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In this episode, we're sharing part of our live recording from a Novel

Nights live show episode that we met and talked about magic realism.

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realism books recommendations as well as women's fiction book recommendations,

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Hi, everyone.

Welcome to novel nights.

We're talking about magical realism books I'll be doing some

women's fiction ebooks laura.

What kind of books are you sharing today for magical realism?

Listen laura always gives us the feel good books I have to tell y'all,

I'm always looking forward to Laura.

Cause she gives us those cozy feel good recommendations.

I'm really excited to hear what she's sharing.

So, today I'm going to talk about rom coms that are a little angsty, they're

a little bit emotional, but not too emotional, they're perfect cozy reads.

So, we're going to do some time crawling, we got some TV shows that we get to go

enjoy, and we get some magical shots.

So, the first book is The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston.

Ashley has been a YA author for, for some time, but she started, she has

been releasing adult rom coms about three years and so her books tend

to touch upon a magical realism.

I'm going to show you my two favorite books, but there's a

ghost story if you want that.

But this one, The Seven Year Slip, is a magical apartment.

So there's a little read heroine is a overworked publicist,

and she's just unhappy.

She's just trying to figure out what she wants for her life.

And she inherits her, her aunt's apartment and there's something

about the apartment that's magical.

Well, it turns out the apartment kind of travels.

So she's like going to one place and then there's this one day there's a stranger

in her house and it turns out that her aunt has has been traveling has been going

on her life and she decided to sublet the apartment to this guy and so they're

kind of like mixing together like the apartment just became magical so it turns

out the people from previous tenants can see each other and can read emails and

do stuff and there's a romance between the guy and her but they're in different

timelines so when are they going to meet?

How's it going to work?

And you just have to keep reading and finding out.

And it's just really good.

It's a love letter to you.

It's a love letter to the book world and to the idea of traveling and the idea

of exploring your life beyond just what you think you should and trying to, and

trying to overcome all these obstacles.

So that's the seven year split.

The second book is a novel love story, which is also Ashley Pearson's.

This is last year's release.

And this one, so she is a, I think she's, she's a college

professor and she's driving around.

She's she always looks forward to this reading retreat with her

friends about this like series that they're like obsessed with.

They are online friends and they tend to meet once, once a year in the

cabin and the cocktails and they're just like, just read and enjoy.

And the series that she's been following hasn't ended, like didn't end.

There was like no ending because the author died.

And so there's like no ending, there's no resolution, it's just, you

know, unfortunately all the classes away and the story ends with her.

And so she ended up, everyone ended up bailing in the retreat, and so she

ended up driving in a snowbank, and somehow stumbles upon the town that the

story that she's obsessed with is set.

And all the characters in the story are living in this town, and she's stuck

in a town because it's a snowstorm, she needs food, Like, her car's not

working, and she's very attached to the car, and they need to get a car, but

they have to wait for the car, because it's a bitch car, it's an old car.

And so, she ended up going to the store, and she ended up going to the town, and

ended up interacting with these people.

And somehow the story started to shift, because of the way

that she knew and interacted.

And so she connects with the bookstore owner, and we don't know his story.

But he's grumpy, and he was never in the story, but he was still in the story, so

you just have to figure out the logistics.

I know it doesn't make sense, I know it doesn't make sense in the

end, like, how this is all gonna work out, but it always does.

So that's the beauty of Ashley Post's work, there's something

to be said, the hook is so high.

But the reward is so good.

So this is a novel love story.

So if you like romance, if you like rom coms, this is a really like,

like a, a love story to romance.

And so it's a really good one for if you're a reader, there's like Easter eggs

about other books and not just her books, but other books in the space of romance.

So that's a novel love story.

Now we're going to move into we're going to move into So

magical realism and time travel.

So the second chance here by Melissa Weissner is basically she's

down, Sadie's down in her lush.

She lost her job, her home, her boyfriend, and one disasterous year.

And she goes to see a fortune teller who grants her a wish.

So, wait, so she wakes up in January 1st, which is a year of the, she wakes

up in January 1st of the previous year.

So, she goes back one year, 10, 000 years back, and then she realizes she has to

kind of like, uncover and redo her year.

And so this is a process of like, what decisions do you make and

those little things you do that are going to shift the year forward.

And it's gonna hopefully avoid the mishap of missing your boyfriend, your

home, your job, and everything else.

So you fix the problems before they can become a problem.

And so, there's a brother's best friend.

She actually shares the impulsive kiss with Jacob.

And it sets her on a path to rewriting her whole story all over again.

So it's just a fun thing.

It's a fun New Year's.

I think we're still in January.

Although it feels like January feels like month 12.

Early January, this is like a fun New Year's luxury.

There's a little bit of magicalism.

There's some romance.

We're in it.

It's just fun.

Just good.

I do have an interview with Melissa because she does write magical realism.

So there's actually, her follow up book actually also

has magical realism elements.

So it's kind of like fun but if you want to hear the backstory about

these stories, you can check out her interview on Part 3 next podcast.

The next one is The Red String Theory by Lauren Kong Jesson.

So this one is, we're doing with Chinese mythology, so it's just

kind of like fun to take on.

