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🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss Alaska reads, classics, LGBTQ+ YA, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Genius: The Game by Leopoldo Gout and The Secret Agent Training Manual by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcast 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 Dot Journaling by Rachel Wilkerson Miller Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Baby It’s Cold Outside by Addison Fox If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert The Woman In White Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Stay by Allie Larkin Dog On It by Spencer Quinn Alias Vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra 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.
0:34.5	This is episode 91 and we're recording on July 25th. I'm Amanda
0:38.0	Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we're coming to you from Booker A. Hello.
0:42.3	Happy Tuesday. It is. It is Tuesday. Well, it's Thursday if you're listening. Sorry.
0:48.6	What, how do days work? Whatever. What's a day? What is time? Hmm.
0:58.3	I had to explain where, um, weekday, this is apropos of nothing, but I had to explain where weekday's got their names to my kids.
1:00.2	Because they asked me like out of the blue the other day, like what is Sunday mean?
1:04.7	I was like, I think it has to do with the sun.
1:07.1	I don't actually know the answer to that.
1:09.3	And then Thursday was like Thor.
1:11.0	And then who's Thor? Like from the movies? Right. Well, kind of, but oh God.
1:17.3	It's very complicated. That is complicated. Oh, I love it. Parenting. Spending an afternoon on
1:22.8	Wikipedia, looking up the meaning of the word, Tuesday. So, what's your reading, Jen?
1:29.2	Well, I spent the weekend looking through a book that comes out next week called Dot
1:36.0	Journaling by Rachel Wilkerson Miller.
1:40.0	I can speak, I swear.
1:41.5	And it is interesting.
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