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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn recommend witchy fiction, books for Downton Abbey fans, and more on this week’s Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina and the Start Here Giveaway. 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! Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen Coffin Hill Vol 1 by Caitlin Kittredge, Iñaki Miranda Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood The Magicians by Lev Grossman All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders Deborah Harkness’s All Souls series Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes  Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Longbourn by Jo Baker Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee Anything by Bill Bryson Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky, translated by Tim Mohr Me Before You by Jojo Moyes The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus Chimera by David Wellington Beating Back the Devil, Maryn McKenna Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.8

to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading

0:35.1

recommendations. This is episode 20 and we are recording on Sunday, March 13th. I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hello. Hello, happy Sunday. It's Sunday. It's nice out, too. It is, yes. I'm into it. I have, um, I pull, I was telling Jen this earlier, but I feel like I need to say this

0:56.6

for a wider audience.

0:57.6

I pulled my hip flexer getting out of my chair from church this morning because I am in my

1:03.4

30s now and this is my life is that I injured myself getting up out of a chair like an old.

1:09.7

So I'm sitting in this chair now that I'm in, which I

1:12.1

managed to get into without hurting myself with the ice pack on my leg. I'm going to talk about books.

1:18.7

I am also the old, but in a different way, and that I like woke up early to get my laundry done

1:23.4

at the laundromat before everyone else. I was like, I'm going to beat the brunchers.

1:28.5

I'm going to get laundry done first.

1:30.5

My first thought when I realized that I had hurt myself was, yeah, no, I don't have to go to the gym.

1:36.9

I can't because I hurt myself.

1:39.6

Excellent.

1:41.1

That's not how that works, Nelson.

1:45.7

Anyway, so welcome to the old show.

1:46.7

We record on Sundays. In addition to being old, in addition to this show being all about us being old, it's

1:53.2

also about books and book recommendations.

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