B (74:33)
I want to talk about a series that I have found very, like, old school in its kind of mentality. And it's, like, what it's delivering, but very, like, new in, like, the package, which is like, these are, like. Like, essentially, you know, young college students. And it's like hockey. Like, kind of, like, situated in hockey, but okay, so the series is called the Undone by Peyton Corinne. I've talked about these books before. The first one's called Unsteady, the second one's called Unloved, and the third one, which comes out in April, again, I'm sorry, I'm talking about future books, and I have it on my Kindle, and I haven't been able to read it yet, but I'm really sad about it. It's called Unbound. And the thing about this, okay, so it's like, they're, you know, they're seniors in college, and, you know, these guys are hockey players or whatever. So, like, this, to me is, like, you couldn't be more, like, topical. This is what people want. Like, give me more hockey, right? But what these books delivered is, like, all of these people on threads who are like, I just want to read books with yearning. Please let me tell you, you should read these books, because it's the kind of, like, real. I think the thing that makes. It makes. Listen, I'm old now, but reading those books makes me feel young. And the reason I'm saying that is because especially in, like, the first book, as I just remember, in college and in my early 20s, like, really longing for connection and longing to, like, oh, my God, I was so obsessed with this one guy when I was a sophomore in college, right? And all I wanted was him, and I had no idea how to make that happen, and it never did happen. But I think my point is, is, like, these books really show young people who, instead of being, like, masters of the universe, right? Like, Shane and Ilya are essentially, like, literally, like, the most, like, pop. They're like Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, right? Like, they are the most accomplished young professional athletes in hockey. Like, they. But, like, feelings wise, they're a mess because they don't have to do anything because they're young. They're 21, they're 22. And I think that these books really situate us in, like, what would it be like if Shane and Ilya were, like, on the same campus, Right? And so in the first book, it's like Rhys essentially has, at the end of the previous season, had a. Got hit during a hockey game so hard that he essentially, like, blacked out and has been really trying to recover, but is almost like, suffering from ptsd, while Sadie is, like, trying to keep herself in college on a figure skating scholarship and also be responsible for her younger brothers because her dad's, like, a drunk. So, like, these are young people that just have the weight of the world on their shoulders and they are, like, attracted to each other, but also just like, oh, it's just like, too much like, how are we supposed to be together under these circumstances? In the second book, Freddie is the character and he's essentially like, hockey team. Everybody thinks he's like this golden, like, God of hockey. Everything's perfect for him. All the, you know, everybody wants to be him, but nobody knows that he is essentially, like, about to fail out of school, right? Because he has dyslexia and discalcul dyscalculia. I don't know if I'm saying that right. And adhd, like, he literally is like, yeah, I'm great at hockey, but I'm bad at everything else about school. And this is school. And so Row becomes his tutor, and she's the one who figures out, like, he should have been getting services from the university that he wasn't getting. And yet he's so, like, ashamed and embarrassed by. By this. He is, like, internalized a story where he's, like, blaming himself, right? And so my point is, is, like, these are like, I. I just found. Found these books. If you're just like, I want to wallow in angst, right? Which is sometimes, listen, I just want to lay in bed and, like, wallow in people's feelings of not being good enough, not just for each other, but for the world.
