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🗓️ 17 January 2017

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, The Futures, Sirens, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Once We Were Sisters and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno The Futures by Anna Pitoniak The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories by Chanelle Benz Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life That Matters by Emily Esfahani Smith Sirens: A Memoir by Joshua Mohr New and Selected Poems, Vol 1 by Mary Oliver What we’re reading: Exes by Max Winter Roots to the Earth: Poems and a Story by Wendell Berry and Wesley Bates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oint, or building a playlist that will even get your
0:14.8	none up on the table or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max.
0:20.1	Christmas.
0:23.0	Better with Pepsi Max. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:43.6	This is episode 90 and today we were talking about books released on January 17th, 2017.
0:49.6	I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow podcat Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you
0:53.6	from bookriot.com. Hello hello it's so crazy on Wednesday I took about
1:01.3	400 books out of my office and moved them into my library upstairs and
1:06.1	you can hear now how empty my office is like I'm all echoy again. I can't hear the
1:11.3	echo because magic of technology but I watched the journey on your
1:15.6	Instagram and it was pretty remarkable. 14 hours. That's bonkers. Yeah but I did something smart this time. I alphabetize them all like when they were
1:26.7	downstairs where it was warm and there was like a carpet to nylon and stuff before I brought
1:31.2	them upstairs into the library where there's no heat and it's just a hardwood floor.
1:35.9	So yeah, that is smart.
1:37.4	And then I just shuffle them all in and it's really fun, but it takes about 14 hours.
1:41.7	We because Bob and I love to test our marriage, went to IKEA on Friday night.
1:49.0	And the closest IKEA to Richmond is like an hour and a half away.
1:52.0	It's just outside on it's in the
1:53.2	southern suburbs of Washington DC. So you have to like fight DC traffic and you're in an
1:58.2	Ikea on a Friday night. But we bought new storage stuff that's going to go into my office. So I will be facing down.
2:06.5	I currently my TBR pile is literal piles like little like just stacks of books against the wall in my office and I'm going to figure out how to store them more efficiently but I did the first round of a book purge over the weekend as well and we are at capacity for bookshelf like for how many
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