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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss tragic romances, political intrigue, and nostalgic summer novels in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, and by Harper Perennial, and Orbit Books, publisher of visionary author N.K. Jemisin’s new novel, THE CITY WE BECAME. Subscribe to 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. Books Discussed The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (TW suicide) A Separation by Katie Kitamura None of the Above by IW Gregorio When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (TW sexual assault, police violence) One Day by David Nicholls Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Book of Delights by Ross Gay Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson Post: Fictional Pandemics Severance by Ling Ma Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy #1) by Amitav Ghosh Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the G Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:45.9	This is episode 224, and we are recording on March 24th.
0:50.2	I'm Jen Northington.
0:51.2	I'm here with Amanda Nelson, and we're coming to you from Book Riot and
0:54.9	all of the social distancing and self-quarantine. Yay. Oh, Lord. I made chili, so that's good.
1:06.0	Great. I made a giant crock pot of carnitas that will feed me for a week. Ooh. That's great. That's great. Yeah, I'm ready. Yeah, at the time of this recording, Pennsylvania has just gone on stay at home, which I'm pretty sure is the same thing as shelter in place, but maybe they're trying to make it sound less scary. Everything's fine. Yeah, exactly.
1:27.9	I don't know.
1:28.5	But anyway, that's my story.
1:30.6	Yeah, Richmond, the governor just had our press conference yesterday and announced that the
1:34.4	schools in Virginia are closed for the rest of the year, which means my children will be here
1:39.4	until September.
1:42.5	Woo!
1:43.8	That's all I've got. I've just got sounds and, like, just sounds. I think that's all I've got.
1:44.7	I've just got sounds and, like, just sounds.
1:47.3	I think that's all we've all got.
1:48.8	Yeah.
1:49.0	Yeah.
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