Loving Is Living
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What book are Brooke and Connor discussing at the very start of the episode?
Oh, my. SpongeBob, why? Morning.
Good morning.
Good morning to you. Welcome back to Brooke and Connor.
Welcome back. It's good to see you.
What can we get started for you? Could I maybe read you a passage out of... Yeah, let's start.
I think that'd be a good way to start.
Which I've been revisiting.
Yeah.
I trust you're having a better day this week.
That was it.
His deep groan brought her back to the present. His solid, heavy thrust against the padded...
Did you swap it out for Milking Farm under there? Nice one.
That's a movie magic.
Oh, I love it.
Oh, God. You know I've started that book, right? You know I'm eight pages in.
You're eight pages in?
Oh, my gosh. She's just beginning her career.
She started at the farm?
Yeah, she does not. She knows not what she's done.
I'm like, I'm really excited for you to give us some updates and I am going to read it. I am now. Crescent City just got good at 450 pages in. So I'm locked. I'm now locked into that. And so it should speed by now. The rest of the other 450 pages should just speed right by.
It's a 900 page book.
I think it's actually 800. It got good at like 60% in. Maybe 55.
To me, it's just like wrap it up, you know?
It's hard because with fantasy books, it's like you do have to put in the work, unfortunately, to receive the payoff. Like it does take that amount of like world building to then have a really like satisfying story. Most of the time. The popular sentiment is just like, just get right to it. But I'm not sure that you really can with a good fantasy book. That's why you really have to be like in the zone for one of those.
It's just very impressive to me that you're able to give it that sort of dedication.
It's just like when you know that it's going to get good, it's something to look forward to.
How can you know?
Because I trust. I trust SJM with my life.
You trust her gut?
Oh, I trust her with my gut.
There's no part of you that's like, this girl has me wrapped around her finger?
She does, but she's earned it with her prose. I really feel that way.
My feelings would be hurt if she had my fat ass sitting there reading 450 pages with blue balls.
Let me clarify. The first 450 pages are not bad by any means. They're just like taking me somewhere. They're not like hitting me. They're not like punching me yet. They're edging me. Yeah, I guess you could say edging. I guess you could bring blue balls into the conversation.
I mean, there's no other way to put it.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
How long has that taken you? 450 pages.
Longer than I would prefer. I will say they zoom by her books. Like I should be done in like a day or two with the remaining 400 now that I'm sucked. But it has taken me like three weeks to get to this point. But like with the one of hers is like 900 plus. I think it's actually a thousand. One of hers and it took me two days because it's like I was it was already like the eighth book in the series and I was already there, you know. So once you're in, you're in and you zoom.
900 pages is so.
It's big text. Like it's not small text and it's not dense. Once you get into the world.
I'm simply not an author, but this is just like, it doesn't compute for me. That's why I'm so happy there's different kinds of people.
Exactly. Different kinds of people, different kinds of authors, different kinds of books. As we discussed in the bonus last week, reading is subjective. And I can't stress that enough. You're not going to like every book and that's totally fine. Thank you.
I have a lot of respect for Sarah J. Maas as a person, but I wanted to throw up when I read two pages of that first book that I picked up.
Akatar? Yeah. What made you want to throw up?
It was bad.
Oh, interesting.
To me.
Well, you know, Akatar is really just the means to book two.
I am not willing to do that. That's what I'm saying.
And Connor, that's fine. You don't have to.
If Sarah J. Maas knocked on my door and said, would you like to get a coffee? I'd say, yes. Oh my God, you're Sarah J. Maas? I have so much utter, just like profound respect for you and your world building and your prose.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What book are Brooke and Connor discussing at the very start of the episode?
0:07–16:57
2
Why do they joke about Hydro Flasks as makeshift weapons on planes?
16:57–21:37
3
What triggers Brooke’s existential reflections and scar stories?
21:37–36:08
4
How do Brooke and Connor react to recent geopolitical 'war' alerts and drone-strike fears?
36:08–53:43
5
What life-changing quote did Ethan Hawke deliver on the Oscars red carpet?
53:43–59:35