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This is episode 228, and we are recording on April 21st.

I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we're coming to you from Book Riot. And Amanda and I just spent like the last 10 minutes airing our quarantine feels at each other.

We did. We tried to get them out of our system. But wait, Amanda, I have a weird reading quarantine thing to tell me. To tell you. Yes. So my brain is doing a new thing now. Previously, it was

very hard to read. And when I could read, it was basically only like space opera or fantasy that I could

read. But now I, my brain has like flip-flopped entirely. And I kind of blame you because it started

with Spirit Run by Noi Alvarez. Now all my brain wants is people like struggling to do a thing in nature. Like that's it. That's all my brain will do. So, you know, I picked up like three books this week and couldn't stick with any of them except for one that's like an addiction recovery memoir set in the Orkneys. Like that's it. The Outrun. Like that that's all my, I can't read anything else. It's so bizarre. Yep. That is bizarre. I don't, like, I just don't even know, like, what's going on in there. Like, go home, brain, you're drunk. But, like, this is where we're at. So what about you? What's your reading, brain doing? Oh, I am doing, like, true crime and also murder mysteries. What I want to read about

right now is evil with a face and like death that I'm familiar with and not like faceless viral

evil and pandemic death. I want to read about people dying in ways I'm used to. So that's what I'm

doing right now. Yeah. Oh, Lord. That's like dark but but real. Super weird. It's super weird. I think it's because I was reading the Women's Prize long list, which was really great timing right now because it was like all of these problems are real and horrible that all these books are about but are like things that I don't care about right now. But it reminded me that like life exists, you know, and like normal problems exist outside of this ridiculous pandemic.

And so I think that just led me down this like, what about normal food? What about normal dying?

And that's where I am now. Normal dying. Well, I guess murder's not really normal dying.

You know. Here we are. Yep. This is what it looks like. All right. Well, if you're new to the show, welcome. Sorry. We are, as we said at the top, a reading recommendation show where you write in and ask us what you should read next or perhaps what your book club should read, what you should get for a friend or relative. Any and all of these things will do our best

to find you a great next read. You can send in those questions either via email, get booked

at bookriot.com, or you can drop them into the forum that's on the site for every episode.

There are show notes and that's where the form lives. And if you have a timely question, you want a response back by a certain date, we will do our best, but if you could put time sensitive, either in the subject line of the email or the very first line of the form, plus the date you're looking for, a response by, that would help us immensely. And if we don't think we're going to get to that on air, we might shoot you an email response. So keep an eye out for those. We have tons of feedback today. Let's see. Our first bit of feedback is from Marty, who is responding to Passant's question for a platonic relationship. Marty recommends a man called Ove by Frederick Bachman, which is about love between neighbors, and the housekeeper and the professor by Yoko Ogawa, which is about love between a professor, his housekeeper, and her son. And then Kim also has feedback for Passant last days of summer by Steveuger, about a boy in New York in the 1940s who sets his site on the third basement for the New York Giants as his role model.

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