You're listening to All of a Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Vanessa the S, this episode 407.5, airing on March 31st, end of the month.

Once again, that happened.

Today I'm going to tell you about some books that you're probably going to want to have snacks

that they're ready for because they do combine food with one of my favorite topics, magic.

The books and magic.

I'm reading or talking about these books, I should say, because I am rereading a kind of seminal work of magical realism that also involves food.

It is one of my favorite books of all time.

That book is, the English title of which is like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.

I'm reading that as prep for a project that I've been working on kind of behind the scenes.

It's our premium newsletter, The Deep Dive.

We've probably heard about it because we've been talking about it across several different platforms.

I'll put a link in the show notes for you to learn more about that if you'd like,

but it is a really fun project in which you're going to get to hear from the folks at Book Riot,

you know, bookish experts about topics that are either really near and dear to us,

that we're just really passionate or interested in.

We're going to get to kind of stretch our legs here and just go on a little bit about some topics in a much like a deeper way

than we typically traditionally have been able to.

And so it's going to be a lot of fun.

But before I rant and rave about this book and why I love it so much,

let's go ahead and hear from our sponsor.

Today's episode is brought to you by Flat Iron Books, publisher of Good Bad Girl by Alaskini.

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