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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic power dynamics, Only Murders in the Building read-alikes, the Amish, 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 listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles (rec’d by Stephanie) The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (rec’d by Aida) The Watchmaker of Filigree St. by Natasha Pulley (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten, transl. by Marlaine Delargy Plain Secrets by Joe Mackall When the English Fall by David Williams (rec’d by Margaret) The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco but also just read Witchmark Dead Djinn Universe books by P. Djeli Clark The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey London Steampunk by Bec McMaster Midnight Bargain by CL Polk Iron Widow by (tw: rape) Xiran Jay Zhao The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin (cw: sexual assault, enslavement and coercion) Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Poppy War by RF Kuang (cw: BASICALLY EVERYTHING) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hear that? It's your big McDonald's hunger calling.

0:03.0

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0:34.9

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

0:39.1

This is episode 319 and we are recording on February 22nd. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot. That is the end of my

0:43.4

introduction. I got nothing this morning. Same. It is like really cloudy and gross here.

0:54.7

And I'm, I don't, that's it.

0:56.0

That's, that's the end of my statement.

0:57.8

It's gross.

0:58.6

It's gross.

0:59.6

I never think that I have like any kind of seasonal, effective anything until the end of

1:05.1

February when I'm like, wow, I just want to crawl into a hole.

1:08.9

Yeah.

1:09.4

I know a lot of people hate February the most. I personally love it because it's my birthday month. But like I know. I understand the hate for February. Oh yeah. It's my least favorite month. February is the coolest month. Okay. So how the show works. As I said, this is a show for personalized reading recommendations. So if you have a reading recommendation request, we would like to hear it. You can email it to us at getbooked at bookgriot.com or drop it in the form in the show notes on the site. These can be anything. These can be for you, your book club, if you're looking for a gift, whatever floats your boat, we are happy to answer those questions. We do have a few pieces of feedback

1:45.4

here before we get to our first question. So Stephanie says, I have some feedback for other

1:51.0

Stephanie who is looking for Daisy Jones and the six read alike featuring female musicians.

1:55.6

I recommend the Air You Breathe by Francis De Pontes Pebbles. It starts in Brazil in the 1920s and follows two childhood girlfriends and their friendship and

2:03.6

music careers as they become involved in the samba scene.

2:06.7

That sounds fun.

2:08.4

Ada says this recommendation is for the person who wanted to read a book from every country.

2:12.2

I recommend the novella The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hadiat from Iran.

2:16.3

But please check the trigger warnings.

2:17.7

The story is about a man's descriptive descent into madness.

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