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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss Norwegian authors, multigenerational family novels, thrillers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Guest Book by Sarah Blake and Audible. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, 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 Eat Up by Ruby Tandoh (rec’d by Caroline) Books Discussed The Faster I Walk the Smaller I Am by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, Kerri A. Pierce (Translator) The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdattar #1) by Sigrid Undset, translated by Tiina Nunnally My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (tw: incest and suicide) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Post: Multigenerational Family Novels No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins Waiting in the Wings by Tara Frejas The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Unraveling by Karen Lord (tw: mentions of violence, incl. harm to children, but nothing too explicit) Alanna by Tamora Pierce The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex God Land by Lyz Lenz (out August 1) Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber (rec’d by Amanda) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:44.4

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

0:48.5

This is episode 18, and we are recording on June 18th. I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot and from the swamp-like humidity.

0:57.0

June.

0:58.0

June.

0:58.6

I know.

0:58.9

It's all thunderstorms and moisture in the air here right now.

1:04.2

It is, too.

1:05.1

You know, I went on this whole rant earlier this week to my friend about how, you know,

1:08.6

people talk about how climate change is like a rich person's problem or whatever.

1:12.4

But like the rain that we have gotten so consistently for the past six months, I've had to

1:17.3

replace my roof and my sun pup and my backyard is flooded and just can't flood it now.

1:21.8

So we can talk about how, you know, like environmental issues are snooty.

1:26.6

I don't think they are actually. But I'm

1:29.3

solidly middle class and I have dropped like seven grand. Sheabas. So, thanks humidity.

1:35.9

Thanks, humidity. Oh, Lord. Well, that sounds terrible. I'm coming for you, Exxon. This is why I'm

1:42.3

afraid to own a house. Rooves. Roofs are the thing that I'm most afraid of in life. It's legit. I mean, they replaced them super quickly. It only took like three hours. Oh, I did not know you could replace. I'm learning so much today already. It was many dollars. Oof. Well, aside from talking about roofs and humidity, we also talk about books on this show. Like we said, it is a personalized reading recommendation show, which means you send in your questions about what you should read next, maybe what your book club should pick up, what you should get for a friend or a relative, what you should read while traveling, any and all of those things. And we will do our best to find you a good

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