Episode #142: Valentine's Day
Grace and Alvina talk about love in honor of Valentine's Day! They talk about the five love languages, their favorite love stories, their first crushes, and more.
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The 5 Love Languages:
Grace and Alvina talk about the results of their 5 Love Languages test results. The 5 Love Languages gauge how you best express love and how you prefer to receive it. https://www.5lovelanguages.com/ The 5 Love languages are:
Acts of Service
Physical Tough
Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Gifts
What are their spouses love languages? Do your love languages come from your parents? Who’s family hugs more and says “ I love you” often? Grace and Alvina cover it all.
Favorite Love Stories:
Favorite movies about love: Grace- Amelie, Like Water for Chocolate
Alvina- Before Sunrise, After Sunrise, and When Harry Met Sally (she loves the trope: Friendship to lovers)
Favorite Books about love:
Grace- Anne of Green Gables, Emily of the New Moon
Alvina- Little Women, The Astonishing Color of After
Grace and Alvina talk about their first crushes!
Gratefuls!
Alvina is grateful for her air fryer! She recently made breakfast egg rolls. Grace is grateful for TEACHERS right now! She’s appreciating them as a mother and as an author.
Special Tribute:
The Book Friends were going to have a tribute episode to memorialize all the authors and illustrators we lost in 2021, but instead they decided they will play the recorded tributes at the end of these episodes until Lunar New Year (or whenever they run out of tributes.) The Book Friends would love to hear your memories of these authors and how they touched your life in some way or another. On the bookfriendsforever.com menu, click “Record your author/Illustrator Tribute” and record your memories through Speakpipe. Some of the authors and illustrators we lost: Jerry Pinkney, Tomie DePaola, Beverley Cleary, Lois Ehlert, Eric Carle, Patricia Reilly Giff, Floyd Cooper, and Gary Paulsen. We encourage you to leave a memory and we’ll share it on a special upcoming episode! Thank you!
On this episode, you will hear a tribute to Beverly Cleary.
Thank You!
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