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Book Riot

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4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss fiction about the Azores, wine books, lighter reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Recommended and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts 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 The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Chi’s Sweet Adventure by Konami Kanata Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin, translated Andrew Bromfield Death at the Water’s Edge by Miriam Winthrop The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (tw: scenes of domestic violence/physical child abuse) Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews Cork Dork by Biana Bosker The Billionaire’s Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Witchmark by CL Polk We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson How to Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman 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.
0:35.9	This is episode 140 and we are recording on July
0:39.3	17th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from
0:44.3	Book Riot. How's it going? Good. I'm going on vacation next week and I'm phoning everything in.
0:49.8	Hi. Do you already have like your floaty picked out and...
0:55.6	Let me tell you that at the grocery store, Aldi is our local, whatever.
1:00.2	Right at child eye level, they have now poop emoji pool floats.
1:05.4	Oh my God.
1:06.4	So my children, of course, now are the proud owners of $7 poop emoji pool floats. So that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, I can't write, right. Just right. I can't read those pictures. Yes. It's going to be something. Um, fantastic. So, what are you reading in your phone in days?
1:30.1	I have just started the Jurassic Park audiobook.
1:34.8	And let me tell you why.
1:36.3	It's because all of the Jurassic Park movies are now on Netflix.
1:40.0	Yes.
1:40.9	Correct response.
1:42.0	Yes.
1:42.6	So I have been rewatching all of them. I'm on the third one.
1:47.1	The lost world is terrible. Let me just say that. So bad. It's just the worst. But Jurassic Park is probably my favorite movie ever. Yeah, that first one holds up, I argue. It's so good. And the book is so good. Like, it's a perfect work of science fiction. It's so tight and well-paced and great. Anyway, I reread it like five times. So now I'm going to listen to the audiobook. That's what I'm maybe. I'm wishing I had reread that instead. I reread Sphere this summer. And, yeah, and like the racism and sexism in that book is rough.
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