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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Victorian Psycho, Reading the Waves, The Black Fantastic, 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. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. To get recommendations for each task, sign up for the Read Harder newsletter. All Access subscribers get even more recommendations plus community features, where you can connect with like-minded readers in a cozy and supportive corner of the internet. You can become an All Access member starting at $6 per month or $60 per year to get unlimited access to all members-only content in 20+ newsletters, community features, and the warm fuzzies of knowing you are supporting independent media. To join, visit bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch Pure Innocent Fun: Essays by Ira Madison III The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories edited by andré m. carrington Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel The Lamb by Lucy Rose Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith 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	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.4	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
0:13.8	Silly bookers?
0:14.8	Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.
0:17.1	Stop booking around and visit Onthebeach.com.
0:21.4	Conditions apply.
0:22.6	Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected.
0:28.7	On the beach.
0:46.4	You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:53.5	This is episode 498, and today we are talking about books being released on February 4th, 2025, and more.
0:59.1	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Danica Ellis, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
1:01.2	Danica, hello. Hello.
1:02.3	How are you?
1:06.1	Well, it's February. Like, what?
1:10.8	Bananas, truly. How are things where you are pretty good we are lucky here that we have very mild weather
1:20.0	so we just got our first snow of the winter and it's you know a dusting it's not enough to disrupt anything. So it's just kind of pretty.
1:30.6	So I'm enjoying that. Yeah. We keep getting a lot of snow. But like a lot, I mean like two or three
1:38.3	inches, like every evening now. And just enough to be annoying. You don't have to like shovel the steps and clean off the cars and all that stuff.
1:47.6	Not that I'm,
1:48.0	I can't drive,
1:48.7	but like,
1:49.2	you know,
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