New Releases and More for August 20, 2024

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

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This week, Liberty and Emily discuss Obitchuary, The Secret Dead Club, We Love the Nightlife, and more great books! 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. Learn something new, sharpen your skills, and expand your horizons with our Better Living Through Books newsletter. Better Living Through Books is your resource for reading material that helps you live the life you want. From self-help to cookbooks to parenting to personal finance, relationships, and more, Better Living Through Books has got you covered. If it’s part of life, it can be part of your reading life. That's what Better Living Through Books is all about. Visit bookriot.com/betterliving 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: Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes The Secret Dead Club by Karen Strong Bad Witches by H. B. Akumiah You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen 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	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
0:14.1	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 476 and today we
0:19.6	are talking about books being released on August 20, 2024 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here
0:25.8	with Emily Martin and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Emily hello
0:30.8	hello how's it going? Pretty good. Happy to be here. Yeah, me too. Great. I like to talk about books. See it?
0:43.0	Here's a funny thing.
0:45.0	I actually have read or have started reading all of the books I'm going to talk about today.
0:52.0	Oh yeah?
0:53.0	Well, that's good because I like,
0:56.0	I'm so confused the last couple of weeks
0:59.0	between like recording early for people's vacations and
1:03.2	recording early so I could take days off and
1:06.4	filling in for people doing newsletters on days that I don't do.
1:09.4	I have no idea what's going on at all.
1:11.2	Oh no, I have no idea what day it is I just have been reading a lot but the nice thing about reading is you don't have to know what day it is to read.
1:19.7	No but I've been like reading books for the wrong weeks.
1:25.0	Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a problem.
1:27.0	I read half of a book for like next week's show and I was like,
1:29.0	wait, no, I need to read more for this week.
1:32.0	So I'm a little behind on one of mine today but a lot behind.
1:36.8	I think that's okay. Yeah, it's amazing to me I think about it all the time, like before the pandemic, I used to read four books a week for the show and three books a week for the newsletter.
1:50.2	And then we changed it up so that it was two books a week a few years ago.
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