Short Story Special

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🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss all the short stories in this week’s special episode of Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Random House. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg (recently announced transition to Daniel, but book is listed under Mallory) A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab A Fine Summer’s Day by Charles Todd Salsa Nocturna by Daniel José Older Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, incl. stories by Marie Lu and Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah podcast: Reading Women Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, edited by Sarah Weinman Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu Tender by Sofia Samatar Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu Gutshot by Amelia Gray Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri In the Country by Mia Alvar The Djinn Falls in Love And Other Stories edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin 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.
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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.4	This is episode 123 and we are recording on March 16th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here
0:39.2	with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from
0:41.2	Book Riot and this is a bonus show.
0:43.4	Hey!
0:44.4	Bonus show!
0:45.9	Just hands!
0:48.3	So this, I guess,
0:49.4	is really episode 122.5? I don't know
0:53.3	because like it's a Friday and the show's going to go up on Tuesday,
0:57.2	which is weird. But you know, whatever. Everyone can be happily surprised. And this show is themed.
1:02.8	And the theme is short stories. So we had a bunch of questions in the queue about people looking
1:08.9	for recommendations for short stories. And our sponsors for this week are short stories.
1:13.2	So we're just doing a whole thing.
1:14.4	We're just going to do a thing.
1:15.5	Yes.
1:16.0	But first, what are you reading, Jen?
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