This week, Liberty and Danika discuss Victorian Psycho, Reading the Waves, The Black Fantastic, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays by Ira Madison III
The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories edited by andré m. carrington
Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera
Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
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52:25
All the Backlist! January 31, 2025
This week, Trisha recommends a couple of romances that are great for both experienced and new romance readers.
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Books Discussed
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham
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11:27
New Releases and More for January 28, 2025
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Old Soul, Syme's Letter Writer, From These Roots, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
Old Soul by Susan Barker
Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers by Rachel Syme
Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton
From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy by Tamara Lanier
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su
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45:51
All the Backlist! January 24, 2025
This week, Vanessa recommends a work of Gothic science fiction she's been meaning to read for almost two decades and a work of Latin music history that's not (just) about Justin Bieber.
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Books Discussed
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go review from The Guardian
Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music by Leila Cobo
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16:55
New Releases and More for January 21, 2025
This week, Liberty and Emily discuss The Rainfall Market, The Broposal, We Do Not Part, and more great books!
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Books Discussed On the Show:
The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang, Slin Jung (translator)
The Broposal by Sonora Reyes
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis by Tao Leigh Goffe
The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, Paige Aniyah Morris (translator)
The Favorites by Layne Fargo
A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by Marcus Chown
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
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