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This is episode 271 and we're recording on March 2nd.

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

It's March.

It's March. There's some sun outside. Look, I'm in a good mood.

It's sunny. It was been, you know, we've had the ice storm of death. Everyone did. It's like every state for like all of February. February was a hellscape.

April is not the coolest month. April is fine. February is the worst month on the calendar. And I will die on this hill that no one-one is fighting me for. So there's no real reason for me to die on it. But still. But now it's like it's sunny. We have a one-shot vaccine coming. I like texted my, you know, I haven't met my book club in months because nobody has. Right. And I sent them all at Texas morning. It was like, y'all,

we might be able to meet in like May or June. Like that might, that might really happen.

And I was just so happy about it. Oh, yay. People. Because two of them are teachers. And my teacher friends have already gotten their vaccines, thank God. And then it's just to know the rest of us.

Right. Right. It's exciting. It's exciting times, y'all. We're getting there. We are. It's so true. It's so true. Anyway, those are my happy feelings, which I really never have. So I'm happy to have them today. Let's talk about books. Yeah. Let's do it.

Okay. So how this show works, as I said, this is a show for personalized reading recommendations.

So you can send those to us via email at get booked at bookgry.com, where you can drop them in the form and the show notes on the site. If your question is time sensitive, please put that in the subject line of the email. If you use the form, just put it in big bold, all caps at the beginning of the request so that we can see it in her spreadsheet.

If we have already answered your question or we're not going to get to it on time, we will email you back. And that's why we ask for your email address. We have two pieces of feedback here. One from Lauren, who says for Mo, who wanted a book for his seven-year-old. I recommend the book Tilly and the Book Wanderers by

Anna James. It's the first in the pages and co-series about a little girl who lives with her grandparents who work in a bookstore, and she learns that she has the power to bring book characters to life and brings her favorite book characters, Anne from Anna from Gables and Alice from Alice in Wonderland to life, and they go on adventures. Well, that sounds charming. It really does.

I would like to read that myself.

We also have a piece of feedback from Lini who says a suggestion for Neve from number six last week wanting a comp for lovely war. Strange the Dreamer by Lainey Taylor has the mythology and romance they are looking for. All right. Thank you so much for the feedback. Jen's going to read us her first question and away we will go. Right. Here we go. First question is from Emily, who says, at the recommendation of the podcast, last year, I read and loved braiding sweetgrass and the overstory. I know. We're like dusting off our shoulders over here. Emily says, I'm looking for more books to add to my TVR list with naturalist elements.

Is there a book version of planet Earth but with trees and plants?

Like many, I've had a challenging year with quarantine stress and non-COVID health issues,

so I would prefer something that isn't a portrait of grief, ages for hawk, beautiful but too sad,

or about the total destruction of our world as we know it due to climate change.

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