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🗓️ 6 August 2020

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Amanda and Jenn discuss diverse fantasy, summer resort reads, and spiritual nonfiction in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast, Care/of, 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 Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, Anything by Louis de Bernieres, but particularly Birds Without Wings and Notwithstanding, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney, The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill, Maggie O’Farrell’s new book Hamnet (rec’d by Sibyl) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Ms Marvel, The Totally Awesome Hulk, and the Miles Morales Spider-Man books (rec’d by Angie) Books Discussed Song of Blood and Stone by L Penelope (tw: racism) Sorcerer to the Crown and The True Queen by Zen Cho The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Stalking God by Anjali Kumar (rec’d by Rebecca) A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn Artifact (Jaya Jones) by Gigi Pandian (cw: stalker) Mary Russell Sherlock Holmes novels (The Beekeeper’s Apprentice) Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (rec’d by Jeff) The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) by Charlaine Harris (tw: mention of rape & sexual assault but very brief, violence) Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jay Robin Brown (tw: homophobia) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (they/them) (tw: transphobia) Alex Cabal, cover designer What’s Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott (tw: domestic violence) The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (tw: domestic violence) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:16.1	This is episode 243, and we are recording on August 4th.
0:20.5	I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are recording on August 4th. I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson,
0:22.8	and we are coming to you from Book Riot and from a downpour here in Philadelphia.
0:29.9	Isaiah's. Yes. My neighbor's drain pipe is right outside my recording closet, and there is
0:35.9	nothing I can do about that. So hopefully it's not
0:38.1	too loud. I need to tell you about a weird thing that my child said to me last night at dinner.
0:42.9	I'm ready. I made chicken adobo, which is just a Filipino, just chicken and like soy sauce,
0:47.7	vinegar, whatever. We're eating dinner. And he stops eating and he looks at me, he goes, mom,
0:51.9	did you know that humans taste like pork? And I was like,
0:55.4	why do you know that? I know that from watching like science fiction movies about the end of the
1:02.0	world. Why do you know that? And he said, I read it in a book called Strange Facts about death.
1:07.2	And I was like, where did you? Where did you get that? And he was like, it was at the library,
1:12.0	mom, so obviously it's fine. Wow. Conversations you, A, don't want to have at the dinner
1:21.3	table. Be with your eight-year-old. Oh my gosh. I just love to like, it was at the library,
1:28.6	so obviously it's fine.
1:33.6	Obviously, Mom. All knowledge contained within the library is fine for me.
1:45.5	I mean, I don't disagree, but also like, should my, well, I guess he's nine now. Should my nine-year-old know that humans taste like pork? No, that's, stop it.
1:45.9	Why? Oh, my God.
1:47.2	Strange facts about death.
1:49.4	The library, mom, it's fine.
1:52.4	Oh, welcome.
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