tabitha. I basically, I'm going in order of age, Stephen King, Tabitha, Joe, Owen, all that. So, but I have, I literally have Owen's stuff sitting on top of Joe's stuff, because I can't, and I'll bring the curator out later. I'll show you, I'll do like a mini book all after we're done. But this is his first collection, the first book that he published. We're all in this together, and double feature, double feature is absolutely amazing. If you haven't read it, and you like literary fiction on the weird side, or if you've read a night film by Marisha Pessel, amazing, top five books of all time. But double feature is, is really, really good. It's probably my, my favorite book from him, even though the curator is really good. I don't know how I'll feel about it by the end. So who all is writing today? Or who all is working today? Because you could be doing, you could be at work work, like out at your job. You could be doing artwork. You could be writing. You could be drawing. You could be doing any number of things. Night film and double feature, I need to get definitely, definitely. If you have not read night film, unfuck that like very, very soon. In fact, if you give me, if you give me your address, when I get a chance, I will send you a copy of night film in paperback. I have multiple copies. I found several of them at second and Charles one time, and I bought them just to send my friends. So Marisha Pessel, it's M-A-R-I-S-H-A, first name, and then Pessel, P-E-S-S-L. It's this gorgeous book. Look at the, like the rainbow anyways. But yeah, this is it. Super dark, super culty, but like cult film noir kind of darkness. It's amazing. It's a chunker. It is absolutely a chunker. Oh, how many pages? We got five, six hundred pages. It's 598 pages. But yeah. Her first book, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, is good. It's another five star read, but it's nowhere near as good as a night film. If you get into her, I mean, you can read it if you want to, but this is definitely her worst book. Two five star books, followed by a one star book in my opinion. This is a young adult novel that she wrote that has so much potential and goes absolutely nowhere. All right, time to go to work. Is it iridescent? It is iridescent. Great. Thank you. I'll email it to you. Rad, Jennifer. I keep calling you, Jennifer. Why can't I call you J-Rod anymore? My brain's short circuiting. I can't call you the nickname I gave you. I don't think you care either way, but what the fuck? All right, time to go to work. 30 minutes on the clock. This is a gravity timer, by the way, but those of you who don't know, all you got to do is make sure that the number you want the timer to be set for is pointed upward. They're like nine, $10 on Amazon. And the reason why I use one and not my phone is so I'm not distracted by messages and updates and notifications and all that other nonsense. That's fine. Either one works. I thought so. I thought so. Anyways, but it's funny. I gave you the name and some and now I can't seem to use it. I think I did it because the Jen Bernadini is in here sometimes and I get confused. So I had to separate you two somehow. But anyways, 30 minutes on the clock. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I hate it when I write an entire sentence. This is the only part I don't like about editing. Sometimes I will and I've heard this from a lot of other authors also. You will edit a line and then realize that there's a like a few lines down or the very next line says exactly what you put in the rewrite. So I like to read ahead, but I just did it anyway. So it happens to the best of us. Well, not that I'm the best. You know what I'm saying. Hello, Connor. Who else is in here that wasn't in here before? Hey, Jude, how you doing? They always help give me the motivation to write more myself. That's awesome. That's why I do this. Hey, Connor, I have an idea rattling around up there, but I can never find the motivation to sit down and write it. Maybe this is a sign. Write it, Connor. Just start writing. What does it matter? What doesn't matter, right? Like, you don't have anything out in the world now, right? Why not just go ahead and write something? You don't ever have to show it to anybody. Just give it a shot. Sit down. Start writing. But anyways, I'm gonna go take a break. I'll be gone for about 10 minutes. Oh yeah, one fantastic. This is going to be much, much easier than even, you know, like a first draft from me because this is like the third rewrite I'm doing, working off of editor's notes. So all I have to do is put into place things that the editor suggests or decline the edit or so on and so forth. So it goes really, really well. What is that? Is that laughter? Oh, by the way, we need to figure out how to do emojis and all that stuff, you know, like emotes and whatnot. Hey, Tim, what did you say there, son? Not much, dog. Not much. I'm about to go on break. When I come back, we'll chat for 15 minutes, just like we used to back in the day. But yeah, so I will talk to you guys soon. I'm going mute. So if I come back and start running my mouth, I know you guys will tell me, but please, yeah. Says smiling. Oh, okay. A big green monster. He's a green monster. Anyways, I'm back. Good team minutes on the clock. Might have me some breakfast while I chit chat with y'all. Who's here now? Jude with the beavers. Morning, Viking. How you doing? I suppose I should get up and do some writing. Yeah, you should. Jude, are you getting some words down? I'm doing fantastic, brother. Absolutely fantastic. Doing really good. I think I finally figured out how to do the fog machine. So we'll do that. 344 so