Episode 157
New Releases and More for May 8, 2018
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss That Kind of Mother, Undead Girl Gang, Belly Up, and more great books.
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Trigger warning for discussion of suicide starting around 3:45.
Books discussed on the show:
The Girl and the Grove by Eric Smith
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture by A. D. Jameson
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Belly Up: Stories by Rita Bullwinkel
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
What we’re reading this week:
Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
More books out this week:
The Boy from Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris
The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea by Denis Thériault
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi, Luke Leafgren (Translator)
Blackout by Alex Segura
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Junk by Tommy Pico
Puddin’ (Dumplin’) by Julie Murphy
Allmen and the Dragonflies by Martin Suter, Steph Morris (Translator)
Side Life by Steve Toutonghi
Sal by Mick Kitson
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
A Theory of Love: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson
Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation’s Golden Couple by Corey Mead
Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling by Arshia Sattar, Sonali Zohra (Illustrator)
Tell Me: Thirty Stories by Mary Robison
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden
The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy by B. T. Gottfred
We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage and Motherhood by Jan Redford
Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage by Pauli Murray
From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia by Michael McFaul
The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
Tiny Infinities by J.H. Diehl
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
Bobby Sky: Boy Band or Die by Joe Shine
Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel by Blanche McCrary Boyd
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin, Lisa Hayden (Translator)
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea
Alternative Remedies for Loss by Joanna Cantor
How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans
Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. Winthrop
The Foreseeable Future by Emily Adrian
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell
Lost Empress: A Novel by Sergio De La Pava
Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon
King of Ashes: Book One of The Firemane Saga by Raymond E Feist
The Queen Underneath by Stacey Filak
MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the Spooks by Charlotte Bingham
The River by Starlight: A Novel by Ellen Notbohm
The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison (paperback)
No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal (paperback)
