2021 Moms, Dads, and Grads Recommendation Show

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca respond to listener requests for recommendations for moms, dads, grads (and themselves). This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Books and Authors discussed in this episode: Shop Class as Soul Craft Flight: The Complete History of Aviation The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell How to Build a Car by A. Newey World of Wonders In the Dream House How to Do Nothing The Night Tiger The Book of Delights Rich and Pretty Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light Friends & Strangers Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Summer of Jordi Perez The Wedding Date Malibu Rising The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Real Life by Brandon Taylor Notes on a Nervous Planet See No Stranger Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series The Thursday Murder Club While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Do Not Say We Have Nothing Wild Women and the Blues Sharks in the Time of Saviors Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende Susan Gregg Gilmore Megan Mayhew Bergman Jesmyn Ward The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang Now My Heart is Full by Laura June Lexicon by Max Barry The Gilded Wolves Finding Meaning H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Emperor of All Maladies Who Ate the First Oyster? Maybe You Should Talk to Someone The Group In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Trace by Lauret E. Savoy Earth Keeper by N Scott Momaday Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby Your House Will Pay When No One is Watching Deacon King Kong by James McBride Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast. It's a weekly news and talk show about what's new,
0:06.7	cool and we're talking about in the world of books reading except for today except for like every
0:10.4	other show at this point is kind of what we do but I would say this is one of
0:14.2	our two like podcast holidays for us the original podcast holidays the
0:19.5	Thanksgiving and well Thanksgiving is made up by Americans but like sort of a Christmas
0:24.0	Easter you know what we do here is our recommendation shows our first it was our first
0:29.6	off script in sort of running down headlines and links and things that we did back in the day
0:35.3	spawned the Get Book Podcast. We've done it for a long time. I've had a very good time
0:39.2	with our mom's dads and grads recommendation show coming out in May 5th for your mom's out there
0:44.4	there's a few moms things you're gonna have to get you have to buy your book quick
0:47.2	on the turnaround for for a Sunday there but maybe maybe you're you still have a little bit of time or like a gift card with a
0:54.4	wreck or something like that you could do. I'm not sure was there any through
0:59.2	line here Rebecca of things that we saw this year? No I didn't see any major through lines which is kind of fun. It's fun when they're a little bit all over the place. I felt like I got to flex a couple different muscles going through making my notes and you know maybe notably this is our first episode in a while where we won't be talking about
1:17.6	Lonesome Dove.
1:18.6	That's right. Well, you just you ruined it though you just talked about it.
1:22.2	Sorry no one's getting a recommendation.
1:24.2	Yeah, because we don't know literally what it is.
1:27.6	I had fewer occasions to RSTL&E, as we said last time. I didn't have a G and E. I didn't have a Gilead.
1:34.3	I didn't have a night circus.
1:35.5	I didn't have a Martian.
1:36.8	I didn't have a, though I think, I have, I think, we'll get to it.
1:41.1	I think such a fun age might have joined my my yes maybe not
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