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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss communism in books, horror short-stories, veterinary memoirs, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audiobooks and Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig. 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 The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale Olivia the Pig series by Ian Falconer When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads by Barbara Luke and Tamara Eberlein Feminist picture book post by Brandi Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, Marla Frazee Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Prague Winter by Madeleine Albright Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 by Vaclav Havel, transl. Paul Wilson If Wishes Were Horses by Loretta Gage Appointments at the Ends of the World by William Karesh The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin Ghost Summer by Tananarave Due North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron Queers Destroy Horror The Mothers by Brit Bennett This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood A Passage to India by EM Forster The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy America Day By Day by Simone de Beauvoir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

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

0:24.8

This is episode 50, and we are recording on October 11th.

0:28.0

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:32.0

Hello.

0:32.9

Hello.

0:33.9

It's the afternoon, which is weird.

0:35.5

Yeah, I don't know whether I'm coming or going today. We usually record Tuesday mornings at like 10. Right. We have a nice routine. I have my coffee, and now I'm just like, what day is it? It's fine. I don't know. It's cold outside. It's fine. Yay. Sweeters. We have sweaters. And chili, right? The chili is the plan. Yes, man. I made first chili. I think last show I talked about how I had made the first first chicken. And now I'm talking about how I've made the first chili. Welcome to the Food Network. I mean, tonight is my first chili of the season. So I'm super on board with this plan. Do it.

1:11.2

I have no segue.

1:12.4

Oh, go ahead. No, I was just going to, I was continuing on the food thing. Oh. I have a recipe for spaghetti, like a roasted spaghetti squash with like a cheese thing, one top. What? What I'm going to try tonight? It looks really good. Yeah, I'm going to need to hear more about that some other time. okay no segue

1:28.0

but I do want to

1:29.7

remind you that Book Riot Live

1:31.3

it's like Yeah, I'm going to need to hear more about that some other time. Okay, no segue, but I do want to remind you that Book Riot Live is like a month away, which is amazing.

1:34.7

But you can still get your tickets, and you can still get them for $20 off if you use code Jazz Hands.

1:40.1

When you check out, you should come join us.

1:41.9

Go to Book Riot Live.com to see all the glorious details. Oh, sorry. I couldn't figure. I'm muted so I could stop and then I couldn't unmute. Okay, so how the show works. Like I mentioned, this is a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. So you write into us with your reading recommendation request, whether it's a book for you, you've, you know, you've read book, like you read Harry Potter and you want something to fill that void, or it's for your book club or for a gift you want to give someone, or you're going on a trip somewhere and want to read books that take place in that setting, whatever, send it all to us, and we will answer it on the show. You can send them to us at email, through email, at goodbook.com, or you can drop them into the form at the bottom of all the show notes on the site. If it's time sensitive, please note it in the subject line or at the very top of your request so that we can hopefully answer it on time. Also worth mentioning that we've started to get repeat questions because we're on, you know, our 50th episode. and so if your question has been answered on the air a few times already, we will email you your response instead of making you wait until everyone has forgotten that your question was asked. So that is how it works. So we're going to get to our first question, and then I will talk about our first sponsor, and we will motor on. All right. Our first question is from Laurel.

2:52.1

Hi there. I recently found out that I'm expecting twin boys. My husband and I live in D.C.,

2:56.7

which can have a bit of a patriarchy complex, so we're looking for books that can help

3:00.9

us raise feminist boys, either adult books that we can read or children's books that we can

3:04.6

read to them. Any recommendations? Amanda, I know you've been here

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