 All right, we are live and functioning. All systems are go. Yeah. Time machine is ready. We are here to discuss my pick, hence it being on my channel. Hexwood by Diana Wynne-Jones. And the prompt for dressing up was time travel. I went robot. I forgot what the prompt was. Which turned out to be appropriate for the book. That's why I picked it because I was just going for something for the book. But technically, I could be a time machine. Yeah. Also a functioning robot I would think would have to be a guest from the future. So that's inherently time travel. There you go. We're stretching it. I kind of always do that with everything. I kind of stretched my interpretation of it. It's more fun if we all have different interpretations because then we have variety. Yeah. Doctor, who would have been a good choice? Oh, shit. I shouldn't have done that. And we would have just been the same. Yeah. Yeah. I figure I'm going anachronistic of some modern person who's traveled to the past. Yes. I'm Indiana Jones trying to blend into a run fair. And I am the 11th doctor. Bow ties are cool. Bow ties are cool. I almost bought a fez for this, but I was like, when literally ever? Like I could see myself reusing the bow tie for something? Not a fez. We're not going to reuse a fez. Come on. Maybe if I dressed up as Abu the monkey at some point. Well, I feel like you have 2024. New you, new year. That could be your new thing. If you have a fez, I feel like it's incumbent upon you to find the occasion to wear it. That does seem to be what happened with Matt Smith, was once the fez became a thing, then it needed to continue to be a thing because if you have a fez. Like you're not just going to have that in your closet. You've got to work to incorporate. It's a commitment to that decision. I could put, no, a cast would fit inside the fez. Oh, that would be very cute. But if I put a teeny tiny cast sized fez on her, first the fez would die and then I would die. Okay, hold on. I might go black for a second because I'm still having one technical issue, but I'm still here. Okay. The New York knows that we are talking about the reality of our world that's been hidden from us and they are conspiring to keep us from sharing the truth of what's going on. So, yeah. Let's go with that. The truth is out there. All right, well, X-Wood by Diana Wyn Jones is a book and I understand why it defies blurb. It defies summary, it defies genre. And I know that Neil Gaiman at some point was kind of when, I forget if it was like a forward or a speech or whatever it was, he was trying to describe X-Wood and was like, you just kind of have to go with it. Well, I will say, I believe that this is dedicated to him. Yeah. It's dedicated to him and to my knowledge or it's, and thank you very kindly, Jessica. Thank you, Jessica. Yeah, I think not only was it dedicated to him, I think she also said that he was an inspiration. I wasn't sure if it was for a specific character and if so, which one? Because when I learned this, I hadn't read it yet, so I had no context for that information. But I believe he was also as an inspiration for something in it. Okay. Pume or Yam or? I don't know. I kept trying to like, as I was reading it, I was like, are you Gaiman? Are you Gaiman? Are you Gaiman? Are you all Gaiman? I don't know. Yeah. Maybe Mortian, maybe he's Mortian. Maybe, again, he's filled with unequivocal rage for no reason. Maybe that's Neil Gaiman. Or maybe he's Anne, Anna, whatever her name is. Anne? You know, let's not be limited in our... Yeah, what was her other name? We're doing spoilers, by the way, everyone. So we haven't read Hexwood. I don't know if yet, if anybody here would recommend it or not, but we are going to be spoiling it. So if you would like to read it unspoiled, then here's your warning. Yeah. Yeah, because I think this is only available physically, unfortunately. Oh, really? I know. It sucked really bad. No. That, you know, can we just segue into like, there are so many of these, I feel this particularly with Elizabeth Murray-Pope. Like, you can hardly find them at all from the 90s. And there's these like great classic YA and middle grade books that I feel like are disappearing from the world. And I'm like, come on guys, like... Well, because Diana and Jones isn't exactly an obscure author either. No. I was moving Castle, which is one of my all-time favorite books. I haven't read the book, but I like the movie. She's a well-known author with a lot of beloved books and this is dedicated to a well-known author who has like spoken in its favor and praised it. So it's like, what the heck? Well, I had to order it from a UK bookstore. Oh, you could definitely get it on Amazon. I got mine on Amazon. Yeah, when I was trying to get it, it was like out of print and you could only get it like used. And it was expensive. So I found it a lot cheaper on... Well, in general, I find buying things. Yeah, now they're doing like the print-on-demand version. So... That might explain why mine... No, no, no, no. I do have their... Well, maybe. This is the first edition that I just... Oh, I don't know. I got it from Amazon, but it does have... It looks like one of those, you know, print-on-demand because it has this little label on the back. I have that too, and it was from the UK, and the UK one was cheaper, so. Oh, wow. We all have the same book. I don't know why we're trying to decide what it is. Except for Lana. Lana has the super... So this one has Mortian on the cover, I believe. Oh, whoa. Well, now I know why this was not one that I read as a teen, because that cover would not have said... But there's this, all the fun shenanigans down here. You know, this is from there's man from... There are some really weird covers for this book. I don't know if you've looked. No, but I can imagine why there's weird covers for this book, because it's kind of a weird book. How do you choose what to put on the cover? There's a lot of options. Yeah. So I like to think that this is Neil Gaiman in the future. Our overlord, Neil Gaiman. Looking like a skull. Our only hope, Neil Gaiman. But I didn't know that this book was so hard to get. Yeah. I already had it, and I knew Gaiman talked about it a lot. So I was like, why should that be hard to find? Well, yeah, especially because Diana Winjones is such a well-known author. It is surprising to me, but... Well, maybe this very meeting will create a resurgence of demand and the booksellers will take note and there will be a new fresh printing with a new forward by Neil Gaiman. And a new day will dawn. And which, of course, will be mentioned in the forward because Gaiman will thank the ladies of the Blades and Bodice Rivers Book Club for drawing much-needed attention to this beloved Diana Winjones classic. And he'll say, I've gone back and read the books and so far my favorite was Morning Glory Milking Farm. Gaiman knows who I am. I'll take it. Okay, well... One of the things in this book is like a machine playing out every possible scenario. I think this is a possible scenario. I'm not saying it's the most likely one, but it's one. It is one. It is possible. I use my robot powers. Well, shall we go around and say what we thought? Okay. Do I go first since I'm clockwise? You want... Oh, did you start, Leanna? Did you tell us what you thought since you're the host? Oh yeah, you should go first. Do I have to? Yes. I guess not. But it's not a permanent answer. I mean, I quite liked it. I didn't give it five stars, but I did really enjoy it. It was like a three point something rounded off to a four, like nearly a four, basically a four, low four. Yeah. Four minus. Four minus. I, for enjoyment, I would give it three, but for like the nostalgia