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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend fairy tales for grown-ups, examinations of marriage (with rage-filled lady protagonists), and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and the Start Here Giveaway. 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! Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel by Anya Ulinich Jem and the Holograms Vol. 1: Showtime Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust, translated by Kim Thompson A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Think of England by KJ Charles Edinburgh by Alexander Chee, trigger warning for child molestation The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cat Valente The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich (trigger warning for domestic violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. This is episode 21, and we're recording on Monday, March 14th. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from bookriott.com. We just recorded yesterday, so this is a little weird. But it's Pie Day, so I'm excited about that. It is pie day. I'm going to make a pie today. You should make, what kind of pie will you make? I have frozen strawberries and blueberries that I picked last spring and summer in my freezer, so I'm probably going to make some sort of fruit-turdy type. I don't know. It's just really like a vehicle for whipped cream. Obviously. To me. So there that is. I approve that plan. I approve this message. So for those of you who are

1:02.4

listening for the first time, this is a personalized reading recommendation podcast. So you send us

1:07.0

your requests for book recommendations and we answer them on the show. You can send us

1:11.3

requests for book recommendations for you or for a gift that you're giving to someone for your book

1:16.2

club or any combination or variation thereof. You can drop your question at the bottom of every

1:22.0

post for every episode post on the site, bookriot.com slash get booked, or you can email them to us at get booked

1:28.7

at bookriot.com. Or you can send them to us on Twitter. We will, we email them to ourselves when

1:33.5

you tweet us your questions and then so that we can include them on the show. And we do try to get

1:38.1

to every question. If we don't answer your question immediately, don't fret. We will get to it

1:41.2

eventually. If it is time sensitive, we will try to answer it within,

1:49.9

you know, the time frame necessary for you to have your answer. And I think that is all of our primary info. So let's jump right in. Question one. All right. Go, go, go. Gatchett. Question.

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Nice. Thank you. The first question is from Bridget. and it is, let's see,

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Hi, guys, my mom moved interstate last year, and I miss her.

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I really wish she hadn't gone.

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Every time I read things about healing mother-daughter relationships, it helps,

2:10.6

so I was wondering if I could have some recommendations on books.

2:13.6

I really liked the Raven Cycle Books by Maggie Steve Fodder,

2:16.5

everything written by Neil Gaiman or Zaddy Smith,

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