Harry Potter Meets Lord Of The Rings Meets Pokemon

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🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss classic retellings, post-Hamilton reads, small town stories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Doubleday, publishers The Clockwork Dynasty, the new novel by Daniel Wilson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. 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 Dreadnought by April Daniels The Novice by Taran Matharu The Secret Son by Laila Lalami Native Believer by Ali Eteraz Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk The Mothers by Brit Bennet All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan Frazzled by Booki Vivat Princess Academy series by Shannon Hale Rick Riordan’s new imprint Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Re Jane by Patricia Park John Adams by David McCullough Also please watch this video: the John Adams rap cut from Hamilton Lafayette In the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell The Quick by Lauren Owen Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (trigger warning: transphobia) Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Blood Defense by Marcia Clark, recommended by Jamie Canaves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.2	This is episode 94 and we are recording on
0:38.9	August 15th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from
0:44.1	Book Riot. Oh yeah. I don't know. Good morning. Greetings. I did it again. When I called me,
0:51.7	when I called her to start this recording, I did this whole like,
0:55.0	Thalutations thing.
0:56.0	It was real weird. I don't know what's happening. I'm expecting much more of it for the next 45 minutes. I'm ready. I'm ready. Welcome to our show. What's your reading, Amanda? Okay. We're like a million things. But the thing that I'm super into right now is the Summoner series by Terran Matharu.
1:13.4	So I read the first one in like a million things. But the thing that I'm super into right now is the Summoner series by Terran Matharu.
1:13.3	So I read the first one in like a day, and that's called The Novice.
1:17.0	The novice?
1:18.2	The novice.
1:20.3	The novice.
1:22.0	The second one is the Summoner, and I'm about halfway through that one.
1:23.7	So this is like the most mashupy of fantasy y-A mashups. It's like Harry Potter
1:29.1	meets Lord of the Rings meets Pokemon. All in, I know. It's like, like, so it's about a boy
1:36.6	who is like orphaned in a village where there are orcs and elves and all these sorts of
1:42.2	things. And then he discovers that he has secret magical powers
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