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Banana-Pants Conspiracy Theories

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss crime families, nonbinary characters, conspiracy theories, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by In The Club, Book Riot’s book groups newsletter. 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 Dune by Frank Herbert The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman The Acacia series (The War With the Mein #1) by David Anthony Durham The Worldbreaker Saga (The Mirror Empire #1) by Kameron Hurley Hold Me by Courtney Milan Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson Every Day by David Levithan Hot Season by Susan DeFreitas The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth Adaptation by Malinda Lo 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, translated by WS Merwin and Cristina Garcia Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Love Poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger What Is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio (a little eroticism, a little heartbreak) Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Chin, translated by Chi-Young Kim Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer Excellent Women by Barbara Pym 100 Books about Starting Over post by Tracy Shapley Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler What You’re Really Meant to Do by Robert S. Kaplan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:26.4

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0:31.3

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

0:34.7

This is episode 68 and we are recording on February 14th.

0:37.6

I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with John Northingtony. We're coming to you from Book Riot.

0:41.6

Happy Valentine's Day. Or something. Whatever.

0:45.7

Insert grumbling here about consumerization of feelings, blah, blah, blah, blah.

0:52.1

Liberty texted me, happy Valentine's Day this morning,

0:54.6

but it was a really cute bit mojee,

0:56.0

and I responded with Bahamug.

0:58.4

I sent her a panda gif in response.

1:01.2

I was like, how about we have pandas instead?

1:03.6

Sure.

1:05.1

Grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble,

1:06.3

about cis-heter normativity, capitalist blah blah blah welcome to get booked

1:13.2

anyway so we're cheerful people um so this is as I said a show for personalized

1:22.8

reading recommendation so if you are new this is how it works you send us your

1:26.5

reading recommendation request whether you need you know something for your book club or a trip you're taking, or you read X title and want something like it or whatever. You can email them to us at get booked at bookright.com, or you can drop your questions in the form, which is in the show notes, for every episode on the site. If it's time sensitive, please note that in the subject line of the email, or if you're using the form at the very top of the form, so we can get to it on time. We also email back responses if we're not going to get to your question, and it's time sensitive, or it's a question we've already answered on the show. We will email you back with our recommendations, so you don't have to wait around for us to cycle back to it, which can take a hot minute. So that is how the show works. So we're just going to dive right in. We're going to do our first question. Jen's going to talk about our first sponsor, and then we will give you answers. All right. Our first question is from Didi, who says, I am suffering from a hangover, not a book one, a TV one, which never happens. I just finished season two of Fargo, and I am obsessed with trying to find fiction books with a similar feel or plot line.

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