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4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss place-based narratives, women breaking barriers, and books set in Vancouver in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Carina Press, publisher of Rough and Tumble by Rhenna Morgan. 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 Rabbit Ears by Maggie De Vries (recommended by Brenna) The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (recommended by Brenna) How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn Better Living Through Plastic Explosives by Zsuzsi Gartner The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (“On Marriage”) Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (for example, this quote) Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (particularly Like An Iron Bell) I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Negroland by Margo Jefferson The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade Home by Toni Morrison We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph Galloway The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science by Rachel Swaby Sally Ride by Lynn Sherr (recommended by Swapna) Girl at War by Sara Novic Kody Keplinger (DUFF, Run) The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked edited by Sheila Black, Michael Northen, Annabelle Hayse Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis 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.
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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 69 and we are recording on February 22nd. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hello. What, what? Welcome. It's raining Tuesday in February. Surprise. Yeah. Because it's not Tuesday. It's Wednesday. Oh my God. I don't even know what day it is. Yeah, that's right. It is Wednesday. We usually record on Tuesdays. We do. We do. Um, so, um, with that fascinating banter, let's talk about how the show works. Um, so like I said, this is a show for personalized reading recommendation. So if you have a recommendation request, you need a book for your book club or something for yourself to read next or whatever.
1:17.3	A gift for someone.
1:18.2	You can send them to us via email at getbook to bookwrite.com.
1:22.1	Or you can also drop your question in the form, which is at the bottom of the show notes on the site of every episode.
1:28.0	If your question is time sensitive, please note that in the subject heading of the email
1:33.7	or in like the very first line of the question if you're using the form so that we can,
1:38.7	you know, see it when we're putting together the next episode. We will be emailing a few
1:43.0	people back with responses. If you're asking a question that we've already answered on the show, you know, this is our 69th episode. So we, it's entirely possible that we've answered a question already. We will email you that link to the show where your question is answered or new recommendations, if that applies. Or if your question is time sensitive and we aren't going to get to it. We will respond via email. Okay.
2:01.0	So that is how the show works.
2:02.3	We're going to do our first question, our first sponsor, and then onward.
2:06.8	Indeed.
2:09.0	And that is all Jen.
2:11.5	Wee.
2:13.4	Interestingly enough, our first question is also from a Jennifer.
2:16.7	Hello, fellow Jennifer. Okay, so the question is, from a Jennifer. Hello, fellow Jennifer.
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