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

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 35 and today we

are talking about books released on January 5th, 2016. I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead Rebecca

Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Hello, happy new year

to you. I started reading the date and I was like that can't be right what like two thought yeah yeah I just

realize I haven't had to write it on anything yet so I haven't had the you know oh it's

the middle of March and I'm still writing 2015 on

things phenomenon kick off yet but I'm sure that that's coming for me.

Yeah I'll be doing that until next year probably I know it always it's such a

cliche but it always takes me forever. You and everyone else. I know. Thus

cliche. But my head is firmly in the 2016 game. There are so many good books coming out this year.

Oh my goodness. So many coming out today. Yes. This was the first big day.

Yeah, and it's huge. There are so we are just barely touching on how many amazing folks are coming out today.

Publishing is so weird how it really is like feaster famine. I was looking at our iTunes reviews and someone was like,

could you please just do new releases all the time I mean I know

December is slow and I wanted to be like you don't know how slow yeah

like we couldn't have filled our shows with stuff with eight things each that we had or eight things total that we had read and really loved and endorsed for December.

But now we're overwhelmed.

Yeah, I was kind of lazy like in the last couple weeks of December I

took the time to read things that I had wanted to read instead of like keeping up

with new releases and stuff and so now the last few days I'm like, uh, trying to get everything done.

I know I had the same just sort of picking things up that had been on my pile and getting caught up and then also we

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