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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss romances WITH pining, some great picture books, uplifting and escapist reads, 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. Feedback Mythos, Heroes, or Troy by Stephen Fry (rec’d by Alice) Books Discussed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (tw: child abuse) All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (cw: sexual assault, death of animals) First Laugh: Welcome Baby by Rose Ann Tahe, Nancy Bo Flood, Jonathan Nelson Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang and Charlene Chua Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See The Man With the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, translated by Darryl Sterk (cw: suicidal ideation, loss of a child) Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai How To Catch A Queen by Alyssa Cole (cw: description of panic and anxiety attacks) The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by CM Waggoner Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman American Hippo by Sarah Gailey 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 to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:46.0

This is episode 26, and we are recording on January 26th, all the two sixes.

0:52.5

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

0:57.5

Hello, Amanda. Hello. How are you? Oh, you know, I'm still waking up. Yay. It's very gloomy.

1:05.9

Yeah. Yep. Yep. Both of us are just waiting for snow to happen and it's not happening. So that's, that's our story today. I'll just impatiently drink cocoa. Oh, life is hard.

1:20.8

Well, welcome. If you are new to this show, we're going to talk about books eventually, I swear. This is, as we said, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. And you can send in your request if you would like via either email get booked at bookriot.com or you can drop it in the form that's at the bottom of the show notes on the site for every episode. And you can send in a request for you, for your book club, for a friend

1:46.2

or relative, really whatever. And we might answer it on air. If you have a time sensitive

1:53.3

request, you're hoping to hear back by a specific date. Please do put time sensitive,

1:57.5

all caps, in either the subject line of the email or the very first line of the

2:02.1

form, along with the date you're hoping to hear back by. If we're not going to get to it on

2:05.6

air, we might shoot you an email, so keep an eye out for those. And we have some feedback from

2:12.9

Alice, who for Amanda, who in episode 264 was looking for Greek mythology retellings, Alice

2:20.5

warmly recommends one of three books by Stephen Fry, either Mythos, Heroes, or Troy. Fry's

2:27.8

hilarious, extremely true to the original myth, and very good at explaining all the dynamics

2:33.3

behind each of the stories.

2:35.2

Plus, he is a great storyteller.

2:37.9

All right.

2:39.2

So let's see.

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