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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss A Line in the Dark, We’re Going to Need More Wine, The RBG Workout, and more books.

This episode was sponsored by A Secret Sisterhood and The Dark Lake.

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Books discussed on the show:

Present by Leslie Stein

The RBG WorkoutHow She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too! by Bryant Johnson

A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

wd~50: The Cookbook by Wylie Dufresne and Peter Meehan 

Motherest by Kristen Iskandrian

Undying: A Love Story by Michel Faber

What we’re reading:

Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley

Wilde in Love: The Wildes of Lindow Castle by Eloisa James

More books out this week:

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

Voices in the Dark by Ulli Lust (Author), John Brownjohn (Translator), Nika Knight (Translator), Marcel Beyer(Draft Writer)

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly

Righteous by Joe Ide

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson

What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower

A Natural by Ross Raisin

The Man Among the Seals & Inner Weather by Denis Johnson

Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend by Cristina De Stefano (Author), Marina Harss (Translator)

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore

House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery by Nicola Cornick

Last Chance: A Novel (The Rains Brothers) by Gregg Hurwitz

Strange Lies by Maggie Thrash

Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe

Crossing Point by James Glickman

Deep Freeze (A Virgil Flowers Novel) by John Sandford

Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by Victoria Sweet

Start Without Me by Joshua Max Feldman

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Trump is F*cking Crazy: (This is Not a Joke) by Keith Olbermann  

Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson

Dead Girls and Other Stories by Emily Geminder

Phoebe and Her Unicorn in The Magical Storm by Dana Simpson

Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks

Like Water by Rebecca Podos

Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

The Floating World: A Novel by C. Morgan Babst

Monster High/Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale

A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney

Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women by Roseanne Montillo

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

To My Trans Sisters edited by Charlie Craggs