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Katie McManus mentions at a political fundraiser that she's reading "fairy smut" and names Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros to a retired dean and pharma executive. The awkward silence that follows.
On Friday night, I went to this political fundraiser for a local Democrat and I found myself in conversation with two really lovely human beings. One of which was a retired dean of the university. The other one was a C suite person in a big pharma company, I won't name which one. And we got to the conversation of, like, books and reading. And, you know, they asked me if I was a big reader and I said, yeah, absolutely wrong, wrong answer for this conversation. Because they go on to say, like, oh, yeah, like I'm in this book, book club. We just read the Gentleman Moscow. And I'm in this book club and we just read this other, like, high end literature bit, you know, Pulitzer Prize stuff, which, you know, I read too. I read, I read quality. I'm just not reading it right now. So when it got to me and they're like, katie, what are you reading these days? I realized I had a choice. Like, I just lie through my teeth and say, oh, yeah, I'm reading the Gentleman Miles gown too. Which I'm not. I bought it and I haven't read it yet. And I just decided to own it. And I answered really honestly that I'm actually in my fairy smut phase. And I gave them some names like Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros and all, all those people. And they're very polite. They were very polite, but they were like, oh, okay. So anyway.
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