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George Eliot, So Weird

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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss Civil War reads, diverse middle-grade books, reading slumps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty and Weregirl & Chimera by C.D. Bell. 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 Wolf-speaker (Immortals #2) by Tamora Pierce Get in Trouble by Kelly Link Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue (the review on Book Riot) The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond Take the Lead by Alexis Daria The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Chamberlain Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson (rec’d by Ta-Nehisi Coates) The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon No Good Deed by Kara Connolly Seeds of America trilogy (Chains #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead 27 Hours by Tristina Wright Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:24.5

This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations this is episode 106 and we are recording on november 14th i'm amanda nelson and i'm here with

0:29.8

jennarthington and we are coming to you from book riot hello i don't know why i said it like

0:34.2

that book riot It's weird.

0:38.3

Words.

0:38.9

How do they work?

0:40.1

I have on a lot of dayquil, so I'm not entirely sure how this is going to go,

0:44.7

but it's going to be an adventure.

0:46.3

Last night, I was on a lot of NyQuil, and I started randomly texting Rebecca, like,

0:51.0

I was reciting via text, Edgar Allan Poe poetry.

0:56.0

It was very strange.

0:58.0

Amazing. I woke, I was like, what did I, what did I do?

1:01.0

Anyway, what are you reading, Jess?

1:03.0

Hi, my reading has been all over the place because I guested on all the books or this week.

1:08.0

And so I was like reading new releases, but also reading for the sci-fi fantasy

1:12.7

newsletter, but also reading for this show. And it's like all got jumbled. But in between all of that,

1:18.9

we're still working on our Tamara Pierce reread for insiders. So I'm on Wolf Speaker, which is the

1:26.8

second book in the Imm series and it's funny

1:29.7

because i think if i had read these when i was a kid they would be my favorites like i read alana as a kid

1:36.2

but then i didn't read any of the other ones until i was in my i don't know late 20s early 30s

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