All the Backlist! March 21, 2025

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

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This week, Sharifah talks about two very different and excellent books she recommends — a memoir about grieving during the pandemic and a novella about a killer mannequin. 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. Trust your reading list to the experts at Tailored Book Recommendations! The professional book nerds (aka bibliologists) at TBR have recommended over 160,000 books to readers of all kinds. Let TBR match you with your next favorite read! Simply fill out a quick survey about what you want more of in your reading life, and your bibliologist will scour their bookish knowledge to find three reads they think you’ll love. Choose from receiving just the recommendations via email, or opt to have paperbacks or hardcovers delivered right to your door. Get started for only $18 at mytbr.co! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones 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.
0:16.1	I'm Sharifah. Today is March 13th, 2025, and today I'm going to tell you about a couple of books I've been
0:24.6	thinking a lot about recently for very different reasons. And they're both books that are, I mean,
0:33.0	they're both very different from each other. There is no common thread between these two books. One is
0:38.1	a nonfiction and another one is a novella, a horror novella specifically. So I'm going to get
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1:24.0	So the first book I want to talk about today is my nonfiction pick.
1:29.8	And it's a memoir.
1:31.4	It's A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung.
1:34.4	And this came out a couple years ago.
1:37.3	And for whatever reason, a few years ago, probably around the time I read this book, honestly,
1:43.4	I was reading a lot of pandemic
1:45.9	related books. And I mean like it was this book, which is nonfiction, there was a whole
1:53.3	bunch of speculative fiction that came out that were very like pandemic adjacent. It wasn't
1:59.9	always necessarily about COVID, but it took on pandemics generally.
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