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The Book Case

Niall Williams is Magic

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

When Niall Williams releases a book, we positively cheer.  His writing feels like coming home to us.  A home full of warm fires, good stories, kind neighbors, strong community and unspoken love.  All of them and more illuminate his latest: The Time of the Child.  We could not recommend this book more.  Buy it.  And then buy it for everyone on your holiday list who loves to read.  And then sit by your holiday fire with all of those folks who read it and listen to this episode of the Book Case.  You will be so glad you did. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Time of the Child by Niall Williams This is Happiness by Niall Williams  History of Rain by Niall Williams  Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams As it Is in Heaven by Niall Williams O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare by Niall Williams and Christine Breen The Fall of Light by Niall Williams In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams and Christine Breen Boy in the World by Niall Williams John by Niall Williams When Summer’s in the Meadow by Niall Williams and Christine Breen Bel Canto: The Annotated Edition by Ann Patchett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Is crypto perfect?

0:01.9

Nope.

0:02.7

But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

0:06.0

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.1

Crypto is no different.

0:13.5

It's new.

0:14.2

But like email, it's also revolutionary.

0:17.6

With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey with 24-7 support when you need it.

0:22.6

Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:27.3

This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:35.5

Top of the morning, too, yeah. It is Thursday, and it is for the bookcase and I will not insult the Irish by trying to do an Irish accent. But there was a reason I said top of the morning to you and I'll let my father introduce that. So here's my father and I'm the Kate part of the Kate and Charlie part. Hello. And I'm the Charlie part. The speaker of the house, who I had a

0:54.6

pleasure of covering for many, many years, was then Tip O'Neill. And he taught me that when somebody

1:00.0

says to you, top of the morning to you, the proper reply is, and the rest of the day to you. So the

1:05.7

rest of the day to you, Kate. Ah, and the rest of the day to you. This has a very... Do you respond it then in kind? This has a very Irish flavor to this podcast.

1:14.6

We're going to talk to Nile Williams, who is one of our favorite authors.

1:18.6

Our first author that we ever talked to on this podcast two and a half years ago was Nile Williams,

1:24.6

who had written one of my favorite books ever, This is Happiness.

1:28.3

And we are going to solve all of your Christmas problems right on this podcast.

1:33.2

Isn't that nice of us?

1:34.0

Yes, we're playing Santa. We're playing Santa.

1:37.4

He has got a new book out, just two days now out.

1:40.9

You'll find it in better bookstores everywhere.

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