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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books about being non-binary, Maggie Nelson comps, historical fiction about real women, 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. Feedback Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s novels A Kind of Freedom and The Revisioners (rec’d by Sibyl) The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (C/a for physical / emotional abuse of minors) and Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Moon Within by Aida Salazar Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, illustrated by Phoebe Kobabe The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles The Remaking of Corbin Wale by Roan Parrish (cw: bullying, ableism) Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl. by Ginny Tapley Takemori Hold Me by Courtney Milan Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Blow Your House Down by Gina Frangello (tw violence against women) White Magic by Elissa Washuta (cw: intimate partner violence, PTSD, ableism, racism, disordered drug use) Matrix by Lauren Groff Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (cw: death of animals) Llama Llama Nighty Night by Anna Dewdney Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	300 years of expertise in every twining sleep blend.
0:06.0	100 hours of craft in every cup.
0:10.0	Eight natural ingredients in every sip.
0:14.0	One night of winding down in every drop.
0:18.0	Your moment of serenity.
0:23.8	Brought to you by twining sleep.
0:25.1	Twinings.
0:27.8	Alive in every drop. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:44.7	This is episode 322.
0:46.4	Nope, 323.
0:47.9	My bad.
0:48.7	And we're recording on March 29th.
0:50.9	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington.
0:52.8	And we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:54.0	We skipped a week. And that is why I don't know what numbers are.
0:58.7	So there we are. Yes, I had the cold from hell.
1:02.0	Yes, maybe you all noticed. Maybe you didn't. I don't know. Don't tell me if you didn't notice because I'm the feeling will be hurt.
1:07.7	But we took last week off so Jen could rest the voice. And now we have
1:12.6	returned. So if you are new to this show, the show works by us taking a lot of sick days.
1:17.5	Just kidding. We never take sick days. Actually, we had a whole conversation about like,
1:22.3	we've never done this before. What do we do? So this is a show for personalized reading
1:26.5	recommendations. If you would like one of those, you can have one. Just email them to us at your request at get booktipogryad.com. Or you can leave them in the form, which is at the bottom of the show notes on the site. They don't have to be reading recommendations for you. They can be for your book club or for a gift or whatever. If your question is time sensitive, just put that in the subject line of your email or like in big all caps. In the first line, if you use the form so that we will get to it on time, we might answer you via email. So that's also an option. We'll see. It's always a fun what's going to happen game around here. We do have a few pieces of feedback. Let's see. Sybil says, I'm writing with a suggestion
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