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🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss pioneer fiction, distraction reads, slashers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love and First Lessons by Lina J. Potter. 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 Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt The Mothers by Brit Bennett Giveaway! bookriot.com/bookstore500 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Burial Rites by Hannah Kent A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (TW: harm to children and basically everyone else also) Security by Gina Wohlsdorf (rec’d by Liberty) When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean 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.
0:07.0	But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.
0:14.0	It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.
0:20.0	Because Slackbot isn't just another
0:22.4	AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot
0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Book podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.4	This is episode 133 and we are recording on May 22nd. I'm Amanda Nelson,
0:38.8	and I'm here with Jen Northington and my dog, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:42.5	Is Lola joining us today? She is. She is. She's sitting at my feet, which inevitably
0:48.5	means she's going to get bored and get up and make a bunch of noise. So I just wanted everyone to
0:52.6	know that that was happening.
0:55.4	Oh, Lola. I finally met her. You did. That's right. I can't believe you had never been to my house.
1:00.2	I know, but now I have. And you've met my mother. I met your mom. I met the minions.
1:05.7	Yep. I met your teenager. I met everybody. Jen was fully immersed in... For prom night, no one.
1:12.0	Yes. I was so frantic that night.
1:14.4	Where are her nails? Where are her false eyelashes?
1:16.7	What's happening? It was great.
1:19.8	It went well. The pictures are very nice.
1:21.5	Oh, good.
1:22.9	So what's your reading?
1:24.7	I am reading The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt, which finally came in at the library,
1:30.2	and it's been so long since I requested it that I literally don't remember why I requested it.
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