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

I'm your host, Vanessa the S. This is episode 412.5, and today is May 5th, which yes, is

single in Mayo, and no, that is not Mexican Independence Day.

That is in September.

This has nothing to do with anything else I want to talk about, but there is my annual

public service announcement.

So today I'm going to tell you about a couple of books that I, you know, once every two

or three recordings I like to do this thing where I'm just like, hey, these books have

nothing to do with one another, but they're good.

And so that's what we're doing today for several reasons, but they're so much fun, and

I hope that you'll pick them up before I tell you about those.

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