Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club - Summer Reads 2024

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

In this week's episode Sara and Cariad discuss the books they're looking forward to reading this summer!Sara’s novel Weirdo is published by Faber & Faber and is available to buy here.Cariad’s book You Are Not Alone is published by Bloomsbury and is available to buy here.Cariad's children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe is available to pre-order now here.You can find a list of all the books we've discussed on the series so far here or on Apple Books here.Follow Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club on Instagram @saraandcariadsweirdosbookclub and Twitter @weirdosbookclub Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Artwork by Welcome Studio.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Pasco. Hello, I'm Carriad Lloyd. And we're weird about books. We love to read. We read too much. We talk too much. About the too much that we've read. Which is why we've created the Weirdo's Book Club.

Join us. A space for the lonely outsider to feel accepted and appreciated. A place for the person who'd love to be in a real book club, but it doesn't like wine or nibbles. Or being around other people. Is that you? Join us. Check out our Instagram at Sarah and Carriad's Weirdo's Book Club for the upcoming books we're going to be discussing. You can read along and share your opinions.

Or just skulk around in your raincoat like the weirdo you are. Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you. In this week's episode, we're going to be discussing some Summer Reeds. These are books that we haven't necessarily read yet, but we'd like to. We'd like to. We both Googled Summer Reads 2024, and we picked the ones that we think most interest us, trying to cover as many genres as possible.

In this episode, we discuss Summer Reeds. Summer Reeds makes me feel fun. reading on the beach in my mind. Oh, in my mind. I was hoping you'd join in. That's really lovely. Oh, thanks. There's actually like summer reed, blowing for the window.

Blowing for the window. I love it. I really don't like that song, but I do like your parody version. Why don't you like that song? It's kind of song my dad would sing. Oh, I love that song. Yeah, I get it. It's got dad vibes.

It's got dad vibes. So even though it doesn't say the word sexual healing, that's what I hear. Anyway, we're not talking about... Did you think of that just then? Have you been doing that a week? No, I just looked down and thought, Summary. Oh, what was it? Okay.

On this episode, we are discussing summer reads. Summer reads. Makes me... I know. I want to do one. Okay, you do one. You're the book that I read. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Summer. One that I read. Let's stop. I feel we're ready to stop. Yeah. Yeah. So we wanted to do an episode where we changed the lyrics. We want to do.

did I've said where we discussed books you might want to read in the summer. Yeah. Good pay turners, good for a holiday, when you might want something a little bit lighter for your wardrobe. Just throw a load of books at you. Yeah. Ones we haven't read yet. We want to read. And also, sometimes books are be really readable, but might not fit in our sort of loose weirdos theme.

So we might not get to do them on the podcast. You've brought hard copies of things. I got, I went to an event and got some proofs. Look at this. Should I start with this? Yeah. Do you want to have a look at it while I talk about it? Yeah.

Okay, we should state. How beautiful that is. that beautiful. This is called Constanza, Rachel Blackmore. Okay. And this is the plot ready, the subtitle. Rome 1636. History calls her a muse, temptress, fallen woman. This is her story. Yes, please. That's my kind of summary. Yeah. So this is all set in Rome. Constanza Piccolumini is a respectable lady until she meets the sculptor, who is real Benini, the famed sculptor. Oh yes. Benetna. Benetian. And star of Roman Society.

and it's about their secret love, and he ends up sculpting her, and it's very scandalous. He sculpt her with Heshamis down and open, and... Piazza. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Based on a true story, Costanza is a dizzying and central historical novel that brings to life a feminist icon who's been written out of history. I was at, I should say, a pitching thing where people were pitching their proofs. So were you pitching your children's book? I was pitching my children's book.

I hadn't realized when you first time with a story that it was your first pitch of the children's book. Yes. The Christmas Wish Tastrophe is by Children's Book. And they were 20 authors and we had to stand up for two minutes each. Mrs. Van de Tuxwig was there. Robert Popper was there. Louise Minchin was there. And they gave you a ha-a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a, which is a horn if you went over your two-minute pitch. It was pretty terrifying, to be honest. They gonged you off. And this woman... I've always thought there were enough gong shows in literature. In literature. But Rachel Blackmore was there and she pitched this and I thought, oh, yes, please. I've only just started reading it and I was already like, oh, this just feels like,

Good Tube journey. Yeah. Or if you're going on holiday to Italy, it's even better. Yeah. So, yeah. We still haven't read Dolly Alderton's new book. And that must be nearly coming out in paperback.

