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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 and more today is march 17th

2026 i'm liberty hardy here with emily martin and we're coming to you from book riot dot com

emily hello how's it going oh jeez yeah Yeah. You go first.

Oh, you know, I'm just, have cats crawling all over me as usual.

Yeah.

So that's really exciting.

One of them right before we started recording put his face right into my microphone and just meowed really loudly.

So I think he thinks he's going to be on the show. But he didn't. Yeah. Well, I mean, we'd let him, I wonder, has anybody made a cat podcast yet? They must, right? Oh my gosh. There must be one. ASMR videos for like cats now and, you know, like the gate, like you make videos like the games and stuff where they can play on their iPad and like so they must have like cat podcasts you know yeah you have a podcast buddy you want to podcast yeah it could happen so I don't know what Murray is reading and I don't know what you are reading. What are you reading these days? Okay.

So one that I'm almost done with is Swallows by Natsuo Kirino.

And this is actually my first time reading one of her books.

And this is an author I've wanted to read for a while now.

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