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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss escapist reads, Gothic fantasy novels, and lady detectives in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Hermione Granger for President 2020 campaign, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, 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. Books Discussed The Gauntlet and The Battle by Karuna Riazi The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch Weather by Jenny Offill Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (tw, MANY, incl: graphic harm to children, drug use, sexual assault, mental illness, homophobia, self-harm, suicidal ideation, racism) Renegades by Marissa Meyer Lawless by Jeff Salane If We Were Villains by ML Rio (tw partner violence) Bunny by Mona Awad (rec’d by Kelly) (tw: violence towards animals)  From the Wreck by Jane Rawson Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hear that? It's your big McDonald's hunger calling.

0:03.0

Because the Big Arch is back.

0:04.8

And this time, it's here to stay.

0:06.7

With juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that Big Arch sauce.

0:09.9

Hungry? You are now.

0:11.6

Order delivery on the McDonald's app.

0:15.0

Serve from 11am.

0:16.2

Upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders.

0:17.9

Subjects availability. price and participation may vary.

0:35.4

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

0:39.7

This is episode 230, and we are recording on May 5th.

0:44.7

I'm Jen Northington. I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we're coming to you from Book Riot.

0:52.1

Hello. How is it May? It is May. It's going to be May. It's going to be May. I definitely posted that gif in the work slack and I was not sorry.

0:57.9

Yes.

0:59.9

Justin.

1:03.2

That's it. That's all I got.

1:05.2

It's nay. Time is happening.

1:07.6

I had an amazing encounter at the grocery store last week, right? Went, pick something up when I was checking out. It was like noon. And the clerk, the person checking me out was like, okay, have a good night. I mean, morning. I mean, whatever. And I was like, honey, time has no meaning here anymore. And she was like, I know. And that is, that is my story. The best interaction

1:30.6

I've had with other people, because of course we're not interacting with other people right now,

1:34.7

was actually, so Pennsylvania has some wonky liquor laws. And they just recently started doing it

1:41.2

where you can go and pick up like curbside pickup from the state-run liquor stores. And so we, like, you know, place an order for some whiskey and some wine. And I went to go get it. And it was this whole, like, elaborate thing where I had to, like, hold my ID up to, like, the closed window. And then they, like, handed me out the bag real quick. And we're all wearing masks and gloves. And it's a whole thing. But as I was walking back, you could kind of see what I was carrying. And this guy with his two little girls was like, you know, walking up the street, you know, masked, etc. And like, so I was like, where did you get that? I was like, oh, there, you know, you have to call, but you can pick up orders right now. And we had this, like, whole lovely, like, five-minute conversation about, like, what our favorite, like, whiskey cocktail was. And, like, the little girl was like, look at my ice cream. And I was just like, oh, right. I remember what interacting with people is like.

2:35.0

I'm going to be so awkward when we get out of here.

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