Best of 2017 Halftime Show

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🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books of 2017 so far, including Pachinko, Hunger, and Chemistry. This episode was sponsored by Talenti, A Dark So Deadly, and Harmony. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes 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. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker The Wanderers by Meg Howrey American War by Omar El Akkad Chemistry by Weike Wang The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Idaho by Emily Ruskovich The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco Double Bind: Women on Ambition by edited Robin Romm Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay What we’re reading: The Power by Naomi Alderman My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir by Amy Silverstein Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.
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0:22.0	You must be signed into the same Google account on both
0:23.8	your phone and Chromebook.
0:27.7	Support for all the books comes from Tolenti. When Tolenti makes Gilato and Sorbeto, they tend
0:32.3	to get a little overzealous.
0:34.0	Do they need to use so many raspberries in their Roman raspberry sorbeto that the machine broke?
0:39.0	Did they need to try 25 different chai teas to find the perfect spice blend for their vanilla Chai Gelato?
0:45.2	Did they have to invent giant mint steeper to make their Mediterranean mint super minty?
0:50.8	Does their obsessiveness make Tylente gelato and Sorbeto the greatest? You be the judge.
0:55.2	But yes, it does make them the greatest. They're also the judge. Tylente, the delicious, is in the
1:00.5	details. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding
1:17.2	the week's new book releases.
1:18.9	This is episode 112, and today we are talking about our favorite books of 2017 so far.
1:25.0	I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow
1:27.2	podcast Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.
1:31.0	Hello hello.
1:32.0	Hi there! I can't believe we're doing the halftime show already. I know it's crazy it feels like we just started talking about new books and now boom! I know I was like have I really read half a year's worth of books already and I went to my spreadsheet and the answer is that I have because it's been basically half a year and it just has flown by. Yeah. Everything that I'm adding to my you
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