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

This is episode 290, and we are recording on July 13th.

I'm Jen Northington.

I'm here with Amanda Nelson.

We're coming to you from Book Riot and from my scattered brain, because today is the pub day for Swordstone Table, which is an anthology I co-edited.

It's all very exciting.

What is it about?

I mean, you can tell from the title but i know it's retellings

of king arthur but like gender bent race bent queered all of those good subversive fun ways to

retell a story it's that that's what it is yay congratulations y'all she's been working on this for

like a millennia.

It's been years, actual years. Yeah. And the contributor list is really impressive. Go buy it.

Oh, thank you. Amanda is coming to us from a summer cold. I have. Yeah, you know what? I haven't been

six since like 2018. Who I mean, none of us have, right? If you manage to avoid COVID, you probably managed to avoid

everything else because everybody was inside. My kids went to summer camp and immediately picked

up some crud. And now I have it. Children are germ bombs. But just they're disgusting.

They're so gross. And I know, like they're making the kids wear masks and everything.

Yes. But that's not. They're just still touching each other. I mean, it helps. Like, they're gross. They're in camp. They're playing. They're whatever. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Yeah, we had to rearrange our schedules because of vacation's upcoming. But here we are.

All right. So let's see. How is this show supposed to work? Oh, right. It's a reading recommendation

show, which means y'all can send in your requests for maybe there's a type of book that you love

that you're having trouble finding more of. Maybe you need a suggestion for your book club or a friend or a relative or whatever.

You can send those in either via email, get booked at bookgriot.com, or you can drop them in the

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