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Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Get Booked is a weekly show of custom book recommendations, hosted by former independent booksellers and long-time recommenders Amanda Nelson and Jenn Northington of Book Riot. Every Thursday they dive into reader questions to help you find your next great read, and each Monday they take turns recommending one particular favorite backlist title on The Handsell. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,

0:05.5

made the way denim should feel. Their denim has always been a staple in my wardrobe and has a wide range of fits,

0:11.4

styles, and washes. Every jean is available in both their classic fit and viral curve love.

0:17.5

Shop in the app, online, and in stores. Welcome to Get Booked. I am Amanda Nelson. I'm a former independent bookseller and currently the executive editor of Book Riot and I am in Richmond, Virginia. And I'm Jen Northington, also a former independent bookseller and events coordinator and now the manager of editorial operations for Book Riot, and also a podcaster. Hello.

1:00.1

Yes, we are doing that. We are doing that. So if this is your first time listening to us, which it probably is because we're recording the trailer for the show right now, get booked is a show for personalized reading recommendations. So our listeners

1:11.9

send us their reading recommendation requests, whether it's for themselves or a gift or for book club

1:17.5

or whatever, and we answer them on the show. We also have bonus episodes every week that we call

1:22.9

The Hand Cell, where we talk to you for five to eight minutes max about one title that we haven't

1:29.1

gotten a chance to talk about on the show before, that we're very excited about, that we want

1:32.9

you to go pick up. Most of those are backlist, which means they are a year or older.

1:38.0

And those handcells drop on Mondays, which are, you know, like Amanda said, the short

1:43.6

little episodes, just a little

1:44.9

something for your Monday. And then you can hear us do the full show on Thursdays. In between shows,

1:51.0

you can find us on social media. I am on Instagram as I am Jen IRL. That's Jen with two

1:56.9

ends, IRL, and on Twitter as Jen IRL. And I am on Instagram at I'm Amanda Nelson.

2:03.2

You can also email us if you're trying to email the show at get booked at bookriot.com.

2:08.1

Happy listening.

2:13.5

As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important to the world as China.

2:20.6

I'm Jane Perlase, former Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times.

2:24.8

In our third season of face-off, the U.S. versus China, we'll explore some of the biggest issues dividing these global powers today.

2:32.7

Trump and Xi Jinping, AI, China's growing military might, and also robots.

2:39.2

New episodes of Face Off are available now, wherever you get your podcasts.

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