Always A Dongle, Never A Bride

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🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss nature reads, author couples, seasonal book vibes, 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. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Submit a request via the form! Feedback A List of Cages by Robin Roe, All the Rage by Courtney Summers (rec’d by April) On Beauty by Zadie Smith, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (rec’d by Elizabeth) Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant (rec’d by Gina) Books Discussed The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Why Religion by Elaine Pagels Zoey and Sassafras series (#1 Dragons and Marshmallows) by Asia Citro, illustrated by Marion Lindsay Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott The Home Place by J Drew Lanham On Trails by Robert Moor Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad Zadie Smith, White Teeth (cw: suicide attempt, racism, domestic abuse, homophobia) The Merman by Carl-Johan Vallgren (tw: child abuse) The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Cordova Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs Zadie Smith and Nick Laird Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (cw: transphobia incl. deadnaming) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:16.1	This is episode 299, and we are recording on September 21st. I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are
0:24.1	coming to you from Book Riot. What's up Amanda? You're downstairs. I am. We are in Portland for work
0:32.9	and in different floors of the same house. Yeah, we're not, obviously, because we are traveling, we're not with our same setup as
0:41.8	always. So apologies in advance for any sound differences. But this is what happens when you go
0:47.7	places. Yeah, it was an interesting journey to get a set up here. It was. Doing our best.
0:55.5	And then we had a dongle situation.
0:57.9	Always a dongle situation.
1:00.6	Always a dongle, never a bride.
1:04.6	All right, let's see.
1:05.9	So what is this show?
1:08.0	You're wondering?
1:08.6	This is, as we said, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
1:13.5	You can send in your request for a book recommendation for you, for a family member, a friend, or your book club, or travel, or whatever.
1:22.8	You can send those in either via email, get booked at bookwrite.com, or you can drop them in the form
1:28.1	that's linked in the show notes on the site for each episode. Next, I can't believe it's going to
1:34.3	happen. Next episode is episode 300, which we will be doing our AMA slash AUA, y'all sent in
1:44.0	questions for us. We will be answering them, probably in two
1:47.7	shows, because we have so many. Yeah. So that's going to happen. Get excited. Let's see.
1:52.7	What else? Oh, we have feedback. We have feedback. All right. So from April, who says, for a readal
1:59.0	a like for a child called It, I recommend a list of cages by Robin Rowe.
2:04.4	It's a novel about a boy who experiences a lot of abuse by a guardian and comes out the other
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