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we got legally married just because we thought like The Handmaid's Tale was going to happen.

I started it. I started one episode. And I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna watch this. It gave me such a pit. ... It's based on a book that was written in the 80s.

What about like the curious incident of the dog in the middle of the night?

I ... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night. Like pure and utter fucking trash.

That was trash. And that's really disappointing because that was like one of my favorite books in high school. And like one of the only ones like I actually read. And it was really good.

Definitely well we just had a chance to read your book Give Them Lala which wherein you do give us a lot of Lala and a lot of Lauren and I felt like the book was so heartwarming first of all so congratulations on writing a really wonderful memoir.

Congrats on the book everyone can pick it up it's called Give Them La La and she's looking sickening on the front and the back so check it out.

I finished Lala's book which was really good. Yeah it was a really fun read. I haven't read a light book in so long so it was like a really easy quick read and it was just nice to just breeze through a book and not have to like you know spend hours on it. So that was really fun called Give Them Lala by Lala Kent.

donating a hundred percent of my proceeds to equal justice initiative which we learned about last year when we watched Just Mercy as a community

And we will be discussing Just Mercy, the Toast Movie of the Week, on Monday. It gives you a little more time to watch.

If you're unfamiliar with Juneteenth, make sure, which, to be honest, I was not entirely sure what it was. Because everyone thinks, like, Emancipation Proclamation, slavery ended. Actually not true. So research. Learn more about Juneteenth. It's a fabulous day.

Violet Beauregard is from Chocolate Factory. Violet. Right? Violet Beauregard is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Are you guys always talking about Roald Dahl? ... the only authors I know are Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl ... He also wrote Matilda. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

It will be titled Taste. What? My Life Through Food. Oh my god.

He's writing a cookbook titled Taste My Life Through Food. It's described as an intimate and charming reflection of Tucci's life in relationship to food, featuring anecdotes from his childhood and culinary experiences from his film roles.

He's writing a cookbook titled Taste My Life Through Food.

It's described as an intimate and charming reflection of Tucci's life in relationship to food, featuring anecdotes and memories from his childhood in Westchester, New York as well as his culinary experiences preparing for roles in foodie films.

I bought Firefly Lane. I read it all weekend. That was really like my whole weekend because of the new show on Netflix. The book was really good. By the end, I was getting kind of over it. It kind of dragged out, but overall really good. I gave it four stars and then I was going to watch the show.

she's in a new show on Netflix called, it's based on a book by Kristen Hannah. Firefly Lane. And it's about like a friendship between two women.

House of Gucci that's the one that's going to be with Lady Gaga and Adam Driver.

No it is um it's a movie called The House of Gucci and it's based on a book The House of Gucci a sensational story of murder madness glamour and greed.

Then I started the new Jodi Pickle book, Wish You Were Here and you know she's like such an acclaimed author.

I've actually never read a Jodi Pickle book but you would recognize all the titles.

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult and it is so bad. It's all about COVID. Like I thought no, no, no. It's more about COVID than I could have ever even dreamed.

I'm at 70% and I would not recommend this to someone that I love.

Since we've all seen hidden figures at this point... NASA names DC headquarters after its first black woman engineer, hidden figure, Mary Jackson.

I know Katherine Johnson wrote a book, but I like, it became this national sensation with the book and, and the movie.

Now for Hidden Figures which I watched last night so did you it was your first time seeing it ... the whole movie ready like everything was just so fabulous ... it's a historical movie based on a real book.

I love the three women like I couldn't decide who was my favorite ... it kind of reminded me similar to Argo like this is so unbelievable it actually happened and nobody knows about it.

The movie is based on a real book and there are two key moments where they're adding whitesavior stuff that wasn't in the book ... I think when you're saying something is based on a book you should stick to that as much as possible.

I started People We Meet on Vacation. I'm only like 10% in.

I finished my book People We Meet on Vacation and I thought it was kind of bad.

Meghan Markle admits giving personal information to the authors of Finding Freedom, the tellall book that details her and Prince Harry's exit from the British royal family.

I read literally two chapters of this book.

Markle spilled her own tea to the authors in order to ensure her side of the story was included.

She was worried her father's narrative about her, including that she had allegedly abandoned him, might be included in the book.

Finding Freedom Harry and Megan did so when we went to Walmart... I bought that book... there aren't a bunch on the market right now, so it's either that or Demi Moore's book and I went with Finding Freedom.

The crown is not allowed to give official like seal of approval to biographies or books written about them but they basically said Megan gave us the approval even though she really can't.

Yeah, and they love to do yoga in the morning. I think I'm gonna read it after you.

Then I'll read it right after you... even if it's full of lies it's like a beautiful fairy tale.

I finished my book. Empty Mansions took me forever. I wouldn't really recommend.

I started a book this weekend called Empty Mansions which is a true crazy story about an American family.

I was shook when they said that. Thank god for the subtitles because I literally would not know what the hell these people are saying. Kinema. That's like Outlander.

I'm the protective future auntie that I am and the curious cat. Yeah of course. I wanted to know what all the hoopla was about. I watched the scene. It ruined my entire day. I've heard it's even worse in the books and everyone's saying I should read the books.

Everyone's saying I should read the books. But now that I've watched the show I'm not gonna start the books. I would like to read some sort of synopsis because I'm curious about what happens.

Then you went up against Nothing to See Here which you've read which is an amazing book.

the weirdest book I ever read was Nothing to See Here. But that's a serious book.

I started a new book last night which I just need to talk about really quickly because it's called The Inheritance Games.

DNR? Not a DNR at all. If I was 15 years younger I think I would love it but it's really like YA you know series like.

Finished Inheritance Games. I just like, I'm so annoyed that I wasted my time and now like, you know, no.

It talks about a six week gap while they're preparing for their wedding but it's very you know what's that book like Twilight but the new one Midnight Sun.

So I really might read the books and I really might read Midnight Sun, which is the new book.

Midnight Sun is the same story but written from Edward's perspective.

most recent books that I've read like My Dark Vanessa and The Comeback like it's really all about like this grooming process not necessarily always in Hollywood but just in the world.

most recent books that I've read like My Dark Vanessa and The Comeback like it's really all about like this grooming process not necessarily always in Hollywood but just like in the world.

It happened one summer by Tessa Bailey... I read two chapters, I'm about maybe almost 70% of the way through it... then I finished, I think it's chapter 19... she puts her finger up her boyfriend's butt.

I read a book called It Happened One Summer ... it was the book that Margo was going to choose ... it was really good ... a really good love story ... it was a really cute setup ... it was raunchier than the usual choice.

Okay. Put on your list. That's probably the only one. It's most similar to. By who? By Mae Cobb.

I did finish my book and I just wanna share, wouldn't recommend it to you.

It was a really frustrating book, like a little creepy and not in an interesting way, and the main character was so infuriating at times.

I'm not recommending it to you. Thank you. It was The Hunting Wives.