meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Get Booked

Adorableness Is A Spectrum

Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books for dealing with homophobia, novels from around the world, and a variety of cozy reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Brigg for this and also any Charlaine Harris supernatural series (The Sookie Stackhouse series; Midnight, Texas; Grave series) (rec’d by Julie) The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews and Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (rec’d by Amanda) Books Discussed Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawab Judith Butler Interview regarding feminism and transphobia (and a follow-up) Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers The Immortals of Tehran by Alireza Taheri Araghi (TW suicide) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (cw: slavery and related violences) Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (tw graphic harm to children, suicide) The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (cw: violence against women and children) The Man with the Poison Gun by Serhii Plokhy The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya, rec’d by Vanessa Diaz From Duke Till Dawn by Eva Leigh The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris (cw: gory violence, mention of rape) 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

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

0:15.7

This is episode 324, and we are recording on April 5th.

0:20.2

I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot and technology shenanigans.

0:28.5

That is correct.

0:30.9

Hopefully, we're going to get through this show without any further shenanigans.

0:35.3

Cross your fingers as you're listening to this.

0:37.4

Delated help is always welcome. All right. It's just Tuesday is what's happening, except that you're listening on Thursday. How does time work? Is something in retrograde? I don't know. That's what I feel like my brain at the very least is in retrograde. All right. Well, how does this show actually work?

0:55.7

You might be wondering.

0:56.7

Let me tell you.

0:57.9

It is a personalized reading recommendation show, which means you can send in your reading

1:02.7

request.

1:03.6

You can send it in either via email, get booked at bookgriot.com, or in the form that's

1:08.4

at the bottom of the show notes on the site for each episode, you can ask

1:12.2

for a recommendation for yourself, for a friend or family member, you can get one for activities,

1:18.7

travel, you know, life moments, whatever, send in your request. We might get to it on air.

1:24.3

Oh, if it's time sensitive, please put, time sensitive, all caps, in either

1:29.1

the subject line of the email or the very first line of the form, plus the date you're hoping

1:32.2

to hear back by. We will do our best. And we do have some feedback from listeners with recommendations

1:38.1

of their own for some of our question askers. Julie says, I wanted to give a few recommendations

1:43.6

for the person who wanted fantasy books that

1:45.9

also have lots of detailed day-to-day life.

1:48.4

This is a wheelhouse of mine, too.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Book Riot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Book Riot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.