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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss good books about houseplants, family-focused romance, quirky characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Book Riot’s service for Tailored Book Recommendations, now available as a gift! and Sourcebooks. 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. Feedback Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow (rec’d by Eric) Broken Wings by L-J Baker, Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews, When Women Were Warriors by Catherine Wilson (the kindle version is free on Amazon!!), and everything Anna Burke has written (rec’d by Wynnde) Books Discussed I Don’t Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, transl. by Tina A. Kover True Pretenses by Rose Lerner (ownvoices Jewish hero, tw: depictions of anti-Semitism) The Rogue Not Taken (Scandal & Scoundrel series) by Sarah MacLean Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu (tw: violent homophobia) Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzel Hall The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (tw slavery) Defending Angels by Mary Stanton (rec’d by Caitlin) Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (tw racism, harm to children) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Wild at Home by Hilton Carter (IG: @hiltoncarter) Happy Cactus by John Pilbeam Gardeners’ World with Monty Don 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.

0:44.8

This is episode 234, and we are recording on June 2nd.

0:49.4

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

0:55.6

And before we get started, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that this is an extraordinarily difficult time

1:01.9

for the black community. Black Lives Matter, and we are sending support and encouragement.

1:07.5

We're also putting together an episode for next week around anti-racist literature

1:11.4

for those who need some more education and literature to refer to. Yeah, and I just want to

1:17.9

hang a lantern on the fact that even if you are brown, you are not black for most of us.

1:25.0

And there are a lot of communities, I'm speaking from mine specifically, that are marginalized in their own ways, And there are a lot of communities I'm speaking from mine specifically

1:28.7

that are marginalized in their own ways, but that have a lot of anti-blackness to work

1:32.8

through Asian communities, Filipino communities can be very anti-black. It comes out in the way

1:37.8

that we talk about our own skin color and the way that we have all internalized colonialism

1:42.4

and the anti-black messages that that, you know,

1:45.7

puts inside of us all. So doing anti-racist work is not just for white people. So when we put out

1:51.4

that episode next week, I really encourage everyone who is not black or indigenous to have a listen.

1:57.2

So yeah. Yeah. And that's our story. And that's our story. And now we're going to

2:03.8

talk about other things, which feels really weird. But that's how the show works. So here we go.

2:09.8

So speaking of how the show works, you send in your questions about what you should read next,

2:16.5

what your book club might want to read, what you

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