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🗓️ 30 January 2020

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Amanda and Jenn discuss heroines in high fantasy, nonbinary reads, Swedish fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast, Scout Press, an imprint of Gallery Books, and Book Riot Insiders. 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 Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter (rec’d by Wynnde) Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and The Woman in White, In the Woods by Tana French (rec’d by Miranda) The Living by Annie Dillard (rec’d by Katie) Books Discussed The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (Chronicles of Elantra #1) (tw: harm to children, graphic violence) No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll Dreadnought by April Daniels (tw: transphobia, emotional abuse) Annex by Rich Larson (tw transphobia, deadnaming, mild-ish body horror) The Outside by Ada Hoffmann (tw: body horror, self-harm) The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton Daughters of the Storm by Kim Wilkins (tw: harm to children) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (tw self-harm, sexual assault) Queer Magic by Tomás Prower Camilla Lackberg Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (tw: body horror, issues of consent, suicide) Coraline by Neil Gaiman Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (tw: harm to children) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.1	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:38.2	This is episode 216 and we're recording on January 28th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Worthington and we are coming to you from Book Riot and the 17
0:42.1	millionth month of January. Y'all, I'm on the struggle bus. January just makes me tired. I've
0:52.0	discovered. Like, why? Why is it still happening to me? It's happening to all of us, obviously. But I keep seeing these memes on Instagram that are like, January is actually eight months long. You're welcome. And I'm like, thank you. I thought that it was only me who thought that it's just, you know, like Christmas Eve was only like a month ago. Isn't that bananas?
1:11.3	It is.
1:12.2	Anyway. That's my rant. I'm really excited for January to be over. Okay, so how the show works. This is a show for personalized reading recommendations. So if you need a reading recommendation for yourself or your book club or for a gift or whatever, you can send those to us. You can email them to us at getbook to booktobooktogide.com or you can drop them in the form and the show notes on the site, the site of course being bookwright.com. If your request is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line. If you're using the form, put it in big letters, first line of the request so that we will get to it on time. We ask for your email so that we can email you back if we're not going to answer your question on time or if we have already answered
1:47.9	it on the show. Or if we asked us in 2016 and we missed it, whoops, we're getting to those.
1:51.9	Sorry about that. You probably already found a book to read, but like, look, we have ethics.
1:56.2	We're ethical over here. Okay, so we do have a few items of feedback.
2:02.9	Let's see.
2:03.8	Wendy says, this is for Emma, who is looking for an LGBTQ Evelyn Hugo
2:08.0	read alike.
2:08.8	I'd recommend survived by her long-time companion by Chris Painter.
2:12.6	It is fabulous.
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