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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss morally ambiguous main characters, chapter book read-alouds, female artists, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The History of Literature – A Podcast, Scholastic, and Sourcebooks. 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 The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile (rec’d by Abigail) Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine by Eric Weiner (rec’d by Michelle) Stephen King: Firestarter and The Gunslinger (rec’d by Kelsey) Books Discussed Clarice Lispector: The Complete Stories, transl. by Katrina Dodson) My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage by Mark Achtemeier This Is A Book For Parents Of Gay Kids by Dannielle Owens-Reid Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner Waiting in the Wings by Tara Frejas From Scratch by Tembi Locke The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, transl. by Philip Gabriel Everlasting Nora by Marie Miranda Cruz Post: Read-Alouds for Middle School The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw domestic violence, racism) Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-Sook, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Tw: violence against women) Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (tw: rape, torture) The Diary of Frida Kahlo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Getting instant insights is amazing.
0:03.0	But if there are too many data points, it can be hard to see what works.
0:07.0	So I'll ask my AI assistant for recommendation.
0:11.0	And with PDF spaces in Acrobat Studio,
0:14.0	it's easy to remix documents and transform insights into standout content,
0:19.0	so you can go from idea to creation in record time all within an
0:23.1	AI powered workflow. Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:45.6	This is episode 247, and we are recording on September 1st.
0:50.7	I'm Jen Northington.
0:51.7	I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot
0:55.5	and my calendar shock. How is it the first of September? Rabbit, Rabbit. Rabbit. Yeah, this is wild.
1:03.5	I'm so ready. I mean, it'll be like, what, the third or fourth of September by the time y'all are
1:07.5	listening to this. But anyway, I will probably still be in shock that it's September at that point. I just am so happy. Like I know that it's still summer technically. It's still 90 degrees here. The kids are not going back to school physically. So like nothing is really changed, but it feels good. Like it's nice to have a new month., in my brain, summer is over and now I can move on.
1:28.4	To what? Nothing. I'm still in this house. Like, it's not, nothing has changed. But I don't care. I'm happy about it.
1:33.9	I mean, perception is reality. So, there you go. I did buy a bag of maple pecan flavored coffee to, like, give myself some fall feelings. So So yeah, that's where we're at.
1:46.4	All right. All right. Let's talk about how this show works. Welcome. If you are new,
1:52.1	welcome. If you're returning, also welcome. We are, as I said at the top, a weekly show for
1:57.4	personalized reading recommendations, which means you can send in your reading
2:01.5	recommendation question, and we will do our best to find you your next great read. You can send those in
2:07.2	either via email. It's get booked at bookriot.com, or you can drop them in the form that's at the bottom
2:13.3	of the show notes on the site. Each episode has its own show notes post, and that's where that
2:17.5	form lives. If you are looking for a response by a certain date, maybe it's like a birthday
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