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All the Books!

All the Backlist! March 25, 2022

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This week, Liberty talks about a few backlist titles she unearthed from her library. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. And don’t forget to check out our new podcast Adaptation Nation! Subscribe on your podcatcher of choice. 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: Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah Little Lives by John Howland Spyker 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.

0:15.4

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

0:19.6

This is March 22nd, 2022, and for this week's episode, I'm going to talk about a few

0:24.2

Backlist titles on Earth from my library.

0:27.3

So hello, it is a beautiful sunny day in Maine, except it is just ridiculously windy.

0:35.1

You can actually possibly hear it in the background, although now that I say that Jen has probably

0:40.2

taken it out because she's amazing, but it is so windy here.

0:44.0

Like a couple of times I thought maybe the front of the house was just going to fall off.

0:48.8

Like that scene in Headvig and the Angry Inch, like Wig in the Box scene where like the

0:52.6

front of the trailer comes off, but not nearly as fabulous with all the lights and stuff,

0:56.1

but still it just makes the sound like it's just going to come off the front of the house.

1:00.3

And there's like all this wind and leaves everywhere and all these like thumping sounds

1:04.0

which I can only imagine are small woodland creatures heading the side of the house.

1:07.9

It's so windy.

1:08.9

Sometimes I look at it outside and I'm like how there anything left that can come loose

1:14.7

from anything after all this wind.

1:17.1

And then like the next day there'll be no wind and a giant tree branch will fall down

1:20.0

and be like, oh, was I late?

1:21.8

I missed my spot.

1:23.5

Next nature never fails to astound me and frighten me and you know, toss woodland creatures

1:29.9

around.

1:30.9

So hello again.

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