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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn give more holiday gift recommendations in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Read Harder Journal and our True Story giveaway. 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. Feedback Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Land of Burning Heat by Judith van Gieson Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Euphoria by Lily King   Books Discussed Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T Dungy (Persist Instagram book club) The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (tw: child abuse) The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Eternal Life by Dara Horn Frida Kahlo: an Illustrated Life by Maria Hesse, Achy Obejas The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (rec’d by Christine Ro) Comics About Refugee Experiences post Life After Life by Kate Atkinson A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (tw: assault, self-harm, suicide) When by Daniel Pink Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Toxic by Lydia Kang The Undoing (The Call of Crows #2) by Shelly Laurenston Winston’s War by Max Hastings Stalingrad by Antony Beevor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:34.4

recommendations. This is episode 159 and we are recording on

0:37.6

December 4th. I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we're coming to you

0:41.4

from Book Riot. Welcome. Hello. To our show. Indeed. It's the end of the year and I got

0:49.3

nothing. I was just going to say it. Boy, my holiday rain is in full effect. Like I got,

0:55.7

yeah, also nothing. No, I got, yeah, also nothing.

0:59.0

No, witty, quippy, nothings, no things.

0:59.7

I have no things.

1:00.6

What are you reading?

1:06.7

I am going to start rereading the guidebook to relative strangers by Camille T.

1:29.1

Dengi, which I love and which I picked for our Persist book for this. Well, I keep wanting to say this month, but it's actually like halfway through December to halfway through January. So for the coming weeks, yeah, we're doing guidebook to relative strangers. And I'm so excited to reread it because I read it. I think before it came out, which was last year, August of 2017. So like, it's been a minute. And yeah, I'm, I'm jazzed about that.

1:35.8

Because I feel like also, this is part of the reason I picked it. It will feel very restful for my

1:39.7

brain because it's like a beautiful contemplative memoir slash essay collection about like motherhood and travel and nature and like that will be nice for my brain.

1:51.2

What about you?

1:53.3

I am about to start The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

1:58.5

I don't know why.

2:00.3

I was just going to say you're giving yourself Virginia Woolf to read around the holidays.

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