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Hi.

I'm Danielle Robe and welcome to Bookmarked by Reese's book Club.

We have two great conversations this week.

Later in the episode, we're talking with Reagan Reward Actor, book club founder, ya aficionado and now author of their very own young adult novel, Rules for Fake Girlfriends.

But first, it's the first Tuesday of the month, so you know what that means.

It's time to announce the latest Reese's book Club pick, Reese Take it Away.

Okay, the September Reese's Book Club pick is To the.

Moon and Back by Eleanna Rammage.

You guys, this book is so riveting.

I think you're going to love it.

You won't be able to put it down.

I hope you enjoy it.

Per usual, Reese is spot on.

To the Moon and Back is a thoughtful, layered family saga that combines native identity, sexual identity, and space, and its author, Ellianna Ramage, is here with us today for her very first interview as a Reese's book Club pick.

You're in the right place.

Let's turn the page with Ellianna.

Ellianna, welcome to the club.

Thank you so much.

It's so good to be here.

I'm so excited you're here.

It is your debut novel.

And usually when I speak to authors on their pub day, I ask them about their pub day traditions.

But since it is your first and I know it won't be your last, are there any traditions you'd like to start?

I have so many plans, but the first thing I want to do is so the copies of the book arrived at my house like two weeks ago, and my parents haven't been able to see them because they have the Reese's Book Club seal on them, and so to preserve the secrecy of that, it's been like that box of copies of the book has been under the bed, and I want to have them over and open the box and tell them really really excited about that.

And then I want to spend the day with family, go to branch.

That's as far as I've gotten.

I love that you said brunch and not dinner because it's a different type of celebration.

So in the time that it takes for a space shuttle countdown, can you describe what your book is about.

Yes, it is a coming of age novel about the power of belonging to ourselves, our families, our people, and one another.

It's about Steph.

She's a young woman on a quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut, and it's about the women she loves best, whose lives are changed by that epic journey.

In order to realize that dream us to navigate love, ambition, and what she might owe past and future generations.

So I'd say, at it's heart, it's.

About what it looks like to try to find belonging, to find your way home, even when home feels really far away.

We just hit the atmosphere.

What is it about space and astronauts that captured your imagination enough to devote your work to them.

I think, for me and for my main character stuff, space represents possibility.

I think it's a way for me to think about in a continuation of a story, like a story of humanity, because it's such a group project, and the first time that we meet Steph, she is escaping something really released with her family.

She looks up at the moon, and in that moment when we first meet her, I think that she understands space to be an escape, like where you try to cut yourself off from where you came from from that old story and just start a new one, is how she might imagine at that time life on Mars.

But kind of the journey of the book, and what was interesting to me was what would it mean for us to instead think of of space as a continuation when when we go there, we're all going.

I don't actually mean, you know, everyone has to be on Mars.

I deeply, deeply hope that that most of us on our on Earth, but that we bring the things that matter to us with us wherever we go next.

And so it's an space for me is connected to optimism, but that optimism is like this hope that we can take like the past and the future and keep them together.

I don't want the future to mean letting go of things that matter to us.

Here the way you're describing it, it also sounds like it's infinite, which there's a hope and an optimism in that too.

Yes, we just don't know what's next.

So your book celebrates your indigenous heritage, and a lot of readers may not be super familiar with the Cherokee nation.

As you wrote down the customs and the culture of your people, what were you excited to share with readers oh so much.

I was really.

Interested in this story taking place today.

It was exciting to me to have this Cherokee story happen in a time and maybe a place that people weren't expecting.

These Cherokee characters, particularly Steph, finds her way all over the world, and I really wanted to kind of write against as someone who's from the Southeastern US, like this idea of perceived point of authenticity before removal, before the trail of tears, and then our points of connection after that are just like less less less less less, and that's not true.

And I think Space was a way to share all the different possibilities for what it could look like to be Cherokee today and in the future.