It is. Dolly Outs is good material. Obviously, it's done so well everywhere, so well in America. Love her writing. Yeah, yeah. And because comics like it, which is quite a good litmus test. Because it's about stand-up comedian and usually sound-up comedians, we don't like it. Yeah, no.

And I've only heard sound-up say it's brilliant. Mm-hmm. Yes, that looks really, really good. This one, I've seen it everywhere. So I thought, shall I give it more air time? But it looks so interesting. The Ministry of Time Let's one of my life I've written down

Kelly Ann Bradley Yes it looks really good I've seen it everywhere Obviously it's very promotion in waterstones and stuff In the windows And then the books live You know Sarah Coxie's book show Has this is on a live tour

So Amanda Ross who's the exec of the production companies hosting it And Joe Brand and Casey Endsworth Stephen Mangler doing like a book tour And that's one of their books Yeah I mean And it's about time travel stuff Which is why I'll read it

I'll read this little bit Because this sold me A jaded civil servant is offered a lucrative role within a strange new government ministry. The titular institution oversees the bringing in of expats from the furthest corners of history to test the rather novel notion of time travel. Commander Graham Corp supposedly died on Sir John Franklin's expedition to the Arctic,

yet has found himself very much alive in contemporary England. Think, 2024's answer to Outlander. Yes, please. Yes, please. I was like, I'm on board. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That sounded good. Really, really good. Yeah, excited. So, I've got one to recommend, which is not. recent but I recently signed with a book agent

my first of the time of a book agent and it's the funniest book she's ever read so you have to understand that I went straight into my basket standard deviation by Catherine Heiney it's amazing have you read it everything Catherine Heaney has written is amazing I can't believe we haven't done her on the show already she is one of my favourite authors

I mean I don't know anything about it should I give you some blurb I guess we should I'm going to just tell you the other Catherine Heiney that's also amazing. Early Morning Riseer is the one that I have also read. A Devianty Funnelo about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. It's a second wife and she wants to know his first wife,

and so sets out to go and sort of befriend her. She's one of those people that I admire so much because she writes what you think seems, like if you're trying to describe the plot, it's hard, it's not plot. You're like, oh, that woman goes to a town. She meets a man. She gets a house. And but the books, the writing is so good. Yeah.

Yeah. I think she's perfect. Especially if you're in a bit of a book rut, I'd recommend her as well. I think the key, always go back to funny. Yes. If stuff's been too dry, the news is like ghastly and yeah. Yeah. Go back to funny.

Can I recommend a not funny one to balance that? Oh, okay. No, because if you're after something, if you've done funny. Yeah. And you want something, there's one that's been a way list for ages. Yep. In Memorium by Alice Wynne, which I just keep meaning to read, which is set in World War I. Yeah.

So, not funny. It was her debut novel. It's done an incredible. And it's about two schoolboys who are in love, secretly in love with each other. And they're pressured to enlist into the army. It's about soldiers, World War I, queer writing, queer writing, a love story set against the tragedies of war. Wynes rousing writing transports you to the trenches when an entire generation of lost men are brought to vivid. life. And I've heard people saying it's one of those books that really stays with you.

So I think, yeah, if you want a bit of like, Kaffan Hiney, definitely, but if you want something a bit like, oh, I really want to like have some deep feelings. And if you're packing for your holiday, take both. Take both. Have you got another one? I have actually, because again, it was something that's just passed me by. It doesn't matter how much you read, there's always more, isn't there? So it passed me by.

This is a sequel, Colm Tobin, a great book called Brooklyn. Yes, which is turned into a film. Oh, yes. And apparently Brooklyn's amazing, amazing, amazing. and the sequel is come. Yes. Yes. The sequel has come.

Finally, Long Island. Yes. I need to include that in my list as well. Yes. I thought it looked really interesting. I did include it in my list. But I felt bad because I haven't read Brooklyn's. I thought,

well, no, how exciting to know everyone loves the first one. Like when the Ferrante books were coming out, if people were like, oh, I hadn't read. Yes. And you were like, don't worry about it. It's start from the beginning. Yeah, just start from the beginning.

Excited. Everyone's excited. That number three. You can just get excited. Jump on board, number one, knowing that three and four are coming. So it just sounded like, really like my cup of tea.

Okay, well, I'll do another Irish writer. Yep. Megan Nolan, ordinary human failings. Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah. Thanks for recommendation. Yes, of course I've read it.

