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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss A Deadly Inside Scoop, Stealing Thunder, Superman Smashes the Klan, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams; ECW Audio; 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: A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette Stealing Thunder by Alina Boyden Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson The Anthill by Julianne Pachico Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang, Gurihiru (Illustrator) A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping by Samantha Harvey Dear Universe by Florence Gonsalves WHAT WE’RE READING: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 259 and
0:19.2	today we were talking about books being released on May 12th, 2020 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy
0:24.7	here with Vanessa Diaz and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
0:28.3	Hello hello, hello,
0:29.4	ola friend. Welcome to May. We're here somehow. Yes. It's happening. Yes. It's still. I don't know. What I don't know anything?
0:38.0	I mean, it's pretty amazing. Like, let's think about it for a second.
0:42.5	You and I are literally about as far on either side of the country as we can get.
0:48.5	And we're communicating.
0:50.2	We are the Portland posse, yes, from the two Portland's.
0:54.7	Yeah, it's pretty wild, so...
0:57.4	And we're both alive and we're functioning.
1:00.2	It's good, it's good, it's gonna be great.
1:01.8	You know, when people say Partland, almost everyone thinks of the West Coast,
1:06.0	but actually your Partland is named after our Partland.
1:09.0	So, true story.
1:10.0	Oh, for sure.
1:11.0	Ours definitely came way later.
1:13.0	Like, but yeah, but it was like literally named for that city because they moved out there and they were like, yeah, Portland.
1:19.0	Sure, sure.
1:20.0	So that's some nerdy main trivia for everyone today.
1:22.0	We're going to talk about books. I'll give the... nerdy main trivia for everyone today.
1:22.6	We're going to talk about books.
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