This week Skye and Amanda read How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams, a romance novel about how a daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turns a Type A overachiever’s world upside down. The book leads to a conversation about that first stage of dating and the two talk about what type of flirt they each are (or aren’t). Hear what the ladies consider to be good flirting and what they don’t suggest people do when approaching someone of interest. 

Find out how the residue of a past relationship has impacted Skye when it came to getting back out into dating again and the lessons that she took from Shan Boody’s The Game of Desire,  about stepping out of your comfort zone when flirting and looking at dating as an experiment to find what best works for you. 

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• How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams 
• The Game of Desire: 5 Surprising Secrets to Dating with Dominance-- and Getting What You Want by Shannon Boodram

This week’s ‘Bout That Action! highlight is: Black Scholarship
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Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week: 

• The Harder They Fall on Netflix
• Horror Noire on Shudder 

Check out this episode’s Book EP for Amanda’s Big Flirt Energy playlist 

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