Great Books for Giving: November 26, 2024

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss books from 2024 that make great gifts, including The Backyard Bird Chronicles, Magical/Realism, Bodega Bakes, and more! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep up to date with the world of books and reading with Today in Books, Book Riot's daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Our editors offer commentary, context, and the occasional clap-back to keep you informed and entertained. Visit bookriot.com/todayinbooks to subscribe for free, or become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year and get unlimited access to members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies knowing you are supporting independent media. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angelica Villareal Everything Under a Mushroom by Ruth Krauss, Margaret Tomes A Pinecone! By Helen Yoon The Baby Who Stayed Awake Forever by Sandra Salsbury Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store by Paola Velez A History of Ghosts, Spirits and the Supernatural by DK You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon Vegan Mob: Vegan BBQ and Soul Food by Toriano Gordon, Korsha Wilson Missing Witches: Recovering the True Histories of Feminist Magic by Risa Dickens, Amy Torok There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss The Little Witch's Oracle Deck: Symbols, Spells, and Rituals for the Young Witch by Ariel Kusby, Olga Baumert Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch by Emily C. Hughes Peculiar Baking: A Practical Guide to Strange Confections by Nikk Alcaraz Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders by Atlas Obscura Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places by Amy Bruni, Julie Tremaine For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All the big names are here.
0:01.9	Ooh, who is that?
0:03.2	I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.
0:05.9	No, not her.
0:06.9	The florist.
0:07.8	She's automating invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall.
0:12.6	QuickBooks can save you up to eight hours a week so you could bring your vision to life.
0:17.1	That's how you business differently.
0:18.9	Into its QuickBooks.
0:32.2	Thank you. that's how you business differently into its quickbooks you're listening to all the books you're listening to all the books a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases this is episode90, and today we are talking about books from 2024 that would make great gifts and more. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Vanessa Diaz, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Vanessa, hello. We're here. Hi. We just started recording. Yeah. We went into autopilot.
0:59.2	Yep. I have done this so many times that I can do like the intro and the outro from memory now. So I started doing that. And then I was like, wait, no, this is the gift show. Yeah. I'm also concerned because, you know, listeners don't know this usually because
1:12.7	we edit it out, but I almost always have the hiccups when we start recording before we actually
1:18.3	start the intro. And I didn't have them. So I'm sure like, just middle of your blur.
1:23.7	I'm going to drop off my neck in the middle of the show or something because I'm, like, worried that I didn't get the hiccups.
1:29.9	So it's all right.
1:30.8	Maybe it's because I'm lying down.
1:32.0	Maybe that's why, I don't know.
1:33.6	It's possible.
1:34.3	I know.
1:34.6	Yeah.
1:36.5	So hi.
1:37.3	We're going to talk about books that we can give, although there are almost always books
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