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This is episode 126 and we are recording on April 3rd.

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with John Northington, and we were coming to you from Book Riot. Spring break. Hello. Yes. It's not spring here, yeah, again. It was for like two days. We got two days of spring, and now it's not spring again. Is it snowing? It was yesterday. Today it's just like rainy and

gross, which I guess is kind of April actually, technically speaking. I was on Twitter looking at like,

did you see Mark, what's his last name? Ashino? Oh, Shiro. Yes, too. His book, Anger,

his gift is coming out in the summer. But he tweeted a video of himself walking through New York in the snow, just being mad. I love Mark. Oh, buddy. So what are you reading in your not springtime, springtime? In my not springtime, springtime. Yeah, I'm finally reading her body and other parties by Carmen Maria O'Don. Yes, I know what you love. I was like wandering around Philly a couple of weekends ago after meeting a friend and I wandered into a bookstore. And I was like, what should I get? Because I can't walk into an indie bookstore without buying something. And then I was like, I know. Because I've had this book on hold at the library for actual months, like, since it came out and have yet to get it. So I just

finally bought it. And I started reading. And wow, I can see why it won all of the prizes and all

of the, like, accolades from everyone. It's a collection of short stories, if you haven't heard, that are

kind of horror and kind of sci-fi and kind of fantasy and kind of fabulous and kind of funny,

but also really dark. Like, there's a lot going on here. So yeah, I'm only like, I literally

have only read one story in the collection at this point because I just start, I just picked it up yesterday. But it was the ribbon around the next story and I was just like, oof, like, wow, it's a gut punch. It's a gut punch. What about you? I just started a new audio book called Give Work by Lila Janna. I saw her on, so was she on a podcast that I listened to?

I don't remember.

I think she was on a podcast.

She is the head of a nonprofit called Samasource that gives employment, like digital,

work to people in impoverished countries who make less than $2 a day.

And it's part of her, like she comes from an NGO background and the World Bank and all of this.

And so she has decided that the way to lift people out of poverty is not through like foreign aid,

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