Bringing Characters to Life to Punch Them in the Face
Get Booked
Book Riot
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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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 buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. |
| 0:10.2 | Save and splurge at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply. |
| 0:16.6 | New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com. |
| 0:20.9 | This episode of Get Booked is brought to you by the Read Harder Journal, created by |
| 0:24.7 | Book Riot. The smartly designed reading log consists of entry pages to record stats, |
| 0:28.5 | impressions, and reviews of each book you read. Evenly interspersed among the entry pages |
| 0:32.8 | are 12 challenges inspired by our annual Read Harder Initiative, which began in 2015 to encourage readers |
| 0:38.5 | to pick up past over books, try out new genres, and choose titles from a wider range of voices |
| 0:43.4 | and perspectives. |
| 0:44.7 | Endold your inner book nerd and read a book about books, get a new perspective on current |
| 0:47.9 | events by reading a book written by an immigrant, find a hidden gem by reading a book published |
| 0:51.9 | by an indie press, and more. |
| 0:53.8 | Each challenge |
| 0:54.4 | includes an inspiring quote, an explanation of why the challenge will prove to be rewarding |
| 0:58.1 | and five bookwrecks that fulfill it. So go to bookwriot.com slash read harder journal for your |
| 1:03.1 | copy. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations. |
| 1:09.3 | This is episode 165 and we are recording on January 22nd. I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Hello. How's it going? Oh, it's going. It's real cold here. How about there? Yeah, same. Same as these. Extremely same. I don't like it. It's not my favorite. And that is my story. |
| 1:29.4 | I see you're reading something sad. Well, maybe it's not bad. I was just going to say it. Yeah. So I'm reading upstream by Mary Oliver, which is not the first time I've read it, although actually is the first time I'm going to have read it all the way through. but it's actually, I mean, obviously, she died recently. |
| 1:45.3 | And that was a sad, sad day for many of us here at Book Riot. And there's an essay in this |
| 1:51.6 | collection called Upstream that like, it literally changed my life. Like it really did. |
| 1:57.1 | Wow. Yeah. It was. And so, of course, the first thing I thought of when I heard the news was like, oh, gosh, I need to bust out my copy and reread that. And so, and then I realized I hadn't read all the way through that collection. And so that is what I'm working now. It's bittersweet. I mean, I like, the night that she died, this is a true story, the night that she died, I came home from |
| 2:18.8 | whatever I was doing and I sat on the couch and I read that essay out loud to my cats and just |
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