George Washington: Just A Dude

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss war stories, the Cold War, wealthy women, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. 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 Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee (rec’d by Amanda) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (rec’d by Annie) The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (rec’d by Elizabeth) Books Discussed You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe What It is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes Honey, Olive, Octopus by Christopher Bakken Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki, transl. by Karen Van Dyck (rec’d by Rebecca Hussey) The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch The Gilded Wolves series by Roshani Chokshi (cw: ableism, antisemitism, racism) House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild (rec’d by Cassie) Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu (cw: homophobia) Girl at War by Sara Novic (tw ethnic violence, lots and lots (and lots) of harm to children) Everfair by Nisi Shawl (cw: harm to children, racism and racial violence) American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson John Le Carre Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (cw: harm to children, violent homophobia, animal abuse, rape) A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel Versailles by Kathryn Davis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Getting instant insights is amazing.
0:03.0	But if there are too many data points, it can be hard to see what works.
0:07.0	So I'll ask my AI assistant for recommendation.
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0:14.0	it's easy to remix documents and transform insights into standout content,
0:19.0	so you can go from idea to creation in record time all within an
0:23.1	AI powered workflow. Do that with Acrobat. Learn more and try it out on Adobe.com. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:44.3	This is episode 315, and we are recording on January 25th.
0:48.2	I'm Amanda Nelson, and I'm here with Jen Northington, and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:53.3	And my sexy sinus infection voice,
0:56.8	I don't know. Maybe it's COVID. Maybe she's born with it. We'll find out. That was a maybe it's
1:03.5	Maybe It's Mabelian joke, for those of you who were born in the 90s and we'll understand.
1:08.0	We're born in the 80s rather. Oh, Lord.
1:12.1	Was that a 90s commercial?
1:13.2	Maybe she's Mabeline.
1:14.4	Do they still make those?
1:15.0	I don't know.
1:16.3	I don't know. The only commercials I see right now ever are Jeopardy commercials and like commercials that
1:22.4	air during Jeopardy, which are a really weird cross-section of like political and then visit Fort Lauderdale and then like a thousand medications.
1:33.3	Well, that seems right for the probably assumed audience of Jeopardy. Yeah. I mostly on live TV only use live TV to watch football and Jeopardy. So the ads during football are the worst.
1:46.5	It's like we're already getting election ads for the midterms and I can't deal with it.
1:52.0	I just throw my remote control and rage. I can't. Can't we have five minutes? Anyway, the answer is no.
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