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All the Books!

All the Backlist! February 9, 2018

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses The Tiger, The Antelope Wife, Cat Country, and more great older books. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books discussed on the show: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Cat Country by Lao She The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.6

I'm your host Liberty Hardy, and I'm little in the middle, but I've got much backlist.

0:10.0

This is episode 33, and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the week's new releases and more

0:17.0

Episode 33 the Larry Bird episode

0:20.8

Um hi I have a fun theme today. It's going to be super themey.

0:27.0

Before I get started on today's books, I just want to take a second to say thank you.

0:32.0

Thank you to everyone out there who is like. I just want to take a second to say thank you.

0:33.0

Thank you to everyone out there who is listening, who has been listening.

0:37.0

It's so much fun to get to talk about books every week,

0:40.0

even though it makes me so so so nervous, which I'm sure you've heard me say before

0:44.9

it's worth it because I love talking about books books are the greatest thing and

0:51.1

I just love being able to help people find books that

0:54.4

makes them happy because that's all I want is for people to read books and be

0:58.8

happy unless they suck then I don't care but I want the good people to read books and be happy

1:04.5

so you're all good and I'm gonna tell you about some great books today there I

1:11.2

was looking at the week's new releases and there are a lot of books out this week that have animals in the title,

1:16.2

including American Panda, Call Me Zebra, The Humming Birds, and the Seabirds Cry.

1:21.7

So I thought, why not some cool books that have animals in the title?

1:25.7

I know that I've mentioned a few with critters before, but I've got a few great ones today that I haven't talked about starting with 15 dogs by Andre Alexis.

1:36.7

It's about a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo.

1:40.5

They're like, I wonder what would happen if we gave animals intelligence and emotions like humans have and so they decide to like try it out and you know one of them I can't remember which one is like they're not going to be able to handle it.

1:54.0

So they give these dogs in a Toronto Veterinary Clinic human emotions and skills and

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