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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss must-read literary fiction, queer fantasy reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of The Night Country by Melissa Albert, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Find our bookish COVID 19 coverage 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. Feedback The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (rec’d by Stephanie) Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson and the Classical Breakdown podcast (rec’d by Laura C) The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (rec’d by Summer) Books Discussed My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (tw: sexual abuse of children) Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (tw: harm to children) Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover How to Be a Family by Dan Kois A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (tw: slavery and associated violence) Orlando by Virginia Woolf A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos, trans by Hildegard Serle Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (tw: body horror) The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel (tw: bubonic plague) The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.4

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

0:37.8

This is episode 225 and we were recording on March 31st.

0:41.7

I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:43.2

Hello. Hello.

0:47.6

From our separate quarantined areas.

0:52.8

Virginia just like officially, I don't even know what the took closed yesterday.

1:13.7

The governor put us on a stay at home or a shelter in place or a shutt, whatever. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's not that different from what we were already doing. So I'm still just here. Right. Yeah. We've been on stay at home for a week. And I think the biggest difference is what businesses are open versus not open. Right. So there's that. And yeah, it's been interesting to see how things have changed, which is to say a little bit, but not that much, but also mentally it's very

1:19.6

weird. So, you know. Yes, it's different. It's very different mentally. Yeah. I'm discovering

1:24.7

really interesting things about Virginia. Like when he announced the stay at home order, it specifically excluded fishing. And then I learned that like fishing is protected by the constitution of the state. So he had to include freedom for like people to go fishing. Which I mean, you know, makes sense. We have the Chesapeake Bay. That's fascinating.

1:48.1

Yeah, it's like a lot of livelihoods in the state are based on fishing.

1:51.1

But like, it also covers people who just want to go fishing outside.

1:52.1

Right, right.

1:52.7

So what?

1:53.8

It's just really interesting.

1:55.3

Virginia, what even are you?

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