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You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.

Today we are talking about books being released on July 29, 2025, and more.

I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Jeff O'Neill,

and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.

Jeff, hello.

Hey, I'm back. It's one of those five Tuesday months.

Yeah, who can we get?

If we get it out of those.

Oh, Jeff's over here.

Okay, we'll get them off the shelf and bring them on.

I'm happy to be here.

We were talking last time, I think, okay, we'll get them off the shelf and bring them on. I'm happy to be here. We were talking last time, I think, like, was it a set number of months that have five Tuesdays? And I don't think either one of us ever figured it out. I guess it must be a month with 31 days. And then, yeah, I don't know. How they've felt like, but it's not always the same one. So it's very strange, but it happens like three or four times. No, it's like a plague of locust.

You never really can. but it's not always the same one. So it's very strange, but it happens like three or four times.

No, it's like a plague of locust. You never really can guess what I'm going to be there, but, you know, then I show up and you have to deal with me.

Yes. So I'm so confused because this always happens to me. I tried to make it so that I could like take a week off from recording because we had an extra Tuesday. So I told you several weeks ago I wanted to record a little early and then of course everything went horribly wrong when we were supposed to record. I should never ever try to take any time off. Ever. You're just tempting the life gods to say, ever. It looks like I have a pretty easy stretch coming up. That's when they get you. They don't like to hear about the work gods, the life gods. say ever it looks like you have a pretty easy stretch coming up that's when they get you they don't like to hear about the work gods the life gods yeah it was it was just like

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