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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss poetry, East Asian fiction and fantasy, books in translation, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Book Marks Journal, Tailored Book Recommendations, 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 Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (rec’d by Terry) The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace (rec’d by Terry) Books Discussed How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee (tw rape) Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu (Grace of Kings #1) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (rec’d by Tika) The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Cinder #1)  Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, transl by Ginny Tapley Takemori A Hero Born by Jin Yong (Louis Cha), translated by Anna Holmwood Recommended with Sherry Thomas  Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor Jade City by Fonda Lee (tw: discussion of child abuse and child pornography) The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth (tw: self harm, fatal overdose, torture, gore) The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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And this time, it's here to stay.

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0:17.9

Subjects availability. price and participation may vary.

0:34.4

This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:39.1

This is episode 229, and we are recording on April 28. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hi.

0:43.3

Hello. That's it. That's all I've got. Just hi. Here we are. We're here, and we are doing

0:50.0

the thing. The thing is being done. We're just going to go. Like, I have no banter. I have none.

0:56.1

I have no banter. I'm just going to go. Okay. So how the show works. Some people out there probably

1:00.1

like, thank God. I'm so tired. So how the show works? As I said, this is a show for personalized

1:05.7

reading recommendations. So you can send us any at all of your reading recommendation request.

1:10.0

If you need something to read in quarantine or you need something for your book club or a gift for someone or whatever.

1:15.7

You can send those to us.

1:16.7

Our email is get book to bookwrite.com or you can drop them in the form, which is at the bottom of the show notes on the site.

1:23.2

If you are asking us for something that's time sensitive, like you need a gift for someone's birthday, which is a day that exists and is time sensitive, then please put that in the subject line if you use the email. If you're using the form in the show notes, then please put it in big letters in the first line of your request so we can get to it on time. We might email you back if we're not going to answer your question on time or if we have already answered it on the air. Okay, we have one piece of people, well, two pieces of feedback from Terry, who says for Roxanne, who's volunteering at the ranger station for the summer, Terry recommends the two old women by Velma Wallace, which we have talked about on the show, and I think would be great. It's about, you know, two old women, obviously, who are abandoned by their tribe and Alaska and are left to survive for themselves in the Alaskan wilderness. It's assumed that they're going to die. Like, the tribe leaves them to die, but they don't. They kick butt and are amazing. And then Terry also recommends for Anonymous, who is looking for book recommendations with books that feature a blind or deaf character. A book that I

2:18.2

loved is The Blind Contest's New Machine by Carrie Wallace, which I would agree is a terrible title,

2:23.3

but is a wonderful, beautiful book. So there you go. Thank you, Terry. Okay, Jen's going to tell us

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