factor and just like reading her writing again, I would give it four. So I landed at a three and a half. I also just think it was very inventive. But I think the plot kind of got away from her a little bit. We'll talk about it. But I wonder if I would like it more in a reread now that I kind of... I did see some reviews on Goodreads when I went to market as read from someone, from people saying, oh, I just finished my reread of this and knowing this time everything. You know, it was so fun reading it. So I'm sure it would be, at least a different experience reading it. Yeah. So I'll say three and a half. I guess kind of in your neighborhood, Leanna. Yeah. I don't know. I had mixed feelings on it. I ended up giving it a three. There were things that I really liked about it and thought were really inventive, but also there were large chunks of it where I was very bored. So it was a mix. All right. Okay. Uh-oh. Ready? No. Okay. I have a complicated relationship with this book because it just was not the book for me. And I don't necessarily think it's the book's fault, but like this book made me hate reading. I was just like, do I like reading? Do I like books? Like I would look at the book and know I had to read more and be like, well, I could start my taxes early. Like that's how much I didn't want to read it. And a lot of it was just because there wasn't any type of aids in reading it because like it's very painful for me to sit down and read a physical book. Like it sucks for my ADHD. I get distracted and then I have to go reread what I just read because I was thinking about something else and it was just... So I gave it a one just off my vibes with it. But I'm sure it's not the book's fault. It's a me as a reader fault, but it made me hate reading. So I'll say that. I described it. So it's an accessibility issue. Like I think that's a great... Yeah. Why you need different formats for different... Okay. People didn't have to like it. This is how I described it. This is kind of like Winnie the Pooh, the Wizard of Oz and hitchhiker's guide made a mutant baby who is somehow also Merlin. Yeah. Tell me I'm wrong. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean... I mean the thing is like that's not necessarily bad. That's just like... It's not bad either, but it's just like you got the a hundred acre woods. That's all wackadoo. Like Dorothy coming in with her tin man. And then like they're also Merlin. And somehow in the future and the past and the present at the same time, it hurt my mind. So I didn't like it, but I think it's a subjective reasoning, not an objective reasoning, if that helps. If there is such a thing as objectivity in reviewing. I mean, I think objectively that was your experience of it. So... Yeah. And to our two shorts point, now you get to be Leigh-Anne. I know. I'm the Leigh-Anne of this time. I knew it's in medicine and it is bitter, Leigh-Anne. I knew I had decided to like dress as the doctor for this live before I read the book. And I found reading it that like, it's a lot of things. And there's a lot of things you could compare to, but no one thing that it would be a read-alike for because it's insane. But I think the thing that most reminded me of is Doctor Who is like the chaos of watching Doctor Who is because there's so many different types of things. In Doctor Who, there's time travel and robots and aliens and there's politics and there's Sherwood Forest and there's like King Arthur and Shakespeare and like that's what it's like watching Doctor Who. I think that might be why I never got into watching Doctor Who. Well, here's the thing. I love Doctor Who and I totally see that. And parts of the book did have that like chaos that's like charming, charming chaos where you're having a good time, you're going on the adventure with a doctor. I feel supported in this. And then sometimes it was just like, what the hell am I reading? Who is this for? I think it lost that at times. I think with Doctor Who because you have the doctor and his companion as you're like rock and then no matter the chaos like circling around them, they, you know them. You know the doctor and you know the companion and no matter where they are, they are them. Well, six time episodes, they are not them. But like, you know, it's like that's, that's your like thing to carry you through. And this book doesn't have that. There's no like thing for you to latch onto because nothing is necessarily what it seems and the thing that you think you're following isn't actually the thing you're following. So I feel like it's more like if like role playing Doctor Who because like doctor, the doctor doesn't have anything to hang on to when he's the doctor. Like you, the audience is hanging on to the doctor. But if you just had the experience of like all the wild time travel shenanigans that they get up to being in his place, like that's what it would feel like. Well, and isn't it interesting that this was market? Like, can you imagine being 11 and reading this? No. Like I was like really struggling at times to understand this. You're also kind of like adult things in it. Not a lot. Yeah, I was like, I was not reading like a board. It started off reading Mary middle grade. And then I was like, whoa, this is like Mary adult, but also young. It's, it's a weird age wise. Who would you, who do you give this? I think it more so keeps company with like Hitchhiker's Guide or Good Omens or these other kind of like chaotic speculative. Yes, it did remind me, especially kind of at the beginning, it reminded me a lot of Good Omens, which I just read because of Liana. And then it also at times reminded me of the unlikely escape of Uriah Heave because it has all of these references. And like, if you don't know the references, especially if you're an 11 year old child, like I could see that not being as fun. You're saying I trained you up for this. Yeah. Well, it did. Like it definitely this month of reading has a lot of similarities driven by Liana's choices. You know what's funny is I am not really a fan of any of those things. Like I don't like that kind of chaos in my sci-fi very much. Like I've read them and I see why people like them, but I don't enjoy it. You don't like Good Omens? Did I know that? It was fine. You were not pleased that I told you that. Probably you deleted that. Didn't need to retain that. Just bunched it from her memories. It was fine. Good Omens is probably the best of that bunch, but like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I didn't really like it. I don't like it either. It's too much. It's pretentiously clever. However, I did like the very beginning of the book because it was just like the middle management going, ah, shit, I have to go fix someone's problem. I love that. And I wanted him to be the protagonist because he was just going to be so grumpy and he was reminding me of like the Good Omens type of thing. And I was in for it and then it switched. And I was like, why are we following this fucking kid, this girl who has no personality? It also reminds me of like Terry Pratchett for that reason, because of like the Assassin's Guild and the bureaucracy of like how they're talking about like speculative things, but in a really kind of like doing the business of the day, blah, blah, blah, kind of way. Like Loki. The Loki TV show. Yeah, but your Umbrella Academy also, it reminded me a lot of Umbrella Academy. So it reminds us of lots of things. I don't know if it did out of them well. Yeah. I mean, like I gave it three stars because there were parts of it that I really liked and I think parts of it are really clever. And but then it was so repetitive in the middle and I feel like it really... I think that's weird. Which like is also, I mean, I don't disagree, but it's also kind of like by design that it's repetitive in the middle because of like what's supposedly going on. But it's not a pleasant reading experience. It's not. It's not, it's... I wanted to do my taxes instead of reading this. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, the word for this book I feel like is chaotic. It's just there's so much going on. But I love her writing so much. Like it really took me back to being a teen and reading her for the first like... See, I've never read her. For me, I think, because I had read her as a teen. So for me, it felt like, oh, I know this writing, like this feels so nice. Now I want to go reread Hell's Moving Castle. I feel like that makes sense because I've never read from her before. This was my first time reading her writing. I don't see... Oh, whoa. Nessany, you have me here. We're like in the same boat. Man, this is not what I would have given you to try her for the first time. Please go reread Hell's Moving Castle. It is... First of all, it's a very available variety of books. Yeah. It's funny though, as I think that like, while the majority are poo-pooing it, we're not disagreeing on the things that we comp it to and all the things we're comping it to are extremely popular things. So I feel like we're weirdly hyping this book because we're like, it was so mid, I hated it. I didn't enjoy reading it. It's like Umbrella Academy, Good Omens, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, like Good Doctor Who. It's like all these things that people love. I would recommend people try it because I don't know that I've read something quite like it. It feels like a very distinctive book. So I think it's worth like seeing if you vibe with it because it's pretty unique. Yeah. And there's so many threads she pulls together at the end that I was like, whoa. Which I think honestly like the way it came together at the end bumped it up to me for me two or three because otherwise this would have been more like a two probably. But I mean, yeah, it's impressive the way she kind of like crafted it. And I could see how it'd be cool to reread but if you wanted to because like knowing what's going on, you know? There were times that also kind of reminded me of Simon Pegg movies, like the Hot Fuzz and like those kinds of movies. It's very British humor in general in this book, I feel like. Yeah. I mean, I do not like to be Terry Pratchett vibes and here's the thing, I want to like Terry Pratchett but I do not like Terry Pratchett. I'm sorry, I've tried, I've tried. I gave it a good college try here but it's just like the pretentious cleverness of his writing. Maybe he's not trying to be pretentious but he comes across that way like, oh, like I'm clever I am. And I'm like, fuck you. It's a book about time travel. I find that tone to be pretty delightful. So I think it just works for me. I really like Giajana's Cabal, the detective has that kind of tone. I discovered when I was talking to Leanna about Good Omens, like, oh, I think Terry Pratchett is the like one of the popularizers of this thing that I love but didn't know came from him. So like that is a tone that I really like but it is distinctive. So it's like. Yeah, it is. Strong flavor which you might not like. Like I've read a couple of books from Terry Pratchett and I liked them but I feel like I can only like him in small doses if that makes sense. Like I like it but then I don't want to read any more of his books for a while. Maybe you would like a short story collection or something. I would like short story collection, yeah. Like I really, really enjoyed Pratchett's humor. I just tend to find that like, I didn't feel that way about this book as much but kind of what we were saying about this book that there's like nothing to latch on to. I feel like with Pratchett's books, like I'm like every single joke is a hit. Every single joke slaps but also I'm like that's all this is and I don't like I need a novel to like grip me in a way that I'm invested in and also laughing. So then that's why like Good Omens is like perfect for me because I'm like, I get all of the like amazing witticisms of Terry Pratchett. We have Gaiman in there to like give us a story that I feel compelled by. Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, we read it. I don't know. I don't have a lot to say because like I still don't understand things and I wanted to. Oh, I don't either. Okay. So it's not just me. I'm like, I'm not a hundred percent sure I know what happened in this. Like I think I understand it. I'm pretty sure. And again, like I think that's what bumped my rating was because I do get what she was doing with it. And I'm like, oh, okay. I mean, that's pretty, it's a lot but it's smart. I feel like I had a lot more fun also, like in the latter third half. Yes. Where I started to realize that the things that I thought were the case were probably not the case. And so then, but you had enough pieces already to start to guess, to start to be like, that that's that, that that's that, that that's that. And then like having some of that like confirmed as you go and some of it not be confirmed. When you started to like see the shape that things were taking and the way things were becoming subverted, you could be like, well, if this is not this, then I bet this other thing is also not this. Like. Yeah. And then they all became King Arthur's court. I'm like, what? Wait, what? I think I get the general like outline of what happened, but that's why I'm saying I would like to reread it. Cause I think that would help me be like, okay. Like, I understand the specifics of what happened a little bit better. I'm like, this feels, I don't know, even just like all of the different names at times being used on the same page for the same person. Like, I had to really focus to try to make sure I was like tracking. Did you guys have them? Yeah, that part's complicated. And also like the girl guy was the king. I do not see it coming, that the girl was actually the other person. I was like, wait, what? And then I mean, once they were, oh yeah, I didn't see that coming at all, which I thought was a fun. That was a fun like, oh, whoa, okay. Well, and then it also makes it less weird that she's like into this older dude when she's not 12, you know. Yeah. But also like- Did you guys have an author told you this book? Like, it's weird for a children. Like, I really dislike it as a children's book. I don't think it was a children's book. I didn't think it was a children's book. Well, and maybe it wasn't marketed that way at the time, but no, cause it said it was originally published by children, somebody children's publishers. Yes. It was a children's book. I don't like it. I don't like it as a children's book. I feel like this is for odd children. Like, he's a strange child. Like, who would have this book and enjoy it? I'd be like, I don't- Maybe teenagers? I'm clueless for teens, but like, when I was reading Diana Wynne Jones, I was in like middle school. And I just don't know that this is for middle schoolers, not even in the content, but just like this, I don't think you would like it if you were a middle schooler, or you would be a weird child middle schooler, yeah. It was probably that that was her publisher. So whatever she wrote, they published. True. Did you guys have an author's note at the end? Oh, no, I did not have an author's note. No, yeah. I just have blank page. The author's note is just an, it's more of like, it's not really what I think of as an author's note. I guess it is. Like, I was expecting, you know, I guess like acknowledgments and things like that, but it's more just