far. Yeah, I can't. When I'm editing and rewriting, I don't count words. I do pages and so far I've got like three pages done. Yeah. So we'll get the for this weekend stream. We'll all have it set up for that. And you'll have fog and all that stuff for the review that'll be up this week. I'm hoping to have it up by Wednesday. It might be Thursday though. I don't know how much more I got left. I know I got about six more minutes of a 19 minute video to edit, but the 19 minute video has a lot of pauses and everything because it's scripted. So literally wrote scripts for all these things. Doing voiceovers, doing multiple camera angles. Boy, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I figure I finally just do what I want to do and do a handful, like four, three or four. No, four. I promised four. I'm going to do four. Four videos a month and have them put some actual effort into them instead of just sitting in front of a camera and rambling on for however many minutes. Y'all, this stuff is so good. Oikos, triple zero. So good. Usually what I have for breakfast, either this or oatmeal. I'm telling y'all, if y'all trying to lose weight, the only advice that ever worked for me is fiber. Get your digestive system in order and push out anything that you eat. So mixed berry. The cherry's good. Although we love the rambling. Thank you. I know you guys do and I know it's going to upset some people that I've gone full like YouTube, you know, creator, but I figure I'll just save the rambling and all that stuff that you guys like for the streams so that we can hang out and have a, you know, have a good time. Me too. I love mixed berries. The cherry's really good too. I don't like banana so I haven't even tried the banana. The vanilla's good. I'm working with converting a short story that I wrote a few years ago into a screenplay right now. I suggest any author of novels and short stories and all that. I suggest every single one of you at some point in time go and adapt one of your, you know, one of your stories, books, something like that. It's definitely a learning experience and it's something you need to have in your toolbox. Mixed berry's your favorite. Yeah, it's good. I only do Greek yogurt and in my oatmeal I either have peanut butter and blueberries. If I don't have blueberries, I have blackberries and I use a quarter cup of oats, a quarter cup of apple juice concentrate, well, apple juice made from concentrate with no sugar added and a coconut almond blend milk. What's up, Lee? Good morning. You gonna be writing today? Drawing? Something? Lucky you. Thanks, Lee. I got some new shirts coming. I had to buy new shirts because most of my shirts are so fucking loose on me now. I mean, this one used to be tight as hell and I have space now. I'll be doing both, want to get a thousand words down. Cool. Remember, if you don't hit that thousand, it's okay. But either I do the peanut butter and berries of some kind, maybe sprinkling some chia seeds or flax seeds, but I also do on days that I want something sweet. I usually do this for dessert, which is oatmeal. You want to start your day with fiber and end your day with fiber. That's what's working for me anyways. I'm not on any kind of diet. I eat whatever I want as much of whatever I want. It doesn't matter. But for dessert, I usually do only the coconut almond blend milk with brown sugar and cinnamon. And then maybe a little splash of milk after it's done cooking. It only takes a minute and a half. If you can't wait a minute and a half for breakfast, you got to get your priorities right. I'm just saying, Brian. I'm just saying. I'm going to end up getting a comment like, what if I don't have a microwave? Well, I'm sorry. But boil your oats, whatever. Do overnight oats so it's ready for you in the morning. Takes about a minute and a half to set them up in a jar. What if I don't have a jar? But what the fuck do you have? I'm just kidding. Some ASMR. I thought about coming back and doing ASMR book reviews. But yeah, no. That shit was creepy as hell. I tried it. Nope. Plus, I'm not attractive enough to do the ASMR. You guys ever notice that the people who do ASMR are just fucking fine as hell? No matter male, female. It does not matter. They are just always goddamn gorgeous. They always have the perfect lighting. Now, don't get me wrong, Brian. I do not eat healthy whatsoever. I have pizza, spaghetti, french fries, hamburgers, all that stuff. But fiber mixed with exercise, you're going to lose weight because everything's being pushed through your system. And the reason I start my day with fiber is to push out the night, that kind of thing. And then at night, I have it just to push all that stuff down. When are we getting more redneck ASMR? I tried it so many times, man. But man, it sucks. I cannot edit a video that I'm cringing all the way through. And it has nothing to do with the content being cringy. It has to do with, I can't stand my voice in that kind of environment. The very up close and personal, yeah. I know other people might like it, but I'm not going to sit there and listen to myself do it. I saw a video last night that I thought was absolutely hilarious. It was a short on YouTube. It was a dude that was used to doing a stream, but it was a clip from the stream. And he goes, there's absolutely nothing anyone can say to me that is going to hurt my feelings more than the very first comment I got on my channel. He said he had about seven followers at this time. Now he's got like hundreds of thousands. But he said he only had seven followers at that time. And all of them, he knew every single one of them. They were all friends and family. And nobody