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This week, Liberty discusses a few great older books, including A Gentle Madness. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder journal from Book Riot. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or Apple Podcasts and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley The Cold Is In Her Bones by Peternelle van Arsdale The Beast is An Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language by Richard Lederer The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Golden State, The Red Address Book, Unmarriageable, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Wicked King by Holly Black, and ThirdLove. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Golden State by Ben H. Winters The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer The Cold Is in Her Bones by Peternelle van Arsdale The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe What we're reading: Transcription by Kate Atkinson Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark More books out this week: Restoration Heights: A Novel by Wil Medearis Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon Talent by Juliet Lapidos The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan That Churchill Woman: A Novel by Stephanie Barron Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia The Eulogist: A Novel by Terry Gamble Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious) by Maureen Johnson Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison - Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out by Jason Rezaian Song of the Dead (Reign of the Fallen) by Sarah Glenn Marsh The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy) by S. A Chakraborty The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley The Wartime Sisters: A Novel by Lynda Cohen Loigman Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye Escape from the Palace (The Royal Rabbits of London) by Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore Ship of Smoke and Steel (The Wells of Sorcery Trilogy) by Django Wexler The Burning Island by Hester Young The Suspect by Fiona Barton Imprison the Sky (The Elementae) by A.C. Gaughen Miraculum by Steph Post The Hod King (The Books of Babel) by Josiah Bancroft The Woman Inside: A Novel by E. G. Scott Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai The Weight of a Piano: A novel by Chris Cander The Current: A Novel by Tim Johnston The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan The Birds, the Bees, and You and Me by Olivia Hinebaugh Someday We Will Fly by Rachel Dewoskin Only a Breath Apart: A Novel Katie McGarry Vultures by Chuck Wendig The Nowhere Child: A Novel by Christian White The Kindness of Strangers (New York Review Books Classics) by Salka Viertel Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper The Witches of St. Petersburg: A Novel by Imogen Edwards-Jones
The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on February 21, 2018, with guests Cassandra Khaw and Peternelle van Arsdale. Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for Matt, who was traveling. Peternelle’s reading is not included in this podcast. Cassandra Khaw Cassandra Khaw is the author of the Persons Non Grata series, the […]
Episode 019 TAB Summer Part 4 Cate sat down with some of our Teen Advisory Board members and asked them all about what they are most excited to read this summer. Books in today Bee Cave Book Haul Black Panther Vol. 1 A Nation Under our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale Spider-Gwen Vol. 0 Most Wanted? by Jason Latour
Episode 014 TLA Part 7 Happy Book Day Ya’ll! It’s the last of our special TLA episodes (wooo!). Megan wraps up with an interview with librarian and friend from college days gone by, Christina of the Friendswood Library. Christina is one of the most active young members of TLA, has stellar book reviews AND is all over social media. You can find her “Book Tube” channel Reading Rainbow Hair (if you are watching the video version, you can see why it’s called that) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6eHfU5iLG9-RrDsSTntMww Also follow her twitter feeds @librariansti or the Friendswood Library twitter @FriendswoodYA. Christina has some great reading recommendations, most of which can currently be found in our print and OverDrive collections. Books in todays Podcast The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Maud by Melanie J. Fishbane Anne with an E on Netflix