Environmentalism With Dragons

Get Booked

Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss books about Africa, non-NBA basketball reads, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This week’s episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Store and the Swords & Spaceships newsletter. 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 Oneida by Ellen Wayland-Smith (rec’d by Liberty) Lexicon by Max Barry An Autobiography by Angela Davis The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Hoops by Walter Dean Myers The Whore of Akron by Scott Raab Indentured by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss (rec’d by Rachel Manwill) Dust Bowl Girls by Lydia Reeder (rec’d by Jess Pryde) Rain Wild Chronicles (Dragon Keeper #1) by Robin Hobb Gentleman Bastards (The Lies of Locke Lamora #1) by Scott Lynch Inheritance Trilogy (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms #1) by NK Jemisin The Avalon series (The Mists of Avalon #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith Our Harsh Logic from Breaking the Silence Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammad How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden My Promised Land by Ari Shavit (rec’d by Michelle Anne Schingler) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm ringing around everywhere. No vacuum excavators available until Tuesday. We're going to have to hand dig.
0:09.0	Mate, don't risk it. Just check VakX dispatch.
0:12.0	VakXO. It's an app. Real-time availability for local kits. I used it last week. I had a unit here in two hours.
0:19.0	Seriously? Vacuum excavator hire has never been this smooth.
0:23.4	Gain fast access to safe digging solutions at Vacex Dispatch.com.
0:30.9	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:35.0	This is episode 66 and we are recording on January 31st.
0:39.3	I'm Jen Northington, and I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:44.5	Howdy duty?
0:45.2	Happy Tuesday.
0:46.9	It's snowing here, a little bit, a little bit.
0:50.3	Oh, it snowed yesterday, like, totally unexpectedly.
0:52.7	Like, I walked out of Target where I was off to get cold medicine,
0:57.3	because I was super sick yesterday.
0:59.0	And I walked out into, like, a random unexpected blizzard that lasted, like, 30 seconds.
1:05.0	It was very magical 30 seconds.
1:07.2	People were very confused.
1:09.0	Like, everyone was just standing in the parking lot, looking at the sky, like the end had come.
1:13.4	It was kind of a great moment.
1:14.9	That was great.
1:16.1	It's like a sun shower, but it's like a surprise blizzard.
1:19.6	Awesome.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Book Riot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Book Riot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.