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4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Amanda and Jenn discuss gothic novels, short stories, LGBTQ+ YA, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Lit Chat, Second Acts by Teri Emory, and A Poison Dark and Drowning by Jessica Cluess. 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 An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda, trans William Weaver Angels & Demons by Dan Brown Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love by Sarah Vaughn and Lan Medina The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield In the Country by Mia Alvar Best American Short Stories 2016 The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe Tender by Sofia Samatar The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Dreadnought by April Daniels Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks Let’s Talk About Love (33 ⅓) by Carl Wilson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
0:34.7	This is episode 99 and we are recording on September 26th.
0:38.2	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Jen Northington and we are coming to you from Book Riot.
0:42.2	Hello. Hello. Episode 99. I know. I know. It's very exciting. So we are going to do
0:49.1	something special for episode 100, which is not answer any questions.
1:01.4	Because we felt like it. I don't know. For episode 100, we decided to just like talk about some books we like. They're not random. They're around like a centralized theme, which you
1:05.6	will find out next week. But it's going to be a lot of fun. It's kind of Amanda and Jen.
1:13.5	I don't know. Do what they want. I don't know.
1:19.3	I mean, that's kind of the show every week, but this is just, this is just more explicit.
1:22.6	That's true. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. What are you reading, Jen?
1:31.7	I am reading an unkindness of ghosts by River Solomon, which we, I think, have both been very excited for.
1:40.6	It is a generation ship sci-fi novel, which I always love, and it's by a non-binary author of color, which is also super awesome. And I just started it on my lunch break yesterday. And it, it opens with a foot
1:46.4	amputation, like, like a, like a, like a, like a DIY, like sterilization situation. So the
1:54.3	main character Astor, um, does like medical procedures for the lower decks of this generation ship who are clearly like
2:03.1	the have-nots. And all you really know about her so far, because I'm only like 50 pages in,
2:10.3	is that she is some kind of neurodiverse and has a hard time with people, but also is like a very
2:16.5	talented medical person. So she has some
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