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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss travelogues, tearjerkers, and books for kids with depression in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Elves, written by Jean-Luc Istin and illustrated by Kyko Duarte, and The Radium Girls by Kate Moore. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes 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. Books Discussed Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me by Maya Angelou Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrande Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson Chimera by David Wellington Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster Scarlet Devices by Delphine Dryden Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.8

to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:34.7

This is episode 80 and we are recording on May night. I'm Amanda

0:37.8

Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington. We are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:41.7

Hello!

0:43.7

Yay! That's all. All I have is woo. I'm trying to convince myself I'm awake.

0:49.1

Yeah, same. More coffee. It's at least sunny here today, which it wasn't yesterday,

0:53.5

so I will take the sun. It's gotten, we've had so much rain recently that the James River, which is the, you know, the big river, bicex-archment, is like overflowing its banks into people's yards. Oh, good. There's a big waterfall right by my house where you, when you cross over the river that goes across the length of it. And the water is so high that like the waterfall just isn't there anymore. Oh my gosh. I've never seen that happen before. It's like the weirdest thing. Anyway, no more rain. That's our weird weather update. I know. We always have something. There was actually somebody, it wasn't about our podcast. It was about one of the other podcasts, but somebody left to comment on Facebook that was like, why is all of your banter in the podcast about the weather? And I was like, that's a fair point. It is always about sorry, we're boring. But like, what else are we supposed to talk about in this? Sports ball. I don't even know what's happening. Well, there's not like a summer food the same way that, like, we can talk about chili all winter long.

1:48.1

That's true.

1:48.6

But like, what is the summer equivalent of chili?

1:50.9

I just don't know.

1:53.2

Bark?

1:53.7

Corn on the cob.

1:54.6

I don't have a barbecue.

1:55.8

There's nothing.

1:56.3

There's nothing.

1:57.2

Yeah.

1:57.6

Anyway.

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