Great Books for Giving: December 1, 2020

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss great books that make great gifts, including The Art of Ramona Quimby, The Savage Beard of She Dwarf, and Eat a Peach. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify 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 Art of Ramona Quimby: Sixty-Five Years of Illustrations from Beverly Cleary’s Beloved Books by Anna Katz (Author), Annie Barrows (Contributor), Jacqueline Rogers (Contributor) Nothing Much Happens: Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep by Kathryn Nicolai Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang Homecoming Tales: 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary Rainbow Revolution by Magnus Hastings Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer [New hardcover edition] Chinatown Pretty: Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown’s Most Stylish Seniors by Andria Lo and Valerie Luu Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential by Haile Thomas Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom by Phaidon Editors The Savage Beard of She Dwarf by Kyle Latino Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson We Are Water Protectors written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson Reclaimed Rust: The Four-Wheeled Creations of James Hetfield by James Hetfield Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective) written by Alok Vad-Menen and illustrated Ashley Lukashevsky WHAT WE’RE READING: This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Relax.
0:03.0	Concentrate on your breathing,
0:06.0	hanging in the cold air,
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0:25.0	Such British Gas Home Care cover, see website for terms. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
0:44.8	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 288 and
0:49.2	today we are talking about books released this year that would make great gifts. I'm Liberty Hardy
0:54.1	here with Danica Ellis and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Danica
0:58.3	hello we're changing it up today. Yeah, it's exciting. It is. There are indeed some good books coming out in December
1:10.0	which it is today December 1st if you can it, or you know if you're listening to this.
1:15.0	I don't know what day it is, but the first day that you can listen to it is December 1st.
1:19.0	And I think it's next week.
1:22.0	Next week, Vanessa and I will be discussing a few of those.
1:25.2	But today we are going to talk about gifts because books are the best gift, especially
1:31.2	for yourself.
1:32.0	But if you want to give them to other people, we have some
1:35.6	great recommendations, some shiny, pretty things, trying to cover a little bit of everything
1:42.0	for everybody, you know, not like very specific things, but just like covering everything.
1:47.6	It's gonna be great and
1:50.2	before we do that, Danica, how are you? I'm good. I'm excited because this is the first
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