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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss multi-generational family stories, realistic small towns, queer international horror, 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 Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead (rec’d by Laura) The Mickey Rawlings mystery series by Troy Soos (rec’d by Suzanne) We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry (rec’d by Alicia)  Joe Harris, the Moon by Joyce A. Miller (rec’d by Marilyn) Books Discussed Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Subpar Parks by Amber Share Jawbone by Mónica Odeja, transl. by Sarah Booker A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba, transl. by Jocelyne Allen Weather by Jenny Offill Incarceration Nation by Baz Dreisinger The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw racism, domestic abuse) The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (cw: child death, addiction, domestic abuse, homophobia) Women and Power by Mary Beard A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Invisible Library series by Genevieve Cogman The Reader by Traci Chee (cw: violent harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style.

0:07.0

But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.

0:14.0

It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.

0:20.0

Because Slackbot isn't just another

0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more. This is The Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:45.7

This is episode 318, and we're recording on February 15th.

0:49.7

I'm Jen Northington.

0:50.6

I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot, and it is

0:55.6

tired Tuesday. It is here. Hopefully we're more awake by Thursday when you're listening to this.

1:02.3

We'll see. We'll see. I just, it now takes me days to recover from a thing. Like, I watched the

1:08.8

Super Bowl, which I did not, there was not

1:12.0

imbibement to excess or anything like that because I'm too old for that also. But I stayed

1:16.0

up like an hour past my normal bedtime. Yeah. And here on Tuesday, I'm still not recovering.

1:21.5

From like, I went to bed at 10 and I'm still too tired. I've been staying up super late to watch some of the Olympics, and it is, yeah, I'm going to be feeling that for like a month.

1:34.7

This is just how it is.

1:37.4

Team old.

1:38.3

All right.

1:39.2

Here we go.

1:39.8

Well, aside from when we're complaining about life, this is a book recommendation show, we swear.

1:45.1

That means you can send in your requests for reading recommendation, and we might answer it

1:50.1

on the show. You can send those in either via email, get booked at bookride.com, or you can send

1:56.0

them in through the form and the show notes on the site. And it can be for you, maybe there's like a certain kind of book that you love. It can be for a book club, a family member, a friend, a trip, whatever. And if it's a time sensitive request, please put time sensitive. And then the date you're hoping to hear back by, either in the subject line of the email or the very first line in the form. We'll try. We'll see what happens.

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