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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss college novels, urban fantasy, short audiobooks and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall and The X-Files Origins. 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 The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando The Princess Bride by William Goldman Grit by Angela Duckworth A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen, transl by Lola Rogers Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea anything by Mohsin Hamid (How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia) Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom) Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko Shrill by Lindy West You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott Rincey’s recs on YouTube: Short Books, Part 1 and Part 2 Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg (rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall) The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy (rec’d by Rachel Smalter Hall) Pure by Julianna Baggott Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.3

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

0:24.9

This is episode 62, and we are recording on January 3rd, 2017.

0:30.7

I'm Amund and Alsaid and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from

0:33.5

bookriott.com. Welcome to the new year. I'm just going to say the future is now.

0:39.9

So we can all officially kick the garbage fire that was 2016 to the curb and move on.

0:46.8

Indeed. Indeed. We are not, however, moving on from reading recommendations. I'm sorry. I'm so

0:54.0

sorry about that awful segue. There was just nothing to be done about it. I couldn't. I saw it coming. I couldn't swerve. I just had to. Anyway. So if you are new to the show, this is a reading recommendation show. You can send in your reading recommendation request to us and we will answer them on the show. You can email them to us at getbooked

1:11.2

at bookwrite.com or you can drop them in the form, which is at the bottom of the show notes

1:15.2

for every episode on the site. If your question is one that's been answered on the show already,

1:19.8

we will probably respond to you via email instead of making you wait until we get around to it

1:23.6

again on the show. And I think that's all the housekeeping business, really. Yeah, okay. Every now and then if it's like a super urgent time sensitive question, and I know we're not going to get to it in the next week or so I'll email back to. But, you know. Yeah. Yeah, and it's Jen usually doing all the emailing. So if you get an email from Get Booked, it's Jen.

1:44.6

I sign my name. I don't pretend to be you too often, Amanda. Every now and then. Only when I rob banks. Yeah. Okay. So we are going to ask our first question, and then we'll do our first sponsor and get Roland. So that is all Jen. All right. Our first question is from Morgan Parker. bear with me while I summarize because it's long.

2:02.8

It's a two-parter.

2:04.4

Morgan says, I'm currently in my first semester at the University of Iowa and beginning to settle in, but can't seem to find any books that fit where I'm at in life, looking for books that are about the first year of college and the transition from high school to college, where the main character is honest about the emotional stress that college creates, especially in the first year of college in the transition from high school to college, where the main character is

2:18.1

honest about the emotional stress that college creates, especially in the first year.

2:21.7

Already read, Fan Girl by Rainbow Roll.

2:25.4

The second part of the question is, I'm looking for books to read with my boyfriend.

2:29.9

We're in a long-distance relationship, and while talking and movies over Skype are fun, we'd

2:33.5

like to do something more productive once in a while.

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