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🗓️ 12 April 2018

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Amanda and Jenn discuss the Tudors, feminism, audiobooks and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by My Lady’s Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Larissa Zageris and Kitty Curran, published by Quirk Books, 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 Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard (part of Xuya universe) The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Get In Trouble by Kelly Link An Englishman in Madrid by Eduardo Mendoza, translated by Nick Caistor A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn The Grey King by Susan Cooper Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann After Birth by Elisa Albert Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Hot Head by Damon Suede (rec’d by Trisha Brown) For Real by Alexis Hall Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (post for reference) 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.
0:36.2	This is episode 127 and we are recording on
0:39.2	April 10th. I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we're coming to you from
0:44.0	Book Riot. Hello. How's it going? It's Tuesday. It's really sunny here today which makes
0:51.8	me so happy. It was very gray.
0:54.4	It was snowed yesterday.
0:55.3	No.
0:55.6	I've lost all my ability to process reality, and I'm just sitting.
1:01.8	I'm just sitting.
1:02.5	This is just where I am now.
1:04.0	Yeah, fair.
1:04.7	It's supposed to be 80 on Friday, though, so I'm just holding out.
1:06.9	I'm holding out.
1:07.7	I might go buy a bathing suit today just in protest. Because you know how you
1:12.6	solve problems. Capitalism. That's how you do it. Well, you know, there is like a Murphy's Law thing
1:18.8	where maybe if you buy the bathing suit, the weather will be like, fine. You know, like maybe who knows?
1:26.5	Maybe it will help. I don't know. I don't know.
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