I read that Cherokee is famously a hard language for English speakers to learn.

Is there a word that you love in Cherokee or a phrase that comes to you often?

So I started studying Cherokee right after college with my friend Greg, And what I realized maybe a year into that whole process was like I learned just enough to understand as you as you just said that it was really really hard.

But I think I've been kind of on a journey with that that lines up with the journey of writing this book, because when I first started studying it, I kept thinking After the first year especially, I kept thinking like I should step away from this because I had such high hopes and I realized pretty quickly that I wasn't going to become fluent.

And then the cynicism of like, well, why bother step came in, And about seven months ago, when my daughter was born, I had this like slow return not of interest.

I was always interested in it, but I had this slow return of motivation that you know, if I'm gonna be reading stories every night with like animals in them, then I want her to hear the words for different animals in Cherokee, or if there's numbers, if there's songs like It's been a path of like, if something matters to me as a mother, I can give what I do have.

And that's sort of where I am right now.

I think that's such a familiar feeling to so many Americans, because so many of us come from different cultures and we're all trying to pass down things that are meaningful to us.

So I really understand that.

Yes, So this book dives into a lot of subcultures.

Actually, I was thinking about where it would sit at a bookstore, where do you see it?

Are there other titles or authors that you would love for it to be shelved in between?

So many?

So just.

One would be A Brotherless Night by V.

V.

Ganishanandan.

It's set during the Civil War in Sri Lanka and there's a young woman who wants to be a doctor.

So in terms of like ambition, those two are our friends.

And another one is The Love Songs of w e Bed Boys by Honore Penon, Jeffer's epic epic epic family saga about a Black American family across generations.

And one more is Great Circle by my Key ships Stead.

Since it's about like a pioneering aviator woman.

Are there any layers or small details in the book that you're especially excited for readers to notice.

There were a few settings or projects things that were taken from real life.

One of them was the first tri Council meeting that my family went to in twenty twelve.

It's in the book set in a different time.

It's a fictionalized version of the real thing, but the real thing was the first time that the three different bands of Turkey.

People were brought together there since the Trail of Tears.

It was like a council meeting.

It wasn't thrilling, but it was emotionally like very special to get to be there with family and friends.

Very cool.

I'm going to ask you a silly question.

If your book went to space, your actual book, I just imagine it in the seat belt, although the lack of gravity might take it floating up.

Anyways, if your book went to space, what snack would you pack with it?

For the ask, I keep thinking astronaut ice cream or what's it called space ice cream?

Yeah, I went on a school field trip to Huntsville where there's like a space center.

I went there when I was a child, and everybody was really really excited about space ice cream.

And it might be different now, but and it might not even be real, but it was like styrofoam with sugar in it.

Oh, it doesn't sound so happy, So like they wouldn't want me to I don't think they would want me to send that with them, but I just that's like such a core childhood memory of like, oh, astronauts are just like floating in the expanse all the time, and they're eating this styrofoam, which none of that makes sense.

It's so wild.

Okay, well, good thing we don't have to eat styrofoam.

Eleianna, thank you so much.

I can't wait to talk to you next month.

Thank you.

Welcome back to Bookmarked by Reese's book Club.

Now we have another debut author on their pub day.

Big day around here.

Guys, Reagan Revard is a lot of things.

They're an actor, producer, philanthropist, book club founder, friend of Reese's book Club, as sort of a young adult consultant, and now author of their own YA novel Rules for Fake Girlfriends.

Also, I have to tell you that YA stands for young adult because I said YA to my mom last week and she had no idea what I was talking about.

Here's the gist.

Romcom obsessed Avery Blackwell just moved to Seaside, England to learn more about her deceased mom.

She strikes a deal with a charming stranger on the train named Charlie, and if Avery pretends to be Charlie's girlfriend to make her ex jealous, Charlie will help Avery find out more about her mom.

It's a fake dating romance with a mystery Twist and it's out today.

Did I mention that Reagan is only seventeen years old?

