You're listening to All the More Books, a weekly show that is about all the more books.

Some are new.

Some are old.

Actually, today, none of them are new.

Neither of them.

They're both a few years old.

But they are both books.

As always, we keep that promise here on all the more books.

I am your host for the week, Trisha Brown.

And this episode is airing on December 19th, 2025.

Congratulations to all of you, to all of us, on almost getting through 2025.

I hope that you are able to stay

and say hail and hearty and healthy for the next 12 days. And I hope even more for all of us

that 2026 is, I don't know, just like better. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this is our last

All the More Books episode of the year, but do keep checking your feed because, first of all, it could be wrong, but also there will probably be like throwback episodes.

We used to call them reruns back when I was much younger than I am now.

I'll be honest, the only thing that the two books that I'm going to talk about today have in common is that they're just two fiction books that have been around for a few years that I finally got

to in 2025. Again, they're both fiction, so I guess let's hang the similarity on that.

One is historical fiction, because believe it or not, set in 1969 counts as historical fiction these days. And that one is by an author that I've been meaning to read whose book I just happened to find in a used bookstore. So I picked it up. We're going to talk about it. The other book is one that I'd heard of, but finally picked up because of an adaptation. That's a little teaser for you. It's a sci-fi adaptation.

You're going to have to stick with me to find out which one.

But it is not Star Wars related.

I think there are Star Wars books.

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