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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in the Caribbean, low-stakes fun, blind dates with sci-fi, 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 The Backup by Erica Kudisch (rec’d by April) American Pop by Snowden Wright (rec’d by Tori) The Love Songs of WEB Dubois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (rec’d by Siobhan) Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Montecello, Morgan Jerkins’s Wandering in Strange Lands, and Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Machinehood by S.B. Divya (cw: death of a child, unwanted pregnancy) His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard (cw: racial violence and slurs, harm to children) Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q Sutanto Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby (cw: violence against women and children) (rec’d by Annika) Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim (tw rape, ethnic war) When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence) When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, my new obsession (out March 15 but i don’t care) 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.

0:15.5

This is episode 320, and we're recording on March 1st.

0:19.1

I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson. We're coming to you from Book Riot. And it's a weird time in the world again. As always, a question mark? Like, I don't know. Well, yeah. It's a weirder. It's a new flavor of weird. It's a new flavor of disaster. Yeah. So we're sending good thoughts to everybody. We're going to talk about some books. We're going to try to talk about some books. We'll see how it goes. But yeah, we're thinking of everybody dealing with everything. Okay. How does this show work when we're not blathering about the world. It is a reading recommendation show,

0:55.3

we swear. You can send us requests. Maybe you love a certain kind of book and you're having

1:00.4

trouble finding more of it. Perhaps you need a recommendation for a friend or family member or

1:06.2

a book club or whatever. And you can send those in either via email get booked at bookriot.com or there's a form on

1:14.0

the book riot site for every episode in the show notes.

1:17.2

You can send it in there.

1:18.2

If you have a time sensitive request, please put all caps, time sensitive.

1:22.5

And then the date you're hoping to hear back by, we might email you, we might not, we

1:26.5

might talk about it on the show.

1:33.1

We might not. Who knows? It's a big question mark. But anyway, send us your questions.

1:42.1

A quick bit of housekeeping is that we are migrating platforms and you should not experience any interruption in your show delivery. But if you do, because that might happen, because technology, you should be able to resubscribe

1:48.1

in your podcatcher of choice relatively easily.

1:51.3

If it's we're weirder than that, you know, shoot us an email, let us know.

1:54.6

We'll work on it.

1:55.5

But you shouldn't notice anything.

1:57.0

Ideally.

1:57.9

Okay.

1:58.8

Let's do feedback.

2:00.0

We have lots of feedback today from listeners. So much. April says for, for April, who was looking for read-alike for the song Burn, Butcher, Burn. That is right. I did double-check-it. I was just going to say. I was like, oh, multiple Aprils are in our listener base. That's cool. So yes, April recommends for April,

2:19.2

who was looking for a read-alike for the song, Burn, Butcher, Burn. I thought the backup by Erica

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