#164: The Satire, It Burns

Amanda and Jenn discuss business books, Puerto Rican reads, Vonnegut read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Help Me!: One Woman’s Quest to Find Out If Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life by Marianne Power, and Wishtree by Katherine Applegate.

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Laid-Back Camp by Afro (rec’d by Kate H.)

Questions

1. okay so I did a going postal challenge thing. Where you get paired up and send people books and I’m usually pretty good at it. But this chick doesn’t know what she wants so I don’t know! This is what she sent me : “I have no preference on theme. Surprise me!, I say NO WAY to romance., I love chocolate., I want to leave the choosing of my books entirely up to you — surprise me!, I prefer paperback., I prefer used.

Top 5 Most Wanted:

Joe Hill Locke and Key series, Colleen Hoover, The Selection series

Preferred genres: Thriller, True Crime

Least favorite genres: Romance, Erotica, Non-Fiction

Triggers to avoid: No” but I feel like some of that contradicts the rest. Plus she only has like… 5 books on litsy and does not care for Harry Potter