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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss more nonfiction for book clubs, magical horses, novels set in Morocco, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Subscribe to 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. Books Discussed Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz (tw: domestic violence, sexual assault, harm to children) A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (cw: racism, homophobia) 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas, transl. by Daniel Hahn Secret Son by Laila Lalami Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker (rec’d Jess Pryde) Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika and Maritza Moulite Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:44.8

This is episode 274, and we are recording on March 29th.

0:47.9

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

0:52.4

It is third winter here in Virginia, which is a bummer.

0:56.0

Is that a thing? It is. It's our final winter. We have like actual winter, then false spring,

1:02.3

then like second winter, then false spring number two. And now we are in third winter. And then

1:07.8

we'll be the great pollining, and then it will be summer. And that's spring in Virginia, and that's how that works. That's real cold and I'm

1:15.6

grumpy about it. Oh, it's not real cold here. It's more actually, last week we had like fake summer.

1:22.7

It was like 70 degrees and upwards. But this week, it's more actual springish temperatures, 50s. So I guess

1:31.2

we're in sort of spring. I don't even know. I don't know. We're in something.

1:35.5

Vitamin D. Yeah. So real. All right. Welcome to the weather channel. No. So this is a show for

1:43.9

personalized reading recommendations, as I said. If you

1:46.8

would like one of those reading recommendations, you can send your request to us at getbooked

1:51.7

bookt at bookguided.com or drop it in the form in the show notes on the site. It can be for you

1:56.1

or for a gift that you're giving to someone or a book club, whatever, whatever you like. Any and all recommendation requests are welcome. We ask for your email because if your question is time sensitive, we might email you back if we're not going to get to it or if we've already answered it. If it is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line. If you use the email, if you use the form, just put it in big, all caps in the first line so we can see it and get to it on time. We don't have any feedback this week because we're recording a bit early. So Jen is going to read our first question and away we will go. All right. Our first question is also from a Jen. Who says, I need some help finding a nonfiction book for my book club. We tried to alternate between fiction

2:34.8

and nonfiction, and every month we try to pick something from a genre we haven't read before.

2:38.6

The past two books that were big nonfiction hits were Hollywood Park by Michael Jollett

2:43.1

and infused Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell. Preferences. Would prefer the book be by a Bipak or LGBTQIA plus author. Would prefer a fairly recently published book as we found that books more than three years are harder to find at the local library. We have a pretty big book club. So we need lots of copies. Any help you can give would be deeply appreciated. There's so many book clubs doing nonfiction right now. That's

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