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

This is episode 252 and we're recording on September 29th.

I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

Double header.

Double header.

I honestly don't remember the last time

we did one of these. I don't either. We just finished recording the current week's show and now we

are recording next week's show because I'm going to be on vacation. Usually we get guests,

but you know, who's got time for that? Who's got time for that? I say. Anyway, okay, so how the show

works, as I said, this is a show for personalized reading recommendation. So you write into us with your reading recommendation request. You can email them to us at getbook to book to bookwrite.com or you can drop them in the form at the bottom of the show notes. If your question is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line if you're using the email or in big bold letters in the first line if you're using the form so that we will get to it on time. We ask for your email address because it is possible that we will email you back and answer if we have already answered your question on the joke. Okay. A couple items of feedback here. One from Wendy. I heard the request and I knew I was going to have Rex for Selena who was looking for women-loving women books with a shy cinnamon role character.

Here are some of my fraves.

Steppingstone by Karen Callmaker, Strawberry Summer by Melissa Braden, Too Close to Touch by Georgia Beers.

Georgia Beers is such a cool name.

Georgia Beers.

And just Jory by Robin Alexander.

And then Lauren, for the person who requested a book about women-loving women with a sweet cinnamon character, I'd love to recommend Cinderella is dead by Kaylin Barron. It's a queer retelling of Cinderella set 200 years after Cinderella found her prints. I'm intrigued by that. I am intrigued, I must say. All right. So Jen's going to read our first question, and then we will talk about our first sponsor, and away we will go. All right. First question is from Emily, who says, I'm a major fan

of character-driven, realistic fiction and have lived in this bubble for years, but recently I read

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and absolutely loved it. It made me want to step more into the world

of sci-fi slash dystopian slash adventure novels,

but I say that hesitantly, I think I loved never let me go because it was still very character-driven.

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