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Queer Teen Version Of The Odyssey

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss fiction about moms and dads, middle-grade books, asexual characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Amazon Kindle and The Evaporation of Sofi Snow by Mary Weber. 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 The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi The Day of the Duchess Sarah MacLean To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead The Wangs Vs. The World by Jade Chang The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede (Dealing With Dragons #1) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley 100 Must Read Lesbian and Bisexual Women Books post My Education by Susan Choi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.8

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0:34.4

recommendations. This is episode 84 and we are recording on June 6th. I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. What up, Amanda? Welcome back. We have returned from BEA. I'm still a little hoarse. Yeah, same. Same. This is going to be the sexy show. Oh, right, it's our Delilah after dark. Delilah. That's going to be like a forever thing now. That's never going away. I can't do it without laughing. No. So the EA was great. Yeah, it was good. There was a lot of lovely authors there and we got a lot of books. We got so many books. I didn't spill anything on anyone.

1:12.1

You didn't?

1:12.8

I didn't either.

1:13.8

It's true. I did like awkwardly avoid Meg Wallitzer at a party because I just can't make sounds at her because she's a genius. I'm like, what am I going to say? Right. I just hid behind Jen. Yeah. I was like, nope, nope, nope. Yeah. we, we, what is the word I want?

1:28.6

We lovingly side-eyed her.

1:30.2

Like we, like, we, like, we were definitely, nope, nope, nope. Yeah, we, we, we, um, what is the word I want? We lovingly side-eyed her. Like, we, like, we were definitely like, that's Megwalitzer, but we like also did not say anything to anyone fancy. So, you know, that's, that's how we roll at parties in case you were wondering. Awkwardly. Yeah, awkwardly. Exactly.

1:44.6

We either are spilling things on people or deliberately not talking to them.

1:48.0

It's super cool.

1:50.0

So what are you reading?

1:52.1

Yeah.

1:52.8

The irony here is that I came home with, you know, a literal box full of books that are advanced, you know, galleys and all of these things.

2:03.3

I apologize if you can hear that.

2:05.3

They have, of course, chosen this very moment to vacuum the hall outside of my apartment.

2:10.5

Anyway, I came home with all of these galleys, and instead I'm reading backlist because that's

2:15.6

just how I do, apparently.

2:17.7

But I started it before BEA in my defense.

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