I've got my fingers on the pulse. Because she got nominated for loads of awards. Yes. And then she won loads of awards. Didn't make you read Coltabine, do it? I've got a friend who's jealous of her. Oh, yeah, she does seem very cool. Yeah, she's a brilliant writer.

She's a one of those writers getting better all the time. Emma Forrest, my friend, who's a writer, posted about how amazing that book was in the kind of way that would make you very jealous. She had a book. acts of desperation. Yes, they did very, very well as well. And this is ordinary human failings. Set in 1990s in London, tabloid journalist Tom Hargreaves, believes he stumbled on a career-making scoop when a child is murdered on a housing estate. Fingers start pointing towards a family of Irish immigrants. Yeah. I've read something of hers,

like an article or short story or something, I can't remember what it was, but I remember thinking, oh God, you're fucking brilliant, aren't you? You'll always want to read her books. I think she's one of those novelists. It's out in paperback. I thought that would be another good holiday read. Just like, it's really good writing. But it's a great London read because it's South London as well. I'm pretty sure it's sort of broccoli area. You're not going to on holiday. Yeah. You're stuck on the tube. What could be more foreign than the other side of the river? Some people live there, so that won't be foreign. I used to live there. Oh, me. Oh, me. Oh, me who lives in broccoli, yeah. But, yeah, fantastic. Yeah. I hope I've read every single other book that you're recommended.

We've got to talk about green dot. Oh, yeah. So I had that down, Madeline Gray, green dot. Oh, I've read it. You've read it, but it's come out on paperback now. I absolutely loved it. And again, look, I made a judgment. I'm a bit snobby. about books because I want to just I want to more than just enjoy it which sounds stupid yeah it's like going no you want a bit come on we read a lot it's like if it was music like oh yeah you know a toe tapper and I'll be like only tapping your toes

who's telling you I liked it was a toe tapper I've got a new hit on their 45 is that not what music journalists say I don't recommend toe tapping these days what do they say then Tiffany Swift clubbanger maybe what a toe tapper also her name's not Tiffany

You know when you called me a dweeb, this feels like a dream moment for you. This is a dream moment for me. I don't want to just enjoy myself. I don't want to just tote up. I want to a little bit of a jive as well. Does it rip me onto the dance floor? Or have I cried so much I've had to go home? Yeah.

I want to feel something. Yes, yes, yes. And so it's a little to green dot and it's about a woman having an affair with a co-worker. And I thought, oh, you know. And it's not. It's so funny. It's so well-written. It's so well-observed.

There's another one. on that lines. Nietzsche Dolan, the happy couple. It's a follow-up to 2020's exciting times. It's supposed to be very funny. A satirical spin on the marriage genre follows late 20th century. Luke and Celine, both of whom think the other is out of love with them on the cusp of their wedding day. Whether they make it to the end of the aisle or not forms the tension of the novel.

And I thought, oh, that sounds like another good. Like green dot. Oh, yeah, there's a really great Maggie Shipstead, which is like a wedding party. That suspense, it's a really great sort of, it's such an intense. And obviously everyone from your family is there. It's a good setup. I'm trying to say. A good premise.

Yeah. And I've seen that one lots all over the place. Have you? I thought, oh yeah, that looks like. Well, I'll tell you one I've seen nowhere. Oh, yeah. What's the one? No, no.

I mean, because it's by Emerald Fennell. So Emerald Fennell has written a novel called Monsters. Why is that not shouted about more? Well, exactly. It's had 366 reviews on Amazon. So someone found out. Which you didn't come out this year is what we mean. The tagline is sometimes murder is child's play.

I'm already fascinating. Yeah. And obviously Emerald Fennell wrote Saltburn and Killing Eve. Third season of Killing Eve. Oh, promising young woman. Yeah. So this is a Blackley comic tale about two children you would never want to meet. Ooh, and it's my kids.

So set in Cornwall. So this sounds fantastic. We love Emerald Fennell. Yeah, that sounds good. Oh, and here's another one. Yeah. Cocoa's new book is absolutely brilliant. I was going to mention that.

Everyone's saying Blue Sisters is really brilliant as well. How exciting is that. that. Yes. When you go, you know, this person is becoming people's favourite new novelist. She wrote Cleopatra and Frankenstein, which is brilliant. It's brilliant. So this one looked interesting. Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead. So he's the Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead, back with his second installment to his New York Crime Trilogy, first introduced with Harlem Shuffle. Furniture salesman and ex-fence, Ray Carney returns to the criminal underbelly of the city in Crook Manifesto in a bid to secure Jackson Five

tickets, which were like gold dust in 1971 for his daughter. Jumping through the years up to 1976, Whitehead cast a satirical eye on New York during the tumultuous decade, touching on everything from police corruption and the Black Liberation to Blacksploitation, blending family drama with history and culture. The sequel has a feel of a Quentin Tarantino movie. I thought, oh, yeah, that sounds good if you want something. Again, like very genre, 1970s, New York. Unfortunately, I'm just not interested.

