This week I share a terrible (okay - not really terrible - just exasperating) thing that happened when I had to go to Walmart and Target on the same day, and Melanie analyzes the Aggies' College Football Playoff chances. We also have a discussion about Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash, only I call it Sierra Mist Cranberry Blast, and clearly I have reached a point in my life where I just make up my own names for familiar products. 

And as a public service to readers everywhere, Melanie makes some book suggestions that feature war / espionage as a backdrop for brave actions by gritty heroines, and I share my Five Favorites. Only I forgot to include the Five Favorites background music. I hope you can forgive me. 

Please do enjoy, everyone.

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Show Notes:

- Tasha Cobbs Leonard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2kRwif6SbU)

- Beatriz Williams (https://www.amazon.com/Beatriz-Williams/e/B0068A1IDY/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1) (she has tons of books; Melanie mentioned three: A Hundred Summers, Golden Hour, and Along the Infinite Sea)

- The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck (https://amzn.to/38c821O)

- The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (https://amzn.to/2LxH1OI)

- Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (https://amzn.to/3npBjMT)

- The German Heiress by Anika Scott (https://amzn.to/3noA80k)

- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (https://amzn.to/34heMKM)

- The Huntress by Kate Quinn (https://amzn.to/3nrQSUn)

- This Secret Thing by Mary Beth Whalen (https://amzn.to/3njiQ4C)

- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/mickeys-once-upon-a-christmas/72SAF9iLzQlT)

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