I know, pretty awesome.

Let's turn the page with Reagan Reward.

Reagan, Welcome to the club.

Thank you for having me.

You know, it's kind of like you've been a part of this club for a long time, because you are really part of the Hello Sunshine family and the Reese's Book Club family, and we've gotten to know each other.

So I'm so grateful for your friendship.

Guys, I go here, I go.

So you've been on TV for years and you just wrote a rom com titled Rules for Fake Girlfriends.

First of all, I love the title, but I have to know who your favorite TV girlfriends are because I was thinking about mine and you're seventeen, so I feel like they're probably going to be different.

Okay, wait, what are yours?

Tell me yours, and then I'll tell you mine.

Okay.

Number one is for sure The Women of Sex and the City.

Oh.

I haven't watched that, but.

I know of it, but I write that's for later in your life.

Okay.

And then I Loved Girlfriends, which was Tracy Ellis Ross.

Oh, I've heard of that.

Yes, I know, that, and you.

Know what, I love the friends and Princess Diaries Anne Hathaway and her friend.

They were so cute.

I love Princess Diaries so much.

Okay, we're on the same page.

We're on the same page here, I do.

I feel happy I know one of them.

I'm like, who are.

Your favorite TV girlfriends?

Ooh, favorite TV girlfriends?

I love?

You said sex in the City.

I'm saying sex SyES.

With college girls love.

Oh my god.

Okay, great.

So I love Layton Renee Rapp's character, and I love that whole friend group so much.

Yes, it's so real.

That and then maybe the I don't know, have you seen heart Stopper, because maybe the heart Stopper friend group?

No, tell me, why do you like them?

I love it because it's very found family, and so I love them.

And then there's also two characters in it.

Their names are Tara and Darcy, and their actually girlfriends, and so it's like a found family friend group.

And then there's two the girlfriends in it.

So it's a perfect I love it.

That's so cool.

Well, your nearly eight million followers across platforms got to know you as Missy on Young Sheldon, but I heard your friends call you Ray like ray of Sunshine.

Is that true?

Yeah?

I only ever get called Ray by like my mother if it's like serious.

But like everyone else says Ray and I love it.

It's very cute.

Well, you grew up on set, and I'm guessing you spent time and learned from some very talented TV writers during that time.

Did writing a novel feel like a natural extension of your storytelling brain or did it completely terrify you both?

Actually, I feel like I've always wanted to write a book.

I've been writing since I was like five, so it's always kind of something that I've done, just never seriously.

And then I felt like it was a really natural jump because it is storytelling.

And I think that it worked because I, because of being in the film world, I see things so cinematically, and so I think it helped me being able to write a novel because I did kind of write it more in a like movie cinematic format.

Almost.

I need you to tell everybody what your schedule was like while you were writing this, because I you, like Beyonce has twenty four hours a day in a day, and so does Reagan.

I don't understand how you did this while you were I don't want to say it for you, but going to school, yeah, it was.

It was a lot.

So I was on set filming and then I was writing the book and then doing school.

You had night school two or three days a week every day?

Are you in night school every day?

I was doing school on set, so all in like a twelve hour filming day, I would like work, do school, and then work on my book as well, and then also maintaining a like normal social life and how to drive, yes, and learning how to drive.

So it was very chaotic.

But like I would literally be in a dinner scene and like I would have my laptop under the table, like on my lap.

They would say cut, pull my computer out, write a little bit, and then hide it right before they said action.

It was very hectic, very chaotic.

Well, as an actor, you're really bringing iconic characters to life.

And when you're writing this book, are you casting them in your mind?

When you're on set and you're hiding your laptop and writing this, are you kind of writing for certain actors to play these roles or are you playing the lead?

Oh?

No, no, I I did.

I didn't see any characters until like after so I saw what the characters look like, but not really actor wise.

But now that I've.

