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🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn recommend excellent biographies, books for those who have lost a dog, and more on this week’s Get Booked! This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Live and our two new newsletters (sign up and be entered to win a $100 Amazon gift card). 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! State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Pandemic by Sonia Shah Valerie’s new nature books post anything by Annie Dillard The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff John Adams by David McCullough The Black Count by Tom Reiss Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World edited by Mark Collings Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series Neapolitann series by Elena Ferrante trans Ann Goldstein Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy Trilogy (Sea of Poppies is #1) Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin (Master & Commander is #1) Storify list Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Agorafabulous!! by Sara Benincasa Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Mark Doty’s Dog Years (rec’d by Rebecca Hussey) Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasote A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton, recommended by Liberty Hardy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.8	This is episode 25 and we're recording on Tuesday,
0:38.8	April 19th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from
0:43.7	Book Riot. Hello. How are you living? I'm good. I voted this morning. So I feel, yeah.
0:50.4	I feel like I am a citizen of the country I live in.
0:56.9	You don't always feel like you're actually part of things, and then you go do something like vote, and you're like, yes, wait, I am a part of things.
1:03.6	I'm part of a great experimental republic.
1:06.2	Yeah.
1:07.0	And, you know, most days it drives me crazy, but at least sometimes I get to do a thing.
1:14.8	Was it a smooth experience?
1:16.5	On Twitter, some people were complaining about, like, their poll workers were giving them grief.
1:20.6	Oh, really?
1:21.2	No, I even did it wrong.
1:23.2	Oh.
1:23.8	Because I've never voted for convention delegates before.
1:27.1	This is the first year I've ever been registered in a party to vote. And so I don't normally get to vote for things like delegates, and I did it completely wrong. And I had to go back and get a new ballot. But no, I mean, I don't know if I hit the timing just right. I just kind of walked in and out, and everybody was super nice to me. Voting for delegates is meta. I don't even. You're not even voting for a candidate or potential candidate. I thought I completely misread the way the ballot worked. And like when I went to explain what I had done wrong, they just kind of looked at me. And I was like, just shut up. I've never voted for these before. Like, give me a new ballot. Give me a new one. Just give me a new one. I'll be over there blushing into my coffee. It's fine. Anyway, go vote. Anyway, everybody go vote. You still have the ability to do that. Indeed. Yeah, right, exactly.
2:18.6	Okay, right.
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