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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss essay collections, historical fiction, personal favorites, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Carry On by Rainbow Rowell and The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen by Hope Nicholson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes 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 Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (rec’d by Kathleen Keenan) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Sweet to the Taste by Alyssa Cole Penance by Kanae Minato, translated by Philip Gabriel What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Lab Girl by Hope Jahren The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon Red or Dead by David Peace The Man with the Compound Eyes by Ming-Yi Wu Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
0:14.0	It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.
0:20.0	Because Slackbot isn't just another
0:22.4	AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot
0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.7	This is episode 81 and we are recording on May 16th. I'm Amanda Nelson,
0:38.5	and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Greetings.
0:43.1	Hello. Welcome. I'm going to do my Delilah after dark voice.
0:52.0	My mother, this is like so random, but at least it's not weather.
0:55.4	My mother used to listen to Delilah After Dark only during the Christmas season
1:00.4	because she likes the way that, like, Delilah makes the Christmas Carols relevant to your family story.
1:05.2	I don't even know what this is.
1:07.0	You don't know Delilah After Dark?
1:08.2	No, I don't.
1:09.4	It's a radio show that has been on for like 30
1:12.1	years. I really feel like she's the Anne Martin of radio. We're like, interesting. It's a different
1:17.2	person who just doesn't have an identical voice for the last three years. Right. And it's like part
1:22.8	advice column, part soothing,, easy listening music recommendations.
1:29.5	It's just the most, man, I don't even know how to, please help me, listeners.
1:33.9	I would explain Delilah After Dark to Jen.
1:36.3	And it's after dark, but it's not, you know, skeeby.
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