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

This is episode 138, and we are recording on June 26th. I am Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Maria Christina

Garcia Lynch and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Welcome. Thank you. I don't remember

where Jen is. I remember that she's out of town. She's gone somewhere and that I needed to get a guest. So I asked Maria Christina to join us. She is our latest addition to staff. She's an assistant editor at Book Riot. And Jen is somewhere. I don't know. I think sales meetings. I don't know where she went. I can't keep track of my co-host.

Whatever, it's fine. This is your first time. But I'm, I'm very excited to be her understudy.

Yay. Is this your first time on any of our shows? Is that right? It is. It is my first time on any of the podcast. I win. You got me first. I win the MC lottery.

Cool.

All right.

Well, we are going to get right into it.

As I mentioned, this is a show for personalized reading recommendation.

So if you need a book wreck for yourself, for your book club, for a gift, maybe you've read

something that's like left a big hole in your heart and you want to read a like or you're traveling somewhere and you want to read about that place that you're going, whatever the reasons that you need a reading recommendation, you can send any and all of those to us. You can email them to us at get booked at bookwrite.com or you can drop them in the form and the show notes on the site. Either way, if your question is time sensitive, please note that in big giant letters in the subject line if you use the email. If you're using the form, just put it in big letters in the first line of your question so that we can get to it on time. If we are not going to get to your question on time on the show, then we will email you back. We've also, we will also email you back if we've answered your question on air a few times already,

and we'll send you new recommendations or links to the shows where we've already answered

your question. So check your inboxes for that. And I think that's pretty much it for

housekeeping. We don't have any big giveaways running right now randomly, and we don't have any feedback from last week's episode because it was the Octavia Butler read-a-like episode, so we didn't have like reader questions for anyone to answer. So I feel like I'm missing a million things, but I'm not. I know I'm not because I checked, so it's fine. But we are just going to roll into it. I'm going to read our first question and give you our first sponsor.

And then we will, you know, answer it because that's how this works.

That's how the show works with the answering.

Okay, so question one is from Ingrid.

And Ingrid says, I've been trying to read a lot of translated literature from around the world this year.

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