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Book Riot - The Podcast

#238: 2017 Holiday Recommendation Show, Part 2

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca wrap up their 2017 Holiday recommendations.   This episode is sponsored by: TryAudiobooks.com Reckless: The Petrified Flesh by Cornelia Funke   Books recommended in this episode: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway I Am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas From the Hips by Rebecca Odes Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes Joy On Demand The Uterus is a Feature, not a Bug by Sarah Lacy The Startup Way by Eric Ries Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Beloved by Toni Morrison  Hunger by Roxane gay Night Comes to the Cumberlands by Henry Caudil An Untamed State by Roxane Gay Ramp Hollow by Steven Stoll You Had Me at Woof Afterglow by Eileen Myles Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozah Dumas The First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsberg The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser Alive Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Martian by Andy Weir The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Complications by Atul Gawande You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie An Adoption Story by Marianne Richmond The White Swan Express: a story about adoption by Jean Davies Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale by Karen Katz Burning Bright: Four Chanukah Love Stories The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Turner House by Angela Flourney Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Book Riot Podcast, weekly news and talk show about what's new,

0:07.9

cool and worth talking about in the world of books and reading except that's not

0:10.9

what we're doing this week but anyway that's what we say

0:12.8

any every time so we're saying again this is episode 238 we're recording on

0:16.5

Thursday November 30th I'm Jeff O'Neill I'm here with Rebecca Shinsky we're coming to you

0:20.4

from book-ray.com with the second half of our annual holiday

0:25.6

recommendation show good feedback already from last week I didn't share some of the

0:30.3

email we got back already Rebecca but it was all very good. The insiders

0:34.4

were an insider slack a lot of people were suggesting other recommendations

0:39.6

for recommendation requests which I took as an insult because we done we don't

0:45.2

recommend it already no I'm just kidding well but you know yeah yeah they had

0:49.7

ideas too I didn't capture those. Right.

0:54.0

I need to figure out way in future times

0:57.0

to capture some of those recommendation requests,

0:59.0

but that's, you know, new processes mean different results I'm not prepared for but we got a whole

1:04.8

bunch more I'm excited some different ones you know we'll do our first sponsor it

1:08.5

was it got me thinking about how how different it is that we do get a lot of recommendation requests about

1:15.2

audio these days, way more than we did. Is this our fourth... did we do this one the

1:19.6

first year that we did this? Is this something we did at we didn't I don't remember if we took requests the first year or if we like just talked about

1:30.9

holiday book ideas I feel like we took requests because I remember

1:34.2

getting like warm fuzzies in my soul when you put Christmas lights on the Book Riot

1:38.8

podcast logo right I do remember that and if you look in your podcast player this time there should be that same very shankily

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