All the Backlist! January 17, 2025

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

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0:00.0	You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:15.1	I'm your host, Danica Ellis, and this is episode 495.5.
0:20.4	And today I'm recommending a couple of my favorite Sapphic fantasy books
0:25.2	that I read last year. In 2024, I feel like I really got into fantasy. I've always read fantasy
0:33.0	books, but partly because of one of the books I'll be talking about today, I feel like I really
0:39.1	started to understand what fantasy books can do.
0:43.5	And I also find, I think fantasy is often talked about as this really escapist read.
0:52.7	And I think they can be.
0:59.1	Obviously, fantasy is a huge, expansive genre that has many, many subgenres and all kinds of topics and tones. But for me, I find fantasy some of the
1:07.7	most challenging books to read because I have a terrible memory and trying to hold
1:15.8	these worlds in my head and usually combining that with names that I haven't heard before.
1:23.9	Often there's kind of a geographical element.
1:26.6	I also don't hold images in my head. So I find them
1:30.6	really difficult to follow a lot of the time, especially epic fantasy, especially right at the
1:37.4	beginning. But I have started to realize that they often become my favorite books if I push through that.
1:46.0	And also that I need to just let go and be absorbed in the story and not really worry too much about whether I'm catching every single little thing.
1:56.0	Usually, once I get past the beginning, I've got it.
1:59.0	I understand there's no need to be so scared
2:03.1	of all the names and places.
2:05.6	So I'm definitely considering fantasy a bigger part of my reading life now.
2:13.6	And part of that is because of these books. But before I get into the books I want to talk
2:20.7	about, I want to talk to you about read harder. And I'm so excited because if you don't know,
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