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Hi, this is Zibby Owens and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby, formerly Moms don't have Time to Read Books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest best selling buzziest or underrated authors and story creators whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't have to stay in the know, get insider insights and connect with guests like I do every single day. For more information, go to zibbymedia.com and follow me on Instagram ibbeowens okay, Love Finally Untangling the Knot Between Mothers, Daughters and Food by Janine Roth is one of my new recent favorites. She is such a powerhouse and I thought it would be interesting to pair her episode with Jessica George, who wrote Love by the Book, which is a novel about the power of female friendships. They both have love in the title, so yes, there's that, but they both have the love that they got from those in their lives that helped. Janine has a woman named Cleo who helps her through this recent understanding of her traumatic relationship with her mom. And that led to her and it's oversimplification, but her relationship to food. Jessica George writes about how in fiction, friends got each other through a terrible time and I thought that they would be an interesting counterbalance. So I've taken parts of both of these to help inform our view of how essential female friendships are. And to any of my girlfriends out there who are listening, and basically you're all my girlfriends at this point. I mean, who are we kidding? Thank you. Thank you for being a friend. Janine Roth is The author of 10 books, including New York Times bestsellers Women, Food and God, When Food is Love and Lost and Found. And then Jessica George is the New York Times bestselling author of Mama. I had her on the podcast for that and she was born and raised in London to Ghanaian parents and studied English literature at the University of Sheffield. I hope these two meet in real life at some point and talk about how women help women so very, very much welcome. Janine. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about love Finally Untangling the knot between mothers, children, daughters and food. Congratulations.
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Thank you, thank you. I'm really glad to be here.
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I just loved this book. I related to a lot of the eating stuff in it, complicated relationships, your therapy journey, all the different ways you've treated your body and the different fad diets and just all the things and the way you told it was so beautiful. And I just. I enjoyed it. But more than that, I finished and felt like, you know, I had, like, gained a new. A new friend. I really. I did. I emailed your editor, Whitney, after, and I was like, oh, my gosh, that was so good.
