Oct 6, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 11 segments
What does it actually mean to be a reader in 2026? This week, we’re talking about how technology, BookTok, audiobooks, AI, reading goals, and the endless stream of content around us have changed the…
I do have to ask you a couple questions.
Okay.
I know you, like, loved the Lorcan and Elide of it all-
[laughs]
... which I, like, truly love that too.
But like-
Oh, I love it
...
it, I think I might going, I keep going back to Heir of Fire, and I'm like, I know you didn't like, you liked Heir of Fire.
How did you not, like, how did you not, like, instantly love, like, the fact that she was saying, like, all, when, like, when sh- in the book that she met, um-
Rowan
...
Rowan in, when she's like...
Uh, Queen of Shadows is the one I'm talking about.
No.
Yeah.
Um, 'cause when she meets Rowan, she, like, he has a specific scent, and she just keeps going back to that scent.
Snow and pine, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
And then when she sees Terrasen for the first time since she had left, she, like, knew that that's what that scent was, that Rowan w- had that same scent.
Like, how did that not make you, like, swoon over them?
Um, I mean, it, I liked it, but I don't know.
I do have to ask you a couple questions.
Okay.
I know you, like, loved the Lorcan and Elide of it all-
[laughs]
... which I, like, truly love that too.
But like-
Oh, I love it
...
it, I think I might going, I keep going back to Heir of Fire, and I'm like, I know you didn't like, you liked Heir of Fire.
How did you not, like, how did you not, like, instantly love, like, the fact that she was saying, like, all, when, like, when sh- in the book that she met, um-
Rowan
...
Rowan in, when she's like...
Uh, Queen of Shadows is the one I'm talking about.
No.
Yeah.
Um, 'cause when she meets Rowan, she, like, he has a specific scent, and she just keeps going back to that scent.
Snow and pine, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
And then when she sees Terrasen for the first time since she had left, she, like, knew that that's what that scent was, that Rowan w- had that same scent.
Like, how did that not make you, like, swoon over them?
Um, I mean, it, I liked it, but I don't know.
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