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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss magical seamstresses, feminist weddings, foodie fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, JIMMY Patterson Books, publisher of Ali Cross by James Patterson, and the Read Harder Challenge. 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 All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (rec’d by Jaimee) A Knight in Central Park by Theresa Ragan (rec’d by Teresa) Time and Again by Jack Finney (rec’d by Sibyl) A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (rec’d by Sibyl) Books Discussed Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim Torn by Rowenna Miller Something New by Lucy Knisley (rec’d by Aly) Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim The Cheffe by Marie NDiaye, transl. by Jordan Stump The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai (tw: domestic abuse) Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee The Governess Game by Tessa Dare The Professor by Charlotte Stein Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (TW: harm to children, suicide, child sexual abuse) Heart Berries by Therese Marie Mailhot (tw: self-harm, domestic violence, struggles with mental health) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Visit petjavity.com.uk for full details. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:44.1

This is episode 210, and we're recording on December 10th.

0:47.8

I love some, I don't know, parallelism.

0:50.4

I don't know what that is.

0:51.0

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we're coming to you from Book Riot, and I'm fresh off a week of PTO, so I'm a little punchy. Hey, welcome back. Just in time to take another week off for the holidays. That's the ideal way to do it. It's been kind of amazing. I was thinking next year I might also save up some PTO for December and then just take like half the month off. Yeah, I support it.

1:14.8

Great, because I just want to hibernate and like curl up in a blanket and not move.

1:19.9

Anyway, all right, so how the show works. I don't remember because I haven't been here for like two weeks.

1:25.0

Just kidding. So this is, as I mentioned, a show for personalized reading recommendations so if you have a reading

1:30.4

recommendation request you need you know a gift for someone or you just read a book

1:34.6

that left a big hole in your heart and you need something to fill it or you

1:37.1

need a book club pick or whatever you can send this to us you can email them to us

1:40.8

at get booked at book riot.com or you can drop them in the show notes on the

1:44.3

form on the site. If your question is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line of the email

1:49.7

or in big letters in the first line if you're using the form so we can get to it on time.

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