Thought about it and I've pinterest boarded it, I could see like Katherine Newton, like a young Katherine Newton nineteen years old, as Charlie who's a love interest.

And then I think, like Emily Blunt to play her mom, And then I don't.

I don't have a cast for the main character, but for her mom the family Stone Rachel McAdams.

Is there anything that is very Reagan that you snuck into the main character, either purposely or without realizing it.

I mean, I feel like I put a lot of like different pieces of myself in every character, and so there's a little bit of Reagan in all the characters.

You just got to know where to look.

But I feel like the one thing that is like so similar is obviously.

We both love rom coms.

She loves watching rom comms with her mom, and then I love watching rom comms with my mom.

And then she also has a black cat.

I have a black cat.

They both are named Circe.

Maybe not a coincidence.

She's very much like an introvert, but is very extroverted around her friends and that's very much me.

Like I'm an introvert until i'm around like my circle, and then I'm very extroverted.

Now, the book leans on a lot of these classic tropes first love, fake relationship hijinks.

How did you take these classic ideas and make them feel relatable to a new generation of romance readers.

It was kind of a lot of fun because throughout the book there's a bunch of different tropes that you read about in each chapter.

Actually, the chapter heading is a different rom com rule, and so I had to do a bunch of different research on rom coms in general, and I felt like, what was a lot of fun is I kind of made fun of those tropes because like the whole thing with a rom com trope or rom com story where the main character is going into college or moving out is like she's broke, but somehow she has this stunning apartment, and I'm like, that's not really realistic, and so the chapter heading is the Hairwine is broke but has a stunning apartment or something similar like that, and then in the chapter it's Avery decorating her apartment and putting like a rug over a little mold spot or something, and then there's been like a leaky faucet, and so it's kind of fun to take these stereotypical tropes that everyone reads about and then kind of poke fun at it and do it in a different way, And so that would be refreshing to read.

Do you think the idea of fake dating in real life can be romantic or is it strictly for rom coms.

I don't know.

I feel like it would be so tricky to like actually pull off in real life.

And I also don't know because whenever there's a fake dating trope, obviously they always end up together.

But I feel like there's a chance that if someone was to actually try to fake date in real life, it would actually succeed, like they wouldn't end up together.

But I want it to exist.

I love whenever I hear someone be like this book happened, and I like something happened that like to me, that's similar.

I love when that happens.

So maybe fingers crossed.

I hope.

I hope it exists, and I love reading about it, so maybe it happens.

Why did you set it in England?

I love England so much.

It's my favorite place.

And if it.

Ever her Fingers Crossed becomes a movie I want obviously to film in England because that would be so much fun, and so I purely did that for myself.

It also ended up making sense that the main characters learning about who she is and then the going overseas to a new country really helped kind of with this new version of Avery where she's discovering things about herself and learning who she wants to be and what she wants to do in life, And so it ended up making sense and like really helping the story.

Was there a scene that you wrote that made you laugh out loud while you were writing, like you just had to stop typing.

I think there's this scene where Avery and her roommate Maddie, they're hanging out and they're having a like little like stay in kind of night where they're like having like they ordered in pizza and they like are playing games and stuff.

And there's this one.

It's such a small, like insignificant part, but it makes me laugh and it because it reminds me, for some reason of me and my mom.

And it's the roommate is trying to teach Avery how to play a video game, and Avery's terrible at it and she keeps failing and like she keeps losing the match or whatever, and like Avery's kind of like crashing out over it, and Maddie's like, no, you have to do this.

This is how you do it.

And it just reminds me so much of my mom and I and it's so funny to me, and it's such a fun just like scene in general, and I love it so much, And anytime I like go back and like read it or like go when I was editing and going over it, like I would just always laugh at that part because it's just.

So fun to me.

And you and your mom are so close, so I know how much you love her.

That's that's really sweet that it reminds you of that.

This book is it really centers around gen Z?

What is this tinct about gen Z?

And they're reading Habits and Tastes and how did you want gen Z to be represented in this book?