The two for why I don't like Quentin Tarantino movies. I didn't nearly really didn't read that bit out because I thought well I don't like that exactly that would put me off that's the telling because I bet you it's really

brilliantly written and they've put in stuff to make and it actually is reversed okay I'm going to sell it to you again Sarah two time Pulitzer Prize winner yeah there you go has another book out

yeah I'm in okay that's it because also sometimes it's the same with TV programs I don't really love just like groups of men being crime you know what I mean

yeah I never watched pinky blinders for instance yeah or narcos The two famous crime men shows. Yeah, yeah, there's others. I've never seen as Sopranos. There you go.

There we go. But there was something about that I thought, very interesting about New York. I guess it's brilliant. The Black Liberation Army, that time. What's the author's name? Coulson Whitehead. Very famous. Oh, yeah.

Yes, you know. So another kind of crime one, which again, I was thinking of you. I like crime. I like criminals. I like crime. That's why I thought you'd like Crook Manifesto by Cawson Whitehead. Tokyo Express. this is a 1950s

Japanese detective story now finally available in English Secho Matsumoto has been described as Japan's Agatha Christie Oh yeah A murder mystery who done it carries the weight

and power of high literature Tokyo Express follows detective Twilagai Jotaro and the young man from Tokyo following the discovery of a parent double suicide by cyanide the two men are more convinced

it's more to meet the eye than the Romeo and Julia esk crime scene and I was like oh that sounds again like you want to be completely transported Yeah, that sounds fantastic. You're going to Japan.

Yeah. I was like, and I'd never heard of that author before. And I was like, wow, the Japanese Agatha Christie. Yeah. Sign me up. Yeah. I'm on board. So yeah, I thought those two, really, really good.

They appealed to me because I don't like crime, but I like things that are really genreed. And that's what I was like, oh, that feels like deep genre stuff. Yeah. Okay. So the bee sting's on everywhere. Oh, yeah. So you've read that, haven't you? I've read the bee sting and it's absolutely fantastic.

It's brilliant. You loved it. And, I mean, I mean, it's not without its dark moments. I mean, Paul Murray is a very, very funny writer, but he does also write about, you know, things that happen to human beings that are not necessarily positive. Yeah. But it's an absolute, like, feat of a novelist.

Okay. So that's probably one that you, if you have forgotten a buy a book, that will be in W.H. Smith. And it's massive. Oh, that'll get you through. Yeah, if you're going to read a couple of chapters a day, that will keep going the whole holiday.

Oh, they've put Curtis Sittonfield's romantic comedy. Yes, I wanted to add that one as well, actually. Yeah, I thought that looked like a good holiday. That's a sort of, I guess, Curtis Sittenfield was trying to reverse the whole funny man gets good-looking woman with funny woman gets good-looking famous man. Yeah.

Love story. And it's all set at Saturnite Live. Yes. I think it sounds. No, so many people who've said to me, it's just so enjoyable. You've not read it? I haven't read it. I haven't read it.

It's like it was written for you. I know, and I think that's why I've been put off. I've been afraid of it because I thought it would let me down. No. It won't. Because it was too perfect. You'll read it in a day. Okay.

And yeah, it's great. If you work in comedy, interested in TV comedy, have worked on any kind of sort of scripted, scripted show where you have to do rewrites and re-delivered and it's like looking for the 16th time is this funny can I read this to you does this work okay my notes are this who's made it into the show that kind of thing I think I was so it just seemed too perfect so I was like avoid oh no it's great okay all we'll add it to the list we all want impossible things by katherine newman and that was recommended to me by another writer my friend susanna who lives in mexico so this is katherine

Newman's debut book for adults and it is guaranteed to make you cry lots. So if you want a crying one, Edia Nash had been best friends for 40 years and Edie is diagnosed with terminal cancer. So I thought, okay. And they said, yes, the premise is depressing, but it's also life and ferving and a homage to female friendships full of warm, warmth and hilarity. And yeah, my friend, she's always said it's properly brilliant, like one of those that you put down, you're like, oh, I'm so glad I read that. So I thought that sounded like another, if you want something, if you You are someone who doesn't want light summer reading. Yes.

