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300 Pages Of Velociraptor Thoughts

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss dark Shakespeare retellings, where to start with cyberpunk, books on life transitions, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, books by Hannah Kent or Sarah Perry (rec’d by Laura)  Among Others by Jo Walton (rec’d by Lottie) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The New Rules of Divorce by Jacqueline Newman Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Well-Read Black Girl, edited by Glory Edim The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton If We Were Villains by ML Rio (cw: domestic violence) Infomocracy by Malka Ann older A Guide to Cyberpunk: https://bookriot.com/cyberpunk-books/ Machinehood by SB Divya (cw: death of a child) Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown Once Upon A Time I Lived On Mars by Kate Greene Firelight by Kristen Callihan It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is your latest project.

0:03.0

It's heavy with information, data and exactly 36 pages of waffle.

0:09.0

But with Acrobat Studio, you can create a PDF space,

0:13.0

an AI-powered workspace that turns documents into summaries and insights

0:17.0

and even generates reports or presentations out of it.

0:24.7

So you can cut through the waffle, work smarter and save time.

0:26.6

Do that with Acrobat.

0:44.6

Learn more and try it out on adobe.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:47.6

This is episode 289, and we're recording on July 6th.

0:49.6

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington.

0:51.3

We are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:53.4

After America's birthday.

1:13.6

Just a lie. Just such a lie. Everything about that is wrong. They didn't sign it on the fourth. I could rant about this for like a million years. I'm not going to. It's fine. Yeah. It is, it is, I like fireworks. Mm-hmm. And I like potlucks and barbecue. Sure. So if, if you like take away all of the quote unquote historical context.

1:16.4

If you take away the reason for it. Yeah.

1:16.9

Everything else is awesome.

1:17.8

I'm all right with it.

1:19.1

But then you add that back in and I get less excited.

1:22.2

Also in less exciting news, we're headed back into a heat wave here.

1:26.0

No.

1:27.0

So I'm just sending cooling thoughts

1:29.1

out into the void for all of us. That's a bummer. I was very into fireworks and then I got this

1:36.3

dumb dog. Yeah. And it was like not, he was okay with them. They set them off, like a bunch of my

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