Teens in general almost get this bad rap where it's this like phone addicted slang slinging kind of teen.

But I feel like gen Z in general are just like so much more than that.

Every gen Z just youth in general, teen young person, Like they're so unique, and so I feel like having this umbrella term to cover such different people, it's like it's used so much, and so in the book, I really wanted to show that, like, there's these college kids that like are all different kinds of people and have different interests.

Some of them the stereotype of gen Z, some of them don't.

They're all different, and I really wanted to show that that they're not just like walking around on their phones and saying all the like gen Z slang and stuff.

So I saw something fun on Hello Sunshine's new gen Z platform, Sonny that you talked about your love of Greek mythology, Reagan, I love Greek mythology too.

It was my fable.

Oh yeah, did I not know this?

How did I not know this about you?

It's the strangest thing that we have in common.

My cat's name is Circe.

Okay, So I need to understand how you got into Greek mythology.

And I'm wondering if any of these stories, because there's such amazing fables influenced your writing.

It honestly may have been Percy Jackson when I was little that like started it off.

And then I love the book Circe by Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles I love.

There's a book called Silence of the Girls that is so good.

I could give so many Greek mythology book recommendations.

It's a problem there wasn't any specific fable at his influenced my writing.

However, in Rules of Fake Girlfriends, there is a lot of references, because Avery also loves Greek mythology.

There is this one part whenever Avery is walking out of her apartment and the sun is like barely peeking through the gray clouds, and Avery thinks, oh, it's like Apallo is fighting with Zeus, and I thought that before, and so there's definitely references throughout to Greek mythology, and I do have Greek mythology book ideas, but no specific fable influenced anything so far.

So far, though, you wrote a book about gen Z characters, and you are gen Z.

A lot of your fans are around your age.

What are you hoping that people taking away from this book about love or friendship or figuring yourself out.

There's a few.

Things regarding the main plot in general, I think probably.

I mean, Avery is a college student trying to figure herself out.

She doesn't know what she really wants to do in life.

She's not sure where she's going.

And I think a lot of people can resonate with that and can understand that, and it doesn't really matter, like where you are in your life, you don't have to be Avery's age to understand not being one hundred percent certain in what you want to do.

And so I think the whole thing with the book is that in the beginning of it, Avery isn't sure where she wants to go, and then by the end she's figured it out, she knows what she wants to do, she's confident in it, and she's just as confident in herself.

And I think the main thing is like just give it time.

Like you can't rush trying to figure something out.

You can't rush trying to figure out who you want to be who you are at the moment, And so I think just like giving it time and kind of going with the flow, almost because that's what Avery did.

She went with the flow.

She went to England spontaneously, and she really just did not know what she was doing, and she ended up figuring it out.

And I think just trusting that time will answer whatever you're not certain in.

That was a very wise, beautiful answer, Reagan, because I think a lot of us, regardless of your age, feel this immediacy, probably because of social media and the fast paced world we live in.

And it's true, somethings just take time.

Some things just take time.

I feel like in my present day there isn't like a lot going on.

I'm not like on set or anything, and like I'm not like in the middle of writing a book or anything.

I've just really been focusing on promoting this one, and so it does kind of feel like kind of stuck.

But then just no, this is my in between state and just not rushing it and kind of getting to savor it and just be in the moment.

I'm very bad about being in the moment, and so I'm always just like, let it sit and then in a little bit we'll get right back to it.

Absolutely, and sometimes that time to rest and recharge really fires you up for that next moment exactly.

Now, because like I've had time to kind of take it all in and relax and recharge, like you said, and now I'm so excited to get onto the next book.

I really love reading books from authors who are of the genre meaning you are a YA author writing YA, You're gonna know things because you're living it, right.

So I'm curious if you feel like there are any common misconceptions about the YA genre honestly, that.

It's limited to teenagers and teenagers only.

Yeah, I know so many people who read YA.

