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All the Books!

Updated: New Releases and More for May 19, 2020

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Latitudes of Longing, Beach Read, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community; BookCon 2020; and Best Fiends. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify 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: The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Beach Read by Emily Henry Latitudes of Longing: A Novel by Shubhangi Swarup We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin WHAT WE’RE READING: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Blue Castle by Lucy Montgomery The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book: Test Your Inner Detective by Solving Some of the World’s Most Difficult Cases by Sinclair McKay 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

0:13.7

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 260 and today we

0:18.4

are talking about books being released on May 19th, 2020 and more. I'm Liberty Hardy here with Tears of price and we're coming to

0:25.2

you from Book Riot.com. How's it going? It's going all right. Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks of, you know, just a couple of long

0:36.7

weeks. I think everybody can probably relate at this point, you know, going into so long of being at home and it's getting nicer outside and you just

0:48.9

want to be outside, but we got to be safe.

0:51.0

So, yeah. Well yeah well I mean luckily for us we can go outside like in our

0:57.1

yard um which is something it's absolutely gorgeous here today it's absolutely

1:02.4

gorgeous but it was a really rotten week. I had a rotten week. It happens.

1:06.5

So I have a really bad attitude today and yeah like yesterday I was like I cannot record. I'm not feeling it and I'm just so

1:15.5

super cranky and yeah I was having like the worst day and then I looked out my

1:20.4

window and I was like why is there a blue dish sponge on the ground and then I realized it was a bird it was the brightest blue bird I have ever seen I've never seen a blue bird in our yard and I got my boyfriends and I showed it to him and it just

1:35.4

about broke me. I was just like, the world is so beautiful and ugly at the same time and the

1:40.9

the bird was so amazing. I mean just like neon blue and and I was told by the internet that it is an

1:46.6

indigo bunting and I've never seen one we have all kinds of birds in our yard

1:50.6

this year that we haven't seen in a long time or like haven't seen this many of before

1:55.3

because nature is just like, hey everybody's kind of quiet right now. Let's move back in.

1:59.9

So this blur just like turned my whole week around it was amazing.

2:05.0

That's so cool.

2:06.4

But I'm still kind of cranky today and a bit flip.

2:08.4

So we'll see what happens.

2:10.4

That is just fine.

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