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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn give more holiday recs and discuss some wintery reads in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal and our True Story Giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher 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 Maze at Windermere (Sibyl from Insiders) Strange Practice (Sara M from Insiders) Books Discussed Gunsmoke & Glamour by Hillary Monahan The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield (tw: suicide, domestic violence, harm to children) Fledgling by Octavia E Butler (tw: pedophilia, sort of) Severance by Ling Ma Essentialism by Greg McKeown The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt The Death Safe by Edgar Wallace The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble Grace for Gus by Harry Bliss Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1) by Mishell Baker (tw: suicide, self-harm) Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger “Low fantasy” post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	This is episode 160 and we are recording on
0:38.9	December 11th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from
0:43.9	Book Riot and from Snow days. Snow days. So, um, yeah, we've been stuck in this house for three
0:52.8	days with my kids. I shove them outside in several layers of clothing to play in snow while we're recording this, but it is entirely likely that they will run back in here yelling at some point. So everyone just, life is happening.
1:07.9	We'll gird ourselves. We didn't get any of the snow up here, which I guess is fine.
1:12.4	And also, I mean, whatever.
1:13.9	It's better for moving around and doing things, which...
1:17.1	Yeah.
1:17.7	If schools could stay open, I would be fine with the snow.
1:22.3	But then being home from school for several days in a row is a lot.
1:27.4	They're a lot. They're just. Surprise. They're so many
1:30.3	limbs and voices and opinions. The opinions, Jen. How dare they? How dare they? How dare? What are you
1:38.7	reading? I have started The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. I think I mentioned this last time we were recording, but yeah, I have decided to read Virginia Wolf over the holidays. I don't, it was a dumb idea. Actually, the Voyage Out is not that bad. It's her first novel, and it was, like, way before she got into that stream of consciousness style that she's, like, more famous for. It's very traditionally Victorian, which was surprising
2:02.0	to me. Um, like, you're getting a little bit of the internal thought, like, more of the internal
2:06.3	monologues of the characters than you would with like Dickens, but it was still very, like,
2:09.9	it opened with a really long compound sentence about the weather that was funny. And I was like,
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