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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss non-boring literary fiction, books set in Jamaica, unreliable narrators, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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 Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (rec’d by Ericka) Books Discussed Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins Earthsinger Chronicles by L. Penelope (#1 Song of Blood and Stone) Sacred Hunt (Hunter’s Oath) & Sun Sword series by Michelle West (rec’d by Liberty) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (cw: death by suicide, addiction, child neglect, racism and racial violence against Native peoples) Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (tw homophobia) Augustown by Kei Miller (cw via StoryGraph: polite brutality, racial violence) Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull The Fairyland series (Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland) by Cat Valente (cw: mention of child abuse) Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar Atonement by Ian McEwan Trust Exercise by Susan Choi (rec’d by Jess) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,

0:05.5

made the way denim should feel. Their denim has always been a staple in my wardrobe and has a wide range of fits,

0:11.4

styles, and washes. Every jean is available in both their classic fit and viral curve love.

0:17.5

Shop in the app, online, and in stores. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:43.4

This is episode 280, and we are recording on May 4th.

0:47.6

I'm Jen Northington.

0:48.6

I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot, and I am sleepy this morning.

1:11.3

Yeah, it's that kind of hot here. It's like 90 degrees. And it's that kind of hot where, you know, you remember why before air conditioning was invented, people in the South slept through the daytime. You know, so that's how I feel. Like, I just want to take it up. That's horrifying. Hey, yeah.

1:14.5

Just from like now until September.

1:16.2

This is small planned.

1:17.9

No, thanks.

1:20.7

It's just like rainy and it is humid here.

1:25.2

It's, I think the high today is like 80, which is acceptable in my book.

1:25.5

Yeah.

1:26.9

I will allow it.

1:29.8

But anyway, it makes me extra sleepy is all I'm saying,

1:35.5

that it's warm and rainy. So yes, we're going to snooze our way through this show.

1:46.4

You're welcome. Well, welcome, as we said at the top. This is a show for personalized reading recommendations, which means that you can send in your request and we might pick it to give you some options. You can send

1:53.5

those in either via email, get booked at bookriot.com, or you can put them in the form that's

1:59.8

at the bottom of the show notes on the site for each

2:03.1

episode. And your question can be, it can be for you, it can be maybe you are looking for something

2:09.0

for a friend or relative or your book club needs some ideas or you're traveling somewhere.

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