And it's people my age, it's people in their fifties, it's people anywhere in between.

Yeah, I read YA exactly.

So many anyone can read YA.

Because even if you are in your forties reading about a college student, you at some point in your life were an eighteen nineteen year old who has just graduated and figuring out what you want to do.

And so even if you can't relate to it currently, you can understand what that character is feeling like because you used to be that.

And so for people who are older reading YA, it could almost be a level of like nostalgia looking back, reminiscing.

And then with gen Z teenagers who are reading YA, it's a relatability to a current period that you're in.

But everyone can read it.

We had the sister who founded the Rip Bodice bookstore on the show, and one of them said that reading rom comms and romance books actually helped her figure out what she wanted and deserved in relationships, which I thought was so interesting.

Has reading Ya helped you figure out something about yourself?

I mean, I think reading Ya in general has because like I talk about like taking time and like finding your place in the world and everything, but I learned that from somewhere too.

I didn't just like get that knowledge out of nowhere.

And I feel like I really did learn that from YA books in general, because how I said, like people can take away being like taking time to figure out who you are, and they could maybe learn that from my book.

I had those books where I was like, oh, like this character didn't really know what they wanted to do, but now at the end of the book they're kind of figuring it out.

And so I think, honestly the model that I said people who take away from rules is what I've learned from why I So it's almost it's giving it back in a certain way where I've like I've learned this.

Now I'm imparting this to people.

Reagan, I look at you with such admiration and awe sometimes because when I was your age, I had these really big dreams and goals, and I think people looked at me and were like, simmer down, relax, you know, like you have your whole life to accomplish stuff.

And I felt misunderstood because goals and achieving and accomplishing things and striving like really gave me joy and made me happy.

And at seventeen, you have accomplished so much.

You really go after everything you want, including writing your first novel.

And I think there are a lot of young people out there who want to do what you're doing.

Do you have any advice for young people who want to write a book?

Where do they start?

I feel like one is writing or storytelling.

Creating specific is write down everything you see, So whether it's a person or an interaction, Like my notes app is full of the most random things, because I'll see or i'll meet someone and I'm like, oh my god, you would be just such a good, just funny little character in this one specific moment that I can pull upon later.

And so my notes app is just full of the most random things.

I'll hear someone say something and I'm like, ooh, let me we write that down real quick, Like I have to like jop that down.

And so just like writing down any instance or any circumstance that you think you could pull upon later, like write it down, remember it, and then I think this.

This goes to like any circumstance, not just writing in general, but like trusting your gut, trusting that little voice in your brain that's telling you, like, hey, like maybe you should do this, Maybe you should go with this idea.

Like most of the time that little voice tends to be right.

Both are such great tips.

And I'd never really thought about writing down your observations.

That's so smart, Like even describing somebody's eyebrows or the way they smell.

It's so literary.

No, my my NOTESAP I had, Like I one day I went through and I like sorted it all and I organized it.

Yeah, And I have the most random things in there.

I have character descriptions.

I have book titles.

I have book ideas.

I have book titles for a book that's in a book I would write.

I have place ideas.

It's everything there is, like there's dialogue.

It's so much, but it is so helpful whenever you're in the middle of writing a book and you need like a side character to put in in this random little scene, and you can just be like, oh my god, I have this list of funny interactions that I've had and I can put this person in this scenario.

Reagan, I'm going to ask you a question, and there's a lot of pressure attached.

Okay, okay, you're a book club founder and a YA author.

You are deep in the world of books, so I need to know what your book recommendations are for Fall.

There's this book that I read called Queen of Faces.

It's a fantasy so good.

I devoured it.

There's also I'm gonna do a plug here for my friend because she has a book coming out also on September second, and it's called Invitation Only by Alexander Brown Chang.

It is so good.

It kind of delves into like the debutanh world.

It's a lot of fun.

It's a great Fall read.

I love that one.

What else?

Ooh, When We Were Monsters by Jennifer Neven love that book.

