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🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss ’80s sci-fi, family drama, working class classics, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby from OverDrive and Penguin Random House Audio. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. 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. Books Discussed Bookstore giveaway! bookriot.com/bookstoregiveaway Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich SPQR by Mary Beard Dreidels on the Brain by Joel Ben Izzy My True Love Gave To Me edited by Stephanie Perkins Alanna by Tamora Pierce Dawn by Octavia Butler Number the Stars by Lois Lowry My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz Uncovering Ray by Edie Danford Undocumented by Aviva Chomsky In The Country We Love by Diane Guerrero Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique The Family Hightower by Brian Francis Slattery The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot David Peace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.6	This is episode 103 and we are recording on October 24th.
0:39.7	I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:44.3	What's up? I'm a disaster today. Like I'm just a complete disaster. Like the fact that I have put
0:52.0	pants on is very impressive to me. My hair is a very, I don't. That is impressive. Pants are always impressive. Thank you. I forgot to feed my children this morning. Like they came up to me before school and we're like, mom, are we going to have breakfast? And I was like, I just, just, I'm fired. Like, I'm fired. Oh. I did feed them before they left. Nobody calls social services. I'm just saying. Yeah, I was going to say, Pat, Pat, it's going to be okay. One of those days. Anyway, what are you reading, Jess? I finished on the train last night, which is the worst when you finished a book on the train and you still have like 20 minutes to go. Also, it's a really incredible book. The Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, our beloved Louise.
1:31.2	This book is bananas.
1:33.5	It is really intense.
1:36.9	And if you are ever, like if you are considering getting pregnant or are pregnant,
1:41.4	do not read it.
1:43.4	It takes place in a very near future in the U.S.
1:47.9	where everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
1:50.4	And on top of that, women are giving birth to babies
1:54.4	who appear to be genetic throwbacks to pre-homosapians.
2:00.6	Yeah.
2:00.7	So like not the same brain. throwbacks to pre-homo sapiens. Yeah.
2:06.9	So like, not the same brain structure or like physical.
2:08.2	It's very strange. And there's all kinds of like crackpot theories going around about what's happening.
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