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🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss books set in Polynesia and Ireland, aristocratic mysteries, 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 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (tw: racism, lynching, domestic violence) Recipe For Persuasion by Sonali Dev (cw: graphic death by suicide, alcoholism, rape, intimate partner violence, emotional child abuse) Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz, translated by Jean Anderson A Taste of Heaven by Penny Watson Wayward by Dana Spiotta (shout-out to Parul Sehgal’s review in the NYT) Veronica Speedwell series by Deanna Raybourn (#1 A Curious Beginning) The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (tw: slavery) Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan Other Words For Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (cw: sex trafficking, domestic violence, addiction) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, just leave on work now.
0:02.2	Sorry, it's a bit loud.
0:03.3	Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight.
0:05.7	Had a big Mac on my mind all day, and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P.
0:09.8	So you win?
0:11.0	Of course you are.
0:11.5	Love you.
0:12.1	Bye!
0:13.3	Exclusively on the McDonald's app.
0:16.0	18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply.
0:18.1	Participating restaurants.
0:19.0	Serving times and teas and teas apply.
0:36.2	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:40.9	This is episode 288, and we are recording on June 29th.
0:57.4	I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we're coming to you from Book Riot and from my recording closet, which is a sweat box because we are in the middle of a heat emergency here in Pennsylvania, and you can't have fans on when you're recording a podcast.
0:59.0	Did you know? That's a truth.
1:02.1	Oh, that sounds like the worst. You're in a sauna.
1:03.6	Accidental sauna.
1:08.8	Basically. accidental sauna. I'm going to like go stick my head in the freezer when we're done recording. But I hope by the time this comes out, everybody is getting cooler weather because I know it's real bad in other places as well. Yeah. And it's only like places where air conditioning is not common. Like the Pacific Northwest is having this huge heat wave right now. Nobody there has AC. Because you don't need it, right? Like normally. So it's the worst. Godspeed to your freezers.
1:48.6	Anyway, we're sending cooling thoughts to everyone. Yeah, yes, yes. All right, let's see. Let's get into this. We are, as we said, a show for personalized reading recommendations, which means you can send your question for what you should read next. Maybe there's a kind of book that you're having trouble finding more of. Maybe you need a recommendation for a friend or a family member or a book club or whatever.
1:55.7	You can send those questions in either via email, get booked at bookriot.com. Or there's a form that's at the bottom of the show notes on the site for every episode. You can drop your question in there.
2:00.7	If you have a time
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