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🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss Korean fiction, Central American authors, fluffy audiobooks, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. 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 Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal (July 2018) Salt Houses by Hala Alyan The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich While the City Slept by Eli Sanders Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Sora Kim-Russell The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson Valdemar: Last Herald Mage series (Magic’s Pawn #1) trigger warnings for rape, child abuse, suicide The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson A Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T Dungy The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver Central American author recommendations post The World In Half by Christina Henriquez Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Braving The Wilderness by Brene Brown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Book Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.7	This is episode 121 and we are recording on March 6th.
0:37.9	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:41.5	Hello.
0:43.2	Many handwabies. I know what I'm doing. I'm doing like a weird cheerleader thing.
0:47.5	Like, arms out, yeah. What are you reading?
0:50.8	I am reading, I'm reading some nonfiction for once in my life. I am reading Empress,
0:56.8	the astonishing reign of Nurja Khan by Ruby Lel, which is not coming out until July. Sorry, sorry,
1:05.3	but I am super excited about this book because I am a sucker for engaging, like engaging history. And this book is
1:14.9	doing kind of what I feel like Stacey Schiff has done for Cleopatra, for example. It is a book
1:20.6	by a feminist historian about the Empress Nur Jahan, who was around in the 1600s and married a Mughal emperor and then became
1:31.7	his co-sovereign and actually ruled alongside him and sometimes in his place when his health started
1:38.3	failing, which is not a thing I knew about. I knew nothing about this woman. I think I knew that she was
1:44.1	the mother of the emperor who built the Taj Mahal, but that was all that I knew nothing about this woman. I think I knew that she was the mother of the emperor
1:45.0	who built the Taj Mahal, but that was all that I knew. So I am really delighted to be, like,
1:50.5	learning about an amazing historical woman, especially right now, because life. So, yeah,
1:57.2	so I'm really excited about it. Sorry that it's not out until July, but that's Empress by Ruby Lal.
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