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E242: Big Leslie Knope Energy
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:44:14
Publish Date: 2020-07-30 08:39:09
Description:

Amanda and Jenn discuss indie horror books, feeling connected, cinnamon roll characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by The Chronicles of Now podcast from Pushkin Industries, Flatiron Books, publisher of His & Hers by Alice Feeney, and Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle, now available from Algonquin Books.

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Questions

1. I’m needing recommendations for my husband. He’s a lover of John Sandford novels, anything by Bernard Cornwell, greek mythology, and anything WWII. He loves research so all the details but he does appreciate a good plot. I’d love him to read something not written by a cis white male, giving him other perspectives and views! 

-Amy

2. Hello, book friends!

I would dearly love a book where the protagonist is a taboo hybrid, ie their parents are from two different species and they face stigma from one or both sides, or from society at large. I would also prefer something recent-ish — old scifi/fantasy has its place, but I want something with more modern attitudes and a diverse cast.

Don’t read this paragraph out loud because it’s technically spoilers: [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]

-Anne

3. My book request is not time sensitive and truthfully I need another TBR like I need a hole in the head but alas, here I am seeking one to jump to the top of the list.

At my job I am forever scrutinizing fine details and analyzing mistakes in math, coding, etc in front of a computer. Often times I feel like I get so lost in minute matters that don’t impact anyone else in the world beyond my employer. I am seeking a book that will give me perspective into some bigger picture – some kind of overarching, grand scale, all-important subject that will make me feel both small and a part of a larger than (my) life community. When I try to think as broadly as possible about subjects to fit this description, outer space, nature and the ecosystem, dinosaurs or formations of civilization and humanity come to mind as possibilities. I’m sure there are a million books on such subjects HOWEVER I’m not one for scientific or historical technical reading. The trick will be to find something easy to follow that reads like (or is) a fiction and doesn’t make my eyes glaze over. I didn’t make it through Neil Degrasse’s audiobook. I hope you can help find something to satisfy my request and as always, feel free to think outside the box

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