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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss Infinite Jest read-alikes, Muslim protagonists, horror, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month Club and Portrait of Vengeance by Carrie Stuart Parks. 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 Pre-Hispanic fiction by Spanish-speaking authors: The Heart of Jade by Salvador de Madariaga For Jennie, who wanted fish out of water stories set in Paris: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin and French Milk by Lucy Knisley For Sarah, who wants to introduce her Lonesome Dove-loving brother to more diverse books: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride, Old Filth by Jane Gardam, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Stargate by Pauline Gedge Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robbin Brown The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (Trigger warning: family abuse) Nalo Hopkinson The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela Salaam Reads G. Willow Wilson (Alif the Unseen, The Butterfly Mosque, Ms Marvel) Hammer Head by Nina McLaughlin The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kreuger The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, transl. by Yuri Machkasov Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (Trigger warning for violence towards children) Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen The Feminist Utopia Project edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.2

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

0:36.0

This is episode 93, and we are recording on

0:38.5

August 7th. I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from

0:43.1

Book Riot. Hello. Hello. No one is recording from their closet today. No, I am not in my closet

0:51.2

today. They have seemed to have stopped whatever the heck they were doing.

0:55.7

I never found it. Like I walked on, I walk around my block a lot of times a week slash day on errands

1:02.0

and I've never, I never found what they were doing. It's raining today too, which I am delighted

1:08.8

with. It's like a little taste of fall here.

1:12.0

So I don't think even if they were still doing it, they couldn't be, like, drilling anything in the rain. I don't think. Who knows? I don't. I, yeah, no idea. What, uh, what's you reading, Amanda? Well, I was going to start the fourth game of Thrones book because I keep seeing, you know, the new season just started and I keep seeing it everywhere.

1:30.8

And I was like, start the fourth game of Thrones book because I keep seeing, you know,

1:28.7

the new season just started and I keep seeing it everywhere.

1:30.8

And I was like, oh, fine.

1:31.8

I've like been waiting for Winds of Winter to come out before I start the fourth one, but whatever.

1:35.8

But instead, my library hold came up for Georgia Peaches and other forbidden fruit by Jay Robin Brown.

1:43.6

So I started that because, you know, library holds you only have but so much time.

1:47.4

And I have infinite time until the next game of film book comes out.

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