like an explanation of, in addition to the way that like the book tells you like, oh, this is this Arthurian thing. Oh, this is this like name connection. There's some things that you might have still been like, huh? So then the author's note is like furthering that. So this will, if anyone, which I'm guessing is majority in chat have not read this book, you'll only be even more confused after I read the author's note to you, and it will only slightly illuminate things for the people that have read it. Here's the author's note. Everyone knows who Arthur was and that Merlin was the magician who disguised Arthur's father as the Duke of Tintaggle and sneaked him into Arthur's mother, the Duchess of Tintaggle. I did not. No, I, no, I didn't have to dispute. Everyone knows that. Okay, but in fairness to her, she didn't make that up. That's like a thing from the Arthur legend. No, but I'm just saying that. It's a little rapy in the start. It's a little rapy in the start. It's not everyone knows it though. That's what I'm disputing. Like, did I know that? I guess she knows it though. Maybe everybody British knows it. Or perhaps you should have said it is known that. Yeah, maybe it is known. I mean, I knew, do I know Merlin? Yes. Do I know Arthur? We haven't got to the confusing bits. No. I thought that wasn't the confusing bit. I didn't mean to stop you prematurely. No one says who the Duchess's father was, but she plainly carried remarkable genes. All Arthur's half sisters were powerful witches. These ladies and Arthur were of course, part of Martellian's second breeding program, for which he took the guise of Merlin. And this may still be going on today. For Arthur, in fact, had several sons who do not figure in the best known stories about him. Martellian's first breeding program was earlier when he was roaming Northern Europe and calling himself Wolf. In this disguise, he was later confused with the God Wotan. As Wolf, he brought a whole race of heroes, the most famous of whom nowadays is Siegfried. But this was not always so. The Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf makes it plain that in earlier days, the best of Wolf's descendants was a young man called Fetella. Fetella was better at killing dragons than any man alive, but he disappeared from song and story before Siegfried became famous. Fetella, of course, vanished when Rainer I caught him and put him in the states too. So I hope that clears that up. Of course, of course. Obviously that's what happened. Okay, so. Okay, that was a lot to talk about. All questions have been answered. You were all grown up. Cause we have like Arthur and Merlin, but apparently she's saying that like, oh, but also this was a breeding program related to Beowulf. Well, we know the breeding program from the book, but like when at the end, not all the names that we learned at the end were seemed Arthurian. Like, and then she's like, oh, but the names they have meanings from other myth that might be tied to Arthur. Here you go. Yeah. Like when at the end it was Wolf, you're like, Wolf who? Why is there a Wolf here? I don't remember that, Martha. You're like, this Wolf. I mean, I think we can circle back to the like, is this for children? Like anything that's based on a breeding program, I'm going to go ahead and say no. Yeah. Not for kids. Wouldn't agree. It's like, I feel like this is an example of like, girl, maybe, maybe pair back. You know? It was also like weird, weird stuff. Cause I was reading this thinking, oh, this sound, this is like middle grade. And then it was like something, something. Oh, do you want to see some dancing girls? It was like, what the hell? Well, like middle schoolers would want to see some boobs. Okay. Like I get it. Like they would want to see some boobs. Well, they're just girls that dance. Right. I don't know that they were. You know, like eight Lords of Leapin. Maybe it was like that. Yeah, exactly. It was like that. Side note, I just found out, and I, maybe everyone knows that maybe it is known and I just was not one of the ones who knew. Did you know that every single one of those things is a reference to a bird in that song? In bird? Bird. What are you talking about? What is a bird? Yeah, they're all birds. I did not know this. Nine years ago. I assume that you finally got a break with like the five bull rings. Like that's exciting. All the maids and milk and all that, those are birds. Those are all different bird references. What birds, milk things? I don't know, but I saw Tik Tok about it and I was like, so you're telling me this guy. That he got her all birds. Is getting her 12 days worth of birds. For the birds. Maybe she's a big bird fan. Maybe, but after a while, that's too many birds. Even if I really like birds and I'm like, you've got me so many birds. I mean, especially because you're getting more birds every day, it'd be one thing if you just got a different bird every day, but just the sheer volume of birds we're talking about is pretty overwhelming. It's just one load partridge. The poor part just got no partridge friends. I feel like there's sinister things going on in this song now that they can't have that many birds. Yeah, anyway, it is known, but not to me. I mean, maybe 12 days of Christmas is like the original love bombing of a bird. It's a birdbombing. Audience of Hexwood, it does say in Wikipedia that it was a novel for young adults. And I don't think young adult existed as like a category part of the confusion because back in my day, we didn't have YA as strong of a category as it exists now. There was really like, there was the children's section and there would be like a section that was kind of aimed at teens amidst that, but it wasn't marketed in the same way. But so it makes sense that her publisher, which is like calls itself a children's publisher, would publish something that's anything below 18. Right, that's right. But yeah, I mean, I guess somebody in their teens could like this, but it still does feel more. It used to be built different. Those British children going to public school, they all know Beowulf and they all know Arthur and they all know Terry Broucher. I do feel like a lot of before the rise of YA, there was a lot of people reading like Stephen King in their teen years. Like Neil Gaiman. It's true. Well, maybe we were made of, yeah, we were made of Sterner stuff back then. Yeah, I was reading Chief Palinick. Yeah, there you go. Fight Club and stuff like I was, I read all of his books in high school. Yeah, I was reading like, Jane Austen and... Yeah, I was reading classics and mysteries basically. I mean, if we're expecting high schoolers to read Macbeth, I think they can read Hexwood. Oh yeah, for sure. I just need more from like, is this a fun book for a high schooler? I think a weird high schooler, yes. No, but Macbeth is like, you have to read it in school. Yeah, this is supposed to be for like fun times. Yeah, I mean, I'm at a full adult and I still didn't get it. So I'm like, me in high school, I'm like, I don't know, I was just trying to get weed in high school. I couldn't have handled this. Like my high school experience is... This would be a really interesting book to read, hi. I do think Hexwood assumes... I tried, it didn't help. I'm sorry, I also tried to get high and do this. I'm like, maybe that'll make me want to read this. The scientific experiment was conducted. I do think Hexwood assumes, I think it assumes a very British audience. Like I think you went to public school in Britain when this was written, you probably got all the reference. But I'm actually, I'm glad you picked it because I think it was interesting. Like it's pretty distinct from anything I've read, but I don't