Kaytee Cobb

So when you first started describing this,

It's like, well, yes, absolutely.

And like that 1980s scene, I'm thinking like last night at the Telegraph Club, which I really loved a couple years back.

There are some books that really work well for me in that scene.

And then the showbiz element, again, Daisy Jones.

It feels like a recipe for really good stuff.

But I absolutely understand that tension of like, how do we hold women to the standard that we've been given and also be feminist and say like, can't men meet that standard as well?

And then also celebrate women being crude and sarcastic and like yucky toward each other just because like.

Right.

That makes sense.

I do want to acknowledge for the people that do a blue check that today blue is under a pillow.

And so when he moves, the pillow moves.

And it's like an experience happening in the background in there.

So if anybody else is distracted watching this on YouTube, that's what's going on back there.

All right, my first book this week has some historical fiction elements, very women-centered, but very different from what you were just talking about, Meredith.

I am bringing The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali.

I had finally picked this book up this year after intentionally avoiding it for many years, and that is because I did not love her breakout hit, The Stationery Shop, even though nearly everyone else did.

It just wasn't a win for me on a number of levels, especially the...

The focus on like a love story element just didn't work for me at the time.

But historical fiction centered on women has been working well for me lately.