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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss a couple book club options, Ukrainian fiction, books to break a reading slump, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths (rec’d by Laura) Books Discussed Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, transl by Julia Meitov Hersey Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (also we have several great posts about this) The Silence of Bones by June Hur The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He (cw: intimate partner violence, sort of) Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (cw: violent homophobia) The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (tw childhood sexual abuse, human trafficking) Over The Top by Jonathan Van Ness (cw: child abuse, self-destructive behavior, disordered drug use) Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Getting instant insights is amazing.
0:03.0	But if there are too many data points, it can be hard to see what works.
0:07.0	So I'll ask my AI assistant for recommendations.
0:11.0	And with PDF spaces in Acrobat Studio,
0:14.0	it's easy to remix documents and transform insights into standout content,
0:19.0	so you can go from idea to creation in record time all within an
0:23.1	AI powered workflow. Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:44.5	This is episode 321, and we are recording on March 8th.
0:47.9	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:52.3	It's nice here today.
0:56.4	It's like temperate.
0:58.1	I don't know what to do.
0:59.3	So you in works like you posted this thing about the different seasons that Virginia has and one of them was the pollining.
1:06.9	And that's what's happening here right now.
1:09.7	In Philadelphia, we are deeply in the polleting.
1:13.3	Yesterday, it was almost 80 degrees and today the high is like 52. So in addition to the pollining,
1:19.8	we're in, I don't know what to call that, Sprinter, Sprinter, Sprinter. Sprinter. The pollining is so gross.
1:26.3	It's like I don't want to touch anything and I anything and I don't want to open my windows because then everything in the house gets covered in this like yellow film. Also I have a black dog. He looks ridiculous in this time of year. Bumblebee Petunia. Yes. He looks like a, really very stupid bumblebee.
1:45.7	I'm here for that.
1:46.9	It's amazing. It's amazing.
1:48.0	Okay, so how this show works is we have pollen and then we sneeze and then we go home. This is a show for personalized reading recommendations. If you are new here, you can send a, we're old here.
1:58.4	You don't have to be new to send us your reading recommendation requests, but you can do that at getbooked at bookgriott.com or you can use the form in the show notes on the site. Anything is up for grabs if you need a recommendation for like your book club or a gift or for yourself, whatever. All of that is fine. If your question is time sensitive, put that in the subject line of your email or in big bold letters in the
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