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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss more books with Fall vibes, overthinky nonfiction, tea with robots, 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 Sanctuary by Rebekah Weatherspoon (rec’d by Jen Zink) California Field Atlas by author/illustrator Obi Kauffman (rec’d by Carol) Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman; Dave Eggers and Vindela Vida (rec’d by Carol) The Raje series by Sonali Dev, the Friend Zone series by Abby Jimenez, and the Modern Love series by Alisha Rai; A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams (rec’d by Nicole) Books Discussed Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (watch the Hitchcock version) Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani (with caveat about toxic masculinity) The Conductors by Nicole Glover (tw: slavery) Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed (cw: violent harm to children, body horror, internalized racism) Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: sexual assault, child abuse, transphobia, racism) The Awkward Thoughts of W Kamau Bell The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson (cw: child abuse, drug use) Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer Gamechanger by LX Beckett The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (cw: descriptions of PTSD) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (tw: graphic harm to children, rape, self-harm/suicide) Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young (rec’d by Mel) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:16.2	This is episode 303, and we are recording on October 19th.
0:20.7	I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are recording on October 19th. I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson,
0:23.5	and we are coming to you from Book Riot and all of our technology malfunctioning.
0:29.2	Yeah. I'm wearing a sweater, though, so that's fun. Oh, good. Yes. Sweeters are good.
0:34.2	We finally, we haven't taken the AC units out of our windows yet because we're lazy, but we definitely need to do that at this point in the year.
0:41.4	Yeah, I turned my heat on yesterday for the first time. And it was like, it felt like a ceremony, you know, like we're turning the heat on.
0:49.2	It's cool. Yes, the first heat. And then that smell of burning dust of all of the air vents get cleared.
0:57.5	Fall.
0:58.5	Fall. Well, I guess we should also talk about books. What is this show, you ask, aside from Jen and Amanda's thoughts on fall? It is a show for, yeah. It's a show for personalized reading recommendations, which means you can send in
1:12.8	your request for a reading recommendation, whether it's for a kind of book that you love so much
1:19.0	and you're having trouble finding a new one. Maybe you need a recommendation for a friend or a family
1:23.9	member, for a gift, for a book club, whatever. Send it on in. We might answer it.
1:29.1	You can send those in either by email, get booked at bookriot.com, or you can send it in
1:35.6	via the form that is in the show notes for every episode over on bookriot.com. We have a couple
1:41.7	reminders. Oh, wait, I forgot. Okay, if you have a time sensitive request,
1:47.5	please do put the date that you're hoping to hear back by either in the subject line of the
1:52.9	email or the very first line of the form. We do have our holiday shows coming up. So, you know,
1:58.0	get your holiday recommendation requests in as early as you would like.
2:03.0	We will collect them all and then make shows about them. Okay, now for our reminders, we do,
2:08.7	you have till the end of October to get our fancy limited edition 10th anniversary
2:13.7	Book Riot merchandise. If you go to bookriot.com slash merch, you can see all of your
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