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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss queer book club picks, courtroom dramas, romance fantasy, 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 Seraphina’s Lament by Sarah Chorn (rec’d by Jen Zink) Books Discussed The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc Northern Light by Kazim Ali (cw: discussion of suicide) The Night Swim by Megan Goldin (tw: sexual assault) A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight (rec’d by Jamie) Death by Dumpling by Viven Chien Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (cw: harm to children, racism and racial slurs) Sam Wu is Not Afraid series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, Nathan Reed Illustrator (Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Ghosts) Rutabaga the Adventure Chef by Eric Colossal The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (cw: emotional abuse) A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper The Summoner series by Taran Matharu (The Novice) Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	300 years of expertise in every twining sleep blend.
0:06.0	100 hours of craft in every cup.
0:10.0	Eight natural ingredients in every sip.
0:14.0	One night of winding down in every drop.
0:18.0	Your moment of serenity.
0:23.8	Brought to you by twining sleep.
0:25.1	Twinings.
0:27.8	Alive in every drop. This is the get Booked Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:44.5	This is episode 311, which is an amazing band from the 90s.
0:47.6	And we are recording on December 21st.
0:50.0	Just kidding, they were terrible.
0:50.9	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington.
0:52.8	And we're coming to you from Book Riot.
0:57.9	And our last episode of the year. I'm resisting the urge to sing, Amber is the color of your energy at you right now.
1:04.4	Look what you did. Stuck in everyone's head for all time. You're welcome. Amber is not
1:10.4	the color of my energy. Well, no, it's probably true. I can't believe it's actually, this time is for real our last show of the year. It is. Yep. Next year, our offices are closed functionally. Our podcast take a break, the week between Christmas and New Year's. So we are, this is it. Yeah. Next week we're going to have a,
1:28.3	or not next week, our next episode, which will be the first episode of January, we're going to do a
1:31.9	nice retrospective and reading goals discussion. So that will be fun. So yeah, anyway, that's not
1:39.8	usually how this show works. How this show usually works is that you send us your email record or your
1:43.9	reading recommendation request and we answer them on the air. You can email them to us at getbooked booktobukry.com or you can drop them in the form on, which is at the bottom of the show notes on the site. We are not answering them until 2022, bless, but send them to us anyway because we'll get to them, promise. All right. Do we have feedback? We do. We have feedback from Jen. Jen Sink, who is our audio editor, says, for the person who was
2:06.6	looking for Russian historical fantasy, she recommends Sarah Fina's Lament by Sarah Chorn.
2:11.7	Jen says, I can't actually vouch for it personally, but it is a Stalinist-Russia-inspired
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