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Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss distracting reads, international parenting advice, Austen read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele, and Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler. Subscribe to 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 Sex With Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan (rec’d by Miranda) Disunity in Christ by Christena Cleveland (rec’d by Jessica) Oral History by Lee Smith (rec’d by Jena) Books Discussed Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Strabal Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble (tw: cow & dog death) How to Raise Successful People by Esther Wojcicki There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather by Linda Akeson McGurk Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall The Purveen Mistry mysteries (Widows of Malabar Hill #1) by Sujata Massey Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Longbourn by Jo Baker Kraken by China Mieville Rosewater by Tade Thompson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Because Slackbot isn't just another

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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 Get Booked episode is sponsored in part by Libro FM. Libro FM lets you purchase

0:36.6

audiobooks directly from your favorite local

0:39.0

bookstore, and you can pick from more than 100,000 audiobooks, including New York Times bestsellers

0:44.6

and recommendations from booksellers around the country. With Libro FM, you get the same audiobooks

0:50.0

at the same price as the larger audiobook companies out there, but you'll be part of a different

0:54.7

story, one that supports community.

0:57.1

And all you need is a smartphone and the free LibroFM app.

1:01.3

So if you already love audiobooks and don't know what to check out next, you can find recommendations

1:06.2

and curated lists from the people who know audiobooks best, which are your local booksellers. And in June,

1:12.9

Libro FM launched their Kids Club and YA Club, which offers select audiobooks priced under $10 each,

1:19.5

as well as their summer listening challenge. And each person who finishes will get free

1:24.2

audiobook credit and a chance to win free audiobooks for a year if you complete the challenge extra credit.

1:30.4

So listeners of Get Booked can get a three-month audiobook membership for the price of one month when you go to Librofm, that's L-I-B-R-O-F-M, and enter code BR3.

1:41.0

And with each listen, you can take pride in knowing you're supporting local bookstores.

1:55.0

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

1:59.8

This is episode 189, and we are recording on July 16th.

2:04.0

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

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