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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss emotionally devastating fiction, entertaining history, Old Hollywood, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow 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. Feedback Tweet Cute and When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord (rec’d by Lauren) Read Between The Lines by Rachel Lacey (rec’d by Kady) Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee (rec’d by Cara W.) Books Discussed Leap of Faith by Queen Noor The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, transl by Stephen Snyder  Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (cw: child abuse, sexual assualt, transphobia) The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Music Is History by Ahmir Questlove Thompson with Ben Greenman Tana French, In the Woods (cw: harm to children) Edna O’Brien, Saints and Sinners Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (tw violence against women, harm to children) The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang (cw: all of them)  The Masquerade series by Seth Dickinson (also all the CW) Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub Siren Queen by Nghi Vo, out May 10 (cw: gore, coercion) A Hatchet by Gary Paulsen The I Survived Series Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love for children’s library The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud.

0:03.3

Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight.

0:05.7

Had a big Mac on my mind all day, and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P.

0:09.8

So you win? Of course you are.

0:11.5

Love you. Bye!

0:13.3

Exclusively on the McDonald's app.

0:16.0

18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply.

0:18.1

Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and teas apply.

0:34.3

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

0:39.1

This is episode 324, and we are recording on April 12th.

0:43.3

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

0:49.5

This day has been a comedy of errors. Indeed. I mean, I just got tech gremlins, like,

0:53.8

coming out of her ears over there. Like, literally, in my headphones. My headphones are the problems. We'll see how this goes. We're recording

0:56.9

with my gym headphones, like the ones that I wear that are usually covered in sweat. So we'll

1:02.1

see what happens. It's going to be fun. I'm excited. Anyway, it's a brain workout. It's a brain

1:09.1

workout. It is. I love an adventure. I love an adventure. So how this show works is that you send us things and we tell you things. And that's the other. So this is a show for personalized reading recommendations, obviously, as I said. So you send us those requests that can be for anything for your book club, for you, a gift, you're traveling somewhere, I want to read about a thing,

1:27.7

all of that, and whatever else your heart desires. You can send your request to get booked at bookriot.com, or if you want to use the form in the bottom of the show notes, you can do that. If your question is time sensitive, just put that in the subject line of your email. If you use the form, put it in the first line, big bold, all cap letters, so we can see it and get to the

1:44.9

question on time. We do have a few pieces of feedback.

1:49.9

Let's see. Oh, from our convenience storewoman discussion, is this, Jen was the person who

1:55.8

wrote the letter or is it, Jen, this is you.

1:57.7

No, I am the person who was, yes. So I just want to thank the listener who sent in a very gracious correction around language, around neurodivergence.

2:07.3

I said, I got my words all turned around.

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