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

This is episode 105 and we are recording on November 7th.

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

Hey.

And we're a little like brain dead this morning. We voted very early. Yeah, it's election day.

And I'm sure all of you who watch the news know that like the election in Virginia has made

national news and it's kind of, it's like a crazy big deal. And I'm just so stressed out about it.

I'm so stressed out about it. I don't know what I'm going to do. I've planned my day full of like

silly distractions and like lunch with friends and going to yoga and being very bougie because I just,

I can't. Well, we'll talk about some books and that'll make you feel better.

Yeah, thank you. Very good. What are you reading right now? So I don't even know. I mean, I know what it is. It's Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder, which is a middle grade novel that I was sent that looked interesting. And I heard really good things about. So I've started reading it. And it's so strange. It's about these nine, I think it's nine orphans who live on, as you would imagine, an island. And it's kind of Lord of the Flies without the violence in that there are no adults,

they're not supervised, they've arranged their own societal structure, the island

magically provides food for them and they all have chores and all of this, and every day is

kind of the same, except once a year, a boat appears at the island, takes the oldest child

away and brings a new younger child. So like once a year there's a little bit of turnover. And so the book is told from the point of view of the oldest, the child who's the oldest now, who gets a new young kid to care for, and her best friend is sent off in the boat. And, like, so it's, and she knows that the next year of her life is the last year on the the island and she doesn't know it's coming after she leaves. It reminds me a little bit of Never Let Me Go, except I'm really hoping that since this is a middle grade novel, the island does not serve the same purpose as the school and Never Let Me Go. So I don't know. But I just started it, and I don't have a great handle of what's coming. But I'm hoping that since it's middle grade, it's going to not be terrible. I don't know. Or terrifying. Right. That's what I'm reading. I read her book bigger than a breadbox, like way back in the day. It was really cute and fun. Beth sounds more stressful, though. It is stressful. But interesting. Like, I'm in it. I'm in it to find out what's going on. But, yeah. What about you?

I am reading Jade City by Fondalee, which is this, like, Godfather, except Asian, plus magic, like, chunker of a book. And I'm really enjoying it. I'm a fan of The Godfather of the book.

And I mean, the movie is too, I guess.

But yeah, I guess.

Like, well, I have like a whole story.

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