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All the Backlist! December 6, 2024

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This week, Vanessa shares three wintry reads: a cozy mystery, a spicy romance, and a historical fantasy detective novella. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. At Tailored Book Recommendations, we’ve recommended over 150,000 books to readers of every type. And we’ve got good news— TBR makes a novel gift for the book lover on your list! All your gift recipient has to do is fill out a survey about their reading likes and dislikes, and our expert bibliologists will use their bookish knowledge to round up three personalized recommendations for reads we think they’ll love. Whether they’re a mystery maven, a historical fiction fanatic, or a contemporary connoisseur, we’ve got the chops to match the book lover in your life with their next favorite read. And it only takes a few clicks to gift TBR! Simply head to mytbr.co/gift to get started. You can even schedule the delivery of the welcome email, which means no more waiting on gifts to arrive last minute. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone A Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall (Kobo Exclusive) Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

0:14.4

I'm your host, Vanessa Diaz, this is episode 492.5 airing on Friday, December 6th.

0:19.5

I sound kind of stuffy and will probably, my voice is

0:23.6

going to crack. I'm just going to throw it out there. Tis the season for post nasal trip.

0:27.1

Now that we have that out of the way, I'm going to tell you about these three books that I'm really

0:30.7

jazzed about because, as you all know, I am a bit of a mood reader. I will have set out a

0:35.6

theoretical TBR for myself. and then the season, the weather

0:40.1

will change, the vibes will change and suddenly I want nothing to do with those books because

0:43.8

I want to read something that is more mood appropriate. And it is that time of year in spite of

0:48.3

being from Southern California originally where true winter is not a thing. I do really appreciate

0:53.6

reading cozy,

0:55.0

wintry, and or holiday set books. So the three that I have picked out for you today are

0:59.6

one or the other, either just set during kind of a cold, wintry time, set during the holidays,

1:04.1

sometimes both. So let's get right into those. But first, let's hear from our sponsor.

1:10.7

Today's episode is brought to you by Eze Press, your favorite publisher of Korean comics.

1:16.4

Computer science major, Sangu Chu values reason, routine, and rules above all.

1:21.3

So when the rest of his teammates feel to contribute to the group presentation, he gets

1:25.5

petty spaghetti.

1:27.5

He doesn't hesitate to cut everyone's names from the project entirely,

1:31.3

which includes design major Jai Yung Zhang,

1:34.2

which ruins Jain's plans to graduate and study abroad.

1:38.3

Zha Yung is more than happy to return the favor

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