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Hot Chocolate Hour

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Book Riot

Society & Culture, Books, Fiction, Arts

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Amanda and Jenn discuss Glasgow lit, books for understanding the American political right, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Yvain: The Knight of the Lion by M.T. Anderson, and His Alone by Alexa Riley. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes 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 No Mean City by A. McArthur and H. Kingsley Long Lanark by Alasdair Gray Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton A-Force Vol 0: Warzones by G Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennet, Jorge Molina Womanthology: Space, edited by Mariah Huehner The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Wintersong by S Jae -Jones Barnheart by Jenna Woginrich The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin White Oleander by Janet Fitch Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi 100 Must-Read Books About Complicated Mothers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.9

This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

0:26.0

This is episode 74 and we are recording on March 28th.

0:29.5

I'm Jen Northington and I'm here with Amanda Nelson and we are coming to you from Book Riot.

0:34.0

Hello, hello.

0:35.9

Yes, yes.

0:42.9

It's Tuesday. We're going to talk over each other. Welcome to the show.

0:49.3

Why does it feel earlier for some reason? It's the same time as always, but I feel like it's like 6 a.m.

1:11.1

I don't know what I have discovered, this is apropos of nothing, I have discovered that Trader Joe sells hot chocolate on a stick, and that's what I have right now. I don't know what that means. Tell me what that means. Oh, my God. Are you vegan? No. Okay, then you will be excited about this. So, it's, you heat up milk, and then the hot chocolate on a stick is literally like a hunk of dark, sweetened chocolate on a popsicle stick.

1:11.4

What? And then you stir it into the hot milk and it melts. And it's like this perfectly flavored. They put like a little bit of spice in it. Oh my gosh. It's amazing. If it were 10 p.m. and not 10 a.m. I would put a little whiskey in there. However, Indeed. I'm working. Indeed. Indeed. That is not how I roll.

1:27.6

But it's really, really good.

1:28.6

It's rainy here and gross, and I have hot chocolate.

1:31.3

And I'm sitting at my dining room table because I'm moving, so all my office stuff is packed. Yeah. So, like, this is what's happening. Also, apropos of nothing except for hot chocolate. I recently wanted some, but didn't have any packets. And I had baking baking chocolate powder and I made my own with with just it was just baking chocolate and and maple syrup and it was the best thing I've ever created and I was like I've been a fool all these years for using packets like what was I thinking I have these things at all times. Yeah, I usually make hot chocolate

2:02.3

with baking, with like baking cocoa, like the Hershey's Tub. Yeah. It's way better than the packet.

2:07.2

It's way better. And then like a little sweet. Okay, all right, sorry, before this turns into

2:10.6

like hot chocolate hour, let's talk about how the show works. Show title. We talk about books, I swear.

2:18.6

So this is a write-in recommendation show, which means you write in with your questions, and then we recommend books to you.

2:25.4

And it can be anything from, I don't know what to get my grandma for Christmas, to I am

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