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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss good “relationship reads,” Asian authors, classic retellings, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, But That’s Another Story podcast and Life, Death, and Cellos by Isabel Rogers. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. 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 Upstream by Mary Oliver Becoming by Michelle Obama Startup by Doree Shafrir (rec’d by Rebecca) Chemistry by Weike Wang (tw: family emotional abuse) Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez How Long Til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (tw: rape, gendered violence) On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee (narrated by BD Wong) The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner Witchmark by CL Polk The Good Women of China by Xinran, trans. By Esther Tyldesley The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (tw: body horror) Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Pride by Ibi Zoboi Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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This episode of Get Booked is brought to you by the Read Harder Journal, created by

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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.

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Each challenge

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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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