The Last of the Recommendation Responses, KNIFE by Salman Rushdie, and more

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca finish off the season's recommendation requests, talk about Salman Rushdie's Knife, answer a few mailbag questions, and more. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Make this your most bookish summer yet with personalized reading recommendations from Tailored Book Recommendations! Our bibliologists (aka professional book nerds) are standing by to help you find your next favorite read. Get your recommendations via email, or opt to receive hardcovers or paperbacks delivered right to your door. And with quarterly or annual plans available, TBR has something for every budget. Get started today from just $18! Head to mytbr.co to subscribe. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: Kelly Jensen named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker Knife by Salman Rushdie The Candy House by Jennifer Egan Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Pachinko by Min Jin Lee A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib North Woods by Daniel Mason Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Cloudstreet by Tim Winton Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor The Fraud by Zadie Smith Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang Small World by Jonathan Evison The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo Real Americans by Rachel Khong The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Bird's Eye Chicken Dippers.
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0:28.0	This is the Bookry podcast. I'm Jeff O'Too.
0:34.0	And I'm Rebecca Shinsi.
0:36.0	And today we've got a potpourri.
0:38.0	We've got some moms, dads, and grads wrap up.
0:42.0	We've got to talk about knife by Salman Rushdie. We've got some
0:46.6	front list and then we've got some mail back questions that we're going to talk about. So we got
0:51.8	a little bit of everything. We're not doing news this week. I'm going to talk about. So we got a little bit of everything.
0:52.8	We're not doing news this week.
0:54.3	I'm going to be gone next week.
0:55.3	So we got to do some mop up before I get out of town.
0:59.9	I don't know if I've set up who's going to be joining you next week.
1:02.2	I know we've got a couple of things that are going to be in the can, but yeah,
1:06.5	I look for that there in mid-May. Rebecca, I think, let's see, we have a Mother's Day thing here, but this show doesn't go out until
1:15.8	after Mother's Day, doesn't it?
1:17.8	That's right.
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