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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss action-packed sci-fi, NYC stories, mysteries, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Summer Constellations by Alisha Sevigny and The Theory of Happily Ever After by Kristin Billerbeck. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. 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 Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (trigger warning: child abuse, suicidal ideation, self-harm, domestic violence) A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant 100 Places in Greece Every Woman Should Go by Amanda Summer Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg (plus Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell) If We Were Villains by ML Rio Books Like The Secret History post Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (trigger warning: domestic violence) Infomocracy by Malka Older Bone Street Rumba series by Daniel José Older (Half-Resurrection Blues #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.8

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

0:25.3

this is episode 130 and we are recording on may 1st i'm jen northington and i'm here with

0:30.9

amanda nelson and we're coming to you from book riot hello oh jinks that was a nice

0:36.8

nice thing to hello very soothing episode today.

0:41.4

Do we ever have, like we don't really do soothing stuff?

0:44.3

Not so much.

0:45.4

Not so much.

0:47.7

Speaking of not soothing, what are you reading?

0:50.4

I'm looking at the agenda right now.

0:52.0

Like, oh.

0:53.9

Yeah, no, neither of my

0:55.6

my reading certainly wasn't soothing.

0:57.8

What about yours? Oh, well,

1:00.8

I have a lot of feelings about it.

1:02.6

I just finished it.

1:04.0

So, like, I...

1:06.1

Okay, should I just go? Okay.

1:08.0

So I finished a conjuring of light,

1:09.9

which is the third book in the Shades of Magic series

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