This week, Liberty and Jenn discuss The Astonishing Color of After, The Heart Forger, Stray City, and more great books.

This episode was sponsored by So Delicious, ThirdLove, and She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell.

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Trigger warning for discussion of suicide in the first title at the 3:25 mark.

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Books discussed on the show:

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson

Aetherial Worlds by Tatyana Tolstaya

Bury What We Cannot Take by Kirstin Chen

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid (NPR interview.)

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

What we’re reading this week:

Blood of a Thousand Stars by Rhoda Belleza

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

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