Well, in terms of writers who write quite big books that are fantastic, Sarah Perry's got Enlightenment, which is out. Yes, that looks really good. And Jesse Burton, the most recent one, it's not brand new, but I still haven't read it, The House of Fortune. Which is the sequel to them, Minterrest. Yes, Minterstress, which is so fantastic. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

So if you want a bit more historical. And again, sort of you're then in Holland? I was in Amsterdam with my mum, and they have, you know, the house that the Minterest is based in. You can go to the Rites Museum, and you can see it. And I was with my mum. And I was, they've got like stairs built up to it so you can like go up to this platform to properly see and it's incredible doll's house.

It is amazing. And I was looking at it and I was thinking, oh, like, I can't really see what's in there. And I didn't realize it's encased in clear persparks. And I headbutted so loudly the adult house that two people jumped and acted like I had punched it. And I left a makeup mark on the purse bag. because I'd like, so slammed it into, and I screamed. I was like, oh, God!

It was awful. Why have they made the perspex so dangerously clean? No, but they, well, you want to see it, but I was so entreat. I was like, oh, wow, what's that? What's that? Because I was like, it looks so good. Because it's small and you're trying to get involved. I was really embarrassing.

And they, me and my mum laughed lots, but the two people I've made jump didn't laugh and they looked upset. Like, what are you doing? Yeah. And I was like, is that funny, right? It's funny. I just headbutted a doll's house? No, they went down.

So we had to lead the room. Anyway, that's my miniature story. When we went to Amsterdam, I was researching sex power money, so I told my then-boyfriend, now husband, to come to the sex museum with me. And we smoked a joint together because we're dweeps. And we wouldn't normally do that. And it didn't affect my husband, but it affected me too much.

So when I was in the sex museum, all the walls were soft. And all the people could hear my thoughts. That took it out. Why didn't that make it into sex power money? I think it did. I don't remember you saying the walls was off. I definitely said I went into the Sex Museum. I probably didn't mention the Safe Walls.

I wanted more of that story in that chapter. No, fair enough, you had other big topics to send. We both had crazy experiences in Amsterdam. It's a crazy place. People have got stories. Oh, me and Sarah have got some stories about Amsterdam. Let me tell you. I got a couple of children's books.

I was pleased. Come on. I've got a couple of children. So my book is a book is a. out yet but I have a children's book coming out in October. I'll be buying that. It's perfect in time for Christmas. It's called the Christmas Wistastrophe. And my wishstafferphy is to get your book.

But that's made me more involved in what's called middle grade books, which is 8 to 12. And there's two I've come across recently. One, I've shouted out to her many times, Susan and Megan, the Irish contingent. Susan Cahill is a writer and she has a book out called The World Between the Rain. And I've read it and it is so beautiful and lyrical and magical. if you like your books properly, properly, Irish mythology, magical, you know, that Tolkieness vibe, you will love him. And there's another one, Pearce Tour Day has written a book called Midnight Treasure,

which is about, Pierce is an amazing writer, and he found out, he did some research after his dad had died, he thought his family were from Budapest, and he was trying to trace it, and he found out that actually from Transylvania. And he went to Transylvania, and he's written a book about proper werewolves and vampires, like, like the trance. truth behind this, which I know, obviously, you have to get into kids' book mine. But it's, I started reading and it's really, really brilliant.

So there's were just a few that I come across. Well, I've got a couple of friends who've written children's books, if I can just shut them out. So Andy wrote Dino Dad that came out a few weeks ago. Andy. Andy Dave from Cee Bee's. Andy Day. So he wrote the Dino Dad.

And also, I don't even know Babu, the Bee. My friend Birdie, she wrote an incredible book. And it's about a bee who's pink and dances and the other bees won't be friends with him. And it's one of those labours of love. And it's so beautiful. And the illustration is so beautiful. And my children love it so much. Yeah, because you do need to buy them books if you're going on holiday.

Otherwise, they bother you. Yeah. And when kids want something to be reread and reread, and there's lots of things to point out and talk about and how do they feel and what's their face doing and all those kind of things. If we ever want to do a deep dive into kids' picture books, I have what I consider an excellent kids' picture book library that I'm extremely proud of. And I'm wondering who to gift it to when my children finally don't want it.

Yes. I can see you're not excited. What do you mean? I've spent so many hours of the night. having to read books to children. Yeah, but then that's why you have to start being like super choosy about what you're getting them to read. Oh, okay.

