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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss Asian sci-fi, books about mental illness, starter graphic novels, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong and Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson March, Book 1 by John Lewis This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki Invisible Planets, edited by Ken Liu The Sea Is Ours, edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Penance by Kanae Minato, translated by Philip Gabriel The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Captive Prince by CS Pacat Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Borne by Jeff VanderMeer Shelter by Jung Yun A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:20.0

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0:23.3

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0:26.4

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0:31.1

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

0:34.9

This is episode 89, and we are recording on July 12th.

0:37.5

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington.

0:39.5

We are coming to you from Book Riot with Take 2.

0:42.1

Because I just messed up our recording stuff a little bit.

0:45.6

So we're going to try this again.

0:48.9

Anyway, so Jen was in the middle of telling a story

0:51.9

about how she has like late night downloading habits.

0:54.6

Yes, right. Well, so, so you were saying how you couldn't remember what you were reading at the

0:59.3

moment. And, and this has happened to me multiple times where I read right before I go to bed.

1:04.1

And sometimes I'm dissatisfied with whatever I'm reading in terms of pacing. Like, usually I like

1:08.7

the book, but the pacing has to be right for falling asleep reading.

1:12.7

And so I'll go and download something from the library on my phone.

1:16.2

And I've woken up multiple times in the past two weeks not remembering what book I downloaded.

1:21.6

And having to, like, go back and look and be like, ah, yes, I read a chapter of X random book.

1:27.0

But the book I'm actually reading right now,

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