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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Let Us Descend, Micro Activism, The Comfort of Crows, 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. Autumn is here, which means it's time to curl up with a great read and get cozy — whatever your version of cozy looks like. Whether it's romance, creepy reads, modern classics, or escapist reads you crave, TBR can help you find the perfect books for your fall reading, with options curated to your specific reading tastes. Visit mytbr.co to find out more and sign up — it only takes a few minutes! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn by Omkari Williams with a forward by Layla F. Saad and illustrations by Octavia Mingerink The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On by Malaika Jabali with illustration and design by Kayla E. Nefando by Mónica Ojeda, Sarah Booker (translator) Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement by Tanisha Ford Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins—From Spices to Vices by Noah Whiteman The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black 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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0:14.9	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 435 and
0:19.7	today we are talking about books being released on October 24th,
0:23.2	2023 and more.
0:25.4	I'm Liberty Hardy here with Patricia Elsie Tuttle
0:28.2	and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.
0:30.9	Patricia, hello. Hey Liberty, how you doing buddy?
0:36.0	Well, right now I just sound like like Lauren Bacall as a Muppet, which is an improvement.
0:42.0	I was very sad last week because I couldn't record. I sounded like bees in a blender underwater.
0:49.6	Oh my God. And I cried because I hate missing shows it was only the fourth time in like
0:55.2	435 episodes and I just love doing this show and I felt bad because there was no show for anybody and I'm very sorry about that but I do have COVID again.
1:08.0	Well, I just tested negative yesterday so fingers crossed I test negative again tomorrow when I check, double check.
1:14.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:15.9	Luckily, everyone was so nice and everybody reached out and everyone was great.
1:19.7	But yeah, definitely better than last time.
1:22.1	Last time, like, we all thought I was going to die.
1:25.0	This time, I only wished that I would occasionally.
1:28.0	Oh, buddy.
1:30.0	But I'm getting better.
1:32.0	Yeah, that's very, it's very dramatic, you know, like when you don't feel good. It's fine, you know. But still, yeah. Yeah, everyone, I mean, there are, you know, the elephant in the room, there's just like things going on globally, but then also people have things going on personally, and there's just so much, and I keep telling my therapist that I just need things to stop happening for a bit just
1:57.2	really just ever to stop just slow down and I know a lot of other people are feeling this way. So I hope that everyone in taking
2:09.2	care of each other that you are also finding ways to be gentle and kind with yourselves
2:16.0	because there's a lot. Yeah it's a lot right now. Yeah and as we go into this
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