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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss what to read after Where The Crawdad Sings, time travel fiction, challenging reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Liar’s Daughter by Megan Cooley Peterson, and Care/Of. 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 Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (rec’d by Miranda) Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (rec’d by Miranda) Books Discussed Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon (tw: ableist language and slurs around mental health) Dread Nation by Justina Ireland American Hippo by Sarah Gailey Steve and Me by Terri Irwin The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton Sum it Up by Pat Summit Wolfpack by Abby Wambach Deep Creek by Pam Houston The Overstory by Richard Powers (tw: suicide) A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko (tw: for everything) 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 to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:45.8

This is episode 208, and we are recording on November 19th.

0:49.5

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

0:53.9

and are in

0:55.5

some disbelief about Thanksgiving being next week. How is that? How is that possible? I am ready.

1:01.4

Thanksgiving is my favorite and I just want to eat a trash bag of collard greens. Like a full

1:08.4

trash bag. I'm here for that. I'm mostly here for the pie. Not going to lie.

1:13.4

I'm a fan of pie is good. I'm in charge of dessert this year, which I just remembered right this second.

1:18.5

So I should probably figure something out.

1:21.7

Note to sell.

1:23.8

It's going to end up being me going to the grocery store and buying a pie. That's what's going to happen.

1:29.4

I mean, that's dessert. You're done. I have fulfilled my obligation. That's right. That's right.

1:34.3

You're welcome. Well, I guess this is the point at which I remind everybody that if you still have holiday gift giving questions, we did do our official holiday episode last week, but we will still answer those for as much time as we have.

1:50.4

Although next week we'll be taking a break because it is Thanksgiving and Amanda will be eating a trash bag of collard green.

1:55.9

And I will be eating a trash bag of pie.

1:58.9

So not next week, but perhaps the week after.

2:01.7

Speaking of, the show works by you sending us in recommendation requests and us answering them.

2:08.1

So how that works. You can send them to us via email, get booked at bookriot.com, or drop them in the

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