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All the Books!

All the Backlist! September 20, 2019

All the Books!

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Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week, Patricia talks about two excellent books about gods behaving badly! This episode is sponsored by Every Boy I Ever Kissed by Nellwyn Lampert Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. 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: The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, and Clayton Cowles The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin, book one in the Inheritance Trilogy Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Note: Phonogram was mistakenly mentioned as “Phonograph” in the podcast) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:06.0

I'm your host, Patricia Elsie Tuttle, Miss Backlist if you're nasty.

0:10.0

This is episode 112, and today I'm going to talk about a couple great titles that I'm super excited about.

0:16.1

Today's All the Backlist is sponsored by every boy I ever kissed by Nellwyn Lampert.

0:21.8

Sex was supposed to be fun, liberating, and empowering for a girl who'd been

0:25.8

brought up thinking that the battle for sexual equality had been won. But for Nellwyn Lampert,

0:31.7

losing her virginity would turn out to be anything but simple.

0:35.4

Whether she was being confronted with porn-induced erectile dysfunction or other crises of

0:40.0

masculinity, nothing went according to plan.

0:43.7

No one had to learn to navigate the realities of sexual liberation, female empowerment, and

0:48.5

masculinity all on our own.

0:51.2

Every boy I ever Kiss blends memoir with a personal essay to create a personal and well-researched narrative

0:57.0

style.

0:58.1

The author offers insights to and cultural critique on the sex lives of millennial women.

1:04.1

Now when Lampert's lifestyle blog was named one of three emerging Canadian lifestyle

1:08.4

blogs to watch by the Tug Agency in 2015.

1:12.4

Hi everyone, I am so excited to be back sharing more great back-list books with you.

1:19.0

It's kind of wild because I get to pick any backlist books and so I want to pick every backlist book and so it's really hard to narrow it down to two every other week, but you know I'm doing my best. So I thought for this week my theme would be

1:36.5

God's behaving badly. Actually I do think that was a title of a book that I'm not

1:42.3

going to talk about that maybe came out in the early

1:46.7

2000s I don't know I'm gonna have to look it up I'll put it in the show notes but yeah I realized like I read a lot of books about gods and recurrences of gods and gods of imaginary cultures and they're always

2:09.7

behaving badly to put it lightly.

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