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🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss road trip audiobooks, quirky short stories, dystopian novels, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo and The Lovely Reckless by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia. 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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Bellwether by Connie Willis Wild by Cheryl Strayed Split by Suzanne Finnamore A Day With Dad by Bo Holmberg Two Homes by Claire Masurel Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes I Thought It Was Just Me by Brené Brown The Family Book by Todd Parr The Invisible String by Patrice Karst The Rook by Daniel O’Malley Bird Box by Josh Malerman Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Intimations by Alexandra Kleeman Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Lazarus Vol 1 by Greg Rucka When She Woke by Hilary Jordan Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Jennifer Government by Max Barry 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.
0:26.4	Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more.
0:30.8	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.6	This is episode 49, and we are recording on October 4th. I'm Amanda Nelson
0:38.7	and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Booker! What, what? It is so nice.
0:46.0	It's like 50 degrees, well, not at the moment. It was like 50 degrees when I woke up this morning.
0:51.4	So I decided I'm going to roast a chicken today.
0:56.8	The first one of the fall.
1:00.9	I'm going to roast some sweet potatoes later.
1:02.2	It's a roasting kind of day.
1:03.5	It is a roasting kind of.
1:07.5	And then later I'm going to watch the VP debate because, you know, Tim Kane is America's dad and you got to watch that.
1:10.2	Not so much.
1:11.2	Nope.
1:12.0	I cannot.
1:13.6	It just sends me into anxiety spirals.
1:16.7	But I'm there in spirit, I guess.
1:19.6	I totally understand that.
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