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All the Books!

All the Backlist! March 16, 2018

All the Books!

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Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty discusses Pobby and Dingan, Darling Jim, Eve Out of Her Ruins, and more great older books. This week’s episode was sponsored by The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw. 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: Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell Darling Jim by Christian Moerk The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi Will Starling by Ian Weir Chaotic Good by Whitney Gardner 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.

0:05.4

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

0:09.5

This is episode 38 and today I'm going to talk about a few great titles related to the

0:13.8

weeks new releases and more. So hello there. I'm super excited about today's show.

0:18.8

I have a few books that I loved for so long that I don't think I've ever talked about on the show and I don't

0:24.3

know how that is but before I tell you about them I'm going to tell you about today's

0:28.0

sponsor it's the Wicked Deep by Shay Earnshaw it says hocus pocus and practical magic meet the Salem witch trials in this haunting story about

0:35.9

three sisters on a quest for revenge and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.

0:41.7

Two centuries ago three sisters were sentenced to death for

0:44.4

witchery.

0:45.4

Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters returned, stealing the bodies of

0:49.3

three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and

0:54.1

pulling them under. I have a copy of this, I haven't read it yet. I'm all about

0:59.6

anything Salem witch Trial related.

1:03.0

One of my grandmother's seven grades back

1:06.0

was one of the Salem Witches,

1:08.0

but she was the grandmother of a lot of people.

1:10.0

I could never quite grasp that math when I was little you know you had

1:13.1

like two grandparents on your mom's side and two grandparents on your dad's side but you

1:17.4

had four great-grandparents on your mom's side and for a great great and like

1:20.8

could not do the math that's why I stuck with words which I can't say either right now

1:26.3

but anyway so let me tell you about today's show I have a theme I was looking at the list and I noticed a couple of titles out this week that had proper names in them and I was like who

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