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New Releases and More for August 29, 2023

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Happiness Falls, Just Do This One Thing For Me, Things in the Basement, 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. Wanna escape the Dog Days of summer with purrfect book recommendations? Let Tailored Book Recommendations pick awesome books to keep you entertained. Touch grass, grab some lemonade, and enjoy TBR's picks. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Just Do This One Thing For Me by Laura Zimmerman Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang The Deadline: Essays by Jill Lepore The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann, Amy Bojang (translator) The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu 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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You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding

0:43.8

the week's new book releases. This is episode 428 and today we are talking about books

0:48.8

being released on August 29th, 2023 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here with Kelly Jensen

0:55.0

and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Kelly, hello! Hello! I like that in the document

1:02.0

you are anonymous Cheetah. I do too. It's so cute! How is everything going? You know,

1:09.8

I am ready for this month to be over and I am ready for my kid to be back at school and

1:18.1

I am really looking forward to only having to work during the day instead of having to

1:23.4

work and parents simultaneously. It's been a very long August. Yeah. How about you? I mean,

1:31.6

she's still very young. I can't get over how many people, it's, we're recording this

1:37.2

on August 23rd and I can't get over how many people I've seen that are already sending

1:41.0

their kids back to school. I mean, when, where I grew up with me, it was always the day

1:44.8

after Labor Day. Always. That was always the first day of school. And now I don't, I don't

1:48.9

get it. So early. That's how it is in Wisconsin, but in Illinois, it's always been like the last

1:54.1

couple weeks of August. But I think even Chicago public, which usually went back after Labor

2:00.8

Day, started before Labor Day this year. I don't know like what the exact reasoning is,

2:07.0

but I do remember in high school when they shifted our schedule a little bit, they said

2:11.8

that the reason they chose to do that was so that finals would happen before winter break.

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