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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss inclusive horror, small-town fantasies, smart creepy girls, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan and All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater. 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 Provenance by Ann Leckie Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Kraken by China Miéville An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Coraline by Neil Gaiman Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (trigger warning: rape, suicide) The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Song Yet Sung by James McBride A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal (Kitty Weeks #1) The Quiche of Death by MC Beaton (Agatha Raisin #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.8

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

0:35.4

This is episode 101 and we are recording on October 10th.

0:39.0

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

0:43.6

What's up, Amanda?

0:44.5

Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming.

0:47.6

I hope last week's episode wasn't too crazy for you guys.

0:50.9

I bet people liked it.

0:52.7

I hope so.

0:53.5

I'm just going to assume, yes. I mean, we didn't get any, like, hate mail. No, no, it's fine. About small press and literature and translation. Who would, who can hate on that? Come on. Come on. No, but it's true. We are actually answering your questions today, but before we do that, what are you reading, Amanda? I am reading Shades of

1:12.2

Milk and Honey by Mary Robin at Kell, and this is in preparation for a bonus episode that we're

1:17.6

doing in December, it's not bonus, but whatever, an episode we're doing in December all about

1:21.2

readalikes for Jane Austen. And so I've heard about this book over and over, and I'm really

1:24.7

enjoying it. I'm listening to it on audio. And it's basically pride and prejudice, meet sense and sensibility with light magic. So it's like

1:34.7

very regency. It's about two sisters, one of whom is very sensible, one of whom is very emotional

1:39.4

and kind of irritating. They have various romantic adventures and there's like a twist where the women, and I think

1:48.3

some of the dudes so far, but mostly the female characters have the ability to do what they

1:52.4

call glamour, which is kind of like really complicated or not, depending on their talent

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