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A Lot of Ennui

Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend fantasy, nonfiction about music, Japanese authors, and more in this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by EveryLibrary and Book Riot’s Book Mail boxes. 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. Books Discussed Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Sabriel by Garth Nix The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (RJS) Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride (RJS and Liberty) Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner Beyond Murakami post The Ring by Koji Suzuki The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion Poolside with Joan Didion post Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg The Bees by Laline Paull The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews Prophecy by Ellen Oh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:34.8

This is episode 38 and we're recording on July 19th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Episode 38, that's kind of crazy. I know. I was just thinking that, actually. It's been almost a year. Is it really? I was trying to remember when you started doing it. I think October, September or October of last year.

0:54.8

Yeah, the fall for sure. So we're getting up on it. Oh yeah. We should do something fancy for our

1:00.4

anniversary. What should we do? I have no idea. I just thought of that right the second. If you guys have any

1:05.3

suggestions for what you want for our or when you, maybe we just do an extra long i don't know i'll noodle

1:11.6

yeah anyway we'll noodle well we're taking suggestions tell us your suggestions

1:16.3

so for those of you who are new to the show this is a write-in recommendation show so you can

1:20.7

send us your requests for book recommendations for your book club for yourself if you need a thing

1:26.2

to fill the hole in your heart that the night's circus left or whatever, you can send us those questions and you can send them to get booked at book riot.com or you can drop them into the farm at the bottom of the show notes on Book Riot on the site itself. Or you can send them to us on Twitter if you want. I'm at I'm Amanda Nelson and Jen is at Gen IRL, Jen with two ends.

1:45.0

And we will answer your question. Might take us a while. Oh, if it's time sensitive, leave that in the, um, what am I trying to say? The subject line of the email or in the like the first line of your question when you leave it in the form if you do it that way so that we can see that you need it sooner rather than later.

2:02.3

All right.

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Wait, before we get started, I just want to remind. it in the form if you do it that way so that we can see that you need it sooner rather than later.

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All right.

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Wait, before we get started, I just want to remind everybody that if you don't already have

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