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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss middle-grade read-alouds, atmospheric novels, snarky 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 Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci (rec’d by Jan) Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen (rec’d by Sibyl) Anthony Horowitz’s the Susan Ryeland series (first book: Magpie Murders) and the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries (first book: The Word is Murder) (rec’d by Ann) Books Discussed Fairest by Meredith Talusan (tw: racism) Sorted by Jackson Bird Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Where The Mountain Meets The Moon by Grace Lin Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, transl. by Anne McLean Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (tw: rape & other violence towards women, harm to children including death, panic attacks & PTSD) Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/  Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (tw: suicide attempts) Please Like Me S2, particularly Episode 7 Post: https://bookriot.com/6-novels-featuring-mental-illness-world-suicide-prevention-day/ Borderline by Mishell Baker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot to learn more. This is the Gapbooked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:44.4

This is episode 287 and we're recording on June 22nd.

0:47.5

I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with John Northington and we're coming to you from Book Riot.

0:51.1

Welcome to the show.

0:53.0

Jazz hands.

0:57.3

Hello, hello. I say the jazz hands because you cannot see the jazz hands. Correct. Correct. So, I'm just going to get right into

1:03.7

like the AMA and all of it. We have many notes. Oh yeah, we have so many notes. Okay, so first of all,

1:09.8

how the show works. I'll do that first.

1:11.0

This is a show for reading recommendations, obviously, as I just said 30 seconds ago. So you can email us your reading recommendation requests at get booked at bookerad.com, or you can drop them in the form, in the show notes on the site. Either is fine. I check both of them. So, you know, if you have a time sensitive question, please

1:27.9

put that in the subject line of your email or if you're using the form, just put it in big bold

1:31.4

letters, all caps, in the first line. So we will see it. We will email you back if we're not going to get to it on time or if we have already answered your question on the show. So, you know we're in episode 287 episode 300 approaches what the end is nine no it's not the end

1:46.2

I'm just kidding. It's just episode 300 is nigh, but that doesn't sound as cool. So we were thinking for a 300th, which is hard to say, episode, we would do an ask us anything. An A-M-A, but an A-U-A, which is not as fun to say, I guess. So if you, you know, that's not for several weeks, 13, to be exact. So we'll get to episode 300, I think, in like August. But we're going to go ahead and put out the call for questions now to give people time to send them into us. So if you have, you know, ask us anything. If you want to ask us about books, our own

2:17.9

reading lives, or I don't know, the shoes we like, I don't even know, whatever you want.

2:23.0

Amanda's burpee routine. Ha ha ha ha. I hate a burpee. She hates a burpee. Yeah, send us your

2:30.1

questions and we will answer them. We will compile them all together and answer them for episode

2:33.6

300. And you can email those to us at get booked at bookriot.com. Okay, we've got three

2:39.3

items of feedback here. The first is from Jan, who says, for Sue who wanted books about Turkey,

2:44.3

I recommend a graphic memoir, Dare to Disappoint Growing Up in Turkey by Osge Samanchi.

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