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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss the Singularity, Russian nonfiction, and novels about platonic friendships in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom and The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom. 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 Katie Macbride’s post: Required Reading for Understanding WTF Is Happening In Russia Molly Wetta’s post!: A Russian History Reading List Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambell The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Modern Lovers by Emma Straub Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (rec’d by Kristen) To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson Ceremony by Leslie Marmon-Silko Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Anything by Louise Erdrich (Plague of Doves) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (with caveat) When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds The Maze Runner by James Dashner Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen Jackaby series by William Ritter Words in the Air, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty series (The Unquiet Dead) How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford 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.
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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.8	This is episode 67 and we are recording on February
0:38.6	7th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:43.9	Hey. Oh, hi. Happy Tuesday. Yeah. It's 72 degrees here. Stop. It's like rainy and gross here. The high is 47. I can no longer enjoy like unseasonably warm weather because it just constantly reminds me of like the world dissolving to a fiery mass of climate change. Fair. I'm just like the Eeyore of Richmond, Virginia. Everyone else is like, it's nice out, and I'm like, we're all going to die. I do confess, I was in Raleigh yesterday, and it was like 70 degrees, and I didn't have to wear my coat, and that was kind of lovely. But you're right, you're right. It's terrible. Okay, well, anyway, what's not terrible is our show. How about that segue? This is a reading recommendation show, so that means you send us questions and we answer them. You can ask us really any book recommendation related questions. So what to get for somebody for their birthday or what your book club should read next or what you should read next to fill your
1:44.7	favorite books hole in your heart, et cetera, et cetera.
1:47.8	You can send us questions via email to get booked at bookriot.com.
1:52.4	I just like forgot our email address, even though it's the name of the show.
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2:07.8	do put when you need the answer by in either the subject line or the of the email or the first
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2:20.9	We're doing our best.
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2:28.4	super time sensitive.
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2:32.2	So keep an eye out for Get Book to at BookRiot.com in your inboxes as well if you've been
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