Popular Picks with Taylor

I'm good. How are you? I'm doing good. So I came across your Instagram. You were doing some dance moves With like a trend. I don't know if it was like your book husband or whatever and I was like, oh my god Her vibe is like so fun So tell us a little bit about who you are where you're from and what really sparked your interest in reading Yeah, of course, so my name is Taylor most people online know me as Tay Bay I was born in, California but raised in Georgia, I Graduated from Locust Grove High School, and then I was offered a full-ride basketball scholarship to attend Emanuel University in Franklin Springs, Georgia I graduated with my degree in organizational communication And now I'm a business analyst, I'm a wife, I'm a dog mom And how I got into reading was right after I graduated I ended up losing my grandma and two of my siblings within a very short period of time So I was going through a lot I was dealing with grief anxiety Really bad depression and I ended up picking up the teacher by Frieda McFadden and I was like, oh So this is how the girls are escaping their reality. Gotcha. And now the rest is history yeah, and it's so fun how you were able to kind of take that grief and turn it into something great as to what you're Doing on social media because you're promoting reading while you're having fun with it And then it makes it so entertaining, which I'm pretty sure it's a workout for yourself the way you did it bopping around the room My knees with a game So, what would you say is like one of your top reading genres? Romance, definitely romance because I mean you have romanticy You have urban romance like most books have some type of romance in there so I would say romance for sure and then I know a couple of your books that you sent over was the favorite girl by Monica and just the cover kind of looked like this is kind of mysterious like what is yeah So what drew you to this book and what did you like about it? So the favorite girl by Monica Arya my book club actually picked that as our first book club read together And I'm not really a dark Girly, like dark romance is not my normal like Avenue and when we picked it thinking the cover Okay, this is not gonna be that bad No, like literally it was the housemaid on steroids You follow this girl named Demi and she actually escaped her captor and she came across a ad Where first of all red flag that she ignored the ad was a live-in position You could only wear white. You can't have any fragrances. No nail polish And you have to always talk quietly Very weird Accepted the position second red flag was the family. But of course you have to read it if you want to know more That I feel like no That's that's almost the equivalent of like finding some on Craigslist and if you've meeting up with the person like not at the police station But it's on a whim you're like, oh, yeah, this is gonna go great. Do you want to die? Like why would you do that? Exactly. It was definitely given desperate times call for desperate knees because she was on the run So it's like I kind of feel her but then I kind of don't cuz I'm like girl enough is enough You got to read the red flag. Yeah, I know if that was us we would have been like Excuse no And then another one was broken glass houses and That one kind of had a little twist because I kind of read the synopsis for it So a couple of these especially the favorite girl So what would be what would you say is like a pro and con with this book So broken glass houses actually is a arc that I've read and it comes out September 22nd of this year Pro and con con Would be it's going to have you shedding tears in the first five chapters And it takes a lot for me to like break down But bro would definitely be somebody that like for me that dealt with a lot of grief and trauma I was highlighting so much in that book and it seriously helped me so much with like realizing Okay, like I'm not the only one that has deal with something like this and I'm not alone So that book it it's literally amazing and I would recommend it for everybody to read when it comes out Yeah, and it's funny how grief kind of comes in waves that was what I learned like I saw that quote somewhere and it was after I lost my grandmother back in 2023 and It was just this thing where I was just like it comes away. You got a role with it sometimes you could be happy everything is normal and then like the slightest remembrance of something and you're like kind of back it number is Level one and you know, I'm happy you were kind of able to find something and a hobby You know that reading can be fun But it can also be a way of kind of escaping your reality and kind of help and deal with your grief Especially if you don't really want to openly talk about it Let you go is there anything else that you would like to say to fellow book lovers out there Um, I would say read a book and obviously for also people that don't read Don't say that you're not a reader like my best friend. She's like I'm not a reader. I Sent her an audiobook. I think it was lucid dreams by Lady Nisha and she was like, oh my gosh I think I'm a reader. I'm like, yes, you can read physically even if you feel like, you know, you can't sit in one spot Pick up an audiobook like seriously reading other people's stories We really can feel and understand that we're not alone in the things that we're going through So that's what I would say And I love telling people whenever they say I don't read you just haven't found Your book yet that you like Like it and once you do kind of taste the waters a little bit see what you like See what you don't like give you like at least five chapters and then move on to something else But you haven't found what you loved and once you do you're gonna be like the rest of us. You're gonna be hooked So much for taking the time to come and chat with us. I greatly appreciate it. Of course. Thank you for having me Sydney