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300 Pages Of Heart-Rending

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about life after divorce, YA read-alouds, queer science fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast, Workman Publishing, publisher of Let’s Be Weird Together: A Book About Love, by Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel, and Libro.fm. Subscribe to 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. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Feedback The Shades of Magic trilogy by V.E. Schwab (rec’d by Courtney) A Madness of Angels: The Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin (pen name of Catherine Webb) (rec’d by Danielle) Books Discussed Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton (March 10, 2020) Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Warcross by Marie Lu Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett (tw: STI stigma, confusion around sexuality) For the Love of Men by Liz Plank Thou Shalt Not be a Jerk by Eugene Cho (March 1, 2020) Citizen by Claudia Rankine God Land by Elizabeth Lenz Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri (tw: family violence) Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kreuger (tw: animal death) The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (tw: violence, tentacle stuff) Circe by Madeline Miller (tw sexual assault) The Reluctant Queen (Queens of Renthia #2) by Sarah Beth Durst Parenting In SFF Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:45.8

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

0:50.3

This is episode 217, and we are recording on February 4th. I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we're coming to you from Book Riot and my second head cold of 2020.

0:57.9

What is this decade? I'm so annoyed. I was doing so well and then I got a really bad cold during the holidays and apparently now it's just like every other week. This is what's happening to me. Are you around like kids? No, no. It's really dumb. I think it's just like every other week this is what's happening to me are you around like kids no no

1:13.0

it's really dumb i think it's just you know my guess is the weather flip-flopping back and forth my

1:17.9

body doesn't like it yeah thanks climate change yeah exactly thanks climate change how are you i'm just

1:26.6

the caucus.

1:28.6

That's all.

1:29.2

And by the time the show comes out, hopefully we'll have a winner.

1:32.2

I don't know what's happening.

1:33.1

Nobody knows what's happening.

1:34.2

We're just all sitting here, like, watching Mayor Pete, who I call the elf lord,

1:38.7

because he looks like an elf lord from Lord of the Rings.

1:42.0

And Bernie both declared themselves winners online. And it's just...

1:46.8

It's a lot. It's a sub-op opera. Yeah. Well, let's talk about books. Okay. Thank you.

1:54.2

So if you're new to the show, welcome. As I said at the top, this is a show for personalized reading recommendations, which means

2:01.3

y'all send in questions about what you should read next, what you should give to a friend

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