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🗓️ 17 May 2016

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Girls on Fire, Shrill, The Fireman, and more new releases. This episode was sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Send Me Swooning. 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: Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee Roses and Rot by Kat Howard Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West The Fireman by Joe Hill 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday by Debbie Graber Action: A Book about Sex by Amy Rose Spiegel What we’re reading: The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and
0:14.0	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 54 and today we
0:18.8	are talking about books released on May 17th 2016. I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead Rebecca Shinky and
0:25.7	we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Hello! Hi there! We're doing this a week early.
0:31.8	Yes. So by the time people listen to this like I could have disappeared into the ether I could have gotten on that bus and no one ever saw me again
0:40.4	We'll probably be locked up somewhere in Chicago.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:43.3	Causing trouble at some party.
0:44.8	We could have matching clown tattoos.
0:47.0	Like who knows what happens when this errs?
0:48.7	Us with matching tattoos is not out of the question,
0:51.1	but I think I would fight you on clowns.
0:53.0	Yeah, it was the first thing I popped into my head probably because I'm looking straight
0:56.2	at the pillow family circus on my shelf right now.
0:58.0	So, clowns.
1:00.0	Yeah, there's a lot of potential for interesting things to happen between right now.
1:05.0	Yep. And when this show airs.
1:07.0	It's true. I was just saying to you, I was like, wait, I can't talk about these books. It's not time yet. And I was like, oh my goodness, right?
1:14.7	I know it's very strange. Like I have gotten into the routine of like I'm reading for next week. I'm reading for next week. And this week I tried to do two weeks worth of reading in one week
1:23.8	which is never advisable but now I have two weeks to do the reading for the show for the 24th and I feel
1:29.3	wild like what else could I read? What else could you do?
1:33.0	A few of these I read a long, long time ago
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