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All the Books!

New Releases and More for July 21, 2020

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Hamnet, 10 Things I Hate About Pinky, He Started It, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; Saga Press, the publisher of award-winning speculative fiction from authors like Stephen Graham Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Rebecca Roanhorse; and Ritual. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify 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: Hamnet: A novel by Maggie O’Farrell  The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue  He Started It by Samantha Downing The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine The Mysterious Messenger by Gilbert Ford The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder by John Glatt The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey 10 Things I Hate about Pinky by Sandhya Menon WHAT WE’RE READING: The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

0:14.8

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 269 and

0:18.8

today we were talking about books being released on July 21st, 2020 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here with Tears of

0:24.7

Price and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com. Hello! Hey how are you?

0:29.8

I'm good and very warm. I took my pants off before we started recording today so that I didn't have to do it like while we were recording like last week

0:39.2

No, I feel you always planning ahead. It's so hot and recording without any fans or AC on can be a little bit rough.

0:50.1

Yep.

0:50.7

And like my office is where the sun hits at the end of the day, like at the corner of the house.

0:56.0

So my office is always the hottest room at the end of the day.

0:59.0

And so here we are, and I'm just like, whoa.

1:01.0

But it's worth it.

1:02.0

It is to talk about fun books. I would sit in a hot room and talk about fun books with you any week.

1:08.0

Yeah, my boyfriend is some usually I record when he's napping but he is is awake right now, but he's in the living room watching survivor.

1:16.0

He and I basically catch up on pop culture about 10 to 15 years after it's been popular.

1:23.0

So he has recently discovered Survivor

1:25.4

and he's super into that, so he's been watching that.

1:27.5

But he does like talk to it like out loud a lot.

1:29.8

So that's pretty funny.

1:31.1

I just watched Olive New Girl, which wasn't too long ago, but I had not seen before.

1:36.7

And I've also been watching Palm Springs on Hulu. Have you heard of this?

1:40.5

Oh, I've seen the trailer and I want to watch it so badly, but I haven't had the chance.

1:45.9

So I didn't know the first thing about it. Like I just knew that I saw the thing come up on Hulu and I knew

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