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All the Books!

Dysfunctional Families, Nov. 17, 2015

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite books featuring dysfunctional families, including Father of the Rain, Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb, and Boy, Snow, Bird. This episode was sponsored by the Book Riot Quarterly Box. 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: All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb by George Rabasa Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History by Helene Stapinski Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A. S. King Father of the Rain by Lily King In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan What we’re reading: The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.8

your phone and Chromebook. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

0:43.4

This is episode 28 and today in preparation for the holidays we are talking about some of our favorite

0:48.0

books featuring dysfunctional families.

0:50.2

I'm Liberty Hardy here is my fellow well redhead Rebecca shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com

0:55.6

Hello Hello I miss you you're so far away now

0:59.4

I know what a great time that was it was so much fun doing our live show. Yeah, I wish we could do it like that every time.

1:07.0

I know now that we've done a show while snuggling I really would like that to be the experience every time.

1:13.6

Just kidding, I've dug a hole out behind your house

1:15.5

and I'm living in it.

1:17.2

Pretty soon I'm going to show up at your door

1:18.6

and be like, let's do the podcast.

1:21.1

I have a big window right next to my desk and one time during a podcast recording with Jeff I saw something out of the corner of my eye on my window and when I turned there was it like the neighbor's white cat was sitting up on the window

1:33.2

and staring at me. That was more familiar. I know that's what I can assume so yeah

1:39.0

just come on back. Yeah but seriously like Book Ride Live was the greatest thing.

1:43.0

And everyone was so nice.

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