ever commented on his stream. And he had a second monitor where he looked at chat. He kept looking over at chat, looking over at chat, looking over at chat, nothing there, right? And finally, he looks over at chat. And there's one comment from a person he doesn't know and said, stop looking over here. There's nothing new to see. I was like, that's the most cold blooded shit. Hey, Ty, how you doing? Hope you're doing well. It took me 10 minutes to eat some damn yogurt. No, no, no. Yeah, it took me 10 minutes while I was talking to, but we got five minutes. I got five on it. Demonetized. Tired, but okay. Been up for hours, busy. My dog bear had a veterinarian appointment. Check up. Doing good. Doing great. Awesome. Speaking of dogs, so I'm out there taking a break and shell text me. I'm going to read you this back and forth. All I get just out of nowhere is Ash just took a steamy poop emoji. I said, in the house? She said, no, outside. I said, oh, okay, because it's cold. Got it. LOL. She says, I was watching and the steam was rising as the poop emoji came out. Exactly. I said, my boy had a hot squat. Good for him. Ew. Pretty sure that's the, this is what I said. Pretty sure that's the most disgusting thing you've ever texted me. She said, yep. I said, it's something I would have sent. She said, I've never actually seen a steamy poop emoji before. It was crazy. I said, there's a first time for everything. When I get done with my break, I'm going to tell chat about this just so you know. You got to love marriage. Love and marriage. Stop singing. Stop singing. Stop singing. You're losing pennies. I got $61 of super chats yesterday. It's not a record, but it's close to a record. One time Patrick Costin came in and dropped $100 on the stream and that just literally blew my mind. But yesterday was a really good day. The ballad of the steamy poo. The ballad of the steamy poo. When I get done, for those of you just joining me, when I get done, I'm going to do like a mini book haul. I'll show you some of the stuff that I got that I'm excited to read. Great community is a great community. Absolutely fantastic community. I love this place. I love this place. I love this place. If no one sent me money, you guys are just fantastic. I love my new setup so much. It feels good. Feels real good. What doesn't feel good is me having this bootleg book in view of everyone. We're going to put that up there. Getting my morning Joe as we speak. I've already had two oversized cups of coffee. So you know the double mugs? I've had two of those this morning. I usually have two every morning. We've got about a minute left. So you got any questions or anything? Get them in now. Just giving you a warning not that anybody's sitting on a bunch of questions. I went back and read The Shining and Dr. Sleep again. Hot take. I like Dr. Sleep more. That's fine. You do, you boo. That's all I'm going to say there. Honestly, I probably like them both almost equally because the older I get, the less I like The Shining. My opinion hasn't changed about Dr. Sleep at all. So that's just my two cents anyways. Not going to get into too much detail trying to stay positive. Not that you're going to argue with me, but anyways. The True Knot is fascinating to me. Fair enough. I just never felt like Abra and Danny were ever in any danger whatsoever. It just it felt like now had it been like a whole book from the True Knot's point of view with them going after people that didn't have powers. I think that would have been more interesting to me. Otherwise, yeah, it just kind of landed flat for me. If I if if I were to rate The Shining right now, I'd probably give it three stars. I've given it fours and fives in the past on rereads and Dr. Sleep is right there in the middle. It's always been a three for me. But the movie, the movie is absolutely fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Flanagan fixed everything wrong with the book and everything wrong with Kubrick's movie. So I love both of them. Anyways, time to work, y'all. We are not slacking today. I got bills to pay. So we're on our way to put more words down. Yay. But Anakin's movie is great. All right, y'all. 30 minutes on the clock. If you don't hear a lot of clickety clack, that's because I'm going over my editor's notes. All right, give me a second. Got a couple more words to do. I think I'm done for the day. Full of 10 pages done. Okay. What up, Task? Oh, Haley's here. Hey, Haley. How you doing? Yeah, I get to writing attack. You get to... Yeah, I'm getting to... I'm guessing you're saying you get to write attack of the anime cat girls now. Yes, Task. I had discapured. I didn't delete all the videos that are unlisted. Watch yesterday's stream. You got 539 words? Hell yeah. I'm okay. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. Got my work done for the day. Now we can hang out. I can do like a book haul or something. We can chat for a little bit and then I got to go read. I miss reading. All right, your first... First and foremost, your first review this week, I'm almost done editing the video, is Ambergrie by Jeff Andemire. It's actually got three books in it. This is a bind up. It'll be the first episode of Time for a Tome. That'll be up on hopefully Wednesday, but probably more like Thursday. Just to show you know, yay, books. All right, y'all. I will be back. Give me about 10, well no, give me 15 minutes because I'm gonna go smoke, walk around for a little bit, and then I need to collect the books that I'm gonna show y'all that I bought since the last time y'all saw me. Anyways, muting now. All right, sorry about that. I can't find a couple books that I got recently in