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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jenn and guest Kelly Jensen discuss books about moving on, animal narrators, colors in fiction, 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 Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (rec’d by Sophie, seconded by Ariel, and thirded by Elizabeth) Books Discussed Joyful by Ingried Fetell Lee Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia in a parent, loss of a parent) Charlotte Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children, racist policing) The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Post: https://bookriot.com/cats-in-japanese-fiction/ BEASTARS by Paru Itagaki The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani Drop the Ball by Tiffany Dufu O Beautiful by Jung Yun Hell of a Book by Jason Mott The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan (cw death by suicide) A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (cw: death of a pet) 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

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0:45.2

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

0:50.5

This is episode 326, and we are recording a little early on April 14th.

0:51.6

I'm Jen Northington.

0:55.8

I'm here with a very special guest, Kelly Jensen, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Welcome back, Kelly. Hello, I'm excited to be back. It's been a while.

1:01.4

I was thinking. I was like, when was the last time I recorded with Kelly? It's been a while.

1:05.9

Maybe two years? Did that just that sound right? That seems possible. Yeah, I don't know. You've been on and off so many

1:14.1

podcasts. Tell the people where you have been. Yeah. So I did Hey, YA for five years and then finally

1:24.2

passed that on and did all the books for, I think, three years.

1:30.4

I am going back to All the Books, though, on the fifth Tuesday of each month, so like three or four times a year.

1:38.5

And then I'm in the rotation for All the Backlist.

1:41.7

So if you listen to this podcast and you listen to all the backlists,

1:45.2

probably hear me twice this week. I think that's how the schedule worked out. Yeah.

1:50.4

A surprise combo. Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Well, I'm excited to get into our picks. I loaded it up with

1:59.9

your specialties today.

2:02.3

That's always a good time.

2:04.1

But before we get into that, how does this show work?

2:06.8

You might be wondering if you are new here.

2:08.4

It is a personalized reading recommendation show, which means that you can send in your reading requests, either via email, get booked atbookriot.com or via the form that's in the bottom of the show notes over on the site for each episode.

2:22.0

You can ask for a recommendation for yourself, for a family member, a friend, a book club, a work thing, whatever.

2:29.0

And we might answer it on the air. And if you have a time sensitive request, you're hoping to hear back by a

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