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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss deeply messed up books, body positive reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Falling Hard by Stacy Finz and 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 9 Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah Maclean The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli (rec’d by Preeti) Zealot by Reza Aslan Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson Our Harsh Logic from Breaking the Silence Anything Chaim Potok (The Chosen) List of Jewish historical fiction not about the Holocaust The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Ninth City Burning by J Patrick Black Embassytown by China Mieville Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin Everfair by Nisi Shawl Asking For It by Lilah Pace Out by Natsuo Kirino Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.

0:10.2

Save and splurge at Accardo, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply.

0:16.6

New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.

0:21.3

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

0:25.9

This is episode 76 and we are recording on April 11th.

0:29.7

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

0:34.2

How's it going?

0:36.3

Oh, you know, it's launch morning. So like it's great and also terrifying. How's it going? Oh, you know, it's a launch morning, so like it's great and also

0:40.6

terrifying. Everything's wonderful. You have had a week. Word. I have. I have. Um, we are launching

0:51.9

a book riot insiders today, but I'll tell you more about that later on.

0:56.5

I guess we'll just dive right in. I have no banter. I have zero banter. I will, it's fine.

1:01.8

Do you want me to explain how the show goes? Yes, if you don't mind, that would be wonderful.

1:05.5

I am totally here for that. So, as Jen said, this is a show for personalized reading recommendations.

1:11.7

So you can send us your reading recommendation requests and we will answer them on the show.

1:16.0

These can be, I mean, for anything, you need a book recommendation for your book club.

1:19.7

You read some title and want something that's similar to it.

1:23.9

You know, you need a gift.

1:25.1

Anything like that.

1:25.8

You can email them to us at getbook to bookwrite.com.

1:29.1

Or you can drop your question in the form at the bottom of the show notes on the site.

1:33.8

If your question is time sensitive, please note that in the subject line of the email or in the

1:37.9

very first line of the question if you leave it on the form so that we can get to it in time.

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