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Death And Destruction Wherever She Goes, NBD

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss superpowered characters, travel novels and nonfiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Care/of, and Sips by. 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. Books Discussed Bird Box by Josh Malerman Post: The Most Terrifying Books The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones A People’s History of the US by Howard Zinn The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh (tw: violence towards women and children including rape and domestic violence; terminated pregnancy; harm to animals) Wonder Woman: Warbringer (that whole DC series also) by Leigh Bardugo The Sidekick Squad by CB Lee (Not Your Sidekick) An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, transl. by James Kirkup Buttermilk Graffiti by Edward Lee (rec’d by Jaime Herndon) A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal (rec’d by Neha Patel) (cw: emotionally abusive home situation; difficulties with pregnancy; discussion of sex-selective abortion; assisted suicide; sexual harassment & misogyny) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Fence by CS Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana La Fuente, and Jim Campbell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:20.0

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0:23.3

It's AI that knows your work as well as you do.

0:26.4

Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more.

0:45.0

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

0:50.3

This is episode 256, and we are recording on November 2nd.

0:51.2

I'm Jen Northington.

0:55.7

I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from book riot and election anxiety. So much of it. I actually feel pretty. I feel okay. I feel okay.

1:02.2

Good. That's good. Which is probably the best that I'm going to get to. Yeah. I feel okay.

1:08.3

You know, everybody's got 2016 trauma, understandably. But it's looking

1:12.7

good, and I'm letting myself be optimistic because I would rather, even if I turn out wrong,

1:18.2

I'd rather have spent this week feeling okay than like being miserable and then also being wrong.

1:22.6

So that's what I've chosen to do. It's been fine. Well, you will all know listening to this what we do not know,

1:29.5

which is what's going on. So hopefully our tone is not just completely inappropriate. But here we are.

1:34.8

Recording in advance, this is what happens. Yeah, I'm not okay, but it's fine. It's fine that I'm not

1:39.9

okay, because that's just how it is sometimes. Forty eight hours. That's right. It'll be over.

1:43.9

Sort of. Okay. Over it should be the beginning of the end. The first part will be over. Right. All right. So let's talk about how this show is supposed to work. You send in your reading requests, and we do our best to find you your next great read.

2:01.5

These can be questions for yourself.

2:03.8

Maybe there's a book that you love and you haven't been able to find something similar.

2:07.4

Maybe you need a recommendation for your book club or a friend or a relative or gift giving or travel or whatever.

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