Book Chat with Haley & Heather

Episode of What Happens With Sid. Now I am joined by a dynamic duo that are doing great things in the book community. Twins! And you guys know how much I love twins. Haley and Heather, how are you ladies? We are great. How are you? Great. So thank you for taking the time to come on and chat with me and fellow book lovers out there. So before we kind of take a look at a couple of your favorite books, because you guys read a lot, tell us a little bit about the two of you, where you're from and what really kind of motivated you guys to be like hey we like to read books let's do all of our content in front of the camera yeah well we're from Ohio um and one night Hayley used to come over to my house and just talk about books and we'd have a glass of wine and one night we had a couple glasses of wine and decided it's gonna be a good time to film our first TikTok and post it our husbands had been telling us to do it for forever so we've just been obsessed with reading and there's nothing better than having like a good glass of wine and sitting down with the book after like a long day so yeah we just thought hey why not yeah share with everyone our thoughts yeah and then it's nice to have a built-in best friend and right buddy so yeah I know we got lucky yeah yeah so when it comes to books do you guys read the same one at the same time and kind of dissect it and then how do you guys go about if you disagree when it comes to a book we we usually don't read the same book at the same time honestly if like i read a book and i didn't like it that much probably Hayley's not gonna read it and vice versa just because we do normally like the same thing yeah um we don't normally disagree on a lot of sometimes very rarely yeah we do like to read the same book sometimes together and see if we have the same rating like we will just set up the camera film it like without telling each other how we felt about it and then we'll like count to three and say our rating and see if it's similar and a lot of times it's it's exactly the same yeah yeah now what is like if you could only pick one what would you say is like your number one go-to genre oh we're we are such seasonal mood readers so like right now it's romancey for me thrillers for me right now for sure so it just depends like in the summertime it's fluffy romances yeah for sure it's romance-y for me but yeah yeah in fall i i there's nothing like a good thriller yeah that's true like i love thriller horror year round like i'm a spooky soul through and through but then it's like okay occasionally i'll try to get into you know like the seasonal romance love stories and then it's kind of like okay i'm tired of the fluff i want like the i want to go back are probably our one that we read like all year round the most the most because i you just can't go wrong with a good thriller no you can't and it makes you think i feel like it makes you play detective so like you're always thinking and i just feel like it triggers something in your brain that just makes you smarter because you're using different parts trying to figure out who the person is and it's plot twist after plot twist you can never go wrong right yes you really can although nine times out of ten i'm completely wrong yeah i know so and so a couple of your favorite books like i said you guys read a lot one of them was dagger mouth which i've been like i have it on my table and i'm like i'm going back and forth because like i said i'm a mood reader so I started a little bit of it and I essentially get the feel of it as like Hunger Games a little bit you know where how they have like everything kind of broken off so tell us a little bit about what you both loved about this story so this one is true enemies to lovers um it follows a dagger mouth who is hired to go kill the executioner who is the president's son and when she is attempting to do that she gets captured and the president comes up with this idea to have them be married and kind of join forces or look like they're joining forces but the whole time they're trying to like kill each other yeah um so it really is like a true enemies lovers and I the feeling I got when I read that book was the same as when I read Fourth Wing you just like forget you're reading because you're so immersed in the story yeah and that's when I know it's like an amazing book because I'm like oh my god I just flew through that I didn't even like realize I was reading you know plus there's a very big twist at the end yes so if you have not read that one yet look if you haven't finished it you got to finish it so good yeah yeah and I like like I said I started it and I love like how it was action from like the very beginning because usually when it comes to a book I'll give it like maybe a good three to five chapters and if I'm not feeling it I'm just gonna DNF it because I don't want to be irritated and then I feel like if you keep reading and you don't like it that's how you kind fall out of the love for reading because you're forcing yourself to read so I will look forward to that plot twist when I get around to read that one and then speaking of thrillers you guys also liked A Guest Again which is essentially around like the 10th anniversary of like a young girl's disappearance so tell us a little bit about what's in the story and even though you guys liked it what would you say is a pro and a con. Oh well, Charlie Donlehy is one of our favorite thriller authors so it's hard to say goodbye. Um, we've really been, I've been reading him for forever and then I introduced Hayley to him, but um, I think one of the reasons that we like his books a lot and I that