You're listening to all the backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host, Patricia Elsie Tuttle, and Hello, it's me. I was wondering about all of these books you have to read.

This is episode number 259 and a half, and today I'm going to talk about a couple great backlist titles that I'm excited to share with you.

Hi everyone, how's it going?

I have been adding a bunch of books to my TBR lately. I feel like every time I consume a piece of

media I add another book or three to my TBR. Recently my wife and I poured ourselves some strong adult beverages and watched the Cats movie which was incredibly weird.

I'm not a fan of Andrew Lloyd Weber, but I'm familiar with the show and I'm a fan of weird things, but this movie was freaking bizarre.

I don't think I hated it though.

I did realize that I never read the T.S. Elliot poems on which the show was based, so I added that to my TBR. And then with the passing of Little Richard recently, someone posted an excerpt from his biography and it was wild, so I definitely

added that to my TVR. Then the other night my wife and I watched Dreamgirls because she hadn't seen it and I'm determined to teach her about more musicals this year.

Of course, then I found a book on The Supremes as well as a book on Motown to add to my TBR. So I have a lot of reading to do.

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