{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"JORDY on "I Let You Go" || Books That Changed My Life","description":"In this episode of Books That Changed My Life, host Chris "Bulldog" Collins sits down with singer-songwriter Jordy to dive into I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh. Jordy opens up about rediscovering reading during a hard stretch in late 2023, and how this psychological thriller became the book that turned him into a two-books-a-week reader for good. He walks through the novel's now-legendary Part One twist \u2014 and the strange full-circle moment when Mackintosh herself saw his reaction video online, reached out, and sent him an early copy of her latest book with a handwritten note. The conversation moves well beyond the book, into Jordy's childhood outside Chicago, coming out to his parents at 14, the bullying and abuse he endured as a kid, and the anxious attachment and industry toxicity he's had to work through as an adult. He connects all of it back to what I Let You Go taught him about empathy \u2014 how fiction can force you to feel for someone before you know what they've done, and what that says about all of us. They close by breaking down the book's final, ambiguous scene on the cliffside \u2014 and why Jordy is convinced Ian is really dead, no matter how open Mackintosh left it. #books #library #bookrecs #bookreport #interview #podcast #chrisbulldogcollins \ud83d\udea8 Grab the coolest book & library tees, socks, hoodies & more! https:\/\/booksthatchangedmylife.org\/collections\/all ","author_name":"Books That Changed My Life","author_url":"https:\/\/www.booksthatchangedmylife.org","html":"