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

I'm your host, Vanessa the Yes, and this is episode 464.5, airing on Friday, May 24th.

I almost said March.

I was gonna be like, oh, I'm just testing you. And now here I am said March. I was going to be like, oh, I'm just testing you.

And now here I am telling you anyway that I almost messed up. I guess it is somehow

just about the end of the month. I'm very excited to tell you about these next

two picks because I was originally going to talk about them last month and that I decided to talk about poetry which will obviously appropriate for National Poetry month, but I really just love both of these books and I can't wait to tell you more about them.

So before we get into all of that and why I picked them, let's hear from our sponsor.

I know that I have talked at least about one of these books, possibly both at some point point I want to say it may have been

during our end of the year best books of episode for 2023 at least my episode

with liberty was about best fiction of 2023.

And that episode kind of goes one of two ways, right?

If folks are either like really into it

and because they just want to know what our picks are

for the best of the year and then also

it may just slip by a lot of people

because it is indeed the end of the year and there's just a lot going on with it being a holiday for so many books.

So I wanted to talk about this book because I just discovered that the sequel in this duality is also out. So let's talk about

anatomy a love story by Dana Schwartz. I follow Dana on Instagram who is the

writer and podcast host, she is a writer I should say and the

podcast host of one of my favorite podcasts noble blood where she explores the

stories of some of history's most fascinating Royals and also kind of like

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