them. It's aggravating me. Man, where'd I put them? Well damn, okay. Hey Chad, good to see you too. Okay, anyways, so writing's done for the day. Let's go ahead and talk about some books. Show y'all this stuff I got. Need to arrange game night next Sunday. Next Sunday game night. I can't believe I lost an entire stack of books. I brought them out here when I arranged my office and now they poof, vanish to the ether. What the hell? Anyways, whatever, whatever down in the doobly-doo. Yeah, they might be, I don't know. Anyways, so Pam says hi. Hello Pam, how you doing? You lost books, how? I mean, I have so few. It should be impossible to lose, but I had no idea what these jokers went. Found them, found them. God, that's a lot of books. I got the Leaning Tower books over here. I ended up buying doubles of books because I forgot. Yes, I have five copies of The Secret History by Donna Tartt. In fact, I just brought it back out here. This is the hardcover first edition. I've been trying to read that book for years. I keep getting stuck on it. But I love the goldfinch. I didn't care too much for a little friend. You should learn how to play the intro roundabout by Yes on guitar. Hang on, let me mute you. Let me look this up real quick. I've heard that song before. I did not know that's who it was by or what it was called. Oh, I had three hard covers of The Outsider and I haven't read it yet. I was able to learn it, so it's not all that hard. Stop doing that. I have the hardcover and two paperbacks of The Outsider Viking. I promise I don't have a problem. Anyways, let's jump into this. So me and Shell went out on a date for the first time in years. Just me and her. When we got a hotel room, went out to eat, and then we stopped by Books a Million. All of our favorite things to do. And I got a stack of books with a gift card someone sent me. And I also got a bunch of other stuff that I had pre-ordered. So we're going to go through them. I don't guess it matters what I pre-ordered or what I got it banned. But this one caught our interest. Outlawed by Anna North. After a year of marriage and no pregnancy in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, 17-year-old Ada's survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows to join the hole in the wall gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher turned robber called The Kid. The Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women no matter the costs. When the gang hatches a plan that may get them killed, Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of freedom for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense courageous heroine, outlawed dusk off the myth of the Old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse racing page turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death and for truth in a climate of small mindedness and feel. The Kid, did I hear that? Happy crappy? Yeah, yeah, you heard that. I was thinking more Billy the Kid, but yeah. E. Snatch a book called Hard Mountain Clay by C.W. Blackwell. Great Southern Gothic, Hard Mountain Clay. I'll add it to my wish list. Done and dusted. Huh, interesting. Okay, so that's outlawed. Next one is The Band Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson. When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to run her best friend struggling bookstore, she expects to sell booksellers. She expects to sell bestsellers, sorry, to her small town clientele. But running a bookstore in a town with a famously bookish history isn't easy. Bell River's literary society insists on keeping the bookstore stuck in the past and Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So in a series of mishaps, suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat. And in Maggie's world, book rules are made to be broken. To help save the store, Maggie starts an underground book club running a series of events celebrating the book's readers actually love. But keeping the club quiet, selling forbidden books and dodging the literary society is nearly impossible, especially when Maggie unearths a town secret that could upend everything. Maggie will have to decide what's more important, the books that formed a small town's history, or the stories poised to change at all. Anything that happens in the library, whether it be can happen fiction, supernatural, any of those things, magical realism, any of that, I got to read. Anything about book shops, libraries, any of that stuff. Next up, we have Cersei by Madeline Miller. This one, I've heard so many people talking about this and so many people have been like, hey, fantasy, historical fiction, and so on and so forth, you need to read this. So in the house of Helios, God of the sun and mightiest of the titans, a daughter is born. But Cersei is a strange child, not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power, the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes Cersei to a deserted isle where she hones her occult craft and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus, and his doomed son, Icarus, the murdered Medea, and of course, Wily Odysseus. But there is danger too for a woman who stands alone, and Cersei unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she holds dear, Cersei must summon her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or the mortals she has come to love. A huge fan of Greek mythology, love the god of war series, damn near anything around that mythology, I really, really dig. I'm listening as I cook, they all sound good. Ooh, shepherd's pie. Okay, and then one of these I already had, but it was on the shelf beside it, which was Gideon the Ninth. I got the sequel, Harrow the Ninth. Let's start with, see here, these are really quick, not blurbs, but back cover copy. The most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton. The emperor needs necromancers. The ninth necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. What sold me on this series is the main character is a sapphic necromancer, and it's in space. So lesbian necromancers in space, I'm all about that. Tamsin Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of sword play, cutthroat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters sleep off the page, as skillfully animated as necromancy skeletons. