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Ask Us Anything, Part 1

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn dive into listener’s not-necessarily-bookish questions in celebration of Episode 300! 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. Miscellaneous Notes: Tressie MacMillan Cottom Nalo Hopkinson NetGalley, Edelweiss Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me Reading Women FiveThirtyEight Left, Right & Center Pantsuit Politics Office Ladies Celeste Ng The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:14.0

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0:20.0

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0:22.4

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0:28.8

to learn more. This is the Get Book Podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:44.5

This is episode 300.

0:46.8

And we're recording on September 28th.

0:51.2

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

0:54.2

Book Riot. So that's like five years. Yeah. Yeah. That's bananas. We made it to 300, Amanda.

1:00.7

We're still here. How are there so many different kinds of books that we have done five years of

1:05.8

the show? It's a good question. Maybe what I'll do for this year is run, because we have a list of all the titles, basically, going back forever. Maybe I'll do a big merge and like figure out the repeat over the course of five years. Because I think, I think it will be, especially since we instituted the rule, capital T, capital R.

1:28.8

It will not be too high. And I know our listener, Stephanie, has tracked a lot of that stuff, too.

1:34.3

So the data exists. But yeah, five years worth of minimum 14 books per show. And we used to do more.

1:43.0

That's a lot of books.

1:44.8

Okay.

1:46.3

So 300.

1:48.8

And for the first, yeah, we did used to do.

1:50.6

So let's just do, I have my calculator.

1:51.1

Yes.

1:56.3

We've recommended at least 4,200 books on this show. So if you are a person who reads a book a week, 52.

2:00.4

It would take you 80 years to read every book

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