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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss novels with interesting structures, queer YA, historical fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Kensington Books, and Yen Press. 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 The Brilliance Saga (Brilliance) by Marcus Sakey (rec’d by Carol) The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki; #Kornackithirst on Leslie Jones’s Twitter feed (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed Milkman by Anna Burns The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (tw: graphic harm to children, institutionalized racism) Huntress by Malinda Lo Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells A Pale Light in the Black by KB Wagers House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Kingston Cycle by CL Polk (Witchmark) (tw: violence against women & children, PTSD) The Loyal League Series by Alyssa Cole (An Extraordinary Union) (tw: slavery) The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (tw: domestic violence, harm to women & children, addiction) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace (tw: child abuse) 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 AI.
0:23.3	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.
0:45.6	This is episode 258 and we are recording on November 17th.
0:50.1	I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:55.4	Hello. Good morning. Welcome. I am so sleepy today.
1:02.8	Yeah. Correct. I have nothing to add to that. I am also very sleepy. Yeah. It's going to be a multi-caffeine day, I feel, I feel.
1:12.9	My dog has been getting up every morning at 4.30, which is like a super fun journey.
1:18.5	I hate it.
1:19.1	I hate it so much.
1:20.0	Sometimes I can get him to go back to sleep, but sometimes he's like, no, let's play with this
1:24.4	ball now right now for an hour.
1:27.2	Thank you.
1:28.0	I cannot wait for this to be over.
1:31.9	I feel very much about this puppy the way that I do about my human children, which is like, I did that once.
1:37.7	I don't have to do that again.
1:38.7	Like I don't need to have an infant mammal in my house ever again.
1:48.1	May Petunia sleep longer soon.
1:55.8	Thank you. I receive your benediction. Well, welcome to the show, y'all, if this is your first episode. Surprise. We are going to talk about books. This is, as I said at the top, a show for personalized reading recommendations, and you can send in your request either via email, get booked at bookriot.com, or you can drop it in the form that is at the bottom of the show notes on our site for each episode. And we will do our best to find you your next great read. It can be a request for
2:18.8	yourself or a friend or relative. It can be for gift giving or travel or whatever. Just send it on in.
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