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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Jenn and guest Swapna recommend comics for kids, superhero novels, graphic memoirs and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Oh, Comics! Podcast. 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! The Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, #1 of the Geronimo Stilton series Tiny Titans: Welcome to the Treehouse by Art Baltazar and Franco Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winick Secret Hero Society: Study Hall of Justice by Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen Turbulence by Samit Basu Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter Fallout (Lois Lane 1) by Gwenda Bond A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (out June 7 2016) Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Krishna: A Journey Within by Abhishek Singh Pretty Deadly Vol 1: The Shrike by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew March, Book One and March, Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Showa: A History of Japan, 1926-1939 by Shigeru Mizuki, translated by Zack Davisson Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, et al Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, et al Lady Killer by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich Anything by Lucy Knisley (Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride) 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.

0:35.8

This is episode 26 and we are recording on Wednesday,

0:38.6

April 27th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Swapna Krishna, managing editor of our

0:43.6

comics site panels. Hi. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Super excited. We have a bunch of good

0:51.2

graphic novel questions, comics, questions, et cetera.

0:57.2

So something is going to drop all the comics wisdom on us.

0:59.1

Yes, I am so excited.

1:00.5

It's going to be awesome.

1:04.6

So if you haven't listened to the show before, this is a recommendation show.

1:08.8

So people write in and ask us questions about what book they should read next,

1:11.1

what comic they should give to their niece or nephew,

1:16.0

what to do after a little life leaves a gaping hole in your soul, et cetera, et cetera.

1:22.1

And we answer them. We look for books that we think would be good and recommend them to the askers. So you can send us questions. You can send them via email to get booked at bookriot.com. You can tweet

1:30.6

them to myself, Jen, IRL, Jen with two ends, IRL, or Amanda, who is I'm Amanda Nelson,

1:36.5

who is our regular co-host. You can also leave them in the comments section of the post for every

1:42.8

Get Booked episode. There's's a form you can fill it out

1:44.8

and if you have a time sensitive question please try to make it super clear like early on in the

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