All the Backlist! March 22, 2024

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week Vanessa recommends a mystery with a tattooed, chain-smoking, sleuthing nun and a story about two teen girls and a haunted mansion in timelines ten years apart. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Want to make your book club the best club? Sign up for our In the Club newsletter. In the Club will deliver recommendations for the best books to discuss in your book clubs. From buzzy new releases to brilliant throwbacks, the books highlighted in this newsletter will drive your book club discussions. We’ll also share some book club-friendly recipes and interesting bookish updates from all over. If you become a paid subscriber, you get even more recommendations plus community features. In other words, we’ll keep you well-met, well-read, and well-fed. Sign up today! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday #1) by Margot Douaihy Blessed Water (Sister Holiday #2) by Margot Douaihy Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.
0:14.3	I'm your host, Vanessa Diaz, back for episode 455.5 airing on Friday, March 22nd.
0:20.3	Today I am very, very solidly still on the escapist reading train unapologetically so I have been reading books that very much feel like candy, the kind that just fill fill me fill my cup because I know that they are solidly just the kinds of things I like to read lots of genre
0:38.7	lots of mystery, lots of thriller, haunted, gothi stuff.
0:42.7	It's just, it's a good time over here.
0:44.2	I'm being very savage about putting books down
0:46.0	that don't immediately serve me,
0:47.2	not because they're bad,
0:48.0	but maybe they're just not right for me right now.
0:50.0	And so the two books that I'm gonna talk about today
0:51.9	are very much
0:53.0	falling the camp of, yep, these are solidly in my lane of things I like to read.
0:57.2	One, crime fighting none.
0:59.4	That's how I sum up my first one.
1:01.7	So good.
1:02.2	And the second is a really layered and wonderful
1:05.2	YA haunted house story. So before I talk entirely too much about both of those, like you know I'm going to do,
1:10.6	let's hear from our sponsor.
1:18.6	Today's episode is brought to you by National Geographic Books. The Cave is the Incredible Memoir of Amani Belur,
1:21.0	a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus,
1:24.2	humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
1:27.3	The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital in Syria, she saved many from the atrocities of
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Book Riot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Book Riot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.