would include Guess Again is because like they kind of have like a true crime feel to it where like you like all of these things could be happening like it so it's like almost more scary because that could be real life real life yeah and that's kind of why we really like his because like they're scary in that aspect of like oh my gosh this could actually happen. Um, a con? What's a con? Well the only thing the ending was a little bit like oh my god now he left us with that, like it makes you like there should have been a little bit more after that you just want more. Maybe he could come up with like a sequel after. Yeah, I think that's why he ended that way so that maybe in the future he could, but you are like wanting more like to find out where do they go from here um afterwards, so that's probably the only con, but that book was one of our favorite thrillers, yeah one of the only thrillers we've given five stars too because we just loved everything, yeah. Now with this book Guess Again, would you guys, do you guys think that it could be like turn into an adaptation whether like a movie or a TV show? Yes, I feel like a lot of his could be, yeah, um for sure because they're just so like, like true crime type stuff, yeah and yeah, I could see it for sure being a good which I would definitely watch that. Yeah. I mean, you know, maybe Apple TV or, you know, Netflix, you know, something will pick it up. And so you guys also liked The Calamity Club by Catherine Steadman. I absolutely loved her. I had like a total fan moment when I had her on the show, like a couple months ago. And I've loved her ever since The Help, you know, and it's just like her writing, her storyline, you know, how she takes like real life examples and turn into a story. And, you know, like the topics that she touched on in this story, especially with it taking you know place down south and like women's rights and body and it's very similar to what a lot of us are facing nowadays so tell us a little bit about what drew you both to this story i think it's first it was because we love The Help so much yeah um and also we are very much influenced by like book talk and stuff so people were reading it and saying how great it was and then i think i i think i actually we listened to it the audiobook the audiobook was phenomenal um and i told Hayley she had to read it because i gave it i i immediately wanted to reread it as soon as i was finished it's just the characters like fall in love with each one of those characters and then you miss them when when you're done when they're gone you're like these are my friends where did they go i i miss them yeah um she just really makes you fall in love with each and every character in that book yeah and i think that's always a testament to the author whenever like the book is over and then you just kind of sit there and like wait a minute like i've been spending the last couple days hours with these people even though they're you know not real and it's like you kind of get lost in that universe where it's like crap now i gotta kind of venture off into something else and kind of forget about it it's hard to move on after a good book like that i've literally wanted to go like reread that so many times we have so many books on our TBR i'm like you don't need to reread that already you know but i wanted to you know and then you guys also like atmosphere which is kind of it takes place between like different times and i've seen it all over Bookstagram all over BookTok now yeah with this story what would you say is maybe a lesson both of you have learned out of this hmm okay a lesson well well i think it was at a time where like females weren't doing like going to space and stuff like that so these these women astronauts were kind of like the not the norm yeah so it was kind of proving that like women can do anything and even if you know you're judged along the way just push through and you can do anything and I mean then be so like groundbreaking you know yeah um yeah I also think like follow your heart because it's like about two women falling in love and um it's so beautiful oh I was I was listening to it on a plane ride home and I was sobbing on the plane listening to it I could not even hold it in it was so good yeah yeah and I love anytime like those books pull those emotions like there's sometimes I'm reading thrillers and there's a plot twist and i literally sit up in the middle of my bed and act like i'm talking to an imaginary person like did that actually happen or you know like i'm not emotional so it's like when i get teary i'm like okay let's just reel it in that's when you know it's a good book yeah it brings those emotions out that's so true exactly and so Hayley and Heather before i let you both go is there anything else that you would like to say to fellow book lovers out there especially with Bookstagram and book talk being so huge right now i like just people can read what they want to read yeah there's no need to like if you didn't like a book that's fine if someone else loves it that's fine too everyone has their own opinions it's reading is subjective and that's why it's so fun yeah everyone can like so many different things so um yeah we just love it because honestly we've met so many cool people through it so it's been fun to talk with everyone about books and that we one thing that we all love yeah well thank you both for what you're doing in the book community by keeping us informed and constantly adding to our TBRs with your recommendations and reviews and thank you for taking the time to come and chat with me and fellow book lovers we greatly appreciate it yeah thank you so much