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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn give book recommendations for holiday gift-giving. This episode is sponsored by TBR, The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali, a heart-rending story of family, love, and fate, available from Gallery Books, and TALION PUBLISHING LLC, publishers of the thrilling Talion Series by J.K. Franko. 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 Manazuru and The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami (rec’d by Cari and Brooke) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa(rec’d by Cari) Anything by Haruki Murakami (rec’d by Cari) The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami (rec’d by Brooke) Books Discussed How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell Turbulence & Resistance by Samit Basu Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Loyal League series (An Extraordinary Union #1) by Alyssa Cole City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy) by S.A. Chakraborty If the Fates Allow, edited by Annie Harper The Lotterys More or Less by Emma Donoghue (rec’d by Tirzah) (Don’t) Call Me Crazy, edited by Kelly Jensen Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Dog Day by Alicia Gimenez Bartlett, translated by Nicholas Caistor (tw animal abuse) The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas, transl. by Daniel Hahn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Getting instant insights is amazing.

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But if there are too many data points, it can be hard to see what works.

0:07.0

So I'll ask my AI assistant for recommendation.

0:11.0

And with PDF spaces in Acrobat Studio,

0:14.0

it's easy to remix documents and transform insights into standout content,

0:19.0

so you can go from idea to creation in record time all within an

0:23.1

AI powered workflow. Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:43.9

This is episode 207 and we're recording on November 12th.

0:47.2

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

0:51.0

Hello.

0:51.8

Hello.

0:53.1

Are we just counting down to Thanksgiving now? Well, I'm going to

0:57.0

visit Preeti and Atlanta this week, so that is what I am counting down towards. I'm so excited.

1:03.4

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Uh, no, it is not my favorite holiday. But I don't,

1:10.7

I love pumpkin pie, so like, I do love that part of it. Yeah, it's not my favorite holiday. But I don't. I love pumpkin pie, so I do love that part of it. Yeah, it's

1:14.2

definitely my favorite. Interesting. I don't. It doesn't make, I mean, I have no, it's just eating. Like,

1:20.8

you don't do anything on Thanksgiving. You sit and you eat food and you watch football. I don't even

1:25.9

care about that. Like, I don't know why. I just like it. It's like cozy. I mean, I will say that it has the least amount of other weird pressures on it for most holidays. So that's, that's reasonable. That's reasonable. Isn't it the cheapest, do you think? I mean, like, paying for all those groceries is a lot of money, but like you don't have't have to buy presents. I often have to travel, so. Oh, yeah. But it's true that there are no presents involved. I don't know. Halloween is my favorite holiday. I do love home. Quite frankly. So. Okay. Well, we don't have to talk about Thanksgiving. Welcome. We are going to talk about holidays today, though. We are. This is our holiday recommendation episode. I'm sure we will have more requests later in the year, but we wanted to do like a whole episode of just holiday recommendations for folks so we could get them out in time for y'all to go by gifts. So that's what we're doing. How the show works, both in this episode and in normal weeks, is that you send us your reading recommendation requests and we answer them here on the show. These can be for anything. They can be for you or a book club or for a gift, obviously, since we're doing a whole show about it. And you can email your reading recommendation request to us at get booked at bookwrite.com. Or you can drop your request in the form, which is at the bottom of the show, no, it's on the site. If your ask is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line or in the first line, a big, big letter so we can get to it on time. We might email you back. That's why we asked for your email address in the form. we might email you back if we're not going to get to it on time or if we've already answered the show on the air.

2:52.7

Okay.

2:53.5

So we have two pieces of feedback, but they're all for the same

2:56.9

book. A lot of people had recommendations for the questioner who asked for comps to the convenience

3:02.3

store woman. Kari says, I love the same aspects of the book she mentioned, Everyday Life in Japan

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