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Amanda’s Final Show, aka Menopausal Captain Planet Situation

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss Amanda’s new job (!), Murakami read-alikes, the perfect plane read, 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. FEEDBACK Molly Harper’s Bluegrass Series (rec’d by another Amanda) Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell (rec’d by Tanelle) Books Discussed What’s Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott (tw: violence against women) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid The Change by Kirsten Miller (tw: childhood sex abuse, obvious references to the Epstein/Maxwell case) Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia, loss of a parent) Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: graphic violence and war crimes, racism) Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward (tw: suicide) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild Haldol and Hyacinths by Melody Moezzi (tw: suicide attempts) For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag Post: Books Like Heartstopper Fence by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joana LaFuente, and Jim Campbell For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. 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.

0:14.3

This is episode 330, and we're recording on May 24th.

0:17.9

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you

0:20.9

from Book Riot for the last time. Yeah, big news today y'all. Big news. Yeah. I guess I should

0:31.4

take it because it's kind of my doing. So I, after a decade, have taken a new position at another company. And so, you know,

0:42.1

I gave my notice a few weeks ago and Jen and I have been talking about, you know, with the editorial

0:47.4

team and Sharifah, who's our executive editor and Vanessa, who's the managing editor, about what to do

0:51.4

with the show when I'm gone. And the decision was

0:56.4

functionally that we didn't kind of didn't want to keep doing it. Well, like we're mothballing

1:02.9

it, I think is the right framing. We don't have somebody because Amanda is quite literally

1:08.1

irreplaceable. We don't have someone who can just like slide into that

1:13.8

seat, you know? So, uh, we're going to take some time to think about what we could do with the show

1:20.4

where it's not the Amanda and Jen show with occasional guests. Like, what could it look like if it

1:26.2

wasn't this? Because it's not

1:28.3

going to be this anymore. So, yeah, it's a, it's a big change. And I like, don't know what's

1:35.1

going to happen to me during this recording. I'm happy for you and I'm sad for me. Those are my

1:42.1

feelings. I have the same feelings. Yeah. Like I'm very excited

1:46.2

about a new chapter. I'm really, really sad to be going. You know, I've been at book riot for

1:54.0

the entirety of my professional life before, you know, I mean, before I was a freelancer. I was a

2:00.0

bookseller for a bit, but I was,

2:01.7

I was very much dabbling in stuff and like whatever was, you know, would fit into my life

2:06.6

when I had two newborns and, and all of that. And this has been my whole career. This has been

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