Because there's some stuff that's good. When will they let me choose? Because at the moment, it's Pepper Pig. You don't let those. George gets a cold. You don't let those books in the house. No, they're not allowed in the house. The dinosaur hunt. The dragon one, which he ripped all the pop-ups out of and now he's angry that there's no dragons to pop up. You have to keep some books out in the house.

Oh, I tell you who's wonderful. The star, the star, the star, the man, the boy he wants to go to the star and the penguin. Oliver Jeffers. Oliver Jeffers is, I mean, he's a legend. Lost and Found is one of the all-time greatest pictures that have ever existed. Lost and Found. If you haven't got Lost and Found, what you're doing? Like, it's like, that's...

We've really deviated from summer reading. That's canon. It's canon. Yeah. Like, I now have, I'm now, I'm building a canon and I will not be argued with it. Yeah, no, it's okay. I know it's okay. I know.

I know. Yeah, Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers, classic. But you put that... There's one where he's trying to... It's a penguin back home And then That's lost and found That's lost and found

Okay Also you should read If you haven't His one of his most recent ones Is Here We Are Which he wrote after he had his first child Which is one of the most beautiful Yeah yeah no

With the dad Yeah got them all Got them all mate My shopping means I have loads of waterstones points Okay how to catch a start So much that they gasp When I go into buy stuff on points And then I can buy my kids books

Off that Summer reads We had a passive aggressive Abrother day Did you? My son picked up you know, the fluffy toys that they have there annoyingly in the book section and went,

oh, it's a lizard and another woman with her own child, went, it's actually a gecko. Her child was trying to buy a poor patrol book and wasn't allowed. Well, there you go. I feel for her. I'm that lady, no. No, because if you,

what are you going to do when they come home and read off trash? How come you don't read, Stephanie? Well, my mum just drummed it out of me in a waterstone when she kept, so you couldn't have a porpetrol. How come to you read Jane Austen and you understand literature and you care about it because your mother cared so much. She got you good. Do you give them good food or do you give them trash?

Pot noodles, see it sometimes. It's not getting you cancelled. I don't mind watching it, but now I won't buy the books of that. Yeah, all right. Get back the library, that's my rule. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. And then they go back.

Okay, well, see, as the boss in your house, and I know he's the boss in mine. Yeah, but you've got to be in control of this. It's too late. It's too late. A boss control. I lost control. Yeah. Any other summer reads?

Waywood by Amelia Hart, which is about, witches and power and survival on the face of deadly patriarchal structures which I thought, yeah, sounded like, yeah, if you're into like a bit of magic I thought that sounded good. Yeah, I'm into a bit of magic. Well, there's been a lovely range.

It's a lovely range, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'll tell you who I really want to read. I was thinking, the Claire Kilroy. Oh, what's that one? Soldier, sailor. The Women's Prize shortlist, New Motherhood, Darkness. I presume.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. New motherhood, you know, love. Immersive dive into the baby years, That's my life, you see. First novel in 10 years? Yeah. Yeah, that does sound good. Yeah.

Sounds really, really good. Yeah. I did an event with her when a weird I was coming out because she was with favour as well and heard her read a bit and it was fantastic. Oh, amazing. Okay, well, those are our books for the summer. Yeah, pack your suitcases full. They're told they're overweight. 52 kilograms.

You're going to Tenerife. Take those Paw Patrol books out. Get them out. I'm really sorry if you're a Port Patrol fan. Are they listening? Please listen to my spin-off podcast. Four-year-old to like... Pop noodles and Por Patrol.

I'm going to stop listening. They just slagged off Porpochow. Do you know what? The movies are not bad. I actually like the films. They put effort in the films. The rest of it's just made to sell merchandise. Oh, I will only let my children watch black and white films from Berlin.

Remember when we sang at the beginning and we were friends? Yeah. Thank you for listening to the Weirdo's Book Club. Enjoy your summer reads. Let us know what you are reading over the summer. Yes, please. If it's Paul Patrol, I don't want to hear it. Guess what you could get.

My novel Weirdo and Carriads book, you are not alone. They're both found paperback. Wherever books are found. My book is about grief. So if you're ready for grief chat over the summer, pick my book. You would not a novel. Pick Sarah's book. If you want a kid's book, you can pre-order mine, the Christmas Witch Tastrophe, which is out in October. So then you're ready for every eventuality. Someone's going to die. Some are going to be weird. Someone's going to be a child. You can find out all about the upcoming books we're going to be discussing on our Instagram at Sarah and Carriads Weirdo's Book Club. Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you.

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