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This is episode 242 and we're recording on July 28th.

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

No.

Just no. Just no.

Just no. I've been on vacation for a week and my brain has not fully eased back into thinking about work.

So the words that I make for the next hour are going to be interested.

I look forward to this adventure. It's going to be fun. Well, fun for me. I don't know about the rest of you. We're going to find out. All right. So how the show works, it's a show and we make words with our mouths at you. Okay. That's over. So as I mentioned, it's a show for personalized reading recommendations. So you send us your

reading recommendation requests, whether you need like, you know, you read X book and want something similar, or you need a gift, or you're going somewhere and you want to read something about that place. Whatever the case may be, you can email those requests to us at get booked at bookright.com, or you can use the form in the show notes on the site. Either way, if a question is time-sensitive, please let us know.

If you use the email,

just put it in the subject line.

If you're using the form in the show notes on the site. Either way, if a question is time sensitive, please let us know. If you use the email, just put it in the subject line. If you're using the form in the show notes, then put it in big letters in the first line so that we can see it. If we don't get to your question on time or we've already answered your question on the show previously, then we will email you back, which is why we ask for your email. All right, we've got a ooh, we've got a lot of feedback here. So much feedback. So Kim says, for the person who was looking for Eric Larson, readalikes, may I suggest Douglas Preston's Monster of Florence, a later addition with his epilogue, tying it into the Amanda Knox case. Ooh, Lord. That's a big one. Okay. Let's see. Wendy says for Heidi looking for queer rep space fantasy. How about Dawn by Octavia Butler? I also recommend the, ooh, Caffanon, book one in the Chronicles of Alcia series by Fletcher Delancey. All right, from Charlene. For Lauren from episode 239, I recently read Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame.

I really enjoyed it especially on audio.

She narrates it herself and it feels like you're out getting coffee together and chatting about life and also about this huge and difficult and rewarding all-consuming thing that was their journey to find and adopt their daughter.

Kosin, I love that book.

It's very, very funny.

Christy says, again, another suggestion for the person looking for Eric Larson, Rita likes. I would highly recommend Young Men and Fire by Norman McLean. He's better known for having written a river runs through it. Young Men and Fire is his investigation into the 1949 man-glitch smoke jumper tragedy where 13 men died. Yikes. Reads like a mystery. They never found out what happened or why the men became trapped in the forest fire. It's completely riveting. Oh, that sounds traumatizing. Okay, Amber, listener feedback for the reader requesting an underrated tour novella, J. Y. Yang's Tensurate series. We would obviously co-sign that, but I don't know if we I could call it underrated because we rate it a lot on this show. We talk about it a lot on the show. That's fine.

Okay, Lee, I have a recommendation for Sarah from episode 237 asking for books about Iran,

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