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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Old Soul, Syme's Letter Writer, From These Roots, 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: Old Soul by Susan Barker Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers by Rachel Syme Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy by Tamara Lanier We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su 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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0:46.7	You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:56.6	This is episode 497, and today we are talking about books being released on January 28, 2025, and more. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Patricia Elsie Tuttle, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Patricia, hello.
1:03.5	Hey, Liberty, long time, no chat. I know. It has been a long time, right? Because you did the,
1:09.9	right? I forgot. I didn't have any December shows.
1:12.8	Right, because we swapped things up. And Vanessa had like two and, wow, yeah, it has been a long time.
1:21.0	Luckily, we see each other online and exchange memes all day, every day.
1:29.1	And the occasional snail mail.
1:30.2	Yeah.
1:35.9	So you might even still be able to hear it in my voice.
1:39.5	And those of you who live on the West Coast are like,
1:40.9	thinking, baby.
1:45.6	But we just had an earthquake about 40 minutes ago.
1:47.4	In May, what?
1:50.6	Yeah, yeah, about six miles off the coast right where I live.
1:56.0	And we don't have the them like that, usually.
2:05.7	So I was sitting here, getting ready for the show, and all of a sudden there was this huge boom.
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