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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend AI sci-fi, funny books, political nonfiction, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood and The A-Z of You and Me by James Hannah. 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! Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie I, Robot by Isaac Asimov All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams High Fidelity by Nick Hornby Chaos Station by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen Old Man’s War by John Scalzi The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani The Agency Series by YS Lee (A Spy in the House, #1) I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi Then Comes Marriage by Roberta Kaplan Forgetting to Be Afraid by Wendy Davis This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Harris-Perry Stephen Graham Jones (Mongrels) Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony) Louise Erdrich (Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country) Bojan Louis (“If Nothing, The Land”) 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

0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot

0:28.8

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

0:34.7

This is episode 28 and we are recording on Monday, May 9th.

0:37.8

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

0:42.0

We're recording a day early, because we're about to go to Chicago for Book Expo America tomorrow.

0:47.2

It's the first time BEA has been out of New York in like five years.

0:51.3

I've never been to Chicago.

0:53.1

Yeah, me too. It's smaller.

0:54.6

It seems like there are less like publishers going, which is good, I think.

0:59.6

Because, you know, when it's in New York and you walk into Jabbit, it's this giant, huge

1:04.9

show floor, and it's so overwhelming.

1:06.9

And I think a smaller show will be a nice change.

1:09.6

Well, I actually think there might be more booksellers and librarians there because it's so hard to get, like, it's really expensive to go to New York if you're not there, you know, full time.

1:20.4

So I feel like there will be different people there and I'm looking forward to it.

1:24.9

But anyway, okay, speaking of conventions,

1:28.3

segue. Well done, well done. Let's talk about Book Riot Live. So it is now May 9th, right?

1:36.9

And you should get your tickets if you don't have them already because if you buy them before

1:40.8

June 1st, you get all kinds of extras, including there's $40 off of the

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