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

This is episode 16, and we are recording on Wednesday, February 17th. I am Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are recording on Wednesday, February 17.

I am Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from bookguide.com.

Welcome back to the show. Welcome to the show. I'm doing jazz hands. We're always doing

jazz hands. We should just be called the Jazz Hands podcast. Excellent. Right? Like, I have a lot of enthusiasm.

Um, so for those of you who are new to the show, uh, it's like I said, a personalized reading

recommendation show, we will answer your reading recommendation questions for you or for your

book club or for a gift. If you have a read-a-like that you're looking for, you know, like I read Harry Potter and I'm looking for something to fill that hole in my life, please help. We answer those kinds of questions. We can answer questions about what your book club should read next. Anything in all things, book recommendation related. So you can send those questions to us at get booked at bookgriott.com or you can just go on to bookriot.com and navigate to the

get booked section and drop your question in the form, which is at the bottom of every episode.

And yeah, you want to just like jump in. I mean, you know, I feel like we should point out that

all of the answers come with jazz hands. So yeah, extra incentive to send us your questions.

That's real. We should really do an episode one of these days, like, and record it on, I put it on YouTube. So people can see the ridiculous faces that we make.

I'm wearing my cowl today, my hunter's cowl today. So it's like, you know, if you can imagine.

I made, I made her, I crocheted her, the cowl that Katness wears in catching fire because it's cozy. Because you're magic. Thank you. Shine your halo. Okay. Yes. All right. So questions. Question one. This is from Katie. All right. Let's see. I have found I enjoy books with magical elements and the idea of a world within a world. I've enjoyed Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere is probably my favorite. I finished the Magicians trilogy. And from all the books, which is Liberty's, Liberty Hardy's podcast, I picked up Bone Gap, which was YA slash magical realism, and I enjoyed that. It's not a genre I'm familiar with, and I specifically like books where there's the regular world and then the magical or fantastical. I've also found I really enjoy these books on audio, so if you happen to know of any with an excellent audio version, even better. So that is from Katie. Oh, she says, P.S. I have, of course, read Harry Potter. Great, because that's A plus. I need to recommend Harry Potter. I feel like I will never mention Harry Potter on the show.

No one needs that.

Like you all know. Harry Potter is the answer to every question. I mean, kind of. All right, you've got more than me. Yeah, yeah. Well, I just, okay, first I want to say, welcome to portal fantasy. That's what these are called, where there's like a door or a wardrobe or a letter and somehow you're transported from one world into the other world.

Portal Fantasy. that's what these are called where there's like a door or a wardrobe or a letter and somehow

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