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Macbeth But In Mexico About A Druglord

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss several geographically specific reads, COVID art, memories in sci-fi, 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 This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila (rec’d by Carol) Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (rec’d by Laura) A Painted House by John Grisham, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (rec’d by Suzanne) Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings (rec’d by Rachel) Good Enough to Eat by Jae and Alison Gray, CW: it deals with real addiction and alcoholism (rec’d by Rose) The Library of Legends by Janie Chang (rec’d by Susan) Books Discussed Alabama: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Utah: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (cw: homophobia) Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera, transl Lisa Dillman The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea (tw: rape, child abuse) The Premonition by Michael Lewis Together, Apart, by Erin A. Craig, Jennifer Yen, et al The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (tw: harm to children) The Blue Fox by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb Cheese and Culture by Paul Kindstedt Edible by Daniella Martin The Deep by Rivers Solomon, et al Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi The Chimes by Anna Smaill The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (cw: death of a child) 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.

0:07.0

But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.

0:14.0

It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.

0:20.0

Because Slackbot isn't just another

0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot

0:28.8

to learn more. This is the Get Booked Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:44.4

This is episode 283 and we are recording on May 25th.

0:48.5

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

0:52.0

where I do know how to speak with my mouth.

0:54.5

I don't know if that's true. Can any of us, can any amongst us regularly speak with our mouths?

1:01.9

Aren't we just brains and a vat?

1:04.2

Imagining that we are speaking with our mouths, throwback to my high school philosophy class.

1:08.0

I was just going to say how very Descartian of you.

1:15.9

Thank you. Thank you. Everything is just the Matrix. I never progressed past that philosophical phase in my life, The Matrix. I mean. Anyway, so welcome to our

1:23.9

unraveling. This is a show about personalized reading recommendations.

1:36.6

And the way that the show works is you can email us, your reading recommendation request to get book at bookwrit.com, or you can drop them in the form, which is in the show notes on the site.

1:42.6

This can be any reading recommendation request for yourself, for a gift for a book club, whatever your heart desires.

1:44.3

If your question is time sensitive,

1:48.0

please just put that in the subject line or in big letters in the first line if you're using the form so we can get back to you on time. If we will not get back to you on time, we will

1:52.4

email you back, which is why we ask for your email address. Okay, we have a lot of feedback

1:57.2

this week. Carol, for the person who was asking for book recommendations before

2:01.8

they go to Hawaii, Carol recommends, this is Paradise by Christiana Kahala Koila. Should be

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