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Book Riot - The Podcast

2020 Holiday Recommendations, Part 1

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca give book recommendations in response to reader requests. Discussed in this episode:  In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan  Kings Queens & In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow Paper Girls by Brian Vaughn and Cliff Chiang  Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot House Made of Dawn by M Scott Momaday The Surrounded by D’Arcy McNickle Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Wake Siren by Nina McLaughlin The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Circe by Madeline Miller World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Deacon King Kong by James McBride 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie Helen-Bertino Debbie Macomber’s Blossom Street series How to Knit a Love Song by Rachel Herron See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know I realize Rebecca that this is our original flavor bonus episode.

0:09.0

It truly is.

0:10.0

Before we did bonus episodes, we didn't even know what this was.

0:12.0

It was just our holiday recommendation show.

0:16.0

The bonus episode that launched a thousand half-baked ideas, some of which will do again, some of

0:21.8

literally the half-baked ideas show, show will do a couple times a year maybe, but it's good to be back.

0:27.0

It feels good to do the holiday recommendation show. We're now a couple days away from Thanksgiving.

0:33.0

Does it feel like the holidays there?

0:35.0

How what's your what's your jingle quotient?

0:37.0

My jingle quotient.

0:39.0

It's starting to. I did my like Thanksgiving test kitchen over the weekend which is my annual thing where I like bake a bunch of the desserts or whatever that I am working on and

0:51.8

Thanksgiving is much smaller here than unusual years but my

0:55.0

menu has not shrunk at all. So I'm I enjoy that mode. It's like a nice combination of

1:01.6

things are kind of starting to wind down for us for work for the year the office is getting quieter

1:07.2

People are going out on holiday stuff and my my household is getting very winter hibernady food focused so that's nice.

1:16.8

I will feel like my my jingle quotient really kicks in on Thanksgiving when I allow myself to open my massive Spotify folder of

1:25.4

Christmas playlists and then usually the Saturday after Thanksgiving we go to

1:30.4

a Christmas tree farm and cut down a tree and do the whole situation.

1:34.4

And having a tree in the house really does it for me.

1:36.6

Yeah, we are breaking the seals, our first of many errings of White Christmas.

1:40.6

Sometimes we just have it on.

1:42.2

My daughter, Rowan, had a moment of realizing that in 48 short hours, we'll break the seal on white Christmas. And she raised both of her hands over head and screamed, yes. So I've done something right you're really doing it watching

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