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🗓️ 14 April 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn recommend audiobooks, light reading for dark times, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live. 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! Split by Suzanne Finnamore Yes Please by Amy Poehler (on audio!) The essay in Tiny Beautiful Things When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, read by the author Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini, read by the author, recommended by Brenna Clarke Gray Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Goodreads Author), Lola Rogers (Translator) Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza, translated by John Cullen Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord Yes, Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson Uprooted by Naomi Novik Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson The Giver by Lois Lowry Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Citizen by Claudia Rankine If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin Old Man’s War series series by John Scalzi 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.
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0:23.3	It's AI that knows your work as well as you do.
0:26.4	Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more.
0:30.7	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.4	This is episode 24 and we are recording on Tuesday, April 12th.
0:39.3	I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:44.2	What's up, Amanda?
0:45.3	Howdy-Duty.
0:47.7	I don't think I've heard anybody say that for a really long time.
0:51.7	I've been watching a lot of Murder She Wrote recently.
0:53.9	Oh, do they say Howdy-Duty on murder she wrote? I think Seth says it as a joke. Are you all familiar with murder she wrote? I know that it's based on like Agatha Christie novels. Is that right? Sort of, yeah. I mean, she's a, yeah, she's in Agatha Christie. Jessica Fletcher is the name. I know because Paul is obsessed with it. But that's like, that's what I know is that Paul is
1:14.8	Jess. she's a yeah she's a yeah she's a jessica fletcher is the name i i know because paul is obsessed with it but that's like that's what i know is that paul is jessica fletcher and that's what i know paul is a friend of ours who does work on panels which is our sister site um about comics he is as obsessed with murder shiverr as i am anyway there's a crotchety main doctor on the show who is
1:28.7	Jessica's very best platonic friend, and it's one of my favorite relationships on television,
1:32.7	and he says the most ridiculous things, including but not limited to how to do, including but not
1:36.6	limited to you, howdy-duty. Anyway, that had nothing to do with anything. It's good, though. It's good.
1:41.9	I like it. So if you're not familiar with the show, this is a reading recommendation show.
1:48.5	So how that works is people send us questions about what they should read next based on things
1:54.1	they like, things they don't like, things that they wish they could read.
1:57.8	For example, if you don't know what to follow up the night circus with,
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