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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss coming-of-age literary fiction, M/M sci-fi, novellas, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Flatiron Books, publisher of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, and Ecco. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. 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. Feedback Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen (rec’d by Laura) Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (rec’d by Elizabeth) The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (rec’d by Maria) Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc Books Discussed Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (tw: rape, child abuse, racism) Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather The Ghurka and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hussein Burning Roses by SL Huang (lots of triggers incl. child abuse and violence against animals) (September 2020) I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (tw: enbyphobia) Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (cw: flayings and PTSD) We Are the Ants by Shuan David Hutchinson (tw: homophobia, suicide) Chaos Station by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen (cw: PTSD) Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw: slavery) The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal  The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue The Phantom Unicorn by Zetta Elliott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Because Slackbot isn't just another

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AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:46.2

This is episode 240 and we are recording on July 14th.

0:50.4

I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hello Amanda. Hello. Would you like a cat story? Yes. Why is this a question? Of course I would. So as you know, I record in a closet. I do know this. And there's a chair that lives in the closet that I sit in. And I often will find

1:13.9

one or other of the cats like in the closet on the chair in between recording sessions. But today,

1:21.3

Lulu, like I walked into the closet. Usually they just get up and move. She made me like physically move her off of the chair. And I was like, Lulu, do you want to do the show today? Like, should I just get up and move. She made me, like, physically move her off of the chair.

1:28.3

And I was like, Lulu, do you want to do the show today? Like, should I just have put my cat on the show today? It was very tempting. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. Bring her on. Yeah, I'm right. It's just quiet cat breathing. She's got opinions. She's, you know, cats have lots of opinions. It feels like that would just be ASMR, you know, like that YouTube phenomenon was just like a cat quietly purring into a microphone, laying on top of it.

1:49.4

Yeah, right.

1:50.1

She does have a solid purr, I will say.

1:52.9

All right.

1:53.5

Enough about my cats.

1:54.8

How this show works?

1:56.4

How does this show work?

1:57.3

Let's find out.

1:58.2

It is a reading recommendation show, like we said at the top,

2:01.8

which means you can send in questions about what you should read next, how to find a book that

2:07.8

matches your favorite book. Maybe you need recommendations for a friend or a book club or a relative

2:13.7

or whatever. We will do our best to find you your next great read. You can submit those

2:18.4

questions either via email to get booked at bookriot.com or you can drop them in the form that's

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