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🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss October reads, books set in India, angry female characters, 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 Here We Are by Graham Swift and Birchwood by John Banville (rec’d by Cat) Books Discussed All the Murmuring Bones by AG Slatter (tw: incest, child abuse) The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing incident) Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (tw: harm to children) Books Set in India post: https://bookriot.com/books-set-in-india/ The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (cw: intimate partner violence, infertility & miscarriage)  The Merry Spinster by Daniel M. Lavery (may be listed under Mallory Ortberg) Firebreak by Nicole Horner-Stace White Oleander by Janet Fitch (tw: child abuse, suicide) Educated by Tara Westover (cw: child abuse) Elizabeth Gaskell Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray The Son by Phillipp Meyer (tw: torture, harm to children) Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (cw: harm to pregnant women) In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce (tw: domestic violence, miscarriage) They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzel Hall (cw: reference to teenage suicide, racism, cyber bullying, disordered eating, and others) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:14.5

This is episode 295, and we are recording on August 24th.

0:17.7

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot, where it is 90 degrees in our respective states. Yeah, that's it. It's just so hot, y'all.

0:26.6

The worst. I don't know if you know, but it's late summer. What? It's like really

0:34.1

toasty. Yeah. That's all. That's all I have. It's hot.

0:38.1

I guess it is sort of the only way I know, like what general sort of time we're in is the weather.

0:46.5

Yeah.

0:47.0

I get the like the Axios morning roundup email.

0:51.0

Or maybe it was the morning brew.

0:51.9

I don't remember.

0:52.3

I get a couple of like morning news digest. And one of them was like the iced pumpkin spice version, like this pumpkin

0:59.3

spice cold cream at Starbucks has surpassed the pumpkin spice latte in sales. And I was like,

1:04.5

right, because you roll it out in September, like September 1st, when it's still 90 degrees everywhere.

1:09.5

And nobody wants to drink a freaking latte.

1:11.7

Like, what is wrong with you?

1:26.1

So there you go. Cold cream, pumpkin spice. That sounds disgusting. I can't. I actually think that sounds amazing. And now I need to go find a Starbucks. When I get a pumpkin spice light tie, which I get one a year because I feel like I have to because I live in suburbia.

1:27.3

It's like they don't let you back in if you don't at least have one.

1:29.0

I have to get it with half the pumps of the syrup because it's so sweet. Anyway, thank you for coming to our Pumpkin Spice.com. How this show works, we are a reading recommendations show. So you can send us your request for reading recommendations to our email inbox, which is get booked at bookriot.com, or you can also send us feedback if you have any. Or you can use the form, which is in the bottom of the show notes on the site. If your question is time sensitive, please put it like in the subject line of your email. If you use the form, just put it in big letters in the first line so that we will answer it on time.

2:01.4

Also, as we have mentioned several times now, our 300th episode upcometh in five weeks, because

2:07.2

that's how math works. And so we're going to do an AMA and ask us anything for that episode.

2:12.5

We've gotten enough questions that we're probably going to have to do to AMAs.

2:15.4

But if you have any burning things you would

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