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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss baby shower books, true crime, short stories on audio, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Vale by Brian D. Anderson and A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. 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 Mem by Bethany C Morrow (May 22 2018) Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Name That Movie by Paul Rogers The Awesome Girl’s Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men by Ernessa T Carter (rec’d by Jamie C) Bingo Love by Tee Franklin and Jenn St. Onge The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson I’ll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara (recommended by Liberty), trigger warnings: rape and murder The Power by Naomi Alderman (trigger warning: sexual violence) Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik In The Country We Love by Diane Guerrero and Michelle Burford (tw: self harm, discussion of suicide) When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Sherlock Holmes Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin (rec from Katie on the Audiobooks newsletter) Post: Short story audiobooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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this is the get booked podcast a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations this is episode

0:36.8

120 and we are recording on

0:38.9

February 27th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from

0:44.3

Book Riot. What's up Amanda? Hello. Hello. That's all I have to say. I know. I don't

0:51.1

have anything to say either other than hello. Well, what are you reading? Tell me what you're reading. I am reading Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Shannon McGuire, which is the second, I'm pretty sure. Yeah.

1:01.1

The second book, it's the sequel to, oh, for the love of God. Every Heart is Doorway.

1:07.1

It's a sequel to some other book, I don't know, which is the series that Shannon is writing about, like, kids who fall through magical portals and end up in other worlds and then come back.

1:17.7

So the first book in the series, it's like at a boarding school where kids who came back from some magical world and just want to go home are learning to like readjust to society.

1:25.0

And then down among the sticks and bones is the story of the twins from that book,

1:30.6

from the first book,

1:31.7

who when they were younger stumbled into a world that was like very dark and there's like

1:37.3

vampires and crazy like mad scientists and stuff like that.

1:41.1

So they're sort of side-ish characters in the first book.

1:44.5

And in this one, it's specifically about their story and how they ended up in that world

1:48.2

and then ended up becoming the people that they are in the first book. So it's really great.

1:54.1

I mean, I have twins, so I'm like really interested in what she's doing with the nature versus

1:58.0

nurture thing. Because like she goes deep into their backstory about how their parents raised them with these very strict gender expectations

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