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🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss naturey spec-fic, New England novels, escapist reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s gift card giveaway and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (tw: child abuse) Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (tw: harm to children) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Queens of Renthia series by Sarah Beth Durst Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead On Beauty by Zadie Smith All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Haimowitz Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whitall Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews, rec’d by Jackson Bird Resources: trans recs on Goodreads, Transmission Podcast To The End of June by Cris Beam Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:36.2	This is episode 134 and we are recording on May 24th.
0:40.9	I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:45.4	We just did this two days ago. I know. We're recording extra early because Amanda will be at
0:50.5	BEA in New York all next week and therefore will not be available.
0:56.1	So we just thought we would do this in a real quick turnaround.
1:01.6	It's so quick that we don't even have like feedback to give for the last show because
1:06.9	the last show has just barely gone up.
1:08.9	It went up five hours ago.
1:10.1	Yeah, at the time of this recording. So here we are. We are here for you, though. We're here. What are you reading, Amanda? I just started Parable of the Sewer by Octavia Butler. Yay! I know, yay! Which is my first Octavia Butler. Yay! Should we tell them why? Can I tell them? No, don't tell it. It's a secret. That's a secret. Yeah. So I mean, like, you know, I just started it. I'm maybe 10 pages into it. So I'm overwhelmed by how gritty and sad it feels already within 10 pages. But yeah, that's, I'll let you know how it goes.
1:44.8	I'm sure it'll be great.
1:45.8	I was going to say you'll continue to be overwhelmed and sad by it.
1:49.2	Great.
1:50.4	Sorry, not sorry?
1:51.7	I'll take it with me to be EA and I'll read it on the plane and that's how I'll get
1:55.0	through being trapped on a plane because I hate it.
1:57.7	What about you?
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