know that it's one everybody will love as we've demonstrated. Yeah, well, yeah, it's apparently out of print. So... Yeah. Which doesn't necessarily always mean that people will dislike it, but... But it's not, it hasn't endured the way some of her other better-known ones. Yeah. If Miyazaki made a movie of this, then everyone would love it. That would probably would have made more sense because it would have been illustrated and I would have been able to visualize it. Also, if you think about how strange movies like Spirited Away are, if you read a book that was spirited away, it would be more confusing than Hexwood. I think this would actually make a great graphic novel because you could do a lot to play with like the visuals of like people. I wish it had visuals, yeah. Actually, it would, this is a cool graphic novel. I think that's true. I probably would have liked it better. And in a graphic novel, you can condense the boring parts. And sure, it's the Miyazaki movie. I also genuinely think that would make a good Miyazaki film. Yeah. Well, I mean, I love Howell's movie, Castle. I've never read the book, but I love the Miyazaki film. The book? You're so good. I actually don't like each one very much. Sorry. You don't like one very much? I've seen the movie, I liked it, but... I don't like the book or the movie very much. I don't hate them, but... I think it was too hyped for me. Like, everyone talks about... It's a little romantic too, so it might not be your vibe. It is. That was like one of my first romantic things that I really loved and had complicated feelings about. But he's old, but no. And I guess it is what it is. It is what it is. I don't know. I don't know. The bacon and eggs they cook in that movie, I've never seen food more delicious. Like, I don't know how they do food in that film, but it looks delish. I felt that way more about the food in Ponyo. There's a lot of food in Ponyo. Hold on, sorry. Things are going on in my house everywhere. Time machine has been activated. She's been summoned to her time. I don't even know what Ponyo is. It's a Miyazaki movie. Wow. I feel like I'm very behind on all things Miyazaki. I've seen a few of his movies, but I know there's a lot I haven't seen. I like the ones I've seen, but... I like the art that I see from it. Like, a lot of times when people have a cool tattoo, when I look at the captions, it's like, oh, that's from Miyazaki. Okay. There's a lot of imagery in House Moving Castle, the film that I like, but when I actually watched the movie and when I actually read the book, I would just in no way live it up to any fraction of my expectations. Yeah, I wonder if maybe part of it is because it was like a teen, like a formative reading experience for me of loving both fantasy and romance. I was like, Hexwood had no hype. I had no nothing except that it was dedicated to gaming. I just like picked it up in a bookstore because it had a cool cover and it was in the teen section. Like I didn't have any recommendation for it. I feel like sometimes, too, that can change your experience with something when like you don't go in knowing anything. With an expectation? Yeah. Oh my God. I'm sorry, okay. I just realized what I look like because someone knocked on the door. Greg's not here, so I went and looked and it was a mailman. And he dropped something off and I went to grab it. And then I looked at the package and it was the wrong address. It's my neighbor. So I literally chased after the mailman and he gave him this package. So it's for the neighbor and I went back in and I forgot I looked like this. He was helped by a very friendly robot of the opera. He forgot I was wearing this. I'm like, it's for my neighbor. And he's like, okay. Oh my God. I like to wear your COVID mask in the wrong area. I chased a stranger down. That's a great mask. Danger, Will Robinson. Danger. I just realized that's what happened and he's probably going. Mailman, you're the first rainer. Come here. Girl, it's not even noon yet. It's too early today for this. Anyway, so that's pretty amazing. I think you live in a nice little heat window. I was gonna say, he's probably seen weirder thing. Yeah. He might have. But I think you're like prepping for an audition or something. Wonder what the audition was. Trying to like get into character. Mind you, I'm wearing sweatpants and Ugg boots. Like I'm like, I'm a creature now. I'm like, what are all these decisions you've made? I'm in a very distinctive fashion sense. He should have told him like what Wesley says in Princess Bride when there's like, why are you wearing a mask? Are you hiding like a burn or something? Are you hiding in a scar? And he's like, oh, I just think that masks are terribly comfortable. I think everyone's gonna wear them in the future. It's definitely a vibe. Sweatpants and mask, you know, that's the new comfort. You know. I love Wesley and Princess Bride. Do you love not Wesley, not love Wesley outside of Princess Bride? Well, he doesn't exist outside of Princess Bride. No, you specified those that I love Wesley. You're like, I love him in Princess Bride. Like to be clear. Wesley from Princess Bride, maybe I misspoke. But yeah, no, he's just a cool character. I wanted to be the Dread Pirate Roberts for so many Halloweens that had never happened. Sad about it. Well, you know, there's many Halloweens in your future. We can make our way through. Yeah. Are we reading anything pirated this year? Well, that actually segues possibly to mine. My, because I think I'm gonna swap what I picked. No, you're not. I never know what you picked and it helps. Okay, this is what I've just picked all along. But Amanda, do you want to say, because mine's not till July, so. Oh. Are we saying what we're doing next? It could be a segue. It's up to you guys if we're ready to do that. We usually do it at the end. I don't know if we have anything more to say about the book or just life. Yeah. Well, everyone hated Hexwood, except for those who didn't. And, What? That's all there was to say. Well, isn't that true for any book? Everyone hated it, except for those who didn't. Just because it's always true doesn't mean it's not worth saying. Okay. Yeah. Fair enough. That was a very doctorish word to say. But, you know, I tried with it. It's just, I'm not the target audience for this. I'm not the right. But who is the target audience? Buck, if I know, but like for me, I'm just fine, I think. Well, the way that it was dedicated to Neil Gaiman, that like Neil Gaiman is not only the inspiration, he is the target audience. It's only for Neil Gaiman. There we go. Mystery solved. This was written for Neil Gaiman and it's just an accident that any of us are reading it. So I guess since I wrote it, other people can read it too, but guys, this is just for Gaiman. This is just for Neil. I feel like people who like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Arthurian Legends should read this. So, Leanna. And Good Omens and Dr. New at Weller Academy. I mean, that too, but like, but you know, like I feel like if those are things that you get excited about. This is also, this is nothing at all like it. So I do not want to pitch it as a read-alike. I repeat, this is not a read-alike. But in the same way that when I talk about By Force Alone by Lobby Tadar, I'm like, this is a super weird book. It's chaotic as hell. And you really have to know Arthur. And in the sequel, you really have to know Robin Hood and Ivanhoe, which I love Ivanhoe. But no one else in the world has read Ivanhoe. So I'm like, if you specifically know these things because he will not explain them to you and you enjoy chaos and speculative weird shit, then like, I enjoy these books, but you have to like