Those are probably my picks, I would say.

So.

I love asking our guests what they've bookmarked this week.

It can be a fun quote or something you texted a friend, or even something you sent to your mom on Instagram, a weird fact.

What have you bookmarked?

This week, Reagan, I what has happened?

Right?

Oh?

I got one.

So basically, my friend is writing a Young Sheldon book and so it's kind of a like behind the scenes and so she's been interviewing all the different cast and I saw her last night and she was like Montana said the like sweetest thing about you, and I was like, what what do you mean?

And he's kind of let my older brother and she showed it to me and it was like the nicest thing.

And I make fun of him all the time, but like he was like saying, how I'm like his little sister.

I was like cry.

And so I've just been thinking about that a lot.

So that's probably what I've bookmarked because he is like my older brother, and so that was probably what it would be.

That's really sweet.

I'm wondering because you told me you love quotes.

If there's a quote you bookmarked too?

Ooh, there's this quote, you know how I said that I always have quotes on like circulation kind of and like there's a few that I always go to.

There's this quote by Tom Hollam that like stuck out to me, and it was in an interview and someone asked him something about like the Internet perceiving him or something, or like the Internet not being happy with him or something, and he said, if you have a problem with me, text me, and if you don't have my number, you don't have a reason to have a problem with me.

And that has really stuck with me because like, ain't that the truth?

But it's such a good quote and I say it all the time because if I ever have a friend that's like dealing with something, I'm like, hey, like there's this quote, and it just like it works in so many scenarios and it's such a good quote and I stick by that and I love it.

That's a great one, Reagan.

And I understand maybe why this would mean a lot to you, because with eight million people following you on the internet, all those opinions can be quite a lot sometimes.

Yes, Next up is speed Read.

Here's how it works.

We put sixty seconds on the clock and we're going to see just how many rapid fire questions you can get through.

Are you locked in?

Are you ready?

Reagan?

Rapid fire is my favorite category of questions, So I'm so.

Ready, And I know you love a game, so I'm extra excited for this Speed read.

Let's do it.

Okay, fake dating or enemies to lovers?

Oh, but you've combined both of them.

Okay, let's do enemy to lovers?

Coffee shop date or movie date?

Coffee shop date?

Which book have you dog eared the most?

Ooh, Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix?

If you had to choose a lifetime supply of books or a lifetime supply of snacks?

Five time supply of books?

What's one rule of real life friendship that you live by?

Ooh, maybe you like always just like a check in?

Like always do a check in.

I love a good check and be like, hey, how's it going?

Love that finish this sentence.

The best thing about being a writer is blank.

The best thing about being a writer is being able to show someone else how to step into someone else's shoes.

What's your red flag reading habit?

Reagan?

That I dog your books?

Me too?

Which book do you give the most often?

Midnight Library bym.

At high Reagan?

Reward?

That is it?

For your time on Bookmark?

Thank you for hanging out with us, girl, Thank you for having me.

It was so much fun.

I got to sit here and talk about books.

So I've thrived.

If you want a little bit more from us.

Come hang with us on socials.

We're at Reese's book Club on Instagram, serving up books, vibes and behind the scenes magic and I'm at Danielle Robe, Roba y come say hi and df me and if you want to go nineties on us, call us.

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Bookmarked is a production of Hello, Sunshine and iHeart Podcast.

It's executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and me Danielle Robe.

Production is by Acast Creative Studios.

Our producers are Matty Foley, Britney Martinez, Sarah Schleid and Darby Masters.

Our production assistant is Avery Loftis.

Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rutterer are the executive producers for a Cast Creative Studios.

Maureen Polo and Reese Witherspoon are the executive producers for Hello, Sunshine, Olga Cominwa.

Kristin Perla and Ashley Rappaport are associate producers for Reese's Book Club.

Ali Perry and Lauren Hansen are the executive producers for iHeart Podcasts, and Tim Palazola is our showrunner.