So, Moony Gao is an artist inspired by Chinese legend, the Red String

faith, again, like, you know, we're all tied together, we have faith.

And so, she actually meets Jack, and they go on a magical date, but the problem

is that Jack doesn't believe in love.

The Red String Theory by Lauren Kong Jesson.

And so every time they're, they're meant to be together, but every time he doubts

it, it just takes that away from her.

So her job is to try to make him believe in love.

So it's just kind of like this idea of fate, idea of like destiny, are

you meant to be together, are you not?

And then the idea of like, do you believe in love?

You know, literature do really love and so it's just like it's into inspiring

for Chinese Novelity as well as like the love story element and just connecting

with this idea Reminding them to be with someone This is a perfect,

we're about to go to Lunar New Year, so this is a perfect book to read.

So if you're looking for recommendations, I think this book, and Lauren has a

couple books, she has more Lunar book.

It's about Chinese zodiac and matchmaking, which is really fun.

So I really love her books, and she has a new book coming out this year.

So you got more than enough to read.

I forgot, we are, oh, the next one, okay, sorry, I had been in the match together.

So the next one is Primetime Romance by Kate Roth.

This one is basically, imagine, this is millennial love of teenage soap opera.

So think about yourself and you just absolutely love Joss White.

We're going to Joss White because it's pretty much similar to this account.

And you just hated the ending, which I did, because I did not like that ending.

And you want to rewrite the ending.

And so the ending, so basically.

Our heroine is divorced.

She's living with a roommate, like a random roommate, and somehow both her

and her roommate end up in this town.

They can't escape.

They have to figure out all the characters from the, all the characters from the

TV show are there and they're just like, like they're just acting, they're

older, they're not in teenage years, or like they're in their 30s, and they're

all acting like kind of similar or different and She finds herself that she

has to rewrite the ending of the story.

She has to rewrite the whole thing and try to figure it out.

And in her world, she's playing the main character of the story.

And she has to, in her world, in her idea, she has to end up with someone.

But there's a little bit of a love triangle.

So there's somebody else who might be interested.

And so it's this whole process.

And then her and the roommate are, basically, joining this town and

acting as it because they cannot they cannot leave the town until

the result is all getting resolved.

So it is fun.

I think she writes fan fiction, so this is like a fan fiction

person who just, who just like basically got to rewrite the story.

This is, I listened to this on audio.

It's an excellent audio to listen to.

If you love Dawson's Creek Publicity, any WVU shows, this book is for you.

So this is just like a few thousand teenage dramas.

I would just love to read it.

So that's Primetime Rob, Primetime Romans by Kate Robb.

Kate also has another book that spells love, that's another

that's another magical realism.

So the final book that I want to talk about is Déjà Vu by Celestine Martin.

So this is a, this is a magical chap.

So this chap actually has magical abilities that we can't read.

And unfortunately, her magical abilities went away.

And so her partner in crime, the love interest, has to go and find

this check with this cookbook to help her restore her magical abilities.

This is a cozy fall romance.

There's this part of the series where you can read them as standalone.

There's, so it's just like fun just to imagine.

So if you like somebody who is a soul and you would like to have some magical

checks and having the few, the few, the fewest of your feelings and your

thoughts and your This book is for you.

So that's Celestine Watt.

Technology.

Anyway, we are back.

I love those pics.

I'm here for teenage drama and super angsty kind of reads.

So, that prime time, was it prime time?

Yeah, that's prime time.

But now the most important question is, were you a Pacey or a Dawson girl?

We can continue being friends.

I never watched it!

I know, I know, Victoria.

I'm like, okay, here comes the real test to our friendship.

About Dawson Street, so Dawson Street aired in January, January, in 1998.

So at the time I listened to the J Crew story, the History of J Crew,

which is a fascinating book to read.

They actually talk about the catalog because they, they were like, these

are known kids, we are just gonna do, they're like the typical J crew.

Yeah.

Look.

So we just got them to just do this catalog for us and

then let's show exploded.

And they're like, oh my gosh.

It's like Dawson scree, like, you know, Dawson scree.

It's like the original cross like co-sponsor show.

Like, you know, you're just showing a catalog and you're like, oh my gosh.

Now you can buy those power ups on Ebay, and they're actually online right now.

Oh my god.

Well, if you are watching live and you have a side in Dawson creep,

like let us know in the chat.

Okay.

I haven't watched it.

So I know nothing.

I plead ignorance because also that deja vu sounds so

much like simply irresistible.

So I would say read that and then watch that because she also

loses her powers in the movie.

I'm like, let's put those two together.

My brother says, I love Simply Resistible.

I'm all about 90s rom coms.

I'm surprised that we're not.

So, I love Simply Resistible.

I watched it multiple times whenever it was on air.

I was like, oh my gosh, I need to watch this.

And like, you just, you cry, and the food makes people cry, and you

laugh, and people make you laugh.

And I was like, oh my gosh, that's confusing.

But you know what?

It's true.

If you choose love to plants, or if you choose love to

food, the food tastes better.

What's the difference between Rostov on Don and yourself, when

you're just at home with girls?

True, true, true.

Can't fight that one there.

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