those things specifically. Don't be like, ooh, Arthur, who's Robin Hood? I'll read the don't, don't. It's a niche audience. Yeah, I think. But like with this, like if you like weird chaotic stuff and you also know Arthur and you like British humor and all these things like you take all these boxes. And like weird complicated sci-fi stuff. Yeah, you also, in addition to being somebody who likes a theory and legend, you also have to like weird sci-fi stuff. Which is true of By Force Alone as well. Very good. See, I just wish it was more like a niche audience. I wanted more office comedy in this. Like I want it. Cause you're like the guy, he turned on the robot to like figure out what would happen if like all like soccer teams and like all these people played soccer. Like what would happen, yeah. And I was like, that is hilarious. And I was like, I wish this was more of like a workplace comedy where everyone's just like, gotta fix someone else's problem. I think it would have been really funny. I don't think that's what day Anna-Win Jones obviously wanted to do cause she didn't. But like if the book was that, I think I could have read it all and had a good time. Cause it was like this fun sarcasm that I feel like a lot of people could relate to. But then again, if it's for children, they don't know what jobs are yet. So they wouldn't get it. So maybe it's just me. I definitely, some of the parts that were so entertaining were things like, you know, going to get the earth wardrobe when they don't know earth fashions and like, I don't know, like that stuff was entertaining. Yeah. And Marty and trying his best and still looks like he's like playing Robin Hood. He's walking around the streets in a cape. She's like, girl, you're at the grocery store. What are you doing? My tip, my real takeaway is that I would love to see this adapted to a graphic novel. I think that that'd be rad as hell. I think that a lot of, yeah, I think a lot of the like piecing issues could be fixed that way. And you would get like the flashy fun parts. I think I also like weirdness better in graphic novels like than I do in novels. Like weird stuff when it's got like, I don't know why that is, but for whatever reason, like I can do weird sci-fi shit in graphic novels in a way that I don't enjoy in books. Yeah. So, Eliana, you're muted. Sorry, after Gaiman learned that Hexwood was dedicated to him, he wrote a poem about Hexwood. Oh, are you gonna do a reading for us? If you wish to hear it. I would love it. Please. So this is on his blog, because someone asked him if he knew that Hexwood was dedicated to him, which like, of course he knows that. Like, why would he not know that? But anyway, it says, hot indeed, Hexwood is a book by Diana M. Jones and you can find out more on her website or just read her books. One of the privileges of having kids is that you get to read out loud to them and reading Diana out loud is a delight. Her books unpack very tightly with scarcely a word wasted in 100,000 and reading them silently. It's easy to miss stuff without knowing it. Anyway, yes, I did know she dedicated Hexwood to me. I wrote some doggerel poetry about it back when the book came out and she sent me a copy. Hang on, I bet I can find it on the hard disk. Here we go. There's the kitten curled up in Kilkenny was given a perfect pot of cream and the princess asleep in a thorn-wrapped castle who's dreaming a perfect dream. There's a dog in Alaska who danced with delight on a pile of masted on bones and I've got a copy of Hexwood dedicated to me by Diana Wyn Jones. There's an actress who clutches her Oscar and sobs with proper impromptu joy. There's a Machiavellian villain who's hit on a wonderfully evil ploy. There's wizards in crystal castles and kings on their golden thrones but I've got a copy of Hexwood dedicated to me by Diana Wyn Jones. There's a fisherman out on the sea today who just caught the perfect fish. There's a child in Latin who opened a genie-filled bottle and got a wish. There are people who live in glass houses have managed to outlaw stones but I've got a copy of Hexwood dedicated to me by Diana Wyn Jones. That was very charming. There he goes. He didn't say he liked it. He's saying he has it. This is the thing that I have. I have a physical possession of this book. I have a physical possession of this. Yeah. Yeah. But he was delighted by having it so. He does. It inspired him to write a poem. I mean, it would be a little bit. I mean, for him, I think having Diana Wyn Jones dedicated a book to him would be a little bit like Neil Gaiman dedicating a book to me and me being like. Ah! Yeah. I will never show that about this. Guess what I have. Guess what I have. And then he'd be like, I'm never reading the book in case I hate it. In case I hate it. Yeah. That would be quite awkward if someone dedicated a book to you that he deeply did not enjoy. I'm loving the gesture. Or maybe it's just shade. It's just like this is dedicated to you. To you. You're going to hate this, you know. Yeah. It could go to directions. So nobody write any monster smut and dedicate it to me, please. Someone do it. Well, that seems like a challenge, Diana. Somewhere, Regina Abel. Shans be writing poetry in honor of the book, if that's what you're hoping for. Oh, gosh. So, yeah. 2020 forward. 2020 forward. Yes. We're working it out. At the very least, I feel that this fit the prompt. Oh, yeah, certainly. It dealt with time and space and stuff, but I think it works. I didn't have fantasy. It's kind of a very loose theme. Like it can be interpreted lots of ways. So. Part of the brilliance. The courtesy of Amanda. You're speaking of Amanda. Have you chosen or I have. I have chosen it. So for April, I have picked Calamity by Constance Faye. I, it's romance. It's in space. There's robots on the cover. 20 forward. So I think it's going to be fun. It's like, you know, it's kind of space pirates. Oh, maybe the dry pirate rabbit will work if it was an alien. So. I think you just color your face green and then dress as the pirate red pirate Roberts. Well, technically, I think they're in spacesuits. They're not robots now that I'm looking at it better. But yeah, so they're in space. We could do an astronaut theme. We could an alien theme. Yeah, I think I had that marked already. Let me double check because I think that's what you said you were thinking about. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember thinking this sounded good. So I'm excited for this. Easily accessible. There is an audio component for anyone who needs it. I don't print. It does have a tagline that I think appeals to two people on this podcast, very specifically. It says, winter's orbit meets Alona Andrews in the sexy enemies lovers room. I will say I have this one for review. So I have read it. Oh, okay. But it'll be interesting to me. Okay. Did you hate it? Did you hate it? How can I hate it? Well, I think that one said, I think I went in with the wrong expectation. You expected to like it and that was your problem. Well, no, I think the vibe from the cover and the marketing, I was expecting something that took itself a little more seriously and it really doesn't. Like it's very. Oh, no, I'm expecting like goofy space pirates. So maybe I'm going to go in with the right attitude. My prediction is that me and Amanda love this one and Bethany and Leanna hate it. That's, that's gonna be. You know what? I think that's just how it is. Like we should just pick things that were always split. I mean, I will probably reread it or at least do like a skim reread. But hearing that it's like more goofy. Like I wish the cover was more fun. That's a quite. Yeah. The cover doesn't really give the vibe of the book