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Book Riot - The Podcast

2020 Holiday Recommendations, Part 2

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

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4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca their 2020 Holiday book recommendations. Discussed in this episode: Force of Nature by Jane Harper  The Secret History by Donna Tartt Idaho by Emily Ruskovich A Separation by Katie Kitamura The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Radical Dharma Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Intimations by Zadie Smith Station Eleven by Emily Mandel Find Me by Laura van den Berg Blindness by Jose Saramago The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  Sweet Magnolias series by Sherryl Woods Spice by Seressia Glass 100 Must-Read Books: Food in Fiction Little French Bistro by Nina George The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis The Alchemy of Us by Anissa Ramirez Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The 99% Invisible City Saga by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples Atlas Obscura Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Stalking God by Anjali Kumar A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer From Scratch by Tembi Locke Cleoptra VII: Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory (part of The Royal Diaries series) The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel Octavia Butler The Baker’s Secret by Stephen Kiernan 52 Loaves by William Alexander See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, we're back for our second and final installment this season for holiday recommendation

0:09.5

request shows. We left you last time with some 2 a.m. at the Cats Pyjamas ideas. General, general purpose lists. Got a few other ideas for reads for this, but I'm going to tell you, I don't,

0:28.0

here's a problem. We already are filtering and there's another layer filtering. I'm not sure I got anything great to pass on.

0:36.0

Maybe I'm including the show notes, we're not going to spend time thinking about now, but there was, there was, people were trying to think of these ideas.

0:42.0

I think it's tough. I think it's tough for these.

0:44.6

I'm not going to say anything else more about it right now.

0:48.2

Today's episode is brought to you by Bloom Books for Young Adults. From Number One New York Times best-selling author,

0:54.7

Jennifer L. Arment Trout, comes a book

0:56.9

I have to tell you about.

0:58.3

It's Half Blood.

0:59.9

And it follows Alex and her mom who spent years on the run from The Covenant, a school with

1:04.6

their pure descendants of God's home their powers and half mortal teens train to kill

1:08.6

demons for them.

1:10.0

When her mom was murdered, Alex has two options.

1:12.2

She can become a servant for the pures

1:13.8

or work twice as hard to catch up in her training.

1:16.7

The second option seems easier,

1:18.8

but it gets a little complicated, you see,

1:21.6

when Pure Blood Aidan becomes her personal trainer. So falling for Aidan isn't her biggest problem, surprisingly. As demons close in, she must fight to stay alive even while others around her are dropping dead. So again, Jennifer L. Armentrout does the thing when it comes to romance, fantasy adventure, all those things.

1:42.9

Other books are Blood and Ash, a Shadow and the Ember,

1:46.2

all those good things.

1:47.2

Make sure check out Half Blood by Jennifer L.

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