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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss nature reads, books about Iceland, sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. 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 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan The Wanderers by Meg Howrey Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman 100 Must Read Books About Books post An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott Rising Strong by Brené Brown Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:20.0

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0:23.3

It's AI that knows your work as well as you do.

0:26.4

Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more.

0:31.1

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

0:34.7

This is episode 79 and we are recording on May 2nd. I'm

0:37.7

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

0:42.1

Yay! Yay! The sun is out and the verbs are singing. It's May. It's nice. It's nice. I know. I agree.

0:52.7

I feel like April is not the cruelest month. Who is that from? Is that T.F. Eliot. Elliot was incorrect. February is the cruelest month. February is disgusting. But I am happy to be out of April. May is better. April was weird. I did not appreciate April's weather choices. Let's just say. Get your life together, April. It was like one day it would be 70 and then the next day

1:14.9

it would be 40 and then the next day after that it would rain and be like 60 and it was very confusing

1:20.6

i don't know what close to pack away i did not know how to dress myself at all in April. We're good at adulting.

1:28.3

Oh, yeah, super good.

1:30.2

Anyway, welcome to the show.

1:32.5

If you are new to the podcast, this is, like I said, a show for personalized reading

1:36.3

recommendation.

1:37.0

So if you have reading recommendation requests for any reason or subject matter, maybe

1:42.2

for your book club or a gift you want to give someone, or you

1:45.8

read something that you loved and want something that's similar to it. You can send any and all of this

1:50.5

request to us. You can email them to us at get booked at book at bookwrite.com, or you can drop them

1:54.7

in the form at the bottom of the show notes on the site. If your question is time sensitive,

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