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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss LGBT+ history, prickly Westerns, experimental prose and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Playster and You Are Here by Jenny Lawson. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. 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 HIV/AIDS Reading List by Rah Carter Scarlet Ribbons: A Priest with AIDS by Rosemary Bailey The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Rah Carter Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (Bas-Lag series) Time Salvager by Wesley Chu Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue Deconnick, Emma Rios Doc by Mary Doria Russell Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Room by Emma Donoghue In Her Own Sweet Time by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (rec’d by Jaime H) Knock Yourself Up by Louise Sloan Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee The Black Count by Tom Reiss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:35.0

This is episode 73 and we are recording on March 21st.

0:38.0

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

0:42.6

Hello, hello. Salutation. I actually, it's so funny because I use that in this week's

0:53.0

Swords and Spaceship's newsletter.

0:55.3

And I don't know where it came from, but it suddenly popped into my head.

0:59.0

So apparently it's like going around.

1:01.2

Is it contagious?

1:02.1

Is salutation contagious?

1:03.5

I don't know.

1:04.5

I feel like I actually have no idea where I got it.

1:09.0

I think data from Star Trek is where. I'm reading a lot of like Jane Austen and Edith Wharton at the moment so that's my excuse. Edith Wharton. Yeah, I'm reading Huss of Mers finally. She's so good. She's such a smart ass. Right? Well, they both are really. Well, yeah, obviously. Is it sure that keeping up with the Joneses thing is about Edith Wharton's family? Have you heard that? Ooh, I don't know. But I would not be surprised. I keep hearing that the phrase Keeping Up with the Jones is originated with Edith Wharton's birth family. Like, her maiden name was Jones. And so that's where that came from. It was from really super wealthy New York family. and I just can't, I can neither confirm or deny the veracity of that and I would really like someone to tell me. I will, so if you know if that's true and you're out there, please email me. I will probably fall down in Google Rabbit Hole later. Yes, do it, do it, do it. All right, anyway. Yeah, anyway, so welcome to the show. So how the show works is if you have a reading recommendation that you need help with, whether it's, you know, you want to read a like for a book that you recently read and loved, or you need to give somebody a gift, or you need something for your book club or whatever, you send us those reading recommendation requests and we answer them on the show. You can email them to us at getbooked at bookright.com or you can drop them in the form that is at the bottom of all the show notes on the site.

2:21.1

If your question is time sensitive, please note it either in the subject line or in the very first line of your question so that we can get to it on time. We do answer some questions via email. if it's time sensitive, we know we're not going to get to it on time,

2:31.9

or if we've already answered your question on the show,

2:33.8

we will email our answers to you so that you have them.

2:37.5

And... sensitive. We know we're not going to get to it on time or if we've already answered your question on the show, we will email our answers to you so that you have them. And subpoint,

2:39.6

that's something like that we just started doing a couple months ago. So if you sent in a

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