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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss Latinx authors in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez, on sale now from Catapult, Flatiron Books, publisher of The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner, 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 Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne (rec’d by Stacy) The Afterward by EK Johnston (rec’d by Cara) Books Discussed Crashing Into Her by Mia Sosa Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (tw: child abuse, domestic violence, self harm, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, rape, homophobia, struggles with mental illness, addiction) We Set the Dark on Fire & We Unleash the Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia (tw: assault & abuse of women, homophobia) Revolution Sunday by Wendy Guerra, transl by Achy Obejas Carved in Bone by Michael Nava (tw: use of slurs, violent homophobia, intimate partner violence, rape, suicide attempts, internalized homophobia) Yuyi Morales Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez Diamond City by Francesca Flores Dominicana by Angie Cruz (tw domestic violence) Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine (tw violence against women) Planet for Rent by Yoss, translated by David Frye Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is your latest project.
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0:45.3	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:49.8	This is episode 221, and we are recording on March 3rd.
0:51.0	I'm Jen Northington.
0:56.0	I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hello, Amanda.
1:06.6	Hello. We are recording this on Super Tuesday, and, you know, there's a lot of coronavirus news. So we're both a little bit just like, what is going on?
1:12.4	I'm going to just, I live in this office. I might move my mattress to my dog's crate, and then I'm just never leaving.
1:17.2	That seems a reasonable response to the world right now.
1:27.6	Just call me when it's all over. All of it. Yeah, I hear that. So today, actually, instead of doing what we normally do, which is answer specific questions from y'all. We are doing a themed show,
1:33.7	which, as you know, we do every now and then. And today's theme is Latinx, authors and writers,
1:37.9	which we're super jazzed about. But before we get into that, I will tell you how the show normally works, which is that you send in, you, any listener, send in requests for you specifically. I'm talking to you.
1:47.5	The call is coming from inside the podcast. That's right. You can send in a request for a reading
1:53.4	recommendation for yourself, for a family member, or a friend, or for your book club, or because
1:59.2	you're traveling or whatever. send us a email at get booked
2:04.2	at book riot.com or you can put it in the form that's at the bottom of the show notes on the site.
2:09.4	And if you have a time sensitive request because you're looking for a response by a specific
2:13.1	date, please put time sensitive, all caps, either in the subject line of the email or the very first line of the form.
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