On this week’s episode Clare and I read Nothing Can Keep Us Together, the eighth book in Cecily Von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl series. You can listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen. As a reminder, some of these links, including our Bookshop.org link, are affiliates.
This week I’ve been watching Bones (Kathy has a daughter named Courtney!) and “foramen” means a hole, especially one in bone, so a hole in the foramen is…a hole in a hole?
Clare’s been A Court of Silver Flames. Here’s the YouTube series we talked about. Confirmed that Allie and Hallie pronounce their podcast name in the present tense, and their intro song totally gives Thank U, Next vibes!
Fun piece of show notes-only trivia for y’all, the book where I first read the name Phoebe was The Cool Club, the twelfth book in the Mary Kate and Ashley Two of a Kind series.
How I’m picturing Vanessa’s hair 
The gender neutral plural denoting a graduate of an organization, school, or society is alumnus.
According to this no-sources-cited article, accents are pretty much set by age 7.
State of the Union
Courtney’s week
| In | Out |
| Furniture outlet shopping | Bottling things up |
Clare’s week
| In | Out |
| New opportunities | Letting other people tell you what to do |
Join us next week for our ninth Gossip Girl episode, Only in Your Dreams, which was in fact written by a ghost writer.
