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You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

Today we are talking about books being released on August 26, 2025, and more.

I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Patricia Elsie Tuttle,

and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Patricia, hello. Hey, Liberty. I am very excited to talk to you, but also, I'm sorry if I'm breathy, but I just, I'm sick.

I mentioned on the last show that, you know, I thought it was my asthma because it's been bothering me the last few weeks, but it turns out now it's more things.

I have to go to the hospital and a couple days for tests and blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, so I'm a little breathy.

I've been saving up all my strength, But it was kind of strange because, as many of you know, and as many of you reached out

to tell me, and thank you for doing that.

This show, there was an error and it didn't get up on Tuesday morning last week. Like, we, you know, record the show and then there are people who do the editing and people who put it up and people who do the ad stuff, you know, and everyone's the last time is like, you don't listen to your own podcast? I'm like, but I was there. Like, that's like time I could spend reading books to talk about on another

podcast. Like, you know, I mean, I couldn't tell you like things I said on the podcast from like 10 years ago, but I don't listen to it. So Tuesday went by and I was feeling worse and worse and worse and worse. And the doctors couldn't see me until the morning. And I'm like, if you feel like even worse, go to the ER, but I didn't want to go to the ER. And so I'm sitting there going,

oh, I hope that this doesn't keep getting worse. And then I get this DM from someone I don't know

on Instagram that says, I hope that you're okay. And I was like looking around like is to what? Am I on camera?

Like what is happening? And then like the next moment like my friend Jennifer, I always call her Jen. Sorry, Jen. I don't know why. Her name is Jennifer. I don't know why I'm going to call her Jen. She's my Celtics buddy. She sends a message and is like, I hope you're okay. Like, there's no show. And I'm worried about you. And I was like, wait, what? I didn't hear that, you know? And then I got another message from someone who was very nice,

another message, and everyone's so nice. And I was like, oh, okay. But I was like, somebody is watching me in my house. Yeah. Well, also, yeah, I didn't notice either because I don't, full disclosure, I don't listen to our show either. I don't like listening to my own voice. You know, I don't like listening to my own voice. It was same, but also like you already like, no, like, oh, I guess I am on it. I get it what you're saying. But yeah, I mean, we talk about books. We know the books. So it's like, whatever. Yeah, and we talk about it in like our, our work, our work slack and stuff like that. So yeah, I, but yeah, you know, sometimes it happens. Yeah. Sometimes it happens. I'm glad you weren't being spied on. Yeah. I mean, it's possible that I still am, but, you know, it wasn't like...

I mean, we all are.

At that second, yeah.

I was just like, oh, okay, thank goodness.

So, yeah, that's all I got going on.

I've just been laying around listening to audiobooks trying to breathe.

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