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🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Mongrels, The High Places, The Loney, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install, The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood, and Book of the Month. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes 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: Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley The High Places: Stories by Fiona McFarlane Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Last Day of Night by Graham Moore Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple What we’re reading: An Innocent Fashion by R. J. Hernandez The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by a robot in the garden by Deborah Install.
0:03.7	She's a US debut author who published in the UK first and she's received a ton of international buzz.
0:08.9	This is a book about a guy named Ben. He is really great at failing it stuff he's failed at his job at
0:15.1	being a husband at even taking the garbage out but then he finds a battered robot
0:19.4	named Tang in his garden and Tang needs Ben He's more ornery and prone to tantrums
0:24.4	than one would expect from something made of gears and springs, but Tang desperately
0:28.7	must be fixed and he just might be the thing to fix what's broken in Ben as well.
0:33.6	So together Ben and Tang will discover that friendship can rise up against the strangest
0:38.4	circumstances and what it really means to be human.
0:42.1	You can check out a robot in the garden by Deborah Install
0:44.6	wherever books are sold or click the link regarding the week's new book release. listening to all the books a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding
1:04.1	the week's new book releases.
1:05.8	This is episode 53 and today we are talking about books released on May 10th 2016.
1:11.4	I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
1:17.0	Hello.
1:18.0	Hi. I'm totally in denial that we're already doing episodes for the middle of May.
1:23.2	I know it's crazy and also we're recording this a little early because when it actually
1:27.4	launches we will be on our way to Chicago for BEA.
1:32.4	I'm like where am I going?
1:33.8	I know, right, we're gonna go do a thing.
1:36.5	Yeah, and we're gonna record our May 17th episode early as well.
1:40.9	So we'll have, we have a busy weekend, lots of quality time.
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