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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss non-human narrators, stories about ladies doing it for themselves, books set in Japan, 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 Stoner by John Williams, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Sing Unburied Sing, Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, and My Antonia by Willa Cather (rec’d by Elizabeth) Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, White Palace by Glenn Savan (rec’d by Wynnde) Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (rec’d by Cate) Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton (rec’d by Kelly) Books Discussed Spinster by Kate Bolick Finding Freedom by Erin French (cw: addiction, domestic abuse, harm to animals) Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Vol. 1 by Koyoharu Gotouge with John Werry (Translator), Stan!, Adam Grano, Mike Montesa, John Hunt (cw: harm to children, mostly off-screen) Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff, Kaylani Juanita The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (cw: harm to children, graphic violence) Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (tw: rape, harm to children) The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka (Roxane Weary #1) (cw: violence against women and minors including rape, kidnapping, imprisonment) The Deep by Rivers Solomon (tw: slavery) Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton (narrated by a crow and also a cow and a polar bear, dogs and cats and sparrows) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	To be or not to be.
0:02.8	Right now we're offering a range of incentives across Audi models.
0:06.5	That is the...
0:07.5	But only until the 28th of February.
0:10.0	The...
0:10.7	Um...
0:12.0	So stop whatever you're doing.
0:14.4	Um... I'll be right back.
0:17.1	Just carry on without me.
0:18.3	And find yours online or at Finchley Road, Audi.
0:21.5	Audi, four-sprung Duck Technic.
0:23.8	Terms and conditions apply.
0:25.1	Selected models, retail customers and participating Audi centres only.
0:45.2	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:49.8	This is episode 282, and we are recording on May 18th.
0:55.1	I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:57.5	Hello, Amanda. Yes, we are.
1:01.2	Musical intro.
1:04.8	I like don't have banter today.
1:10.9	I think we wasted all over it. We wasted all of our banter before we started recording talking about the CDC and masks and stuff. Right. We're like, yes. We're out of banter now. Yeah, we, we used it all up and nobody wants to hear about that.
1:16.6	Nobody wants to hear about that. So we're not going to talk about that. Okay, I will say, here's a highlight from my recent life. I got to sit outside on a hill and eat cheese with friends this weekend. And that was
1:29.1	amazing. That's so good. That's so good. I got a time hop today that apparently three years
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