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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jenn and guest Charity Yoro give poetry recs, holiday gift picks, Erik Larson comps, 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. Books Discussed Daughters of Fire by Tom Peek Kaui Hart Hemmings and Kawai Strong Washburn  This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell The Black Count by Tom Reiss  Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (CW: sex, drugs, rock-n-roll content) Anne Carson (An Autobiography of Red) Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House, cw: domestic abuse) Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) Citizen by Claudia Rankine The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Londoners by Craig Taylor Brick Lane by Monica Ali White Teeth by Zadie Smith Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) Kraken by China Mieville You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White Directed by Desire by June Jordan  Autostraddle post: https://www.autostraddle.com/read-a-fcking-book-ten-lesbian-bisexual-poets-34457/ The Witch Boy series by Molly Knox Ostertag  Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow One Hundred Days by Alice Pung (cw: emotional and physical abuse) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0

This is a Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:50.5

This is episode 308, and we are recording on November 30th. I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with special guest Charity Yoro and we are coming to you from

0:56.2

Book Riot. Welcome Charity. Thanks, Jen. Hooray. So Amanda is away today and Charity very kindly

1:04.9

agreed to come on and do some book recommending. Charity, will you tell the folks a little bit about yourself and what

1:12.3

you do at Book Riot, what do you like to read, et cetera? Yeah, yeah. So I'm a big fan. I love listening to

1:19.1

you and Amanda's recommendations. And I feel a little intimidated because I always learn about new

1:25.6

books from you folks. And I feel like I may not be up to the task,

1:30.8

but I am going to do my best. So I, oh, what do I do at Book Riot? So I am an editorial

1:36.3

operations associate, meaning that I support our editorial team at Book Riot, working

1:43.1

alongside Jen, you, and supporting all aspects of

1:48.1

podcasts, newsletters, things like that. As a reader, I primarily identify as a poet. So my preferences

1:57.3

tend to be very prosy, and I lean towards literary fiction, memoirs. I love historical

2:06.7

nonfiction, just the range of that. Right now I'm really obsessed with the mycelio books right

2:12.7

now. Anything with mushrooms and learning about. It's the different networks. What else? Oh, human behavior

2:21.0

and design. I like learning about those sorts of things as well. And that's, I think that's my

2:27.0

reading profile in a nutshell. Yeah. Yeah, I think this is the first time we've had like an official

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