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This is episode 309, and we are recording on December 7th.

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

It's December.

Welcome back. Thank you. I was just in Palm Springs

for my birthday and it was hot. Who knew? It gets hot in the desert of California. News at 11. I know.

I have a small, very short story to tell you about my morning and it is that that at 4 a.m. My dog started barking. And I was like, oh, we're about to die because someone, you know, like he doesn't just bark for no reason. So I got up. He was barking at like the alarm. The fire alarm was chirping because the battery was dead. And they never die in the day. I don't know. Have you noticed this? No, inevitably. It's like 2 a.m. Yeah. Right. So I changed it. I go back to bed. 20 minutes later, the one upstairs starts doing it. So I had just been, then I was just awake. So I have been awake forever. And who knows what's going to happen on this show? Because I'm like, I can taste colors. I don't know. I don't know where I am. So, anyway, how does the show work? I don't know any idea. You ask us stuff and we say things, apparently. I do actually know. I do know. Okay, get it together. So how the show works is we are a show for personalized reading recommendations. You send us your reading recommendation request. You can email them to us at getbooked at bookwrite.com or use the form in the show notes on the site. Either refine. If your question is time sensitive, put it in the subject line or if you use the form just in big letters in the first line of your question. So we will see it. Feedback. Our first bit of feedback is from Carol, who says, for the woman who wanted reads for London that are either contemporary or historical fiction, I can suggest a book that hits both. It's the lost apothecary by Sarah Penner. In the historical section, an apothecary secretly provides dark services only to women, giving them bruise and poisons for ailments

and errant husbands.

In the modern day, a woman who has been done wrong by her own husband stumbles into an alleyway

in East London, which just might be the old apothecary store.

The book gives a great sense of place for Central and East London.

Okay, and from Jenny, she has two for the person looking for Asian diaspora reads outside

the U.S. She's got temporary people by Deepak Unikrishan, all the non-UAE people who work in the UAE,

and the bamboo stock by Saoud al-Sanuski, which is a character from Kuwait who goes to the Philippines.

All right. So I am going to read question one. We'll hear from our first sponsor and then Jen will talk. Jen will do mouth words because Amanda has no mouth words. Okay. So our first question is from Emily, who says, I just watched the movie Dune and really enjoyed it. I'm looking for books that are in this same realm. What struck me most was Paul's journey to figure out who he is and what culture he belongs to. I loved how it made me feel like humans can change and evolve and find where they belong. Since I love the movie, I tried to read Dune and had a hard time with it. I'd love your recommendations for other sci-fi coming-of-age stories, particularly ones that have good character evolution and a dabble of romance. Other books I've liked in the same category are Never Let Me Go and The Divergent series. All righty, let's hear from first sponsor. This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth. This year, I'm getting really

intentional about resetting my home, especially my evening routine because that five to nine

window is the part of the day that

really matters to me. I've been building this little nightly ritual with Cozy Earth, and honestly,

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