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Okay, the next one is the necromancers are back, and they're gayer than ever. I fucking love it. I fucking love it. She answered the emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After rocking the cosmos with her deadly debut, Tamsin Muir continues the story of the penumbral ninth house in Harrow the Night, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing as it seems in the halls of the emperor and the fate of the galaxy. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders. You know what it reminds me of? JB Taylor's unplugged, kind of, sort of, kind of just like the whole, like, sci-fi fantasy deal. Yeah, I'm excited for this one. I'm not sure when I'll get to it, but this book looks thicker than a snicker, and it's only 500 pages. Huh. The other one looks much, much smaller, and it's only 500 pages. Okay, whatever, whatever you say, bubba, whatever you say. Okay, the only non-fiction I got this time. I'm a fan of the human condition. I'm an author, I'm a people watcher, all that stuff, so I had to get this one. Uh, Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, a brief history of humankind. This one has a really long, but basically it's just, you know, just kind of speeding through the history of humans. Let's see here, we got just about over 400 pages. The appendix starts about 415. Have you read any Thomas Legotti? No, I couldn't get into him. Cersei sounds great as well. Necromancer's in spaaaaaay. I have Gideon got it a while ago, still haven't read it because I suck. Stop it! Stop talking bad about yourself. I won't let Lee do it, I won't let you do it either. I need to read it. It sounds awesome, awesome, awesome. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history. You'll have a hard time putting it down. Bill Gates. Leave it to one of the richest men on the planet to give the most boring blurb possible. Interesting and provocative. It gives you a sense of perspective on how briefly we've been on this earth, how short things like agriculture and science have been around, and why it makes sense for us to not take them for granted. Much better blurb should have been on the front, that one's from Barack Obama. Thank God someone finally wrote this exact book, Sebastian Younger. Hey Sean, how you doing? Sapiens is a thought-provoking read. Definitely gonna try it. Let's see here. I don't have a Twitter, Tim. I see you deleted it, but I don't have a Twitter. I have the conspiracy against the human race solidified my perception of the human race and anti-nationalism. That's good. Been so long since I've been able to buy books. Last one I got was David Lynch's autobiography. The only reason I got these books, the only reason I got these books is because I got a gift card. Oops, wrong link. It was the tweet of the book Albion. Okay, email me. Email me to the old email address you should have. It's the old name at Gmail. Email me. If you put it in, if you put it in chat I'm not going to be able to save it because I'd have to go through every single comment and that would be, that would take a ridiculously long time. Okay, next up we have I believe this is magical realism. I believe this is magical realism. I'm not sure, but The Magician by Cohn Toiven. All right, The Magician opens in the provincial German city at the turn of the 20th century where Thomas Mann grows up with a conservative father bound by propriety and a Brazilian mother alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest most cultured Jewish families in Munich and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children on a holiday in Italy. He longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the novella Death in Venice. Is this nonfiction? Death in Venice. Isn't that an actual book? He is the most successful novelist of his time. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and the anti-Nazi movement share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France, and ultimately America. I got one little issue with this and maybe it's a bigger issue. I'm sure they meant like man, but he longs for a boy he sees on a beach. Or is it about like his attraction to you know kids? I hope not. I wouldn't think so. But I gotta look Death in Venice. Actually let me just Thomas Mann. It actually exists. Huh. Alright then. I had no idea. What about Shadowland by Peter Straub? Yeah I've read it. I enjoyed that one a lot. Been so long since I've been in it. Yeah I already read that. I put my pie on the video part of Discord. It's gone in the oven now. Okay I'll check it out. Oh natalism. I got you anti-natalism. It's a philosophy of not having children. I want to read Shadowland. It sounds great. Dark fantasy. Also magicians. Yeah that's what I loved about it. Everything having to do with the magicians and the secret society and all that was a lot of fun. The ending is fucking wild. Alright now last paper back before we get into the thick hardcovers. Alright this is a thick boy also. This is The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu translated by Royal Tyler. This is the Unabridged Edition. It clocks in with notes and everything at 1,172 pages. I am currently reading a chapter a day so it's probably gonna take me all frickin' year. Chapter a day I'm on page 155. Yeah 155. Yeah so I'm doing that one. I don't have any more room. Anyways next up a book that I'm also kind of off and on again reading. It is so good I'm taking my time. Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez. They're saying that this is the best horror novel of the year so far. It's the best horror novel I've read in a long time. She has notes of Clyde Barker, Stephen King. It's not densely written but it is more literary than you know it's not genre or horror I guess is what I'm saying. Now there's anything wrong with that. This one is also a chunker. It is 588 pages but I love to cover. Very nice. You see if there's anything in here. No it's just a basic glue binding. All right. Next up we have The Passenger and Stella Matis by Cormac McCarthy. So it's first book in 16 years. First book to sense the road. I love how the way they fit together. Other than that I pretty much hate the covers but in my opinion all of Cormac McCarthy's covers are absolutely terrible. Absolutely terrible. It doesn't matter. I'm still going to buy and read everything he does. I have not read them yet and the reason I haven't read them yet is because I'm working my way through his stuff in chronological order and I'm currently... I have to start... I have to start Sutry next. Okay next up we have Age of Vice by Dipty Kapoor. Let me take off my my stunner glasses if I can read y'all this uh the inside. This is the Age of Vice where pleasure and power are everything and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi 3 a.m a speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all just a shell shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Definitely shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth startling corruption and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadiya family. Loved by some loathed by others feared by all. In the shadow of lavish estates, extravagant parties, predatory business deals and calculated political influence, three lives become dangerously intertwined. Age is the watchful servant born into poverty who rises through the family's ranks. Sunny is the Sun, probably Sunni, is the playboy heir who dreams of outshining his father whatever the cost and Nita is the curious journalist caught between morality and desire against a sweeping plot fueled by loss, pleasure, greed, yearning, violence and revenge will these characters' connections become a path to escape or a trigger of further destruction. Equal parts crime thriller and family saga transporting readers from the dusty villages of Uttar Pradesh to the urban energy of New Delhi. Age of Vice is an intoxicating novel of gangsters and lovers, false friendships, forbidden romance and the consequences of corruption. It is binge-worthy entertainment at its literary best. I heard someone describe this before it even came out as an Indian godfather. Yeah, I'm all, I'm, yeah, all about that ish. All about it. I love stuff set in India. Absolutely love it. Even John Irving's son of the circus I like for the most part. It's not accurate because he'd never been to India, didn't know anything about India. I don't know why he wrote a book like that placed in India but anyways. It was, it was really, it was kind of boring in large chunks but by the time I got to the end the very last couple of pages made the entire thing worth it. All right, next to our my most anticipated book since the last time these authors released anything. I read Ohio by this next author and it absolutely blew me away. He does mosaic novels where every single chapter is from a different character point of view. Usually when in Ohio it was all the same tense and POV kind of deal like it was all third person past tense. But this one it's got first person, second person, third person. It has past tense, present tense, all that stuff and that is The Deluge by Stephen Markley. Me and Shell. I'm reading this one to Shell. Me and Shell are currently 125 pages into it and absolutely loving it. This one is more of a almost a post apocalyptic kind of thing but it's like to stand in that it starts just before the apocalypse and moves on. In the first decades of the 21st century the world is convulsing its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is an upheaval battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In 2013 Tony Petrus a California based scientist studying deposits of undersea methane receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters, a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neuro divergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris who in the mountains of Wyoming begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, B.C. their intertwined odyssey unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurdle toward a spectacular climax each faces a reckoning. What will they sacrifice to salvage humanity's last chance at a future? A monumental feat of literary imagination, the deluge meets our crisis moment as few works of art ever have. I like Terry, Terry sends me, my friend Terry sends me bookmarks with frills and frazzles or whatever these things are called and I always end up hitting myself or getting them stuck somewhere but I love them, I absolutely adore them and this one says a wise woman once said fuck this shit and she lived happily ever after. Amazing. All right, last is one that's going to be a