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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about refugees, fantasy series, indie horror, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Mariner Books, and Flatiron Books, publisher of Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore. Subscribe to 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. Books The Red Abbey Chronicles by Maria Turtschaninoff (TW rape, gender-based violence) the Kate Daniels series (Magic Bites #1) by Ilona Andrews Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai Books About the Immigrant Experience post The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (tw: mention of rape/sexual assault, genocide of indigenous populations, medical experimentation) North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud (Small Beer Press) The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Quirk) London Underground series (From Duke Till Dawn #1) by Eva Leigh Captured by Beverly Jenkins (tw: violence related to slavery, incl. reference to forced breeding) Sam Wu is Not Afraid series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, illustrated by Nathan Reed The Last-Last Day of Summer by Lamar Giles and Dapo Adeola The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark Falling In Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (tw: sexual assault) Indistractable by Nir Eyal Calm and Headspace apps Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.3

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0:26.4

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0:43.6

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

0:47.1

This is episode 220, and we are recording on February 25th.

0:52.0

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

0:53.5

I don't know why I sang that.

0:54.2

I felt the need. I like it, though. There are flowers on the tree outside of my window. I don't know why I sang that. Felt the need.

1:10.9

I like it, though. There are flowers on the tree outside of my window. I'm feeling very springtime. I listen to some Vivaldi this more. That's not true. I was not true. I was going to say. Nope, I didn't. I mean, now maybe I should. I feel like I should. Feeling very springy. one eat some peas Springtime food is I think my favorite food

1:13.9

Which I think is a little weird maybe I should. Yeah. Feeling very springy. One ate some peas.

1:44.1

Springtime food is, I think, my favorite food, which I think is a little weird. Like, I love asparagus and new peas and strawberries. I love all those things. So I'm not going to argue with you. Yeah. Springtime food. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Anyway, that's my story. Welcome to Get Booked, guys. So how the show works. As I said, this is a show for personalized reading recommendations. So if you would like a recommendation or you have a request for one, you can send it to us at Get Booked at Book Riot.com or you can drop it in the form on the bottom of the show notes on the site. If your question is time sensitive, like, you know, I'm traveling to France in the summer and I would like a book about France or something like that where it has a time limit. Please put that in the subject line of your email. If you're using the form, just put it in big capital letters in the first line so we will get to it in time. We might email you back if we're not going to get to it on time or if we've already answered your question in another episode. So that is why we ask for your email address.

2:05.7

Okay, we don't have any feedback this go around. So shall we just mozy? What's mozy? You're

2:11.7

going to read our first question. It's long. It is long. I will try to make it concise. It is from Brittany, who says, I'm temporarily

2:21.3

relocating for work to a place I've never been where I don't know anyone and need a good

2:25.5

wreck to help with the transition. I'm looking for an epic saga in which to get lost. I want

2:30.1

multiple books, huge stakes, big cohesive story. The problem I often run into is I am let

2:36.0

down by the ending. If I'm going to miss this, invest this much time and energy into a book,

2:40.5

I want it to be worth it. I want to miss the characters when they're gone. Lean towards fantasy,

2:46.3

as long as the ending is realistic and satisfying, prefer some sort of magic or mystic component

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