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🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss retellings of classics, San Francisco fiction, westerns, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Book That Made Me. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes 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 Great by Sara Benincasa The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh San Francisco Noir from Akashic Books All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Allison Markin Powell The Sisters Brothers by Patrick De Witt Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Kraken by China Miéville The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Sofia Samatar (A Stranger in Olondria and Winged Histories) Everfair by Nisi Shawl The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 2 AM at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie Helene Bertino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.6	This is episode 72 and we are reporting on March 14th. I'm Amanda Nelson,
0:38.4	and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. We're supposed to get like a snow apocalypse or something. I mean, I'm not sad that it's not the actual apocalypse. Do you know what I just realized is that it's Pie Day, and I did not stuck up on pie because I was I had a similar realization this morning, and it's too gross outside.
0:57.3	Yeah, there's no way. and I did not stuck up on pie because I had a similar realization this morning and it's too gross outside.
0:57.3	Yeah, there's no way.
0:58.8	Like, I don't even know that anywhere that sells pie would be open.
1:01.9	What a sad state of affairs.
1:03.5	We are pieless on pie day.
1:05.2	Yeah.
1:05.9	Womp, womp.
1:06.9	I might be able to like rustle up some sugar cookies or something.
1:09.9	Yeah.
1:10.5	I mean, I got snacks.
1:12.0	Let's not.
1:12.8	Let's be real.
1:14.8	I have literally snacks for days.
1:17.7	You live right.
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