little controversial because I don't know too many people who enjoyed Sleeping Beauties but I absolutely loved his first novel, the double feature and his short story collection, we're all in this together. When he writes by himself I think he is absolutely fantastic and that is Owen King, Stephen's youngest kid I believe and this is the curator. He's finally doing magical realism. It begins in the city nicknamed the fairest, distinguished by many things from its river, the mighty fair, to the mountains that split the municipality in half, its theaters and many museums, the Morg ship and like all cities but maybe especially so by its essential unmappability. Dora has an obscure desire to find where her brother went after he died believing that the answer lies within the society for physical research where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amid an overthrow of the ruling class Dora discovers the society all but burned to the ground yet finds a way to become the wartime curator of the museum next door and search for the truth. Owen King has crafted an ominous yet delightfully sweeping novel of secret histories, monstrous magic and revolution all tied to an obscure little museum whose secrets begin to unfurl along with the mysterious history of the city itself. Done done done so good so good so good so good gotta go on the king show y'all gotta go on the king show I gotta make room for Owen somehow I don't know how I'm gonna three rows of Stephen King a whole cube of Tabitha a whole cube and a half of Joe Richard Bachman books and then we got to make we have to make Owen King we have to include him into the shelves but I'm running in a room you can see I got a stack of the Bachman books over here maybe you can see it I don't know anyways but that's what I'm doing that's what I'm reading that's what I bought y'all want to share anything that y'all got love those glasses yeah there Jake are you kidding me they called it too bleak man these new readers out here bruh sounds long which one which one Lee is hill writing novels anymore honestly Lee I don't care um he I have been lights his last what three yeah I didn't like the fireman I didn't like strange weather and I didn't like full throttle so I really don't give a shit if he ever writes another novel but yeah he's doing mostly comic books now I think he finally realized that novel writing isn't for him and he peaked at uh Nosferatu or NOS 482 Jojo I'm gonna lie I was so excited that I already read so I still gotta order my copy it's in my wish list you were talking about Ohio not really I mean it's 300 pages shorter than uh the deluge so let me put some of this stuff back yeah see Ohio ain't that big it's about 500 pages the deluge yeah it's 900 pages 880 it's the exact same look at this this is 880 pages and only because I've I've been editing this video do I know both of these books are 880 pages make it make sense both of these books this is twice as thick I know it's shorter but give me a break and it's this one is just like brick after brick of text too how this one's a pretty cover yeah I agree it's the the crack shimmers in the light I like that I love matte covers with uh with glossy lettering or glossy you know accents that's the word I was looking for I am mad excited for this one age advice but uh this one so fantastic so far I I don't have a bookmark in this one because I'm reading the uh the arc that I was sent anyways that's what I'm reading you got the names and covers e another reminder for you what you're reminding me berserk what you want me to get volume two that joker is 50 bucks bro I'll get to it eventually read the golden age art I might sign up for like uh it's on any of the comics things and just read them on my phone I also don't have enough room for I got berserk sitting over here off to the side because I don't have room for it yeah berserk is great I agree with that I enjoyed it quite a bit hey Lee while you're here I was trying to get your attention yesterday um I need a cozy fantasy cozy fantasy what do I got for you cozy fantasy how about little big where is you you please dog excret I have no idea where I put the book hmm I don't know legends and lattes oh you read one oh I'm sorry but my eyesight's getting bad it still looks to me like it says need I need a cozy fantasy I believe there is onset there is a sale on the digital volumes if you get them digitally all right yeah I really like dark fantasy uh a low and shallow land stuck out a bit you've talked about it before but I love book discussion how would you describe king versus strobe king being that's robbing literary yeah strobe is more of a it's not really pretension because it's not pretentious if you're actually brilliant um he's very wordy um takes a very long time getting to the point uh his book starts slower than damn near any other author I can think of but it usually builds to a tremendous climax um and I think there's a lot to be said for that but for the majority of like the first 200 pages of any of his books even the short ones that are only like three 400 pages I'm usually bored but they pay off by the end you bought legends and lattes yesterday now I got now I gotta go check this out legends and lattes by Travis Baldry yeah it doesn't look like my thing but that's cool okay Lee I need a couple things um so do you have something you can take notes on I need a couple things for the discord I love ghost story by strawberry I got a first edition my friend uh Jessica sent me it is actually it's in plastic and everything this is the actual first edition by coward mccann and geogun uh 1095 it was released so so long ago so good man so so