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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss food memoirs, satires, books to build empathy, and more on this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Madison Reed and Comic Bento. 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 Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan The Happy Vegan by Russell Simmons Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Pigs Can’t Swim by Helen Peppe A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas East of Eden by John Steinbeck Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Honey, Olives, Octopus by Christopher Bakken Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri (The Shape of Water) This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina and Angela Dominguez The Sell-Out by Paul Beatty Pym by Mat Johnson The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury Roses and Rot by Kat Howard The Duchess War by Courtney Milan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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 Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:34.3

This is episode 59 and we are recording on December 6th. I'm Amanda Nelson

0:38.1

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

0:42.0

Hello. It's loud noises and sounds. Hello from honorary 2017. Yes, we have decided

0:50.1

because we're in charge of the universe that 2016 is over because no. So 2017 started

0:57.0

December 1st, 2016 is dead to us. Let's move on. On we go. So 2017 is not allowed to claim

1:04.9

any beloved musicians or actors and no one is allowed to have a personal crisis. So if you

1:10.6

guys could just cooperate with

1:11.8

that, that would be amazing. And that's my story. We ask for so little. Just everything I want

1:18.9

all the time. That's right. Okay. So for those of you who are new, like I said, this is a

1:25.9

personalized reading recommendation show.

1:27.7

So the way the show works is you send us your reading rec requests. These can be for your book club, for you, for a gift. You can email them to us, get booked at bookwrite.com, or drop them in the form at the bottom of the show notes on the site. And if it's time sensitive, let us know in the subject line of the email or in the first line of the form, if you use the form, so that we can try to answer it as quickly as possible.

1:48.5

We are emailing some people instead of responding on the show because we've started to get repeat questions.

1:54.8

So if we've answered your show, answered your show, Lord.

1:57.8

If we've answered your question already on the show, we will email you either new

2:01.8

suggestions or a link to the show where answers to your question can be found. All right,

2:07.6

let's go. Okay. We're going to read question one, do our first sponsor, and then get gets to

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