is. Well, it is cartoon, right? No, but like it's very. I think it's just more like graphic. Like that looks like it would keep company with Children of Time by Adrienne Chaikov. Like it's very camp. This is more like it needs like, you know, like a space salient indie romance cover. It's like a. Oh, man, you're a man. I plan it. It's very campy. More romance. I don't know. And that makes it sound more fun for me. Good. So, you know, I think like we all used to try to pick books that we thought other people would like and then they never worked anyway. So now we're just picking things we want to read. We're like, if you like it, you like it. Yes. OK, so the theme is astronauts. I guess I haven't read it yet. I'm going to leave it a little open. I think they're like space pirates and stuff. You can definitely do space pirates. OK, yeah. So you whatever you want to do. You could do a nautical theme for the one I would like to pick. And you guys can tell me if you're not OK with this. But the last let me double check what it's called. It's the new Stuart Turton that's coming out the spring. Before you say anything else, I just have to tell you that I know that you're dressed as Indiana Jones. But to me, you are Tom Bombadil. But anyway, carry on. I've never been more insulted in my entire life. How dare you? OK, it's called the last something. Hold the last murder at the end of the world. Yes, I just I just Googled Stuart Turton and that popped up. Yes, and it comes out in May. Yes, it comes out in May. And let me I'll read you the pitch because I think it fits our theme. But like the murdery version. Let's see here outside the solve the murder that's left that solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island, there is nothing. The world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island, it is a dillick, 120 villagers and three scientists living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast to obey their nightly curfew and to do what they're told by the scientists until to the horror of the islanders. One of the beloved scientists has found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learned that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. So I have one hundred and seven hours to try to figure out who done it and how to reverse that. Is this is this is his third book, right? Yes. Yeah, I feel like this is like the village where like the fog will clear and they'll be like, oh, there's just like people over there. We're in Catalina, Catalina the whole time. That's what I'm guessing. That's that's the twist that's kind of obvious from the description. But I don't know. Maybe I haven't. I purposely didn't request it like going in fresh, but I don't know if you guys are OK with reading a newer release. I thought that theme pretty well. Have you guys read his other two books? Yes, I have. I've read not read anything by Stuart Turner. Did you like his other two books? I liked the first one until the end. And then the ending was garbage, in my opinion. And then the second one I didn't like at all. I really was excited for it. It sounded like an amazing premise and I only read the first one. And I just disliked it and never read anything else for it. But I'll try something else. But his promises always sounds like I said, the second one. Like I was even more excited than the first one. And then I was so disappointed that I didn't enjoy it. But like once again, the premise, I'm like, yep, that you got me. That also sounds interesting just like the first two. Yes, I think his writing got better in the second one. So I'm excited to see if the third one, how it goes better. I mean, it's my kind of book and I gave both of the first two books. I read four stars. Like I had writing problems with both of them, but I liked the overall plots. So OK. Yeah. So that way we can be new release fun. Yeah, he's a little he's like my my mystery. Adrian Young, where I keep reading his books because the premises keep sounding great, even though I never like. And there should I'm assuming because it's a new release and he's a big author, there should be an audio available, I'm assuming right now. There is not. What's not out yet. Yeah, I know. But usually you can pre-order still on Amazon. It doesn't exist yet. But I'm assuming it'll come later. Yeah, I'm sure enough author it probably will. I'd be surprised. I would be shocked if it didn't. But it's not available yet. Yeah, it can check in when we meet in April. If it's still not available, I can change it up. You know, I'm sure it will. They just don't have it available. It's still coming in May. I guess several months. Yeah. So. OK, so we have the next two. We have spring and summer. Yeah. And we just have the fall. Right. So I'm I mean, I have a tentative pick. I may it may change, but currently I'm thinking the Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, which is a sci-fi horror that's sort of like surviving alone in a mine with something I don't know what you see in our future. Bethany, I don't think you should plan our future. I'm supposed to pick a like a futuristic horror book. So yeah, that's so that's kind of what I'm thinking. I may pick a newer release if I see something that I think could fit. But that's so tentatively penciled in. Yes, that. Yeah. Well, this one, I'm sorry, Bethany, but I'm picking it. I'm so I mean, I'm so excited. I think this is great. I love Alona, Andrews. I want something camping. It's been a gift. Leanna, lots of chances to be very upset about uses of language. Yeah, I know you're going to hate it. But, you know, I don't think you thought I was going to like this. Turn around and play. It's at least it's like pretty quick to read. It's not like a lot. Yes, this is going to be breezy to read. It is three hundred and five pages. Like and it is on Kindle Unlimited, which I appreciate. Yeah, so it is. It'll be a quick read. So at least it will suffer for a long. Yeah, because I did make Leanna read Leona Andrews at one time and you hated it. I did. To my knowledge, nobody heard her. My Anna often came to whisper. I did. Well, you know what? In my defense, I didn't know I had a Leona, Andrews. Connection or like a reference until right now. So it might have been I picked this last year and I didn't know. But oh, it says on the back, like I should have actually looked at the book at all. But it says also Firefly. I don't know, Leanna, did you like Firefly, the TV show? OK, OK, so you're going to love this, then. At least it might have something you're leaping to. It might be a crew of misfit characters. Also was comps to Firefly is a long way to a small angry planet. And I despise that book. So oh, no, I love that. I like I'm neutral with it. I thought it was fine. I don't love it or hate it. I thought it was I think that's one where it got a little overhyped to me because people just kept being like, you're going to love it. You're going to love it. You're going to love it. And I was like, I like it. Firefly or a small angry planet, small angry planet. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure like the crew of misfit, you know, crew of misfits, I think that's where this Firefly comparison is probably going to end. Yeah, it's just like how anything that has like a battle royale is like, this is Hunger Games and anything that has a crew of misfits is like, this is Firefly, even though. That concept happened before and after those stories like that. Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Well, I think I'll like it. And I'm having a good time thinking about reading this. So I'm excited. And you know what? If me and Amanda end up hating it, then we can just all hate it together, which would also be fun. You know, I mean, either way, I think it'll make for a good. I can't wait for all y'all to hate it and me to love it. There you go. That would be honest. That'll be the day. Amazing turnaround. I would be so excited if I do that now, folks. What's the ratio of love to hate books for Leanna? In the club or in general? Thirty seventy sounds about accurate, though. I don't know. Because I feel like the only time I'm very picky is if I pick it. And I don't even always like the books that I pick. So that's true. Are you saying this is generous? How many of you have the horror picks that Bethany had? I feel like I got you to like Tessa Dare. So I mean, you know, so like 90, 10. I was being generous. I mean, you don't hate all. Sometimes you're just like, it's fine. You know, yeah, maybe we could do like like 20 80. But also I feel like that, like, honestly, all of us have a lot that we are like, it was OK versus ones we really love. Like, I feel like there's always, you know, have we had that? We that people really loved guns of the dawn and I picked it. Yeah, that I really liked guns of the dawn. I was OK about it. Yeah, I really liked it. I'm trying to put else. I think the big well, our first. Oh, let in the mist. I liked a lot. Which one? Let in the mist. Oh, I love feeling the war on drugs. I love that's right. Amanda didn't like that one. I like that one. I feel like let in the mist and like hexwood or like similar in tone. And I'm like, this is not what I like. Yeah, I know. See, it's so interesting. Whereas like I love lead in the mist, something about about it, like worked for me in a way. It was Whoville in the war on drugs for me, but it's fine. I didn't hate it. I'm just like, you say that like it's a bad thing. That sounds like a great pitch to me. I know I have. I think I'm describing it in a in a more fun way than it is. I think we like. I don't know. I feel like our first Halloween show. Everybody liked some of those guys. It was like, didn't they? That's other book clubs. Other book clubs guide to slaying vampires. Yeah, I like I didn't love it. I like liked it. I thought there was content in the book that didn't need to be there. And it still bothers me to this day that like the graphics actual assault was in the book because it didn't need to be in there. And it's still fucking bothers me to this day. So I think about as good as we've done, though. Yeah, yeah, in terms of I think that's every book club. Is this you can't, you know, because you have people with always like different things. And that's just like, yeah. I mean, all of our tastes were like a little bend diagram. There is a juicy like fudge core that we all know. If Tessa Dare ever comes out with this book, which just I got another notification just now. It got telling me that it's been pushed to 2026. No, I thought we were really going to get it this year. You know what? I think I figured it out. Like I I'm speculating, but I'm like, I feel like Tessa Dare is trying to wait out her contract with Avon Books. I think she's trying to get to a new publisher because there's no reason why this wouldn't be released. Unless she's like this really struggling. Well, because she's because she's had some like some health issues that have made writing difficult for her. Yeah, but I've had it pre-order since 2019. Like that I doubt it wouldn't be done by now. Can I tell you about the book called The Doors of Stone and how you knew what you were getting into with that? We had no way to know that this was going to happen with Tessa. Yeah, I'm just saying that like to say that 2019 is a long time to wait. Yeah, Doors of Stone for a romance novel. Yes, for a romance novel that's like 384 pages. Yeah, that's a very long time to wait. Yeah, but I think she's had health issues. So that's probably why. But maybe she has maybe she has a problem. I think it's a combo of things. But I'm like at this point, I'm like, are you waiting out your contract like Kresley Cole, who didn't like put out a book for like six years until like her contract was up and she moved to a new publisher. And then she put out a not her best. Well, she also had major health issues. She did, I think was in a car accident or something. Yeah, but still, I'm like, I don't know. I don't I'm speculating, but I'm like, I feel like as a conspiracy theory, I think that's a more fun answer. It's going to come out on a different publisher. It's not going to be on even books. That's what I feel like it's going to happen. I would actually love that to be the answer, because then she wouldn't be having health issues. Yeah. Yeah. So it could be both. Yeah, it could be both. Could be both. But someday all that's if it ever comes out, we will drop everything and have emergency book club. I feel like because we all like that series. So I just agree that whoever's pick is the nearest. Whoever that's what we're going to do is like that's what you're thinking. I want to pull like rank here and be like, I need to have that on my channel. That's like that's what people find me for is Tessa Dare and right. They're saying that my channel isn't known for its Tessa Dare content. Yes, I'm going to confidently. Leanna is known as the foremost dare, darehead on on it. But do you know? I'll have you know that the bodice rippers part of this book club is down to me being a member. Yeah. OK. OK. So the book club happened a really long time ago. And I was me and Leanna. We were having dinner after like a book signing. I was like, let's do a collab where I'm going to make you read bodice rippers and I will read anything you want me to read. And that's how it started. And I had her read Tessa Dare. Yeah. So it's like coming back to your roots, really. And you had me read the blade itself. Yeah. And that worked out really well. Because we both like those. We understood the assignment when it came to the blade. We understood the assignment and the bodice rippers. We appeared from those assignments. We have. We've kind of come up with like different. I had a silly idea. And then now it's like a book club. Blades could play into murder. Yeah. And for horror. I think I can consistently choose books that have blades in them. I'm doing my part. Well, I guess they had a sword at one point. It has some kind of sword in them. Yeah. I feel like, you know, blades has just been broadened to encompass other genres in addition to. Yeah. Well, when you all pick books that have blades in them, it's never a weapon. And I don't like it. Are you talking about a penis? This is a romance. There was no penises talked about in the cast class year. That was my pick. True. True. Well done. True. There was a lot of dick measuring, but there isn't any. As in like a PI, is that the word play we're going for here? OK. Well, anyway, yeah, I guess we'll see you guys back for April. Lamedy on it, on Amanda's channel. Lamedy in April. I'm very excited. It'll be a good show. Yeah. Yeah. At least you don't have to reread it. You don't have to reread it if you don't want. You could just show up. So like, you know, at the very least. I read it. I already read it like three months ago. By the time I'm going to have to at least like skim it. Do a skim. Which is fine. It's fine. Yeah, it was never it wasn't forever. That's why I held on to my copies. Because I knew I might have to. I also have the art copies. So I'm excited. So I've read it because I'm a terrible reading arts. Hi. I read them eventually. All right. Well, that's that then. All right, everybody. Enjoy your way in April. Over here in April. Well, on my channel, that's what I'm here. Yeah, everyone's invited to Amanda's house in April. See you there. See you there, everybody. Bye. Bye.