good got my notes right here okay so hang on okay so what I need is I need a a category for the youtube videos um is there any way possible to make like a category on the discord where people can't comment on it I just want people to have the the playlist in that section is that possible oh it's a self-club debut got it it blew up and uh one of the big five grabbed it now it's a new york time best set up that's cool that's very cool congratulations to the author I read it via liby and then bought it on audio haven't listened to it though but I will when I reread it cool right now bad fruit by Ella King is that the one Chad Ella King yeah by Ella King oh Singaporean mother may who an unhinged mother flashbacks that aren't her own sweltering the london summer yeah I'll add that to the wish list hell yeah sounds great noise thanks Chad so you want to post links in the video channel and make it so people can't comment I'm not sure to be honest the reason why I don't want people to uh to be the reason why I don't want people to be able to comment is because I want people to be able to find the videos so I don't know maybe I do you think it'd be better to link people to my website or creator website for it I don't know only problem with that I can't put that old name on anything so I'm not sure what to do do we have any kind of bot that we can use that anytime someone asks for a certain type of uh video it'll be there you can use google drive to share them yeah but I would still it if I'm sharing the link to google drive that'd be just as easy as sharing the playlist right yeah Lee look into it and tell me what you're we'll discuss options just message me over on discord bad fruit 256 pages yes and it's a short one too oh that is stumbled across hang on here the laughter by sonora jaa jhaa Dr. Oliver Harding a tenured professor of English has long settled into the routines of a divorced aging academic but his quiet staid life is upended by his new colleague colleague Rahaba Khan a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor Rahaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long dormant passions a secret desire that quickly tips toward obsession after her teenage nephew Adil Alon arrived from France to stay with her drawn to them Oliver tries to reconcile his discomfort with the worlds from which they came and to quiet his sense of dismay at the encroaching change they represent both in background and in Rahaba's uh spirited engagement with the student movement on campus after protests break out demanding diversity across the university this is a nice little rhyme uh Oliver finds himself in his beliefs under fire even as his past reveals a picture more complicated than it seems as Rahaba uh seems unattainable yet not and as the women of his past taught his taunt his memory Oliver reacts in a way shocking and devastating feels like a mix of like uh Jumpa Lahiri and John Irving yeah that's where uh all the old name stuff is going I highly suggest you watch the first couple minutes probably about the first 10 minutes of yesterday's livestream Sean can I send yeah you can send me a copy hell yeah you can send me a copy I mean I'm gonna buy it but hell yeah add to cart I'm gonna buy it anyways but if you want to send me a signed copy oh are you just gonna send me one on amazon either way I'll buy it myself it's okay but if you want to send me a signed copy it's it sounds interesting enough uh tie I sold out of signed copies never mind and I'll just buy myself you punk we won't fight proceed to check out where am I where am I where am I doomed 1079 how dare I spend so much money on a book ooh I have reward points I can use I purchased sorry bro it's all right it's okay I'm gonna love you anyway even if you are a punk ass all right let's see here I just bought it Amazon thanks you you're welcome motherfucker uh that's what that's what I'm thinking and then just like anytime anyone asks just link them to that website I wonder if you can create a new section on your discord just to put the videos on that's what I'm thinking I'm just worried that people are gonna comment on it and I guess I could just go in and delete the comments I could put a warning up top that says if you comment on this channel it will be deleted and then explain why Lee legends and lattes is now on my t-beer t-beer all right we've been here three hours I think I'm gonna wrap it up because there's some other stuff I gotta do today which is why I got started so early but thank y'all for hanging out with me um I don't know if I'll do this again tomorrow I really need to finish uh if I get the video done all right I'll make a deal with you if I get the video done by tomorrow um I will stream Wednesday YouTube Chad thanks for dropping in man I always love to see you I think there is a way to turn the comments off just for the category because I don't want to turn off the comments for the entire channel you may have found a way awesomely yeah message me and let's do that um I also need to talk to you about a few other things but I need to go I didn't realize I've been here for three hours awesome stream have a have an awesome day thank you Jay rod you do the same bye Hayley bye Ty yeah just for that cool all right thank you Brian all right bye Sean uh if I'm missing anyone I apologize if Tim is still here bye Tim um sit by to Jay rod I think that's it bye Lee thank you for looking into that for me and I'll talk to you over on discord anyways yeah I don't do the old outro anymore for obvious reasons but I love y'all and I'll talk to you later new review up this week time for a tome we're talking about amber gray by Jeff Annamir bye