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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jenn and guest Louise Johnson discuss unconventional heroines, cozy Hanukkah stories, children’s books about tolerance, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Sponsored by Voracious and Little, Brown and Company, and Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi, with Fierce Reads. 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 & Links Paradox Bound by Peter Cline (rec’d by Stephanie) Stephanie’s Get Booked spreadsheet: bit.ly/getbookedrecs The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman (rec’d by Stephanie) The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie (rec’d by Stephanie) The River by Peter Heller (rec’d by Elizabeth and Kayce) Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched by Amy Sutherland (rec’d by Molly) Beyond Basketball: Keywords for Success by Mike Krzyzewski and Jamie Krzyzewski Spatola Books Discussed Lighting the Flames by Sarah Wendell Eva Ibbotson – Madensky Square or A Countess Below Stairs The Pretty One by Keah Maria Brown The Million Pieces of Neena Gill by Emma Barton-Smith Wintersong by S. Jae Jones The Curious Tale of The Lady Caraboo by Catherine Johnson When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff Everything by Susie Day (Pea’s Book of Best Friends) The Empress by Ruby Lal The Wife’s Tale by Aida Edemariam The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley The Otherlife by Julia Gray The Moomins by Tove Jansson Lexicon by Max Barry A Void by Georges Perec My Name is Mina by David Almond 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.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
0:14.0	It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.
0:20.0	Because Slackbot isn't just another AI.
0:23.3	It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:45.4	This is episode 209, and we are recording on December 3rd.
0:49.6	I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with special guest, Louise Johnson, and we are coming to you from
0:54.9	Book Riot. Welcome, Louise. Hello, thank you for having me. Yes, it's so good to have you.
1:00.7	So you are a Book Riot contributor, soon-to-be podcaster. Tell us a little bit about what you like to read.
1:08.1	Okay, well, where to begin. I enjoy everything, really. My big love is
1:14.0	children's, but I also read a lot of literary fiction. I read poetry. If it's book-shaped,
1:20.7	I'll have it, really. I'm down with that. Awesome. And we're so excited. We're adding,
1:27.0	y'all are the first to hear about this we're adding a new
1:29.7	podcast to our slate of shows and louise is one of the podcaster to hosts tell us a little bit about
1:37.5	that too yeah so a novel gazing which is a title i am in Love With, is launching on January the 14th.
1:46.5	And it's a show that I'm co-hosting with Mary Kay, and we will be talking about all your
1:51.2	literary fiction needs.
1:52.8	So we are here to recommend your books, talk about the books that don't work, and break
1:58.5	down a genre that can kind of be sometimes a bit scary, sometimes
2:02.9	a bit distant and make it kind of the stuff that, you know, you want to read and want to have
2:08.1	part of your life. Awesome. I hope so. Yeah, no, that was great. It's going to be so much fun.
2:17.2	We're editing the episode zero right now. So, you know, keep an eye out for that. It's going to be so much fun. We're editing the episode zero right now, so, you know, keep an eye
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