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Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss independent ladies, fantasy short stories, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel reading comps, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton and The Birthday Girl by Sue Fortin. 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 Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper Make Trouble by Cecile Richards 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean Destiny’s Captive by Beverly Jenkins (rec’d by Jess Pryde) Unnatural Creatures edited by Neil Gaiman and Maria Dahvana Headley A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (out June 26 2018) Fresh Ink edited by Lamar Giles I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum The Paper Menagerie: Stories by Ken Liu Nevada by Imogen Binnie Holding Still for As Long As Possible by Zoe Whitall Lady Killer by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, Chelsea Cain An American Housewife by Helen Ellis The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to

0:05.8

buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free. Save and splurge

0:10.8

at Arcado, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds

0:15.7

and charges apply. New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.

0:24.6

This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations this is episode 119 and we are recording on february 20th i'm amanda nelson and i'm here with

0:29.9

jenn northington and we are coming to you from book riot hello hello all of my windows are

0:36.2

open 70 degrees.

0:38.7

Oh yeah.

0:39.5

It's super warm here too.

0:41.8

Actually, I should open a window.

0:43.5

So my apartment doesn't have the best insulation.

0:46.4

So I plastic sealed all but two of my windows to keep the apartment warmer.

0:50.9

So I can only open two of my like eight windows. But that should be

0:57.3

enough to get me some nice fake spring air. It is fake spring. Oh yeah, because it's going to be

1:03.6

freezing like in a week. I bet. But yeah. Anyway, what are you reading?

1:11.4

I am reading.

1:13.6

So one book that I'm in the middle of right now is Eloquent Rage.

1:16.8

A Black Feminist discovers her superpower by Brittany Cooper, which is super appropriate

1:21.4

considering the times.

1:24.5

Like in the era of Me Too, particularly now that publishing is having a Me Too moment,

1:30.1

I'm all about a book called Eloquent Rage. I talked about it on all the books. I'm on all the books

1:35.3

this week, and I talked about it a bunch on all the books, but I will just say to you all that

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