You're listening to All The More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds.

I'm your host, Danica Ellis, and today I am talking about mashed Potato May, The Heart Stopper Books by Alice

O'sman, and why sometimes it pays to save books for the perfect moment. So if you're a

listener to the Books Unbound podcast, which I highly recommend, you'll know that it is currently mashed potato may.

So the hosts of that podcast have this term mashed potato books, meaning books that you

have been saving that you know you're going to love or you really think you're going to

love, but for some reason, have not read

and have put off for months or maybe years or maybe decades. And mashed potato may

is an opportunity to finally tackle those books because why do we do this? Why do we put off

books that we know we're going to love? And sometimes we put them off so long

that maybe they aren't as enjoyable as they would have been if we had just read them right away.

Today's episode is brought to you by Random House, publisher of Honey by Imani Thompson.

Now, this book is giving, believe it or not,

Dexter, the show Dexter, meets Audrey Lord.

Let me explain.

So Ersa is bored, bored with her life.

She's bored with her PhD program, her entitled students,

and the never-ending pages of racial violence and feminist theory she has to read.

But most of all, she's bored with the men in her life, especially the bad ones.

It's giving that SNL sketch. You know the one.

And then one sunny afternoon, she accidentally kills one.

Suddenly a problematic professor is dead. And Ursa, well, she's no longer bored.

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