Send Me Short Stories

Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amanda and guest co-host Liberty recommend short story collections, WWII nonfiction, and more. 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 on the Show! A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley Curse of the Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (May 3) Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Tanarive Due Clariel (Garth Nix Abhorsen series) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Lonesome Dove Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege by Antony Beevor The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair (Amon Gert) What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 by William Sheridan Allen (Northeim, Germany) George by Alex Gino Better Nate Than Never by Tim Federle LGBTQ Books for Middle Grade Readers post Gracefully Grayson by Amy Polonski The Misfits by James Howe The Difference Between You and Me Arvida by Samuel Archibald Diving Belles by Lucy Wood Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman Thunderstruck and Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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 Arcado, 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.
0:25.3	This is episode 15, and we are recording on Tuesday, February 9th.
0:29.2	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with our resident bookwright Velocer Reader Liberty Hardy,
0:34.4	who is joining us from her All the Books podcast, filling in for Jen, who is away on a staff director retreat.
0:42.1	So thank you for coming and being on my show, Lib.
0:45.4	You're welcome.
0:46.2	I can't really fill in for Jen because no one can fill in for Jen.
0:49.4	Jen knows everything.
0:50.2	But I'm going to try really hard.
0:52.0	Jen has an infinite knowledge of all things literary.
0:55.5	But you read like 300 books a year.
0:58.2	So.
0:58.9	It was a little over 500 last year.
1:00.8	That is insanity, liberty.
1:03.1	Yeah, but I don't do anything else.
1:05.0	That's true.
1:05.5	That's true.
1:06.1	I feel like with your two powers combined, like if we got, maybe the two of you,
1:09.4	the two of you should just host all of our podcasts, all of them. Just all of them. Jen. Yes, you and Jen. My book's fellow from another fella. Yes. We'll make you queens of, or maybe like the czars. I like zars. Maybe the book czar. Zarina's. Mm-hmm. So for those of you who are listening for the first time, the way that the show works is
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Book Riot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Book Riot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.