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🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn recommend South American lit, adult fiction for YA lovers, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam and the Book of the Month Club. 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! Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector, trans. Katrina Dodson (Brazil) Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra (Chile) Shantytown by Cesar Aira, translated by Chris Andrews (Argentina) With My Dog Eyes by Hilda Hilst, translated by Adam Morris (Brazil) The State We’re In: Maine Stories by Ann Beattie The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin Cost by Roxana Robinson Maine by J Courtney Sullivan People I Want to Punch in the Throat by Jen Mann Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson The Last Girlfriend on Earth by Simon Rich Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You by Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter Getting to Yes by Ury, Fisher, Patton 50 Billion Dollar Boss edited by Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman Roses and Rot by Kat Howard (May 17th) Lexicon by Max Barry The Regional Office Is Under Attack by Manuel Gonzales The Killing Moon by NK Jemisin Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Archivist Wasp by Nicole Horner-Stace An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to
0:05.8	buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. Save and splurge
0:10.8	at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds
0:15.7	and charges apply. New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.
0:20.8	This is the Get Booked podcast podcast a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations
0:24.5	this is episode 23 and we are recording on Tuesday April 5th I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm
0:29.5	here with Jen Northington and we're coming to you from Book Riot welcome
0:32.6	hooray la la la it's April, I don't know about this April.
0:39.0	You don't know it, like, just as a month?
0:41.3	We have a freeze warning, but also I'm having allergies.
0:46.8	So, like, I just don't know.
0:48.7	You get, like, the worst of every season.
0:51.2	Basically, yes.
0:53.0	I'm sorry.
0:54.1	Last night, it got so cold that when I was on my way home, I could see my breath.
0:58.9	And like three days ago, I wasn't wearing a coat.
1:01.0	I don't know what to do.
1:02.5	I'm sorry.
1:03.4	It's pretty, yeah, it's doing the same thing here.
1:05.7	It was like 80 degrees and now it's 50.
1:08.2	I'm wearing a very fuzzy sweater.
1:09.7	It's a cool sweater, though.
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